Felicia Jones itibaren Rotokauri, New Zealand

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12/27/2024

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2019-10-10 11:40

KITALARIN GENEL COĞRAFYASI TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Asil Yayın Dağıtım

I started a review and my computer decided it wanted to restart before I could save it! Oh well. Here we go again!I've had this ebook for years! Better late than never.I enjoyed this book. It was a good read. Why not four or more stars?Let me tell you.I am a curious person. I can't help it. I have been known to ask far too many questions. It's wired in me to have a curious mind about the world and about the way it works, why people do the things they do. That tends to be an important part of my analytical process when it comes to books. So when I finished this book, I had big huge question marks in my mind about Chance. I didn't understand the way his mind worked, why he was keeping himself so isolated and separate. I didn't know, even when the book was over. It was like people knew this about him and didn't go there. I think that although this was a major issue for Zora, nothing really seemed to change this. Yes, he declared his love, decided to let her into his insular life, but I didn't get closure on why he was like that. Was it from a past hurt? Was it ever going to change? Would he open up a little more for Zora? I think if I had this understanding, I might have liked this book more than I did.Also, I didn't like the casual nature of their relationship. Tthey hooked up for sex and mainly had separate lives. Not romantic to me. Yes, I know, that's how some modern relationships are. It doesn't work for me. If there's going to be a sexual relationship first, I need it to feel like something more. There was a push/pull here where Zora was slowly pushing at Chance's barriers, but at the same time trying to maintain her autonomy and accept the relationship for what it was, although she wanted more. That was the main tension in this book. It's probably realistic for the development of many relationships, but not what I look for in a romance. I guess I'm still the fairy tale kind of relationship gal. I don't apologize for that. I think it's important for all women to feel that they are worth the wooing and the seeking and that they are a princess to the man they love. I don't want to be a princess, don't get me wrong, but it's good for you to know that you're a princess to the man you love and are in a relationship with!I loved that Zora was a chef and liked to bake. As a foodie, that resonates with me. I also tend to bake when I'm restless, and I should be less shy and take my extras (of which there are often a lot) over to my neighbors. No, I don't have a hunky ex-Marine neighbor, but still. Yes, this is a good love story although a bit nebulous for my tastes. Nicely steamy, with a hero who is quite appealing. I do like the buttoned up hero, but I could have used more unbuttoning besides sexually. I loved the proposal though. This is one of Aliyah Burke's earlier novels, and I can see that she's come into her own and developed a smoother voice and more confident writing. Even so, for being one of her first books, it's evident that she is a talented writer.Overall rating: 3.5/5.0 stars.

2019-10-10 16:40

Yaratılan Dünya Uzay Serisi #11 TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Philip K. Dick

I haven't seen the movie yet, for when I spotted the book in the bookshop I decided to read it first. It's quite a nice book, but not as wonderful as all the praise on the cover and all the hooha about the movie suggest (though of course the movie might be better). What I liked about this book, was the way the story skipped around and I got to puzzle things out for myself. What I didn't like, was that there weren't any real characters. The side characters are cardboard figures whom we only see for a brief time. We are told they are 'gentle' or 'kind' or whatever, but we hardly see any evidence of that, we just have to take the narrator's word for it. There were some very interesting situations that had the potential for great character development and an exploration of the choices we make as humans, but they were all missed. Interesting characters such as Shantaram, Shankar and his mother and the Australian chap are glossed over. Even the main character is sort of flat. He's resourceful, clever and kind in an absent way, but there isn't much development and mainly the book is just a description of lots of things that happen to him and gives no information on what they mean to him or how they affect him. This is my main problem with the book, since it is this lack of truly interesting people that keeps it all a bit bland. This book had great potential, but didn't live up to it. The result is a book that's easy to read and entertaining enough, but never really touched me or made me think.

2019-10-10 18:40

Resimli Klasikler Dizisi: Sefiller - Victor Hugo TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Parıltı Yayınları

4 1/2 stars. Maggots in my Sweet Potatoes is an impressive book, impressive in that you will come away with an expanded and perhaps new impression of what life is like in a women's jail. Ms. Lankford is a photojournalist and this large format (~13” x ~10”) book is filled with stark black and white photos. It is not, however, just another coffee table book. The author follows the stories of real people and this book should be read, not just thumbed through. Jails are very different than prisons. In jails, there is such a mixture of serious criminals and the truly innocent who can't post bail while awaiting trial. There are people there who should be in prison but are in jail because of the prisons' overcrowding. There are the mentally ill who need treatment, and there are those who pretend to be mentally ill so they can scam the system. It is a very mixed society, and difficult to deal with. The author has a great deal of empathy for the people she interviews, but she doesn't get overly fluffy about it, does not excuse the wrong things that have been done by them. She does, however, explain how their early lives filled with poverty and crime made it more likely that these women would end up in jail and prison than most of us would. Of course, that isn't always the case. There was the well-educated interior decorator who charged thousands on a credit card that wasn't hers (oops, don't you hate it when that happens?). The book is also about how we, as a society, have not found the solution, how people who can be rehabilitated are often instead made worse by incarceration. Huge amounts of money and numbers of lives are wasted because we do not know how to handle these criminals. This book is part of a trilogy that includes Downtown U.S.A., and the not-yet published Born, Not Raised, to be published in May 2011, and I look forward to reading both of those. This book is beautiful but I have one small quibble: although the layout is lovely to view, some of the text is too small to read easily, especially for such a large and heavy book. And I want to be able to read it all. Thank you to the publisher (Humane Exposures) and the author for giving me a copy of the book.

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