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11/21/2024

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2018-06-11 04:30

Giữa Những Điều Bình Dị (Song Ngữ Việt - Anh) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Quang Thân

Ginny’s conventional New Jersey life suddenly changes when she receives a letter from her eccentric artist aunt, who has recently died. It contains $1000.00 and instructions to go to a New York, where she must pick up a package at a Chinese restaurant and then board a plane to London. Inside the package are 13 little blue envelopes, each one containing a task that Ginny must complete before she may open the next envelope. There are also rules to follow: no maps, guidebooks, credit cards, cell phones, or other “electronic crutches”. Ginny’s travels take her on a voyage of adventure and self-discovery, during which she visits many major European destinations and hooks up with Keith, a punk playwright. Although the 13th envelope gets stolen on a Greek island, Ginny is able to figure out its contents on her own. Chatty and filled with amusing details of Ginny’s surroundings that teens would enjoy, the book reads partly like an adventure story, and partly like an informal “Let’s Go” guidebook to a whirlwind European tour. It’s often difficult to know why Ginny’s aunt chooses particular tasks; some of them seem superficial and inconclusive, but many of the loose ends are tied together by the end of the story. There are a few additional plot holes: it’s not clear whether Ginny’s parents have consented to the trip, and we never learn what, if anything will happen between Ginny and Keith in the long run. Ginny, however, seems satisfied to have the affirmation that he considers her his girlfriend. This book would be appropriate for girls aged 13-18 who are looking forward to independent adventures; if they don’t already wish to tour through Europe someday, they will after reading this fast-paced book. In spite of her unusual journey, Ginny is generally responsible and risk-averse, and while she does fun things she would never have done otherwise, she manages to stay out of serious trouble. The cover photograph of a girl in a strappy tank top (who doesn’t fit Ginny’s description) makes the book seem racier than it actually is.

2018-06-11 05:30

Bảo Tồn Và Phát Huy Giá Trị Văn Hóa Vùng Tây Nam Bộ Trong Thời Kỳ Hội Nhập Quốc Tế Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Võ Thành Hùng

It is likely that this will be the last great novel I read as an undergrad, and as I was approaching Tristram Shandy's sublime (anti)conclusion, this gave it some added personal significance. And how fitting, since the experience of reading this novel was exactly what, I've come to learn these past four years, being an English major is all about: being given a week and a half in which to read a 600-page proto-post-modern epic, which happened to contain some of the densest and most heavily-annotated prose you've ever plowed through -- and though no one would have really cared if you failed, you did it, huffing and puffing all the while, and it seriously took you 300 pages to realize how life-affirmingly wonderful this book is and how much it reminds you of how a great book made you feel when you started out on this whole ridiculous journey three or four years ago, how reading a great book used to feel like a a vigorous blow to the side of the head and the ways that it mixed up and rearranged everything inside of you. I actually wrote "Wow" in the margins of this book a couple of times, and one of them was after the following passage: "For what is war? what is it, Yorick, when fought as ours has been, upon principles of liberty, and upon principles of honour -- what is it, but the getting together of quiet and harmless people, with their swords in their hands, to keep the ambitious and the turbulent within bounds? And heaven is my witness, brother Shandy, that the pleasure I have taken in these things, -- and that infinite delight, in particular, which has attended my sieges in my bowling green, has arose within me, and I hope in the corporal too, from the consciousness we both had, that in carrying them on, we were answering the great ends of our creation" (416). Seriously, read this at some point in your life. Maybe give yourself more than a week and a half, but read it.

2018-06-11 10:30

Ông Tướng Của Tôi Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Albert Likhanov

** spoiler alert ** I think that some of the criticisms posted here of this novel are pretty spot on. It is wayyy too long and there definitely are some boring spots. But... I just loved it. I loved Em, I loved Dex, I loved their lives. I know what a relationship like theirs is like. When you care so, so, so much about someone but the timing just doesn't work out over and over. Or it does, and they're being an asshole. Or it does, and you're being an asshole. I loved Emma because I saw myself in her, and I couldn't help but care very deeply about what happened to these two. I was frustrated when a year went by and they didn't see each other. The whole time Em was with Ian, I knew the stress and the guilt and the uncertainty that comes in a relationship like that. When Dex fell in love with Sylvie and she got pregnant, my heart was broken but at the same time I was happy for him and I knew Emma was too. Was it perfect? No. Is it right to give a book 5 stars because it struck a chord with me even though it probably shouldn't be on a shelf next to Siddhartha and The Bell Jar? Probably not, but I don't care. Did I think the ending was shitty? In some ways, but I also think it's the author's prerogative to end the story as he sees fit, and maybe it was a cheap shot but I cried from Emma's death until the end of the book. I went back and re-read the first chapter, and the scene in her Paris apartment, and the argument they had the morning she died. It got me! What can I say? 100% recommended, though if you haven't read it yet, why are you reading this horribly spoilery review?

Người đọc Kaze Studios từ Vallisnera RE, Italy

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.