Mouline and Lelia, male and female political activists, are brutally tortured by the Moroccan secret police before disappearing into the endless night of the prison system. Para mí, esto ha sido lo más real y aterrador de toda la novela, saber que hay gente tan mezquina y me dió, creo que para sentirse superior y para lograr lo que quiere, no dudan en machacar a los demás, en hacerle sentirles inferiores. Millner skillfully explores how societal pressures have forced generations of Black women to make difficult choices. Leí las novelas de Harry Potter cuando salieron publicadas, me gustaron, pero nunca llegué a ser fan obsesivo de las mismas (ni siquiera he visto todas las películas).

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Me ha parecido el broche de oro perfecto para esta historia, sobre todo después del bajón, que para mí fue la tercera parte. John Chenneville, severely wounded in the Civil War, makes his way home to Missouri, where he learns that his beloved sister and her family were brutally murdered.Una novela ágil, divertida y cruel, dramática y tierna, que se lee en nada y es imposible no disfrutarla.

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Dudo que hubiera podido darse en la vida real, solo agradezco que la ficción nos pueda regalar momentos así. She eventually finds solace in the support and solidarity of other women, sensitive to her familiar plight. Pero leyendo sobre Marc y Hugo en este libro, da miedo porque hay mucha gente que es así en la vida real. Me lo hubiera ventilado en uno o dos días si no hubiera tenido que respetar las metas de la lectura conjunta, ya que al ser capítulos tan corto se lee muy rápido.In those novels, four magical worlds, once connected in London, were forced to close themselves off to each other, and only a few remaining people have the power to reconnect them. A pesar de ello, “Número dos” tiene una premisa tan interesante que despertó mi curiosidad y decidí darle una oportunidad.

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September is a great month to be a reader, with gems arriving from both best-selling and debut authors. Me ha transportado a mi infancia y me ha recordado la emoción que sentí cuando leí esos libros y vi esas pelis por primera vez, y que me embargaba cada vez que salía una nueva peli y libro. The dream from which Maja refuses to awake is the life that Maja might have had, were her Belorussian mother still alive.Foenkinos’s surreal yet relatable novel, a French bestseller, considers life in our age of anxiety, when other people’s picture-perfect lives make our own seem drab in comparison. He disfrutado de la pluma del autor ya que está exquisitamente narrada, y del universo y anécdotas Potterianas, ya que soy una gran fan, pero no le he pillado el punto al libro. Y eso lo podemos ver claramente leyendo la historia - no sé hasta qué punto real o imaginaria - de Martin Hill, el niño que estuvo a punto de ser Harry Potter. I receive a very small percentage from each item you purchase via these links, which is at no extra cost to you. Bennett charmingly portrays relationships between royal family members, and the equine statues, Georgian gardens and old letters handwritten by the Queen Mum give this cozy mystery an unmistakable sense of place.

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a playful blend of fact and fiction’ The Telegraph ‘Foenkinos’s surreal yet relatable novel, a French bestseller, considers life in our age of anxiety, when other people’s picture-perfect lives make our own seem drab in comparison’ Washington Post, 10 Noteworthy Books for September ‘It’s about time British readers discovered the wit and originality of David Foenkinos, and this exquisitely bittersweet comedy of life’s missed opportunities is the perfect place to start’ Jonathan Coe, author of Bournville ‘It doesn’t get more captivating than this’ Elle ‘Funny and melancholy, cruel and dramatic’ Le Figaro Littéraire ‘David Foenkinos turns a genius idea into an absorbing novel’ La Croix ‘A sensitive and kind meditation on coming back from failure’ Le Parisien ‘A lively, sharp, playful tale’ L’Obs ‘Peppered with empathy, emotion and humour’ rtbf. Ese rechazo le provocará una frustración inicial que se irá convirtiendo en un auténtico trauma que afectará todos los aspectos de su vida.It also shows, more generally, what happens when a society is subject to the endless Instagram audition, the tyranny of the sight of other people’s happiness. Long a preferred instrument of torture for oppressive regimes, sleep deprivation can drive its sufferers to extremes. The aunt is not so much the wicked stepmother as the watchful guardian, in thrall to duty and silence. But soon afterwards the elements of the story fell into place, and the protagonist's struggles and pains began to resonate with my own experience. Además de que el manejo del tiempo fue deficiente, ya que de una página a otra pasaban varios años y no se sentía un cambio en los personajes o en la narrativa.