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jana_besf's review against another edition
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
anastasiaadamov's review against another edition
3.0
Book club reading for November 2023.
Weird and thankfully short book.
The flowery and bloody rural descriptions got me swinging between thoughtful and disgusted.,
Some memorable descriptions will take time and effort to forget.
I am not sure how I feel about the connections between birthing process and the sexual identity of the main character. It was all so very visceral and bloody.
For someone who is not in constant communication with children and teenagers most of the book was to weird and to far removed to understand completely.
Weird and thankfully short book.
The flowery and bloody rural descriptions got me swinging between thoughtful and disgusted.,
Some memorable descriptions will take time and effort to forget.
I am not sure how I feel about the connections between birthing process and the sexual identity of the main character. It was all so very visceral and bloody.
For someone who is not in constant communication with children and teenagers most of the book was to weird and to far removed to understand completely.
textpublishing's review against another edition
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‘One Day I’ll Tell You Everything is a sumptuous read. My senses were set alight—I could feel the sun, smell the air, taste the snow. At its heart lies the story of Adele—a woman who is at once fleeing, and reconciling with, her past. It is Adele who gives the book its pulse. Every page thrums with her love.’
Melanie Cheng
‘One Day I’ll Tell You Everything is a sumptuous read. My senses were set alight—I could feel the sun, smell the air, taste the snow. At its heart lies the story of Adele—a woman who is at once fleeing, and reconciling with, her past. It is Adele who gives the book its pulse. Every page thrums with her love.’
Melanie Cheng
czytomasz's review against another edition
4.0
Bardzo mocno czuć, że książka powstała kilkanaście lat temu, bo wykorzystuje określenia, od których odeszliśmy już w mówieniu o transpłciowości („dziewczyna uwięziona w ciele chłopca”, „urodzona w złym ciele”, no błagam). Poza tym nie wiem jak to wygląda w oryginale, ale stosowanie na zmianę form żeńskiej i męskiej ciągle wybijało mnie z rytmu. Oprócz tego- historia transpłciowej kierowczyni szkolnego autobusu, która pracuje w swoich rodzinnych stronach, gdzie nikt nie wie o jej przeszłości brzmi intrygująco i taka też jest. Bez upiększeń i udziwnień, porusza kilka aspektów transpłciowości, z których zapewne wiele osób nie zdaje sobie sprawy. Ciekawa rzecz, oceniłbym na takie 3,5/5, ale przez niską średnią na Goodreads naciągam do 4 gwiazdek.
becsti's review
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
2.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Transphobia
Stream of consciousnessivinklerkomaric's review against another edition
4.0
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Zaista mi je teško opisati ovu knjigu. Bojim se da nemam dovoljno adekvatne riječi. Ukratko, priču nam priča Adele, žena koja se rodila kao muško, ali bila je jako nesretna kao dječak/mladić pa je čim je mogla promijenila spol. Knjiga je u isto vrijeme teška i tužna (pomalo i morbidna povremeno), ali je nekako i lagana, čak i pozitivna. Ne znam kako to bolje opisati. Kroz knjigu se izmjenjuju priče iz Adelinog djetinjstva sa sadašnjošću u kojoj je ona vozačica školskog autobusa i djecu vozi divljim predjelima u svakakvim vremenskim uvjetima. Upoznajemo djecu, otkriva nam se i Adelin odnos s mlađim bratom, sve nevolje, nerazumijevanje i dvojbe, tugu, borbu i razočaranja koja je prošla u životu. Kroz Adelinu priču, autorica opisuje život u zimi toliko dugoj, hladnoj i surovoj da si ju ne mogu ni zamisliti. Stilski je knjiga baš divna, nježna, nema pravih dijaloga, samo se povremeno provlače kroz pripovijedanje. Opisi su zaista lijepi, pogotovo opisi prirode i vremenskih prilika. Nisam imala baš neka očekivanja i ugodno sam se iznenadila jer mi se knjiga svidjela.
Zaista mi je teško opisati ovu knjigu. Bojim se da nemam dovoljno adekvatne riječi. Ukratko, priču nam priča Adele, žena koja se rodila kao muško, ali bila je jako nesretna kao dječak/mladić pa je čim je mogla promijenila spol. Knjiga je u isto vrijeme teška i tužna (pomalo i morbidna povremeno), ali je nekako i lagana, čak i pozitivna. Ne znam kako to bolje opisati. Kroz knjigu se izmjenjuju priče iz Adelinog djetinjstva sa sadašnjošću u kojoj je ona vozačica školskog autobusa i djecu vozi divljim predjelima u svakakvim vremenskim uvjetima. Upoznajemo djecu, otkriva nam se i Adelin odnos s mlađim bratom, sve nevolje, nerazumijevanje i dvojbe, tugu, borbu i razočaranja koja je prošla u životu. Kroz Adelinu priču, autorica opisuje život u zimi toliko dugoj, hladnoj i surovoj da si ju ne mogu ni zamisliti. Stilski je knjiga baš divna, nježna, nema pravih dijaloga, samo se povremeno provlače kroz pripovijedanje. Opisi su zaista lijepi, pogotovo opisi prirode i vremenskih prilika. Nisam imala baš neka očekivanja i ugodno sam se iznenadila jer mi se knjiga svidjela.
tasmanian_bibliophile's review against another edition
4.0
‘I cried a lot when I was little, often, and I didn’t know why.’
