Zucchero bruciato

Romanzo molto bello, intenso, ottima narrazione,... non vedevo l\'ora di leggerlo e non riuscivo a staccami dalle pagine, divorate una dietro l\'altra,...un rapporto madre-figlia complesso dove si fa spazio la malattia della demenza della madre, una malattia sempre più attuale al giorno d\'oggi, mi ha colpito inoltre la descrizione del rapporto coniugale tra la figlia ed il marito, apparentemente perfetto ma rivelatosi con molti difetti con dinamiche che non sono per nulla scontate,.. Lo consiglio vivamente, grazie

DNFed at page 95/268. The end. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020. Maybe I don't care anymore for book awards. This book is disgusting. The writing pace and style is fine, easy to get into and simple. But it's the haphazard narration that becomes too much in the subsequent chapters that makes the Leggi tutto

“Human degeneration halts and sputters but doesn’t reverse.” I suspect I read this at a bad time - when I’m already fairly disgusted with a large portion of the population; dispirited about the lack of humanity in so many people. This rubbed a bit of salt in the wound. I finished reading it nearly a Leggi tutto

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020. DNFed at 45%. I cannot go on with this farce so full of caricature like depictions of human relationships, Indians and Western hippies anymore. I cannot read another sentence about the protagonist's terrible mother, her childhood abuse, her meandering thoughts ab Leggi tutto

bought a book because it was cheap and pretty again... and this time, the expression "don't judge a book by its cover" won. i've read a lot of books exploring the relationship between mother and daughter recently, and i've read a lot of literary fiction that dares to be difficult lately, and the setup Leggi tutto

Now longlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize. I read the book following its earlier shortlisting for the 2020 Booker Prize and based on that did not feel the book had the coherency to be a worthy Booker winner. Similarly I would not want to see it win the Women's Prize. The whites are still bright, so

Now Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Avni Doshi's debut is a feminist novel set in modern-day India that ponders motherhood, memory, and the change of roles from being a daughter to becoming a caregiver for an elderly mother. The main character an Leggi tutto

| | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | | Burnt Sugar is one of the worst books I've read in 2020. If you were able to appreciate this novel, I'm glad. This may be one of those 'it's me, not you' cases...or maybe I've read too many stories exploring a complex mother/daughter relationship. To be perfectly frank

Al centro di "Zucchero bruciato" c'è una relazione carica di energie magmatiche, un topic che non si è ancora esaurito in letteratura: l'"amore molesto", ossessivo, competitivo con la madre, vista come soggetto ambiguo, inconoscibile, al limite del crudele e dell'invidioso. D'altra parte la madre è Leggi tutto

2.5 rounded up (Listened to the audiobook) I was disappointed considering this book was shortlisted for the Booker prize. I found the character unbelievable and unrelatable. So much of it could have been more interesting but fell flat.

Can a child ever really know their mother and can a mother ever really know her child? Though we're made to feel there should be a natural, inextricable bond here it's seldom ever so simple. It certainly isn't for Antara, the narrator of Avni Doshi's heart-aching and intensely thoughtful novel “Burn Leggi tutto