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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Varlık Yayınları
Affinity, second in line behind Sarah Water's debut novel Tipping the Velvet, continues the same lesbian-Victorian England theme, with gothic splashes added in with exploration of the Spiritualist movement. The narrative is carried by the two protagonists across two different timelines. We are allowed to read the secret diary of Margaret Prior, who takes up a role as a Lady Visitor at Millbank Prison (where the Tate Gallery now stands) as part of her recovery from a suicide attempt. She becomes progressively drawn to Selina Dawes, a young spirit-medium charged with fraud and assault after a séance gone bad, who shares the events leading up to her imprisonment. Less overtly sexual than Tipping the Velvet, Affinity is much more subdued in tone. The first three parts forming much of the background of Margaret's home life and prison life seem dreary and go slowly, but towards a clever and suspenseful climax. As usual, Waters's prose transports us to the period, showing how the role of women is quite stifled. In summary, a good historical novel with gothic and lesbian overtones.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Uğurböceği Yayınları
It's different than the books I usually read but it was good and I couldn't put it down! Well...I like pretty much every book I read..so it can be hard to put any of them down...:)
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Seda Yayıncılık
i really loved this book. it brought me back to lee smith before menopause turned her writing a little too dark. (she does have a new book out that i won't be able to resist...) anyway, beautifully rural north carolina. great character descriptions and development. read but don't rush.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Oblomov Kitap
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: Ernie Ball
If you have a sense for the absurd, Kishon is a must and this bundle is no exception.
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I brought this book on vacation with me last month and finished it in two days. It's a quick book to read and fun to hear all the NYC restaurants/clubs mentioned throughout the book. It's the perfect book to pick up when you are looking for something light to read.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: 5 RENK YAYINEVİ
codebreaking at its finest.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegasus Yayınları
I read this book almost 40 years ago and loved it. Now my son is going to read it and I hope he enjoys it as much as his auntie and I did.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık
The Datebook collects many of Chris Ware's sketchpads. Don't go thinking you'll get much out of it, except that Chris Ware is a master of mediums. My mom opened Datebook up to a random page once and saw a man's penis. She's no graphic connoisseur, but if she can get something out of this book, then maybe you can too.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları
Michele gave me this book to take home with me from my visit to her as I am now a nascent blooger myself. As someone who doesn't really cook - I heat things up - it was quite overwhelming to read the lengths Julie went to every night. Convinced me that I don't want to learn how to cook let alone French cookery. Liked the little community of bleaders that she built up; and her friends and husband; also her description of her job.
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