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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: TÜBİTAK Yayınları
Fabulous
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pioneer
2.5 stars. I got this as a gift and was glad as I wanted to check out these parodies. One was enough. The best thing - having this to read got me to read P&P - the first book I put on my Kindle way back when! I did follow along with the original, and it just made me appreciate it all the more. The additions and deletions were choppy. Some of it was very funny but it was mostly irritating. This was a clever idea poorly executed.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınevi
I thought this book was so ambitious and I respect what the author was trying to accomplish but I didn't really think it was very successful. Thought that the characters were not like real people at all, in any way, and it was difficult for me to care about them.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Akvaryum Yayınları
I do not like Goodreads "star rating" system since it does not allow half-stars. I thought this work was between two and three stars (thus, two-and-a-half stars). At times the stories were just plain goofy, other times I found myself laughing out loud. Michael's website (http://early-onset-of-night.tumblr.com/) is much funnier than this book, but hey, that's a web site and this is a book - two different things. How astute on my part, ha! My favorite story in this work was Four Twenty. A gut laughing hilarious piece of work that I could completely relate to (as for the retail part of the story). Michael is a funny guy, I enjoyed the book, it was quite entertaining. At times it borders on absurd and sometimes down-right silly, but it was a fun read, none-the-less. If you like dry humor, you'll like this book. The thing I like best about this book is that it is not "typical." It is very much out of the ordinary. Kudos for that!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Abm Yayınevi
From what I hear - out of the four books this one is the slowest of them all but I actually really liked it. Now I'm fully hooked and can't wait to read the next two but am already sad that I'm half way through them.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Cremonia
My aunt has Downs Syndrome and has lived a long and full life, so I found The Memory Keeper's Daughter very powerful.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Barış Bıçakçı
Andy Crouch, in his landmark book, Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling, makes the case that the essence of humanity is that we are “creative cultivators.” This is rooted in his correct interpretation of the opening chapters of the Bible, where humans are created in the image of God, placed in the garden and given the task to “cultivate” (עָבַד) it (see Genesis 1:26-18 and 2:15) But Crouch states that culture is not merely “a set of ideas” but rather “primarily a set of tangible goods” (p. 10). “Culture is what we make of the world” (p. 23). Therefore, “the only way to change the culture is to create more of it” (p. 67). In a book about making culture, Crouch surprises the reader by actually providing a needed corrective to the human quest to change the culture (especially recent Christian articulations to “change the world”) by insisting that while we are indeed “culture makers,” “when we thoughtlessly grasp for the heedless rhetoric of ‘changing the world,’ we expose ourselves to temptation. We find ourselves in a situation similar to Adam and Eve’s in the Garden. ‘You will be like God, knowing good and evil… Is there a way to change the world without falling into one of the many traps laid for would-be world changers? If so, it will require us to learn the one thing the language of ‘changing the world’ usually lacks: humility” (p. 201). “Culture Making,” according to Crouch, must not be about grand strategies to transform the world, for that is too large of a scale for finite and depraved humans to attempt. “The record of human efforts to change the world is mixed, to say the least…And the larger the scale of change we seek, the more mixed the record becomes” (p. 198). Therefore, Crouch advocates that we attempt to create cultural goods that offer positive contributions in smaller scales of time and place. The success of such culture making should be measured not by how influential they are in the larger cultural milieu, but in how they exhibit “integrity”: “We can speak of progress when a certain arena of culture is more whole, more faithful to the world of which it is making something” (p. 54). Culture makers, therefore, should concentrate on smaller scales of influence, what Crouch calls the “3:12:120” – a close and dedicated small circle of three, a group of people (12) to make the cultural good come into existence, and a network of people (120) that will bring the cultural artifact into use. He states that every cultural innovation “is based on personal relationships and personal commitment. Culture making is hard. It simply doesn’t happen without deep investment of absolutely and relatively small groups of people. In culture making, size matters—in reverse… The almost uncanny thing about culture making is that a small group is enough” (p. 243). Crouch states that culture can be primarily understood as cultural goods or artifacts created by humans made in God’s image. If this is correct, then the question for culture makers is not the haughty one of “Can I change the world?” Rather, the question should be much more humble: “Does this thing that we have created meet the criteria of God’s intentions for his Creation and New Creation?” or, “Can I imagine this cultural artifact making it into the New Jerusalem?” If God, in his sovereignty, decides to allow our cultural contribution to have an influence across the larger culture, then we thank him for that and pray for his will to be done with it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Gizzy Art
One of my favorite books of all time. I love the way that David Macaulay explains the entire process of the construction and running of the castle from the ground up. It has been an inspiration to me.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Butik Yayınları
