Her life is almost perfect, but is missing a certain…. je ne said quoi. She is not sexually satisfied. One day she is startled by a vicious dog running rampant outside her office tower. She witnesses a random young man calm the dog down and return it to its owner. Later, inside ...
He tells about his time there with amazing clarity and excellent prose, it’s a coming of age novel unlike anything I have read in a very long time. I am sad it took him a lifetime to write it though and that he died before It was published, I would have read more from him. A...
unnamed. (Jun 2023) — Drew loves drawing more than anything else in the world! But when he visits an art museum, Drew gets discouraged about his own work. Friends around the neighborhood help him regain the confidence he needs to stop comparing himself to others, and be happy about where...
While Sarah had grown up in an environment that had lacked affection, Rafael had grown up in a harsh environment that makes him cynical and dispassionate about the finer emotions of life. His emotional vulnerabilities and passionate nature creates a complex character who is both possessive, while...
Based on Andrews’ life so far, it also appears that there is a strong element of autofiction in this coming-of-age story in which Lucy is finding her way in the world from growing up in Sunderland to her student years in London to inheriting a cottage in Donegal from her grandfather ...
She talks about being interested in computers and finding a community. She talks about coming out. She talks about being homeless. She talks about struggling with being trans and how the army, with its enforced masculinity, was part of an effort to change something about herself. She also ...
and his books have been recommended several times on Five Books.A Series of Fortunate Eventsis a an informal, chatty book about the role chance has played in our lives, from the giant asteroid that hit the Yucatan 66 million years ago, to why we get cancer later in life. It's very in...
(as pointed out in the narrative) fetishized. Wrapped up in all this is Emira, who loves Briar deeply but desperately wants health insurance, a 401k, and a “true adult job” but she has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She’s about to turn 26 and be kicked off her ...
Life Born in the sleepy provincial town of Aracataca,Colombia, García Márquez and his parents spent the first eight years of his life with his maternal grandparents, Colonel Nicolás Márquez (a veteran of theWar of a Thousand Days[1899–1903]) and Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes de Márquez. Af...
One of his colleagues on the Graphic, Frank Mallen, later wrote that, “He never liked anything about it. As a matter of fact, he didn’t know why in hell he ever got tangled up in it.” After tendering his resignation, Weitzenkorn boarded a ship for France and decided to work out...