To Read or Listen. The Dead. Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest.
It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also. But Miss Kate and Miss Julia had thought of that and had converted the bathroom upstairs into a ladies' dressing-room. Miss Kate and Miss Julia were there, gossiping and laughing and fussing, walking after each other to the head of the stairs, peering down over the banisters and calling down to Lily to ask her who had come. It was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan's annual dance. Of course they had good reason to be fussy on such a night. —O, Mr Conroy, said Lily to Gabriel when she opened the door for him, Miss Kate and Miss Julia thought you were never coming. —Miss Kate, here's Mrs Conroy. Cent ans de solitude - Gabreil Garcia Marquez.
Hoarfrost and cherry blossoms novel Susan Bainbridge novelist Home. Le Petit Prince : L'intégrale. SciFi. Harry Potter. 'The Republic of Trees' by Sam Taylor - Reading Matters. Fiction - paperback; Faber and Faber; 240 pages; 2006.
Four adolescents -- expat Brits who live in France -- run away from their family homes to spend the summer in the forest free from adult control. Here they set up a new society called The Republic of Trees based on the principles in philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract. At first things are carefree, even joyous. Louis, the intellectual leader devotes his time to drawing a map of the region; Alex, the hunter ensures there's a ready supply of food; Isobel does the cooking; and Michael, the youngest of the quartet, climbs trees and swims in Elbow Pool. The first half of the book is quite a charming account of Michael's sexual awakening and, told through his eyes, the reader gets to experience his first flush of love (and lust) with the intriguing Isobel. Later, when a fifth interloper, another ex-pat, this time a Canadian, Joy, enters their world things suddenly go a bit awry. The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley. Brave New World (review) Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyReason for Reading: My Year of Reading Dangerously ChallengeRating: 5/5 Summarize the plot: Welcome to the future.
People are now created in test-tubes, and trained from birth via sleep-hypnosis to know their place in society. Sexual promiscuity and consumption are the highest societal values. One Sentence Review: The classic dystopian novel is still thought-provoking, if not as horrifying as it was considered when it first came out. What I liked: For being a relatively short novel with few characters, and very little action, Brave New World describes a unique dystopia, where families are considered pornographic, and "everyone belongs to everyone else". I found it interesting that none of the characters in the novel are especially likeable. What I didn't like: This is an idea book.
Should I read it? Los enamoramientos de Javier Marías. La nueva novela de Javier Marías.Un libro sobre el estado de enamoramiento, que parece justificar todas las cosas.
«La última vez que vi a Miguel Desvern o Deverne fue también la última que lo vio su mujer, Luisa, lo cual no dejó de ser extraño y quizá injusto, ya que ella era eso, su mujer, y yo era en cambio una desconocida…» Así comienza Los enamoramientos, la nueva novela de Javier Marías, consagrado como uno de los mejores novelistas contemporáneos. María Dolz, la narradora y protagonista, sólo supo su nombre «cuando apareció su foto en el periódico, apuñalado y medio descamisado y a punto de convertirse en un muerto: lo último de lo que se debió de dar cuenta fue de que lo acuchillaban por confusión y sin causa». «Sea lo que sea que creamos que vaya a suceder mientras leemos, estamos eligiendo pasar tiempo en compañía de un autor.
Ressources pour Fan Fiction. Fan Fiction. The Invention of Morel. Factotum (novel) Factotum takes place in 1944 and follows the life of perpetually unemployed alcoholic Henry Chinaski as he drifts through the seedy city streets of lower-class Los Angeles in search of a job that will not come between him and his first love: writing.
He is consistently rejected by the only publishing house he respects, but he is driven to continue by the knowledge that he could do better than the authors they publish. Chinaski begins sleeping with fellow barfly Jan, a kindred spirit he meets while drowning his sorrows at a bar. When a brief stint as a bookie finds him abandoned by the only woman with whom he is able to relate, a fling with gold-digging floozie Laura finds him once again falling into a morose state of perpetual drunkenness and unemployment. Naked Lunch. Title origin[edit] The book was originally published with the title The Naked Lunch in Paris in July 1959 by Olympia Press.
Because of US obscenity laws,[5] a complete American edition (by Grove Press) did not follow until 1962.