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2019-03-17 15:40

Yoksa Sınıf Arkadaşım Bir Casus Mu? - Pamela Butchart TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Mavi Bulut Yayınları

I loved reading about Amy pushing herself to try something that she would never do, and succeeding. Again, I wasn't the greatest fan of the love triangle addition but this one was a lot more complicated than it was in the last book with Nathan and Amy. I wished there had just been a book that focused on Avi and Amy working through their problems together and no one else getting in the way.

2019-03-17 16:40

Sınav 7. Sınıf Fen Bilimleri Kazandıran Set TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Sınav Yayınları

** spoiler alert ** I was a Dragonlance, and by extension TSR, nut in high school and early years of college. At one point, I must have had every Dragonlance novel. I hung out with Dragonlance nuts (we were also Robin McKinley nuts. What? You loved The Hero and the Crown? So did I! So I should read these, huh?). Looking back now, when I have long gotten read of several Dragonlance novels, including this one, I still have to admit that the first six books (Chronicles and the Twins) are good, not great, but good. In particular, because they do examine aspects of good and evil; the last book of the Twins when Raist gives everything up for one thing others would see as worthless is just wonderful. Dragonlance is still around today, and ever so often I can impress students with "Yes, I know what it is. I like kender." Yet, unlike Terry Pratchett who I have been having a literary affair with for over a decade, or Robin McKinley with whom I celebrated a twentith anniversary, the Dragonlance books didn't have the same staying power, at least the newer books. In part, it is because of this book. The Second includes original and previous published short fiction. The previous published fiction was great. The fiction created especially for this volume and leading to the next book, I had a huge problem with. I hate it when writers go back and totally change characters. And that is what Weis and Hickman did. What was worse was who they did it to. In Chronicles, Tanis the half elf is torn between his love for Kitara, a human, and Laurena, an elven princess. Laurena was based on Hickman's wife, and Kitara is a human woman who, it is revealed fights for the evil army. Kitara is also the only dark haired woman in the series. (Tika is a red-head so don't yell at me. Geez). Laurena has long blonde locks, is always rights, and despite being a spoiled princess because a great warrior. Kitara was sexually loose, a skilled fighter though hard work, and came from a dysfunctional family. While I never liked Laurenana the differences didn't really bug me as a high school/ early college student because at least Weis and Hickman shaded Kitara. In this one book, they ruined that. It is said that we can never go back, that our prespectives always change with time because we age and we learn. Sometimes that is true, but sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we go back and we like it better. Sometimes we go back and we now hate it. Sometimes, our opinion stays the same. Everytime I read LOTR, I still feel that same thrill. I still dare Moira with the Fellowship. When I watch Errol Flynn's Robin Hood, I still smile. I've been reading McKinley for over twenty years and still respect her. I've been reading Datlow/Windling for the same amount of time and still love the collections. Ever time I read "The Cloak" by Blixen, I'm convinced it is one of the most perfect short stories ever. Books and series that stay treat their readers, fans, viewers with respect. Pratchett said it best, he would rather have readers than fans. When you look at series or books that would rather have fans (money) then viewers or readers, you see disappointment. Think Star Wars, or even Star Trek. (And no, I'm not taking about books vs. movies here. That's different. SW and ST books are written be different writers, there is going to be a difference. There the characters just need to be in character. I'm taking about old and new films/television). What ruined Dragonlance for me was this book because of the rewriting of character, of series history, that Weis and Hickman did. They turned Kitara into the sterotypical evil seductress, who sleeps with a holy knight and refuses to marry him, but then discovers she is with child. Something that quite clearly did not happen in Chronicles or in the prequel featuring Kitara and Sturm (the knight in question). Looking back, it seems as if the writers shied away from giving Tanis a bastard son because that would effect the Tanis/Laurenana relationship. However, that son would have mad sense. Additionally, if Kit were so evil wouldn't she just have an abortion, wouldn't a sexually loose woman who is a warrior use birth control? It felt cheap, wrong, and worse insulting, especially when the book came out in hardcover with hardcover prices. Today, I would add that it is extremely interesting how the evil man is allowed to redeemed himself but the evil woman is made to be even worse. Hmmmm. Was it because she wasn't a blonde? Does peroxide sterlize the soul? Hmmm. In some ways, I suppose I should thank them. For after them, I no longer followed blindly were writers went. I wanted writers to acknowledge that readers had exceptations and things should make sense. Yes, that means you can't always do shocking twists, but it also means that sometimes you do the difficult thing because it would work. When Weis and Hickman didn't do the difficult and opted for the cheap and easy out, it felt like a bad television show. If you don't respect your readers, why should your readers read your work? This true of writers and publishers.

