Ngày Của Kiến tải xuống LIT miễn phí

Cel Tico celtico — I read this book myself and with my kids before the movie was released and we all fell in love with this sweet and mighty mouse. Read the book, dont watch the movie. The movie was a complete hollywood disappointment.

Marta Matos martadematos — *diz book waz on & popppin 1 of da best bookz i 3v3a r3ad*

леонид луговой leonid_lugovoy — I loved Shakespeare growing up, and I had the fortune of having read this book for school the year before it came out in the theaters (the Leonardo DiCaprio version, that is). One of my favorite Shakespearean plays.

Jiman Park grooming — This was an easy, entertaining read. The protagonist is a busy career woman, mother, and wife who develops a condition called "left neglect" after sustaining a head injury in a car accident (while using cell phone), and chronicles her journey learning how to live with the condition, in which she simply fails to notice everything on her left (her left foot, her left hand, the left side of a plate, the left half of a page in a book, etc.). (It sounds like a ridiculous condition and yet it is apparently relatively common....I'm not sure whether there is also such a thing as right neglect...) Anyway, as you can guess from what I've written so far, of course she comes to see that her life was crazy and unsatisfying, and comes to enjoy the small blessings in her new, slowed-down life, including reconciliation with her estranged mother, blah blah blah. I thought it was overdone a bit.... All in all, I preferred the author's first novel, Still Alice, which was about a woman as she grapples with a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Perhaps that one was better because AD is a more common disease and therefore it's easier to relate to.....and it didn't have the "forced happy ending" that Left Neglected has. Which isn't to say that Left Neglected is necessarily unrealistic; it seems quite realistic that someone who developed this condition might indeed subsequently make the life choices that the protagonist makes....only that it still felt a little forced and overdone to me.

Webdesigner Park webdesignerpark — I have read this book three times and I can truthfully say that I enjoyed reading it just as much as the first time I picked it up. One of the most unique and beautiful stories I have every had the pleasure of reading.

Samuel Schroder sschroder22 — Originally published on The Librarian Next Door: Kate has lived her whole life in New York City, but now her mom is dying and wants to return to her childhood home, a town in the middle of nowhere. Kate is faced with starting a new life in a town she’s never heard of, just when she’s on the verge of losing her mother forever. But things aren’t what they seem in this small town, none more so than Henry, a mysterious young man Kate can’t seem to ignore. And when Henry brings a girl back from the dead, things get even stranger. Henry offers Kate a bargain: stay with him for six months out of the year, pass seven tests and he’ll keep her mother alive until she’s ready to say goodbye. Kate doesn’t know what to believe, but if it means saving her mom, she’s willing to do what it takes – even if it kills her. Aimee Carter’s The Goddess Test is a quickly-paced, enjoyable novel that re-imagines the Greek Olympians and the story of Persephone through the eyes of Kate, a mortal girl tasked with becoming Hades’ bride. Though the beginning of the book is a bit jarring – it jumps right into the story and it took me a chapter or two to figure out what was going on – once you get hooked, the story keeps pushing you forward and I was easily got caught in Kate’s nerve-wracking quest. As Kate literally faces danger that could mean the difference between life and death, I kept wanting to know what exactly is going on. The story is written from Kate’s perspective, so there’s a lot that left’s unknown or hinted at – it’s up to Kate and the reader to figure it all out. And though The Goddess Test is planned as a trilogy, there are often answers at the end to satisfy you while still leaving you curious about the next book. As the main character, Kate is easy to like. She’s smart, determined and carries herself with an inner strength. She is a bit self-sacrificing, but that personality trait comes from a deep and genuine need to take care of the people she loves. Though she’s still a teenage girl, struggling to accept that her mother is dying, Kate is not a push-over. Even when she accepts the truth about Henry, she stands up for herself and fights for him. She demands answers when she doesn’t understand what’s going on and, in the end, she makes – and takes responsibility – for her own choices. There were some parts of the book that confused me. I was never quite sure, for example, if the people surrounding Kate were alive or dead, human or immortal. And though Carter does integrate the Greek gods and Greek mythology into her story quite well, it was complicated keeping track of all the characters and, more specifically, keeping track of which gods they supposedly represented (though, to be fair, Greek mythology itself is complicated.) Henry, as Carter’s Hades, came across as a bit bland and brooding, which does not match the image of Hades I have in my head, but the more I read and the deeper I got into the story, the more I loved how Carter took those Greek myths and made them her own. Henry may not have resembled the Hades I pictured, but Carter managed to create a whole new side to a character I thought I knew. The Goddess Test isn’t so much a direct adaptation or update of the Persephone myth as much as it’s inspired by Greek mythology - it takes aspects of familiar stories and reworks it into something new and different. Kate herself mentions many times throughout the book that she’s not Persephone. If you except or hope for a traditional or faithful adaptation of Greek mythology, you might be disappointed. But if you keep an open mind and enjoy the story for what it is – a sweet and entertaining story with a heroine trying to figure out her destiny and a hero trying to hold on to his – then you’ll like Aimee Carter’s The Goddess Test. I’m already looking forward to the sequels. I received this book as an e-book ARC from Net Galley. I was not compensated in any way for my review.

Toby Oft tobyoft — This book was probably assigned for Martyn's "Christian Theology, Theories of Religion and World Faiths" course at Union Theological Seminary. It wasn't a particularly good class, but the readings in this collection were eye-opening, particularly as regards their representation of the traditional "religious" justifications for caste and racial inequalities in Indian societies. Coincidentally, the daughter of the series' editor, de Bary, was my next door neighbor in the Hastings dormitory for a year. He taught at Columbia University.