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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Güneş Tıp Kitabevleri
Very enjoyable autobiography by the "Queen of Daytime". Just a warning, it is not told chronologically, bounces around a lot, but it's great to learn so much about the workings of LaLucci's life.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ötüken Neşriyat
I love FLB's books because they are fantastic "Fag Hag Lit". FLB is practically a groupie for ever marginalized group in existance (and few she probably invented). It's great. I loved revisited the characters of Weetzie Bat, older and still enthralled by the delights of Shangra-LA.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beşir Kitabevi
Have read this twice. Same rating.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Artemis Yayınları
This LOL (little old lady) will make you LOL (laugh out loud) as she solves a mystery. If you enjoy mysteries with unusual characters, don't miss this one.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İlgi Kültür Sanat Yayınları
can i comment on this book without using the word "quirky" to describe alice? i guess not ... i remember checking this book out from the library, then losing it behind the bed, not very long after it came out. i found it - happiy - but returned unread. but, after reading another susan juby book, i decided to give it - and potentially the rest of the series - another go. i'm quite glad i did. it's breezy and funny and i do think that alice is a great character that i look forward to spending more time with. bonus canadian points.
I've long since come to terms with the fact that I'm a pedant, so let me start off by being as pedantic as possible: this isn't really a novel, despite what the cover and marketing say. It's a collection of short stories with some characters in common between the different sections, and a very very thin frame story connecting them. So maybe that's a bit more novelistic than, say, Dubliners, but still, this is a collection of short stories and I'm sticking to my guns on that. I point this out not to strengthen my application to join the formalism police (although seriously, guys, you should totally hire me) but because it points to my central dissatisfaction with the book, which is that all the conflict is raised and then resolved in the space of about twenty, thirty pages, and when you read the sections one after another, the structure animating each of them starts to look really the same: character is in a pretty bad, miserable place. Something happens that they hope will change their circumstances for the better, or that they fear will change their circumstances for the worse. After a bit of hemming and hawing, it turns out very little will change, and they're back to basically the same bad, miserable place. Above all of this is the specter of the newspaper's failing -- sorry, I assume you've read the blurb and know this is a book about an English-language newspaper based in Rome that's vaguely patterned on the IHT, yes? -- which you could argue is what provides the overarching structure and progression from one story to the next. But going in, unless you have no instinct for plot and the economy you have to know that the paper's fucked and going out of business in the last chapter. So there's little drama to be wrung out of this. This would be forgiveable -- what's a little repetition in a debut novel's thematics? -- if it wasn't all so miseryguts. First story: washed-up foreign correspondent is a failure as a parent, tries to lie his way to a cover story but instead gets cut loose. Last story: ineffectual publisher unhappily has to fire everybody, and his beloved dog gets killed. In between, we have a lot of adultery, people being afraid to cut their losses or cutting them way too soon, incredibly cruel acts of revenge, and people failing their way through their lives. For the most part, these are not appealing people to read about, and sliding in just long enough to see the world walk all over them but not long enough to develop a humanistic affection for them, threatens to turn the book into so much misery tourism. In theory, the antidote to all of this would be the news: journalism's a proud profession, for all its troubles, and flawed people making themselves unhappy while doing a public service would make for a good story. But this doesn't quite come off, because Rachman's almost too eager to make the newspaper's coverage irrelevant; they're being pushed out by the 24 hour news channels and on-demand news on the internet (the newspaper doesn't even have a website), and they're stuck trying to eke out their survival by selling pointless profiles and warmed-over content to a dwindling subscriber base. If we're not in Myth of Sisyphus territory -- every day, you must push out a edition at great effort only to have to do it again tomorrow, with no lasting effect or any value to the labor at all -- at least we're pretty damn close. For all that, these are flaws that are easy to overlook when you're just barreling through what's a short, tightly-written book. The prose is supple, a few of the characters really are pretty appealing, and the story told in the short excerpts between chapters, of a rich man who's let a woman he loves slip away and builds the newspaper -- and an art collection -- as a monument to her, is poignant and well-written. That's the novel I wanted to read, not just lingering over the fallout as the monument inevitably crumbles away to nothing. If that same balance had been struck in the main body of the book, setting up some value and dignity for the characters to give meaning to their sadness and failures, I'd be writing a different review entirely.
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I liked this book a lot. It is interesting, and now I understand a lot more about China.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Murat Açıköğretim Yayınları
Cassandra Clare did it again! (sigh) It's not often that a book series can go 5+ books and still have me hooked. I super-loved the (nearly) happily-ever-after ending. But I think that comes from my great displeasure from the previous book, City of Fallen Angels, ending. I was smiling and gently closing the book at midnight last night, where, with CoFA, I was yelling and throwing the book across the room. :) I loved that we got to know some of the characters better. I loved the mystery of these said characters, trying to figure out if they were for-real or not. The Clary/Jace relationship that I've grown to love was there, strained, but there. Greatly pleased with book 5. Bring on number 6!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Post Yayınları
Bowen MacRieve the werewolf and Mariketa the Awaited of the House of Witches. This one actually made me wince in pain at some of the preposterous twists the story took just to keep it going. It almost reminded me of an 80's soap opera, where each episode had to reveal some even-more-outstanding plot device. Here we continually find love and repudiate it, amidst such things as terrorist vampires, exploding airplanes, resurrected zombie first-love girlfriends, and epic battles with ex-goddesses. Did I mention the alternate reality? Or the apple orchard? (Actually, that was my favorite part.) But you know, despite my apparent harsh criticism, I still read it, and it still made me smile and even laugh in spots. So there!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Martı Genç
There are many elements of this book that I really, really like. Military justice, courtroom drama, terrorism, faith, and redemption are all present in this well-written, intriguing story. As the first book in Brown's Navy Justice series, it's not surprising that the detailing in the story feels a bit immature though. Still a great story. The only reason I'm not giving this one five stars is that lack of detail. Specifically, the details surrounding the court case involving the three officers accused of terrorist acts seemed to be quite sparse. Since this is really the heart of the story, I would have expected more focus on that court case and less on some of the other less important aspects. I'm definitely going to have to check out the other books in Brown's Navy Justice series.
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