“What do you mean, you’re not benefiting?” I stare at his golden profile, trying to ignore the way my heart starts to race the longer I look at him. “I’m not benefiting from anything.” His voice is flat, his gaze going to the window. The two of us living in sin all alone in this gorgeous penthouse apartment.” I throw my arms out wide, indicating the room, the entire place. “Like I told you, I was trying to protect you.” And from the anger I see flaring in his gaze, I’m fairly certain it’s working. “At the engagement party, when you spotted the bruises.” What am I doing? It’s like I want to get a rise out of him. Maybe Perry believes I’m not so bad once he gets to know me too? “Sometimes you can act like an asshole.” “They’re not so bad once you get to know them,” I say gently. Their own reasons to escape our parents,” I say. Excerpt The Reluctant Bride by Monica Murphy
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I understand that during the 60-70, associating drugs to eastern philosophy was a thing, but putting that in a book isn’t going to make me believe that the person is serious about learning (or even knows what their saying). The point where I gave up was when he was talking about doing LSD while “reveling in the lessons and scriptures of Buddhism”. What I mean is, I often wondered if Matthiessen himself knew what he was talking about. Sometimes I feel that the concepts of Buddhism aren’t so hard to grasp, but scholarly scriptures make it harder. I know Peter Matthiessen is supposed to be a student of Buddhism, but if I wanted to read a book about Buddhism, I wouldn’t have picked up a book called “The Snow Leopard”.Įvery 5 seconds we would drift off into some gabble about Buddhism that made no sense. An alternative title to this book should be: “The Snow Leopard: As elusive in this book as in real life”.įor a book that was supposed to be a travelogue into the world of the snow leopard, there were endless pages of dense reflections on Buddhism. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 * A Bustle Best YA Novel of 2017 * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book of 2017 * A Book Riot Best Queer Book of 2017 * A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year * A BookPage Best YA Book of the Year Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. 2 They do it because they have a constellation of family members-and maybe a dog-who depend on them, or because they’re just trying to pay their own bills. A third of Americans now say they are in the lower classes, and many are working at jobs in which their livelihoods are determined by bosses with their own bosses to please. The fact is, Americans live at work, often doing jobs that are tedious, demeaning, and pointless, not to mention dangerous and poorly paid. 1 But in much of modern American fiction, a job is merely a setting, handy for a narrative jolt (a promotion! a pink slip! an affair!) or a patina of verisimilitude. Sure, you can name some terrific exceptions. Or blame it on a conviction, among readers and writers alike, that the workaday world is plain old boring. Blame it on an overwhelming literary consensus that there’s something sullying about implicating oneself in capitalism, even if it’s to document it. Blame it on an MFA system that shunts wannabe writers into the academy before they have time to scuff their sneakers in a break room or callous their hands on a broom handle. For Nora, the simple fact of her German citizenship bound her to the Holocaust and its unspeakable atrocities and left her without a sense of cultural belonging. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow throughout her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. (See excerpts of the book and work-in-progress video below.) Future releases: China (Thinkingdom).Ī 288-page illustrated and hand-lettered visual memoir on a German family’s memory of WWII. Published in the following countries: USA (Scribner), UK (Particular Books), Germany (Penguin Hardcover), Holland (Balans), France (Gallimard), Norway (Spartacus), Sweden (Norstedts), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Italy (Stile Libero), Denmark (Gads), Korea (Bookhouse Publishers Co.), Ukraine (Vydavnytstvo), Lithuania (Aukso Zuvys), Spain (Salamandra), Czech Republic (Akropolis) and Russia (Boomkniga). Für die deutsche Ausgabe von Heimat bitte hier klicken.īelonging (US title) / Heimat (foreign title) |