For the first time in ever, I am posting my summer reading list. @-)1) If you have a book you think I'd like, comment with title and author
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My copy of A Hundred mysteriously disappeared, remember?
Two teenagers struggle with identity and self-determination in Dermansky's entertaining debut.To the casual observer, twins Chloe and Sue are exactly the same-even their father mixes them up sometimes. Of course, Chloe understands that they're very different people, but Sue wants nothing more than to be one with Chloe, whom she's convinced is prettier, smarter and nicer. The chapters alternate between the voices of Sue and Chloe, moving quickly but seamlessly through their high school years with their attendant dramas and tragedies. It feels primarily like Sue's story, though, because it is her desire to hold on to her perfect intimacy with Chloe that sets the plot in motion. And it is Sue's voice-variously deadpan, yearning, and frequently repetitive to good effect-that carries most of the novel's emotional weight. (Though Chloe has her moments: "I did everything for Sue. She needed me as if I were the oxygen she breathed, but she didn't understand what it cost me.") While some aspects of the tale seem unlikely (the twins' blithely neglectful parents and extremely generous friends, for example), this is balanced by an overarching fable-like quality to this moving and well-written story of two girls learning to accept who they are.
Ah, Deskitty. Since someone already suggested something by Sarah Dunant, I'd recommend 'The Birth of Venus'. And if you're into Mr. Coelho, 'Veronika Decides To Die' is a personal favorite.
Monty, do you have a copy of Veronika? I'mma borrowin' from you.
I'm getting another Haruki Murakami novel today, Sputnik Sweetheart. I think you'd like what I just finished, Dance Dance Dance. Peep too. It made me go @_@!!!
The guy is good. I'll proudly lend my copy wrapped in a sarong.
Two teenagers struggle with identity and self-determination in Dermansky's entertaining debut.To the casual observer, twins Chloe and Sue are exactly the same-even their father mixes them up sometimes. Of course, Chloe understands that they're very different people, but Sue wants nothing more than to be one with Chloe, whom she's convinced is prettier, smarter and nicer. The chapters alternate between the voices of Sue and Chloe, moving quickly but seamlessly through their high school years with their attendant dramas and tragedies. It feels primarily like Sue's story, though, because it is her desire to hold on to her perfect intimacy with Chloe that sets the plot in motion. And it is Sue's voice-variously deadpan, yearning, and frequently repetitive to good effect-that carries most of the novel's emotional weight. (Though Chloe has her moments: "I did everything for Sue. She needed me as if I were the oxygen she breathed, but she didn't understand what it cost me.") While some aspects of the tale seem unlikely (the twins' blithely neglectful parents and extremely generous friends, for example), this is balanced by an overarching fable-like quality to this moving and well-written story of two girls learning to accept who they are.
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Must find. *mopes*
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Poor you. *pat*
Also, why does Twins sound like Brokeback Mountain with uteri?
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What a fucking long thread! Ha ha, uteri.
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Ah, Deskitty. Since someone already suggested something by Sarah Dunant, I'd recommend 'The Birth of Venus'. And if you're into Mr. Coelho, 'Veronika Decides To Die' is a personal favorite.
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I second Veronika Decides to Die...
I got that for Kat on her birthday. ;]
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I'm getting another Haruki Murakami novel today, Sputnik Sweetheart. I think you'd like what I just finished, Dance Dance Dance. Peep too. It made me go @_@!!!
The guy is good. I'll proudly lend my copy wrapped in a sarong.
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Veronika...It's an interesting book *agree* but its not really Coelho's best.
Eeh..to be really honest.
I like the Alchemist. XD
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I liked that one too, but my favorite of his is Eleven Minutes .
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Ack. Sarah Dunant. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Major slip-up again on my behalf. I'll tell you tomorrow. XDDDDD
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If I'm lending you anything, you better lend me something too, you filthy whore-slut.
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