Growing up in a small rural community where education wasn't much valued amongst the working class population, I related to the main character in this book. She defies expectations and pursues an elite education (like I did) and then struggles the rest of her life stuck between the world she was born into and the world she now inhabits as an educated person.
This is a story about two friends who take wildly different paths in life. Both have brilliant minds. But one chooses to pursue an education while the other chooses marriage and work in the neighborhood of Naples where she grew up.
As their lives become more divergent, the ties that bind them grow even stronger. An incredible story.
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From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, comes this ravishing and generous-hearted novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but…
This fantasy series is about humanity. You follow several characters through a war-torn world, each one fighting desperately to stay alive. The story puts the characters in very trying situations and gives them a choice: kill or be killed. Ultimately, we come to understand that a life of honor can be tarnished in an instant and only luck decides who will be blameless in the end.
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Old God's Time got off to a meandering start. I struggled to understand what I was supposed to focus on. But as the story unfolds, I realized that I was dealing with a very unreliable narrator, and the whole story took a dark turn. It was an excellent reflection on the persistence of memory and the tragedy of loss as life unfolds.
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Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea.
His solitude is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask about a traumatic, decades-old case. A case that Tom never quite came to terms with. And his peace is further disturbed when his new neighbour, a mysterious young mother, asks for his help.
Jim Frost thinks that when you're dead, you're dead. Gone. Finished. Kaput. But on the eve of his seventy-third birthday, his daughter suggests he have his brain downloaded to a microchip for safe-keeping, and Jim is forced to consider what it really means to die, and what it might mean to live forever.
Winner in the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards and semifinalist in the 2015 Kindle Book Awards, Do Not Resuscitate is the firsthand account of Jim Frost, an aging misanthropist who witnessed the rise and fall of the United States as a world power, the digitalization of the planet, the advent of the water wars, and the near collapse of the global economy. Yet he remains impervious to it all. Concerned more with his plasma TV, high-speed Internet, and continual supply of hash, twentysomething Jim takes an under-the-table job off Craigslist delivering mysterious red coolers to strangers in cafés in an effort to pay the bills. But when Jim's enigmatic employer asks him to fly to North Korea for a delivery, Jim starts to wonder what he's gotten himself into.
