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İlk Laura Lippman hikayesini okudum. Bu bir novella. İyi hikaye. Haftasonu başladığım için memnunum. Beni okudum. Yakında diğer kitapları da deneyeceğim. Gizem serisi Baltimore'da ayarlandı.

Muhteşem romanı Mudbound'u bıraktığımdan beri Hillary Jordan'dan yeni bir roman bekliyorum. Bu yeninin ARK'sındaki bulanıklığı okuduğumda beni tamamen farklı bir yöne götüreceği açıktı. Bu iyiydi. Bir romancının aynı yerleri veya duygusal manzaraları tekrar tekrar ziyaret etmek zorunda kalacağını sanmıyorum. Eğer iyilerse, onları neredeyse her yerde takip etmeye istekliyim. (Benim alışkanlığım olmadığı gibi, arsa çizgilerini yeniden şekillendirmem. Bu konuda Goodreads'tan genel bakıştan yeterince bilgi toplayabilirsiniz.) Uyandığında, şiir, görüntü, kalp veya herhangi bir şiirden tamamen yoksun kaldığında Mudbound'un ruhu. Scarlet Letter ve Handmaid's Tale'in karmaşası didaktik bir karışıklık. Çoğunlukla bir boyutlu karakterler, öngörülebilir komplo gelişmeleri ve romanın son yarısında genel bir telefonla konuşma denemesi, bunu önermemi imkansız kılıyor. Genelde beni kapmayan bir kitap bastırdım, ama bu başlangıçta ve büyük bir şekilde yaptı. Bayan Jordan dışında birinden gelseydi, yolculuk boyunca okumayı bırakmalıydım, ama sesini keseceğinden o kadar emindim ki, takılı kalmaya devam etmesini bekledim. Godot olmuş olabilir.

İnceleme çok yakında.

Very odd ending. I was really in to this book and then the ending fell flat. I had to read it about three times expecting I'd see something different in it but, alas, I guess we don't find out what happens to this american couple living in nairobi.

It's the best combination of love and food. How can that be bad?

Un libro central: debido a las presiones de lo "políticamente correcto" de su época (Laclos supo que muchos se verían retratados en los alegres depravados que pueblan la novela, y reaccionarían en consecuencia) el final del entramado de intrigas que ocasiona la ruina de manipuladores y manipulados es plano, apropiadamente virtuoso y maniqueo en su asignación de culpas. Pero no importa: la caracterización de personajes como la marquesa de Merteuil o el vizconde de Valmont vale por su capacidad de penetrar en las certezas y las arrogancias del poder como ellos lo ejercen, meramente por tedio de existir en un mundo seguro y en apariencia perfecto.

Lady Charlotte Hayward is a lady with a murcky and devistating past. She goes on with the support of her parents who are ignorant of what her past hides especailly her father. When Charlotte goes on by herself one day she finds a man named Darius Carsington in her place of thinking. She is so vexed by his interuption in her world that she stubles and almost falls into what used to be a swamp. But Darius being the quick thinker he is rumored to be saves her. And like all ladies before her she immediatly starts thrashing in his arms because Darius has ahold of her in wrong places. Charlotte immediatly goes home to tell her mother of the occurence between the new owner of Beechwood estate and her. But the problem is that with that chance encounter she has set in motion a series of events that lead her to her hearts desire. Darius at the time can't explaine his feelings for this woman who happened to show up at that pond. So the Charlotte's stepmother invites him to a family dinner so he can get aquanted with his neighbors. At the dinner he is trapped into excepting Lady Lithby's help in restoring his land to rights so it can produce income. There Darius keeps meeting Charlotte in places where he thinks should be left alone. But one day while Charlotte makes her escape from her feelings for Darius she almost falls down but Darius saves her. While in Darius's arms she is confronted with her past. A boy named Pip is there with them asking her if she is all right when Charlotte sees the boys eyes and immediatly recognizes the boy as her son from long ago that she gave up at birth. Charlotte is so stuned that she almost faints and has to be taken close to a window for some air. From then Charlotte is so pain filled that she can't stand herself and gives herself to Darius. She tells him the truth about why she doesn't have her virginity. But Darius doesn't care he wants her still no matter what so he approches her father about it. When Charlotte finds out that her son is going to be sent to the workhouse she goes to Darius. Only to find out that Pip has disappeared but they soon find him. And they tell him the truth just like they did his father. Darius and Charlotte get married and get started with building their family along with Charlotte's son Pip.