Cristian Alvarez itibaren Meni Simla, Assam , India

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04/28/2024

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2019-01-17 17:41

Wittner Keman Aksesuar Çenelik Augsburg 4/4 256111 TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Wittner

If Garcia Marquez had stopped at the title, he would still have written one of the most brilliant and insightful love stories of all time.

2019-01-17 18:41

Seni Seviyorum Hayat TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Gece Kitaplığı

This book, based on letters written by the main characters, is an amazing account of two society girls from New York who chose to teach school in a remote Colorado "settlement." The author (a granddaughter of one of the women) did meticulous research and documentation of the history of the area and the people who had major roles in its development, as well as detailing the background of these two teachers. If you are not put off by all the historic details, the story is delightful.

2019-01-17 19:41

Palme Sentez Serisi Yks Matematik Soru Kitabı TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Palme Yayıncılık

Such a confusing book. Need to read back through this one, eventually. Get the feeling there is a LOT I missed here.

2019-01-17 20:41

Arı Maya: Yargıç Balmumu Öykü Kitabı-Kolektif TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık

Part of what I love about this book—which is also true of Cowboys Are My Weakness—is the frank and funny depiction of sex. In “Then You Get Up and Have Breakfast,” we get two stories of love and sex running on parallel tracks: the new relationship with Eric and the back story of the old relationship with Carter, leading to its break-up. Eric, who can’t get an erection because of anti-depressants, touches Lucy “like a blind man who had just one night to learn what is woman,” and kisses her “like it is some kind of world-class competition.” His penis “reawakens” miraculously, when they are lying under the big, blue sky, looking up at the stars. (The stars, moon, and constellations are such a recurring theme in the book, it seems fitting that they would perform sexual magic.) Sex with Carter is “every now and then, most often out of doors, in public places and fully clothed.” Once they get home, he stays up and Lucy conks out on the couch. When they break up, they have not had sex for eight months, which Lucy tells him was “like trying to tap dance with one leg tied up behind [her] back.” Lucy’s lover in the first story, “The Best Girlfriend You Never Had” becomes her stalker. In the second story, “Cataract,” the most interesting sex is the kind that is just talked about, between Lucy and Thea. They do have metaphorical sex together, going down the cataract and almost drowning. The intimacy they gain from the experience is far greater than what they have with their men. In “Three Lessons in Amazonian Biology,” an old boyfriend, Tony, convinces Lucy to fly seventeen hours to Ann Arbor to try to reignite their flame. When she arrives, five days after his persuasive phone call, he announces that he has a new girlfriend and Lucy has to sleep on the couch, her birthday-eve sex now out of reach (and she is turning 33, the age when Tony had said all things would be revealed to her). At the end of “Then You Get Up and Have Breakfast,” Lucy sums up what she’s learned about sex: “It’s very simple. . . You have it, then you have it again, then you have it again; and then you get up and have breakfast.” The last story before the epilogue opens with a funny scene of Lucy shopping for a dildo in Provincetown, and her adventures in this sexually liberated town —toying with the idea of a lesbian relationship and finally achieving euphoria with a man, until she discovers he is still married —round out her survey of erotic experiences in the book. All the idiosyncratic, whimsical, sad, or just unexpected kinds of sex are not just entertaining and titillating (though they are that, too). They are a metaphor for Lucy’s journey, her continuously abortive attempts to make connections, to no longer be a loner. In the interview in the back of Waltzing the Cat, Houston talks about trying to make stories that get close enough to the truth of their metaphors. The metaphors in this book are funny, moving, and surprising. For instance, in “Then You Get Up and Have Breakfast,” the need to rebuild Lucy’s grandmother’s cottage, which is falling into the river, is a metaphor for Lucy’s need to rebuild her life, either to construct a new foundation or “let it float.” In “Three Lessons in Amazonian Biology,” the metaphors—comparing Lucy’s quest for love, meaning, and mating to behaviors of animals in the Amazon—are both whimsical and poignant. (For example: “Lesson #3: . . . The screaming pehah . . . spends over seventy-five percent of his life looking for a mate” reminds us of someone we know. ) “Goodness Under Your Feet,” has two parallel stories, and they are each a metaphor for the other–the story about Ellie the dog in the present, and the one about Ellie the best friend who died. The more I think about Houston’s process—making the central metaphor reveal the story’s truth—the more this seems like a powerful way to write fiction. Something else I admire about these stories is the way they abound with sentiment without ever falling into sentimentality. Part of how this happens is the skillful use of banter. The characters talk about deep subjects, like love and death, but they often add a punch line or a dark twist at the end. For example, in “Then You Get Up and Have Breakfast,” Lucy says, “I’m crazy about you” and Eric responds, “Crazy, period.” Houston explodes clichés by having characters call each other on them. When Lucy says, “All our worldly possessions are on this boat,” Henry replies, “And where are your nonworldly possessions? In Cleveland?” (His banter leavens a moment of terror and emotional intensity, when they might be about to drown, and keeps it from becoming sentimental.) When Lucy says her mother was “loyal to [her] father like a tick on a hound,” the emotion is clear and poignant, but the choice of analogy is so unexpected, it’s fresh. Although most of the men Lucy chooses are bad news, they are never stock characters. The precise and unexpected details make me believe in Lucy’s reactions to them, though another writer might make the same men caricatures of masculine insensitivity. When Lucy falls for Erik, a “huge, lumbering Clydesdale,” who makes “miniature replicas of grand Tudor houses, fourteen thousand miniature bricks in one of them” in “Then You Get Up and Have Breakfast,” we fall for him, too, through his stories about penguins and finger-eating power tools.When Lucy tells us why she is over Carter—because he started strutting like a chicken onstage at a reggae concert and because he practiced his smiles before she took his picture—Lucy’s conclusions are also ours. Although all the men Lucy chooses turn out to be crazy in some way, we don’t judge her. Gloria, in “Then You Get Up and Have Breakfast,” sums up our reaction: “The trouble with loving the crazy ones. . . is when you get tired, and need to rest, the normal guys just don’t interest you anymore.” I would add: The trouble with loving the crazy, funny, sexy, sad, extreme-adventure-of-the-heart stories in this collection . . . is when you get tired, and need to rest, the normal stories just don’t interest you anymore, either. Even after the epilogue, you want to read another. Here is my review, on my blog, Walking on the Highway: http://www.sharonharrigan.net/blog/wa...

