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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları
Matthieu Ricard's spiritual journey to Buddhism and living in Nepal but also a scientific reflection on the benefits of meditation and a discussion of happiness.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Optimist Yayın Dağıtım
I'm a sucker for this quirky reinvention of Persuasion.
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It was OK.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Denizler Kitabevi
Informational Book Bibliography: Civil War- This looks like a remarkable book that actually contains pieces of letters, journals, speeches, etc, from those involved in the Civil war. Most of the accounts are from wives, slaves, farmers, and foot soldiers. This is an account of the war from their perspective.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Everest Yayınları
I wasn't at all interested in reading this book when it was given to me, but I'm so glad I did!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Aras Yayıncılık
Mi segundo libro de Conrad. Me está costando mucho más que el primero y sin embargo, el lenguaje, exceptuando lo relacionado con la marinería, esm ucho más sencillo y la historia que cuenta es mucho más bonita, entretenida y aventurera. Quizá no era lectura para la playa. Aun así, me gusta. Algo densa paaa mi disfrute.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Sesenta
I like this so far--don't absolutely love it, but it's good end-of-the-school-year pleasure reading. I think they just made a movie of this.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık
Set in San Francisco, this novel held some historical fascination for me. I thought that Karen Fowler, the author, did an excellent job calling out the prejudices and expectations women rarely face today. Known as a liberal city today, it is hard to imagine SF as a place where intolerance is commonplace. There were some holes left in the story, such as what happens to Mrs. Pleasant and what her story really is. But I could relate to Lizzie's disconnection from a changing society in which a single woman in her 30's is an "old maid" and ambition and curiosity in social circles must be tread upon lightly or endure being outcast. The title, Sister Noon, is not explained until over halfway through the novel and even then, it goes no further. It seems to spur Lizzie into making some decisions about her life but does not make her or Jenny any more compelling in the context of the story.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İsam Yayınları
Before I even begin to say anything critical about Mockingjay, I must mention that you absolutely MUST read this series. It is difficult to look objectively at a specific book in a series when the series itself is so fantastic, but I will try my best. I guess, when everything is boiled down, Mockingjay is my least favorite of the three books, because it feels the least like The Hunger Games. The writing is different here, for some reason; the sentences have gotten choppier and less imaginative when describing action. There was one scene in the Capitol where the action, while interesting, was written so flatly that I found it difficult to watch unfold in my mind, something that was second-nature with the action scenes in the previous two books. And it seemed like every time the action would start to build up, something would happen to Katniss and she’d be back in a hospital room, and we’d have to piece together what happened through broken conversations with Haymitch or Plutarch. And Katniss’s detachment from the action really infuriated me, to the point of having to take breaks from the book itself. This is one of the big differences between Mockingjay and the other two books; the action is just told to you. In The Hunger Games we felt like we were watching the Games as they happened (albeit, through Katniss’s eyes only) and everything Katniss knew, or was feeling, we felt too. The same goes for Catching Fire, as even internally we knew what Katniss was going through. Now Katniss herself doesn’t even know what is going on, so what does that leave for the reader? While reading the first two books, my reactions were more anticipatory (“oh my god”s and “no way”s) because I was so invested in the action. But for Mockingjay, my reactions were reduced to “is this really happening?”s and “are you serious?”s, which isn’t really a good sign. The action was there, for sure, but it was happening so unbelievably that you felt, for the first time, that this was something that takes place in the distant and unthinkable future. But the biggest problem I had with Mockingjay was the treatment of the characters, both in life and in death. There were deaths to beloved characters that were just written off as nothing, and if you even so much as blinked you would never have known they died. I would rather have had a fourth book in the series instead of everything being crammed into Mockingjay. Even the deaths of characters we had just met this book were written off as if they never had any significance to the story, even though they were arguably just as important to the tributes killed during any of the Games. Even characters that didn’t die were reduced to mutt-like caricatures of their former selves, leaving the impression that everybody has been changed for the worse, even given their individual circumstances and where they end up. Katniss, our heroine herself, was nothing but a puppet the entire book. Even when she thought she was in control, she wasn’t, which made her even more frustrating than she actually was. She is so easily influenced by everybody else that, by the end of Mockingjay, she was just completely empty, going through the motions of being a human being. And while I am pretty sure this was intentional on the part of Suzanne Collins, there was something so dishearteningly unlovable about Katniss throughout this entire book, you have to wonder why both Gale and Peeta were even still pursuing her. Speaking of Peeta, he was easily one of my favorite characters throughout the series, so I was completely put-off by the way he was handled in Mockingjay. Without giving anything away, I will just say “ugh” and leave it at that. Even the ending of the book, something I had been waiting for, just kind of happened. He just wasn’t the same “boy with the bread” anymore. But, aside from the writing and the lackluster handling of non-Katniss characters, I would say that Mockingjay was actually a rather compelling story. The premise was great and exactly what we had been building up to, and I really think this book lends itself to a movie better than the other two. If anything, Mockingjay made me appreciate Catching Fire more than I originally had, which is always a good thing. But my own steady decline in enjoyment from the beginning of The Hunger Games to the end of Mockingjay doesn’t make me want to recommend the series any less. I wasn’t looking for the nice ending, and I certainly was not expecting it, after everything that had happened, but even a pessimistic ending needs some coherency. I just, don’t know. The end of the book was a complete trip, and I don’t think my mind has yet recovered. From a certain character’s death onward I don’t think I was actually reading the book consciously; it was more of a suspended disbelief, like there were going to be more pages, or another book to follow, instead of everything just ending. If you haven’t read The Hunger Games (the series, not the book), please do so.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Koridor Yayıncılık
** spoiler alert ** This is a continuation of the story about William Marshall from the book The Greatest Knight. It tells about the trials and tribulation Marshall faces during King John's rain in the late 1100's into the early 1200's. He definitely confides in his wife in many political issues, and they often agree, until King John asks for one of their sons, and then another. It pushes them apart, but they still have passion for each other and produce numerous kids. Marshall fights for the King, and also gives his support to King Phillip of France which puts Marshall in a bad spot with King John. He starts losing his spot at court and is kept on a tight leash as his wife is away in Ireland. Marshall also struggles with his eldest son, Will. Will just wants his dad to stand up to the king, and Marshall tries to explain to him that you can't just do that. It is all a game and has to be played to the king's liking and to your advantage. Unfortunately, as William comes back into favor with King John, John passes and his very young son is now the King. While on his death bed, John says Marshall is to be his son's governor. It is not a title Marshall really wants, and it puts a great strain on him. Marshall is no longer the young man he once was. He is into his 70's and comes to great stomach pain. He keeps his problem to become a Templar and Isabelle is just heart broken. Isabelle is there as Marshall finally passes to a far better place.
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