Ooooooh excellent casting. I’m a particular fan of Matt McFYou Are Here by David Nicholls is being adapted for TV!! Starring Claire Foy and Matthew Mcfadyen.I cannot flipping wait.
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I love this! Can’t wait for thisYou Are Here by David Nicholls is being adapted for TV!! Starring Claire Foy and Matthew Mcfadyen.
My Brilliant Friend, this book got so much praise and I just cannot get on with it at all, it has been such a slog and I don't enjoy reading it. I would have given up but I bought into the hype I heard and kept thinking it would get better. I only have about 60 pages to go but I'll be glad when it's over and I can kick the reading slump it's put me in
i liked this book (and the whole series) but i do think they’re INSANELY overhyped. i don’t know if it’s a translation thing but i find the writing style so distant. i’ve never understood why it’s so often in the top five of those best books of the past decade lists!
That is a perfect summary of the writing: distant. I am not really invested in anyone. But I should've known when I picked it up and it started with a long list of who all the various characters are, when I have to flick back to constantly remind myself who is who I am lost
Some great adaptations in the works for us then!
Shakespeare and Company (excellent bookshop in Paris if anyone isn't aware) listing their top ten paperbacks! Anyone read Wakenhyrst? Sounds most like my sort of thing from the ones I haven't read, though I also haven't read The Hours
Shakespeare and Company (excellent bookshop in Paris if anyone isn't aware) listing their top ten paperbacks! Anyone read Wakenhyrst? Sounds most like my sort of thing from the ones I haven't read, though I also haven't read The Hours
I'm one of the people who put it in their Top 5 books of like.. ever
It's so interesting how we can all have different reactions and opposite perceptions of a book and how it's handled.
Will put this behind spoiler if anyone wants to know why I love it but don't want it to be taken as me trying to tell anyone they're wrong for not liking it. No right and wrong when it comes to books ofc.
I do not find the first book, or the series, distant at all. I'm there with Elena and Lila. I love that they're both in different ways unlikable women, and their friendship is complex and fraught sometimes but so fiercely loyal at others. I love the historical aspect of it and how it explores poverty and its impacts on the collective and the individual. The use of language is brilliant too, imo. In English it's hard to properly explain what it means to use dialect versus standardized Italian, but even reading the translation I grasped the nuances and noticing who spoke what when brought a lot of richness to the interactions.
I'm sorry it wasn't for you, BoogleC!
This is one of the reasons this is one of my favourite threads to read, it's so interesting to hear different takes on books and how a book that doesn't resonate with one person can mean so much to anotherI'm one of the people who put it in their Top 5 books of like.. ever
It's so interesting how we can all have different reactions and opposite perceptions of a book and how it's handled.
Will put this behind spoiler if anyone wants to know why I love it but don't want it to be taken as me trying to tell anyone they're wrong for not liking it. No right and wrong when it comes to books ofc.
I do not find the first book, or the series, distant at all. I'm there with Elena and Lila. I love that they're both in different ways unlikable women, and their friendship is complex and fraught sometimes but so fiercely loyal at others. I love the historical aspect of it and how it explores poverty and its impacts on the collective and the individual. The use of language is brilliant too, imo. In English it's hard to properly explain what it means to use dialect versus standardized Italian, but even reading the translation I grasped the nuances and noticing who spoke what when brought a lot of richness to the interactions.
I'm sorry it wasn't for you, BoogleC!
aw i would never take it that way at all dwI'm one of the people who put it in their Top 5 books of like.. ever
It's so interesting how we can all have different reactions and opposite perceptions of a book and how it's handled.
Will put this behind spoiler if anyone wants to know why I love it but don't want it to be taken as me trying to tell anyone they're wrong for not liking it. No right and wrong when it comes to books ofc.
I do not find the first book, or the series, distant at all. I'm there with Elena and Lila. I love that they're both in different ways unlikable women, and their friendship is complex and fraught sometimes but so fiercely loyal at others. I love the historical aspect of it and how it explores poverty and its impacts on the collective and the individual. The use of language is brilliant too, imo. In English it's hard to properly explain what it means to use dialect versus standardized Italian, but even reading the translation I grasped the nuances and noticing who spoke what when brought a lot of richness to the interactions.
