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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyan Yayınları
I love a good action-spy-terrorist-FBI-Secret-Service-double-crossing-political-thriller. There are four authors in this genre that I turn to again and again, and they never disappoint. Sorry that I can't add Brad Thor to the list. Not that it didn't start out with a brilliant, and I mean BRILLIANT crime. The kidnapping of the president was really well done. Loved it. But then, The Lions of Lucerne turned into a Nancy Drew mystery: The Case of the Missing President (plus lots of strong language and violence). The clues were so obvious as to make the terrorist kidnappers look like a bunch of rank amateurs. Each bit of evidence was so over-explained, I felt I was being talked down to. We follow Secret Service Agent Scot Harvath as he is battered, beaten, shot at, stabbed, nearly drowned, etc. He has a couple of friends who provide key clues, and one introduces him to the only other person on the planet who could figure this out, who just happens to be a beautiful woman. And, just like in Nancy Drew, during the interview of the bad guy, an odd turn of phrase turns into the key clue that helps them solve the case! Wow! Also annoying, the reader is constantly reminded (through "tell" as much as "show") of how smart, tough, strong, well-trained, quick-thinking and handsome the hero is. I have another Brad Thor book on my "to read" shelf, loaned to me by my dad, who told me this one was the better of the two. Hmm. Hard to get excited about that one...
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Çiçek Yayıncılık
Gives a glimpse into life during Pre-WWII Japan. It is about a young Chinese man who is recovering from TB. He is sent to the family's summer house in Japan. He meets various people who teach him many important lessons. It belongs to my cousin, Terri. I should return it. I'll get it in the mail to you! LOL!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: FDD Yayınları
When I borrowed this book from the library, I thought I was getting another "how soon will it take buildings to be replaced with rainforest if mankind were to vanish". There is a book about that, with a similar title, but this is not that book. This book is nominally "what fossils and other geological evidence would we leave for future paleontologists, a million years hence?" I say "nominally", because it's really only that in the last three or four chapters. Until then it's a fascinating introduction to geology. And I say these words as surprised to see them as you are to read them. "Fascinating"? "Geology"? I've never been bitten by geology, despite years of flirting with it: friends are geologists, the great teacher at my kids' school is a geologist, there are books on geology bouncing around the house, geology is part of learning about dinosaurs which we did with the kids for a year, .... But never before have I understood the awe that geologists feel at the beauty of it. The best books, I am guilty of repeatedly saying, teach you to see the world in a different light. You'll look at something you've seen before and now you'll see moving parts or relationships that you hadn't seen before. Mud, for example, is basically water-eroded rock. The sticky sludge you scrape off your boots on the doormat was once a boulder or peak. Zalasiewicz says, "you might think of the earth as a blue planet or a green planet, but you could equally well think of it as brown: it sits, partially covered in its own decay." This mud, this eroded rock, is the sediment in sedimentary rock, it's what fossils form in. Quartz doesn't erode with water the same way other minerals (rocks) do; the little bits of quartz that don't form mud are sand I'm sure real geologists are horrified by my Play-Skool level descriptions, but it's the beauty and integration of it that I love. Geology has always been a maze of random and cryptic thisolite and thatolite minerals and Wankozoic era names that leave me cold. They name eras after places in the world where classic rocks from that time are found: Jura mountains for Jurassic, Silure tribe from Wales for Silurian, Devon for Devonian, etc. But that's geology like memorizing sequences of kings is history: it's not names and dates, it's what happened and how and why that's interesting. It's not just the typical bits of geology either: in addition to mud, the author covers the unique nature of the Earth: the crust in motion, the atmosphere in balance, the history of temperature change, the effects of temperature change on the rock record, and the likely effects of climate change. The author writes like he's an elderly English academic who loves his field and forgives himself the occasional joke and aside. And, although I never thought I'd say it, I love it too.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınevi
I think I am enjoying this series (just started the second) because I am listening to it on audiobook, and the different accents and intonations capture a lot that I might have missed reading it. Entertaining, slightly educational, and a bit cheesy in parts - bu thoroughly enjoyable.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tebeşir Yayınları
This was a good, short book showing both sides of a childfree life and parenthood. She really got some candid insight from real people.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Çocuk Gezegeni
It was a bit long at times, but I really enjoyed this book and it seems particularly relevant in today's society, with all of the talk of foreign policy, religion, fundamentalism, etc.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Mapex
This is one of very few books that I have picked up over and over and over again to read. The story is remarkable and full of life with every detail and turn. I got this book many years ago and I still enjoy it today.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Okyanus Yayınları
I was hoping to learn more about Washington's private life in this book, but three-fourths (or more) of this book was about his military career during the French & Indian War as well as the Revolution and beyond. I found it hard and somewhat boring to wade through at times. Granted, Martha Washington burned their personal correspondence after Washington's death, so there went the great avenue of finding out about Washington's thoughts, tastes, etc. Of course there are some interesting facts about his life, things that I didn't know before reading this book, but not enough to really enjoy it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İletişim Yayınevi
It's not the sort of book that usually draws my attention, but something about it caught my eye. It's a poignant story, short and bittersweet. Though fictional it relates many of the true hardships of the people and time. Being in verse it was a quick read, succinct and poetic. Quite an interesting little window into the time, people, and place.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hilal Ajans
I picked this up for free at this year's WorldCon event off of the Freebie table. Wild Ride by Carrie Vaughn - 4 Stars Side-Effects May Include by Steve Duffy - 2 Stars (Odd twist just didn't do it for me) Comparison of Efficacy Rates... by Marie Brennan - 3 Stars The Beautiful Gelreesh by Jeffrey Ford - 2 Stars Skin in the Game by Samantha Henderson - 3 Stars Blended by C. E. Murphy - 4 Stars Locked Doors by Stephanie Burgis - 3 Stars Werelove by Laura Anne Gilman - 3 Stars In Sheep's Clothing by Molly Tanzer - 2 Stars Royal Bloodlines by Mike Resnick - 4 Stars The Dire Wolf by Genevieve Valentine - 3 Stars Take Back the Night by Lawrence Schimel - 3 1/2 Stars Mongrel by Maria V. Snyder - 4 Stars Deadfall by Karen Everson - 3 1/2 Stars Red Riding Hood's Child by N. K. Jemisin - 3 Stars Are You a Vampire or a Goblin? by Geoffrey H. Goodwin - 3 Stars The Pack and the Pickup Artist by Mike Brotherton - 3 Stars The Garden, the Moon, the Wall by Amanda Downum - 4 Stars Blamed for Trying to Live by Jesse Bullington - 2 1/2 Stars The Barony at Rødal by Peter Bell - 3 Stars Inside Out by Erzebet Yellowboy - 4 Stars Gestella by bySusan Palwick - This one I'm having a real hard time rating. Loved the writing, hated the ending.
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