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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Karbon Kitaplar
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow, very cool. I enjoyed every minute of it and it got to the point where, if i wasn't reading my book, i hated everyone till i had it between my hands. An easy read, humourous in a lot of places, loved Gabriel. He was straight up adorable and i didn't like James at all >.> Mainly because he was the usurper and 'gorgous', really. Flaws are great, and i was very happy that he didn't have any until the point of irritation. But after reading it i can't decide whether the Lucky Heather was magical, or whether it was just a long string of coincidences. A conclusion i got to, i might add, before she did in the book. Regardless, i loved it. THank you Stacey and Martha!!!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote, “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” Author Jeannie Walker’s non-fiction book, Fighting the Devil, is about striving to understand a motive as old as Cain. Cold-blooded murder. This path of understanding came at a cost—Jeannie must reveal her pain and loss in order to tell the whole story in its unblemished truth. This took an act of courage. Jeannie had cause to walk away, distance herself from a man who brutally victimized her in the past. However, she decided to become involved for the good memories she still held for this man, and for the two children she shared with him who needed to know the truth. On June 12, 1990, self-made millionaire Jerry Sternadel died a horrible and painful death while strapped to a hospital bed in Texas. Before he died, Jerry pleaded with friends, family and medical staff to save him from two women who allegedly were slowly poisoning him. No one stepped forward, everyone believing the victim's current medical condition caused these hallucinations. As the end drew near, those who cared about him began to have second thoughts.An autopsy revealed the victim died of extreme arsenic poisoning. Even before the man’s death, suspicion fell on those believed to be responsible. It took a Herculean efforts by the author, a sheriff who fought to bring justice to this case right up until his own untimely death, and the cooperation of others in order to haul this investigation before the courts. This story records human frailties. Each player on this stage displays the whole gambit of human motivations and passions—love and hate, greed and selflessness, good and evil. Jeanie tells the story in her own way, her own style, while sharing her religious journey from spiritual darkness into the light. Regardless whether you share her viewpoint about good and evil, about God and the devil, readers will readily join this author as this story unfolds, waiting until the very last page to see if justice prevails.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Defne
65.Theroux, an American who lives in London, decides to travel the coast, stopping wherever he likes and meeting the people. At this point (1982) Theroux had lived in London for eleven years but hardly ventured out of the city. So he begins in the city of Margate, a coastal town with a violent reputation, and travels by train, bus, hitchhiking and walking along the coast and traveling into Ireland to see "The Troubles". He carries a knapsack and stays at B&Bs, which are often just rooms in a regular home where he can talk to the family about the Falkland War that was going on at the time. He meets all different people, from friendly people grateful for conversation and suspicious people who eye him and one old crone who breaks into his hotel room to keep him company. Even though this book is almost thirty years old, it's about people and their behavior, so it really hasn't aged.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Can Yayınları
Bahasanya agak sulit namun cukup seru, bikin penasaran bagaimana akhir dari kisah cinta Alessandra dengan si pelukis.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İnformal Yayınları
Really good read. Loved the layers of stories and characters. Very well put together book.
This book was a page turner, and so brilliantly told from two very different perspectives. I enjoyed Little Bee's voice especially, including her somewhat jarringly macabre sense of humor in light of the grim tales she had to tell. I liked too that both women showed courage and moral weakness that made it difficult to assign "good" or "bad" labels to their characters.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: TÜBİTAK Yayınları
This was the topic of my senior thesis (specifically the poem 'Medusa'), and also my most recent attempt at finding something revolutionary, interesting, or worthwhile in modern poetry. The dadaists and beat poets were intent on wresting poetry from the jaws of tradition. By popularizing poetry, they turned poetry into another pointless, populist act. By enshrining the 'personal experience' as the sole qualifier of poetic worth, they ensured that every hack poet will feel justified in sharing their inane thoughts, and that every good poet will be lost in a sea of mediocrity. Personal experiences are often banal and painfully shortsighted. Making sacred something which everyone has is the same as making nothing sacred. While their egalitarianism might be audacious, this does not make it useful. Remove our ability to critique poetry, and you no longer have any community of poetry. The poem has finally been relegated to the most base populist urge: escapism. When 'emotional reaction' is all that matters, Twilight and Miley become our 'high art'. Newsstand celeb rags become our critics. When you try to eliminate tradition, you eliminate the ability to create meaning, since meaning can