小说
爱在蔓延中 豆瓣
Chanda's Secrets
作者: (加拿大)阿伦•斯特拉顿 译者: 赵永芬 2011
因为对儿女最深重的爱,一位母亲选择回到偏僻的村落,独自死去;
因为对母亲最勇敢的爱,一位女儿顶住流言蜚语,千里寻母,至死守护。
16岁的女孩倩达,本是一个成绩优秀、怀揣留学梦的中学生,一场突如其来的变故使她的命运发生了巨大的转折。她要如何捍卫自己的友情,以稚嫩的肩膀担负起一切,维护自己的至爱家人?横亘在她面前的,是一个比死亡本身更可怕的秘密……
2024年2月6日 已读
爱在蔓延中×艾在蔓延中√可以看成是一本艾滋病反歧视的宣传书,按照女主所处的年龄段它应该是一本YA,然而作者的笔法基本是儿童文学,文笔相当粗糙直白,当然也可能只是翻译的锅,每个角色都很平板,性格也不怎么讨喜,涉及的问题其实挺多的,但是除了艾滋病相关的部分,每个都很浮光掠影,特别是有关女主的好朋友不得不靠做妓女赚钱并因此被强奸和感染艾滋的部分,给我的感觉是即便主角是一个16岁的女孩,思考和共情的深度也不至于只有这么点……讨论艾滋病的部分只能算是差强人意,有一些亮点和记忆点,尤其是这种疾病无处不在又因为众人的讳莫如深而自然隐形,以及每个人不是疾病的受害者就是受影响者,看到女主说自己也曾有梦想,“想成为医生、律师或者全职教师”的时候还是赚到了我的眼泪……然而到最后从全面歧视到全面去歧视的过渡未免太突然,又很扣分……随便看看还行但不值得深究的书
加拿大 小说
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Goodreads 豆瓣
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
作者: V. E. Schwab Tor Books 2020 - 10
In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force.
A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever―and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.
But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
2021年10月24日 已读
哇我好久没给书打一星了 but this one headed south so quickly...而且这个作者的文笔啊,这么点破事絮絮叨叨写了那么长,这么有意思的设定啊,写得这么无聊而且最后这个结局真的超级 cliche.………这本已经超越喀尔刻成了我近期读的书里"一手好牌打得稀烂"top 1了….这本书的tldr,一个妹子为了不结婚而和魔鬼做了交易,结果痛苦生活了300年还是把灵魂奉献给了谈恋爱
小说 美国
The Unconsoled 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Kazuo Ishiguro Faber and Faber 2005 - 3
With this stunning new novel, cast in the form of a postmodern nightmare, Ishiguro tells a powerful story in which he once again exploits a narrator's utter lack of self-knowledge to create a devastating deadpan irony. A celebrated concert pianist identified only as Mr Ryder arrives at an unnamed European (seemingly Germanic) city not only to give a concert but also, it seems, to address the townspeople and help them surmount a communal sense of crisis that stems from the city's inability to nurture a musical artist of outstanding creative talent. Strangely, the economic, social and psychic health of the community depends on its regaining its self-image in the wake of a dreadful past mistake, when the city fathers lionized a musician with the "wrong" artistic values. Ryder intuits this situation gradually, for he is curiously disoriented; he can't really remember what he's supposed to be doing there. In fact, through Ryder's confused perceptions, the reader is immediately plunged into a surrealistic landscape that has the eerie unpredictability, claustrophobic atmosphere and strange time sequences of a dream. Everyone in this town presents a false image to the world. Each person Ryder meets addresses him with fawning obsequiousness and asks him for a small favor which turns out to be an egregious intrusion into his time. Yet Ryder, infused with an inflated sense of mission, feels a need to console them: "People need me. I arrive in a place and find terrible problems, and people are so grateful I've come." Although he initially thinks he's a stranger in the city, it slowly becomes obvious that he's been here before. In fact, he has been the lover of a woman called Sophie whose little boy, Boris, in many ways replays the pivotal events of Ryder's own life. With dream logic, many of Ryder's childhood friends from England turn up in this inhospitable place, and it becomes obvious that most events are replicas of ones that have occurred before or that fulfill Ryder's fears about the future. As in Ishiguro's previous books (The Remains of the Day, etc.), almost every turn of the plot concerns a failure of communication and a stifling of emotional responses. Children are profoundly wounded by their self-absorbed and insensitive parents; lovers alienate each other across an emotional abyss. The culture-obsessed inhabitants of the city don't recognize true talent when it appears; they disapprove of creativity when it doesn't fit their expectations. Sustaining the nightmarish atmosphere of this tale?its tone alternately sinister and farcical?for more than 500 pages is a tricky business, especially since all the characters express themselves in long, dense monologues. Yet, so adroit is Ishiguro in maintaining suspense that one is as ensnared in the nightmare as is Ryder. The story seems to be a journey through life: its purpose never entirely clear, its events capricious and inexplicable, its destination undoubtedly "the vast, dark, empty space" of the soul's extinction. 75,000 first printing; BOMC and QPB selections.
