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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: GDL Retro
In these 18 short essays, Ms. Fadiman touches on a myriad of facets of bibliophilia in both humorous and heartfelt ways. Opening her book with the hilarious “Marrying Libraries,” she documents how, after five years of marriage, she and her husband had finally decided to take the truly intimate step of combining their book collections. Complicating the process, she explains, were “some essential differences in our characters.” Whereas George, her husband, had his books “commingled democratically,” Ms. Fadiman's were “balkanized by nationality and subject matter...rigidly regimented.” She describes these differences delightfully as “his English-garden approach and my French-garden one” and attributes them to the varying levels of trust they each place in inanimate objects. “George maintains a basic trust in three-dimensional objects. If he wants something, he believes it will present itself, and therefore it usually does. I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined.” Can these two widely divergent worldviews ever truly harmoniously co-exist in a single library? I wouldn't dream of spoiling the end for you, but I chuckled all through it and read aloud portions to my husband - whose sympathies definitely lie with George. Ms. Fadiman writes of growing up in a “bibliolatrous family,” which term I immediately filed away to use when describing my own family, and “an obnoxious family” full of “compulsive proofreaders.” One essay is devoted entirely to relating the joy she, her brother, and their parents take in identifying typos, misspellings, and other errors on menus, in newspapers, and even in library books. (If you are likewise affected by this affliction and missed my last column, “Sticklers, Unite!” this would be an excellent time to go catch up and discover more books written by kindred spirits.) There are apparently at least two differing approaches to bibliolatry, quite at odds with each other. In “Never Do That to a Book,” Ms. Fadiman illustrates this difference between “courtly love” and “carnal love.” Those who have “courtly love” for books find “its form inseparable from its content.” A book cannot be laid face down, its pages folded over, or any marks made inside, however erasable. Rather, the book should be preserved as near to the state in which it was purchased as possible to maintain its sanctity. Carnal lovers of books, on the other hand, find “a book's words...holy, but the paper, cloth, cardboard, glue, thread and ink that contained them...a mere vessel.” In this view, “hard use was a sign not of disrespect but of intimacy.” These more romantically-inclined readers (in the classical sense) turn “monologues into dialogues” by commenting in the margins. They savor the mementos of use, like the batter splattered on the blueberry muffin page of the cookbook, or the pressed flower from their secret reading spot under the tree out back. Ms. Fadiman, in case you have any doubt, comes down firmly on the side of romantic love. Other essays cover literary references to food, Ms. Fadiman's favorite pen, the virtues of allowing children to build castles and forts with books, the minefield of gender-inclusive language, sonnets, inscriptions, and plagiarism (appropriately documented with footnotes galore). There is truly something for every reader here. In Ms. Fadiman, I found a kindred spirit. Her witty and accurate observations, gentle self-mocking, and unadulterated love of reading have drawn me back to Ex Libris again and again and will continue to do so. For more book reviews, come visit my blog, Build Enough Bookshelves.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Evrensel Basım Yayın
This book is simply lovely. It probably does not deserve four stars but earns it because the story - a young kid who lives with his hardworking single mother juggles his sick best friend, a new upstairs neighbor and a crush on a girl all during a summer at the Jersey shore - is just so sweet and simple. I was engaged by the prose right away and the use of humor and the clown character working a dunk booth on the boardwork (hence the title) is original.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: DigiTech
She's at it again...
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Maya Kitap
Desiguales, aunque siempre entretenidos.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Akçağ Yayınları
Highly recommend to understand some of the differences and similarities between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The book approaches the subject with a healthy persepctive. Rather than make the mistake of claiming to discuss "God" the book discusses the human idea of God and how the human pursuit of understanding God has evolved. I found the author's approach alone profound at the time, and it enabled me to look at what other's call God as merely their idea rather than an absolute truth to either be accepted or rejected.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
This is not my favorate of Connie Willis. The chrictors are good. But the story is very sad and I found myself crying several times durring the story and not in a good way. Shes a wonderful story teller but make sure you are alone when you read this one.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yapı Kredi Yayınları
Finished at half past midnight. Still feel like I'm catching my breath. Magnificent. Epic. And I almost feel bad about calling Snape a turdburglar. Almost. And I'd like to give a big shoutout to Neville, who simply shines in this book.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık
A good story.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Damla Yayınevi
Fantastic story--great lead character. Heartbreaking and uplifting all at once. Unlikely friendship was really touching...
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Okuyan Us Yayınevi
I absolutely loved this book - one of my new favorites! What a great story about the strength of women, family, love, and forgiveness. It is beautifully written, the characters are fantastic, I really can't say enough good things about this book. I highly recommend reading this - it may even be a book I would re-read.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Murat Yayınları
Spoiler II.Dünya Savaşı'nın sonunda Mississippi Deltası'nda ıssız bir çiftlikte yer alan bu roman, iki aile arasındaki karmaşık ilişkileri araştırıyor: arazinin sahipleri ve üzerinde yaşayan ve çalışan paydaşlar. İki ana karakter savaştan eve dönen genç (20'li yaşlarında) kahramanlar, biri beyaz, diğeri siyah ise travma sonrası stresden muzdarip. Siyah adam, eve döndüğünde hâlâ başka bir “n” kelimesi olduğu için şok oldu. Beyaz adam, arkadaşının beyaz bir kızla olduğu için cezasını seçmek zorunda kaldıktan sonra kendi ırkçı babasını öldürüyor - dilini kestiler. Bu kitapta ırkçılık hakkında, Alaycı Kuşları Öldürmek'ten daha çok şey öğrendim. Ve aralarında beyaz askerin ağabeyi ile evlenen ve çiftlik cehennemi hayatı yaşayan bir şehir kızının hikayesi vardı; elbette küçük kardeşe aşık olur. Bu romanı nasıl sevemedim?
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