Audiobook: Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Sinopse
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.
Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle—and people in general—has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.
To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence—creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Livro: The One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
Sinopse
The One Plus One is the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel by the internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes.
Jess Thomas wants . . .
. . . to be more than a single mum getting by day after day
. . . to do her best for her gifted but sensitive daughter Tanzie
. . . to find a way back from the loneliest place on earth
Ed Nicholls is hoping . . .
. . . he won't go to jail
. . . there's a way back from the biggest mistake of his life
. . . something or someone will make it all go away
Jess and Ed are . . .
. . . two strangers looking for a little kindness
. . . two lost souls with a lot to learn from each other
. . . about to find out that one plus one makes more - so much more - than two
The One Plus One is Jojo Moyes' brilliant new heartbreaking novel about two people learning to take a chance on each other.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Audiobook: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
SinopseIn Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.
Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.
Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.
For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories? Open her heart to someone? Or will she just go on living inside somebody else’s fiction?
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Livro: Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Sinopse
An Amazon Best Book of the Year. A B.E.A. BUZZ BOOK 2013. A Junior Library Guild Selection. A Kids Indie Next List #4 of Top Ten Autumn 2013. A Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominee 2014-2015 Master List.
This is an intensely moving middle grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family.
Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn’t kept her from leading a quietly happy life . . . until now.
Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is not a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read.
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Filme: Boyhood (2014)
12 anos.
12 anos a gravar partes de uma suposta vida e transformado num filme. Sempre com o mesmo elenco, este é um filme que marca o cinema. Em todos os momentos conseguimos, como espectactores, tentar situar no tempo o penteado ou a barba dos actores mais velhos e perceber que todos temos as dores de crescimento e de maturação.
12 anos a gravar partes de uma suposta vida e transformado num filme. Sempre com o mesmo elenco, este é um filme que marca o cinema. Em todos os momentos conseguimos, como espectactores, tentar situar no tempo o penteado ou a barba dos actores mais velhos e perceber que todos temos as dores de crescimento e de maturação.
Imprescindível.
Livro: Bossypants by Tina Fey
Sinopse
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon—from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence. Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
Bossypants by Tina Fey
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Filme: Hateship Loveship (2013)
Adaptado de um conto de Alice Munro, este filme mostra-nos como é viver para os outros esquecendo-se dos sonhos e realização pessoal.
Johanna é empregada doméstica e após a morte da sua anterior patroa, começa a trabalhar para um velhote (Nick Nolte) que vive sozinho com a neta adolescente.
A adolescente que reparou logo na insegurança e falta de competências sociais da nova empregada, consegue orquestrar um romance, via troca de cartas e mais tarde por email, entre Johanna e o seu pai que vive distante e que é um toxicodependente em recuperação, sem pensar nas consequências que poderá trazer para alguém que nunca foi o centro das atenções e que de repente se sente desejada nas palavras lidas das cartas/emails.
Com excelentes interpretações, este filme é obrigatório ver.
Fiquei a pensar na personagem de Johanna durante dias.
Audiobook: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson,
Sinopse
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he’s still in good health. A big celebration is in the works for his 100th birthday, but Allan really isn’t interested (and he’d like a bit more control over his alcohol consumption), so he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey. It would be the adventure of a lifetime for anyone else, but Allan has a larger-than-life backstory: he has not only witnessed some of the most important events of the 20th century, but actually played a key role in them.
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
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