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quick murder mystery....
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pozitif Yayınları
starting to see the epic nature of the series. and by starting, I mean I'm totally, unabashedly hooked... the only reason I don't want to read the next one is because I'm hesitant for the series to be done!
This is a cute book. It's written as letters between two cousins right after the Napoleonic Wars in Britain. It's fantasy both of the Jane Austen sort (everybody finds their True Love, gets married and never has any disagreements) and the magic sort. Charming and fun, but light.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
The War That Never Was first came out in 1995, when a book of this nature was more in the line of 'current events' than 'history'. At that point in time, there were quite a lot of people around who were very willing to talk about the part they had played in the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Editor and author David Pryce-Jones travelled around the former Soviet Union and its constituent republics, collecting interviews with politicians, bureaucrats, former dissidents, and political commentators who had been in at the end of things, as it were. Through these interviews, Pryce-Jones is attempting to piece together the greater puzzle of how one of the world's two superpowers simply fell apart in the space of less than a decade. I wish I had more to say about the book, but to be perfectly truthful I found it incredibly difficult to get through. My difficulties started off with bits of Pryce-Jones' running commentary that made me raise an eyebrow. Take, for instance, this passage: 'President Reagan and Mrs Thatcher were unusual among world leaders in their genuine detestation of communism. It was a question of right and wrong. Moral outlook of the sort troubled neither post-war French Presidents nor German Chancellors.' In my opinion, I would say that it's remarkably easy to make moral judgments when you're not facing either immediate internal (French) or external (German) pressure from native communist movements. I could keep quoting passages in a similarly conservative vein, ones where he damns the Helsinki Accords or snipes at President George H.W. Bush for not being more aggressive to act in support of the nationalist movements in the Baltic countries. In essence, he seems to think that if the Soviet Union was on its last legs by the late 1980s, the West would've been better off getting out the knives and finishing the job with more than a bit of relish. By the time I was halfway through the book, I was more than tempted to get out some knives of my own to hack and slash my way to the end. I'm honestly not sure if I'd even keep this book on my shelf. I've no problem with debating the different choices that might have been made by Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and others -- but Pryce-Jones seems to keep repeating a few pet ideas and picking only the interviews to support his views. It might be moderately useful to keep The War That Never Was as a representation of a particular kind of ideological mindset that shouldn't be ignored outright, but I can't imagine rereading except to pull quotations from it. And as far as that goes, I may simply end up copying out the quotes that I think I might find useful and consigning this polemic masquerading as history to a used book store.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Favori Yayınları
Short but great book. I liked it better than Tuesdays with Morrie (same author). About the unqualified love of a mother for her son. It makes your heart ache but in a good way.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyaz Balina Yayınları
Beautiful writing. Edwards has an amazing way of describing feelings/scenery/movement, particularly during the first third of the novel. One main criticism: I wish you learned more about David and the denouement should have included a chapter from the perspective of Rosemary. And I have to say, although I have never had children/been pregnant, I thought Norah's obession with Phoebe was a bit too much.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hatiboğlu Yayınları
If you would like a book to cry with, pick this one up. I love it and since I have tried to read everything Jodi Picoult has written.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Everest Yayınları
Oh, man. I love Edith Nesbit.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bilfen Yayınları
This is a MUST READ! Informative, entertaining, inspiring - all around it was great. Top "Made Me Think" book so far this year.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Sınav Yayınları
Again a little bit of brilliance from Kate Atkinson. Can't wait for the next Jackson Brodie adventure.
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