2021年6月3日 已读
真的好磨叽啊,每个角色都磨叽到令人室息,阅读的时候有种蹒跚前行的感觉,同时感觉到叙述者和每个人之间强烈的隔膜,石黑一雄风格感太强,读出了好几本其他作品的影子
历史 小说 英国
The House on Mango Street 豆瓣 Goodreads
8.2 (16 个评分) 作者: Sandra Cisneros Vintage Books 1991 - 4
Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.
Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.
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芒果街上的小屋
2021年3月16日 已读
很有意思的小故事,童稚的语言表达有着难得的精彩,像一袋多味豆,不听到故事的最后不知道它是一个暖心小故事还是小孩子特有的奇思,最后几个故事一下子心都揪紧了,好像突然从云端被拉回到现实一样,才意识到毕竟是底层女孩子的故事
小说 短篇
Klara and the Sun 豆瓣 Goodreads Goodreads
Klara and the Sun
8.0 (23 个评分) 作者: Kazuo Ishiguro Knopf 2021 - 3
Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her.
Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
2021年3月18日 已读
这本跟 The Remain of the Days和Never LetMe Go像到我从开始就对人物的命运没有抱什么希望,尤其是用genuine and everlasting love 去祈求几乎不存在的一线希望的时候,没想到居然是这么温柔的结局..但是因为是从AF的视角讲的故事,还是忍不住觉得伤感.....让人与众不同的是怦然跳动的那颗心啊
小说 英国
Number the Stars 豆瓣 Goodreads
9.3 (9 个评分) 作者: Lois Lowry Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group 1998 - 2
Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life.
2021年3月9日 已读
一本听到哭的小书,从小孩子童稚的眼光看战争实在是太残忍,战争成为记忆中的一切、炮火成为庆祝生日的烟火、站岗的军人成为城市景观一样熟悉的存在,Anne marie送竹篮那段和小红帽的类比真的太绝了,每次她们自我安慰说能有什么事儿发生的时候都担心到崩溃
小说 战争
My Dark Vanessa 豆瓣 Goodreads
My Dark Vanessa
8.7 (12 个评分) 作者: Kate Elizabeth Russell William Morrow 2020 - 1
2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher.
2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager—and who professed to worship only her—may be far different from what she has always believed?
Alternating between Vanessa’s present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.
2021年1月4日 已读
When your life is defined by what happenedwhen you were fifteen...读得好痛苦,所以读读停停那么久才看完…生存者角度的不可靠叙述读起来太揪心,有时候甚至很难把自己拉回上帝视角….MeToo并不能解救所有深陷其中的Vanessa和Taylor, but at least we are trying, right?
女性 小说 美国
The Queen's Gambit 豆瓣 Goodreads
The Queen's Gambit
作者: Walter Tevis Vintage 2003 - 3
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she’s competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as she hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting. Engaging and fast-paced, The Queen’s Gambit speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four.
2020年11月26日 已读
可能剧先入为主了一些情节会觉得剧比原著处理得更得我心,比如剧里最后一场之前遇到Townes那段真的是我心头好,书里没有觉得有点可惜…….剧里对养母的处理也更多人情味,书里的 Beth更"没有感情的下棋机器"-点,另外对国象的具体描述也很多,几百年没下国象的我是肯定跟不上节奏的,不过还是写得很刺激
小说 美国
The Nightingale 豆瓣 Goodreads
The Nightingale
作者: Kristin Hannah St. Martin's Press 2015 - 2
France, 1939 - In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France … but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne's home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.
Vianne's sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can … completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.
2020年8月8日 已读
Men tell stories, and women get on with it.....今天也是在公交上旋风哭泣的我
小说 美国
The Lincoln Highway 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Amor Towles Viking 2021 - 10
The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west where they can start their lives anew. But after the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm had hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they hatch an altogether different plan for Emmett's future.
Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.
