Hasırcı Kız - Guy De Maupassant kitap serbest oDF biçim

Chin Quijano chinquijano — Listened to the audio (for the second time); took us a while to adjust to the reader's voice. Such a wonderful book.

Josh Pollard _osh_ollard — A professor quoted his description of love "I need you, you need me, yum yum!" and I was hooked. My favorite poet, hands down.

Susan Lefever slefever0d14 — I really liked this different approach to memoir - funny, intriguing and relatable. Reading the book jacket and the acknowledgements and even the inside first page about how the book got written - all of it very clever and insightful. I'd like to have this woman as a friend!

Jawdat Al-yousef arch_jawdat — good story, about two couples, the women are long-time best friends, and one of the women is having an affair with the other one's husband. I know...I didn't thing I'd be able to make it through this, but I did and it really wasn't as bad as I expected...in fact, I kinda liked it. Favorite Quotes: These are from the end of the book, so don't read them if you don't want to know how it turns out. "It seems to Ben that the breakup of his marriage was like a carefully choreographed dance, except that he hadn't been taught the steps. All he could do was follow, and try to pick it up as he went along. He'd always thought that when you've been with someone for a long time your feelings are like an iceberg, only a small part of which is visible above the surface. Now he can see that what he thought was the tip of Claire's deeper feeling was in fact all that was left---a shard of intimacy, a nub of desire, the only remaining fragment of a dissolving relationship. She was lost to him before he realized he was losing her. Ben has come through this experience changed, but he can't say, as he has always said before about times of stress and uncertainty, that it is for the better. He is stronger now. More wary. Less inclined to expect the best, as if it were his due. He has avoided bitterness, and maybe that is the most he can hope for. ...His goal was to avoid pain. And yet here it is, unavoidable." p 260 "Her life isn't perfect. It is far from perfect. But it isn't as awful as Alison had imagined it would be. In some ways it is not only better than she'd feared, but it is also better than it had been when Charlie was home, when she thought things were fine between them. It has been shocking to realize how absent Charlie was from their day-to-day lives; some days, now, the children barely notice his absence. Many of the things Alison thought she needed him for---she finds she can do just as well on her own. Maybe not just as well. But well enough to counterbalance the wrenching loneliness she feels some nights, the tiredness in her bones, and the dull awareness that she has to summon the strength the next morning to do the whole routine all over again." p 273 "Each moment of loss, she has come to believe, contains within it the possibility of a new life. When the unimaginable happens, and your life changes irrevocably, you may find along with the pain a kind of grace. And in the place of certainty and fear---the fear of losing what you had---you are left with something startling: a depth of empathy, a quivering sensitivity to the world around you, and the unexpected blessing of gratitude for what remains. Charlie's needs, stresses, and preoccupations had taken up so much space. It is lovely not to hear him stomping around upstairs, ...whether his seemingly endemic distractedness is a cover for irritability. Will he snap if she asks him a question? For a long time the coexisted in this house without sharing much of anything. Now he's across the river, making a new life for himself with the only other person in the world who knows Alison as well as he does." p 274

Yelda Bilgi yeldabaris65a9 — Teilweise wirklich lustige und völlig groteske Geschichte um den Herrn Adolf, ein bisschen wirr und völlig irrsinnig inszeniert (Adolf zersört Hiroshima, Adolf zeugt mit Hilfe von außerirdischer Technologie und Mutter Theresa den perfekten Menschen...) Leider fiel die Ausgabe des Buches bereits auseinander, weshalb mir die Seiten und der Rote Faden ein bisschen gefehlt haben. Auf jeden Fall gute Ideen und Ansätze.