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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Demavend Yayınları
Initially I picked this up for Pamela Zagarenski's illustration. I'd read "Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors" and loved her subtle use of color. But the illustration is hardly the main attraction here. The collage element is nice, but otherwise the pictures are simple drawings. Zagarenski's style itself doesn't do a lot for me, but in this case it worked nicely, lending believability to the "this book was made by a buncha kids" factor. They do look like children might've drawn them. Illustration aside though, I loved the poems. They were funny, sweet, and a little heartbreaking. I felt a little cheated when I found out they weren't really written by children (which you can tell about two pages in... these would have to be some really smart, poetic children), but a good book is still a good book. Like Sharon Creech, Joyce Sidman's poems, the dialogue she creates not just between the initial poem and the response poem, but through connections in the entire book, get you thinking about much larger relationships, about an entire classroom or a whole family, and about the kind of history these make-believe people must have with each other. And they easily relate to your own life. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone actually wrote back? One of my favorites, found on page 36, in response to a poem titled "Not Really" wherein Bobby apologies (but not really) for all the mean things he's done to his crush: To Bobby What Girls Want Girls want a lion with a great shaggy mane. Girls want a horse, fast and sure. Girls want a coyote that sings with its heart. Girls wants an eagle, soaring through mountains. Girls want a breeze that whispers its name. Girls want a snowfall that makes the world new. Girls want a dog that wags all over. Girls want a cat that purrs to the moon. Girls want a hedgehog that carries its own armor but doesn't always use it. Just to let you know. By Maria.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Dem Yayınları
You know it's a good picture book when - you are quoting it / reading it aloud to your sweetheart on your date night. Yes really. Our family loves history. Loves quotes. Loves standing up for what you believe in, even when others disagree. Loves when people are not afraid to voice their opinions AND take action. This is a great Leadership book, that used great American heroes as mentors. Loved it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kolektif Kitap
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Notorious Bachelors series "Alexander St. James may be a thief of hearts, but he is no burglar. He must recover an item blonging to his family to avoid a scandal, and so he has stolen into the home of Lord Hathaway, not expecting to come upon the beguiling Lady Amelia Patton in her bedroom, wearing only a lacy chemise.... From their first meeting Alexander leaves Amelia breathless---- He ignores the schadalous whispers as he sets out to seduce the woman of his dreams..."
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegasus Yayınları
Review originally published at Love Literature Art and Reason book review blog. American Psycho was the story of Patrick Bateman, a sophisticated psychopath. I absolutely love the movie and have been wanting to read the book for years. Bateman was such a self obsessed person who displayed antisocial personality disorder so well and is one of my favorite roles I’ve seen Christian Bale play. I couldn’t wait to delve deeper into his head by reading the book. Parts of American Psycho were so unbelievably graphic and disgusting, I couldn’t believe there were more descriptions on the page. Other parts disgusted me because he had such a complete lack of empathy for anyone and was obsessed with his appearance and his status. I expected both of these things to happen. What I didn’t expect was to feel so bored while reading. Despite reading a book narrated completely by Patrick Bateman, I didn’t feel like I knew him at all. I wasn’t expecting him to care or to always know why he did what he did, but I expected some sort of introspection in the narrative. However, to display his lack of empathy and his obsession with material things, the author chose to have his narration describe what he wore, looked like, did, and said, as well as what people around him said, without telling the reader WHO anyone was, WHY he was with them, or anything remotely interesting. I completely understand why this was the way the book was written. Of course it makes a great point about his disconnection to the world, not just from his antisocial murdering tendencies, but because of his rich and privileged attitude and status. The book serves to show quite an interesting character, but it also attempted to make a point about society in general and I appreciated that aspect. I get the book, but it doesn’t change the fact that it was very difficult to get through. It was so bogged down by his shallow observations that his attention to detail during the murder didn’t even shock me because I just didn’t care anymore. I think the movie did a much better job at conveying the story without boring viewers and I hate that I just said that. I’m not a movie over book person, but I do think the movie was better. Close to the end of the book, Bateman spiraled a bit more out of control and became bolder in his murders and sexual acts with women and corpses and chose to discuss those things in as much detail as the head to toe fashions of everyone he encountered. Despite finally getting to the nitty-gritty, I felt exhausted by the time the book started to explore his murderous nature and I still felt just as lost as to who he was, why he did things, or what joy/feeling he got from anything. While in the movie, I felt like his worry about his appearance and status was conveyed more clearly. Yes, American Psycho is incredibly graphic and shallow and exactly what you’d expect in that aspect, but it was infinitely more boring to read than I would have ever imagined. I wouldn’t recommend the book unless you’d like to experience a situation in which you are disconnected from characters. It was a smart move to make the reader feel that way because that is largely what antisocial personal disorder is (a disconnection and lack of empathy to the world), but despite being impressed by that, it still didn’t make the book enjoyable. I dislike when authors come up with great ideas for literary tools but still fail to deliver compelling stories.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pro-Mark
I feel like a traitor to all my friends who loved it, but I really did not. I was bored and disinterested the whole way through.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Alfa Yayınları
mais um bestseller lido em viagem! indo pra campos do jordão, escolhi algo facinho de ler, de um autor até então desconhecido pra mim. gostei do livro, mas não assim muuuuito, sabe? dá pra passar o tempo, mas tive a impressão de que o stephen hunter não sabe deixar a história tão interessante quanto o lee child, ou o john sandfrod. o final do livro é bem brusco, onde tudo se resolve repentinamente, sem muitas explicações. senti falta de saber mais, de juntar as pontas soltas, de resolver os detalhes deixados em aberto. o livro conta a história de um americano fanático por armas e caça, que vive solitário no meio do nada dos estados unidos. esse cara é recrutado por gente que trama toda uma emboscada pra que ele pareça culpado de um assassinato que não cometeu, e a história corre toda em torno disso: do bob lee tentando se vingar do povo que o incriminou por algo indevido. no fim, ele consegue se vingar e se livrar de tudo, mas a gente fica meio sem saber COMO, exatamente, ninguém o culpa pelos muitos outros crimes que ele comete no meio do caminho. Entretenimento? Sim. Super bom? Não.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık
The voice of the novel was strong, reminding me of Lovely Bones. Problem was a lack of any real plot beside the one decision Mia had to make - whether to return to life after the death of her immediate family. Even that decision wasn't very torturous since Mia had no evidence of what would happen to her if she allowed herself to die. Besides her faith in an afterlife where she'd see her family again, the only temptation to let go sprang from her grief over losing them. Since Mia never met another person in her situation, for all she knew, death would be oblivion. The choice of life, on the other hand, meant returning to some physical pain, along with great friends, a devoted and imaginative boyfriend, and loving grandparents. No real drama there. The conflict/drama wasn't as deep as needed to make a great story. The memory vignettes were mostly feel-good scenes, lacking drama/conflict/tension as well, so I was inclined to skim most of them. Overall, this was an okay read, well written.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: TÜBİTAK Yayınları
The first Nick Stefanos book, a series set in Washington, DC.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ebabil Yayıncılık
Right, this is certainly not a book i would reccomend to non-scientists, as it is technical. A collection of concise and self-contatined review articles of all the most cutting edge applications of Physics including Cosmology, Particle Physics, Quantum Optics, Physics and Society, Nanotechnology and others. If you have a good ground knowledge, or aren't scared of the odd equation, this will allow you to talk intelligently on alomost any Physics related topic. It is also written by great and respected scientists, such as Brian Green
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