Yuxing Sang itibaren Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

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12/22/2024

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2019-06-30 09:40

Elektronik Hobi - Güçlü Tuğay TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Alfa Yayınları

My Review of Goliath can also be found here: Review of Goliath by Scott Westerfeld I thought this was a great ending to the series! I read this book in half a day it was so good. I cant believe the passenger they had to pick up. I was like seriously shocked when we found out who they were picking up. I mean s if they hadn't gone through enough with all that happened in the Ottoman Empire and then they have to pick up this specific passenger! I mean if I was one of the people on board the Leviathan when they found out who exactly they were picking up I could definitely seeing the words "are you kidding me" or "wth" running through their minds. Not to mention how because of him they ended up going through a bunch of stuff, like going to America, and getting attacked when they wouldn't have had to if they didn't have to pick up that passenger. Who knew one guy could cause so much trouble?!?! Alek learned Deryn's secret!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!! And he kind of figured it out on his own, with help thanks to a newspaper article. I cant believe how he handled it at first, I mean, ya, she lied about being a girl but other than that she was a great friend and mostly truthful with him. Just because she was a girl shouldn't have changed that. I was very happy closer to the end when he realized that! OMG! There was so much action at the end! Stopping Goliath from being used, stopping the Germans from an attack on Goliath!!! AHHH! Just so much happening. I must say though, I was very satisfied with the ending! Especially with what Alek decided to do about being the heir to the throne and with how things ended for him and Deryn!!

2019-06-30 10:40

Kafayı Çalıştır Seti (Zor Seviye)-Kolektif TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Uğurböceği Yayınları

This was the first so-called "commodity history" that I've read, and I'm sorry to say it might have turned me completely off the damn things. I'm not entirely sure why this book is so popular and so widely read, since it strikes me as simply a series of stories by Mark Kurlansky that quickly settle into the same basic mantra, which is: 1) Here is this culture; 2) Like the twenty other cultures I have just introduced to you, salt was also important to this culture; 3) These are the ways they gathered salt; 4) Here is a random sprinkling of recipes involving salt. Done. Move on to next story. The different stories are not even interwoven, so that halfway through the book I still didn't really know what Kurlansky's point is, unless to underscore his initial point that all animals need salt to live. But I already knew this before I cracked open the book, and I don't think Kurlansky's additional 450 pages underscoring the subject really added anything useful to my life. Moreover, how can this guy write one book about how Cod changed the world (aptly titled Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World), and then turn right around and write another about how salt changed the world? One wonders if his gimmick isn't getting a bit old. And in any case, can't you name pretty much anything out there and weave a story about how it "changed" the world? Shoelaces, rubber, pencils, ziplock bags . . . The one thing about the book that was interesting was how it printed all these old school recipes involving salt, salting and brining. The recipes are incredible because of the sheer amount of labor and preparation that they describe. It's both fascinating and horrifying. No wonder a woman's place used to be in the kitchen, if cooking and eating took so damn long. Here is one of the simpler recipes, this one for salted cucumbers: SOLENYE OGURTSY (SALTED CUCUMBER) Dry out very clean river sand and pass it through a fine sieve. Spread a layer of this sand, the thickness of your palm, on the bottom of a barrel. Add a layer of clean black currant leaves, dill, and horseradish cut into pieces, followed by a layer of cucumbers. Cover the cucumbers with another layer of leaves, dill, and horseradish, topped with a layer of sand. Continue in this manner until the barrel is full. The last layer over the cucumbers must be currant leaves, with sand on the very top. Prepare the brine as follows: For one pail of water, use one and a half pounds of salt. Bring to a boil, cool, and cover the cucumbers completely with the brine. Replenish the brine as it evaporates. Before any kind of salting, cucumbers must be soaked for 12-15 hours in ice water. --Elena Molokhovets, A Gift to Young Housewives ============= ADDENDUM I: Okay, I am about three quarters through the book now (I was probably only about halfway through when I wrote the first portion of this review) and it's getting a lot better. Maybe it was just the very long Part II about salting cadavers and the preservation of fish that got me so down on the book before I'd even finished the damn thing. I was initially tempted to quit and put the book down, but I have done that so rarely with books that I decided to just push on, and thankfully the arc of the story shifted and started getting a lot better. ============= ADDENDUM II: Okay, the book got a lot better towards the end. It's still not a book that I would read again with any relish or recommend to anyone who is not already gung-ho about commodity histories, but I don't feel like I am wasting my eyes and mental energy with it anymore. Two stars!

2019-06-30 11:40

Küçük Günahlar TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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It took me until page 200 to get into this book. After that it was enjoyable and I wasn't just reading it because it was the only book I had with me on my trip to Africa. It was also interesting to read it there though because it actually takes place somewhere in Africa.

