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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kaldırım Yayınları
Delightful and inspiring. And full of great book recommendations for children. Really enjoyed this.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İletişim Yayınevi
Again her son took the pictures of the birds. Especially cool to stare at a hummingbird up close.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yukio Mişima
Not that it was a bad thing, but no matter how you look at it this was a tough read. Paul West writes in a style that is meant to challenge even the most enlightened audience. Reading should be every bit of an intellectual exercise as writing, and this book will confound and frustrate anyone who does not like to be forced into thinking. I picked up Master Class on a whim, perhaps I was feeling inquisitive that day, but I didn’t know what to expect, so I came at it with an open mind which ended up being crucial. This book is not meant for someone looking for a series of techniques that they can use to improve their writing. Paul mentions that creativity isn’t a laundry list, you can’t follow a formula and come up with something meaningful. Instead lessons come in oblique angles forcing the reader to search for more esoteric messages. “There are undergraduates who would love to have such a list of requirements or inducements because, they’d expect, it would somehow match something they were to be examined on. Chances, however, would be that I’d examine them on something wholly inapposite - Milton’s use of proper names, say, or paraphrases in Dickens. I gave up teaching undergrads when I realized I was teaching grammar, not creativity.” I have to admit that I don’t posses the literary knowledge to follow most of his references obscuring many of his points from my view. It does seem that he has a difficult time relating to people who do not posses his knowledge and experience which makes his writing a little inaccessible, and I can sympathise with others who find this off-putting and pretentious. “The same happens as before. They write it down with an almost creative relish, whereas I, who seem to have had most of these commandments by heart for at least some of my career, can hardly imagine the state of mind that sees them as discoveries.” I don’t fault Paul for this, and I would never ask him to water anything down for my sake. I recognize that I’m meeting someone who is striving to reach the loftiest heights of literature, and along the way is attempting to lift others up into the same rarefied air. I do fear however that I would be eaten alive in his seminar: I’m not sure if he would give me the time-of-day. Even so there’s something about his tone that makes me feel Paul isn’t trying to put me down, but instead attempting to lift me up else I fade into the distance and become another page-turning subway reader. “Then do read Helena,” I tell her with my most noble smile, my mind on something that has long bothered me: that people, avid for opinion and bloated with knowledge, spend so much of their lives small-talking about life that they never create any thing to be left behind them, and their lives end up a sluice of cliches, street-smarts, and anecdote. He wouldn’t say that if he felt the reader couldn’t respond to such a bold statement: otherwise he’s just senile. I thank him for his generosity, and instead of being offended I take this chance to realize I have miles yet to go. There’s an unfortunate fatalist tone to his work. Paul mentions a few times the battles he’s had with publishers and the decline he’s witnessed in the industry. He ponders whether it’s right for him to push his students into writing novels that won’t produce best sellers; he’s fully aware that the inquisitive thought provoking style he fosters doesn’t sell. For Paul the future is uncertain, but for me all I can do is be thankful that there are still people like him in the world who hold writing to the highest standards continually molding prose into works of art. “And then it comes over me again, the ravaging sense that all I am doing is grooming these brave souls for the plank: walking it. The better they write, the worse their fate will be in a world in which all bad writers write alike the same corrugated cardboard prose without even thinking about it.” . . . "If there's a battle of the books, it was over long ago with the arrival onstage of a huge skim-reading public that cares no more about sentences than about how an ostrich wipes its rear. These are the condom readers, I suppose, to be seen at airports and on planes, racing ahead through their page-turners to a destiny as illusory as the one at the end of their 500-miles-an-hour charge."
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Artshop Yayıncılık
We are presently caught in a scientific paradigm that requires proof to be established according to certain criteria, while staring a new description of the universe in the face that may never respond to that sort of proof. But the upside, as shown by Ms. McTaggart and others is that metaphysics and physics are close enough now to brush against each other, and hats off to those willing to take a stab at describing those intersections. We have to start somewhere. McTaggart's taken some strong steps.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Everest Yayınları
Bathtub reading!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Okuyan Us Yayın
This series was my absolute favorite. It was such a beautiful story and bitter sweet. Bitter because I didn't want it to end and sweet because it had the perfect ending. To sum this series up, you have a girl, who was bullied, had a best friend that rejected her, but they ended up mending and she falls in love with an angel. She discovers something about herself and saves her relationship and the world. I totally recommend this series!!! This series left me sleepless at night because I couldn't stop thinking about it!!!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Can Çocuk Yayınları
GATSBY! I LOVE YOU! also, the cover of this book is one of my all-time favorite book covers.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Crown
Have you read this book? Go ahead and do it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Alfa Yayınları
A book club book. A book I might not have chosen other wise and loved!!! Really make you think about our judicial system!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Uğurböceği Yayınları
Since I finished this book during a busy summer, I guess it held my interest. It's not a favorite, though, possibly because this isn't my area of historical interest: Civil War, PT Barnum. Ironically, I'm considering it for my book club choice, this year, because it's current and I'd like to hear others' opinions. One thing that bothered me is that it ended 40 years before the main character died. I did want to know more about her after she was widowed.
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