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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı Yayınları
I enjoyed this book and will probably read more in the series, but don't love it as much as the Sookie Stackhouse books.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beta Yayınevi
Mr. Kozol is clearly a passionate educator with very strong viewpoints. At times it was hard for me to get through the book. I had to put it down because it just became too preachy or too idealistic. He brings up great points, but never really talks of solutions. Ironically this actually makes me want to read his other books to see how he does support his opinions.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Benim Hocam Yayınları
Mayme Jukes and Katie Clairborne both grew up on plantations near the same town in Shenandoah County, North Carolina, but their lives were vastly different. Mayme was born into slavery, while Katie enjoyed a privileged life as the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner. But in the final days of the Civil War, the two teenagers are thrown together when both of their families are murdered by marauding outlaw soldiers. Fleeing from the massacre of her family, Mayme stumbles across Katie's plantation, where she is the only one left alive. Mayme stays to help Katie, and eventually the girls become close friends in spite of their differences. But can these two teenage girls survive on their own, and hide the truth that they are all alone on the plantation? I highly recommend this heartwarming historical novel about two girls from very different backgrounds who, after suffering a common tragedy, come together to help each other out, eventually becoming the best of friends. Although categorized as an adult book, I think this novel would have the most appeal to teenagers, because of the young characters. I look forward to reading the rest of the books in this series and finding out what happens to Mayme and Katie next.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Akçağ Yayınları
this book made me throw up in my mouth
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kurgan Edebiyat
Historic fiction about a very well could have been / was female pope? I was so geeked about this one - promising story line; experienced and well known reader (Barbara Rosenblatt) - what wasn't to like? Well, this was a 2-star event for me (feels like a betrayal to my gender, I know). Ms. Rosenblatt is a bit too dramatically breathy for this one, and as smart as Joan (later John) Anglicus is supposed to be - smart book-learning-wise - she's a bit dim in reading situations (e.g., the entrapment in the arms of a prostitute scene - she really didn't see that one coming...?). The author has taken a fascinating bit of history - there does seem to be some credence to an early Middle Ages female pope - and has created an entire back story to explain how she got there. Many people who could identify her as a female conveniently expire. She's conveniently swept away in a torrent to start a new life - again, all very convenient for continuing to hide her gender. My favorite part of the book was the author's afterward, read by the author, discussing the historical background and case for the existence of Pope Joan. So, you can skip the novel and go right to the afterward for the best part...
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Merve Yayınları
His name should be 'Cian MacRapey'
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Profil Kitap
Odds Against is the first of Dick Francis' books featuring former champion steeplechase jockey Sid Halley. Although you'll sometimes see them referred to as the Sid Halley "series", the fact is that all four of them stand alone perfectly well. (One way or another, you'll want to read them all, so I guess it doesn't matter too much.) In Odds Against, Sid has already suffered his career-ending injury: a passing horse wearing a worn-down racing shoe stepped on his arm after he had fallen during a race, slashing the tendons irreparably and leaving the now-healed arm withered and useless. The injury that robbed him of his beloved racing was the second blow - his wife, feeling like a superfluous appliance in the life of self-sufficient Sid, ended their marriage only months before his accident. Through a friend, Sid has gotten a job working for investigators Hunt Radnor Associates, although he doesn't have much enthusiasm for anything. On a stakeout for Hunt Radnor, Sid gets shot, and is invited to recuperate at the home of his former father-in-law, Charles, with whom he has maintained a close relationship. Once there, Sid quickly realizes that Charles has brought him there not only to heal his gunshot wound, but to act as bait for a couple who may be involved in an attempt to ruin a local racecourse, in order to snap up the land for development. Unfortunately, it also puts Sid in harm's way yet again - not Charles' intention at all, but sometimes a threat to what one has left when they think they've lost everything can be the needed spark to bring that hidden self back to life.
