Mahmoud Faisal itibaren Thung Khao Phuang, Chiang Dao District, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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04/29/2024

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2019-02-07 08:40

Cennet Nehirleri-Lee Martin TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: E Yayınları

Extremely graphic and highly disturbing, but a gripping page-turner nonetheless. Lucy's mom is a hoarder. Highly paranoid that she's going to need something someday, she never never throws anything away, never allows anyone to touch her so-called "treasures". Old newspapers & magazines, plastic containers from take-out meals, mounds of items bought en masse at bargin sales, and countless other odds and ends create unsanitary mountains of filth and trash that all but bury every surface. Black mold edges the drapes of every window. The overpowering stench of rot permiates the air. The interior of the house is no better than a landfill. This is the environment in which Lucy had spent most of her life. Deeply, almost guiltily ashamed of her mother and her homelife, Lucy does all she can to hide her living situation from classmates and neighbors. Even Lucy's best friend has never set foot in her house. Then one morning Lucy returns home to find her mother's dead body sprawled beneath a toppled stack of old magazines. Instead of calling 9-1-1, Lucy decides to clean up the house. Her reasoning (saving her family the embarassment the sight of all that filth will surely bring if made public) is twisted, selfish, and almost as disturbing as her mother's reasoning for keeping every scrap of whatever that makes its way into the house. But as I continued deeper into the story, I began to sympathize with more and more with Lucy's plight. As the day and the cleaning progress, Lucy uncovers lots of unexpected (and unpleasent) things: long-lost items, huge (unpaid) credit card bills from her mom's mass purchasing, heaps of clothes with the tags still attahed, food that had been rotting for who knows how long... There were several places I phycsically cringed (the maggots in the kitchen, discovering a long-dead hamster buried under the woodchips of a forgotten cage, to name a few). The ending of the story finds a desperate Lucy taking a page from her favorite Johnny Depp movie, Gilbert Grape, and setting the whole house on fire. She feels there is no other alternative. While this story was exceptionally creative and very well-written, it was also very difficult to read--to keep reading. There were several times where I almost put the book down, unable to stomach the gravity of what Lucy was going through. In the end, I think the only thing that got me through was the same sort of morbid curiosity one gets when driving past a horrific accident on the roadway. You can't not gawk. I couldn't not finish the book. Still, I predict this one will win awards. I would like to stress that this book is NOT for younger readers. Those with a weak stomach (who become grossed out easily) may want to pick up something lighter.

2019-02-07 14:40

Gür Yayınları Kolay Geometri 4 TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Gür Yayınları

This book started out so promising, but it ended up taking me two months to read. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a book really weirdly named, about a doctor who delivers his wives children only to discover that their daughter has Down’s Syndrome. In the heat of the moment, he gives his daughter to the nurse and asks her to take her away, deciding to tell his family that the girl died during labor and thus altering the course of the rest of their lives. From the first few paragraphs, the writing took my breath away and by the end of the first chapter, I was hooked. Unfortunately, it couldn’t stay this way as the story dragged on and on, came to a peak, and then ended a few pages later. The characters were, for the most part, unlikable and un-relatable. They all had secrets and sins and they all kind of made you mad or bored at one point or another. The story switches perspectives from the three main characters and you wouldn’t believe how some of them drag on. Everyone in the novel holds on to grudges like their lives depended on it, constantly complaining about how small events changed the rest of their lives and that got on my nerves as well. The story honestly could be so beautiful, but it went on for far too long. It was interesting and dramatic enough to make a Lifetime movie out of, but I’m sure the movie skipped a few of the long-winded, poetic descriptions and kept to the action.

Okuyucu Mahmoud Faisal itibaren Thung Khao Phuang, Chiang Dao District, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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