5 libri inglesi che leggerò prossimamente...forse!
31.3.18
Più si accumulano i libri in lingua che possiedo, più aumentano quelli della mia wishlist che vorrei leggere. C'è qualcosa che non va!
Questa, è una lista di cinque libri in lingua che già possiedo, e che spero di leggere al più presto. Anche se al momento non so quantificare il "presto"!
Autoboyography
Trama:
Three years ago,
Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that
nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one
semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and
out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his
remaining classes and clear out of Utah.
But when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar—where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester—Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity.
It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.
But when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar—where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester—Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity.
It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.
My true love gave to me
Trama:
If you love holiday
stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes
of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday
anthologies, you’re going to fall in love with My True Love Gave To Me:
Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers, edited
by international bestselling author Stephanie Perkins. Whether you
enjoy celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or New Year's
there's something here for everyone. So curl up by the fireplace and get
cozy. You have twelve reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in
love.
The smell of other's people house
Trama:
In Alaska, 1970, being a
teenager here isn’t like being a teenager anywhere else. Ruth has a
secret that she can’t hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly
escape where she comes from, even when good luck strikes. Alyce is
trying to reconcile her desire to dance, with the life she’s always
known on her family’s fishing boat. Hank and his brothers decide it’s
safer to run away than to stay home—until one of them ends up in
terrible danger.
Four very different lives are about to become entangled.
Four very different lives are about to become entangled.
The Hazel Wood
Trama:
Seventeen-year-old Alice
and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a
step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when
Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of
pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice
learns how bad her luck can really get: her mother is stolen away―by a
figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural
world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is the
message her mother left behind: “Stay away from the Hazel Wood.”
Alice has long steered clear of her grandmother’s cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began―and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.
Alice has long steered clear of her grandmother’s cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began―and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.
Some Quiet Place
Trama:I can’t weep. I can’t fear. I’ve grown talented at pretending.
Elizabeth Caldwell doesn’t feel emotions . . . she sees them. Longing, Shame, and Courage materialize around her classmates. Fury and Resentment appear in her dysfunctional home. They’ve all given up on Elizabeth because she doesn’t succumb to their touch. All, that is, save one—Fear. He’s intrigued by her, as desperate to understand the accident that changed Elizabeth’s life as she is herself.
Elizabeth and Fear both sense that the key to her past is hidden in the dream paintings she hides in the family barn. But a shadowy menace has begun to stalk her, and try as she might, Elizabeth can barely avoid the brutality of her life long enough to uncover the truth about herself. When it matters most, will she be able to rely on Fear to save her?
Fatemi sapere se c'è qualcosa che avete già letto, o che vi ispira particolarmente :)
4 commenti
Autoboyography l'ho letto il mese scorso e mi è piaciuto davvero tanto!
RispondiEliminaSi? Spero di riuscire a leggerlo al più presto!
EliminaDei libri che hai nominato ho letto solamente My true love gave to me e se devo essere sincera mi aspettavo decisamente di più ...
RispondiEliminaSome Quiet Place invece sembra interessante, aspetterò di sapere la tua opinione!
Di My true love gave to me, per il momento ho letto solamente un paio di racconti. Mi spiace ti abbia deluso!
EliminaCari viaggiatori,
lasciate pure un segno del vostro passaggio se vi va,
sono sempre felice di scoprire i vostri pensieri :)