Also, CONGRATULATIONS to The Safekeep for winning the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025!
This book is special.
Eerie, erotic, moving, unsettling... it was one of my absolute favourites of last year and I'm thrilled to bits that it won 🥰
Random book from our home library.
pick(no, I did not have any pears around)
So. This book. I'm lacking the words to describe what it did with me. To me. It totally drenched me, it drowned me, it spit me out. It took my heart and ate it. How am I possibly going to describe this feeling? I simply can't. Impossible. And maybe that's okay. Because sometimes we don't need words, we just need to feel.
We took almost nothing when we left. Mum kept saying, Don't worry we'll come back we'll come back so soon, and it was a lie. I think now to how they found that house with everything still in it, Papa's book still left open on the page where he stopped, and I am sick I am sick to my stomach. Whose stuff did they think that was? They must have known I can't imagine they didn't know. Who doesn't know a thing like that? They must've known.
A pretty deception 🍐
Isabel had never known loneliness like that, one that arrived without the promise of leaving. There was no one now, no one to walk through the door unannounced, no one to open and close a drawer in the other room 🚪🍽️
The Women‘s Prize for Fiction 2025 winner is announced on Thursday; here‘s my thoughts on the short list:-
The Safekeep, Yael Van der Wouden ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
All Fours, Miranda July ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Good Girl, Aria Aber ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fundamentally, Nussaibah Yunis ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Persians, Sanam Mahloudji ⭐️⭐️
Overall, as I‘ve seen so many others say, I‘m disappointed with the SL. I suspect All Fours will win!
So far this is giving Call Me By Your Name (but instead of a peach, a pear). 🍐
20% off at Indigo for teachers is a siren call, especially when having a plum plus card gets you an additional 10% off. What‘s a bookworm to do?
El diario de Ana frank es un libro muy conmovedor, porque se narran tantas emociones de tal manera que te hace sentir todo por lo que están pasando en ese momento las personas, te narra desde una perspectiva más realista el sufrimiento que pasaron las personas durante el olocausto y como es que era su vida, mientras eran discriminados y rechazados por la comunidad nazi.
Este libro me gustó mucho porque es una manera de volverte más empático
