Meg Hicks itibaren Nebel, Germany

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2018-10-17 07:41

Kimliksiz - Selvi Atıcı TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nemesis Kitap

Synopsis from Google Books: Name: Anna Christie Age: Very, very early thirties Marital status: Living with boyfriend Sex: It's been a while. Maybe six weeks? Career: Crafting sparkling features for magazine Casual Chic such as 'Man Boobs: Why No Marriage is Safe' Current dilemma: What to do when your much loved boyfriend of ten years gets down on one knee and pops the question you've been secretly dreading? Options: Stick - say yes, jump on the marriage bandwagon, accept that babies are now standard issue and always wonder if the grass is greener ... OR Twist - walk away, move onto your best friend's sofa, pine for your ex but perk up once sexy and seemingly perfect Harry comes breezing into your life... Hilarious, romantic and painfully honest, Stick or Twist proves that sometimes the most unlikely man turns out to be the One. This is Eleanor Moran's first novel, where she introduces us to Anna, a commitment-phobe 30-something, who runs when her boyfriend of 10 years proposes to her. She thinks she is clean and dry until her magazine asks her to prepare a piece on weddings. She is thrown into the deep end, planning a glitzy event, meeting couples about to tie the knot, and attempting to stay ahead of her colleague, who is all about marriage and babies. Through this event she meets Harry, a gorgeous photographer, several years her junior and tries a relationship with him while she attempts to piece her life together. However, she has told one-too-many lies and they all come out at once, leaving her once again scrabbling to pick up the pieces. She forms unlikely friendships and finds love with an unlikely soul... To be honest, I didn't really enjoy this book. It was just mediocre chick-lit. It wasn't particularly grabbing and fairly predictible. There wasn't anything original or outstanding about the storyline, it was just another bog-standard female fiction book. I wasn't overly impressed with the characters. None of them held my interest, least of all Anna, who was just a compulsive liar. I didn't really feel sympathy for her. In fact I didn't feel sympathy for any of the characters. I was glad when I had finished the book, purely because it was over. There really wasn't anything special about the book, which is a shame. Although not a dire book, it just didn't jump out and hold my attention. 6/10

2018-10-17 11:41

Hazreti Yunus-Belkıs İbrahimhakkıoğlu TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk

In Poser, Clare Dederer tells the story of her life with her yoga practice as a frame. Each chapter is named for a yoga pose, and by explaining that pose - the mechanics of the movements, the challenges she faces while trying to master each pose, the history of yoga itself - she adds a new layer of depth and understanding to her own experiences. At first glance, you might thing such a device would become tiresome after four of five chapters, never mind twenty-three, but you'd be wrong. This book works. The concept works. It helps that Clare is funny and self-deprecating, and reminded me so much of myself and the people I know. She is an educated and self-aware writer living in Seattle, whose parents' strange marriage and separation still affects her ideas about family and children, even as she starts and has her own. The theme of this book is perfection - Clare seems convinced that if she can just do everything right enough, good enough, then she'll never have to worry about her family falling apart again. Of course, that's a silly idea, and of course I have been guilty of the exact same thing. Knowing the futility of something doesn't mean you don't try to do it anyway. While we get a lot about Clare's family history and details about her life as she moves through it, her yoga practice is just as central to the book's plot. We see Clare's attitude towards yoga change and evolve over the years. While she originally begins practicing yoga as a way to heal her aching back, she soon finds that she is competitive about yoga - she wants to do all the poses perfectly, all the time. She is more focused on the physical expression of yoga than the mental, emotional or spiritual aspects. This was my yoga MO: sheer determination. I would do it. No matter what. I was willing to make a supreme effort. Not all poses lent themselves to effort, but the standing poses did. Somehow I couldn't see the irony of grinding my way toward freedom... It would be a long time before I could entertain the notion that maybe my yoga would improve if I didn't try so hard, and a longer time still before I began to question why my yoga needed to improve at all. When I read that passage, I couldn't help but laugh. I know that I'm guilty of this same drive - in class, I often look with envy at people who are stronger, more flexible, more centered than myself. Often, if I fall out of a balance pose I try and jump back into it as quickly as I can, without focusing on my breathing or taking my time. One of the things I love about yoga is that it is called a "practice." Even the gurus, people who have been doing yoga for decades, talk about their practice and what they've learned lately on the mat. Because in yoga, there is no moment when you're done, when you've mastered the art. You're always practicing, always discovering something new about yourself through the poses. In the chapter "Vinyasa," Clare talks about her struggles with chaturanga - a moving pose where you begin in plank and then lower your body, straight and strong, to hover at the ground - kind of like the down part of a push up. Clare is convinced she cannot and will not ever master this pose. I can't, I can't, I can't, I told myself. What happens when you tell yourself that you can't do something that you are asked to do over and over every day?... The fact was, after all those down-on-my-knees chaturangas, my triceps were actually hard. The fact was, I was strong. But it happens all the time: We make decisions about ourselves and our lives that are not based on fact. I love that last line and again - guilty as charged. I find in yoga - and in life - that when I free myself of all expectations I'm capable of more than I ever imagined. An excellent lesson to remember. If you like to read about yoga, writers, marriage or motherhood, then I recommend Poser. It's got a little of everything and a lot of heart, making it my favorite kind of book. Namaste, y'all!

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