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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İSEM Yayıncılık
Man, I love this book. It was my first introduction to epistolary fiction, and it's just so adorable. Now the fact that she called her romantic interest Daddy throughout the entire book wigs me a bit, and Jervis is so high-handed and lacking in candour that I'm deeply suspicious of him, but I'm gonna put down Judy's trilling that he's right most of the time because he's years older than her to the mushy-brainedness of the first flush of love, and believe that she's going to be able to handle him. Still, the whole love subplot, Pygmalion and Galatea, is dodgy in the extreme. I like the romance subplot in the sequel-of-sorts Dear Enemy better, but that book has lots of other dodgy things. Things I didn't like when I read this as a wee kidlet: Jervis? What the hell kinda name is that for your romantic interest? Sheesh. When the only nickname you can come up with is Jervie, you know, you might wanna consider changing the name. Things I liked back then, and still like now: Judy's resolute independence. Her delight in the books she's catching up on, which everyone else has read: Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes, etc. etc. The letter about Pepys, because that was the first time I'd ever heard of the dude. The doodles. The digressions on clothes. Coming to it fresh now I think I'd probably find it a little precious, but I can't imagine not being charmed by Judy's spirit and sense of humour.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Mutena Yayınları
An unexpected sewer backup this winter resulted in a giant hole in our front yard. Rather than simply re-seed the lawn, I thought I’d explore some other options for landscaping the front yard and avoid the need to push the mower up the incline this season. Among other books I particularly enjoyed Fritz Haeg’s “Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn.” Edible Estates is part art project, part social experiment, part environmental activism. Haeg embarked on the endeavor of transforming front yards from expanses of grass into productive vegetable gardens. This book documents his project in three prototype gardens in varying U.S. hardiness zones in photographs, e-mail excerpts, diagrams, and blog posts. The book opens with a series of essays ranging from the history of the American Lawn (think Jefferson’s Monticello) to front lawn gardening with children. Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food), contributes his thoughts on his conversion from mowing that began with apple, peach, cherry and plum trees. Haeg is quick to point out the irony of spreading fertilizer and pesticide and dousing it with clean water in order to grow green grass only to cut it to within ½ inch of death and do it all over again, all the while contaminating the water sources and emitting carbon at preposterous rates. Contrary to Haeg’s expectation that neighbors might complain about yards that don’t conform to the standard acceptable norm, the Edible Estates drew people together, provoking conversation and developing community. I’d encourage you to pick up the book and give it a look. You might be surprised by what you find. While our front yard isn’t likely to feed our family for the year, perhaps if you stroll along Graceland St. NE sometime this summer we can enjoy each other’s company over fresh strawberries at the front stoop.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Arı Yayıncılık
Cute. My 8 yr. old son liked it a lot - probably 'cause he can relate to the tactics the pigeon uses....
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Alfa Yayınları
** spoiler alert ** Definitely better than the last few installments, but not his most stellar work. Sometimes he throws in so many warring factors that it becomes a bit muddled and confusing. Also, not as many "life lessons" in this book as much as character development with Luccio, the Archive, and the Denarians. Looking forward to learning more about why Mab's gone crazy (having Grimalkin speak for her), what Gard really is (she can see when the Reaper is nearby?) and how Murphy handles Shiro's katana!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Özyürek Yayınları
Finally finding love, how do you make a choice of life and death after a devastating injury?
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: D'Addario
Every book has its reader; the person who loves its style, subject, plot, and message. After I read the Foreword and the first chapter/section and skimmed the remaining two hundred-fifty pages , of the late George MacDonald Fraser’s last novel, The Reavers, I quickly realized that the book was not written with me in mind. If I was giving stars for well written, I could give this book five stars. I’ve been trained to know writing, and I can tell you, dear reader, that The Reavers is well written. Ye gads! I’ve fallen into GMF’s style. However, if I was to recommend this historical comedy to a friend, I’d have to, in good conscious, tell my reader buddy that it was one star. Unless of course I knew they liked Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I knew I was in trouble with the foreword’s first two sentences: “This book is nonsense. It’s meant to be.” I’m a rather serious person and nonsense isn’t my cup of tea. I can tell you from reading the first chapter/section four times, that it is supposedly a summary of historical events. Written in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style, the sentence lengths rival that of any of Virginia Wolff and William Faulkner’s stuff. They go on and on and on…kind of like the Energizer Bunny. I can also tell you that, based on the book jacket summary, “it’s the turn of the seventeenth century (sort of) in the wild borderlands of Scotland.” I even found that summary nonsensical. It reads well and sounds quite interesting, but the plot and style failed to capture this hapless reader. Review originally appeared on www.armchairinterviews.com
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Altın Bilek Yayınları
A well written book by Alex Haley based on his year long interview with Malcolm X who was killed before the completion of this book.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Redhouse Kidz Yayınları
POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT: I just finished this and am not quite sure what I think of it! I breezed through it because I kept turning the pages to see what would happen to him (so I'm not exactly sure how I feel about the ending!). Some of the book was really hard for me to stomach, but the blandness of the characters was funny. It was also interesting for me to see a depiction of New York in the 80s/90s since I live in Brooklyn and a lot has changed (although I'm not sure how much in upper class society!). I want to see the movie and see how much of the book they were able to put into the movie (I hope it's not TOO gory...).
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Antik Kitap
It wasn't so much that I enjoyed reading this book, it is that I was compelled to finish it. As a true story about a young man who survives living in a concentration camp during the holocaust, you shouldn't enjoy reading this, but it was interesting and full of truth and horror.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Extreme
Great quick read!
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