I'm sorry it wasn't for you, BoogleC!
it’s always interesting to hear other perspectives, especially when it’s one of your favourites. i nearly did a whole powerpoint here in defence of in memoriam 
the characterisation is amazing, i agree, and it’s just an incredible depiction of female friendship and the jealousy and power plays that can sometimes go on within it, ESPECIALLY women who have been friends since childhood. the setting is wonderful too. i can only say that the actual style of it didn’t always work for me but that’s purely a preference thing: i don’t always do well with that sort of observation style prose.
also every single male character was a complete wet wipe
which i liked because obviously the women are key but also i was like girl he is not worth all this in the later books.I haven’t read the final book in the quartet (but will soon - I’m trying complete some series before the end of the year) but I’m hoping something big happens to an unnamed male character.aw i would never take it that way at all dw
the characterisation is amazing, i agree, and it’s just an incredible depiction of female friendship and the jealousy and power plays that can sometimes go on within it, ESPECIALLY women who have been friends since childhood. the setting is wonderful too. i can only say that the actual style of it didn’t always work for me but that’s purely a preference thing: i don’t always do well with that sort of observation style prose.
also every single male character was a complete wet wipe
I really hate Lying Life of Adults so unsure why I even bought My Brilliant Friend let alone read it - but.. glad I did! I found it unexpectedly absorbing and I’m surprisingly attached to the characters. It’s quite a slow read though and think it’s very much translated as someone speaking English as their second language (which I like) but I think can stop it from being the most readable.
I’ve definitely mentioned it before on this thread, but always worth repeating that the Italian tv adaptation of My Brilliant Friend (and sequels!) is fantastic. For those in the UK it’s available via Sky, with subtitles of course! For me it’s one of the few incidences of the screen adaptation being better than the book.
You won't be disappointed no matter which of the male characters deserving of a comeuppance you're thinking about.
It is fantastic. For me, it is as good as the books which is high praise in my book (pun intended). But truly not a single bad episode, not a single miscast. Every scene needed to be there.
Actually I need a rewatch.
I've read Wakenhyrst. I gave it four stars according to Goodreads but I can't remember a thing about it so I'm not much help I'm afraid
I like anything Michelle Paver writes. My goodreads also says 4*
'It opened up something in me': Why people are turning to bibliotherapy
"Bibliotherapy" has been soaring in popularity as a means of improving people's wellbeing. But getting it right depends on the book, and the person.
www.bbc.com
Really interesting article on bibliotherapy! Not sure how I feel about professional bibliotherapists, but I have done music therapy in the past with highly qualified facilitators (it’s a university course) and found it amazing.
I just came on to see if anyone has seen any reviews or follows anyone who has an ARC of the new book. Or is it too early for those? I was reading the details on Amazon & it didn’t grab me like LiCPeck & Peck | Bonnie Garmus | 9781786588814 | NetGalley
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The new Bonnie Garmus is on Netgalley. Annoyingly they give very little detail as to what it’s about, instead it’s padded with details relating to Lessons.
There must be so much pressure creating a second book after your debut novel was so successful & adored by many…I'm trying so hard with the CC books, book one took an age to get into and then I flew through it, but book 2 seems to be back to the same struggle with new characters! I read TOG book one and could not care less about any of the characters, I just need to be back in ValarisI have just finished the second Crescent City book, I think CC is is my favourite of the 3 Maasverse series'. That last chapter of Book 2...
Let's see if I still feel the same after House of Flame and Shadow.
Just the third Crescent City book plus Kingdom of Ash from the Throne of Glass series to go. And then a break before ACOTAR 6 comes out.
I think many of us will have experienced the benefits of reading to our wellbeing and I'm all for anything which can help someone in an era where mental health resources are so difficult to access.'It opened up something in me': Why people are turning to bibliotherapy
"Bibliotherapy" has been soaring in popularity as a means of improving people's wellbeing. But getting it right depends on the book, and the person.
Really interesting article on bibliotherapy! Not sure how I feel about professional bibliotherapists, but I have done music therapy in the past with highly qualified facilitators (it’s a university course) and found it amazing.
However.... charging £100 to basically recommend someone a list of books vaguely related to their personal problems is a grift and a half if you ask me.