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Nicole Reads
Nicole Reads rated it 8 years ago
"The solitude of women’s minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it’s a waste to be separated from each other, without procedures, without tradition." (72%) TW: This book contains SEXUAL ASSAULT, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE I need time for my heart and my mind to recover. And to think this isn't the last book...
Nicole Reads
Nicole Reads rated it 8 years ago
"[...] she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sou...
Nicole Reads
Nicole Reads rated it 8 years ago
TW: This book contains VIOLENCE and SEXUAL ASSAULT JFC WHAT A CLIFFHANGER.My head hurts from reading this, from the feelings it has evoked, from the sadness that clings to me like a second skin because I cannot understand what has happened or why I feel that I'm aboard a train that will crash at any...
Sam's Reading: A Work in Progress
Sam's Reading: A Work in Progress rated it 8 years ago
That ending....wow. I feel perfectly set up!This is a brilliant (see what I did there) and intricate look at friendship between two girls. This installment covers young girls through adolescence, ending up in mid-teen years if I remember correctly.There are love interests, family dramas, neighborho...
Nepomurks
Nepomurks rated it 8 years ago
Die Geschichte eines neuen Namens: Roman: 2 (Neapolitanische Saga) - Elena Ferrante,Karin Krieger Mit „Die Geschichte eines neuen Namens“ erscheint nun endlich die Fortsetzung zu Elena Ferrante‘s grandiosem Bestseller „Meine geniale Freundin“, der großen neapolitanischen Familiensaga. Das 2. Bu...
Silvie's bookshelf
Silvie's bookshelf rated it 8 years ago
I just finished the Neapolitan series. Such powerful books about daily life, friendship, family, passion and love. With love stories that get you involved and deaths that shock you, the series is more than the story of a friendship between two women. It's the story of Lila/Lina/Rafaella, of the thin...
Silvie's bookshelf
Silvie's bookshelf rated it 8 years ago
Brilliant book. Loved Lila's intellectual curiosity, the description of their time spent in Ischia and the timid beginning of realisation that she's (Elena) not a fake intellectual.
Silvie's bookshelf
Silvie's bookshelf rated it 8 years ago
Lovely little book, somehow more macabre than I expected, the illustrations are adorable. I wouldn't recommend it to children, however.
Silvie's bookshelf
Silvie's bookshelf rated it 8 years ago
Lovely little book, somehow more macabre than I expected, the illustrations are adorable. I wouldn't recommend it to children, however.
Silvie's bookshelf
Silvie's bookshelf rated it 8 years ago
A beautiful collection of essays, letters, and interviews that offered some insight into the depths of the author of the Neapolitan novels.
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