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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Final Kültür Sanat Yayınları
In all truth, this book wasn't too bad. It might even deserve three stars. The writing sure does. Shannon Hale is a beautiful writer, very lyrical, who captures the reader into a different world and lets poetry drip from the pages like a lightly flowing brook. Okay, so it is sort of a dumb analogy, but that is the sort of thing she might say. The plot goes something like this, Dashti, formally a Mucker, has agreed to accompany her Lady Saren in a seven year captivity. Saren has refused to marry the man her Father has chosen, and in anger her Father locks her away in a tower to learn submission for seven years. The book is through Dashti's words in a journal fashion, recording what she assumes will be seven years in a doorless/windowless tower. But when two different suitors come calling, life gets complicated. Surprisingly, I wasn't familiar with the fairy tale this book came from. Why surprisingly? I've been reading fairy tales since I started reading. Maybe before. It was kind of interesting to read another "fairy tale interpretation" without knowing where it was going. The thing is...I just didn't like this book. I know. I'm sorry. But...well, I have a couple reasons. Characters: While Dashti was very sweet, but I couldn't stand Saren. At all. I never did figure out really what her issue was. She just cried and whined and pouted and drove me crazy . Dashti had much more patience than I would be. The second character that really kind of....weirded me out was Khan Tegus, the love interest. He really wasn't that bad, kind of sweet at first, but there was one scene (actually, more of a parenthetical comment) where... He scratches his rear end. I kid you not. It so weirded me out I couldn't even like his character for the rest of the book. I suppose it makes him "real life-ish"? but good heavens! It totally lost me. Also, I didn't care much for the plot. I know that sounds weird....but despite Dashti's "sweetness" I kept reading for the writing alone. Their joys/pains/etc. just didn't evoke enough pity for me. I was starting not to care if they starved to death. So overall...I dunno. I would strongly reccomend reading The Goose Girl as an excellent read and fairy-tale retelling, but this one didn't do it for me. Not the beginning, middle, or ending. Especially not Tegus. Good grief. The writing was great, but it didn't hold me further.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Jorge Luis Borges
I love this woman! LOVE! I decided to listen to the audio because it's read by Betty and I wanted to listen to her read to me. Which we would do often in my fantasies about trading in my mean old grandmother for this kind, smart, wonderfully funny woman!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Naviga Yayınları
Pretty hilarious.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yeniyüzyıl Yayınları
Acquired Taste is the sequel to Icing on the Cake. In this instalment of Ollie and Jeff’s story, Ollie is ready to kiss his lover goodbye due to Jeff's inability to commit to the relationship. This book is winner, not only because it is free from Ellora's Cave, but because it gives those readers who loved the previous story another dose of these likeable characters. Very enjoyable.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Altın Kitaplar - Çocuk Kitapları
Finally a decision has been made.... It's about time Jane decided who she wanted to be with. Great plot development and a few question have been answered... Hope the next installment gives even more.
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This one got under my skin and stuck there. Didn't much care for the framing, though? Was it at all necessary?
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pearson Education Yayıncılık
The first time I read this story, I simply loved it, and would rate it with 5 points. Now two years later by re-reading the story again, I think a bit differently. I missed the sex scenes and Declan as a character was to bland. This story was definitely written with amazing plot and all background characters were comical and positive, but somehow it's to large coincidence that both, Simon and Declan, had married couple as best friends. Overall this was really great romance and HIGHLY recommended story!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları
This book was incredible. Incredible because it was a true story. This biographical story about an elephant and his keeper was by far the best book I read in a long time. IF you read it, you will be astonished.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ephesus Yayınları
So one, I loved the read of the book, Its a really interesting book filled with several stories about Paul Farmer that I could totally put myself in the same spot, and at the same time a very challenging work,that got methinking. I read it slowly because there was so much that needed time to settle. I think about the book often. It changed my way of thinking about medicine, public health, the politics of public health, and also the poor. I would recomend this to anyone who is interested in medicine and health mission work, anyone who is interested in Anthropology and yet also, anyone who simply loves people especially the poor.
I was drawn to this book because I had read William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience years ago. And the title indeed was based on James' title, each book being a series of lectures given as the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh. Carl Sagan never really spells out what he believes about God. This is something everyone must discover for himself. Sagan gives us a set of tools for baloney detection which will work for every subject we come across. He speaks of science in ways a complete illiterate (me) in the subject can understand and become excited about. So, after reading the book, I found myself with answers to everything I had so long wondered about, with a new awareness that life is fleeting. Yet life itself is a thing of wonder and awe. The things there are to learn about our species and our universe are truly endless; everything Carl Sagan wrote being a good place to start. Perhaps this book especially feels like he's talking with us because these were lectures. But I get this feeling from his other books as well, and although there have been advances and discoveries since he wrote them, his style and approach awakens an excitement for his subject. There are also transcripts of questions and answer sessions that took place after each lecture. Many thoughts from many intelligent thinkers, and Sagan's warmth and humor shining through. I would recommend this book to everyone!
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