"And all I can think is that everything repeats itself: I broke him and I put him back together again. I made him bleed and I also stopped him bleedin
"And all I can think is that everything repeats itself: I broke him and I put him back together again. I made him bleed and I also stopped him bleeding. For the very first time, the thought enters my shock-addled brain that I have a certain power over this person, although it will be a while before I understand how to use it."- Monogamy Book Two. Husband
“So many girls dream of true love! So Fern once fell in love with Ambrose Young - an athlete, a school star and a real hottie. If you are a beloved go
“So many girls dream of true love! So Fern once fell in love with Ambrose Young - an athlete, a school star and a real hottie. If you are a beloved gorgeous blonde like Rita, it’s easy to seduce him. However, if you are Fern - a skinny girl with rebellious red curls, braces and glasses with thick lenses, everything becomes not so simple... At school your soul and inner world are not valued as highly as good looks. At graduation, Fern will amaze classmates with her beauty, but she will remain the same simple girl at heart. Time will change not only her: soon Ambrose will begin to hide his face, and longing will settle in his soul. Can Fern love him as much as she did before?”
There are times when you feel hollow inside. Some kind of emptiness. And it seems that if someone jabs you, you`ll produce that dull BA-A-A-U-U-M.
For such occasions, the universe provided us with the authors who really know how to write books. For example, “Making Faces” by Amy Harmon orOn the Jellicoe RoadbyMelina Marchetta.
“Making faces” will fill your every void with a sweet, heady life that affectionately nips your eyes and nose. And then it will tenderly wrap you, as in a warm plaid.
“If dark chocolate could sing it would sound like Ambrose Young.”
If God is still talking to us, then he does it with voices like Amy Harmon’s. And he speaks of love, of course, but more about friendship, duty, the essence of heroism, forgiveness and mercy.
Ambrose Young came to this world with the most generous "dowry" you can imagine. He is divinely beautiful, strong, athletic, beloved by all and desired by all. Ambrose is created to win. But we fall in love with him (at the same time as the heroine) in the episode when the ten-year-old Ambrose very seriously helps Fern to bury a spider and sings a childish playful song Itsy-Bitsy with a tragic voice. And Fern turns to God with a prayer:
“Father in Heaven, thank you for making even ugly things beautiful!”
And this phrase contains the biggest of all the meanings of the book: be able to see the inner beauty, be able to look deep. Ambrose will understand this later, when fate and his own decisions will deprive him not only of beauty, but also of friends.
I liked the lack of cliches in this story. Ambrose "saw" the red-headed freckled Fern - the daughter of a priest - long before her final epiphany. He recognized her with his heart back then, at the age of ten, when they buried a spider, and she spoke words, which later became a kind of prophecy. And although she is not a Beauty, this is she who will not turn away from the Beast. And, of course, will save him.
The plot may seem somewhat manipulative if you look at it from the influence on the reader’s emotions point of view, and even the main characters are impeccable (which I don’t usually greet), but how everything is natural, real, living, breathing! It drives you to tears. You restrain them not from your pain for the heroes, but from feelings overwhelming you because of their inner beauty.
I was very moved by the episode with the letters that Fern writes instead of Rita for Ambrose in high school. For me, it is the strongest in the book.
Each event and decision has an explanation - and this is the author’s mind and respect for us, readers. Many words, quotes, and even names contain charades, puzzles, and secrets that we need to solve.
Ambrose and Fern…
What significance did the author put into the names of the characters? I have not figured it out yet)
I have dark circles under my eyes and the world is shaking. Because I don’t even remember which sleepless night it’s already....
I fi
**spoiler alert**
I have dark circles under my eyes and the world is shaking. Because I don’t even remember which sleepless night it’s already....
I finished this three-volume saga, but my “agony” has no end. I read again. And again. Everything from the very beginning.
I’ve never felt this way before, seriously, not a single time, it’s so ingrained into my every cell, leaked into every microscopic slit of the soul and merged, grew together so much that it is no longer clear where you are, and where Tatyana and Alexander are, is it night or day (because it’s already getting bright outside, and you are still reading), where real life is, and where someone else’s imagination is with the most beautiful, strongest, longest, epic, fundamental story of love, war, besieged Leningrad, Victory, the Gulag and American life at the junction of two cultures and mentalities.
