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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Günışığı Kitaplığı
This book is about a family who lives forever by drinking from a spring. Then a little girl named Winnie finds out about there secret. Will she tell everyone about this spring or not?
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kodlab Yayınları
Jodi's detail makes this a painful read. Many of her previous themes are evident in the novel, but the characters in their humanness captured my heart. The novel or I anyway needed some comic relief - and maybe that is what these characters did not have and therefore the dismal ending.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık - Akademik Kitaplar
Well done story about the Lost Boys of Sudan but it got a little repetitious about three quarters of the way through. I had to fight the urge to skim. I'd give it 3.5 stars.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Gita Yayınları
be zaboone yajooj o ma'jooj ,ya'ni yaddashthaye sadroldine aini ke be hemmate marhoom sayidi e sirjani chap shod.yadesh be kheir
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Dean Markley
I've read Angelology two times and in the name of the lord it is AMAZING, so I wirte a review of the book and danielle send me back an excerpt of Agelopolis, even though it was kind of short it was so...wow. I Can´t even describe how desperate I am to read the rest of the book. For those who haven't read angelology PLEASE do it is incredible.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Müzik Eğitimi Yayınları
I recently picked up Randy Susan Meyer's The Murderer's Daughters. I don't remember where I'd heard about it, but the title alone caught my eye, and the description of the book hooked me. Two young girls witness the murder of their mother by their father, and then, essentially orphaned by his imprisonment, they spend the rest of their childhood being shuffled from one unloving home to another. The book follows them for thirty years, each girl dealing with the murder in drastically different ways, one acting as though her father doesn't exist while the other keeps him close. Both live in fear of the day he will make parole. There are a couple reasons this intrigued me, the first being it's about girls who go through life with the identification of being the murderer's daughter. It's a powerful name, and one which haunts them each in different ways. The second reason I wanted to read the book, and the thing which ended up being the reason I think this book is so fantastic, is that it is told by the two sisters in their own point of view. Switching POV in alternating chapters, the reader gets to be inside the heads of both the girls, who, having witnessed the same event, take it to heart in entirely different ways. I read this book for school, so as I was sitting at my laptop writing the reading commentary for it, I had to ask myself, could this book have been written in just one point of view? The answer to that is both yes and no. Yes, of course one could write a book about a girl who watches her father murder her mother. But no, that book would then not be this book. Because this book is far more than that. This book is about how two different people can come from the same place, be in the same circumstance, and see it in entirely different ways. I love that the sisters don't get each other. Lulu can't wrap her head around the idea that Merry visits their father in prison, that she brings photos of his grandchild and keeps his letters. Merry can't understand why Lulu has essentially disowned their only living parent, or remember the good time they had with him. Lulu desperately wants to be out on her own, while Merry desperately wants a family to love her. There ends up being irony in that, but you'll have to read the book to find out why. Because the point of view switches, the reader gets a chance to see things from the eyes of each of the sisters, to walk in their shoes, so to speak. It is like reading two versions of the same story. On the surface this book is just a good read. It's fast-paced, engaging, unique. But more than that, it's a lesson that goes beyond the story of two girls living in the shadow of their criminal father: it's the story of how people can see life through different eyes, and both be right.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Gerekli Şeyler Yayıncılık
The first book I read upon moving to NYC some four years ago, bought from the street bookseller on Broadway by Columbia, and the first thing of Baldwin's I ever read... totally loved it. Baldwin's prose is rhythmic and beautiful (still containing traces of his young days as a boy-preacher, I reckon). His insight into human brains and racial anxieties is keen.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kurmay Yayınları
