Hồi Ký Bà Tùng Long (Tái Bản 2014) tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Wes Horizonte weshorizonte — Riveting page turner with a few unpredictable twists and turns!

Yuean Zhao anydesigning — Yang's American Born Chinese was the recipient of this year's Printz Award - the first graphic novel to be presented with this honor. The book is divided into three stories that are interwoven: The first centers around Jin Wang, a Chinese-American who desires to be the same as everyone else. This is difficult for him as one of two Asian people in the third grade. The book chronicles his experiences in grade school into high school, complete with bullying from the in-crowd, and a major lack of friends. One day, he falls for a girl...unfortunately, she is all-American. Does Jin Wang have a shot with her? The second story is the legend of the Monkey King, who is not satisfied with being the most powerful monkey in the world. There is an incident at a dinner party which leads to his self-hatred - he no longer wants to be a monkey, and attempts to be greater than a god... The third story focuses on all of the negative stereotypes Americans have about Chinese people. Chin-Kee is the charicature of all of these, from the buck teeth and yellow skin, to the thick accent, to the fortune cookie-like sayings. Unfortunately, Chin-Kee, Danny's cousin, comes to visit him every year at his school. Danny, one of the popular high school kids, finds himself transferring from high school to high school shortly after these visits. How can he save his reputation? I liked how the stories were brought together in the end, and thought that Yang did a wonderful job conveying his points. This was a quick read with great artwork, and a monkey reminiscient of the "Evil Monkey" from the Family Guy series. Except this one does not reside in Chris's closet...

Mahesh Gadakh gmahesh12191eb — This was on my 'favorite books' shelf, but it had been so long since I read it I had forgotten almost everything about it. But this re-read affirmed its place on that shelf. It's amazing how much Salinger packs into this compact book : a precise character study of two brilliant, neurotic siblings and a moving sketch of their immediate eccentric family, beautiful writing that's exact, funny and wise, and a penetrating, unsentimental examination of what it means to be spiritual (and if it's even possible to be so).