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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İskenderiye Yayınları
Definitely for a younger audience, but a full narrative. The main character learns throughout the story and and puts those lessons to work. She learns her parents are people who had lives before her. That her grandfather is a sage. That her brother isn't as bad as he seems. The book sets up a town and family and a Sherlock Holmes loving girl sleuth that will carry on to other books in the series. And Stephen King gave it his approval so how can you go wrong. A fast read for an adult - not completely a waste of time. An excellent read for a tween/early teen girl.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Kitap
If you like Westerns, this is a good one. This is my first by Parker. I will try some more of his.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Metis Yayınları
4.5 stars "Things break all the time. Glass, and dishes, and fingernails... You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break... Promises break. Hearts break." This story broke my heart, it touched me, made me angry, made me cry & made me think. We follow the O'Keefe family, and gain rare insight into a family's daily struggle to cope with life with a child with a serious medical condition. The story is narrated alternatively by parents Charlotte & Sean, daughter Amelia & Charlotte's best friend & obstetrician Piper Reece & each chapter is addressed to Willow, a child born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta. This is a condition with devastating effects, hundreds of broken bones over a lifetime & an immeasurable physical, emotional & financial toll on a family. After a terrible series of events, Charlotte files a wrongful birth lawsuit against her obstetrician in the hope that a settlement will provide Willow with a better life. The decision tears a family apart, a marriage disintegrates, a friendship is destroyed and Amelia becomes yet another casualty; a child overlooked. I admired Charlotte for her resilience, her strength & determination, her willingness to risk all, in the fight to give one child a better life but these were also the reasons I hated her. I hated her preoccupation with protecting Willow at the expense of her eldest daughter, her inability to see Amelia spiralling out of control broke my heart. And most of all I hated the fact that the one Charlotte was trying to protect was the one left with more hurt than she deserved. I cried reading 6 year old Willow's words "I'm not the kind of kid anyone wants." "Nobody keeps things that get broken. Sooner or later, they get thrown away." There were a few negatives in this story for me, issues that warrant a mention - On a whole this story resonated with truth & sincerity; having children with a bleeding disorder requiring frequent hospitalisation, some of the circumstances described in this story were from the pages of our own family book. In saying that, the events surrounding Willow's hospitalisation in Florida were ridiculously far-fetched. The subplot involving Charlotte's lawyer wasn't particularly believable. And lastly ... I loathed the ending; it seemed contrived & insincere. It defied belief. I kept turning the pages hoping to find the real ending. A small detraction in the overall emotional investment, but there nonetheless. An emotionally riveting and profoundly moving story. Picoult brings us another impressively researched novel, exploring relationships, the price a mother is willing to pay to protect her child & the fragility of life.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Anı Yayıncılık
The story of Buffalo is gripping and sad. Mark Goldman presents a sometimes astonishingly detailed account of the city's birth, rise, fall, and current state of depressed limbo. While the extent of Goldman's research is clear, his insight is lacking at times; he occasionally falls into the rhetorical potholes of his favored city: blind, boosterish optimism and a clumsy handling of the city's racial issues. That said, the story of Buffalo remains a good read and I would recommend it to anyone who (mistakenly) believes they have the Queen City pegged.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Destek Medya Yayınları
'Hi, I'm Ariel Levy with the six o'clock news. Coming up: Shock and awe! Are your friends and daughters turning into bimbos? And next: Lesbians idolizing men so much that they are having sex changes! Stay tuned.' Levy's entire book operates like a sort of local news channel, with strategic interviews that seek to not only confirm but exaggerate your worst fears. Every single interview she includes features an often extreme example of someone who is damaged or sexually unhealthy that she then uses as a sort of benchmark. The book would be deeply flawed but passable if that were the only problem. She did touch several times on the damaging effects of women putting down and/or rejecting femininity to get ahead in a man's world. But Levy makes only a smattering of good points throughout—the rest is saturated with offensive transphobia, the erasure of women of color and a big heaping plate of slut-shaming—not to mention a generalized disconnect with most of the cultures she writes about. The anti-trans chapter was most troubling. She relegates trans men to the status of mere trend followers who were unhappy with being female due to various forms of sexism (rather than the actual reason of identifying as male). She 'confirms' this by interviewing a small subset of people who conform to her beliefs, rather than a cross section of the lesbian and trans communities. Her rhetoric in terms of queer women in general is completely out of touch and offensive. Levy treats both the trans and lesbian population as if they were dominant groups with significant power, describing San Franscisco lesbians as 'roam[ing] the streets like they own the place,' thus cementing her work as one of victim-blaming and shaming. Levy's slut-shaming is infuriating nearly to the point of comedy as she desperately claims the title of 'feminist' throughout her book while regularly calling other women bimbos and reducing them to their long fingernails and large breasts. She writes descriptions of every woman she sees as being complicit in the objectification of women (i.e. the strippers, sex workers, etc. she encounters) in completely visual, animalistic terms: 'A tall, rock-hard woman in jeans and heels with a long, silky ponytail and a motherlode of cleavage got on with her friend, who looked more garden-variety blonde human female. The hot one applied another layer of lip gloss, licked her white teeth, and then bared them.' Levy's work is also distinctly white-centric. The first tip-off: 'Then a song Cope liked came on the radio inside the hotel and she started doing that dance you sometimes see in rap videos, the one where women shake their butts so fast they seem to blur.' Throughout the book, the majority of feminists whose work she discusses—if not all—are white. Dozens upon dozens of intelligent women of color have said many brilliant, essential things about sex positivity and pornography, but Levy left them out. She didn't discuss the divergence between white women fighting to be seen as sexual beings while women of color had been abused as such for hundreds of years, which is strongly relevant to the conversation. The following quote is in reference to Caitlin Moran but applies here as well: 'A racist woman is not a feminist; she doesn’t care about helping women, just the women who look like her and can buy the same things she can. A transphobic woman is not a feminist; she is overly concerned with policing the bodies and expressions of others. A woman against reproductive rights — to use bell hook’s own example, and an issue close to your heart — is not a feminist; she prioritizes her dogma or her disgust over the bodies of others. An ableist woman is not a feminist; she holds some Platonic ideal of what a physically or mentally “whole” person should be and tries to force the world to fit inside it.' —An Open Letter to Caitlin Moran by Nyux
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Adeda Yayıncılık
Best read of the summer!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: TimberTones
It has been a long time since I read this book in my early twenties. I would like to re-read it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Redhouse Kidz Yayınları
Read it after meeting Orwell; still remember loving the satire...feels like a bajillion years ago...oh, yeah, it was!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yargı Yayınevi
Just listened to this on CD. It was tough - full of brutality but also devotion and self-sacrifice. Really makes one realize how difficult life is for women in a fundamentalist Muslim setting... as if we had any doubts.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ses Müzik Aletleri
My friend Ann-marie gave this one 5 stars. Very enjoyable. Did a power read for book club and it was delightful. Fast read - loved the voice of the book. Wish there was just a little bit more about the Potato Peel Pie. :)
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