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This author has been on my radar since a creative course in university, when my lecturer provided us with her self-curated list of 100 books/authors to read in our lifetime. Roddy Doyle's name headed the piece. I acquired a collection of his best known works and then did nothing else with them for a Leggi tutto

I love this author. He is raw with emotion. i love this passage: "Everything made you on thing or the other. It tired you out sometimes. I remember spending ages exhausted and upset. It was nice knowing that boys wanted you then you couldn't want them back. If you smiled at more than one you were a

I have given The Speech at least a hundred times. At least. The setting, the words, and sadly the result are essentially the same. There is bustle all about. But I find the quietest room available. It’s me. And Her. And a cop or a counselor. It’s not always the same HER, of course. But some are repea Leggi tutto

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle. Roddy Doyle is a wonderful writer. Normally his books are fast reads, he writes is an easy going flowing way. His books contain a certain amount of humour but that is because he writes "slice of life" stories. His characters are real, the stories are re Leggi tutto

Paula una donna come tante , cresciuta in una famiglia con il padre padrone , ma non sono mancati i momenti felici , almeno così lei ricorda .. Si sposa con Charlo un bulletto ammirato e osannato da tutti a scuola , ma tra tante sceglie lei . Il matrimonio , la luna di miele tutto il sogno idilliaco Leggi tutto

Paula che amava troppo. Prima[21 giugno] Arrivata alle ultime pagine, mi accorgo che sto digrignando i denti, ho la bocca serrata. Ho tanta rabbia dentro, rabbia che vorrebbe trasformarsi in violenza. In violenza fisica. Vorrei prendere un Charlo qualsiasi e fare a lui tutto quello che gli uomini come lu Leggi tutto

O meu nome é Paula. Nasci na Irlanda em 1956. Éramos sete irmãos e vivíamos com pouco dinheiro. O meu pai era rígido, principalmente com as raparigas, e castigava-nos se nos pintávamos ou usávamos uma saia mais curta, porque ficávamos com má fama. A minha mãe não se metia. Aos vinte anos apaixonei-m Leggi tutto

I decided to re-read this before reading the sequel Paula Spencer . I had forgotten just how good this book is, just how well Doyle does a female protagonist. The book is painful and sad and unflinching in it's descriptions of marital abuse and alcoholism but as always, Doyle adds in warmth and humor Leggi tutto

I picked this one up from a display at the library. I had skimmed a few pages and the writing style caught my eye (he uses punctuation and italics to visually illustrate dialog and flashbacks). I think the author did a great job telling the sadly-classic story of the abused woman, how that situation Leggi tutto

It was interesting to read about domestic violence from a woman's point of view...written by a man. The first part of the book felt significantly different from the second part--the tone, the voice, the narrative itself. One part raised the questions and shuffled the puzzle pieces around so they wou Leggi tutto