Following my recent crime novel obsession I decided to venture in new waters for a month (OK, I am still keeping in my e-reader The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler in case I really need a mind-numbing night read <in the good sense if there is one>).
The books I chose for February are:
On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying.
Because it caught my eye.
A collage of documents, emails, transcripts, liveblogs, FBI reports and magazine articles, all strung together by Bee Branch, a smart and articulate 15-year-old girl, but beneath this surface playfulness is a fascinating story of one woman’s retreat from the world.
Because it reminds me a little bit of Reconstructing Amelia, which I LOVED .
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want”
“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
Because she died like this day many years ago and because I just love everything Sylvia Plath.
Because it is said that ” [Poehler] has particularly smart advice on how to ignore the internal whispers that give rise to self-loathing; it should be piped into the girls’ changing rooms at every secondary school” and for quotes like “”Other people are not medicine””
And now I just have to go home, make myself a lovely and much needed cup of coffee and delve into my new reads! Bliss!!!!! What are you reading? Any recommendations or ideas for more books?
Έχω ακούσει πολύ καλά λόγια για όλα όσα αναφέρεις. Ζηλεύω ιδιαίτερα της Sylvia Plath, θα το πάρω κι εγώ κάποια στιγμή! Να μου πεις πως θα σου φανεί το Yes Please, σκέφτομαι να το αγοράσω μαζί με το Bossypants και να τα διαβάσω back-to-back. Να έχεις έναν υπέροχο Φεβρουάριο! 🙂
Διάβασα ήδη το Where’d you go… και ήταν πολύ ωραίο! Είχε κάποια λίγο τραβηγμένα στοιχεία βέβαια αλλά ήταν γλυκό και είχε ενδιαφέρον για να δεις πού είχε πάει η Μπερναντέτ και να καταλάβεις ποιος έλεγε τελικά αλήθεια και ποιος όχι…
To Beautiful Ruins είναι πολύ γλυκό βιβλίο, πιστεύω θα το διαβάσεις πολύ ευχάριστα! Την Bernadette και το βιβλίο της Poehler τα έχω κ γω στην ¨to-read” λίστα μου. 🙂
Ωραία, στείλε εντυπώσεις όταν τα διαβάσεις 🙂 Αφού το προτείνεις θα συνεχίσω με τα Ruins 🙂