Conor Whooley itibaren Külma, Võrumaa, Estonia

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11/24/2024

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2019-10-11 19:41

Kafamdaki Vızıltı TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Akademik Kitaplar

what can i say? i'm a sucker for talking socks.

2019-10-11 20:41

İlkokul Müzik Öğretim Programları (1913-2005) TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Öncü Kitap

Wow. It’s so hard to know where to start with this review, because this is one of those books to end all books. Where to go from here? I don’t have a lot of postapocalyptic fiction to compare it to, but it comes at it from such a poetic, intimate, necessarily personal angle that it overshadows anything of its kind in recent memory. It’s like the dreams I had post-911, but fleshed out in quotidian detail, fleshed out to the nth degree, and then some. It’s the kind of book that makes me stop wishing my husband would finish painting the bathroom because it doesn’t really matter – it destroys any remnant of materialism. But despite its all-encompassing bleakness, the love at its center reminds me to spend an extra couple of minutes with a student, a fellow teacher, a friend. It makes everything that’s important matter more, and everything that’s not important matter less. It’s death, but death with a lyrical understanding of the human condition. While it tramples on the fragility of our ideals, it offers an often unimaginable hope in the midst of unimaginable devastation. Does that sound trite? Yes. But this book is anything but trite. Lyrical to a fault in a few places? Sure, but those places are minimal, and I think he earned them b/c what else would we be left to think about at the end of human existence, once the bare-knuckled survival instincts have been met? And did I mention that it’s immensely readable? I can’t imagine being inside Cormac McCarthy’s mind while he crafted this. Either a purging or a sacrifice. Either way, we are the better for it.

2019-10-11 21:41

Cennetten Kovulmuş Hikayeler-Özer Şenödeyici TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Gece Kitaplığı

This book started off great--Rousseau was in trouble, Hume was a man-about-town, and then Hume helped Rousseau escape to England. That was the exciting part. The whole relationship between the two lasted four months, and the recriminations apparently lasted much longer. That's how the book reads, too. The action lasts for a little while, and the fallout takes about two-thirds of the book. Interesting, but not the page-turner it started out as.

2019-10-11 22:41

Esrarengiz Parmaklar - Agatha Christie TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Altın Kitaplar

dear lord was this thing HARD to get through. however, it borders on more fun than dante's inferno. why? because satan isn't a huge let down and kinda lame...like the inferno...chewing on judas...what? not very intimidating. luckily, satan holds paradise lost together. he's amazingly complicated, extremely emo, and ready to mess up everything. god, on the other hand, dull, omnipotent, snoooooooze. milton's poetry is the hardest difficulty, yet brilliantly composed. just be patient, and root for the bad guy. also, anyone who just decides to rewrite one of the most well known stories in the bible, makes satan the identifiable one, and turns it into an epic action packed story...is kinda badass.

2019-10-11 23:41

Taş Devri Diyeti-Robb Wolf TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegasus Yayınları

A very interesting and prescient book.

2019-10-12 00:41

Yayın Denizi Ygs Tek Fizik Konu Anlatımlı Cep Kitabı TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yayın Denizi

Sometimes extraordinary books are about extraordinary things, and sometimes they are about regular people. This is an extraordinary book about one Scottish family, a normal family, if, of course, there is actually any such thing as normal, and assuming normal includes a little bit of human mystery and tragedy. Three Junes starts with the death of the mother of the family, and explores the stories of her husband, her three sons, (two married in Britain, one in New York during the AIDs crisis of the 1980s.) It's beautifully written; this spring I had an infection brought on by the flu, plus antibiotics that made me sick, but I still couldn't put this book down. I only have one nitpicky comment - in section two, after a death takes place in Greece, and we hear that a cremation is planned, I couldn't help but mutter that hey, cremation was outlawed in Greece until recently. The incredible smallness of this one criticism should tell you how much I enjoyed this book.

2019-10-12 01:41

Çelimli Çalım Dergisi Sayı : 18 TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tiyo Yayınevi

3.5*** Really enjoyed the MM romance. Looking forward to the rest of the books in this series.

