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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Evrensel M.
Riordan has found a magic formula indeed: translate the old gods into the 21st century, wreak havoc of various kinds, mundane and magical, bring the world to the edge of the brink, and the young heroes, in this case, Carter and Sadie Kane (met previously in The Red Pyramid, Book 1 of the Kane Chronicles) and various friends (who are recruited from the masses for their powers, treated in a sort of hidden place), save us in an amazingly short time, usually with minutes to spare. Plus suffer teenaged angst. Or put it this way: "And now their most threatening enemy yet--the Chaos snake, Apophis--is rising. If they don't prevent him from breaking free in a few days' time, the world will end. In other words, it's a typical week for the Kane family." The smartass humor works, as do the smartass heroes. Carter is the more serious and nerdy of the two; Sadie, the cooler. Both are powerful magicians, from a long line of magicians going back to the House of Life in Ancient Egypt. They are also teenagers, with all the self-doubts and worries and emotional turmoil that implies, including first love--with a twist. Carter falls in love (in Book 1) with a girl who turns out to be an animated clay copy of the real thing. Sadie has a crush on Anubis, the god of funerals and death, who takes the form of a "teen boy with dark, windblown hair and warm brown eyes. He wore a black Dead Weather T-shirt and black jeans that fit him extremely well (108)." The family cat turns out to be Bast, the cat-goddess. Carter and Sadie--and crew, divine and mortal, are engaging, and the pacing works: the race to save everything in a few days' time. The target audience--adolescents--will recognize themselves, I think. And, they will learn something about Egyptian mythology. Riorda has done his homework, as he did in his successful Percy Jackson series with the Olympians and Greek mythology, and Roman mythology in The Lost Hero (book 1 of another series underway, the Heroes of Olympus). It's a page turner; I had fun. I am sure Book 3 is on the way--and I am looking forward to it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Mitos Boyut Yayınları
A good book illustrating the point that it's important to offer those you love the healing they need rather than the healing you want them to have.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hafıza Merkezi
Why is it in these kinds books that the woman almost always goes and heads home or does something otherwise stupid and needs to be rescued by her man? Very similar to J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series but still a very good read in it's own right.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kapı Yayınları
Being cuckholded is probably not the best start to a relationship. (Nor is being a pawnbroker either apparently)
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Deomed Medikal Yayıncılık
Read for a book club. This would never have been my pick, but I don't regret reading it. The Last Lecture is a bittersweet book that encourages readers to achieve their childhood dreams. Typically, at the end of a teaching career, a professor gives a "last lecture" detailing what he or she learned, and what advice might be passed on to future generations. In Randy Pausch's case, this lecture came to mean something more. Randy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given 3-6 mos. to live. His last lecture was a farewell to friends and family, a record for his young children of what he hoped they would know was important.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Uzman Kariyer Yayınları
Don't set this book down before you get through the battlefield scenes...I promise you won't regret the bloodshed if you stay with it through the battle of Franklin. One of my favorite books that I read this year.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İskenderiye Yayınları
All of her books and recipes have been critized for being easy and obvious. This is true, but I love her still and actually do cook from her books all the time. I love her show and her menu ideas. Watch her ingredient amounts though--she's got a heavy hand!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Murat Yayınları
I'll probably never read this but it's still awesome
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Elips Kitap
I love William Carlos Williams; I've always thought of him as the Mr. Rogers of Modernism.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yalçın Yayınları
This book could be good. Could. I have to admit, I read it to page 150 and stopped. The main character is a beat-up and bruised 40 year old Chicana living in New York. She is dead broke poor, has been beaten on and mistreated by men numerous times, and disliked herself so much at one point that she beat her 4 year old daughter (whom she saw as part of herself). She was put in a mental institution numerous times; the second time for smashing in the nose of her niece's pimp after he had beat up her niece. In the mental institution, she dreams that she can access a utopian society in the year 2174(?) via a "sender" living in that time, Luciente. There, she sees what a society that has moved beyond hegemonic gender roles, colonialism, and capitalist competition could be like. The book could be good, if the storyline wasn't so long-winded and unbelievable. Plus, the only really positive male character in the novel is one of Consuelo's dead lovers, who was a blind black blues musician. But he got killed in jail while participating in a Hep-C experiment that could have got him released if it didn't kill him. Unbelievable. Is there anything NICE about 1974, when the book was written? Not according to the author.
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