In the second book, “Tatyana and Alexander,” Alexander will survive the arrest, interrogation and torture from the NKVD, walk on his own legs and blood to Berlin, survive and be captured, then go to the Gulag, endure everything, hoping to reach faraway America, where in his imagination the saved Tatiana lives, lives and raises their son. 17 times he will try to escape from the camp to her, 17 times it will be shown to him through mutilation of his body, and not only his body that this cannot be done.
Do you want to fall in love? Forget about everything, fall out of life? This is exactly it: «The Bronze Horseman», by Paullina Simons
Are you looking for powerful emotions, events, sensual descriptions of physical love in books? – «The Bronze Horseman», by Paullina Simons.
Do you appreciate true beauty and don't want to miss the BEST in your life? – «The Bronze Horseman», by Paullina Simons.
This story crushed me, nailed to the ground, then lifted, shook off and launched into space. And now for the second week I can’t return to Earth.
I have dark circles under my eyes and the world is shaking. Because I don’t even remember which sleepless night it’s already....
I fi
**spoiler alert**
I have dark circles under my eyes and the world is shaking. Because I don’t even remember which sleepless night it’s already....
I finished this three-volume saga, but my “agony” has no end. I read again. And again. Everything from the very beginning.
I’ve never felt this way before, seriously, not a single time, it’s so ingrained into my every cell, leaked into every microscopic slit of the soul and merged, grew together so much that it is no longer clear where you are, and where Tatyana and Alexander are, is it night or day (because it’s already getting bright outside, and you are still reading), where real life is, and where someone else’s imagination is with the most beautiful, strongest, longest, epic, fundamental story of love, war, besieged Leningrad, Victory, the Gulag and American life at the junction of two cultures and mentalities.
Here she is - not even seventeen years old Tanya - in a white with red roses dress and high-heeled sandals borrowed from her older sister, waiting for the tram at the bus stop, cross-legged, licking rapidly melting ice cream and singing a song about love. The world around her is going crazy, because on this day - June 22, 1941 - the war began. It seems it began for everyone, except Tatyana. And this single gap of naive carelessness in the chaos of Leningrad laying provisions in stock could not fail to catch the glance of a young officer Alexander patrolling the streets. He stands on the sidewalk on the other side of the road, unable to take his eyes off the girl in the dress with red roses, and here they are now, looking at each other...
More than half a century later, having survived as much as a hundred people don`t get on their plate, he will stand just like that on the other side of the street in the dusty town of Arizona, looking at his own Tatyasha with ever-melting ice cream, and will remember how he pondered that first time: to go or not? Cross the street or follow his own way? One small step, one tiny “no” in an endless series of decisions, and their paths would not intersect, there would not be born such a big, magical, mystical feeling that allowed them to withstand, overcome everything, find and save one another more than once; because only in such love as they have, two hearts are able to hear each other, even if there are thousands of miles, lakes, rivers, seas, insurmountable obstacles between them, to anticipate, predict and simply know where each one’s death and how to get around it.
Paulina Simons is an American writer who immigrated from Leningrad to the USA at the age of 10 years, in 1973. The book is based on the personal experience of the writer, the memories of Leningrad, the experience of her grandparents who survived the First and Second World Wars, the Siege, evacuation, Stalin and more. Paulina's father spent two years in the Gulag.
The first book, The Bronze Horseman, tells about the thorny birth of this love, about the intricacies of human weaknesses and strengths - after all, Alexander already has a girlfriend, Dasha, who turns out to be Tatyana’s sister in the best traditions of mocking fate. It’s about the besieged Leningrad, about hunger, and about 29 days of honeymoon happiness in the middle of war - in the summer of 1943. These two are truly and deeply in love and they themselves did not know what a unique miracle happened to them, and despite everything, it would last for a lifetime.
In the second book, “Tatyana and Alexander,” Alexander will survive the arrest, interrogation and torture from the NKVD, walk on his own legs and blood to Berlin, survive and be captured, then go to the Gulag, endure everything, hoping to reach faraway America, where in his imagination the saved Tatiana lives, lives and raises their son. 17 times he will try to escape from the camp to her, 17 times it will be shown to him through mutilation of his body, and not only his body that this cannot be done.
