Kristiana Wulan itibaren Provalija, Montenegro

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2018-10-29 21:40

Sıradan Bir Gün ve Diğer Oniki Komedi TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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Hemon is one of those crazy brilliant types who drives me nuts because I know no matter how hard I try, I will never be as brilliant myself—or brilliant at all, for that matter. A former Bosnian now living in Chicago, he learned English maybe 15 years ago, started writing in English, and oh, about three-four years later started seeing his stories in periodicals like the Paris Review. Naturally, he gets a lot of comparisons to Nabokov, a similar crazy genius able to write beautifully in multiple languages. I embarrassingly have yet to read Nabokov, but I've now read Hemon, and I imagine the same thing blows me away about him that would blow me away about Nabokov: It's not just that Hemon clearly has a larger vocabulary than my 30 years of speaking and listening to English has afforded, and it's not just that his weirdly, fascinatingly disjointed narrative about a semi-autobiographical protagonist Jozef Prenek is gripping and moving. No, what I can't get over is how (and I'm told Nabokov achieves a similar feat) precisely articulated Hemon's style is, how he has taken this language not innate in him and made it entirely his own—a feat most writers never achieve no matter what English they're writing in. Hemon writes sentences that, if you are an aspiring writer, will make you scratch your head and think to yourself, "how the hell did he DO that?" And if you are just a casual reader (bless you), his sentences will simply fill you with joy and remind you afresh of language's power to thrill and delight. Even if you aren't interested in a story that randomly criss-crosses through time, building a strange, meandering portrait of a gentle Bosnian who flees his native land before a terrible war breaks out, Hemon's books are worth reading just to delight like a foodie devouring a tasty bon-bon over morsels like the following: "I thought that if another revolution were ever to break out in the USSR, it would start on a train or some other public transportation vehicle—the spark would come from two sweaty asses rubbing." And, when young Jozef's grandmother dies while tucking him in at night: "Everything in the room was perfectly still, as if it all went away with Grandma and only left its shapes behind." Having typed them, I'm not sure those sentences are the best examples to illustrate my point, but I already returned the book to the library and don't have the means to dig out more. I hope you'll take my word for it, though, and read this.

2018-10-30 02:40

Cemile - Cengiz Aytmatov TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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SPOILER ALERT Summary: Hattie Inez Brooks has been passed around from relative to relative all her life until her Uncle Chester leaves her a claim to stake in Montana. She eagerly leaves her kindly Uncle Holt and prickly Aunt Ivy's home in Iowa to make it on her own. Once Hattie arrives in Vida, Montana, she realizes that she already has some debt she owes from her Uncle Chester. She works very hard all through the severe winter, with the help of her friend Perilee Mueller and her family. Spring comes and Hattie finishes the long fence she had to put up, and she learns about the anti-German feelings that people have when Perilee's kind and generous husband, Karl, is targeted. Through the seasons, Hattie must work very hard to prove up on her claim before November while also gaining a true sense of belonging with the people she loves near Vida. She learns generosity and the meaning of loyalty with Perilee's family, and she writes of her adventures to her school friend, Charlie, who is fighting the Kaiser in France, her Uncle Holt, and in a column called Honyocker's Homily for the paper back in Iowa. In the end, Perilee loses one of her children and decides to leave Montana, the war ends and Charlie comes home, admitting that he likes Hattie, while Hattie loses her claim due to debt. Although this ending may be bittersweet, Hattie does at last find a home in herself, and she learns to love the people around her. Evaluation: I think this book lacked somewhat of a resolution and kind of tied up quickly. I liked the character development of Hattie very much but I was sad to see her lose the claim that she had worked so hard for. And whereas I thought she might at least end up with Charlie, that was left very open and uncertain. The book did bring a sense of real life to the time that it was describing, which I thought was interesting, especially after reading the author's note about this story being based on her great-grandmother's life. I thought it was a good book, but maybe not one of my favorites. I seem to prefer happy endings more when I am reading for pleasure, and I was really sad when Mattie died. I do think I would use this book in maybe a 4th or 5th grade classroom.

Okuyucu Kristiana Wulan itibaren Provalija, Montenegro

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