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Even though it is a work of fiction, you've got to love history and biography to appreciate this book. I do. Usually, however, I cringe at traditional memoirs. This is different. The author did, in fact, interview a geisha, but he re-tells the story poetically. The style carries the story more than any conventional memoir I've ever read.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Martı Yayınları
Aaron bought me this from Alias Books--they didn't realize Hass had signed it!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kardelen Yayıncılık
There are brief moments of perfect balance in life. Looking at your sleeping children, nestled with your spouse, having a beer with your friends.... You wish you could freeze that perfectly ordinary, perfect safe moment of contentment forever. But life moves on. We make choices, relationships change, and mortality moves from the abstract to the concrete. RESCUE moves in and out of such moments. It opens with a rural Vermont EMT and his daughter, a high school senior, at breakfast. The EMT is Webster (referred to by this surname) and his daughter is Rowan. No mother is present, and we quickly feel the tension as Webster tries to deal with the moody temperament and guarded privacy of an adolescent daughter. In flash-back, Webster's relationship to Rowan's mother, Sheila, is recounted. Like his parents, the reader is both happy and apprehensive for him. At that moment, Webster reflects: “Their time together had been a secret....[he] was afraid that something precious was in jeopardy now....He longed to be back in that moment in the B and B, stroking Sheila's arm before she woke up.” Webster is a quiet, methodical presence. As an EMT he is well-rehearsed in the mindset of triage. Shreve uses this fact as the tacit structural foundation for the course of her novel. She alternates the reflections on Webster's family life with vignettes of rescue calls. Webster, himself, tries to separate these two parts of himself: He removes his EMT uniform when he comes home: “He didn't want any part of his job to touch the baby. Taking off the uniform was a way of putting aside one life and taking up another.” Yet, the two lives define him, and the trajectory of the book demonstrates how the two parts will come to fit together. I was attracted to this book by the EMT context, and in this respect it does not disappoint. We view the disciplined relationship between Webster and a trainee, the camaraderie with his seasoned partner, the teamwork that goes into a multiple injury rescue scene, and the acronyms Webster uses to hone his reflexes in each emergency. Structurally, this book is a gem. More difficult was the contrast of stoicism and decisiveness that defined Webster.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İkinci Adam Yayınları
A book on a family of vampires....easy read and surprise twist ending.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: DMS
I really loved this book, although this is one thats not a real story, it was still very moving. The majority of it is about her grandad who is very ill and dying, this is very personal for me as my grandad is ill at the moment too so I felt I could relate to Mandy (the main character)
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Mikado Yayınları
currently listening to as audio book Probably would give it 2.5 stars - not a bad book to listen to but nothing special
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Altın Kitaplar
Hard to rate this one - it was poorly written but still a page turner. I enjoyed it but am not sure I'd actually recommend it to anyone.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık - Akademik Kitaplar
Oh Alice...it was such a sad story but I really enjoyed it. Alice was such a fighter. I loved her thinking. I really liked the perspective of the book coming from her and not the others around her. It was amazing that this could happen to somebody so young.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hobi Yayınevi
Fantastic book that complements other hand to hand styles well. It's definitely interesting to consider the evolution of hand to hand combat in Western Civilization.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Engin Yayınevi
It's Terry Brooks, based on the screenplay and story by George Lucas. Hardback. Natalie Portman as the princess on the cover. Why do all the princess type women in Star Wars have such absurd hair styles? And why were the prequels to the original trilogy all so bad?
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Epsilon Yayınları
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