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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları
My first experience with Tiffany Stained Glass was about seven years ago. My sister and I were going to garage sales around the Atlanta area and happened across an unopened box. Inside of the box was a beautiful, dome-shaped hanging lampshade... and the name on the box said it was Tiffany style. Now, granted, it was not one of Clara's famous designs, but it made me curious. You see, up until this point my experience with the Tiffany name was solely through a famous movie and the idea of a beautiful blue box with a white ribbon. Then we happened across this lamp. Last summer I visited New York for the first time. I saw the tasteful, elegant facade of the famous Tiffany store, but still - the image of that lamp springs to my mind anytime I see the Tiffany name now. So it was only natural that I would be drawn to this book. I will be honest, however. I did no research, and until I read this book I had no idea that the Tiffany behind the lamps was the son of "Tiffany & Co." What I also had no idea of was the hard work of the unmarried women, and just how little recognition they received at the time. Vreeland's descriptions of Clara's work, among others, was gorgeous. I could see the designs in my minds eye, I could imagine the images being described and felt them coming to life. My biggest complaint about this book is the lack of connection I felt to Clara. I don't know if that lack of connection came from the writing, or the fact that so much information is packed into this book. I feel as if I was stuck between a rock and a hard place, having to make a choice between falling for the story or falling for the details. I was lured by the lushness of the detail, so I think that it was inevitable that I was unable to connect to Clara. In spite of that, I will recommend this book - because I have no doubt that others will find Clara and her story mesmerizing, and because this story is one that needed to be told. I will not feel silly for including in the picture of Audrey Hepburn and blue boxes, the gorgeous styling of Tiffany Stained Glass. It has a rich history and deserves to be remembered.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık
I struggled with my rating on this one. It seems sad to give only 1 star to what feels like an author's greatest effort to date. And I did end up liking one of the characters a little. Oh well. Luckily, this book improved after the first 250 dreadful pages. But isn't that a long time to wait for improvement? See my earlier comment for the defects of the book's Part One (takes place in 1947). Part two, set three years earlier, is certainly less boring, but only because the war was still on, not because the plot or characters became more interesting. I continued to get the impression that the characters didn't inhabit their environment so much as they were transported there against their will. For all her mentions of ration books, warning sirens, etc., Waters utterly fails to make 1944 London come alive. Furthermore, the prose is not strong. The only bold images were things that need no embellishment to be vivid - bombs, abortion, hemorrhage. While more readable than Part One, Part Two still fell short of interesting, and Part Three, set in 1941 and only about 30 pages long, was sloppy and predictable.
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Tiffany Aching comes from a long line of Aching people. She has always known she was going to be a witch. Now her little brother is missing, and only Tiffany, armed with an iron frying pan, stands between the evil fairy Queen and her world. With some help from the Nac Mac Feegle, six-inch high blue men in kilts, who love drinking and fighting.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları
A sarcastic look at the American Revolution. Highly reccomended.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hilal Ajans
I would not have finished this book had it not been a group read. It started off OK, and the story is an intriguing one. But the author used trite, cliche ridden prose that was really hard to accept. She belabored descriptions, seemingly only to fill pages. There were more generations than seemed necessary to tell the story, and she jumped around too frequently. It's really too bad, because the nucleus of the story was quite good.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Oğlak Yayıncılık
I'm really enjoying Philipps Gregory's books right now. I know they are historical fiction and very loosely based on history, but they are interesting, compelling reads and they really do grab your attention. And while they are loosely based, it's also interesting to read about some aspects of the Tudor history (and then her interpretation of events) and not be bored to tears, as I usually am about anything slightly historical.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegasus Yayınları
So interesting!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Editör Yayınları
This historical text reads like a dry PhD dissertation published before someone with wit could get a hold of it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kartezyen Yayınları
I really loved this book. But a large part of that love stemmed from nodding knowingly about, for example, the funeral scene in Heathers, text-based games on early computers, and the dialogue in WarGames. Why is this possibly marked YA?! Just because it has a teenage protagonist? I can't imagine that anyone born outside, say, 1960-1980 would be remotely interested in it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hayykitap
What can I say... it's a classic, but hate the idea of "Big Brother."
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Martı Yayınları
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