![]() ![]() ![]() The story is told in chronological order, from the early flush of first love and marriage through to the bitter uncovering of the husband’s affair. of Speculation details the highs and lows of a marriage across 46 short, sharp chapters. My apprehension was perhaps due to having been disappointed in the past by similarly celebrated books, but I decided to dip my toe in and I’m pretty glad I did.ĭept. I wasn’t too sure what to expect from this slim novella, only that I’d seen plenty of friends and critics raving about her work. of Speculation was published in 2014 (and was named as one of “The 10 Best Books of 2014” by the New York Times) I hadn’t heard of either Offill or the book until earlier this year, when the release of her third book Weather bought her into the spotlight once more. Jenny Offill is an American writer and editor, and although Dept. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Iris (who has the best name, and I’m not just saying that because it’s my middle name) gets all the best lines, and her friendship with Claudia blossoms in a delightful, sincere way. Iris is a prickly, loyal girl who has an all-consuming love of K-Pop and a heart-on for her ex-girlfriend. I love Claudia, who, like all of Mills’ protagonists, is a sweet and fully-formed human-but I really, really love Iris. This book, which reads like every classic teen rom-com in existence, brings all the classic delight, too: new friends, new loves, and the healing of old wounds. ![]() On the other hand, I genuinely have no idea what it has to do with the story.Ĭlaudia has accidentally overheard her classmates Iris and Paige’s breakup, which is not just sad for them, but for her-mean girl Iris, who has a set of genuine brass balls (figuratively), threatens to ruin her if she ever blabs a word of it.Īs the school gods would have it, Iris and Claudia are both working on their school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where popular guy Gideon takes a liking to Claudia, and Iris gradually lets Claudia in as a trusted friend. It’s pretty, sure! I like the funky tapestry/embroidery, and I like that it’s not dumbed down. I can’t decide if I love or hate this cover. Relationship Status: What Fools These Mortals Be Talky Talk: The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth Cover Story: Love Looks Not With The Eyes, But The Mind ![]() ![]() That's the other gripping aspect of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother: There's method to Chua's madness - enough method to stir up self-doubt in readers who subscribe to more nurturing parenting styles. ![]() ![]() Chua's voice is that of a jovial, erudite serial killer - think Hannibal Lecter - who's explaining how he's going to fillet his next victim, as though it's the most self-evidently normal behavior. In her new memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Chua recounts her adventures in Chinese parenting, and - nuts though she may be - she's also mesmerizing. ![]() What kind of a mother? Why, a mother who's raising her kids the Chinese, rather than the Western, way. ![]() ![]() ![]() She determines to unlock the mystery of the shared future Isaac speaks of, but this seems impossible, since the objects they exchange through the time-portal all turn to dust. When Andrea is seventeen, she begins receiving Isaac’s letters via an elderly messenger who somehow has contact with them both. As Andrea grows up, and her relationship with Nate turns romantic, she and Isaac develop a mysterious bond. The only person she dares tell is her school friend, Nate, who doesn’t believe her. The premise is fanciful, but Sotto is reliably good at traveling along life’s offbeat paths.Īndrea Louviere first sees Newton when she’s seven, after a crack in her bedroom wall opens wide enough for her to glimpse a boy about her age. What if that wasn’t true? Sotto, author of Before Ever After, delivers another time-bending romantic adventure with her latest, which imagines a love story between Newton and a modern woman, a gifted cellist, who manages to bridge the 300-plus years through music. Eminent 17 th-century scientist Sir Isaac Newton never married, and he reportedly wasn’t romantically involved with anyone. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s beautiful and 30, and she has the means to bring along a robust entourage on her Serengeti trek: psychotherapist brother Billy and his pregnant wife Margie best friend and fellow actor Carmen and her aspiring-agent husband Felix her agent, director, and Terrance Dutton, her favorite co-star, who happens to be Black. Katie Barstow has reached the pinnacle: Not only is she a sought-after screen actor, she’s just married the love of her life, David Hill, a man she’s known since childhood who now works as a Los Angeles art gallerist. And his new novel, “ The Lioness,” takes place in early 1960s East Africa during a Hollywood star’s honeymoon safari. “The Flight Attendant,” a contemporary thriller published in 2018, is now in its second season as an HBO Max series. ![]() His 2021 novel, “The Hour of the Witch,” about colonial Massachusetts, came out a year after “The Red Lotus,” about an American lost in contemporary Vietnam. ![]() If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.