Kafka Okur Fikir Sanat ve Edebiyat Dergisi Sayı: 9 Ocak-Şubat 2016 kitap serbest oDF biçim

Raynner Alba _aynner17 — This tale is so disarming. Written from the POV of an autistic boy trying to solve a murder mystery, I think this book has universal appeal.

Ryan Pittman rpittman — An engaging hybrid story of 1) the development and drama of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and 2) serial killer H. H. Holmes. As the fleet of architectural heavyweights designed and constructed a monument to the utopian promise of the looming 20th century, Holmes preyed upon young women arriving in a changing city that was bursting with the opportunity and risk of innovation and modernity. A fascinating read, nicely pulled together by Larson.

祐樹 別府 yukibeppu — ** spoiler alert ** Cute Christmas romance--Sarah Collier's 15-year-old self completely bought into her grandmother's charming story about Kismet Cookies. They bake them on Christmas Eve, and when you sleep with one under your pillow, you'll dream of your one true love. Well, Sarah's dreamt of Travis Walker, her grandmother's next door neighbor's son, for years. Although he's five years older than she, he's always been kind and friendly, and she's cherished that hope that he'll love her too, for quite some time. Overwhelmed by the unexpected news that he's getting married that Christmas morning, she impulsively runs all the way to the church to declare in front of God and all the guests that he can't marry Crystal because he's HER true love. Fast forward eight or nine years, and Sarah's now a best selling children's author, Sadie Cool. Travis's very sick eight-year-old daughter Jasmine, Jazzy for short, is her biggest fan. Circumstances in the form of Twilight's Cookie Club (yes, the same women who populate the quilting and knitting clubs of the previous stories set in Twilight) conspire to get her to return to Twilight to fulfill Jazzy's Christmas wish and maybe bring out some fulfilled dreams for Sarah/Sadie and Travis, too. While I enjoyed the small-town feel and the secondary characters quite a bit, some of the plotting and characterization really seemed a little too sappy for me; it all worked out in the end, but all the handwringing and drama and heartwarming stuff was just too much for me to love.

Manohar Lal juskar42 — This book is a gem. I just picked it up from the book store without any prior knowledge and I was loving it from the get go. The author takes one situation and picks it apart by giving you the views of all participants. I loved it..

Stephen Ofarrell stephenoeb2c — I listened to this on CD, and it made for an interesting travelogue. The author travels around the globe to the most and least happy places, as defined by a Dutch study, and tries to discover what makes people happy. It's the simple stuff...

Augus Wu 102308749649e0 — Between 1888 and 1927 Eugène Atget meticulously photographed Paris and its environs, capturing in thousands of photographs the city's parks, streets, and buildings as well as its diverse inhabitants. His images preserved the vanishing architecture of the ancien régime as Paris grew into a modern capital and established Atget as one of the twentieth century's greatest and most revered photographers. Christopher Rauschenberg spent a year in the late '90s revisiting and rephotographing many of Atget's same locations. Paris Changing features seventy-four pairs of images beautifully reproduced in duotone. By meticulously replicating the emotional as well as aesthetic qualities of Atget's images, Rauschenberg vividly captures both the changes the city has under-gone and its enduring beauty. His work is both an homage to his predecessor and an artistic study of Paris in its own right. Each site is indicated on a map of the city, inviting readers to follow in the steps of Atget and Rauschenberg themselves. Essays by Clark Worswick and Alison Nordstrom give insight into Atget's life and situate Rauschenberg's work in the context of other rephotography projects. The book concludes with an epilogue by Rosamond Bernier as well as a portfolio of other images of contemporary Paris by Rauschenberg. If a trip to the city of lights is not in your immediate future, this luscious portrait of Paris then and now is definitely the next best thing. Oregon-based photographer Christopher Rauschenberg, the son of artist Robert Rauschenberg, is a founding member of the Blue Sky Photographers' Collective and Gallery. His work has been exhibited widely. Essay contributors: Rosamond Bernier served as European features editor of Vogue magazine in Paris, where she became friends with artists Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Mir—, and Georges Braque. She founded the art magazine l'oeuil in 1955 and after her return to the United States became a professional lecturer, speaking at institutions such as the Louvre, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Guggenheim Museum, among many others. Clark Worswick has authored a number of books on photography. Alison Nordstrom is a curator and her writing on photography has been widely published.