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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ceylan Yayınları
As a 1970s college grad, I enjoyed this trip down memory lane. It's set in a college town near Sacramento (hint: the author spent time at UC Davis) where disparate types rent rooms in a large house. It's the story of how they reveal their secrets to each other and their landlords. The seventies details such as the food coop and the casual hitch-hiking are fun to revisit. The downside to this book, as in many other Diane Johnson books, is the ending that climaxes with a cinematic crash. You ask yourself, is this ending really necessary for a book which offers such insightful small details for most of its length?
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Haberci Basın Yayın
This book provided a completely different viewpoint to high school life. Girls often get caught up in the drama and stress of guys. But this book is the story of girl who have sworn off dating for the rest of their high school years. Penny Lane (named after the Beatles Song) creates the Lonely Hearts Club to get over a recent heartbreak. Soon the club expands and many, many girls join. Through the book the girls learn the value of friendship and that falling in love is okay as long as you don't lose yourself.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Uzman Kariyer Yayınları
Such a great story of adventure and survival, and a surprising amount of relevant commentary as well.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ka Kitap
Informative about what happens to trash and recycling for kids. Good illustrations of landfills to motivate reducing, reusing & recycling.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kaknüs Yayınları
Do NOT read this book. Seriously, it sucked so badly. I read the whole thing because I hate giving up and I was in Italy on a train and I needed something to read. Put yourself in Italy on a train, but do not leave yourself alone with this shitty book.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: E Yayınları
street-level account of poverty from a man who lived it. Orwell is my hero.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: A. E. Yayıncılık
The plot summary may make it look like porn but, if so, it's the most thoughtful, affecting porn I've ever read.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kodlab Yayınları
Found this one at a Salvation Army! I had never read anything by Ian McEwen, but had seen his name so much, I knew he had to be good. Have since read and enjoyed several more of his. This is a novel about a precocious young girl, a writer, and about novels themselves and how their endings are shaped. The narrative follows the girl who witnesses an exchange between her sister and a friend that the girl, in her immaturity, misinterprets. This sets off a chain of events that affects the main characters for the rest of their lives. The themes are of innocence, youth, family, war, shame, guilt, consequences, atonement, and what we as readers want to read or not read. It's not too long, and brilliantly written. In this novel I was reminded that characters are not real, they're creations and that in a way the writer is like God in that he controls their fate. There was one passage of this book that detailed the events of one of the main characters and his involvement in a war (Dunkirk invasion of 1940 to be exact) and a particular battle...I think it was meant to lend legitimacy to the historical fiction aspect of this novel. Although it was likely brilliantly researched, it was to me, well, boring. It didn't seem to mesh with the other passages. I did manage to get through it, but I don't think I absorbed much of that particular passage.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları
This is a long, meandering book with not much plot to speak of, but it does a wonderful and convincing job of creating a full and rich world, and placing well-realized and complex characters within it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Helene Mia
When I heard Amy Seidl interviewed on NPR, I knew I wanted to read her positive take on the issue of climate change which is usually labeled "Global Warming". Although the term is correct, the fear and dispair that Global Warming has come to represent doesn't seem so insurmountable when it is called climate change, a description of a period that has been occured many times in the past. Seidl points out that even if we were to immediately cease our carbon emissions, we would still face climate change. With this realistic approach she assures us that we can adapt and persist and she gives us scientific research as well as examples of adaptive strategies that others are experimenting with and adopting. This means changing! Another scary word for some but one we can soften by accepting the fact that we are in the midst of climate change due to our carbon complicity. Resources that are renewable are available and as our conscience begins to motivate more of us to change our behaviors others will transition also. Seidl reminds us: "......mitigation moves at the speed of politics while adaptatin moves at te speed of events." "Cultural transitions take time because core values are deep-seated. The small but growing new culture seeks a profound shift in values. It seeks a path that breaks with consumption and leads to a prudent use of resources that meet our needs while preserving life on Earth." "There is no doubt that actions based in self-reliance and in ideas about sufficiency will not alone change the world. Certainly not during the lifetimes of the people living today. Yet they make measurable differences in our lives, in our identity , and in the values we develop in others. The world is tranitioning.....The Great Turning is our to enact." A most inspiring read and a motivator to do more.
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