2022年2月24日 已读
这本实际上没有 A Gentleman in Moscow那么讨我喜欢…….中间感觉有点冗长和凌乱,可能是用孩子的口吻讲这个故事的原因?最后这个结局,还蛮意外的,甚至需要一个trigger warning………以及其实对主要角色印象不是那么深刻,但是 Ulysses这个角色、以及相关的希腊神话references写得真好啊
小说 美国
How High We Go in the Dark 豆瓣 Sukkertoppen Goodreads
6.0 (6 个评分) 作者: Sequoia Nagamatsu William Morrow 2022 - 1
For fans of <i>Cloud Atlas</i> and <i>Station Eleven</i>, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague—a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice.<br /><br />Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus.<br /><br />Once unleashed, the Arctic Plague will reshape life on earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy. In a theme park designed for terminally ill children, a cynical employee falls in love with a mother desperate to hold on to her infected son. A heartbroken scientist searching for a cure finds a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects—a pig—develops the capacity for human speech. A widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter embark on a cosmic quest to locate a new home planet. <br /><br />From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resiliency of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe.
2022年4月1日 已读
这本给我感觉,很有野心,塑造了一个非常promising的doomsday scenario,然而相比之下 execution真的有点差...实话讲我不是特别喜欢这种叙事方式,感觉很苍白、很温吞水、还有点重复,可以感觉到每个故事都想 build up to something但到最后就是差一囗气,故事之间的联系又有点太散,产生了读短篇集的错觉
小说 美国
Everything I Never Told You 豆瓣 Goodreads Goodreads
Everything I Never Told You
7.0 (25 个评分) 作者: Celeste Ng Penguin Press HC, The 2014 - 6
Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet . . . So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother’s bright blue eyes and her father’s jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue—in Marilyn’s case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James’s case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the center of every party.
When Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart. James, consumed by guilt, sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to find a responsible party, no matter what the cost. Lydia’s older brother, Nathan, is certain that the neighborhood bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But it’s the youngest of the family—Hannah—who observes far more than anyone realizes and who may be the only one who knows the truth about what happened.
A profoundly moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, exploring the divisions between cultures and the rifts within a family, and uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
2022年5月24日 已读
三星半吧,文笔其实不错,但是作者too conscious of it以至于行文有点匠气。对亚裔和女性生活状态的描绘还是比较relatable的,自我代入Lydia都会感觉窒息,在父母的期待中诞生然后被父母的期待扼杀,父母的爱是你最大的渴求也是杀死你的元凶…但仍然免不了情节本身有点俗,最后一点的处理有点扣分……
小说 美国
The Story of the Lost Child 豆瓣 Goodreads Goodreads
Storia della bambina perduta
8.9 (29 个评分) 作者: Elena Ferrante 译者: Ann Goldstein Europa Editions 2015 - 9
Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)
Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women’s friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of four books, remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet somehow this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief.
Ferrante is one of the world’s great storytellers. With the Neapolitan quartet she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.
2022年6月7日 已读
拖拖拉拉读完了第四本,习惯了作者细腻的文笔之后真的很喜欢这种娓娓道来的感觉…这本里 Lila和 Lenu的关系不再像前三本那么折磨人,两个女人带五个孩子的时候大概是真的很辛苦,但也确实是最幸福的时候,这本的 Lila让人惊艳又让人心酸....Nino是这个鬼样子意外吗?把我看yue了,很难想象
Lenu居然能说服自己一直跟他在一起还心满意足地给他生孩子,一直拖到撞了个正着才想到离开他……然后离开渣男之后的Lenu才真正开始闪光
小说 意大利
Mecca 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Susan Straight Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022 - 3
<b>From the National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, <i>Mecca</i> is a stunning epic tracing the intertwined lives of native Californians fighting for life and land<br /><br /></b>Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state’s Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California’s forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who ran from the scene, leaving Johnny without a witness. But like the Santa Ana winds that every year bring the risk of fire, Johnny’s moment of action twenty years ago sparked a slow-burning chain of connections that unites a vibrant, complex cast of characters in ways they never see coming.<br /><br /> In <i>Mecca</i>, the celebrated novelist Susan Straight crafts an unforgettable American epic, examining race, history, family, and destiny through the interlocking stories of a group of native Californians all gasping for air. With sensitivity, furor, and a cinematic scope that captures California in all its injustice, history, and glory, she tells a story of the American West through the eyes of the people who built it—and continue to sustain it. As the stakes get higher and the intertwined characters in <i>Mecca </i>slam against barrier after barrier, they find that when push comes to shove, it’s always better to push back.