only be expressed by confirming or denying the experiences and notions of tradition. Keeping tradition as a basis does not mean agreeing with it. Indeed, by rejecting it, the dadaists also rejected the tradition of poetry as fundamentally subversive. Without a tradition, what is there to subvert? I chose Duffy because I thought I saw something promising in her. Instead of shock tactics and 'personal experiences', she seemed to create a more complex and interesting view. It seemed there might be something more there than you might get from hearing a gas station attendant complain about their relationship woes for the duration of a cigarette break. When I finally sat down and began to follow the traces and threads of Duffy's thought, it became less promising. An analysis of word use, construction, and scansion proved rather fruitless; she was keeping no extra meaning there. Her words are simple, straightforward, and though they point to something more than their pure meaning on the page, there are no worlds inhabiting the spaces between oxymorons, as in Donne and Plath. Duffy does not take on and subvert the myths she uses, indeed she often presents the characters as divorced from their historical or mythological contexts. 'Medusa' ignores almost all of the original tale, acting less as an observation of the life of the monster than a rather simple metaphor for the belabored feminist standby of 'the gaze'. She even misapplies the mythological elements she does use, indicating that she has no interest in trying to realistically portray these 'unwritten' women's stories. There is no apparent pattern or further meaning to her misapplication, so it is not a subversion of the original tale. A comparison of this poem to previous Medusa-themed feminist poems (including Plath's) also failed to show promise. Duffy was not using tradition as a shorthand to create intertextuality. The similarities were haphazard and vague. A historical view proved no more profitable, since Duffy's many wives do not represent the various and changing views of the womanhood of the past. She does not explore the time before there was a possibility of 'homosexual identity', or the understanding of the feminine in all these far-flung ages. Indeed, her women are all remarkably modern, which would be forgiven under the auspices of the sacred 'personal experience', but it seems a crime to look at yourself, at femininity, at history, and not question whether your own assumptions are just the symptoms of your own zeitgeist. Perhaps Duffy recognizes this, for in 'Medusa' at least, she presents a woman whose view of the world is as flawed as the metaphor would indicate. It is her obsession with her own victimization that turns men to stone, not their faults or flaws. Though she blames them, we see the chinks and cracks in her all-encompassing victimhood. I hope that Duffy sees the cracks, as well. If she does, then her poems at least represent an informed and skeptical view of the 'subjugated woman', recognizing how this destruction becomes internalized. If she does not recognize this, then the poem is a purely personal experience, representing not only Duffy's understanding of gender, but where that understanding becomes flawed and unreliable: the point when an unreliable narrator becomes an unreliable author. Without clever and biting asides to clue us in, we're left wondering whether Duffy is a self-victimizer, or whether she is laughing at the notion. There is a sense that she recognizes this, but it never seemed fully-formed enough to break the bonds entirely. Most of the poems are more-or-less unremarkable, leaving many readers with the sense that Duffy is being candid and straight-forward. Her simplistic language does not invite a deeper reading, though her work profits from it. By failing to be clear, she leaves herself open to interpretation, even interpretations opposite to what she often seems to indicate. Many read 'Medusa' as a woman vindicated in her hatred, though perhaps this only comes from their own need for such vindication against the world. The myth of feminism in Duffy never reaches the conscientious wit of Angela Carter, whose acumen is a rare and valuable gift to humanity. By leaving her poems open to interpretation, Duffy loses much of the punch she could have had by presenting her subversion more strongly. Her poems are likely to amuse the cynic as well as provide emotional support to the self-victimizer. Then again, it's hard to blame Duffy for this entirely, as the short-sighted will always try to take away something that supports what they have already decided to be true.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Liberte Yayınları
YOu all probably know that I'm going to say this is my favorite book ever only because it helps me understand my favorite movie ever! If you ever want to get the names of the characters in Godfather right, then this is the book to read! Awesome book!
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this is the best bodice-ripper i've ever read. despite the fact that it's sort of a cheesy book about impossibly exotic and beautiful aristocracy and the problems of the upper class, it's lovely. the best romance novel ever ready, with some great juicy scenes. good for traveling.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İremMüzik
this is the first of a fantastic series with a pretty brilliant premise. The writing is witty, it keeps you entertained, and I especially like that you never know what might happen next. I think what I love the most about this series is that it could have just been written as a male fantasy (last man on earth=lots of sex) but it has not needed to go there in order to make it a compelling read.
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