Leone Fernando itibaren Banethi, Himachal Pradesh , India

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2019-12-17 04:41

Sınav 7. Sınıf Tümderler Soru Bankası TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Sınav Yayınları

If I read the Flower Dictionary (included in the back of the book) correctly, where I to gift you with a nosegay, it would be composed of wisteria (welcome), peppermint (warmth of feeling), and lupine (imagination). The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh is a beautifully arranged bouquet of regret, magic, love, and hope. Tough girl Victoria, thrown into one foster home to another until her 18th birthday, shuns emotional attachment with anyone. She won’t let anyone in nor will she reach out to anyone, until one day she reluctantly begins an unusual, wordless dialogue with a similarly gruff flower vendor. Through offerings of flowers, an old-fashioned courtship ensues, each token symbolizing a message. I have to confess, this part melted my oh-so-sentimental heart. In an age of carelessly written texts, the way Grant wooed Victoria, patiently knocking down her thick walls with each meaningful flower, was thrilling to read. Intrigued against her will, Victoria lets Grant in. The novel alternates between Victoria’s present with Grant, and the past when Victoria was a child and for the first time allowed herself to love a foster parent. Hints of something terrible that happened in the past which derailed Victoria’s dreams of being part of a family now endanger her fragile, budding relationship with the poetic Grant. In The Language of Flowers the power of meaningful communication drives the story – tragedies occur when characters are unable to talk to those they love the most. Words, letters, phone calls are difficult to make when there is so much hurt and guilt keeping one from making the first step. Mothers and daughters, sisters, lovers -- all of these relationships in the book are flowers in need of nurturing. In Victoria’s case, she had no skills to connect with anyone, no form of expression as intimately close to her heart and soul as that of the language of flowers, taught to her by the first person she loved. It is through flowers that she learns to open up to people and then to affect others’ lives in magical ways by making bouquets expressing their secret dreams and their future possibilities. "'You know, now that I think about it, she's never really been a happy woman...but she was passionate. And smart. And interested. She always had an opinion, even about things she knew nothing about. I miss that.' "It was the request for which I had prepared. 'I understand.' I said, setting to work. I pinched tendrils of periwinkle at the roots until they hung in long, limp strands, and grabbed a dozen bright white spider mums. I wrapped the periwinkle tightly around the base of the mums like a ribbon and used florist's wire to create loose curlicues of the leafy groundcover around a multilayer explosion of mums. The effect was like fireworks, dizzying and grand. ... "While I worked, I thought about Earl's wife, tried to bring forth an image of the once passionate woman: her tired, withdrawn, unsuspecting face. Would she react to the wild bouquet of mums and periwinkle, truth and tender recollections? I felt sure she would, and imagined the relief and gratitude on Earl's face as he boiled water for tea, provoking the opinionated woman he had missed into discussion of politics or poetry." Even if I hadn’t been so taken with this novel’s beautiful prose and fascinating instruction in the language of flowers, I would have enjoyed it anyhow because of the lovely setting – the San Francisco Bay Area. I recognized almost every scene, from the gorgeous Flower Market’s riot of blooms, to McKinley Park where Victoria makes her home, and Napa Valley, with its acres of lush vineyards. Diffenbaugh, a local, paid wonderful tribute to this area, even making the famous fog seem magical :)

2019-12-17 06:41

Raspberry Pi - Arda Kılıçdağlı TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Dikeyeksen Yayın Dağıtım

Review originally posted here. Neuromancer and Snow Crash are seminal novels that broke immense ground, telling of a future world where people were largely able to live and work in a virtual reality. Their authors were visionaries, but in my personal opinion, both books completely failed to tell an interesting story. Ready Player One benefits from the fact that the real world has progressed significantly in the realms of the internet and online gaming, and so incorporating the virtual world idea with the familiar concept of an MMO (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) works flawlessly. Cline isn't trying to sell us on some far-fetched, futuristic technology, he's simply taking the technology of today and extrapolating it a bit. And so the OASIS in Ready Player One is much more plausible and interesting than the Matrix or the Metaverse. The plot is simple: the creator of the OASIS has died and left behind a contest inside his virtual game world. The first one to find and solve all the clues and quests wins ownership of the whole OASIS and a vast fortune; the catch is that doing so will require a vast amount of knowledge of 80's and 90's geek culture. The book is absolutely crammed with references to old games, movies, tv, books, and music. The geekier the reader, the more he will appreciate the details in this story, but the most important references are explained for anyone who isn't familiar. I caught all sorts of references to D&D, movies, and science fiction books, but I was just a little too young to remember much about my Atari 2600 games. Still, nothing was confusing for me and I suspect that even a total non-geek could get into the story. Speaking of which, the story is a fun and exciting one, with a tone that reminds me of the equally geeky Scott Pilgrim vs. the World movie. I honestly thought that the plot would be overshadowed by the geek culture references, but they actually play a supporting role to a cool sci-fi adventure that relies heavily on concepts of friendship and isolation. A small cast of supporting characters and an evil corporate villain make for a well-rounded story that I honestly enjoyed quite a bit more than I thought I would. All in all, this is a fun book that anyone can enjoy, but is most heavily recommended for any geek born in the 70's or early 80's. The book's major flaw is that, like Neuromancer and Snow Crash, it simply may not stand the test of time for new readers in a decade or two, who will likely find all the cultural references to be tedious, extremely dated, and cumbersome. Still, any story has a target audience, and while this one's may be a limited one, it manages to please us very much.

2019-12-17 07:41

2018 Dgs VIP Sayısal Sözel Yetenek Son 5 Yıl Çözümlü Çıkmış Sorular TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yargı Yayınevi

Alissa Nutting is such a wildly gifted & inventive storyteller, it's hard not to keep popping down the tales in this collection one after the other like candy, like a bag of gumdrops that feel deceptively easy to chew but are actually laced with a powerful hallucinogenic substance that turns into an elixir of pithy insight at the last possible moment. I felt almost guilty about how much I was enjoying myself at times. Nutting's narrative style is rapid-fire, economical, and surreally recognizable, as ingeniously weird as Charlie Kaufman, as widkedly outrageous as David Sedaris. Her (exclusively female) protagonists find themselves in all sorts of unconscionably degrading positions, but the luckier ones muster up just enough humor & self-respect to weather their scenes of betrayal. The standouts for me were "Bandleader's Girlfriend" (about the convergence between a hedonistic rocker chick and her straitlaced sister), "Ant Colony" (a truly eerie, incisive allegory of how society captures & sustains its "ideal woman"), "Deliverywoman" (a parody of modern relationship healing between a naive spacewoman & her psychopathic mother who could be played by Sigourney Weaver on steroids), "Hellion" (about a deceased woman's surprisingly human relationship with the devil), "Gardener" (a possibly perfect contemporary fairy tale about a frigid marriage transformed by randy garden gnomes), and "She-Man" (the tragic gem of this collection, about the impossibility of achieving love in a wordl driven by bigotry & hatred). It's a thankless job being female, but this book shows that it also makes for a brutally fun read.

Okuyucu Leone Fernando itibaren Banethi, Himachal Pradesh , India

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