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Dude wrote a beautiful story with some stellar prose, but he left too many questions unanswered even in his somewhat tightly constructed world.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Metis Yayınları
I enjoyed this book on so many levels. For one thing, it has such a current feel to it, every once in a while a dated detail would startle me and remind me when it was written. I loved the character of Matthew Scudder and will definitely read more of him. He's a very interesting mixture of black, white, and gray areas. I'd like to get to know him better. The crime itself and the ensuing investigation have a strange tone. It has a hopeless ring to it, a last gasp sort of feel. A kind of "striking out blindly at darkness." And so does Scudder. You feel that he's done, that he's just going through the motions. And yet he feels strongly enough to take decisive action. It really makes you wonder what he was like before, as a cop.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Boyut Yayın Grubu
Written in one week to defray the cost of his mother's funeral, Johnson's moral tale is a superior example of the prose of its era, and its era—the Age of Enlightenment—is renowned for the quality of its prose. It is true that Candide—written in 1759, the same year as Rasselas--excels Johnson's work in both wit and humor, but then Voltaire's task was much easier. He merely wished to demolish another man's philosophy, whereas Johnson wished to persuade his readers how to be happy. Being happy wasn't easy for Johnson. He suffered from poor eyesight, facial scarring from scrofula, intense irritability, OCD, Tourette's, and thoughts of suicide. He also was afflicted with severe depression in his youth, so profoundly that—as he once told a friend--“he was sometimes so languid and inefficient that he could not distinguish the hour upon the town-clock.” How did he withstand such obstacles? By keeping his fancies and wishes private, applying himself assiduously to the task at hand, and enjoying whatever happiness arose from his labors. It should be no surprise that Johnson's personal method is similar to the moral of his tale. When Rasselas of Abyssinia becomes discontented with “The Happy Valley,” where his every whim is catered to, he departs, with his sister, her companion, and his tutor to explore the condition of the world. The four of them have many adventures, experiencing much pleasure and pain, but nothing offers them real satisfaction (except for the enduring promise of heaven). After discoursing on various philosophical topics, they conclude that the greatest wisdom would be to return from where they came, embracing their destiny in “The Happy Valley'. As a sample of Johnson's measured, deliberate prose, I offer the following excerpt from a discourse on the relative merits of the monastic and secular life: Those men, answered Imlac, are less wretched in their silent convent than the Abissinian princes in their prison of pleasure. Whatever is done by the monks is incited by an adequate and reasonable motive. Their labour supplies them with necessaries; it therefore cannot be omitted, and is certainly rewarded. Their devotion prepares them for another state, and reminds them of its approach, while it fits them for it. Their time is regularly distributed; one duty succeeds another, so that they are not left open to the distraction of unguided choice, nor lost in the shades of listless inactivity, There is a certain task to be performed at an appropriated hour; and their toils are cheerful, because they consider them as acts of piety, by which they are always advancing towards endless felicity.” “Do you think, said Nekayah, that the monastick rule is a more holy and less imperfect state than any other? May not he equally hope for future happiness who converses openly with mankind, who succours the distressed by his charity, instructs the ignorant by his learning, and contributes by his industry to the general system of life; even though he should omit some of the mortifications which are practised in the cloister, and allow himself such harmless delights as his condition may place within his reach?” “This, said Imlac, is a question which has long divided the wise, and perplexed the good. I am afraid to decide on either part. He that lives well in the world is better than he that lives well in a monastery. But, perhaps, every one is not able to stem the temptations of publick life; and, if he cannot conquer, he may properly retreat. Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil. Many weary of their conflicts with adversity, and are willing to eject those passions which have long busied them in vain. And many are dismissed by age and diseases from the more laborious duties of society. In monasteries the weak and timorous may be happily sheltered, the weary may repose, and the penitent may meditate. Those retreats of prayer and contemplation have something so congenial to the mind of man that, perhaps, there is scarcely one that does not purpose to close his life in pious abstraction with a few associates serious as himself.”
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