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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Parıltı Yayınları
I'm stealing my review from a friend whom I leant this to - usually when reading books, I think about how I would've done certain elements differently to make the book better, but I wouldn't change a thing in this book, it was perfect. (Now it's back to me) I thoroughly enjoy Russo's writing style and the flawed but endearing characters he creates. For people who enjoy a bit of irony with their humour.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Manuel Raymond
I'm trying to read this for book club, but I can't relate. It's about women who gave up careers to stay home with children, and how they feel about that, how it affects their lives, relationships etc. I feel relief, actually, that it turns out I have to work the night of book club, so I don't have to finish this. Sad. Update June 24, 2009...Book club didn't happen, so they are now discussing this at the JULY meeting. At first I still didn't want to read this book. But I dutifully checked it back out of the library to try again. It took me almost 200 pages to figure it out. I think I just wasn't paying attention. It's the story of four (or so) women whose life didn't turn out the way they expected it. Every once in awhile there is a very short chapter inserted that describes a piece of each woman's mother's life as a flashback. That's what confused me the first time I tried to read this. I ended up loving this book, at least from page 200 on! Some of my favorite lines include: "Feminists are part of the past, with an angry old-style image." (What some of the women felt about the feminist movement.) "Your generation was supposed to take over." -one of the mothers to her daughter. "The world rarely stopped to salute you regardless of what you accomplished." a realization for one of the women about life in general, and the fact that regardless of whether or not she was working there would be no salute. "Work did not make you interesting -interesting work made you interesting." another realization. "No one could say for sure what a full enough life was." "Your life is finite. Do not stop."
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Puffin Yayınları
My second most favorite novel of her's and have re read it many times. Again I read this one in high school and that was 50 yrs ago!!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegasus Yayınları
this is an EXCELLENT vacation book. i actually got it from my aunt when i visited her in california one summer in high school. its a fun mystery story about the theft of a famous painting by cezanne. the book is set mainly in france and involves action, adventure, rich people, forgeries, a crazy ex-French legionnaire who likes shooting at people, and drinking. all in all, this book= fluffy fabulousness.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Evrensel İletişim Yayınları
Buku ini tipis, ringan, isinya sederhana tapi berbobot seperti ciri khas jokpin pada puisi-puisinya...hhmmm
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İkinci Adam Yayınları
Brilliant...atmospheric, tense, frustrating. One of my all time favourite reads.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Truva Yayınları
I actually have a really old (1962) copy from Dell Books. This is the story of American POWs in a Japanese prison camp. Vivid and gruesome, but a great story. Think Papillon meets One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yapı Kredi Yayınları
I actually found the movie, and her short story book, Interpreter of Maladies, much more engaging. Although there have been some poignant moments, I feel distant from the characters.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Milenyum Yayınları
im not normally superstitious, but im saving this one for a later period in my life.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nota Yayıncılık
I can't give this a higher star rating because of 2 things: --swearing. There was a LOT of swearing, and I don't like books with profanity. I don't need those ugly words in my head. --The Aussie slang. It takes a really, really long time to feel comfortable in a book where there is SO much unfamiliar slang in every sentence, in every paragraph, on every page. To Australians/New Zealanders, I'm sure it would be totally normal. But to an American who's read 30 or less books by Australian authors, it was glaring. It made me pull out of the story time and again to think to myself, "What does that mean? Oh...maybe it means this." I don't want to say there shouldn't be any of this in a book. I like learning about different cultures and customs, after all. But to have so much made it hard to read at times. It wasn't till the last 1/4 of the book that I started to feel comfortable in the "world" the book had created. Other than that.. it was a very quiet book where not much happened, though I did like the ending (even though it seemed really fast). I am interested in checking out the other books by this author.
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