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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Oda Yayınları
I found it very difficult to care about these characters. The language was very clear, but wooden. The George Melies pictures were nice though.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kaldırım Yayınları
Amazing of course! July is def going to be Harry Potter month. Arlington Library is showing the movies every night the week before the new book! Yay
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Karakarga Yayınları
This was a fun, sweet read by one of my favorite authors. John is probably one of the nicest heroes that Diana Palmer has ever written. Yes he did pretend to be a modest cowboy, but you can't hold that against him, considering his past. From the beginning, he reaches out and helps Sassy with no underlying motives. He sees the good and the beauty in a small-town, simple girl who has sacrificed everything for her sick mother and adopted sister. Although I love her writing, and don't have any issues with it, some readers find Palmer's stories to be formulaic. If that is the case, they would probably enjoy this story because of its freshness. Also for the fact that John is not like her typical heroes, fighting falling in love with Sassy. He has a moment or two of apprehension as he realizes he is getting in deep, but surrenders fairly quickly to the knowledge that he is in love with Sassy and wants to spend the rest of their life together. The ending of this book reads like a fairy tale comes true, the downtrodden princess gets her happy ever after with the handsome rich prince, and all ends well. But isn't that why we read romance novels? At any rate, I couldn't help smiling as the last pages of this book went by my eyes.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Sınav Yayınları
I think if I hadn't read Pillars of the Earth I would have enjoyed this book more. I felt like the character development was taken from Pillars of the Earth.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kolektif Kitap
High school from a guy's point of view, which I enjoyed. I think everyone can relate to teen angst, can't we? If you can't then you're just too well adjusted for me.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ravza Yayınları
Stolen is one of the most interesting and gripping YA novels I have ever read. It was interestingly written, all in the form of a letter, and expertly done. Stolen greatly reminded me of Lolita, which fascinated me and disturbed me all at once. On the outside is a story of a troubled man and the object of his obsession, but at the heart of it things aren't so black and white. The sands of the desert bear witness to kindness, understanding and even a hint of love, however wrong it may be. Like Gemma, and though I knew I shouldn't, I found myself fearing more for Ty than her and what would happen to him and their doomed fate. Stolen kept me gripped and it played heavily on my mind whenever I wasn't reading it. It was a fascinating read and will be sure to be thinking of it for a while.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İlgi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık
AN ADULT VERSION OF THE SADDLE CLUB, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! I cannot believe it's taken me this long to discover Jane Smiley. Don't get me wrong - I wouldn't actually recommend this book to anyone besides myself, my mom, and maybe this one friend I had in college who came from Bakersfield, CA and used to ride her horse to school and also had never seen a crosswalk before moving to Berkeley and whose mother killed her exotic cat, Gizmo, by accidentally baking it in the dryer. WE ARE AMERICA AND WE LOVE JANE SMILEY! This book begins with a dramatis personae that includes the equine characters along with the humans. Smiley uses terms like eggbutt snaffle and pin-firing as if everybody knows what those things are (when in reality, only me and my mom and my friend from college do [because no one else besides us has ever ridden a horse:]). There's a bit of awkwardness when it comes to writing about non-horse things (e.g. there is a black rapper character named "Ho Ho Ice Chill," which is *so* what middle-aged white ladies who ride horses think rappers are called) - but who fucking cares?! HORSE BOOK YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! I WANT A PONY, JANE SMILEY!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: O2 Yayıncılık
Again, seeing that this is apparently targeting the YA audience, I just can't agree. He/She would have to be a very mature young adult before I handed them this book. Maybe I'm not giving young people enough credit but the stories included here I wouldn't want my daughter reading at a young age. I'm 100% for knowledge, most especially of anything like this, but one has to be able to process the information being learned or no good will come from it, only pain, if anything. That being said, this is outstanding. It really is. The reason I'm giving it four stars instead of five is personal. I'm not much of a short story person. I think, as much as I "liked" reading this, that I'd have much more enjoyed a whole sequencial book by Nomberg-Przytyk. One thing I did not like - the afterword. I felt like I was being sold the author, her writing, and this book. Anyone that read the book before the afterword (as it should be) would already be sold on all three things IMO. And if not, the afterword isn't going to change anything. I don't like anything being pushed on me and the afterword really should be cut out of here. Scratch that - it shouldn't be cut out. There are a number of good points brought up, a lot of which a reader may not think about on their own. What should be cut out are the selling points. It takes away from the book in a horrible, horrible way. I can't even recommend skipping this afterword altogether because of the parts I mentioned above. I would only suggest to be aware and not fall into the sales pitch. If you got something from the book it won't be because of the afterword. It is said, in the afterword no less, that Nomberg-Przytyk writes without absolute memory on some subjects. This had be skeptical at first but after reading one of the "good parts" in the afterword I changed my mind. I do believe that there is a good arguement for this type of writing. In one story the author writes about the first time she hears the word "organize" in the "Aushwitz term". Instead of organize meaning 'forming as or into a whole', in the Aushwitz sense organize means to steal to survive. Whether that means stealing food to trade for cigarettes to trade for a "good" job or something else, there is a new meaning for an old word. The point of bringing this up is because it's said that it's unlikely this was the first time she heard the word. After all, that one word was probably spoken dozens and dozens of times in a day since "organizing" was so very important to survival. Now, when I'm reading non-fiction I tend to want it exactly as it happened. I want to believe in that because without, is it really non-fiction in the strictest sense? Here I think yes. I don't think I'd care for this in many books but it works here and that's a great feat for Nomberg-Przytyk.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Sosyal Araştırmalar Vakfı
I had no idea this story covered three generations. I enjoyed the scientific DNA history through the ages. It was fun to try to keep up with whose gene was responsible for the character's hermaphiditism. I wish the author had spent less time on the early years and given at least a few more chapters from later life. The writing was excellent. One of the best I've read in a while. But overall, a weird story that worked out in an unweird way.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık
This is my favourite of Atwood's books, probably because in some ways it's the silliest. Joan Foster is melodramatic and hapless, but entirely loveable. Plus, there's a mystery! And a fake death! And a secret life in a foreign villa! It's kind of like reading a romance novel, only a lot more with the intentional funny.
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