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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyaz Pusula Yayınları
I haven't read a lot of Shreve, but this is my favorite of what I have read. Interesting look at the expectations of womanhood (both in the book itself and in the reactions it inspires in the reader).
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İletişim Yayınevi
No one knows what draws the water horses to the beaches of Thisby year after year. It is never safe--not when a capall could appear at any time bigger than a regular horse, faster too, and much more dangerous. It is never safe but it is never so dangerous as the first of November--race day. Each year the race draws tourists from the mainland coming to try their luck in the race or observe the training and the race itself from the relative safety of the cliffs surrounding the beach. The racers keep their own counsel on their reasons--some seek glory while others hope to prove their worth guiding a capall down the race path and well away from the tempting waves of the sea. The race purse itself is, of course, another motivation. Sean Kendrick cares little for any of that. All he wants is Corr--the one water horse he can't have. Corr remains elusively out of reach race after race, year after year. Until this year's race, at least. Puck Connolly has already lost a great deal to the water horses of Thisby. Yet the races might be her only way to hold onto her older brother before the mainland spirits him away forever. Is the winning purse from one race worth challenging some of Thisby's most basic traditions as the first girl to ride on race day? Is it worth riding beside the horses that have already taken so much? Only one rider can win on race day--if they can stay alive long enough to finish the course--and the stakes for both Sean and Puck couldn't be higher but as this unlikely pair trains side-by-side they might find a greater prize than anything from the race purse in The Scorpio Races (2011) by Maggie Stiefvater. If Stiefvater proved her appeal and gained wide popularity (not to mention New York Times Bestselling Author status) with her Shiver trilogy about the (were)wolves of Mercy Falls, she proves her range and talent with The Scorpio Races. Evocative and charming this novel is as much an experience as it is a book. In the tradition of Diana Wynne Jones and many other talented fantasy authors, Stiefvater has not just written a story in The Scorpio Races. She has created a world. The island of Thisby and the beautiful, deadly capall uisce (pronounced CAPple ISHka) come vividly to life with each page as the culture (and inhabitants) of Thisby become as much a part of the story as the plot itself. Told in chapters alternating between Sean and Puck's narrative voice, this book has not one but two winning narrators readers will want to cheer for. Filled with beautiful landscapes, memorable characters and a fierce hope and affection for a great many things The Scorpio Races is a beautiful, satisfying, fantasy that will stay with readers long after the race is finished one way or another. Possible Pairings: Entwined by Heather Dixon, Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, Dream Hunter by Elizabeth Knox, Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier, Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld *This book was acquired for review from the publisher at BEA 2011
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Çitlembik Yayınevi
i just started this book, i'll let you know what i think when i finish it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Martı Yayınları
Don't Cry was a disappointing reading experience. At first I found the book to be kind of annoying. The first story was quite unappealing, in both the characters and whatever it was that was going on. Then for the next few stories the unappealing just kept happening. None of the stories could seem to escape feeling like there were shocking things being said for the sake of being shocking. Mostly they had to do with fucking, and oftentimes with the fact that women have vaginas. I realize this fact, and maybe if I had read these stories in Edith Wharton's time the shockingness of the black hole of mystery that is a cooter would have made me go into a convulsion of some sort, or maybe if I had read this as a woman in the sixties I could have rallied around the vagina-ness of all womenkind, but by 2009 it's not that shocking nor mysterious. So that's disappointment one, I wasn't enjoying the book. About 2/3's through the book I already started formulating some review ideas in my head. I was ready to tear this apart. I dreaded having to slosh through another 1/3 of the book, but I was ready to do it, just to be angered more. Instead here comes disappointment two. The third to last story is actually really good. What the fuck? No mysterious vaginas, no dime store versions of Levinas' theory of The Other / the face of The Other turned into some silly Feminist thing that held no water what so ever. No characters just blurting out things like, "My ex-boyfriend fucked me in the ass," and then spend a half a page ridiculing people who find comments like that to be uncomfortable as prudes (what to think of the reader who feels uncomfortable for a writer who thinks something like this is shocking, or gritty, or real), and also no Eggers like ironic distancing of oneself from the faults already showing in earlier stories through a separate story. None of those things. Instead a very good story. And then that story was followed up with two not quite as good stories, but still quite good ones. What the fuck. I couldn't even hate the book in peace, instead it had to end with three solid stories that were enjoyable, and if I hadn't had to read the first 2/3's of the book, I'd consider Gaitskill as a writer I should check out and read more of. Instead I'm left with a weird feeling of indifference, not knowing if the last three were a fluke or maybe signs of what her newer / more mature work is like. I guess the only way to find out is to read more of her books, but I don't know if I want to deliberately set myself up for more disappointments.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: FDD Yayınları
and essential book for the enlightened environmentalist.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Deha Yayınları
I love love loved this book I recommend that everyone should read it!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Halide Edib Adıvar
so.. really.. a great epic.. of adam and eve proportions.. it is very cleverly written.. in steinbecks hard and real voice..
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yekta Kopan
A quirky twist on being different in high school. Everyone should feel as comfortable with themselves as this kid did.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yüce Yayımları
This review is also posted on my blog, In The Good Books. I'd never read Sara Shepard's earlier series, Pretty Little Liars, before picking up The Lying Game, so I didn't know what to expect, and so, I tried to expect very little. I was pleasantly surprised, however. The Lying Game is narrated by Sutton, murdered and forced to watch her life, now starring her twin sister who's trying to figure out how killed her, from the sidelines. I watch the Pretty Little Liars TV series, so I knew how Sara Shepard can create a compelling premise, and The Lying Game was nothing less. However, like PLL, I can imagine The Lying Game turning into a ridiculously long series with no foreseeable conclusion. I mean, how many books are contracted for the PLL series now? 35? Sutton, post-mortem, doesn't remember a lot about her life besides the basics and whatever comes to her in flashes. Though, the Sutton that Emma is getting to know - by living her life - is nothing but a bitch. She and her friends are the players of The Lying Game, for which they play huge, cruel pranks. I could connect with the Sutton who was narrating the story, but I hated the real one. Emma, however, I liked. She's nicer, smarter, and more genuine than the girl whose shoes she's in. The plot is constantly twisting. Just as Emma thinks she's made a break-through in her investigation of her sister's murder, she's thrown for a loop. Every interaction Emma has with the people around her is a clue, I was on my toes constantly while reading. The ending left so many loose plot threads that I know won't be tied up until books and books from now that I'm not really aching to read the next book, Never Have I Ever, though I know I will once it comes out. I give The Lying Game a 3 out of 5.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kafka Okur
I really liked the first 3/4 of the book and couldn't put it down. It kept me reading in bed until 11:00 a.m. several days in a row (AHHHH, vacation). I have to say I was a little disappointed in the end though. I had a hard time believing some of the motivations for some of the characters actions. Part of the resolution was a little cheesy. What is did really like was the way all the different parts of the book were pulled together in the end. That is also one of the things I always enjoy about a P.G. Wodehouse book. What imaginations these writers have! I totally did not see "Who dunnit" coming, but that was part of the part I though was a little "suspect" (pardon the pun) in the plot. My favorite plot twist was probably finding out when one of the characters really worked for a PI agency, and was trying to set up the main character.
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