For me, the most powerful book is the third one - the Summer Garden. At this point, in the bed when Tatyana cannot touch her beloved man without tears, because there is no place on his skin, where there is no eternal trace of his experienced pain, the membrane separating my mind from the heart will finally break through and the book will cease to be just a book, but will become almost a reality. There is no war anymore, but there is life after it in a peaceful and well-fed America, where they start a family, build their first home, albeit in a room rented from a greedy and stupid old woman, struggling with their souls strewn with scars of war, camps, betrayal and injustice, much more terrible than the ones on the body of Alexander who was achingly beautiful before. They can do anything. They will.
And one day, fifteen years later, when Alexander stumbles, he will say to his wife:“In two languages I am singing for my marriage:
Milaya, rodnaya moya, kolybel i mogila moya…zhena moya luybimaya, zhizn moya, lyubov moya…prosti menya. Prosti menya, Tania…prosti menya i pomilui….
Babe, Tatiasha, my whole life, my cradle and my grave, my wife, the only woman I have ever loved—I’m sorry. Please, Tania, help me. Have mercy on me. Please forgive me.”
Tanya will remember how he went after and found her under the rubble of the station destroyed by bombing, carried her broken body on his shoulders for tens of kilometers, because the front line was right there; how he dragged her half-dead on a sled through the frozen Leningrad, how he gave his soldiers rations away to her and Dasha, and that she survived only because of him. She will remember all of it and forgive.
And Alexander on the brink of the betrayal abyss will remember himself beaten, bareboned, half-starved, in the shackles of the Gulag, on dirty straw. He will remember the light in the doorway, depicting the figure of a small woman in a red cross nurse uniform who heard him, despite the lie and hopelessness, found him, like a needle in a haystack, having already accomplished the almost impossible with this alone, returned to pull him out from where no one could escape. One fragile woman who left her little son on the other side of the Earth, against the whole world, against the army of war-hardened men, was able to accomplish the unthinkable, because "the greatest force in the world is love." He will remember all this, and take a step back. A step towards the light.
And Tanya will also remember herself at fourteen years old, before the war, when she fell into the pit after four days of wandering in the forest, and her first sonorous request to God:
“Please…don’t let me die before once letting me feel what it’s like to love.”
And the Almighty will hear it and let her not only to survive, but also to know such love, which is not given to everyone, which is envied, and she herself will once confess to her husband: how can I see men in other males if you are the king among them?
And he’s really the “king” this Alexander Belov-Barrington, because personally I haven’t met anyone like him, neither in cinema, nor in literature, nor in real life.
Do you want to fall in love? Forget about everything, fall out of life? This is exactly it: «The Bronze Horseman», by Paullina Simons
Are you looking for powerful emotions, events, sensual descriptions of physical love in books? – «The Bronze Horseman», by Paullina Simons.
Do you appreciate true beauty and don't want to miss the BEST in your life? – «The Bronze Horseman», by Paullina Simons.
This story crushed me, nailed to the ground, then lifted, shook off and launched into space. And now for the second week I can’t return to Earth.
It was promised to make a film based on the book. The keyword is "promised"...
It's already been 3 days since I finished “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens and still can’t think of anything else.
I want to lift my head up an
It's already been 3 days since I finished “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens and still can’t think of anything else.
I want to lift my head up and shout: “God! Thank you for giving us talents and people who write SUCH BOOKS!!!”
This book is not quite what they say in the blurb, I mean, they never mentioned the detective line and the trial. And they did it right, because the detective line here isn`t the main idea. This story is primarily about love and its importance for everyone’s happiness; it is about spiritual beauty and ugliness, about the weaknesses of strong people, about struggle, about faith in people, about the growth that a person is capable of, even in extreme conditions.
