Kỹ Thuật Nuôi Chim Yến Và Tiêu Thụ Yến Sào tải xuống LIT miễn phí

Ana Orquera aniorquera — This is a very interesting read, unpacking the way creative thinkers make their decisions. It can apply to many areas of life, including business decisions. The book is not really a "how-to" and at the end I felt stimulated, wanting to know more, feeling like I'm at the beginning of finding out about integrative thinking. I loved the concept of reverse engineering as a way of debriefing an outcome. Also his highlighting the way we go into defensive mode to defend our ideas against alternatives, rather than looking at the most creative outcome of opposing views.

Chris Allan chrisallan — I mostly skimmed this one. Natalie Goldberg or Julia Cameron are way better to read if you really want help with the creative side of life. Or perhaps I read them first and this one just didn't have anything new to add. I did like the section where she talks about some famous people who have journaled. That was pretty interesting.

Catelyn Montoya cmontoyamabba3 — Wow, I really liked this one. Really liked it. Not in, perhaps, a love-it-forever-sing-it’s-praises-read-it-over-and-over-again way. But just in a, “This is just such a wonderful, touching, lovely book” way. Part of it was the surprise. I thought it would be a middle grade book, and I haven't had good luck with fantasy middle grade books recently. But this wasn't really middle grade (or at least its upper middle grade) despite the fact that the leads are 12 (though a very mature and pretty badass 12). I think what I loved most of all were the characters. Trei is a great hero—-brave, decent, understanding, bright, and dealing with the overwhelming grief of losing his entire family, his city, and, ultimately, his country when his relatives there don’t want him. He finds himself dealing with divided loyalties, too, when his birth country goes to war with his adopted country. And I really love that Trei looks at the world through Tolounnese eyes. He knows that Toloun has the best soldiers. Hands down. And he has that honor and bravery ingrained in him in ways that an Islander might never fully understand (well, maybe Prince Ceirfei). I loved Araene, too. Classic girl-has-to-dress-as-boy, but it was so well-done it felt fresh. And she was properly courageous, and vulernable and smart and resourceful. Just a great, great heroine. I think the world-building was also great. I love that the countries (Tolounn and the Floating Islands) have very distinct personalities. And I love that this is managed with pretty light strokes and also without relying too heavily on making them earth-equivalents. Tolounn has echoes of Rome—military nation, conquering, loyal soldiers with the power to overturn rulers. But it is not Rome-in-disguise. It is it’s own place. I liked the politics that were inserted and how everyone was just so badass. The Little Emperor—I wouldn’t want to cross him. He seems very bright, very in control, very assured, very honorable. A dangerous man. In fact, all the competent adults were very worrying in their absolute competence. I wouldn’t want to cross any of them. There were bits when it slowed and my attention wavered…I don’t care about flying training at all. But there was only ever half a chapter where my interest dragged. Otherwise, it was pretty intense. I hope there’s a sequel. It doesn’t need one, per se. But there are threads that could be pulled tighter and storylines I want to see progress further. I checked Neumeier' website and there's no hint of a whisper of a sequel so far. She’s talking about a bunch of other books she’s planning to write and none of them are sequels. I will say that I guess my one complaint for this book was the names. They were all familiar but strange enough that I couldn’t keep them straight. It didn’t help that Neumeier actually had kind of a naming scheme going on where a lot of the boys had names ending in “ei” (and, in fact, I think all male Island names end in “i” but I can’t be sure without going back and checking). Very logical for an actual culture, very confusing for a reader. And all the adult mages kept getting confused in my brain, too. But the names were at least short and not ridiculous as tends to happen in fantasy.