Kaleen Mayhew itibaren Chinnababusamudram, Tamil Nadu , India

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05/05/2024

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2018-05-31 05:40

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bilgi Yayınevi

Sixteen years later and Amy Parker was still very much in love with her best friend, Quinn Whitfield. The problem was he didn’t feel the same, and never did. Rather, he fell in love with their other best friend, Lisa when they were all in their tender age of fourteen. The same age she’d realized that she’s in love with Quinn. She had always felt like the third wheel when the two of them started dating. And to make it worse, Quinn and Lisa both gone off to college and when they graduated as lawyers, they got married and live in Sydney. She’d never tell a soul about her feelings and never in any way revealed it to Quinn for fear that had he known she would lose him. She thought she’d rather have him as her best friend in her life than not having the presence of Quinn in it. The story of her life! Until now, the memories of that summer when Lisa first told her that Quinn had kissed her when they were studying together still had had the power to hurt her. She still couldn’t understand and accept the fact that Quinn had chosen Lisa over her. My gosh, they practically grew up together, being neighbors all their lives. They swam together, skinned their knees together, more than brothers and sisters. The two of them were thick as thieves, best of friends. Until they turned fourteen and Lisa moved in their town that summer, everything has changed. She could still recall the time her two best friends were dating. She was happy for both of them but hurting at the same time wishing she was in Lisa’s place. And she died a thousand deaths the day they got married. It was the bleakest moment of her life. But she stood there in that church as their “Best Person” witnessing their vows to love and cherish each other, a smile plastered on her face, thwarting the tears that threatened to fall. But once she’s home, she was not able to hold back the heart-wrenching sobs she was holding off during the ceremony. And she felt pathetic, yearning and obsessing after her best friend. Now, she was trying to ease away from their lives. So, for eighteen months now she hadn’t tried to make contact with them. She had not answered e-mails and calls from both Lisa and Quinn and had not visited their home in Sydney, albeit gradually until such time all communication has stopped altogether. Which she thought was good since she didn’t want to spend her life hurting and pining for someone who would never feel the same way about her and was very much married. She just wished the time would come that she would only feel friendly feelings towards Quinn and he would be just that to her… Her Best Friend. Since Quinn had started hanging out with Amy at the Grand Theatre, helping her in the restoration process, he felt really alive. He hadn’t felt this happy in years, not since the separation anyway and probably way before that. He hasn’t told Amy yet about the split-up and that Lisa and he were at the final stages of their divorce. He couldn’t just surprise her with that information although since he’d learned of Lisa’s extra-marital affairs, he’s been thinking of Amy a lot. He’d missed their talks and the joy he would always feel when he’s with her. His best friend in the world. The one person who’s constant in his life and couldn’t afford to lose. He knew he couldn’t lose Amy or rather he’d always known he couldn’t. The fact that he’d suppressed his feelings for her when they were fourteen would convey the fact that he’d rather have her as best friend in his life than not having her at all. Although for a time he’d lusted so much after her and he’d had to remind himself that she was his best friend. And then Lisa came to the picture and the rest you would say was history. But now that they were spending so much time together, he couldn’t help but notice how beautiful and sexy she truly was. And even wondering what could have been like with the two of them. Just the thought of making love with her made him very aware of her sexually. This story was truly a joy to read. I’ve appreciated the gradual build-up of Quinn and Amy’s relationship in the story. How they became aware of each other sexually during their shared time together renovating the theatre. I like the angle of love triangle in the story line with the heroine being casted as the rival. And gosh, I guess I just loved the fact it was an “I’m-In-Love-With-My-Best-Friend” kind of story and I’m a sucker for them! LOL!

2018-05-31 07:40

Pencere Sey Yayınları Harflerle Düşünelim - Yeşim Kesgül Sercan TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pencere Sağlık Eğitim Yayınları

The novel opens with "The past is never dead. It's not even past," words from Faulkner's Sound and the Fury (please correct this if I got the wrong book), and to an extent the novel is about the relationship between a mother living in rural Ireland and her cosmopolitan semi-famous novelist daughter who doesn't seem to have the time to visit. Beyond the geographical divide, O'Brien's novel is an exploration of the presentness of memory, it's ability to keep one rooted in the past while slipping through present moments without experiencing them, the danger of never breaking the pattern of repetition, the fear that one's memory is a lie. The novel is also an experiment in language as O'Brien takes cues from Faulkner, Flaubert, Joyce and others while shattering and maybe extending characteristics that have become archetypes of modernism. The work is lacunal, as it opens spaces of possible narrative, possible detail, yet never quite fills them and that seems to be her project. How can one write a novel of emptiness, about people who cannot speak to each other about the things they must resolve before death? O'Brien does this through blending epistolary prose with town gossip, deeply biting personal revelations, and anisthetic-induced dreamscapes, and by limiting the voices of external characters or filtering them through the two protagonists. The relationship between the mother and daughter is lived through the material gifts they send back and forth to each other, painstaking handiwork from the mother is exchanged for boutique bought ill-fitting articles of clothing from the daughter. Cloth is a trope for its connection to women's labor and its ability to veil bodies and truths. As a reader, one feels veiled like falling asleep during a movie and missing really crucial sections of the narrative. This feeling is persistant; just as the narrative flow picks up, one is flung into a new voice, in a new time period. It's difficulty is worthwhile for the gorgeous descriptions of the rural country and for the emotional impact the silences press into the reader. O'Brien creates a wonderful clash between folklore and modernity, pastoral and urban life, and past and present.

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