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This weekend i going to sift thru and see which ones my library have and which ones i can afford
(all $12 for kindle book to backfoot)
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This weekend i going to sift thru and see which ones my library have and which ones i can afford
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Got this one...since i have some money on my amazon a/c.
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Liane Moriarty (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2,851 customer reviews)
Print List Price: $25.95 Kindle Price: $5.99 You Save: $19.96 (77%) Sold by: Would you have married your spouse if you knew he harbored a secret from his teens that paints an entirely different picture of the man you have known, loved and lived with for many years? Does 28 years of self-inflicted "penance" for a wrong-doing committed as a teen, make up for the mistake, when other people are still living with the consequences? People don't always make the right choices, and not making a choice sometimes is exactly that, a choice. A thought-provoking, emotional, and masterfully crafted novel focusing on the complexities of relationships, secrets, forgiveness, trust and love, that will have you thinking about this novel long after you've finished it
The novel is about secrets, and I don't want to reveal any of them because Moriarty does it so brilliantly in the novel. Basically we are asked, as observers, to contemplate how a person can live with a huge and terrible, secret. And how can you live knowing someone else's huge and terrible secret? Human existence is complicated and messy and far from black and white/good and bad. Humans make strange and often irrational choices. Are they always indefensible? These are the kinds of things that Moriarty is so good at dissecting for her readers, and why we keep coming back for more. -
This one looks interesting...$11 though...whenever it get into double digits i have to think about it for a while before i decide if i gwine buy. Got a sample sent to kindle if it holds my attention I'll probably buy it.
A remarkable literary debut -- shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize! The unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and to America.
Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad.
But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her-from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to J.M. Coetzee-while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own.Last edited by CeaBee; 11-21-2013, 09:56 AM.Comment
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A Child of Two Lands
‘We Need New Names,’ by NoViolet Bulawayo
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: May 15, 2013
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“When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky,” NoViolet Bulawayo writes in her deeply felt and fiercely written debut novel. “They flee their own wretched land so their hunger may be pacified in foreign lands, their tears wiped away in strange lands, the wounds of their despair bandaged in faraway lands, their blistered prayers muttered in the darkness of queer lands.” They leave behind their mothers and fathers and “the bones of their ancestors in the earth” — they leave behind “everything that makes them who and what they are, leaving because it is no longer possible to stay.”
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NoViolet Bulawayo
WE NEED NEW NAMES
By NoViolet Bulawayo
296 pages. Little, Brown & Company. $25.
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The place they are leaving, in this case, is Zimbabwe, that African nation brutalized by more than 30 years of malignity and neglect under the autocratic rule of Robert Mugabe — a country reeling, as the journalist Peter Godwin noted in his powerful 2011 book “The Fear” from unemployment, hunger, inflation, AIDS and the government’s torture and violent intimidation of all political opposition. The place many of them are hoping to flee to is the United States — the destination of the novel’s young narrator, Darling, who will begin a new life there with her aunt.
Darling is 10 when we first meet her, and the voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for her is utterly distinctive — by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative. It is the voice, early on, of a child — observant, skeptical and hardhearted in the way children can be. She pinches a sick baby she does not want to hold in church so that he will cry and she can hand him back to his mother, and she is coldly standoffish when her long-absent father returns home from South Africa, having become sick with AIDS.
Darling processes the misfortunes of Zimbabwe and its politics through the eyes of a child — talk of elections and hopes of change are something grown-ups engage in; she and her friends are more concerned with filling their empty stomachs with stolen guavas and inventing games to pass the time. School belongs to the time Before — before the police came and bulldozed their houses, before they were all forced to move into tin shacks, before their fathers lost their jobs and life changed.
Using her gift for pictorial language, Ms. Bulawayo gives us snapshots of Zimbabwe that have the indelible color and intensity of a folk art painting: “men huddled like sheep and playing draughts under the lone jacaranda,” the blooming purple flowers almost make them “look beautiful in the shade without their shirts on,” sitting there, “crouched forward like tigers”; the women doing their best to look pretty, wearing “a bangle made from rusty, twisted wire,” a “flower tucked behind an ear,” “earrings made from colorful seeds,” “bright patches of cloth sewn onto a skirt.”