2019-06-30 12:40

Elements of Plane Trigonometry TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Gece Kitaplığı

A look at the birth of civil rights in one small Georgia county that always seems behind the times. Great reporting with an incredibly powerful ending showing that no matter the cause or the intention, power will always corrupt.

2019-06-30 13:40

Sadık Bey TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Can Yayınları

Really hard to rate this one, as I was totally intrigued by Tess and her story and all she endured ... but it is probably the most depressing thing I've ever read.

2019-06-30 14:40

İs Odası TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yapı Kredi Yayınları

You probably won't enjoy this book unless you're smart and funny, and those two are not mutually exclusive. But it's brilliant, and only makes the movie more brilliant.

2019-06-30 15:40

15 Temmuz Destanı -Tankın Değil Halkın Zaferi TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Mevsimler Kitap

Loved the details,the setting,the mystery. Not so much on the freaky scary part.

2019-06-30 16:40

Temmuz Sağanakları TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yasakmeyve

*3 stars for this book* *4 stars for the series as a whole* (So a 4-star rating seems a fair compromise). And so thus ends the saga of Han Alister, gang lord and street rat, and Raisa ana'Marianna, blooded queen of the fells. It was....somewhat lackluster. Definitely the writing in this book was much better than the previous book, but it lacked some of the urgency and a lot of the promise of the first two books. While I enjoyed watching things come to a head in the kingdom, there was no sense of a building climax or of things resolving (even though we do have a climax and resolution. I just don't think it packed the punch it was supposed to. At all). Sure, there were battles and revelations and intrigue all over the place, but....imagine watching a horror movie (or any movie, really), with the sound off, using only subtitles. You see everything that is going on, but nothing really builds up because a key element is missing: the background music. The movie's score helps greatly to convey emotion, heighten tension, foreshadow...all the stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat with bated breath to know what happens next. That is what this book felt like a lot of the time - like I was watching a beautiful movie, but with the sound off. It was so much less than what it could have been and cemented my thoughts that the last two books have been more filler, really, than anything else. And oh yes! The lack of poetic justice really bothered me in this book. Gavan Bayar did not get the death he deserved, and I was quite put out by that. It was far too easy and peaceful. The less said about that Micah Bayar, the better. No honor in him, that one. He also didn't get the end he deserved: cowardly, weak, spineless, dishonorable, and nothing happens to him. WHY? This is high fantasy! People should get what is coming to them! So yeah, the justice bit also wasn't very well executed. The big reveal, while a major piece of information, carried no shock factor (for me at least. It was like watching footage of the atomic bomb dropping on Hiroshima 40 years after the fact: the grainy soundless image does nothing to convey the horror and gravity of the situation. Even so, I think you really do have to hand it to Ms. Chima. The concept, and (at least) the beginning stages were flawlessly executed. I haven't read such good, vivid, engrossing Young Adult HIGH FANTASY for a long time. Simply beautiful. Another strength of this series has been the characters. Han is quite lovable as our roguish hero, but I think the real star is Raisa. Sure she is quite the Mary-Sue, but she is a likeable Mary-Sue, so she gets a pass. But in her Ms. Chima created a character who proudly accepts and chooses duty. I loved it. Usually you are reading about people who reluctantly take the throne, who don't want to be trapped with riches and court intrigue and only want a happy and secluded life with the man of their dreams. With Raisa we have a girl who started like that, but who ends up deciding that while she would rather have love, she also wanted to do her duty as queen, to fulfill the role she had been born into. And she gets into curt intrigue and learning to outmaneuver people with gusto and joy, instead of reluctance. Fabulousity all around. How can you not like someone like that, even if she is a Mary Sue? In the end, Raisa gets her man and the throne: even more fabulosity. One final thing: I think part of what made this finale lacking was the age of the characters. Raisa and Han are about 18 years at the time these events take place. Eh. Sometimes, it felt like children playing at kingdoms. They acted like silly teenagers, instead of people locked in a power struggle for the soul of a kingdom. Makes it hard to take people like that seriously. Perhaps if they had been older, they would have been more mature and the urgency would have been there. Basically - this book was a sorta fitting end to a series that started out so beautifully. It doesn't quite live up to it's potential, but it is still very much worth coming along for the ride. I will really miss Han, Raisa, and the Fells. ............................... BEFORE READING I don't know what to think of the cover.

2019-06-30 17:40

Anlıyorum Ama Konuşamıyorum - Salih Uyan TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları

one of my favorite books of all time

2019-06-30 18:40

Batı Felsefesi Tarihi (Cilt 3) - Bertrand Russell TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Alfa Yayınları

Amazing read!not sure exactly what i thought it would be about, but it is quite a true-to-life journey! Can't wait to finish!

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