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Ugh, I remember this book. Sorry to say, it sucked @$$. -- Okay, I'll elaborate. I'm not a fan of historical fiction, and I dislike "young women coming-of-age in another century" stories, and I abhor the "tortured genius" cliche, and I particularly detest fantasies about a mysterious work of art and its backstory. [On this latter point, I also hated Jane Alison's "The Love-Artist", about Ovid -- it cheapens the creative process!] Somehow, Chevalier's ghastly novel managed the elusive combination of all four of these elements.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Gerçek Hayat Dergisi
I liked Sadie's series. She took the characters places and directions that I wouldn't have taken them had I been writing the stories. But that made the books interesting.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Domingo Yayınevi
Set in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P. Jones's debut novel, The Known World, is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under slavery. Caldonia Townsend is an educated black slaveowner, the widow of a well-loved young farmer named Henry, whose parents had bought their own freedom, and then freed their son, only to watch him buy himself a slave as soon as he had saved enough money. Although a fair and gentle master by the standards of the day, Henry Townsend had learned from former master about the proper distance to keep from one's property. After his death, his slaves wonder if Caldonia will free them. When she fails to do so, but instead breaches the code that keeps them separate from her, a little piece of Manchester County begins to unravel.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Schaller
I just finished this series and really enjoyed it. I like the Virgin River series better but these 3 books were a fun read.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Çilek Kitaplar
read this book while in europe in august. isherwood lets out all of the factual people about whom he based his fictional characters, but uses the book to come clean about all the things he disguised about himself in his berlin stories and other novels. inspiring, specifically in seeing how he and his artist/writer friends survived the culture of impending nazism and world war II.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I have a great deal of sympathy for poor Harley, the main character in this book. From the back cover: "Harley Altmyer, the heartbreaking, hilarious, and lovable hero of Tawni O'Dell's riveting debut novel, has more on his shoulders than most guys his age. With his father dead and his mother in jail for the murder, Harley is trapped by his responsibilities, juggling two low-paying jobs and the care of his three younger sisters. His only escape is in the occasional six-pack-and in the beautiful young woman whose unexpected attentions provide Harley with pretty much the only pleasure in his crazy, chaotic life. But while Harley is struggling to keep it together, things start to fall apart, leading to a series of staggering surprises. Then only Harley's endearing humour, his love for his sisters, and his bumbling heroics can redeem them all...". This was a wonderful read!!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kabalcı Yayınevi
I just don't like zoos.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Palme Yayıncılık
Mostly a pretty good read - lots of interesting interwoven / intriguing connections - though the final furlong didn't hang together or engage so well.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tasarı Akademi Yayınları
It has been years since I read Thomas Hardy, so I was thinking about re-reading them all when I discovered that I had missed this one the first time around. After finishing it, my first thought was, "With a friend like Sue, Jude didn't need any enemies." I was a bit appalled at the characterization of the two main women in the book. Arabella, self-centered, manipulative, and sensual, was hard enough to take. Not that I haven't known a few women like that myself. Sue, self-centered, manipulative, and nearly frigid, was almost impossible. Poor Jude never got the opportunity to know a typical woman, most of whom are caring, supportive partners in a relationship rather than parasites. In 1895, the role of women was to take care of the home and bear the children, which was a somewhat parasitical relationship, I admit, but I got so frustrated with Sue that it was difficult to finish the book. My second thought was that Hardy must not have an affinity for children any more than he does with women, since Jude's four children (well, three for the most part) were so poorly sketched. The reader never even learned their sex, except for the oldest, Little Jude. But then I remembered that Hardy had done a fine job of portraying Jude as a child, so I am stumped as to why he didn't develop Jude's children more when they had a short but important part in the story. My third thought was, why this title? Jude the Idiot or Jude the Susceptible or Jude the Naive might have been more apt. Now if the title had been Little Jude the Obscure, it would have made more sense, since I never could get a handle on Little Jude. Totally obscure. Maybe obscure meant something different in 1895? Having said all that, I had no sooner finished the first chapter than I gave a sigh of pure satisfaction. Hardy's writing is a pleasure at any time. So it looks like I'll be re-reading the others. As I recall, I won't look for a happy ending, however. Also, I thought Hardy showed remarkable insight in claiming that 50 years in the future it would be commonplace for women and men to co-habit without benefit of marriage. Since he was only 15 - 20 years premature in his guess, I was impressed.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yapı Kredi Yayınları
This was my first Edward Abbey book. I read it while spending a somewhat lonely and isolatory summer conducting a reasearch project at my undergraduate school. After I read this book, I proceeded to clean out the library's entire collection of Abbey books. Abbey was completely irreverant, arrogant, and self-obsessed at times, and I love him. For anyone who's ever dreamed of escaping real life for a while and living all alone in the desert, this is the book for you. Well, because that's what Abbey did.
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