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Ferrante Never Misses

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

March 7, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

…I state, after only reading two of her novels and two of her shorter pieces…but at this rate, I am all-in on Elena Ferrante and I am STILL mad at myself for taking this long to catch on. I’m two books deep in the Neapolitan Novels, but I had to interrupt my trajectory for two reasons: I needed to read this story before seeing the new (read: 2021) film adaptation I need to see the film in order to solidify all of my (mostly negative) […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante, europa edition, film adaptation, independence, italian literature, Italy, Motherhood, novella, short read, translation

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante, europa edition, film adaptation, independence, italian literature, Italy, Motherhood, novella, short read, translation ·
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once again: great book, TERRIBLE cover

The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

January 18, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

The cover is even WORSE this time- not only do we have another DIY looking illustration,  but the featured pull quote from The Australian‘s John Freeman is ABYSMAL: “Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you’ll have some idea of how explosive these works are.” Fuck right off, guy. Emphasis on GUY. Just because Austen characters aren’t slapping and cussing each other out does not mean that they aren’t also filled with the contained rage of being a woman trapped in position- a woman who will do […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: andtheIToldYouSos, casual violence, coming-of-age, Elena Ferrante, europa edition, female friendship, intergenerational trauma, Italy, L'amica geniale #2, Love, Marriage, Neapolitan Novels, post war europe, Series, the Neapolitan novels, translation

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: andtheIToldYouSos, casual violence, coming-of-age, Elena Ferrante, europa edition, female friendship, intergenerational trauma, Italy, L'amica geniale #2, Love, Marriage, Neapolitan Novels, post war europe, Series, the Neapolitan novels, translation ·
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A book written out of spite

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

December 9, 2020 by Nart 1 Comment

Probably every book lover I know has recommended this series to me and I get why. We’re really hard on Hollywood movies for their saminess, but books are no different. It is extremely rare to read something really new. This is that book. Plot: Honestly it doesn’t matter, this book isn’t about plot, but broadly it’s about a brilliant woman born in a time and place where women weren’t really given the space to be brilliant. Most stories, would focus on this brilliant woman overcoming all […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Elena Ferrante

Nart's CBR12 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Elena Ferrante ·
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Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly.

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

October 3, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The newest novel from Elena Ferrante and a slight, but not total departure for her. This book takes places in the 1980s and 1990s and is narrated by an adolescent girl (who through the course of the novel grows into a teen girl). We begin with her living with her parents when her father makes the remark that she is very ugly. This sets her off in part for the obvious reason of how hateful and cutting and damaging such a remark would be, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Elena Ferrante, the lying life of adults

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:524 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Elena Ferrante, the lying life of adults ·
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cbr12bingo – Fresh Start

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

August 17, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

I have a confession to make: I judged this book by its cover. I remember the frenzy of press around this book, the series, and the *mysterious* author. I also remember seeing the cover and being completely uninterested. It is, in my opinion, a dreadful cover. It looks like it was cobbled together to act as a prop. It looks like a poorly thought out passion project. I still think the cover is awful, but I am glad that I changed my mind around shunning […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Ann Goldstein, bildungsroman, cbr12bingo, coming-of-age, Elena Ferrante, Fresh Start, friendship, inter generational trauma, Italian language, italian literature, Naples, postwar Europe, postwar Italy, translated, youth

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:91 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Ann Goldstein, bildungsroman, cbr12bingo, coming-of-age, Elena Ferrante, Fresh Start, friendship, inter generational trauma, Italian language, italian literature, Naples, postwar Europe, postwar Italy, translated, youth ·
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My mother drowned on the night of May 23rd, my birthday, in the sea at a place called Spaccavento, a few miles from Minturno.

Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

April 20, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Troubling Love This Elena Ferrante’s first novel and like her later novel The Lost Daughter there’s a lot here that feels very familiar if you’ve read the Neopolitan Novels. The next novel Days of Abandonment is very different. In this novel, we begin with our narrator finding out that her mother’s body has been found in the water, drowned, from an apparent suicide. She begins retracing her mother’s life in the recent years and weeks, and begins to confront the specters of her mother’s life that were […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter, troubling love

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:206 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter, troubling love ·
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