Sweet pickles’ books
personal favorites so far *>*
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English & american
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2018
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors · 2022
New York is slipping from Cleo's grasp. Sure, she's at a different party every other night, but she barely knows anyone. Her student visa is running out, and she doesn't even have money for cigarettes. But then she meets Frank. Twenty years older, Frank's life is full of all the success and excess that Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a green card. She offers him a life imbued with beauty and art - and, hopefully, a reason to cut back on his drinking. He is everything she needs right now. Cleo and Frank run head-first into a romance that neither of them can quite keep up with. It reshapes their lives and the lives of those around them, whether that's Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender identity in the wake of her marriage, or Frank's financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates after being cut off. Ultimately, this chance meeting between two strangers outside of a New Year's Eve party changes everything, for better or worse. Cleopatra and Frankenstein is an astounding and painfully relatable debut novel about the spontaneous decisions that shape our entire lives and those imperfect relationships born of unexpectedly perfect evenings.
My Body
Emily Ratajkowski · 2021
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time.<br/><br/>Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture’s commodification of women is the subject of this book.<br/><br/>My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men's treatment of women and women's rationalizations for accepting that treatment. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski’s life while investigating the culture’s fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt for women’s sexuality, the perverse dynamics of the fashion and film industries, and the gray area between consent and abuse.<br/><br/>Nuanced, fierce, and incisive, My Body marks the debut of a writer brimming with courage and intelligence.
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · 1951
Nordic & eastern
La douce
Fédor Dostoïevski
Letters to Milena
Franz Kafka · 2015
Lettre Au Pere (Folio Plus Classique) (French Edition)
Franz Kafka · 2010
Le point de vue de l'éditeurDans Folioplus classiques, le texte intégral, enrichi d'une lecture d'image, écho pictural de l'aeuvre, est suivi de sa mise en perspective organisée en six points. Mouvement littéraire : Comment écrire à Prague?. Genre et registre : La Lettre au père, correspondance privée ou littérature universelle?. L'écrivain à sa table de travail : Le Verdict et la Lettre au père. Groupement de textes : "Au nom du père et du fils". Chronologie : Franc Kafka et son temps. Fiche : Des pistes pour rendre compte de sa lecture.
La Metamorphose
Franz Kafka · 1989
Here is Franz Kafka's terrifying but bizarrely comic story in a theatrically explosive new version. The ordinary, unremarkable life of the Samsas is turned into a six-legged nightmare when their son Gregor emerges one morning transformed into a monstrous insect. As revulsion turns to resentment, strange things start to happen to the Samsa family.
Un coeur faible
Fédor Dostoïevski · 2000
French
Les Fleurs Du Mal
Charles Baudelaire · 1982
Turkish
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali · 2020
The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time. 'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings and the unfathomable nature of the human soul. 'Passionate but clear . . . Ali's success [is in ] his ability to describe the emergence of a feeling, seemingly straightforward from the outside but swinging back and forth between opposite extremes at its core, revealing the tensions that accompanies such rise and fall.' Atilla Özkirimli, writer and literary historian
