Stdrovia Blackburn itibaren Pesochenskiy, Tulskaya oblast', Russia

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11/21/2024

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2019-06-29 00:40

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I really liked this book. It was even better than the first in my opinion. For me, the measure of a really great book is it's ability to take the reader away from everyday life and make them feel like they are part of the story. I think Aprilynne Pike has really moved forward in terms of the growth of her writing. I liked the first novel but it didn't pull me in like this did. I thought she really made the characters grow here and it made the story come alive. I loved the way she made Avalon, and the way faeries have apparently influenced humans was great, very chuckle inducing. (In an AHH now I FINALLY understand history kind of way.) I really loved the referances to Laurel's past, I wish there was a way to remove the memory block so that her early years could be remembered and help shape her personality in a more faery esque direction. I really like the love triangle created in this series. It's more than just a plain old trianlge, basically the choice is between embracing a life she doesn't remember (and letting go of the only life she can remember having) or clinging to the life she's most comfortable in. Personally I hope she ends up with Tamani, because that means that she embraces what she is. She can't really have a future with David, though he is a wonderful human he just won't live as long as she, and from what I understand of the faerie reproductive system the job cannot be done by a human. Although Pike could through a freaky Twilight like twist in there and make the story suck by suddenly making it possible... I think I shed a tear or two in the part where this quote comes from, "Tell me," he said, his voice sharp and demanding. "Tell me David is all you need or want in your life." His face was close to her, his soft breath caressing her face. "That you never think of me when you're kissing him. That you don't dream about me the way I dream about you. Tell me you don't love me. ". Thats whole situation broke my heart because I felt like she knows she's meant to be with him, but she's too afraid to admit to it because she thinks that will mean loosing the humans she loves. Anyways, I loved this book, I can't wait for the next in the series and based on this second edition I would reccomend the series to anyone who is interested.

2019-06-29 01:40

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I discovered this book some time ago while looking for reads to suggest for a bookclub on facebook. I'm pretty sure I read a review in the NY Times and thought the book would provoke conversation. The bookclub didn't choose the read. I finally got around to picking it up and diving in along w/both my then 16 year old daughter and 72 year old mother. As of late, we've been enjoying reads together, examining the different perspectives among three generations. Oddly enough or perhaps divinely enough; I myself, just recently suffered some health setbacks having developed uterine necrosis and had to have an emergency surgery. During this entire time, I was questioning the physicians and their decisions about how to address my health. This being the case, I was reading with great intensity. When the author, Rebecca Skloot introduces the story and her personal curiosity to find and learn about the woman behind HeLa cells. The cells that could magically, inexplicably reproduce themselves that would go to create preventive treatments for diseases such as polio, tuberculosis, HIV and so many more and are still producing. I immediately recognized that this story would be as much about the author's passion to unearth the story as it would be about Henrietta lacks, the amasing woman behind HeLa. As we begin our journey, we meet a young girl, small in stature, pretty, meticulous w/her appearance, strong and sure. The author shares Henritta's beginnings in VA, her life as a tobacco farmer, her relationships w/her cousins, her community and then her marriage and parenthood. The author knows her as much as she can, she knows from whence Henritta came and has a good idea of the life she is trying to create. For me, the part in the book when she feels an abnomality within her body is very telling of who she was. She reaches inside herself to put her hand right on the hard lump on her cervix. As she seeks medical care and her cancerous cells/tumors grow at an alarming rate; not even a year after seeking treatment, Henritta passes away all the whie experiencing pain that required extreme doses of morphine. Her life was cut short and those entrusted to care for her extracted her cells and used them for scientific exploration. Henrietta's cells were passed near/far for medical testing for various subjects and all of this was done w/o Henritta's consent nor the consent of her family. The profound and devastating effect the lost of her life has on those who love her, those whom she loved and cared her is heartbreaking and quite frankly gut-wrenching. The book is full of science and normally I would've tuned out or been lost had it not been such a compelling human story... There are so many issues examined. -Bioethics -The value of human life and the control one should have over his/her body. -The treatment in which African Americans often receive, based on our invisibility to many in society and the value put on AA life. -Christianity/Spiritualism -Family -Education or lack there of -How something so devastating (losing one's mother) can play such a defining role or really make a significant impact on the trajectory of a child's life.

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