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2020-01-03 04:40

Bale Okulu 4 - Karne Sürprizi - Auroraa Marsotto TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyaz Balina Yayınları

** spoiler alert ** I enjoyed this book. I enjoyed the characters. It is about Chicago aldermen and the turmoil that follows the murder of the larger-than-life mayor. It is about politics and how it works on the city level - snow removal, trash removal, permits, civic meetings, jobs. It is about diversity, not only of race and ethnicity, but of income, intelligence, sexual orientation, accent, neighborhood, religion, and experience. It is not, notably, about diversity of political persuasion, perhaps because whether one is a Democrat or a Republican has little to do with snow removal and trash-pickup. Or maybe Chicago has only Democrats, either in reality or in the mind of Scott Simon. This was not a great book. Although Simon reached into the life and emotions of his main character, Sunny Roopini (alderman of the 48th district and acting interim mayor), he doesn't reach very far. Maybe he reaches as far as Sunny or any American politician (or person) would allow. Reaching farther in might have been indecent. Or not. It is not really clear whether Sunny really wants to get out of politics or not, or how he feels about being mayor, acting interim or otherwise. We hear what he says to other people about these things, but not his thoughts, and because he is a politician, should we really believe his words? Also, surely the mayor's murder would bring back memories and feelings about his wife's murder, more than those described and more than just missing her. Sunny's daughters aren't really completely drawn characters. It seemed as if we never really get what they were experiencing or what they are like at all. On the other hand, the story is told from Sunny's point of view, and we never do get what other people are going through, even those we love most. So seeing only their surface is realistic. Rather than delving deep into his characters' souls, Simon skims the surface, with a few fairly shallow dives. He enthusiastically paints that surface into a detailed, Where's Waldo type of picture (sorry for the mixed metaphor). He loves the diversity of the city, that is obvious. And he loves lists. Lots of names (people, streets, churches, schools), jobs, issues, problems - his aldermanic Chicago is manic, and he revels in it. He is both cynical and optimistic (no surprise there), and so is his city. I like this book for two big reasons. First, it has given me a feeling for the lives of city politicians, the people who get things done. It has created sympathy in me for them, so I consider this a successful piece of fiction. I'm not in love with them, I don't want to be one of them, but I have a better understanding of them. If my feeling for them is not all warm and fuzzy, at least it is appreciative. Second, I really like the fact that the book is a love letter to a city that is not New York. Even more, a city that is in the Midwest, in Illinois, though not exactly my Illinois. Still, I have some small connection and feeling for Chicago (more than for New York, anyway), and it is nice to read a book about it.

2020-01-03 08:40

Okul Çağı Çocuklarının Terapisi-Irvin D. Yalom TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Prestij Yayınları

The author's thesis here is pretty much common sense, but it's the sort of common sense you usually need pointed out to you. Basically, he's just saying that relationships between the powerful and the powerless and full of deception. Both groups act a certain way when together, and act completely differently behind-the-scenes. In other words, people under an oppressive regime will talk one way when in the presence of their authorities, and another when they're talking behind the backs of their authorities. He calls the second sort of discourse a "hidden transcript". The basic idea is pretty obvious. People talk one way to their boss, and another way about their boss. That's not a novel suggestion. But James Scott applies this to historical readings. We need to remember that we usually get in history is the public transcript, the way people talk openly to and about each other. We rarely get access to the hidden transcript, what people say behind the backs of their authorities. He draws on numerous historical examples to illustrate his point, from eastern peasant populations to slaves in the antebellum south. The only problem for me was that the book wasn't organized by history (what I was more looking for), but by slightly nuanced points about his overall "hidden transcript" theory. Unfortunately, the nuances were so slight that the book just comes across as repetitive once you're into chapter 6 or 7. Overall, though, a great book, and definitely worth the read. His writing is surprisingly good, and the historical examples help a lot. Here one of my favorites, a quote from a post-bellum African-America in the south: I've joked with white people, in a nice way. I've had to play dumb sometimes--I knowed not to go too far and let them know what I knowed, because they taken exception of it too quick. I had to humble down and play shut-mouthed in many cases to get along, I've done it all--they didn't know what it was all about, it's just a plain fact....And I could go to 'em a heap of times for a favor and get it....They'd give you a good name if you was obedient to 'em, acted nice when you met 'em an didn't question 'em 'bout what they said they had against you. You begin to cry about your rights and the mistreatin' of you and they'd murder you.

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