There is desperation here, however. As it becomes clear that elections have failed to bring about any kind of change, as men leave home in search of work and families fracture, young and old alike dream of escape — to America or Europe, or failing that, South Africa, or maybe Dubai or Botswana, someplace where “at least life is better” than in this “terrible place of hunger and things falling apart.”
Thanks to her Aunt Fostalina, who lives in “Destroyedmichygen” (Detroit, Michigan), Darling does make it to the United States. At first she is surprised by the astonishing variety and plenitude of food, by the wealth of everyday choices (“Do you prefer this or that? Are you sure? — as if I have become a real person”) and by the silent mystery of snow: it’s like “we’re in the crazy parts of the Bible, there where God is busy punishing people for their sins and is making them miserable with all the weather.”
Once she is a teenager, she quickly adopts the habits of friends from school, even if she doesn’t exactly care for them — listening to Rihanna, trying on armfuls of clothing at the mall (and leaving them in huge messy piles in the dressing room) and watching pornography online. She acquires an American accent, gets A’s in school (“because school is so easy in America even a donkey would pass”) but resists her aunt’s efforts to goad her into pursuing a career in medicine.
Darling promises her mother that she will come home for a visit soon, even though she knows she won’t because she doesn’t have the proper paperwork to return to America again. She misses the friends she grew up with, but at the same time feels estranged from them. One of them, Chipo, tells her on a Skype call that she can’t refer to Zimbabwe as her country anymore, since she treated it as a burning house and ran away from it instead of trying to put out the flames: “Darling, my dear, you left the house burning and you have the guts to tell me, in that stupid accent that you were not even born with, that doesn’t even suit you, that this is your country?”
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ETA: me just see that me library have it in ebook format.
2nd on waiting list.
Last edited by CeaBee; 11-21-2013, 10:47 AM.Comment
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Just in time
I was looking for a new book to read
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I started reading The Husband's Secret last week. Like so far
Got it from iTunes for 5.99.
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Good to know. Thanks.
*although me never hear PZ *admit* seh she nuh like a book yet
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Yuh need to brush up on yuh research skills
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I will have to wait for some of these to go on sale, maybe they will have black Friday sales? I am listening to a good book right now, Child 44, not the type of book I would usually read but they say you must open up you mind and do just that and see is true cause I am really liking it.
A propulsive, relentless page-turner.
A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted.
A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience.
CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read.
"There is no
crime."
Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its citizens live free from the fear of ordinary crime and criminals.
But in this society, millions do live in fear . . . of the State. Death is a whisper away. The mere suspicion of ideological disloyalty-owning a book from the decadent West, the wrong word at
the wrong time-sends millions of innocents into the Gulags or to their executions. Defending the system from its citizens is the MGB, the State Security Force. And no MGB officer is more courageous, conscientious, or idealistic than Leo Demidov.
A war hero with a beautiful wife, Leo lives in relative luxury in Moscow, even providing a decent apartment for his parents. His only ambition has been to serve his country. For this greater
good, he has arrested and interrogated.
Then the impossible happens. A different kind of criminal-a murderer-is on the loose, killing at will. At the same time, Leo finds himself demoted and denounced by his enemies, his world
turned upside down, and every belief he's ever held shattered. The only way to save his life and the lives of his family is to uncover this criminal. But in a society that is officially paradise, it's a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer-much less a serial killer-is in their midst. Exiled from his home, with only his wife, Raisa, remaining at his side, Leo must confront the vast resources and reach of the MBG to find and stop a criminal that the State won't admit even exists.Comment
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at seemi book ...that sound like it give me nightmare....well maybe not but i generally get a more sedate type of mystery ...the action, end of world stuff is not my cup of tea.
My library has some of these books in kindle format so you can try checking yours ....( for the more popular books you end up way way down on waiting list though)
if u hear anyting bout sale come back and let me know.Last edited by CeaBee; 11-22-2013, 12:33 PM.Comment
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Just got Me Before You. Going to escape in it.Comment
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that one sounds sad. Let me know if you like it. (so that i can borrow it from u if it good) I didn't even have to look it up, I've thought about getting it too.
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20 kindle books for $2 each. Thru Nov 30th
will look thru later.Comment
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I love short stories and Water Street by Crystal Wilkerson is calling me. So many books
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So many books
i dont like to run out
that's why i love kindle...me can walk round wid 639 books in mi handbag
(some of them were free and me read the first chapter and go
and and dash them to the side)
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