Ĭhris Bohjalian, bestselling author of 22 novels, manages something rare these days: He combines prolific output with bona fide range and originality. ![]() ![]() ![]() In particular, Bean’s relationship with Henry is a compassionate, realistic portrayal of a sustaining, loving friendship. ![]() Yet the substantial revelations that occur over the course of this brief novel are, in the end, less compelling than the smaller moments that define the constantly shifting relationships that form the foundation of Bean’s life. ![]() In Jo Knowles’ latest novel, little is as it seems in the novel’s first pages. As she starts to ask questions-and get some unwelcome answers-Bean starts to feel like her life is becoming one giant soap opera. She can’t understand her mother’s celebratory attitude, the constant presence of her mom’s best friend or her own feelings of anger and loss, not to mention her increasingly complicated feelings about Henry. When Gus dies unexpectedly, Bean fears that she’s the only one who truly loved her grandfather. Bean’s mom, who was 15 herself when she had Bean, is an unhappy waitress, spending her nights drinking too much, fighting with Bean’s grandfather Gus and making Bean feel guilty for having been born. Henry’s mom-who watches soap operas religiously-is obese and agoraphobic, afraid to leave the house since Henry’s father disappeared. Bean and Henry are both misfits, united by their absent fathers and weird mothers. Fifteen-year-old Pearl (known to all as Bean) and her best friend Henry spend afternoons watching “Days of Our Lives” at Henry’s house. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His most startling and creative conception is the title character. Clinch endows Dickens’s snapshots with a three-dimensional, often alarming, life. Here, as there, he fleshes out characters and events often very lightly sketched in the original. he creates a penumbra of invention around the original novel ensuring - caveat lector! - that you may never be able to think of it in the same way again. By some uncanny act of artistic appropriation, he has, without imitating Dickens, entered into the phantasmagoric realm that is the great novelist’s quintessential territory, and, like the fat boy in Pickwick, he triumphantly succeeds in making our flesh creep. A Christmas Carol, despite the multitudinous saccharine versions souped up on stage and screen every festive season, is a pretty damn scary thing, but Jon Clinch’s prequel to it is black as hell, outstripping even Dickens’s remorseless and painful probings of his protagonist’s soul. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clarke, 1843) (page images at HathiTrust)
![]() Siegel managed to calm the chaos inside Chelsea Handler’s brain and the day before that, we allowed Esther Wojcicki to teach you how to raise successful people. Yesterday, we told you something about how Daniel J. The fourth collaboration of the two ( The Power of Showing Up) should be published in 2020.įind out more at “No-Drama Discipline PDF Summary” So far, she has co-authored three books with Siegel: The Whole-Brain Child, No-Drama Discipline, and The Yes Brain. She is also the Founder/Executive Director of The Center for Connection, and of The Play Strong Institute. ![]() Internationally renowned, he is the author of several highly praised bestselling books, such as Mindsight, Brainstorm, and The Developing Mind. Siegel, M.D., is an acclaimed author, award-winning educator, executive director of the Mindsight Institute, and clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was as if your inner life was not present and they only considered you as an object of work”, explains the author in an email exchange.įrom there arises part of the satire of his second novel, a Booker finalist in 2021, a mixture of absurdity and horror in the face of that individualist jargon that mixes therapeutic language with that of corporate mindfulness in order to squeeze profitability and get the bestĮmpty expressions that, opportunely, are the ones that best accommodate the cult of productivity of late capitalism. Of Human Resources as terrifying as it is intriguing. ![]() more efficient' and they took advantage of those expressions of this There people were saying things like 'you should make your (Anagram, 2023), the poet Olga Ravn (Copenhagen, 36 years old) continued to go to the office where she worked every morning to pay her bills. ![]() |