A long but very stimulating read. The English is slightly archaic and the sentences long, but he's a vigorous, witty, eloquent writer. He likes to extrapolate from the case of an individual entrepreneur to the aggregate economy, which is a very different approach from other economists. As a trader himself, he's in tune with market psychology, which actually forms the basis for central tenets of his theory. Two key differences between 1929 and 2008 strike me -- first, the world was on the gold standard in 1929, second, saving rates in the US were higher and debt levels lower in 1929. This really jumps out when you read Keynes -- he's better known today for the fiscal stimulus, but actually, his General Theory, if my understanding is right (from a very quick broad glance, by no means a dedicated study), stems from the insight that the level of investment is not immediately equal to the level of savings, but rather, that savings provides a pool for potential investment -- and out of this pool, some money goes toward productive investment in business ventures, while the remainder goes into financial investment, earning the rate of interest. Thus, Keynes actually spends a LOT of time discussing monetary policy, rather than fiscal policy. The fiscal policy part is actually a consequence of two things, (i) his monetary analysis, (ii) the idea that since investment depends on perceived ROI vs interest rate, and perceived ROI depends on psychology, which is much more volatile than the interest rate can or should be, thus, investment will swing wildly with animal spirits, which is bad. Let's deal first with (i): Note that the GT was published in 1935 (!) -- a few years AFTER the onset of the Great Depression. (An observant blogger pointed out the Obama should be compared not to FDR, who took over in 1933, but to Herbert Hoover, who took the reins just as the world slipped into the GD, and held them for 2-3 years after.) At this point, policy makers had already responded by sharply increasing savings rates, and by getting central banks to hoard gold. This was based on the classical theory that savings = investment, and the more we save, the more is actually invested. Keynes recognised the flaw -- his point was that savings are POTENTIAL investment, but if not actually used, they stay in the bank and do nothing (or, by reducing velocity of money, it leads to deflation). What makes the potential investment turn to actual investment? Consumption -- which means people need to save less, not more. When people consume, it raises the ROI for entrepreneurs (by increasing their sales), and thereby leads to more investment. Further, banks shouldn't hoard gold, because this raises the interest rate, discouraging investment. Thus: "whilst aiming at a socially controlled rate of investment with a view to a progressive decline in the Marginal Eff of Capital, I should support at the same time all sorts of policies for inreasing the propensity to consume", p325. (ii) So I think Keynes would regard the interest rate as a key policy tool, and would approve boosting liquidity reducing the i/r during a depression, to incentivise investment. In fact, I think that's his first port of call. However, "the market estimation of the MEC may suffer such enormously wide fluctuations that it cannot be sufficiently offset by corresponding fluctuations in the rate of interest", p320. So there are 2 problems here -- one is that PRIVATE expectations of MEC are volatile, two is that i/r cannot be so volatile. So, the natural conclusion is to supplement private investment, with public investment. "It seems unlikely that the influence of banking policy on the i/r will be sufficient by itself to determine an optimum rate of investment. I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the only means of securing an approximation to full employment; though this need not exclude all manner of compromises and devces by which the public authority cooperate with private initiative." p378. If my reading is right, then to expect muscular application of a fiscal stimulus to get us out of depression is wrong. Most importantly, I think, there was leeway in the 1930s to move off the gold standard and create fiat money -- this enabled the US to inflate its way back into growth, via monetary stimulus. This is a major difference with 2008 -- we've been in a fiat money world since 1973, and by all accounts, the ratio of broad to narrow money is at a super peak (due to both regulated bank leverage and unregulated leverage through non-bank financial intermediaries). So it is unlikely the world can inflate its way out of a depression -- it's like, we're already super caffeineted, so more coffee can't help. I think this was a more significant, if implicit, part of Keynes analysis than most people recognise. The other problem is that the US is far more leveraged, and PPC (Pronpensity to Consume) certainly has to come down, rather than go up. Anyhow, fascinating last chapter on mercantilism (economic system where money supply in one country is based on gold supplies in that country) and his argument that it led European countries to impoverish their own people in order to improve their trade balance (because the only way to obtain gold is to have a trade surplus, leading to inflow of gold to your country) and also led to war (because seizing your neighbour's gold is at some point easier to selling yourself to earn it).
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: TÜBİTAK Yayınları
The only thing that stopped me writing to goodreads to request they introduce a sixth star was that this collection sadly trailed off a little for me toward the end. Ted Chiang is a remarkable writer who takes interesting concepts - mostly in science but also relating to religion, language, all the big things - and weaves them into polished gems of stories that both move you and make you think. "What if" scenarios develop into fascinating tales, and it is his immense skill that throws the reader immediately into a situation like yet unlike the world we know. I could mention some of the story concepts but it would never do them justice. Read it!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları
Despite the stigma attached to chick-lit, I found this book delightful and fun! Rebecca Bloomfield knows how to get into and out of trouble.
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