2019-01-17 21:41

Faılure To Lunch (Düş Yakamızdan) TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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I picked this book up because I believe history has taken what was good and labeled it "evil" out of fear and man's struggle for power. I believe "prostitutes" were really priestesses, and I've always suspected Mary Magdalene to be a prime example. But I was not at all prepared for this eye-opener of a book ... in a way it made me sad because no matter what problems I've ever had with Christianity, I always believed these people really existed, I loved the mythology, I'm even a closet fan of "Jesus Christ Superstar". And Lynn Pickett just blows all that out of the water! I like the way she doesn't tell the reader what to think. She sites historical information, and presents many possible scenarios as well as her own opinions on what *really* happened. I don't plan on becoming a Biblical scholar myself any time soon, but I was always feeling like I needed more information, her references, I was craving more footnotes!

2019-01-17 22:41

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Mikado Yayınları

It's been said by everyone here: brilliant material, unnecessarily repetitive and heavy writing. It's not a difficult read at all. Just cumbersome.

2019-01-17 23:41

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: BRANŞ AKADEMİ

Much better than the first one, characters and interactions really seemed to hit their stride in this book. Looking forward to the next one.

2019-01-18 00:41

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pedro Antonio De Alarcon

Chekhov is one of my favorite writers, is an absolute master of the short story, and embodies many of the things I wish I could do in my writing, so perhaps it's a little meaningless that I give this book a 5-star review. Is it a better collection of his short stories than others? Are the translations better than others? I don't know. But I've never read a Chekhov story and disliked it. His writing only inspires varying degrees of awe. Chekhov can write a story that is six pages long and contains no action other than a man walking home, and it will move you far more than thousands of pages about teenage vampires.

2019-01-18 01:41

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: König

in een prachtige en lyrische stijl vertelt Kader Abdolah het verhaal van een Iraanse asielzoeker. Met heel weinig geeft hij veel diepgang, je wordt het verhaal meteen in getrokken en ik vond de symboliek in dit boek prachtig erin verweven. Dit smaakt naar meer!

2019-01-18 02:41

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pyramid International

So far I'm just on the intro, and it's a bunch of name dropping. But I love juicy Hollywood shit, so maybe this will be a "Dry" for the "Vanity Fair" set. Updated: It was OK. It really was the "longest self-deprecating joke since Woddy Allen." A bit whiny in parts. A bit mind-numbing in others. But an overall good read -- I'm not sorry I did so.

Okuyucu Cristian Alvarez itibaren Meni Simla, Assam , India

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