Do you like to read but don't have much time to do it? In Bezzia Today we propose some good books to read on a weekend. short books, of less than 200 pages, of different genres so that all of you can find something that catches your attention.
I've talked about these books with a few friends and colleagues over the past few years and we've all liked them. Of course, when talking about books, nothing is infallible, but our opinion is the little we have to judge them. If you dare to read any of these books do not hesitate to share your opinion with us, whether favorable or not.
The Adversary – Emmanuel Carrère
On January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, children, and parents, and unsuccessfully attempted to kill himself. The investigation revealed that he was not a doctor, as he claimed and, even more difficult to believe, he was not something else either. He's been lying since he was eighteen. This book narrates this chilling true story that it is a trip to the heart of horror and that it is better not to know more before reading it.
The summer my mother had green eyes – Tatiana ţîbuleac
Aleksy still remembers the last summer he spent with his mother. Many years have passed since then, but when his psychiatrist recommends that he relive that time as a possible remedy for the artistic block he is suffering as a painter, Aleksy is soon immersed in his memory and is once again shaken by the emotions that plagued him when they arrived. to that little French holiday village: rancor, sadness, rage. How to overcome the disappearance of his sister? How to forgive the mother who rejects you? How to deal with the disease that is consuming her?
The Companion – Nina Berberova
Set in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Paris, among other cities, "La acompañante" explores the ambivalent relationship established between Sonia, the illegitimate and unattractive daughter of a humble music teacher, and María Trávina, a diva brimming with talent and beauty. In it Saint Petersburg 1919, ravaged by hunger and misery, the young and shy Sonia becomes the piano accompanist of the ambitious soprano, whom he will follow to Paris on the latter's path to stardom, which nothing and no one seems capable of stopping. Tortured by admiration and envy, Sonia will seek a way to "do justice" for the unequal fate that has befallen one and the other, driven by the obsession of finding the weak point of the apparently perfect Trávina.
Dead Lands – Núria Bendicho
After an absence of three years, Joan, one of the offspring of the Capdevila family, returns home to find death. Someone has shot him in the back in the isolated farmhouse where he lives with his parents and siblings, and everything points to the fact that the murderer is one of them: his mother, who came out of one hell to live in another; the father, without strength and overcome by tragedy; Tomás, the rude eldest son with few words; Maria, sentenced to remain in the farmhouse due to an unwanted pregnancy; Pere, who just wants to run away from there, and the child, crippled and wild. On all of them weighs blood curse, two deaths and a terrible secret.
A Sunday in the Country – Pierre Bost
Monsieur Ladmiral, a successful if somewhat conventional elderly painter, settles on the outskirts of Paris, where his son Gonzague visits him with his family every Sunday. As in almost all family meetings, you eat, you drink, you talk... and you "shut things up". Everything is as it has always been, until Irène, the adored daughter, shows up by surprise. While Gonzague leads a dull middle-class life, Irène - a liberated and gregarious woman who rarely visits her father - is largely a secret from everyone.
Have you read any of them? Did any of the titles catch your attention? Let us know if you think you know of good book titles to read in a weekend that should be on this list. Together we can continue to expand the list of books to read on different occasions.