2019-10-12 02:41

Zeka Oyunları 2 - Emrehan Halıcı TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: TÜBİTAK Yayınları

I picked up this book in my local library, where its title "The Truth About Psychics" intrigued me. I became even more curious when I realised that the book was written by a self-proclaimed psychic, who promised to arm readers with the tools to enable them to spot a fraud. Faced with this tantalising prospect, I promptly took the book out on loan. The book begins with a long section on how Sylvia Browne allegedly discovered her psychic abilities. There's lots of talk of spirit guides and psychic grandmothers, as well as an undertone of injustice when discussing how some people didn't automatically believe in her abilities. This is followed by a rather waffly section about the way different cultures have traditionally viewed life after death. Next we come to a section entitled "Tricks of the Trade". I thought maybe we'd finally come to the section I'd been waiting for, but, alas, no. She spends this section mainly talking about various supposed branches of psychic abilities, such as clairvoyance, palmistry etc. This is followed by a section on 'pioneers', who all seem to be heroes of Browne that are in some way linked to spiritualism. Finally, we come to the section that promises to reveal how to spot a fake. Only a very small part (2 & 1/2 pages) is devoted to general psychic ability - the rest seems to focus on curses and fortune-telling (specifically physical mediumship). The two pages on psychic ability provide a very brief overview of cold reading - so brief that it's really of very little use. Bearing in mind the title of the book, it seems amazing that the book's main topic is only dealt with in such a fleeting way. Browne then claims that she always tries to provide reasonable details, although nothing specific like dates of birth, and provides information that the client doesn't already know (how convenient!). In my opinion, this rather vague statement doesn't really clarify how what she claims to do is any different to the fake psychics she's so against. As a result, you can't help but wonder if this book is just a propaganda campaign to try and discredit her competition. In general, the book is incredibly long-winded and lacks focus. One minute she's lauding over Harry Houdini and other sceptics who've worked to expose fake psychics and mediums, then she's complaining that people don't believe her and criticising the self-same sceptics for raising questions over Uri Geller's supposed psychic abilities (while Browne seems inexplicably convinced of his abilities, Geller himself has recently stopped referring to himself as 'psychic'). In her introduction she derides fake psychics for cashing in and exploiting vulnerable people, which seems ironic considering that the back jacket of the book reveals that at least 22 of her books have been best-sellers! Most curiously, on page 18, she mentions that her abilities have undergone testing. A very quick Internet search reveals that, in 2001 on the Larry King Live show, Browne stated that she would be happy for the well-known sceptic, James Randi, to test her abilities. To date, she's yet to arrange a test. This begs the question: if she's so happy to be tested and claims to have been tested before, why hasn't she arranged this already? Surely it would be the ideal way to silence her critics. She seems to be equally confused about her list of 'pioneers'. Most of the people that she's chosen to write about either admitted that they were fakes (e.g. the Fox sisters) or, in many cases, Browne herself seems to think it rather unlikely that they had any genuine psychic ability. And, yet, she always manages to add a small twist to the story to plant a seed of doubt. She even claims that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was psychic, although I've yet to find any evidence to corroborate this. The whole book is incredibly vague and contradictory, and lacks any footnotes, references or even a recommended reading list that would enable the public to validate her sources. Ultimately, then, what we have here is a book that's essentially an opinion piece and doesn't even deliver on what it promises (to reveal how to spot a fake). Browne seems to be hoping that if she's vague enough and simultaneously aligns herself with and distances herself from her sceptics, she'll create a sense of trust in her audience that will encourage them to turn to her over her competitors. Save your money - this book isn't worth it.

2019-10-12 03:41

Anılardan Öyküler 1 TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tudem Yayınları

I have only read a third of the book so far, but it is extraordinarily inspiring. The biography of a renowned physician-activist, Dr. Paul Farmer, Mountains Beyond Mountains describes his decades-long effort to improve the health of first Haiti, and then other countries around the world. I have had the great pleasure of hearing him talk a couple years ago, and while is is very engaging he is quite down-to-earth, belying his sometimes "larger-than-life" image as portrayed in the media.

2019-10-12 04:41

Yaşamöyküleri Andre Gide TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Payel Yayınları

hotter than the first book! i love it!

Okuyucu Conor Whooley itibaren Külma, Võrumaa, Estonia

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