2022年7月6日 已读
什么这本这么小众吗?但是真的...写得好普通,看完都没啥想说的……-开始还觉得多POV的写法很有意思,到后面就觉得好琐碎好累哦...
小说
All the Light We Cannot See 豆瓣 Goodreads Goodreads
All the Light We Cannot See
8.1 (16 个评分) 作者: Anthony Doerr Scribner 2014 - 5
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.
Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction
2022年9月23日 已读
What the war did to the dreamers.看起来很长的书,但实际上每个章节都很短小,情节又推得很慢,外加作者唯美的文笔和诗化的语言,读起来一点也不累,主要情节其实是二战时期人们用无线电交流和传递信息的故事,Marie Laure那条线我真的挺喜欢是,但缺点可能是篇章切得太细叙述视角又比较跳跃反而感觉有点花里胡哨
小说 战争 美国
Cloud Cuckoo Land 豆瓣 Sukkertoppen Goodreads
Cloud Cuckoo Land
作者: Anthony Doerr Scribner 2021 - 9
When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive.

How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds.

Constantinople, 1453:
An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love.

Idaho, 2020:
An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that’s crumbling around him. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans?

Unknown, Sometime in the Future:
With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance.

Bound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself. Like its predecessor All the Light We Cannot See , Anthony Doerr’s new novel is a tale of hope and of profound human connection.
2022年10月1日 已读
实话讲不是很喜欢这本,上一本已经让我觉得多线叙事来回切换有点琐碎和没必要,这本更是把这个缺点“发扬光大",跟不跟得上情节是另一回事,三条时间线加一个comedy之间的切换太频繁了,个人觉得读者需要时间来融入感情,切太碎了真的很影响阅读体验.…顺便还蛮喜欢君士坦丁堡那个小姑娘的故事线
小说 美国
These Violent Delights Goodreads 豆瓣
These Violent Delights
作者: Micah Nemerever Harper 2020 - 9
When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately drawn to one another. A talented artist, Paul is sensitive and agonizingly insecure, incomprehensible to his working-class family, and desolate with grief over his father’s recent death.
Paul sees the wealthy, effortlessly charming Julian as his sole intellectual equal—an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. He idolizes his friend for his magnetic confidence. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel. And admiration isn’t the same as trust.
As their friendship spirals into an all-consuming intimacy, Paul is desperate to protect their precarious bond, even as it becomes clear that pressures from the outside world are nothing compared with the brutality they are capable of inflicting on one another. Separation is out of the question. But as their orbit compresses and their grip on one another tightens, they are drawn to an act of irrevocable violence that will force the young men to confront a shattering truth at the core of their relationship.
Exquisitely plotted, unfolding with a propulsive ferocity,
is a novel of escalating dread and an excavation of the unsettling depths of human desire.
2023年3月5日 已读
我实在不知道怎么形容这本书的阅读经历.…好吧其实我知道,它满足了我对toxic relationship的全部设想,两个看起来前途似锦的年轻人,too smart for their own good.围绕着彼此构筑起自以为必须实现的理想偏执地将彼此视为生命中唯一的真实和值得,伟大endgame的计划是多么美啊!为实现崇高梦想实现心灵契合的美妙幻觉,难以长久维系的脆弱平衡,计划实施的时刻即是注定的幻灭,自以为的contra mundum不可挽回地分崩离析,然而最haunting的还是纠缠拉扯执迷不悟,及其这个从一开始就无法避免的尼采式结局
小说 美国
Inseparable Goodreads 豆瓣
Las inseparables
9.3 (6 个评分) 作者: Simone de Beauvoir 译者: Sandra Smith Ecco 2021 - 9
From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War One France, and as Andrée becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril.
Sylvie, insightful and observant, sees a France of clashing ideals and religious hypocrisy—and at an early age is determined to form her own opinions. Andrée, a tempestuous dreamer, is inclined to melodrama and romance. Despite their different natures they rely on each other to safeguard their secrets while entering adulthood in a world that did not pay much attention to the wills and desires of young women.
Deemed too intimate to publish during Simone de Beauvoir’s life,
offers fresh insight into the groundbreaking feminist’s own coming-of-age; her transformative, tragic friendship with her childhood friend Zaza Lacoin; and how her youthful relationships shaped her philosophy. Sandra Smith’s vibrant translation of the novel will be long cherished by de Beauvoir devotees and first-time readers alike.
