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Ladataan... Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2012; vuoden 2013 painos)– tekijä: Maria Semple (Tekijä)
Teoksen tarkat tiedotMissä olet, Bernadette? (tekijä: Maria Semple) (2012)
  
Books Read in 2015 (14) » 29 lisää Summer Reads 2014 (10) Books Read in 2016 (201) Top Five Books of 2014 (350) Female Author (302) Books Read in 2017 (864) A Novel Cure (276) To Read (42) Books Read in 2014 (1,184) KayStJ's to-read list (317) SantaThing 2014 Gifts (167) Contemporary Fiction (68) Epistolary Books (83) Our digital age (8) Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Hilarious! I identify with Bernadette so strongly, it just might be frightening. Semple struck satirical, dare-I-say, "genius" with this novel. "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" is many things at once-- suspenseful, endearing, slightly offensive, warm, and did I mention FUNNY? From the start the book was hard to put down, but I absolutely raced through the last part. I love the moments between Bernadette and Bee, such a beautiful rendition of a mother-daughter relationship plucked down in the middle of this absurd tale of maladjustment, misunderstandings, and misanthropy. WYGB? just might be my favorite book I've read this year. (  ) mbellucci | Apr 10, 2021 |  Such a good book. I laughed a lot. I both wanted to be Bernadette's friend and to slap her upside the head. Maybe those things aren't mutually exclusive. But I want more! The narrator was fantastic. She gave each character life, and she could even sing! She got the "over-involved school parent" down perfectly. I loved every minute of this. :) ( ) ssperson | Apr 3, 2021 | I always thought I'd like this one, written by someone who has worked on Arrested Development! I also wondered how it would age almost ten years later. I think it's doing okay! The form is a bit of an odd choice - told through things like e-mails and articles. I would have liked for these things to actually have looked like e-mails and articles if they would be used here at all. I would have liked it better if visually they would look like what they are supposed to look like -- otherwise it looks like someone retyping e-mails. More intriguing though is Bee and her mother Bernadette. Their voices are so distinct and humorous that they really should have taken over the entire book. Semple's writing of Bee is a realistic smart fourteen year old! Bernadette is a quirky, misfit, get-me-out-of-LA mom! A book of letters between Bee and Bernadette? That would have been fantastic -- why are these other voices even necessary? These other forms are fun and unique but a bit much when I wanted to get back to Bee and Bern. This book was a joy to read during these times anyway! Morning News Tournament of Books #109 (  ) booklove2 | Apr 2, 2021 | Hilarious. None of the characters are without glaring personality flaws, but even the PTA mom villains of the story get some love in the end. What a weird book I picked up, just trying to find fiction that takes place in Seattle. Life is weird, just like this book. ( ) fidgetyfern | Feb 23, 2021 | I am not sure whether I should be impressed with the book or not -- part of the people in it are quite real to life in their infuriating meddling, but the way they can change just struck me as unrealistic -- which is probably the biggest problem I have. (  ) WiebkeK | Jan 21, 2021 |
 The book stumbles a bit in the middle as it transitions from a scathing anti-Seattle manifesto into a family drama with comic undertones. But once the gears have finished their grinding and the shuddering subsides, Semple eases into her strongest work yet, allowing her characters to change in a way that suits the story, and not just shooting for an easy punch line or a sharply worded barb. In the end, with its big heart set on acceptance, Bernadette feels something like coming home.  The tightly constructed “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” is written in many formats — e-mails, letters, F.B.I. documents, correspondence with a psychiatrist and even an emergency-room bill for a run-in between Bernadette and Audrey. Yet these pieces are strung together so wittily that Ms. Semple’s storytelling is always front and center, in sharp focus. You could stop and pay attention to how apt each new format is, how rarely she repeats herself and how imaginatively she unveils every bit of information. But you would have to stop laughing first. Semple is a TV comedy writer, and the pleasures of Where'd You Go, Bernadette are the pleasures of the best American TV: plot, wit and heart. (There are places where Semple really wants to be writing dialogue, and stretches the epistolary conceit of the novel to suit.) It's rather refreshing to find a female misunderstood genius at the heart of a book, and a mother-daughter relationship characterised by unadulterated mutual affection. If Bernadette is a monster of ego, Semple suggests, so are most people, when they're being honest. In her spiky but essentially feelgood universe, failure and self-exposure open up a rich seam of comedy, but shame can always be vanquished by love
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world. No library descriptions found. |
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