2019-03-17 17:40

Pegem YDS Almanca 10 Deneme Çözümlü TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık

I teach this book every spring. I think it's as relevant now as it was in 1950. The "underbook" at the end may get a little tedious, but Orwell hits on so many important themes: man and nature; government, technology, and social control; knowledge and power--the book is brilliant.

2019-03-17 18:40

Ökdil Uzayında Diferansiyel Geometri TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık - Akademik Kitaplar

I have a number of complaints about this book, but I'm still rating it five stars. Why? I realized that my complaints are swamped by how my I enjoyed reading it. This is the fifth book in the "Song of Ice and Fire" series. There are supposed to be seven, although it seems likely that Martin will have trouble wrapping things up in just two more books (he originally envisioned it as a trilogy, so there is a definite history of the series expanding). If you've read the first four, there's very little I could say to affect your decision to continue with this one, and if you haven't, you should start with the first and see how you like it. As with the first four, the book is told from various points of view that define each chapter. Some of the POVs are more compelling than others -- I had a definite strong reaction when I'd find out who the next chapter was about -- yay, it's one of my favorites, or yay, it's not, it'll be easier to put the book down and get some sleep. It's a testament to Martin's storytelling prowess that he got me interested in some of the POVs I started out not liking as much. Still, sometimes the epic is too sprawling. Not just the characters who were left out for reasons of space. In the struggle for the Seven Kingdoms, just when you think you have an idea of the political balance, you realize you forgot about a character who set out in a sea voyage in the third or fourth book -- who may or may not be crucial to the outcome. If he is, why haven't we heard from him in so long? If he isn't, why are we hearing from him now? This book has less of the awful-things-happening-to-innocents incidents that have bothered people in earlier books, but it has more awful-things-happening-to-guilty that are still best not read while, before, or after eating. On the one hand, I wish it were toned down, on the other hand, now I'm really looking forward to the evil guy who did it getting what's coming to him in the next book. A lot happens in this book, but a lot doesn't. It definitely feels like the right amount of plot development for book five out of seven (or eight), which makes sense, but may disappoint those who have waited so many years for this book. Some things happen I never saw coming, and those were pretty exciting. On the other hand, there are events we've been waiting some time to see (in a few cases since the first book) that are only now coming onto the horizon. Basically, it's another piece in the puzzle of Martin's epic. I find this series unlike any other fantasy I've read -- it's epic, it's political, and it's told almost as a history rather than the story of some kid who didn't know he could do magic and now needs to save the kingdom. I just hope to see book six before my kids are old enough to read it along with me.

2019-03-17 19:40

Manuel Raymond Klasik Mavi Gitar MRC275BL TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Manuel Raymond