Adèle returns home, to the village where she grew up in the Ardèche mountains in South-east France, after an absence of ten years. She has returned to drive the school bus, transporting the school children the long distances they now must travel to attend school. Adèle believes that no-one recognises her: the person who left the village is not the one who has returned. She is home.
‘Once again, the landscape has filled up my whole being. My countryside is contained within me.’
Adèle has a past, and part of her story will unfold in this novel. There is the story of two siblings, Alex, and his older sister Adèle, who was once his brother. Alex is angry with Adèle: he misses his big brother and refuses to acknowledge he has a sister. Can Alex accept Adèle? Adèle, the bus driver, knows each of the children she is responsible for on the bus. She watches them grow, sees their struggles, feels responsible for them. And then, one day, the bus is stranded by a snowstorm. Adèle and the students take shelter in a cave. To pass the time, they talk. One of the students starts to reveal Adèle’s history.
‘And he begins to tell the story of my life.’
Right at that moment, I caught my breath. How will the students react to Adèle’s story? Will they still accept her? Or has she been accepted already? Adèle is concerned: both her standing in the community and a developing relationship are at stake. By this stage in the novel Adèle and her struggles have become real: I want her to find happiness, I want her to find a place where she is accepted for who she is.
Ms Pagano’s novel deals sensitively with several of the issues that arise when someone transitions from one gender to another. Relationships with family, acceptance in the community often change because of the way in which we define people according to their gender, rather than considering their humanity.
‘So there you go, I say, it’s the night of revelations.’
This novel was first published in 2006 as ‘Les Adolescents Troglodytes’ and won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2009. Fortunately, it is now available in English.
Note: My thanks to NetGalley and Text Publishing for providing me with a free electronic copy of this book for review purposes.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
Adèle returns home, to the village where she grew up in the Ardèche mountains in South-east France, after an absence of ten years. She has returned to drive the school bus, transporting the school children the long distances they now must travel to attend school. Adèle believes that no-one recognises her: the person who left the village is not the one who has returned. She is home.
‘Once again, the landscape has filled up my whole being. My countryside is contained within me.’
Adèle has a past, and part of her story will unfold in this novel. There is the story of two siblings, Alex, and his older sister Adèle, who was once his brother. Alex is angry with Adèle: he misses his big brother and refuses to acknowledge he has a sister. Can Alex accept Adèle? Adèle, the bus driver, knows each of the children she is responsible for on the bus. She watches them grow, sees their struggles, feels responsible for them. And then, one day, the bus is stranded by a snowstorm. Adèle and the students take shelter in a cave. To pass the time, they talk. One of the students starts to reveal Adèle’s history.
‘And he begins to tell the story of my life.’
Right at that moment, I caught my breath. How will the students react to Adèle’s story? Will they still accept her? Or has she been accepted already? Adèle is concerned: both her standing in the community and a developing relationship are at stake. By this stage in the novel Adèle and her struggles have become real: I want her to find happiness, I want her to find a place where she is accepted for who she is.
Ms Pagano’s novel deals sensitively with several of the issues that arise when someone transitions from one gender to another. Relationships with family, acceptance in the community often change because of the way in which we define people according to their gender, rather than considering their humanity.
‘So there you go, I say, it’s the night of revelations.’
This novel was first published in 2006 as ‘Les Adolescents Troglodytes’ and won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2009. Fortunately, it is now available in English.
Note: My thanks to NetGalley and Text Publishing for providing me with a free electronic copy of this book for review purposes.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
hamillherself's review
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
ljbentley27's review
2.0
One Day I’ll Tell You Everything is a curious little story about a trans woman called Adele and how she tries to keep the details of her transition secret in the small mountainous town that she lives in.
With a quick sum up of the story you can understand why I was curious to read it. I was sold on the premise but the delivery was all a bit wonky for me. The main action of the book took place in the final 20% of the book. Whereas if the author had spaced it out and flashed backwards and forwards throughout then the tension of the story would have built more evenly rather than slow slow slow slow slow fast fast the end.
I did like how the author used the metaphor of being trapped as similar to Adele’s situation. That was cleverly done. However, the overall power of the book was lost because of the strange pacing.
One Day I’ll Tell You Everything by Emmanuelle Pagano is available 24th September 2020.
With a quick sum up of the story you can understand why I was curious to read it. I was sold on the premise but the delivery was all a bit wonky for me. The main action of the book took place in the final 20% of the book. Whereas if the author had spaced it out and flashed backwards and forwards throughout then the tension of the story would have built more evenly rather than slow slow slow slow slow fast fast the end.
I did like how the author used the metaphor of being trapped as similar to Adele’s situation. That was cleverly done. However, the overall power of the book was lost because of the strange pacing.
One Day I’ll Tell You Everything by Emmanuelle Pagano is available 24th September 2020.