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A little visit to the "new-ish" sod in the form of a beach read. I was a little disappointed that the American characters still sounded Irish because of their word choices and rhythm - but overall it was the usual good story telling of Maeve Binchy. Nan (my 87 y.o grandmother in law) borrowed the signed copy my mother gave me off my shelf in May, and when she returned it I thought it'd be good to read to chat with her about. I do hate and have little patience for infidelity - but it's fun how her books weave together a community and how they relate as this does to Quentins...
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
I read this book when I was put on Prozac because I wanted to learn everything I could and read as much as I could to understand depression. I wasn't expecting to fall in love with this book. I loved this book and I recommend anyone and everyone to read it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları
** spoiler alert ** This book was riveting. The story was so well crafted and the characters had so much depth. I would have given it five stars except for an inconsistency that bugged me through the whole story. Katsa, the heroine, refuses to be a wife or mother. In her society women are viewed as property (somewhat) and she sees marriage and motherhood as a loss of control and one's self. She vows never to marry so that no one will control her but her. However, as the story progresses she puts both the man she loves and the child she cares about above herself. She becomes connected to them in such a way that she is willing to sacrifice her own safety, comfort and desires to meet their needs. She gives them control of her heart and, essentially, if not literally, she becomes a wife and mother. I guess I kind of felt like there was a message being pushed on me as the reader that marriage is a corrupt institution that will cause you to lose your self and that commitment to another is synonymous with giving control to another. And, being happily married, I disagree and felt myself disagreeing through the whole story. So that made it a little less delightful for me.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Endemik Yayınları
The Book was OK, leaning towards good. Here's how. The basic premise of the book is the search for the Grail (yes, another one!). Of course all ideas are original, just that some are rather less original than others. Keeping snide remarks aside, the book does have its strong points, and one must give credit where it deserves. Kate Mosse has successfully managed to weave a yarn, stretching over more than 800 years, involving some rather exotic themes and preparing a broth that at times looks like overkill. The story revolves around Alais who, towards the beginning of the 13th century gets involved in the safekeeping of the Grail, and Alice, who in the early part of the 21st century, stumbles (literally!) across the same. While the plot might look convoluted to many if not most readers, it certainly does manage to hold attention for a majority of the book's 500+ pages. But there are times when the author's attention to detail just doesn't sell. Also, the fact that the story involves latent memory, and some really long-living characters doesn't help either. All said and done, I would have loved this book if it had: - been about 300-odd pages in length, - avoided the 800-year time-span OR at least not drawn (unneccesary)parallels in the characters in the two eras Be that as it may, the description of France of the 13th century is quite beautiful, and this is one aspect where the use of ten words instead of five (as the Mosse is sometimes prone to using) indeed does justice to the reading pleasure. Also, character development is good and coherent. The war scenes are also well-written and tempered. The weakest link - the love story of Alice. I was taken off-guard when it happened.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Klasik Yayınları
** spoiler alert ** for all bacigalupi tries, it's pretty obvious twg is written by a european guy. a lot of these plotlines and character tropes seem based off of stereotypes (chinese guy is a greedy backstabber, american businessmen are all corrupt, the japanese are porn addicts, or the porn themselves). the titular character only gets about 1/4th of the pagetime when she's by far the only interesting character in this novel (anderson is a douche, it's still unclear what she ever saw in him especially when he USED HER PROGRAMMING AGAINST HER and she just. doesn't recognize this despite her pointed anger at her other owners for mistreating her??). emiko's only desire throughout this entire novel is to live with other new people and though she doesn't get it at the end, the ~resolution~ of this plotline comes through implications in the epilogue that a guy may be able to reproduce. (like no thanks, emiko may be impressed and thrilled, but it only solves her problem going off the assumption that "oh yeah she's a woman she'd be thrilled with providing the dna for future generations of new people, kinda like being their mother!!" if he wanted to address her wants he could've, y'know, just gotten her to that new people village instead of given her some perverse desire to stick by the side of a dying man who saw her like a thing and would've abused her just as badly as her previous owners. all without having emiko even realize what was going on because bacigalupi wanted us to think anderson was "our good guy, he sees himself as her owner but he'd still be a NICE owner so it's different!!" nice.) regarding the writing itself: there's also a lot of telling without showing. he talks all the time about how people are starving yet he makes the literary choice to focus on characters that are relatively well-off so they're always eating anyway, THEY don't have to deal with the food problem so we hear all of it second-hand. (by the way why use the thai word for fish when you can just write "fish"? we get it, it's set in asia, okay.) idk honestly beyond that it just wasn't very engaging. this is a terrible review but i just wanted to get my thoughts out while they're still fresh.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Maya Kitap
One of the greatest books on the American Revolution that I've read. Fischer paints Washington as both man and hero, and contrasts leadership styles of the three armies who fought at Princeton and Trenton: the American, British and German Hessians.
I enjoyed the storyline, great beach reading. It did a fine job suspending my disbelief, but the end of this book was frustrating for me (I guess as a non-series reader). I expect a book to come to end when I read the last page. It needs to wrap itself up in some way, even if characters and larger plot lines continue throughout the series. I needed to be allowed to jump into another book not of this series once this was done. But I can't. The immediate, short term action literally continues into the next book. Fortunately I borrowed all three books in the series from a friend so Book 3 is at my disposal, but I am feeling forced here. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo did not have this problem.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık
This book completely caught me by surprise. I couldn't put it down... it tells the tale of Laurel, a young woman who was attacked while in college -- an attack that left quite an impression on her. Currently Laurel works for a homeless shelter. When one of her residents dies, her boss gives Laurel (an amateur photographer herself) a box of his photographs. Convinced he was somehow tied to a rich family, quite infamous in Laurel's hometown, she goes on a quest to learn everything she can about the man and his family. The book adds an extra layer as it weaves much The Great Gatsby lore into its own story.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Eolo
I devoured this like candy. Davis delineates a complex analysis of the work of the early blueswomen in relationship to gender and class issues in the African-American community in the decades following slavery. She grounds Ma Rainey's and Bessie Smith's songs and performances in historical context, considering their roots in the musical and socioeconomic history of slavery, as well as looking at ways in which they foreshadowed the political developments of the '60s and '70s. I could have done without the chapters on Billie Holiday. Davis' main argument about Holiday, that her banal love songs constitute social critique due to the subtleties of her vocal style, is groundless without a technical analysis of the music which Davis is unequipped to provide. She attempts to fill in the gaps with rapturous, schoolgirlish passages about Holiday's "genius." Oh well.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bağlam Yayınları
My all-time favorite book, besides Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History and of course the Bible.
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