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I loved the first book in this series so much that I was compelled to start the second book right away!

I don't love this book. But I am captivated. I love hearing the Italian experiencing the italian.

I loved the first book but it was a couple of years ago that I read My Brilliant Friend .. so I‘m really excited to start this!!! 😊😊📚📚

I‘m in love with this series! The first book was really great, the second maybe even better ❤️ Plan to start watching the series tonight, looking forward to it. Now; rushing off to start the third book!

5⭐️

After finishing ‘My Brilliant Friend‘ a couple of days ago, I had to dive right into the next one! I am switching it up and doing #audio for this. Excited to be back in Napoli ❤️

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Second book done in the #24in48 readathon. @24in48

The second volume is more compelling than the first. The events described are more consequential and more soap opera-ish. However, my complaints remain the same -- there is too much telling, no showing (not a single description to be had) and the characters are still not three dimensional.

This started out slow for me but about 30 pages in I was as hopelessly hooked as I was on its predecessor. It is the type of novel that keeps you locked in its orbit - I spent the week jonesing for my next opportunity to re-enter its world. I don't think that these novels have been life-changing so far but they have definitely been fantastic reads. I'm taking a break from Naples for a book or two but I look forward to finishing the series later.

Up next on Overdrive audio - yet another series that I never finished!

Second instalment in the Neapolitan novels. This one has a huge cast of characters, there‘s plenty of twists and turns, buckets of betrayals. It‘s like an Italian soap opera in book form and is a total pleasure to listen to, especially with all those Italians names that I‘d struggle to read/pronounce. I‘ve heard they‘re making a TV show, I‘ll be signing up for that!!

جلسات قراءة رواية «حكاية الاسم الجديد» في أرقام ???

تواصل إيلينا في الجزء الثاني من رباعية نابولي سرد حكايتها مع صديقتها ليلا وفي هذا الجزء تسرد بتفصيل جسور حكاية ليلا التي صارت السيدة كراتشي وما أعقب ذلك من تحولات وتغيرات نفس-جسدية. بعد قراءتي أسأل: هل هذه الرواية تعكس الشعب الإيطالي؟ هل تعكس واقع النساء في إيطاليا؟

March roundup part 2! A really good month for me in terms of quality. Standouts from here are tagged book, Cain and The Radium Girls but so many were amazing.

Every bit as good as My Brilliant Friend. I don‘t normally read series, but this is just incredible. The world is so real.

My bf and I agree on absolutely no books, but this series is the only thing we both love. I love the character, the relationships and writing and emotions and he loves the society and politics. He said Lenu is a lot like me and it made me very happy, I feel a really strong connection with her.

My next listen, happy to be going back to Naples

I liked “My Brilliant Friend” a lot. I loved this second installment in the series and can‘t wait to find out what happens to Lenù next. #audiobook #elenaferrante #neopolitannovels #thestoryofanewname

Starting a new book today and treating myself to a piece of chocolate cake😊

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1-31-19: My 9th finished book of 2019! Book 2 in the Neapolitan series. Mika and Ollie enjoyed it as much as I did! 👍🏼📖😻#️⃣9️⃣ #thestoryofanewname #elenaferrante

I could read this book unceasingly.
Something ruffled in me, ghosts of the past are awaken..
Excellent book.

#croatianedition

"...I tried to be kind but distant."

"...Pokušala sam biti ljubazna, ali distancirana."

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"Postala bih nervozna još dok je vlak ulazio na kolodvor."

"I'd be nervous as the train came to the station."

I remember the same feeling I had when I came home from university.

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"Since childhood we have watched our fathers beat our mothers.
We grew up with the idea that the stranger should not touch us, but that our parent, boyfriend or husband can slap us whenever he wants, because of love, to raise us, to re-educate us."

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What marriage makes to the young, immature women (wife) who are still nothing but girls?
Lila is so mean, still, but why?
What makes it so, why is she that like?

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Listened to this one on audio and thoroughly enjoyed it. Elena Ferrante can certainly tell a story in a captivating way. At times, the argumentative nature of the characters can be grating. I kept telling them to just separate themselves, but they wouldn't listen 😂
I had to keep reminding myself that they were teenagers and remember how self-righteous I was back in those days.
And the cliff hanger at the end will keep me reading...

This morning‘s reading/thinking view... Gorgeous. Happy New Year, fellow Littens!

She keeps it goin!!!!

Book 2 and loving it 😍

☆☆☆☆

Was too hard to resist, seems I'm reading the whole series in one leap.

#Italy #literarytriparoundtheworld

Two down, two to go! Loving every word so far if not every character....

Book Two of the Neapolitan Novels had me screaming and sobbing. Two girls trying to navigate adolescence, friendship, love, jealousy, expectations, education...with literally zero adult guidance. I am going to wait a few days before starting Book Three so that my family don't think that I've totally abandoned them. Can't wait to see how HBO does with Book One.

I can‘t say I‘m Ferrante‘s biggest fan, but this series does have something... I‘m not sure I would put up with the wordiness if I weren‘t listening to it as an audiobook, but I do want to find out where all of this is going.

Awesome

Until I read Elena Ferrante I had never seen a female friendship given such intense scrutiny. The relationship between Lila and Elena is complex and fraught. Beyond them we get to see the changing faces and roles of the people of the neighbourhood; class, gender, economics and ethics all coming in to play. I listened to this on Audible, Hilary Huber‘s voice entrances me - & because the story moves slowly I don‘t get lost when my mind wanders

Es wird immer geschrieben, dass es sich bei den Büchern um die große Geschichte einer Frauenfreundschaft handelt. Wenn man Lügen, Intrige und Missgunst als Freundschaft bezeichnen will, dann gerne, für mich hat das nichts damit zu tun. Band 2 zieht sich außerdem wie Kaugummi ohne dass Substanzielles passiert, ständig muss man sich die nervtötenden Befindlichkeiten der Erzählerin antun. Eine langatmige Soap Opera, die immerhin gut geschrieben ist.

Just as addictive as book 1, this is another magnificient novel in all its detail and emotion 🙌 Ferrante has to stop with these cliffhangers - I NEED to get my hands on book 3!

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Die passenden Blumen zum Buchcover. Mal sehen ob mich Ferrante auch mit Band 2 überzeugt.

Lunchtime 📖 #currentread

Friday arvo treat after a cold first week back at work. Very sore after 3 weeks off the pole. Sparking sake, sushi and some secondhand book shopping! The Australian Short stories book includes 2 of my favourite authors Helen Garner and Tim Winton and I am going to continue persevering with Elena.

I didn‘t think the second one could be more addictive than the first. I was mistaken. This series gets better with each paragraph.

Came home from Italy and immediately bought the 2nd book in the series. Finished the first one oversees. Love so much and I just heard it‘s going to be an HBO series so now I‘m excited for that!!

It was quite a page turner, can't wait to continue

Started reading this. So far just as good as the first.

#ReadingResolutions Day 14: Definitely a case of #BookSequel being slightly better than the first book, at least in my opinion. I know so many who stopped reading the series on the basis of Book One. I try to persuade them that once they get to the sequel, everything will be worthwhile. I 💜 Ferrante.

Brilliant

Neapolitan #2. Lila and Elena's toxic friendship continues, though their personal journeys take them down wildly different paths. Lila is trapped in an abusive marriage, but determined to find moments of freedom. Elena gets as far from the people and places of her childhood as she can. The grinding poverty and toxic masculinity that pervade the narrative make this a difficult and depressing, but strangely compelling reading experience.

started reading it in tub an hour ago and had to force myself to put it down and get out!