Blind Spot: Quick Reads 2022

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Empieza con una muerte, un nudo para descubrir el asesino (bastante previsible) y un desenlace, a mi parecer, crudo. Into the Water, her second novel – the second to be published under her own name, that is – had come out a year earlier, and she was still experiencing aftershocks from the extraordinary success of her first, The Girl on the Train. Hay cuestiones morales que se plantean muy brevemente y que podrían haber provocado debates interesantes, pero todo queda como una anécdota.

Când Jake este omorât cu brutalitate imediat ce este părăsit de Edie, care nu mai suporta să stea lângă un ratat gelos, vina ajunge să cadă pe Ryan, care tocmai își programase o vizită la el acasă, dar îl descoperă mort, în timp ce Edie se refugiase deja în luxosul apartament al lui Ryan pentru a-și linge rănile și a încerca să o ia de la capăt.

Un relato medianamente aceptable para pasar el rato, pero con una trama que no tiene nada de destacable. She wrote the first of those novels, she says now, from a pre-existing idea, which made for a tremendously useful writing experience.

It's a very quick read, I finished it in under two hours, and a decent way to idle away time, especially if you are in a situation of travelling a short distance or waiting in a long que. The first thing she did was ditch her accent (“everybody assumed you were South African and nobody liked white South Africans in 1989”) but it was years until she made any good friends. As Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art was one of the last exhibitions I saw before the pandemic began, it seemed fitting that the retrospective of her work at Tate Britain should be one of the first I visited since museums and galleries opened up again. In the weeks and months that followed the publication of the novel, there was no single moment when Hawkins understood what it would become. The London setting was replaced to odd effect with a train travelling through the upscale suburbs of New York.

These are a series of short books written by well-known authors and the proceeds go towards helping people improve their reading skills. La autora en pocas páginas no solo intenta confundirnos con lo que parece ser un extraño triángulo amoroso, sino que también encontramos abusos sexuales y la falta de solidaridad entre mujeres. Esta historia fue escrita por encargo en el marco del programa Quick Reads para el fomento de la lectura en el Reino Unido, con obras que no pueden sobrepasar las 20 Mil palabras. O mulțime de detalii din trecut care la fiecare pagină schimbă perspectiva asupra intrigii până când, sincer, te cam doare în fund de cine și ce a făcut. Ben Sharrock’s film about a group of refugees who have been sent to a remote Scottish island while their asylum applications are processed is a gem, by turns heart-rending and hilarious.