Books about dysfunctional families are my jam and wow, the dysfunction goes deep here. The two brothers at the heart of the novel are utterly real as they grieve their father and ineptly navigate their rivalrous relationship and extremely messy love lives. Nobody does interiority or natural dialogue like Rooney. You become utterly immersed in the world she's created and the emotional rollercoasters the brothers ride. There is so much keen insight into the human condition here, and at the end, you are left feeling tender and hopeful about our world and the people in it.
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An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family―but especially love―from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties―successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women―his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Like loads of other people, I adore TV chef Ina Garten and her recipes. The best memoirs show you hidden sides of somebody you think you know (though you obviously don't) and this memoir contains many such surprises. After reading it, you're left admiring the lovely Garten even more than you did before, having learned she survived a dreadfully neglectful childhood and many jaw-dropping instances of sexism as she improvised her way to fame and fortune in the culinary world. Underneath Garten's gentle exterior is a fiercely ambitious woman determined to prove that living and loving well is the best revenge.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon—shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table.
Here, for the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate, entertaining, and inspiring account of her remarkable journey. Ina’s gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have been the result of hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite attention to detail. In her unmistakable voice (no one tells a story like Ina), she brings her past…
I like to mix up my reading--novels, memoirs, short story collections. Every story in this assemblage is super sharp and funny. Not to mention original. Bhat is super insightful about the physical and emotional trials of being a woman in today's world, to the point that you find yourself smiling, nodding and shouting 'Yes!' even when there's nobody around to hear.
From the Governor General’s Award-shortlisted author of The Most Precious Substance on Earth comes a breathtaking and sharply funny collection about the everyday trials and impossible expectations that come with being a woman.What would have happened if she’d met him at a different time in her life, when she was older, more confident, less lonely, and less afraid? She wonders not whether they would have stayed together, but whether she would have known to stay away. A writer discovers that her ex has published a novel about their breakup.An immunocompromised woman falls in love, only to have her body betray…
Is it asking too much to live a typical twelfth grade existence? Kelsey Kendler just wants to earn some money for university, hang out with friends, maybe even snag a boyfriend. But her pill-popping mom and distant dad scare off anybody she tries to bring home, making those last two things feel impossible.
Her part-time ice cream shop job’s a slog, but at least there, she can escape her parents’ constant fighting … until the COVID-19 pandemic forces a lockdown and she’s stuck at home with them 24/7.
As the lockdown takes its toll on Kelsey’s mental health, she starts to see the appeal of her mom’s pills. She hates what they do to her mom, but numbing herself to the world seems like a pretty good idea right about now. Horrified to find herself following in her mom’s footsteps, she can only hope she’ll eventually figure out some other way to cope …
