Yếu Quyết Bài Trí Phòng Ngủ Và Phòng Đọc Sách tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Mohamed Mady _ohamed_ady — The book takes place in Edinburgh in the 1930s, and Miss Jean Brodie is a junior school teacher at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls. She is a highly individualistic teacher: one who prefers her own tangents and flights of fancy to any set curriculum. Her idiosyncrasies and feelings of superiority keep her right on the knife-edge, at all times, of retaining her job. This sense of being embattled against Philistines is part of personality -- and also part of her appeal. She admits five girls into her confidence and they become her "set" -- and remain so, long after she ceases to be their teacher. To these five girls, she imparts selective and highly edited bits of knowledge, opinion, gossip and romantic experience, and in return, they become her acolytes. I had never read this book, nor even seen the movie, and yet there was still this image of a young Maggie Smith -- speaking of "her girls," and the "creme de la creme" -- fixed in my mind. It is one of those books that you feel you know, even when you haven't been properly acquainted. Miss Jean Brodie is almost a protype of the kind of teacher who seeks to influence young pupils beyond the bounds of what is healthy or desirable -- for either teacher or student. The novel is set during a time when Fascism is on the rise in Europe, and the names of Hitler and Mussolini are not reviled -- but actually admired in some circles. Miss Jean Brodie is one of those admirers, and the reader can't help but make the mental connection that she herself is a natural fascist. It is a slippery sort of novel, though; and mostly, the character of Jean Brodie is rather ridiculous -- and even pitiable. Although the novel is told from the third-person point-of-view, there is a particularly perceptive girl called Sandy -- and we see Jean Brodie through her gradually disillusioned eyes. In a time when it is unusual for women to have careers, we understand that this teacher has eschewed the more narrow existence of wife/mother in order that she may exert the full range of her talents and abilities. She is, as she so insistently repeats, in her "prime." In many ways, though, it is a sad and lonely life. Muriel Spark, the author, has an interesting way of dealing with time -- and the novel goes back and forth between the past and present in particularly artful way. There are lots of repetitions, of words and phrases, and there is a voice and style in this book that is like no other. In Candia McWilliam's introduction, she claims that this novel is "technically beyond praise." I don't really understand how a novel can be beyond praise, but I certainly agree that it is a tightly written, clever book.

Bence Vass bencevass — Some pretty poetic language, but at times hard to follow (I did read an English translation: The Flame). It is based on the author's relationship with Eleonora Duse, so that in itself is fascinating.

Rosimeire Aviles rosiaviles — What a very interesting look into a yet another part of American (both North and South) history that I've never known much about it. This story starts out in Chile in the mid 19th century and ends a few years after the gold rush in California, spanning all the history and people inbetween. I had no idea that so many Chileans came to CA to pan for gold, along with so many others in the world! I also wasn't aware of the pure debauchery that went on to the extent the story eludes at this time in American history. I knew the West was untamed and brutal, but wow! Obviously it's a fictional story, but I'm guessing the author based it on some kind of truth. It was certainly an interesting snapshot of how the West started to develop and how many different kinds of people made it what it is today. Anyway, I very much enjoyed it, but my only qualm was the abrupt ending. It was sailing along quite nicely and I think it could've done with a bit more of a neat tie-off, but I do get what the author was going for (choose-your-own-adventure and all that!). Unique and great read overall though!

Alice Campagnaro _lce — There were loose ends in the story not cleared up in the end of it. There was a jump in time was not well defined and threw me off in the story. I had to reread a few times to get back into it. Maybe the author plans to write a story about the loose ends but who knows. I am not mentioned those as to not spoil the tale.