My Passion for Books Archives - Moniqs.com: Satisfaction For Art Lovers... https://www.moniqs.com/category/my-passion-for-books/ satisfaction for artlovers - cultural magazine Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:09:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 LITTLE BIRD OF HEAVEN BY JOYCE CAROL OATES https://www.moniqs.com/little-bird-heaven/ Tue, 06 Apr 2021 08:19:08 +0000 https://dev.moniqs.com/?p=5630 This intense novel is about a young mother and wife called Zoe Kruller, who is brutally murdered. It uses mixed storylines and takes place in rural twentieth-century America (1983-2001). There are two suspects; her own husband, Delray Kruller, from whom she is estranged from and her lover Eddy Diehl. The story is told by two persons: […]

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]]> This intense novel is about a young mother and wife called Zoe Kruller, who is brutally murdered. It uses mixed storylines and takes place in rural twentieth-century America (1983-2001).

There are two suspects; her own husband, Delray Kruller, from whom she is estranged from and her lover Eddy Diehl.

The story is told by two persons: Krista Diehl (daughter of Eddy Diehl) and Aaron Kruller (son of the murdered woman and Delray Kruller).

It is a story about passionate love, sex, abondance, cruelty, violence, and loss seen through the two young teenagers’ eyes.

 

Why did I like this novel so much?

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Writer Joyce Carol Oates with her cat.

I was intrigued, not knowing who the killer was. Why was Zoe murdered? Reading the same story but through entirely different eyes by the two narrators Aaron and Krista. I was struck by their desperations and loneliness, fanatically defending their own fathers and blaming the other.

The final chapter, which I absolutely loved, showing us the incredible strength of a woman and the power she found in herself to take control of her own life.

It is not until the very end of the novel that we find out the truth about what has happened to Zoe.

I couldn’t stop reading and finished this book in just two days. Can’t wait to start another great novel by Joyce Carol Oates.

 

 

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]]> BOOKS AND HAPPINESS https://www.moniqs.com/books-and-happiness/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:13:35 +0000 https://dev.moniqs.com/?p=5624   “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading Edmund Tarbell – circa 1909  

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“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.”
Anonymous

Girl Reading
Edmund Tarbell – circa 1909

 

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