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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Sel Yayıncılık
Despite giving this book 3 stars, I really enjoyed it. The reason I gave it 3 stars is because I actually didn't finish it; after awhile the stories became a little repetitious. That being said, I really did enjoy the story and was engrossed in how people lived during WWII. I can't believe the courage that some of these people had! I think my generation could learn many things from these people who sacrificed so much for family, friends, and above all, country. While I was reading the book I couldn't help but compare many of the situations to modern day and how selfishness, lack of commitment, and lack of patriotism seem to loom in our society. There were many stories that I felt I could apply to my own life to make me a better person. I do look forward to sitting down one day to continue reading these stories. It is a good book to read while reading other books because it is filled with individual stories.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Güneş Tıp Kitabevleri
Salman Rushdie is one of those authors I've always heard of but never really got around to reading. I remember buying this on a whim around two years ago. I think the only reason I bought this back then was that I saw 'Akbar the Great', 'Niccolò Machiavelli' and 'Florence' in the synopsis at the back of the book. Why I didn't read this until now, I have no idea. Anyway, it's been some time since I read a book that had me stopping at the end of almost every chapter. Not because the writing was boring or crap (on the contrary, I find Rushdie's style of writing really gorgeous) but because I felt like my breath was slowly slipping away from me and I needed to comprehend what just happened at the end of every chapter. I also loved how Rushdie used history to create an alternate world where he pretty much blurred actual history from his own creation. While reading The Enchantress of Florence, I thought I was in a long, long lucid dream (but I'm not actually participating in the dream) that spanned generations, continents and kingdoms. I don't think it's as mind-blowing as it could probably be but I thought the book was wonderful and indulgent. I would've rated this 5 stars but the ending was too rushed and it made me feel like I've been abruptly woken up from a dream. (P.S. After reading the book, I was lying down in my bed for about half an hour thinking about everything that has happened and what could have happened after the ending.)
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Destek Yayınları
Borrowing from Amazon: Amazon.com In honor of the United Nations-sponsored International Year of the Family in 1994, award-winning photojournalist Peter Menzel brought together 16 of the world's leading photographers to create a visual portrait of life in 30 nations. Material World tackles its wide subject by zooming in, allowing one household to represent an entire nation. Photographers spent one week living with a "statistically average" family in each country, learning about their work, their attitudes toward their possessions, and their hopes for the future. Then a "big picture" shot of the family was taken outside the dwelling, surrounded by all their (many or few) material goods. The book provides sidebars offering statistics and a brief history for each country, as well as personal notes from the photographers about their experiences. But it is the "big pictures" that tell most of the story. In one, a British family pauses before a meal of tea and crumpets under a cloudy sky. In another, wary Bosnians sit beside mattresses used as sniper barricades. A Malian family composed of a husband, his two wives, and their children rests before a few cooking and washing implements in golden afternoon light. Material World is a lesson in economics and geography, reminding us of the world's inequities, but also of humanity's common threads. An engrossing, enlightening book. --Maria Dolan
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İthaki Yayınları
Normally a comic book based directly after a film sends me running away screaming. The film won a Golden Globe last year, and this comic deserves at least some nominations for serious awards in comics this year. The imagery is often gruesome---especially the very real photographs included at the end---so I wouldn't suggest this to just anyone. But for any readers questioning the purposes of war will find this fascinating, gripping and really powerful.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Zafer Yayınları
Never thought I would call a book enchanting but this is so enchanting. I won this from Goodreads, so was free and I just loved it. The main character is Eleonora Cohen, a seven year old savant born a time of great upheaveal. Did she change the out come of history? The novel begins in 1877 at her birth and takes us through the history of some events in the Ottoman Empire. The author, Michael David Lukas ends the eplogue with this sentence, "For the stones in the river of history look different depending on where you stand." This has become one of my favorite statements. I look forward to more from this exciting new author.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Meinl
Wow. This book was written at the height of the housing bubble. As such, many of its assertions are downright laughable. For example, the author claims anyone can (and should) get a home loan, even if you have bad credit and no money for a down payment. Also, the author reasons that the average income of homeowners is greater than that of renters; therefore, if you want a higher income, buy a home. Are you kidding me!?! Correlation is not causation. Certainly there were a few good principles in this book (which are outlined in it's parent the Automatic Millionaire), but many of the assertions and assumptions were so ridiculous, I must recommend not reading this book. Disclosure: I must admit I did not completely finish the book; it was just too painful.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yabancı Yayınevi
Original Read: 8/19/2011 Read on 2/7/14 for the 2014 Re-Romancing the Faves Challenge. I still love this book. What can I say? I'm a sucker for long lost love and hot firemen! Still anxiously awaiting Wyn and Maddie's story.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Genç Hayat Yayınları
these books are entertaining and a quick read. the mysteries aren't terribly complex, but they do offer some intriguing twists and turns to keep you reading! the bonus is that each book offers a handful if yummy-sounding dessert recipes. if you like to cook/bake/eat (lol), then that's just another reason to pick up these books! I've already got the next 2 on hold at the library and I can't wait to see what kind of shenanigans Hannah gets herself into next. :)
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nesil Çocuk Yayınları
I'm so so glad that I'm crystal clear on Naipaul's unwavering, eternal hatred for all colored peoples, all marginalized people around the world. His hatred and disgust for himself and the communities he is loosely tied to truly never ever withers. Yes, Africa's doomed, Asia is doomed, let's bleach our skin and drink tea with the blue eyed Europeans, and thank you Naipaul for writing paragraph long sentences and describing the rivers and trees of Africa with simultaneous greater love, respect, wonder, and hate than Sir Joseph Conrad ever could have done.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Mayıs Yayınları
So far, Vimes is the shit. More to follow as I read this one. --- Finished! This is the first full book I've read by Terry Pratchett, and it was awesome. I immediately moved on to another Discworld book about Vimes and The Watch. If you like unique characters and comedy in your books, then check this one out. It even makes politics bearable, which is quite a feat in and of itself. Jingo had me up until the wee hours of the morning and heading into work late because it was such a fun read.
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