Denizler Ejderi itibaren Genç Timaş içinde LIT biçim

Shruti Gupta _hrutigupta792 — Marina'nın yazılarını okumak çok kolay. Bu kitap aslında Marina'nın Avrupa'daki blogda yazdığı gezisinin bir kaydı. Genel olarak, bu kitapta sağladığı sırt çantasıyla ilgili ipuçları çok faydalıdır. Yazdığı hikayeler de oldukça ilham verici.

Heny Fadilah Fadilah henyfadilah — Bu dizi çok zekiydi! Bu kadar iğrenç bir şey mizahi bir şekilde gerçekten işe yaradı. Ne olduğunu bilmek zorundaydım!

Stephen Becker _teve_ecker — This was amazing....there are not enough words to tell of the awesomeness of this title. Although others find it muddled and a bit schizophrenic..I did not find it to be the case. I do not know if everyone can appreciate the nature of the tale. But I found it to be unique in a world of YA literature that just all feels the same. Flora is strong and NOT ANGSTY...which is rare. Her sidekick is amusing and full of life. Characterizations...amazing. Plot is good and surprising. Characters are multi-leveled with no one all good or all bad. Excellent with a capital E! From School Library Journal: Flora Fyrdraaca is approaching 14, the age of majority, and preparing for its celebratory Catorcena. She lives in Crackpot Hall, a once-glorious but now decaying home with 11,000 rooms that randomly shift positions. Her mother is the Warlord's Commanding General and a workaholic. Her father, a broken man due to his past imprisonment for war crimes, is most often an enraged drunk who trashes the house. Oversleeping one morning, Flora uses the forbidden Elevator to get her overdue library book and finds herself in a strange part of the house where Valefor, the family butler, has been banished. He is losing his Anima and convinces Flora to let him suck some of hers, which causes her to develop Anima Enervation, and she begins to fade. Here the complicated plot in this overlong first novel becomes as shifting and rambling as Crackpot Hall itself. Flora and her friend Udo try to find a fetish or Semiote Verb to restore Valefor, but then get waylaid. Flora uncovers why Poppy is such a broken man, swims in the slimy pond in her garden to touch the refreshing Current and be restored, and much more-all in the week preceding her Catorcena.

Codesm Marketing codesm — so far so good

Eva Mokhlis _wabianmedia — 4/24/11: Sarah Turnbull a young Australian journalist, comes to Paris to live with a French lawyer whom she'd fallen in love with. This is the story of the six years of her acculturation, which begins, well, inauspiciously, but ends up (not surprisingly) happily. The first half, the part where everything she tries to do seems like a failure, is accurate, and often hilarious, but also comes across as a bit whiny, superficial, and also repetitive. But the second half gets more interesting, as the narrator begins to explore and wrestle with some deeper questions about cultural differences. As she becomes comfortable herself with her new home and country, she can grapple with more complex ideas: the role of women in French culture and politics; the contradictory nature of French bureaucracy and rules; the reasons behind the alien nature of a formal dinner party. Having barely scratched the surface of these cultural differences over the last eight months, I found these chapters fascinating and helpful. (Though it is still amazing to think that one guide for ex-pats trying to get along at a French dinner party gives the advice: "Pretend you're a chair. Then, when noone talks to you, you won't have hurt feelings. Who would talk to a chair?") Turnbull's writing is journalistic--a bit speedy, every so often a bit sloppy, but easy and fun to read. And it's nice to have an Aussie viewpoint, rather than an American, as it made me push myself out of an American mindset just a bit. I mean, we're all Anglos to the French, but we know the shades of difference!