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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Litera Türk
In a time when a 50% divorce rate sends us into marriages hoping for the best but preparing for the worst, it is unusual to contemplate someone losing their spouse to death rather than infidelity or acrimony. But that is what has happened to Betta. Her blissfully happy marriage to John comes to an end when he succumbs to liver cancer, leaving her alone and devastated. One of his dying wishes was the she continue to live, and to thrive, and to do so by moving to the Midwest. So Betta trades in her Boston brownstone for a Middle America Victorian, and tries to learn how to face the rest of her life without the person who has been her life. There's a lot of sadness and grief in this novel--several times I paused to shudder over the idea of losing someone like the main character did, but there are a lot of simple, home truths, as well. Betta struggles and puts up a good fight--shr reconnects with old friends, tries to get to know the townfolks, takes delight in the simple pleasures. It's a very sensual book--not in the sexy way, but in the way that celebrates the tastes, sights, sounds, smells, and feel of things. A fairly gentle read (reminds me of the American version of Rosamunde Pilcher) and most definitely women's fiction.
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I saw Capote and wasn't quite sure what to expect from this novel given the author's eccentricities but I found it entirely engrossing. I spent most of the book wondering whether I should think these two individuals were really guilty. Although they didn't seem to be the smartest pair, they also didn't seem to be lacking morality. Of course, that's based on my own judeo-christian definition of morality. Capote just made them so human, not like the monsters that you could envision committing such brutal crimes against a defenseless, unsuspecting family. What I also found interesting was the detective work applied in a time when forensic science was not commonplace. Without ever interviewing the family, Capote manages to create personalities and lives for the deceased members without pity. That's not to say that I didn't feel poorly for the family and the community. But despite the fears of the community, they held together and maintained the midwestern stereotypes of family and friendship.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları
I read this book to understand more of my Czechoslovakian heritage. Growing up, I remember that my Grandmothers family was behind the Iron curtain, and very little contact was maintained. So the mystery of Czechoslovakia looms over me. I hear of the beauty of Prague, and desire to know more. This book helped me understand what Czecholslovakia was like in the 60's, how to honor one's father, and how our heritage can also be our future.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
A feminist fairy tale
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Büyükada Yayıncılık
Two simple intertwined premises, near-perfect execution. The first is that citizens of a free society carry with them an extraordinary responsibility for the responsible governance of that society. The complaints about everything from fast food to sleazy politicians are little more than tilting at windmills unless The People decide to stop empowering that which we loathe. The second is that effects of war--especially in an age of mass destruction--have with them the ability to wipe out our history, our culture, the very things that we use to define a civilization. In what we refer to as a democracy, the power of war was supposed to rest with the legislature (the House, specifically) keeping it as close to the people as possible. When we abdicate that responsibility and give it up to a single person, and then buy in to the manufactured climate of conflict, the consequences are catastrophic.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Değer Yayınları
I read this book a couple of years ago and still have fond recollections of how I felt as I moved through the story. The plot and language are unassuming and unpretentious and yet somehow the simple style makes the book all the more enlightening and enjoyable.
I was expecting this to be more of a legal thriller then it was, but I wasn't disappointed. This is the first time I have read anything by Grisham and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The characters seemed real to me, and I liked the way the issues of ethics and personal chooses was dealt with. Does a persons choice of lifestyle make that person a better person then another? And what really is a criminal act? And does ones station in life dictate what they're worth? Can a person find happiness even when the situation they are in doesn't seem to reflect much happiness?
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Puslu Yayıncılık
I stayed up until 3:30 in the morning reading this one. I couldn't sleep. So I'd pick up my Kindle and read. And then put it down and try to sleep, but then be unable to stop thinking about the story, so I'd pick it up again, and then I just kept going until the end. This was a story about a terribly difficult situation and I was impressed by how the author gave almost every character even mentioned in the book a wonderful depth of character. At some points you are pretty sure you love one character, but hate another, but after a while you realize they are all flawed human beings doing the best they can.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İnkılap Kitabevi
Brilliant
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kuraldışı Yayınevi
This book is so funny in a sick kind of way...I laughed out loud almost through the entire book.
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