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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kariyer Yayınları
Somewhere on government property in Nebraska a group of kids are nearly electrocuted during a drug party and not far away cattle are being mutilated. This is what FBI agent Maggie O’Dell has to deal with. Meanwhile on the east coast, a group of kids get sick from eating cafeteria food and Maggie’s friend Dr. Benjamin Platt is investigating that. Are these two cases connected or are we reading two stories? This is the first Maggie O’Dell story I read and although intrigued by the possibility of government conspiracies, I didn’t care for the jumping back from one subplot to the next. It was satisfactory.
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Dewey was a little orange ball of fur that some uncaring person deposited into a library night deposit box on a bitterly cold winter night in Spencer, Iowa. This act of cruelty did have a happy ending. As head librarian Vicki Myron shares Dewey’s story the reader also learns her story and the story of the whole town of Spencer. Dewey not only became a town favorite, but quite the world-wide celebrity in his own right. Being pleasantly owned by three cats myself (you can read it again, but no its not a typo), this book was a good fit for me. One review I read about this book said there was one drawback to the book, “ … anthropomorphized to a degree that can strain credulity (Dewey plays hide and seek with Myron, can read her thoughts, is mortified by his hair balls)—it's a love letter to libraries.” Now really, of course cats play hide and seek, read our thoughts and are mortified by their hair balls among many, many, many other talents and idiosyncrasies.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Dahi Adam
I was really drawn to this graphic novel by the illustration on the front. I think I may have enjoyed it more if I had been more familiar with Deitch's other work. As it was - the story didn't do that much for me - but I really admired the illustrator's style.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Parıltı Yayınları
It often feels as if the contemporary literary scene has internalized Anna Karenina’s dictum on the nature of happiness—that it is not idiosyncratic, with the implication that it is not worth the kind of careful attention that literature applies to its subjects. We need look no further than our own lives to recognize the problem we’ll encounter if we preoccupy ourselves with the Tolstoyan “unhappy family” at the expense of the happy ones. Asked about our defining or most enlightening moments, most of us are as likely to recount happy memories as we are moments of despair. Yet too often, contemporary literature ignores this. Authors able to give the lie to Tolstoy by rendering joy as a complex substance are few and far between: think Ron Carlson, Laurie Colwin, Ellen Gilchrist, Richard Russo. In this context, Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead comes not just as a breath of fresh air, but as a ray of light, quietly penetrating to the heart of mysteries regarding joy and love, life and death. Because it’s written as a series of missives from the aged narrator to his young son, meant not to be read until long after the narrator’s death, Gilead is largely plotless—a conflict of sorts between the narrator and a friend’s child does eventually develop, but it is a quiet conflict, and one that doesn’t become clear until nearly halfway through the novel. The narrative is never as important as the meditations that surround it. This is a novel that celebrates life, that variegated communion between inner and outer worlds, between ego and experience. But Robinson is also concerned with death, not only as the inevitable end of that communion but also as its thematic counterpoint. If Robinson’s territory here is the spiritual life of one man in particular, her thematic concern is how we in general can face the ends of our lives without despair or resort to existential reframings of the problem—how we can face the prospect of death, in fact, with quiet gratitude and even joy. Robinson’s portrayal of religion is especially deft; instead of opiate or panacea, her narrator’s Christianity serves as a lens, providing a stasis and a vocabulary through which the novel can wrestle with its concerns. Ultimately, the quiet conclusions that Gilead seems to favor—that the experience of existence is one that we should treasure as a gift, that we too often lose sight of the immense beauty of the world amidst our quotidian bustle, that love and charity have the power to remake lives—are neither religious nor secular. Rather, they are humanist; they all concern a belief in the fundamental dignity of human lives. Is it melodramatic to say that these are the kind of quiet encouragements that we could usefully carry in our minds into the shadows of our own personal Gethsemanes? Regardless, Gilead offers us, in its portrait of a long life reflected upon with some degree of contentment, a reminder of just how deep, enthralling, and abidingly strange happiness can be. Perhaps the problem is not that happiness is not idiosyncratic enough to be worth investigating. The problem may be instead that happiness is simply too big for most writers to write convincingly about, that perhaps joy, like God, is too capacious to fully describe. Yet here is the rare novel that suggests insights into the natures of both.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları
Great sci-fi book about a lunar revolution, with deliberate parallels to the American revolution. Those whose only experience to Heinlein has been Starship Troopers will be surprised to see this book on the completely opposite end of the political spectrum, as this is about a Libertarian revolution...this book first made popular the phrase "There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch! (TANSTAAFL) Also, this book has one of the coolest AI characters I've ever seen.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Kitap
to be honest, it's been years since i last read this book, but i remember liking it a great deal.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: On İki Levha Yayınları
Lacks the smoothness and artistry of a professional writer. However, it is a painfully honest portrait of a man struggling within the confines of an ill mind. Four stars for its honesty and potential to help many people who may see themselves, or a loved one, in these pages.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Akvaryum Yayınları
it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. we were supposed to read it for a communications class and thought it would be really bad and boring. i read it in a night and is actually a good book.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Xenon
This is a really weird book. The main character is seduced by and marries a succubus who happens to actually be a 12 (or 11?) year old girl (not such a nice image there). There’s some sort of evil dragon that has to be let out of a box, where the heart of a dead child is still living with the dragon inside it, and the girl, who is a witch, wants to get it out. So she tries to get the main character to do this for her. And her grandmother is trying to stop her. She’s actually laying in a bed in a nursing home like a vegetable, but her soul is apparently out doing all sorts of important things like keeping the dragon in its box. This is an entertaining book, with thankfully not too much religion in it (as Card is wont to do), but also rather strange, and overall not one that’s going to stay with me.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Final Kültür Sanat Yayınları
This was a quick, interesting read for those of us who care about whether to use "gauntlet" or "gantlet" in common conversation (and I confess I'm one of those who want to know the difference). I appreciated the beauty of language in this book and the fact that we can really do quite precise. So this was a good balance of reminding us where English comes from, how its changed over time and what words you can/should use without sounding terribly pretentious in the process.
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