2023年4月6日 已读
恬淡轻巧的文风,两个女性形影不离的同伴关系,我很多次想到那不勒斯四部曲……..Zaza有着 Lila的锐利和聪慧,可惜却不似她那般叛逆执拗不管不顾,自己的幸福和别人的要求将她来回撕扯,终于使她在不停的割裂和妥协中卒于盛年.…这部未经出版的小说就这样草草结束,正如 Zaza戛然而止的一生…只看得上政治文学的萨特给这部小说判了死刑,恰似 André在周围她所深爱(也自认为深爱着她)的人的逼迫下消耗殆尽,这种相似感谁说不讽刺呢?因为没有出版,所以加到五星,只可惜睿智如萨特也不能免俗.....21世纪的女性仍然说,萨特你大错特错,个人即政治,一部普通女性的小传怎么就不是政治呢?
小说 法国
Carrie Soto Is Back Goodreads 豆瓣
Carrie Soto Is Back
作者: Taylor Jenkins Reid / Taylor Jenkins Reid Ballantine Books 2022 - 8
Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach. A former champion himself, Javier has trained her since the age of two.
But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning player named Nicki Chan.
At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked “the Battle-Axe” anyway. Even if her body doesn’t move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.
In spite of it all, Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells her most vulnerable, emotional story yet.
2023年4月16日 已读
这本书的叙述方式给我的感觉是,还好它是去年出版的,如果是今年出版的我有理由相信她是写了个梗概然后喂给了 ChatGPT.....流水账白描得过于彻底了点,详略得当几个字跟这本书可以说是毫无关系,说是写复出,结果复出前的职业生涯写了四分之一……人物一个比一个扁平,女主性格超级不讨喜,反而是复出后的世界第一很招人喜欢…女性和种族话题都有涉及但是非常浮光掠影和平铺直叙,恋爱线无聊到不如删掉,亲情线的爹是真的爹,唯一好看的可能是比赛现场的描写,但那恐怕是因为即便是现在一场好看的网球比赛仍可以让我屏住呼吸,比赛也写得很重复啊
小说 美国 运动
The Shadow of Perseus 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Claire Heywood Dutton 2023 - 2
<i>Danae: </i> Banished from her homeland thanks to a prophecy foretelling that her unborn child will one day cause the death of her father, the king of Argos, Danae finds herself stranded, pregnant, and alone in a remote fishing village. It's a harsh new world for a young woman who grew up as a coddled princess, and forging a new life for herself and for her young son Perseus will be the hardest thing she's ever done.<br /><br /><i>Medusa: </i> As a member of a reclusive band of women who live deep in the woods, known as the Gorgons, Medusa has eschewed all contact with the outside world. That is, until the day she finds an injured boy named Perseus in the forest.<br /><br /><i>Andromeda: </i> When a harsh sandstorm threatens to destroy her nomadic desert tribe's way of life, Andromeda knows that a sacrifice will be required to appease the gods and end the storm. But when a forceful young Perseus interferes, Andromeda's life is set on an entirely new path.<br /><br />As Perseus becomes increasingly obsessed with the promise of his own destiny, his heroic journey casts a shadow of violence and destruction across all three women's lives. But even as he tries to silence them, the women may find that reclaiming their voices is their only hope for lifting themselves into a better future.<br /><br /><b>Nationally bestselling author of <i>Daughters of Sparta</i> Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative and female-centered reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, told through the voices of three women who are sidelined in the traditional version--his mother, Danae; his trophy, Medusa; and his wife, Andromeda--but whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all.</b>
2023年4月26日 已读
鼓励性五星,Claire Heywood是会写的,神话故事被重述成了历史虚构,去神化之后每个角色都感觉非常真实——大概除了Perseus.....Perseus在这本里给我的感觉,就像是,众多男作家创造了那么多刻板老套的女性角色,于是女作家 Heywood创造了一个刻板老套的 Perseus予以回敬,他如同脆弱男子气概的实体化,一有人说他不像男人就会被点燃爆炸,唯一的区别是,Perseus这样的男性是真实存在的,真实到我只是听着书都会紧绷起来的程度。好喜欢这本塑造的Andromeda,强悍坚韧又聪明,她和Danae是在男权社会中不得不明哲保身以求得一线生机的女性,而Medusa和她的Gorgon部落,Each day the world gives birth to a wronged woman
小说 英国 重述