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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İnkılap Kitabevi
I have loved every Anita Shreve book I have read, until this one. I simply liked this book quite a bit. I do still highly recommend this book to parents, teenagers if they can make it to the end it has many powerful messages about teenage drinking and how something so common can have unforeseeably horrible consequences. The first 1/2 to 2/3 of the book is bit slow to read, however crucial. I understood that it was laying the background of each character and adding bits and pieces of how the infamous night's events, however it is a bit slow and very back and forth with each small chapter bouncing among the many characters, all playing their important part. The book does pick up and a bit abruptly, this where things get good. As seemingly separate events begin to unfold as the catalyst for the night in question (at least for one of the character) I soon realized my perceptions were far off. For many pages she had me in constant tears of sadness and some of anger. Without the development of the characters in the beginning I don't think I would have reacted so strongly. In the end some running questions you have are answered and the honesty in her writing hits home as to the social reasoning why some secrets are better left secret.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kohwai & Young
Perhaps my favorite in this wonderful series. The always lovable paddington finds himself encountering one disaster after another. The cute little furry guy always manages to pull through though. High comedy and an easy read.
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This was not my favorite Georgette Heyer, but was still entertaining.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nesil Çocuk Yayınları
I loved Paul and Miss Lavendar.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık
I was one of the lucky GoodReads members who received an advance copy of this book. I read it in 3 sittings as a) the action moves quickly, and b) I couldn't put it down. The premise is intriguing and I often found myself wondering how I would react if my kids were suddenly "gone". I could empathize with the grief and and sense of futility some of the characters experienced. On the other hand, I wanted to slap the "G.R.'s" until they screamed. Humanity has always struggled with the question of death, the end, and how to live life until it comes. Because the characters are so familiar and recognizable, we are able to jump right into their world and explore the differing responses to the loss, their struggles to make sense of the world, and how to carry on.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kahraman Yayınları
I really wanted to like this one more than I did. Cooper is a UNC journalism school graduate and has extensive reporting experience, so I was really, really surprised by how she wrote this story of growing up in Liberia. The dialogue is great and feels authentic--that was my favorite part. But the author's recounting of herself as a self-obsessed, entitled, clueless young girl in the middle of a roiling storm of class conflict and political unrest felt really offputting to me. I don't doubt that a young, incredibly wealthy young girl in the upper class of Liberia would have felt and behaved the way she did, but I cringed every page because she was so out of touch. Also surprised at how disjointed the story felt. Often the short snippets seemed to be charming to Cooper but didn't really tie together to help the story progress. I understand that with a childhood memoir, it's tricky to integrate personal memories with political events. As a child you aren't completely tuned into the events around you, even as they're shaping your life in dramatic ways. But between Cooper and her editors, they could have worked it out better than this.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Günışığı Kitaplığı
Up until this point, I worshipped the writing of Douglas Coupland. Seriously. Then I saw him read from this and thought he was an asshole, and then I read this book. For the first time in my life, I returned a book I had read because I thought it sucked so bad I didn't want it in my house any longer. I have never read another book of his since.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Palme Yayıncılık
This is the picture book version of the story based on the true adventure of Dr. Greg Mortenson, who was injured on a mountain in Pakistan, and who was helped to recover by the people of a poor village in the mountains. When he was well enough to leave, he asked how he could repay the people, and was told to “listen to the wind” to find his answer. He did, and he was inspired to go back to the village and build a school. He has built many schools now all over Pakistan for children who live in villages too poor to have afforded one. This is a heart-touching story of love and humanity, and one that is illustrated by Susan Roth’s beautiful collages, which were inspired by handmade papers and the people from the land in which Dr. Mortenson found help and refuge. These people use and reuse every scrap of everything in their world, and so Roth’s collages have an even deeper meaning. The story is very simplified, which makes this version of the story suitable for the youngest of readers / listeners, and it stays away from heavy descriptions about the significance of education for the children in the mountains of Pakistan. The book almost glosses over the poverty by highlighting the richness of making do instead of the bleakness of doing without, but it’s a glass half-full or half-empty choice, and I think that Mortenson was correct in saving the heavier things for the version for middle readers. There is also a version written for adults, which makes this book a great choice for family reading—a version for every age group.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları
Is it possible? Is this going to finally be the book that explains the mystery of consciousness? No. No it is not. What would it even mean to explain consciousness? Reminds of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where they build this ultra powerful supercomputer to finally answer the mystery of "life, the universe and everything," only to then realize that they don't actually know what the question means.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İletişim Yayınevi
I enjoyed it! Lots of interesting tidbits about the English language and its history that I never knew. The history was easy to follow and Bryson's voice kept it interesting. It was written in 1990 so some of the data and stats are out of date, but that wouldn't prevent me from recommending it as relevant.
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