In this story you will find:
- Absolutely unpredictable and fascinating plot,
- Overcoming a series of difficulties,
- An unprecedented main character - a very young girl who comes of age and outgrows “normal” people being absolutely lonely;
- Lots of heart wrenching, sentimental moments;
- Filigree description of the sexual intimacy,
- A uniquely frank and beautiful disclosure of the physical and mental maturation of a woman;
- Ravishing triumph of justice;
- "Happy end".
Kaya is only seven years old when she remains completely alone. She has to survive, although the whole city is aware that a child lives in the swamps all by herself. Instead of help and concern, society supplies Kaya with nickname “Marsh Girl” as well as with contempt and complete lack of interest in her fate. But Kaya is not just a girl - she is a daughter to mother earth, and this mother will never leave her child in trouble: she will raise her and teach a lot.
Ahead of her, Kaya has a long, sometimes calm and generous, sometimes painful life. And, of course, she will learn LOVE, the magic of its birth from the very first and almost unique connection, human warmth in Kaya’s life.
Tate, in fact, was still a child himself, and, of course, he made a mistake. But this is exactly what I value in books: ambiguity, imperfections of created characters and their actions, but most importantly, their willingness to admit mistakes and grow spiritually.
It is such books that gently immerse us in a state of deep thinking and make us grow with the heroes. It is these books that provoke the desire to embrace loved ones and not skimp on declarations of love.
TheMonogamytrilogy is both a contemporary romance and a family saga.
It is about a uniquely handsome man called Alexander who finds it difficult to
TheMonogamytrilogy is both a contemporary romance and a family saga.
It is about a uniquely handsome man called Alexander who finds it difficult to bear the weight of his beauty; people’s obsession with it almost destroys him.
It is in Alex’s blood to be monogamous and he knows it.
The story is told from the viewpoint of his one and only love, Valeria, who is initially his mistress and another man’s wife before becoming his savior.
I have dark circles under my eyes and the world is shaking. Because I don’t even remember which sleepless night it’s already....
I fi
**spoiler alert**
I have dark circles under my eyes and the world is shaking. Because I don’t even remember which sleepless night it’s already....
I finished this three-volume saga, but my “agony” has no end. I read again. And again. Everything from the very beginning.
I’ve never felt this way before, seriously, not a single time, it’s so ingrained into my every cell, leaked into every microscopic slit of the soul and merged, grew together so much that it is no longer clear where you are, and where Tatyana and Alexander are, is it night or day (because it’s already getting bright outside, and you are still reading), where real life is, and where someone else’s imagination is with the most beautiful, strongest, longest, epic, fundamental story of love, war, besieged Leningrad, Victory, the Gulag and American life at the junction of two cultures and mentalities.
Here she is - not even seventeen years old Tanya - in a white with red roses dress and high-heeled sandals borrowed from her older sister, waiting for the tram at the bus stop, cross-legged, licking rapidly melting ice cream and singing a song about love. The world around her is going crazy, because on this day - June 22, 1941 - the war began. It seems it began for everyone, except Tatyana. And this single gap of naive carelessness in the chaos of Leningrad laying provisions in stock could not fail to catch the glance of a young officer Alexander patrolling the streets. He stands on the sidewalk on the other side of the road, unable to take his eyes off the girl in the dress with red roses, and here they are now, looking at each other...
The first book, The Bronze Horseman, tells about the thorny birth of this love, about the intricacies of human weaknesses and strengths - after all, Alexander already has a girlfriend, Dasha, who turns out to be Tatyana’s sister in the best traditions of mocking fate. It’s about the besieged Leningrad, about hunger, and about 29 days of honeymoon happiness in the middle of war - in the summer of 1943. These two are truly and deeply in love and they themselves did not know what a unique miracle happened to them, and despite everything, it would last for a lifetime.
Do you want to fall in love? Forget about everything, fall out of life? This is exactly it: «The Bronze Horseman», by Paullina Simons
Are you looking for powerful emotions, events, sensual descriptions of physical love in books? – «The Bronze Horseman», by Paullina Simons.
Do you appreciate true beauty and don't want to miss the BEST in your life? – «The Bronze Horseman», by Paullina Simons.
This story crushed me, nailed to the ground, then lifted, shook off and launched into space. And now for the second week I can’t return to Earth.
It was promised to make a film based on the book. The keyword is "promised"...
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