Litfic_and_romance
Translated lit (mostly japanese), diverse romance, manga, translated classics
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Am Samstag gehen die Mädchen in den Wald und jagen Sachen in die Luft
Fiona Sironic
Eine erste Liebe zwischen Festhalten und Vernichten, Aussterben und Weiterleben
Es brennt. In den Wäldern und auf den Screens. Die 15-jährige Era lebt mit ihrer Mutter am Waldrand und versucht dem schleichenden Prozess der Zerstörung etwas entgegenzusetzen, indem sie das Aussterben der Vögel dokumentiert. In einem Stream beobachtet sie ihre Mitschülerin Maja und deren Schwester Merle, die auf der benachbarten Lichtung Festplatten in die Luft jagen. Maja ist die Tochter zweier Momfluencerinnen, die versucht, die Erinnerungen an eine öffentliche Kindheit auszulöschen. Während Era Notizbücher führt, Zeichnungen anfertigt und all das Wissen, auf das sie Zugriff hat, zu ordnen versucht, bildet Maja eine zerstörerische Gegenkraft. Dennoch sind Era und Maja verbunden in ihrer Suche nach Intimität und analogen Reizen. Während die Turteltaube ausstirbt, verlieben die beiden sich ineinander. Aber nicht nur die Vögel sind Als ein großflächiger Brand den Wald zerstört, verlieren auch die Mädchen einen bedeutenden Teil ihres Lebensraums.
Souverän und klug überzeugt Sironic mit einer neuen literarischen Stimme.
»Eine wilde, witzige, weise Expedition in unsere Zukunft.« Julia von Lucadou, Autorin von »Die Hochhausspringerin«
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Wonderful! I just adore this series and I’m super looking forward to the last book, considering Kian was hilarious and I loved seeing glimpses of his romance already foreshadowed here.
Collide blew me away when I read it, and this was just as great, if not better? The characters are so tridimensional, and I really related to Sierra’s struggles.
I really love the setting, I love that the writing is never quirky, I looooove the references to Turkish shows, I love the found family (it’s done really, really well in here), I love it all.
Bonus point: this entire series has ZERO social media mentions. These characters have more interesting things to do than be addicted to Instagram. You see, you can write a contemporary book without endorsing Meta every 2 pages.
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Oh, obsessed! She’s slowly becoming one of my favorites, this was brilliant, hilarious, hyper charismatic.
I’ll never forget Amélie and snow storm! If you’re interested in Japan, this is a must!
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Fear and Trembling
Amélie Nothomb
According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amélie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfillment of a dream for Amélie; working there turns into comic nightmare. Alternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight to the pages of this taut little novel, caught up in the throes of fear, trembling, and, ultimately, delight.
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Very pretty, but the story is very basic and forgettable
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Delicates (Sheets, #2)
Brenna Thummler
Marjorie Glatt’s life hasn’t been the same ever since she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family’s laundromat. Wendell, who died young and now must wander the earth as a ghost, soon became one of Marjorie’s only friends. But when Marjorie finally starts to fit in at school, she begins to worry that if anyone learns about her secret ghost friends, she’ll be labeled as a freak who sees dead people. Wendell isn’t the only one pushed to the outside, though. Eliza Duncan, Marjorie’s classmate at school, is constantly seen as different by Marjorie’s new friends, and starts to feel like a ghost herself. Is it worth it to Marjorie to fit in if it means she excludes both Wendell and Eliza? Following the events of Brenna Thummler’s first graphic novel, Sheets, Delicates tells a powerful story about what it means to fit in, and those who are left on the outside. It shows what it’s like to feel invisible, and the importance of feeling seen.
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Fear and Trembling
Amélie Nothomb
According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amélie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfillment of a dream for Amélie; working there turns into comic nightmare. Alternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight to the pages of this taut little novel, caught up in the throes of fear, trembling, and, ultimately, delight.
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Delicates (Sheets, #2)
Brenna Thummler
Marjorie Glatt’s life hasn’t been the same ever since she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family’s laundromat. Wendell, who died young and now must wander the earth as a ghost, soon became one of Marjorie’s only friends. But when Marjorie finally starts to fit in at school, she begins to worry that if anyone learns about her secret ghost friends, she’ll be labeled as a freak who sees dead people. Wendell isn’t the only one pushed to the outside, though. Eliza Duncan, Marjorie’s classmate at school, is constantly seen as different by Marjorie’s new friends, and starts to feel like a ghost herself. Is it worth it to Marjorie to fit in if it means she excludes both Wendell and Eliza? Following the events of Brenna Thummler’s first graphic novel, Sheets, Delicates tells a powerful story about what it means to fit in, and those who are left on the outside. It shows what it’s like to feel invisible, and the importance of feeling seen.
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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Leo Tolstoy
A new, definitive translation of Tolstoy's early autobiographical trilogy
Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood; Boyhood; Youth , in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and color. Evident too in its brilliant account of a young person's emerging awareness of the world and of his place within it are many of the stances, techniques and themes that would come to full flower in the immortal War and Peace and Anna Karenina , and in the other great works of Tolstoy's maturity. Prizewinning translator Judson Rosengrant has stunningly realized Tolstoy's voice in English prose to make this new Penguin Classics edition of Childhood; Boyhood; Youth the "definitive translation. . . in this generation" (Janet Fitch).
