Jojo moyes one plus one summary5/24/2023 ![]() It is also learned that Sophie was actually reunited with her husband, and lived out a happy life with him in Switzerland. Liv refuses to give up the painting, and eventually, Paul quits his own side and through an investigation, learns that the painting was given as a gift to the Kommandant in the first place. Liv begins a relationship with Paul McCafferty, who later learns that his company has tasked him with hunting down the very same painting owned by Liv, for it is claimed to be stolen during World War I, shortly after Sophie’s arrest. The painting “The Girl You Left Behind” is given to Liv as a gift before her husband’s death. ![]() In 2006, four years after her husband has died, Liv Halston is attempting to get by on her own. Unexpectedly, Sophie is arrested by the Germans and is never seen or heard from again. Sophie offers herself and the painting to the Kommandant in exchange for getting her husband released from a prison camp in Germany. ![]() The German Kommandant of the area, an educated man, becomes obsessed with the painting of Sophie. Now, with One Plus One, she's written another contemporary opposites-attract love story. Ever since she debuted Stateside she has captivated readers and reviewers alike, and hit the New York Times bestseller list with the word-of-mouth sensation Me Before You. Peronne, where Sophie helps her sister and brother tend to the family hotel. American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. When the novel begins, it is 1916, and the Germans have occupied the town of St. The subject of his painting is his wife Sophie. ![]() ![]() JoJo Moyes’s novel "The Girl You Left Behind" consists of two stories that revolve around an eponymous painting by the French artist Edouard Lefevre. ![]()
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Impostor by susanne winnacker5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sherry has lived with her family in a bunker for more than three yearsHer grandfather’s body has been in the freezer for the last sixmonths, her parents are at each other s throats and two minutes ago,they ran out of food Sherry and her father must leave the safety of thebunker What they find is an empty Los Angeles, destroyed by bombsand haunted by Weepers savage humans infected with a rabiesvirus While searching for food, Sherry s father disappears and Sherry issaved by Joshua, a hunter He takes her to Safe haven, a vineyard wherea handful of survivors are picking up the pieces of their other lives, before the virus changed everything Sherry must find a way to help herfamily, stay alive, and decide whether Joshua is their savior or greatestdanger as his desire for vengeance threatens them all This debut novelis a page turner that is not easy to forget. ![]() Yashica dutt books5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() It was also one of the reasons I was excited to see how people would react. I never wanted this book to just be about my world.Īfter coming out as Dalit, you’ve received comments like, “Oh, but you don’t look like a Dalit”. So the idea of just writing my own story was odd for me. ![]() Including the stories of other Dalits, but doing that with data, facts and research, was a deliberate choice. Was this meant to give it context or was it, to use your own phrase, to avoid ‘the danger of the single narrative’? ![]() Your memoir is not just your story, but also a commentary on what has been happening to Dalits at large. Her book, Coming Out As Dalit is not just her personal story, but a commentary on the experience of being a Dalit in today’s India. ĭutt has now written a memoir about growing up in a Dalit family, and the compulsions of hiding her caste while others flaunted theirs for social capital. Ever since her ‘coming out’ as a Dalit, she has faced varying reactions, the most common being, ‘Oh, but you don’t look like a Dalit’. In the wake of Rohith Vemula’s suicide, New-York based journalist Yashica Dutt decided to reveal what she had hidden for years – her whole life – the fact that she is Dalit. ![]() Astrid scholte books5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() How I hated every single character in this book. And then a few chapters from the point of views of the four queens. Most of the book is told from the point of view of Keralie. And that was not even the only problem with this book. Why did we need to know all the stupid details about the boring world? It could have been done better, I suppose. Impossible to get lost in the book since the writing was truly bad. Was impossible to connect to the characters. Felt like I was reading a very badly written journal, with the main girl telling us point by point how she had spent her day. I do not even know how to describe it right, but my god, it was horrible. I am not sure I have ever read writing this bad. ![]() And the biggest reason for it was the writing. And so I can't help but rate it one star. ![]() I had hope that maybe it could end up getting a little bit better. All of it made me want to throw the book far away. There was so very much wrong with this book that I honestly do not know where to begin. This book was the worst I have read in a long time. But I'm not sharing what others think about this book. My review will be full of my thoughts about this book. Because my copy was a print ARC that I had traded for.Īnd now I wish to trade it away. This is not a book that I feel anyone should read. It's been a long time since I last read a book this bad. ![]() Little men alcott5/24/2023 ![]() Meg’s twin children, Demi and Daisy, attend the school as do Friedrich’s nephews, Franz and Emil, who are like sons to him. ![]() This instalment of the tale of the March family begins with Nat arriving at Plumfield and we are introduced to a whole host of new characters in the boys who attend the school and also get to catch up with the old ones from the previous books. One of these boys is Nat, a street musician who Laurie finds and sends to Jo to be nurtured. Some of the boys come from families who pay for them to be at the school and some are poor kids with little or no family who Laurie sends to Jo to be educated and looked after. ![]() “Little Men” continues on from “Little Women” and “Good Wives” and tells the story of what happens when Jo and Friedrich Bhaer open a school for boys in what was Aunt March’s house, Plumfield. As such I have read both “Little Men” and “Jo’s Boys” since I last posted. First of all, sorry I’ve been a little absent from the blog lately, had a lot going on at home and didn’t leave me a lot of time for reviewing. ![]() Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Not least of the novel's virtues is the way he seems to conjure up a whole social panorama. Annalukshmi's Jane Austen-ish domestic life - anxious mother, bossy aunt, catty sisters, endless talk of prospective husbands - is brought to life with glancing humour. The characters and setting are established in a measured, finely judged manner, allowing us to feel at home with them. this is, in many ways, an old-fashioned novel, brimming with old-fashioned virtues. 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In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the King. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a stand-alone novel, but if you would like to see more of Lucy and Edmund's adventures, read The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the fifth book in The Chronicles of Narnia. Miraz, Caspian's uncle, hears of this and quickly gets rid of the nurse and hires a tutor for Caspian. 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