In this memoir, the life of a young woman growing up in cold war Leningrad is explored with depth and feeling as she struggles to come of age in the very forbidding and intense landscape of the former Soviet Union. Life for Elena and her family hasn’t always been easy. Through her parents’ hard work, Lena and her sister aren’t living at the bottom rungs of the communist society, but there isn’t a lot of extra in their lives either. Elena’s mother, once a surgeon during the war, is now teaching anatomy at the university. Elena has been raised to believe in the superiority of Russia and communism and to regard the rest of the world with suspicion and cynicism. Much to her mother’s dismay, these views strangely begin to melt away as she matures into a young woman. When Elena’s sister decides to pursue a career in acting instead of medicine or engineering, the idea that there multiple paths to happiness begins to occur to her, despite the messages she gets from society. As Elena begins to rise through the professional world and falls in line to do exactly what’s expected of her, a chance meeting with an American drastically alters the future that has been so carefully arranged by her and her mother. When the once iron grip of the Soviet Union begins to loosen its hold on Elena, her life will never be the same and the future that‘s laid out before her will be unlike anything she could have ever imagined. This book has been compared to the Russian version of Angela’s Ashes, and has also been touted as being amusing and wry, which is not exactly my experience with it. While I did grow to appreciate this coming of age story, the first hundred pages were a little rocky for me. When the storyline began to shift, I must say I was a little more pleased that the book was going in a different direction. I’m not sure if my reactions were due to the very maudlin aspects of life in Russia or due to the fact that everything in this tale seemed so dark and reeked of cynicism, but for the most part, I found this to be a very heavy read. It’s not that this was a bad book, but it was, for the most part, rather darkly portrayed. Elena is a girl like most. She hungers for love and opportunity and doesn’t quite understand how to discover the secrets behind these things and how to figure out the mysteries of life. She’s very secretive with her mother and doesn’t seem to have a very healthy relationship with her at all. It was easy to see why, though, because her mother was extremely militant about controlling her daughters and forcing them to do the things that she found acceptable. I got the feeling that Elena was proud of her mother, but that doesn’t translate into intimacy, which is something I don’t think Elena had with anyone in the story. A lot of her reactions to the world around her were very familiar to me because a lot of them dealt with her feelings of disconnection from that world; a world that she would one day be expected to take part in and flourish in. It was obvious that Elena suffered from a great amount of naivety and to a certain degree had been very sheltered throughout her upbringing, and I kept asking myself if this was a byproduct of the very oppressive place in which she lived or her mother’s overprotectiveness. In some ways I felt that Elena never really matured the way that those in the West do; she never had those coming of age moments that are so crucial to forming adult perceptions. When she did finally have these moments, she had already crossed the threshold into adulthood. It bothered me a little to hear all the comments about how the West was filled with rotten capitalist pigs, and how our society was belittled as an untrustworthy foreign melange full of greed and debauchery. I began to realize that although Elena and her parents said these things often, these ideas stemmed from the propaganda that the Soviet Union generated over many years and thorough various means. This doesn’t mean that it wasn’t annoying, only that I understood how a group of people could be so indoctrinated into thinking that the progressive west was just too radical and progressive. To tell you the truth, the Russia of this time sounded horrible, and stories of waiting in line for hours to procure a few rolls of toilet paper seemed as alien to me as capitalism probably seemed to Elena and her family. The Russia of this time period was no joke, and Gorokhova really succeeds in identifying the menacing aspects that the government used to keep its citizens under control. These sections, to me, were the darkest of the book, and lent Elena’s reminiscences a casual cruelty and sense of abiding provocation. There was a very deep sense of pragmatism that permeated the minds of the characters in this story. Despite the very foreign aspects of life in cold war Russia, it was clear to see that the people living in this society were not only downtrodden and overburdened, but deeply instilled with a degree of pride and a false illusion of superiority. As Elena realizes that life in Russia is not what she wants and takes steps to release the country’s hold over her, she begins to see that the life she and her family have been living is one of half realized dreams and fruitless sacrifice. Though the situation that enables her to escape is not a perfect solution, it’s one I think many will be able to relate to, and one that Elena herself feels a begrudging appreciation for, despite it’s challenges and inconveniences. When all is said and done, Elena is able to make peace, not only with herself, but more importantly, with her mother and her homeland. Though this wasn’t my favorite memoir, it did provide a lot of chewy food for thought and a very deep exposure to a way of life that’s extremely alien to my own. It was filled with the cultural details that readers of this genre will appreciate, but there’s no denying that the story is rather bleak. I did end up admiring Elena Gorokhova for her stoicism and her ability to persevere, and I think that this is a book that would open a lot of readers’ eyes to the very different lives that are lived outside the United States.

2019-03-17 20:41

Deniz Fırtınası 1 TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yeni Dönem Yayıncılık

This was a good book, but I didn't like it as well as the other Jodi Picoult books I had read. But, as in keeping with her books, there is a twist at the end.

2019-03-17 21:41

Cep Konuşma Kılavuzu Türkçe-Rusça TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tiydem Yayıncılık

I liked 'Bonds that make us free' better. Same idea and author written for a non-business audience.

2019-03-17 22:41

Yavşaklık Virüsü - Ateş İlyas Başsoy TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegasus Yayınları

One of the better books that I've read on grief - the NYTimes review called it "poetic," and rightfully so. A beautifully raw yet thoughtful look at the process of living with death. This is as close to the book I would write on the subject that I have found.

2019-03-17 23:41

Şebnem Ferah - Benim Adım Orman TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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One of my favorite books of all time. You should read it

2019-03-18 00:41

Elif’İn Dişi Sallanıyor - Liane Schneider TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları

Great series.

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