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Well I loved this and think it’s better than Every Summer After.
Her books stand out because they’re messier, more realistic, nostalgic and romantic than what we usually get in contemporary romance. This was beautiful and kept me invested at all times.
I’m a romantic and I adore second chances, so I found the premise dreamy, plus I adored the missed romance between Maggie and Peter.
The best thing of the book for me was both the heroine’s relationship to her mother, her complex grief and her coming of age and character development.
I loved it.
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Meet Me at the Lake
Carley Fortune
Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in Toronto. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. Fern showed up. Will didn't.
At thirty-two, Fern's life doesn't look at all how she once imagined it would. Instead of living in the city, Fern's back home, running her mother's Muskoka lakeside resort—something she vowed never to do. The place is in disarray, her ex-boyfriend's the manager, and Fern doesn't know where to begin.
She needs a plan—a lifeline. To her surprise, it comes in the form of Will, who arrives nine years too late, with a suitcase in tow and an offer to help on his lips. Will may be the only person who understands what Fern's going through. But how could she possibly trust this expensive-suit wearing mirage who seems nothing like the young man she met all those years ago. Will is hiding something, and Fern's not sure she wants to know what it is.
But ten years ago, Will Baxter rescued Fern. Can she do the same for him?
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The Passengers on the Hankyu Line
Hiro Arikawa
Famously scenic, the Hankyu commuter train trundles daily through Japanese landscape unaware of the heartaches of the passengers it carries.
On the outward journey we are introduced to the emotional dilemmas of five characters as we puzzle out how they will unravel; on the return journey six months later, we watch them resolve:
- a young man meets the young woman, who always happens to borrow a library book just before he can take it out himself
- a woman in a white bridal dress boards looking inexplicably sad
- a university student leaves his hometown for the first time
- a girl prepares to leave her abusive boyfriend;
- an old lady discusses adopting a dog with her granddaughter.
As the seasons come around, so the Hankyu line trundles on carrying the lives and loves of its passengers ever forwards.
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This is the coolest, prettiest and sweetest thing I’ve ever read
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 2 (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, #2)
Koyoharu Gotouge
Tanjiro sets out on the path of the Demon Slayer to save his sister and avenge his family!In Taisho-era Japan, Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted boy who makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who ruined his life.During final selection for the Demon Slayer Corps, Tanjiro faces a disfigured demon and uses the techniques taught by his master, Urokodaki! As Tanjiro begins to walk the path of the Demon Slayer, his search for the demon who murdered his family leads him to investigate the disappearances of young girls in a nearby town.
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Meet Me at the Lake
Carley Fortune
Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in Toronto. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. Fern showed up. Will didn't.
At thirty-two, Fern's life doesn't look at all how she once imagined it would. Instead of living in the city, Fern's back home, running her mother's Muskoka lakeside resort—something she vowed never to do. The place is in disarray, her ex-boyfriend's the manager, and Fern doesn't know where to begin.
She needs a plan—a lifeline. To her surprise, it comes in the form of Will, who arrives nine years too late, with a suitcase in tow and an offer to help on his lips. Will may be the only person who understands what Fern's going through. But how could she possibly trust this expensive-suit wearing mirage who seems nothing like the young man she met all those years ago. Will is hiding something, and Fern's not sure she wants to know what it is.
But ten years ago, Will Baxter rescued Fern. Can she do the same for him?
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 2 (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, #2)
Koyoharu Gotouge
Tanjiro sets out on the path of the Demon Slayer to save his sister and avenge his family!In Taisho-era Japan, Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted boy who makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who ruined his life.During final selection for the Demon Slayer Corps, Tanjiro faces a disfigured demon and uses the techniques taught by his master, Urokodaki! As Tanjiro begins to walk the path of the Demon Slayer, his search for the demon who murdered his family leads him to investigate the disappearances of young girls in a nearby town.
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Ops, what a disappointment 😅
I was loving the first 30% but then we went from satire of the publishing industry to the usual, cliche family drama/family secret story? And it was so bland and simplistic?
So much wasted potential.
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Erasure
Percival Everett
Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and writing, available again in paperback
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto , a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies―his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer's, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father's suicide seven years before.
In his rage and despair, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of Juanita Mae Jenkins's bestseller. He doesn't intend for My Pafology to be published, let alone taken seriously, but it is―under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh―and soon it becomes the Next Big Thing. How Monk deals with the personal and professional fallout galvanizes this audacious, hysterical, and quietly devastating novel.
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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Leo Tolstoy
A new, definitive translation of Tolstoy's early autobiographical trilogy
Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood; Boyhood; Youth , in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and color. Evident too in its brilliant account of a young person's emerging awareness of the world and of his place within it are many of the stances, techniques and themes that would come to full flower in the immortal War and Peace and Anna Karenina , and in the other great works of Tolstoy's maturity. Prizewinning translator Judson Rosengrant has stunningly realized Tolstoy's voice in English prose to make this new Penguin Classics edition of Childhood; Boyhood; Youth the "definitive translation. . . in this generation" (Janet Fitch).
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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