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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Vũ Hoài Hương
I love Max... he is soo cute!
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This is one of my favorite books. I couldn't put it down. Diet Eman was a woman who worked for the Dutch underground during WWII. She relied on Christ in everything she did. There were many times where she could have been put in prision and was somehow saved. It is evident by the circumstances that she encountered that it was by the grace of God that she escaped dangerous situations. She has taught me to be strong in Christ and rely only on Him.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hồng Sakura
Eco's done it again.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả
This was a strange read to me. I enjoyed the first part, with Emily Fox-Seton being almost unnaturally kind, happy and thankful for everything while at the same time the author keeps telling us how she's rather naive and a little stupid etc. Combined with the many female characters, all of different background, each with their own personality that shows us the constricted role of women in the 19th century. Add the delightful deliberate sentimentality and you have a really pleasant read. However, the second part felt a little exhaustive of this technique and became dull and often annoying. Add to that the fainting, hopelessly in love woman Emily becomes for no apparent reason and you get a disappointing read. This would not make it necessarily bad if it weren't for the absolutely painful racism that reared its head somewhere in the middle. You would think someone who so clearly saw the role of women to be very constricting for the myriad of personalities a woman could have would be at the very least wane from those old stereotypes. But the only woman of colour written about was an awful stereotype that completely disproved Frances Hodgson Burnett point about inclusiveness about women to me. I wish I hadn't read the second part.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hà Mạnh
awsome!!!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
A page turner for sure. Would have gotten 4 stars if it weren't for the excessive patriotic propaganda throughout the book. Modern day espionage somehow just lacks the elegance of Cold War spy novels, which were all about mind games...
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tô Hoài
Oddly, I think I bought this book on vacation only to discover the writer lives here in Portland. I'm listening to the CD that comes with the book as I type this. The author is a musician and the CD 'soundtrack' really does capture the tone of the book - so that's a fun little find with this book. I found the characters real - almost too real, as they (sadly) feel like some people I grew up with. I couldn't put the book down as I had to follow Allison on her journey for better or worse. Good read.
Who else wasn't glued to their television set, or the newspapers, or their internet, or whatever, last late August into early September? It's not everyday that we see a city destroyed by a combination of a hurricane and government ineptitude. It's the second major disaster in just four years in the United States, after the attacks on the World Trade Center that killed 2000 people. Hurricane Katrina and the lackluster FEMA response killed 1,836, plus 705 people unaccounted for, as of May 19th, 2006. There was a rapid response to 9-11 attacks, when the victims were mostly white affluent people. There was a slow, too-little, too late response to Hurricane Katrina, when the victims were mostly poor and black. Today, fewer than half of New Orlean's population has returned, since many of them have nothing to return to. Michael Eric Dyson, the author of "Is Bill Cosby Right?", writes in "Come Hell or High Water" of the meaning of the disaster. While it is true that Bush, Mike Brown, and local Louisiana politicians did not cause Hurricane Katrina, (though the magnitude of the hurricane was most likely highly worsened by global climate change), they certainly were responsible for the hundreds of thousands of people being stranded in New Orleans when help started arriving nearly five days afterwards. Dyson spends much time exploring the cultural response of the mainstream to the hurricane, with the glaring implications of race in America. In a desperate situation with little hope for help, people in New Orleans began to take food from stores which had been abandoned in the wake of the hurricane. The media shortly separated the Black people trying to feed themselves into "looters" and the whites as "finding food". An absurd amount of attention became focused on people using the opportunity to take televisions and radios, though the media ignores the fact that people may have sold these appliances later on for food. The disaster of the Superdome, where 30,000 people waited for days while the Red Cross was turned away by the national guard because New Orleans was "too dangerous" (which later turned out to be mostly based on rumor.) Hurricane Katrina seemed like the world turned upside down, but it really just brought already messed up situations, like white supremacy and capitalism, to be magnified ten-fold. I keep wondering why they didn't just evacuate everyone, and it turns out that Amtrak offered to provide free trains, but the city turned it down. The Levees weren't funded properly, leading to detoriation and busting up. FEMA didn't know what was going on, and followed every little procedure by the book, leading to necessary help not happening for days (for instance, FEMA officials were instructed not to help any locals unless they asked for help.) Later, a Lousina representative declared (off-the record) "We finally cleared up that public housing problem…" For a step-by-step detailed look into what happened in the Deep South in August of 2005, pick this up, and prepare to shake your head in bewilderment at the people who run the United States. Reggie Bush or no, New Orleans has been forever changed.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đằng Bình
An amazing account of the history of the Mormon religion and why it would drive one man to commit murder, claiming God told him to...did he?
Fun series, especially if you like coffee.
Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.