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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yapı Kredi Yayınları
This story does touch on the concept of being in hiding, as the protagonist is a Jewish "hidden child", separated from her family to live with gentiles for safety. It never does tell you what happens to her parents or if they ever reunite, and the symbolism is a bit confused. The child refuses to go into the lily cupboard to hide without her rabbit, who she insists must stay with her. She compares her heroic act, almost completely foiling the plan for the sake of the rabbit, to her parents' heroic act of keeping HER safe with this family. But, her parents DIDN'T keep her with them, so the symbolism is all skewed. The actual act of being hidden in the cupboard with the Nazis visiting the family was so brief and under-characterized that I ended up reading this story without emotion. I don't really recommend this for a holocaust study, unless the audience is like 6 years old.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Artemis Yayınları
This book transcends genres - there are elements of sci-fi, spy thriller, love story, mystery, military, psychological, and maybe a few others. It starts out with a soldier coming home from a war, but most of it winds up being on a cruise ship! But the cruise turns ugly, and suddenly it's about survival. It's amazing that Wolfe was able to make create continuity out of all the disparate elements; I give him major props for that. The thing that I didn't like about the book, and the reason I didn't give it five stars, is that marital infidelity is a major plot point. I just don't care for books where one partner never knows who his or her spouse is going to sleep with next. Technically Skip and Chelle are not married; they are "contracted" which seems to be something midway between marriage and being engaged. But I wouldn't like a story about people cheating on their fiances, either. Those parts were really an unpleasant read for me. So, if you ignore the parts about Chelle's infidelity, it's an amazing book. But those parts spoiled it for me, and I probably won't seek out any more of Wolfe's work.
A fun escape- you can read these in just a day or two...
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hayykitap
Carolyn Turgeon is an absolute delight and I adore her. I was not so enamored with the end of this quirky novel - a new take on the Cinderella story - but I enjoyed it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: D'Addario
To be honest I struggled with this; I think I read about 20 other books in the 10 months between starting and finishing this one. I think the additional characters and diverse storylines made it hard for a 13-year-old to follow easily. I am so glad I returned to it.
Easy read. They made this into a movie recently but never saw it. I think if you want a book to pass the time on a beach or a plane ride, this is the book.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Parıltı Yayınları
The Edge of Grace is a Christian fictional drama. On the day that Caryn Becker receives a phone call from her brother, David, her world and all she knew about it, comes crashing down. David has just told Caryn that he is gay and will be heading off to Mexico with his new lover. Caryn is shocked, David had been planning his wedding to his long-time girlfriend, Lori, and this announcement leaves Caryn with feelings of disgust and revulsion. Caryn is a single, widowed mother of a seven year old boy. Her husband, Harrison, died when their son, Ben, was only a toddler. Caryn's best friends and neighbours, Julie and Trey, help Caryn through life's difficulties and offer her advice and wisdom. Caryn ignores her brothers messages and her friends advice, she is angry, hurt and feels like she never knew her brother. Her friends think Caryn is over-reacting and cannot understand her feelings. She believes there is nothing that will mend the hurt that she is now experiencing. On the day that David is beaten and left for dead, Caryn has to adjust her thoughts and remind herself that love can conquer all. Caryn begins to heal from the betrayal she feels was bestowed upon her and tries to understand her brothers life choices. I thought the story started out great. The introduction of Caryn and her brother began right from the beginning and the reader is immersed in Caryn's thoughts and feelings. The feelings and questions are real and her reactions are not uncommon to the situation before her. However, not knowing David before this phone call, one cannot feel for David and his plight. I thought the editorial issues were more than common, at times Lori, David's finance is called Lauren and I had to reread the passages a few times to make sure who it was being discussed in the chapter. Mayhaps Lori is being used as a short form version of Lauren, but it isn't explained as such and from her first introduction, we meet her as Lori. I didn't like the missing quotations around dialogue, you are left wondering if the characters are talking to someone or are they in thought mode, it was very confusing at times. I found that most of the book played out like a commercial, there were too many product placements throughout and just came across as the author looking for anything to fill the pages. The first half of the book is meandering thoughts and confusion about David's homosexuality and is rather ho-hum, however, after you get past that portion, the book does pick up and you are left with a read that is rife with human emotions and actions. I would give this book two and a half stars out of five. The editorial issues were annoying as was Caryn, she came across as a spoiled rotten brat in which the world should revolve around her. I enjoyed Julie and her open minded, level-headed character brought much to the book.
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Nice figures. I only scanned a bunch of this one because I was bored in the class but the figures were helpful.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kastaş Yayınları
Just okay. I do like learning about culture and history in Denmark.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kartezyen Yayınları
I knew Mullen wasn't from the Northwest when I was reading this - his work lacks the Northwest spirit that David Guterson channels into his books ("Snow Falling On Cedars" being one of my all-time favorites). But it was still a very engaging and frightening look, not only into the 1918 flu pandemic - and the "reverse quarantine" legends of some small towns - but also into the socio-political tensions that the war brought to America.
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