Awww!!! I read this series and I admit it, when I finished The Amber Spyglass I cried...all night. It was so sad. To love someone and never get to see them ever again (dont worry if you want to read this you won't understand what I'm saying until you read The Amber Spyglass) I would hate to be Lyra it would suck so badly. But in saying that, though it was sad, it was a great read and was magnificently writen. I was sucked into it and until the end want to be just like Lyra. It does not matter how old or young you are I recomend this book with my life. and tip you will need a box of tissues for the end (unless you're heartless and have no emotions)
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They came in the night. Soldiers knocked down the door and ordered Lina, her mother and her young brother to get dressed and get out. Her mother broke all their fine things, preferring they be smashed to ruins than taken by the Soviet soldiers. Then they were herded onto trains. Hundreds of them, travelling across Lithuania with no knowledge of their destination or their crimes. People died, bodies were tossed out alongside the tracks. People were bought as slaves. And still the trains travelled on, towards Siberia, towards the unknown. ‘Between Shades of Gray’ is the heartbreaking debut novel from Ruta Sepetys. High School studies of World War II always seem to be a nucleus of your own country’s involvement, and the ‘main players’; America, the United Kingdom and Germany. This is of course a cursory examination of the war at best. But it’s easy to forget the far-reaching impact of that war when film, TV and book representations tend to focus on events as they impacted on those big players. ‘Between Shades of Gray’ looks at the war from the perspective of the Baltic States - Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden. There were many historic facts I was unaware of before reading this book. For instance, the Baltic States were occupied three times throughout WWII, and during one occupation the Russian Empire used heavy military pressure to ‘convince’ Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to join the USSR. Ruta Sepetys’s story is about a young Lithuanian teenager during June 1941, when the Soviets started mass deportations of skilled and educated people. Lina’s father was a university lecturer, her mother an opinionated housewife. As the story unfolds and Lina travels in a train to a destination unknown, she thinks back on little moments and indications that her parents were radical thinkers, and perhaps a part of an underground political movement. It was a dangerous time to be a free-thinker in Soviet Lithuania. Anyone who had the potential to be a dissenter to the regime was shipped off and run out of their homeland – taken to Siberia and sentenced to 25 years hard labour. It is in a Siberian labour camp that Lina, her family (minus her missing father) and a group of survivor’s band together to toughen out their fate. Mother pulled a bundle of rubles from her pocket and exposed it slightly to the officer. He reached for it and then said something to Mother, motioning with his head. Her hand flew up and ripped the amber pendant right from her neck and pressed it into the NKVD’s hand. He didn’t seem to be satisfied. Mother continued to speak in Russian and pulled a pocket watch from her coat. I knew that watch. It was her father’s and had his name engraved in the soft gold on the back. The officer snatched the watch, let go of Jonas, and started yelling at the people next to us. Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother’s was worth a pocket watch. Sepetys has managed to replicate what Anne Frank did posthumously with her diary – she has humanized the war. Books about WWII can get bogged down in dry facts and politics. Sepety’s novel is phenomenal because of the human connection. Lina’s perspective is made all the more heartbreaking for her young years. She is a teenage girl who had the world at her fingertips – a talented artist who dreamed of going to university, and a daughter devoted to her family. Until the night her world is turned upside down and inside out. This isn’t just a novel of paradise lost – it’s about a young dreamer who is ripped away from her country and introduced to the harsh realities of an unfair world during turbulent times – but Lina has to realize that paradise is something she can build for herself. ‘Between Shades of Gray’ is a very serious book, but Sepetys has managed to imbue the novel with hope and romance still. The labour camp is a harsh place for Lina to overcome, but while there she falls in love for the first time. Andrius is a soldier’s son, a handsome boy the same age as Lina. These two find comfort with one another as they try to keep their respective families together in the frightening labour camp. I did like the humanized aspect of the novel, but Sepetys’ historical writing is equally brilliant. She has written such an in-depth exploration of the Baltic deportations, investigating and examining many aspects of their turbulent times. It’s made all the more interesting because the fate of Lithuania isn’t something I was familiar with. ‘Between Shades of Gray’ highlights just how much Lithuania was stuck in the middle – between Hitler and Stalin, with no hope of help from the Western Allies. The country was quite literally between a rock and a hard place, between Hitler’s army and the Soviet’s alliance with the US. What happened to Lithuanians and other exported people of the Baltic States during 1941 is still somewhat unknown. Many people were threatened with permanent exile to Siberia if they ever spoke of what happened during that time. Ruta Sepetys’s novel examines what happened to the forgotten. What the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) did to the educated people of Lithuania was atrocious. The USSR not only suffocated a country’s intelligentsia – they gagged, choked and silenced them. Ruta Sepetys novel examines this period of time through the eyes of a young dreamer – humanizing the turmoil to make it all the more heartbreaking. ‘Between Shades of Gray’ is a sadly sublime, and an absolute must-read. You will pass it on to friends and family, and it will have pride of place on your keeper shelf.
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