The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (a brief review)

My thoughts on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante. The story of a young woman growing into adulthood, describes how she discovered the way her parents lied all the time. Her meeting with Aunt Vittoria, (the hated aunt) and the knowledge of "the bracelet" her aunt had left her as a baby, seemed to symbolise how she discovered the layers of lies behind it. "The bracelet" became the object, sought after, but for the wrong reasons. It embodied the lies of the adults in her life and gradually became the epitome of lies, as if it was cursed and those who wore it were also cursed, because of the way it came into the hands of her aunt in the first place. A great story for in-depth character portrayal and how the Lying Life of Adults also became part of her own psyche, although at least she was aware of what was happening.

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Orbital by Samantha Harvey (a brief review)

This book gave insight into how fragile out world is. The descriptions of the astronauts' view of earth from space must have made them feel insignificant, and because the space station was cramped, small and beginning to deteriorate, their existence was even more at risk. The way they fell in love with being in space, seemed to me like a child in the womb. Floating, yet existing only because of the mother. So the astronauts also floated but were always connected to earth, which they depended on.