Nathalie Tveter từ Kimbolton WA , Australia

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12/22/2024

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2018-06-12 18:30

Made In Korea Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Richard. M. Steers

I've labored through two of Drury's books now, and I think I can say with confidence that Drury is a terrible reader of both Kojève and Strauss, as well as being a shallow and tendentious writer. In short, she's a hack. She repeatedly falls into the cheap, journalistic trap of drawing ridiculously simplistic causal pictures, in which complex ideological and sociopolitical realities are reduced to dimensionless shadow plays. Honestly, her hamfisted conclusions consist of nothing but trite laments, rhetorical scare tactics, and an extensive appeal to guilt by association. It's very unfortunate, given that the topics she seems inclined to write about (e.g., Strauss's influence on American neoconservative thought, Kojève's strange popularity among elements of both the radical left and the radical right) are quite interesting. Yet Drury, in all her fury, consistently manages to cast no illumination whatsoever. Rather, she obscures the topics almost entirely.

2018-06-12 19:30

Lục Xì Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Some of these reviews are so painful to read. Just because you read a Thomas Pynchon novel doesn't mean you have to try and go out of your way to try and write like him. Because you're not going to succeed. Sometimes it might be best if you just typed, "I liked it", or "I didn't like it," instead of trying to bang out some holier-than-thou, supreme intellectual review that instead works in reverse and only works at making you look like a complete ass. With all that angst out of the way, I finished this a few minutes ago. I'm not going to go out of my way to try and make myself sound like a literary genius here, like so many of you do, I'm just going to say that I truly appreciated Pynchon's writing style. This book was beautifully written, nearly poetic at times when exploring the themes of narcissism, entropy and paranoia, among others. It's entertaining. Fresh. Gripping. Whatever. It's good. I enjoyed it. The end. Shut up.

2018-06-12 20:30

Candy Book - Món Quà Từ Điện Thoại Di Động Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

This lady is really becoming a favorite of mine. I love the way she crafts her characters and storylines. Also her storylines have a social problem involved in them. This one was of Abuse and it really had a HEa

2018-06-12 21:30

Tủ Sách Khéo Tay Tinh Mắt - Những Hình Dán Dễ Thương Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

Spontaneous orgasms in the street? Um, ok.

2018-06-12 22:30

Thiếu Lâm Tuyệt Mệnh Cước - Những Thế Đá Tuyệt Kỹ Thiếu Lâm Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Interesting information, a little dry reading.

2018-06-12 23:30

Lạc Quan Gặp Niềm Vui Ở Quán Nỗi Buồn Và Những Chuyện Chưa Kể Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dương Minh Tuấn

*Note: There are some tiny spoilers below.* This was my first Libba Bray novel, and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The premise is straightforward: a plane full of beauty queens crashes on a remote island. Throughout the book, we watch them surprise themselves at their capability, learn to have some confidence in their young womanhood, and of course, save the day. I think, by far, my favorite character is the oh-so-Texan Taylor Rene Krystal Hawkins. She starts off the book as the leader (duh) of the beauty queens. How could you not love the girl who starts off rallying her fellow pageant girls after a horrific plane crash by saying, "Okay, Miss Teen Dreamers, I know we're all real flustered and everything. But we're alive. And I think before anything else we need to pray to the one we love...I'm talkin' about my own personal copilot, Jesus Christ" (p.7). It's lines that like that had me busting out laughing often throughout the book. Taylor goes a little bat shit crazy, which lost me a bit, but she was so fascinating in all her gun-toting, survivor glory. Here's my personal favorite line: After describing a hilarious product called "Breast in Show" (use your imagination there), Bray writes, "Breast in Show. Because 'You're perfect just the way you are' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic" (p. 212). Priceless. The book is pretty sexy (hello boat full of hot pirates), which is fine by me, but I could see some overly-conservative parents having a problem with it, so my fellow librarians be aware. I thought the sex was handled well and was honest and real. Kudos to Bray there. That said, this is definitely a high school book. The book is dotted with footnotes explaining culturally significant products and people pertinent to the world in which the beauty queens live. Sometimes, I thought they were hilarious, sometimes they annoyed me. It's all so satirical (which is great), but oftentimes a little heavy-handed. Perhaps the most annoying part, to me, was MoMo B. ChaCha. We're supposed to laugh at the absurdity of his character (and his likeness to a foreign leader we know), but he just annoyed me. Ladybird Hope was much more fitting and could have been the villain all by her lonesome. Overall, I really enjoyed this one. I liked that Bray was trying to say, "Hey, girls, it's ok to be girls and have feelings and be tough and feel sexy and not want to apologize for any of it." It just felt too obvious sometimes. The beauty queens were hilarious, as was much of the dialogue and many of the footnotes. It's nice to have some well-written girl power lit to hand to my teen patrons. Rock on, Libba Bray.

2018-06-13 00:30

Poster Synonyms - Từ Đồng Nghĩa Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: First News

For those who are already taking action to eat more clean, green and local, this is the next logical step - caring for your body in the same manner. Since our skin is the largest organ of the body some may argue this is equally as important as eating organically. This book delves more deeply and more scientifically into caring for the outside of your body in a green manner than any of the other natural beauty titles I've read so far. For that, I give it four stars. I'm unsure if it was a conscience effort, but things are hammered home repeatedly. I could see the author and editor deciding it was necessary since the information is much more scientific in nature than most other titles in this genre. As someone with a fairly extensive background in science I found it a bit aggravating and at times felt things were repeated just to meet arbitrary page counts. Many reviews of this title at major booksellers pan the book for the author contradicting herself on her blog. I can overlook that, as the title is now several years old and there is new knowledge about chemicals and their impact on humans discovered everyday. Things could have changed rather dramatically from when she first drafted the manuscript to when it actually hit shelves, not to mention what has been learned in the several years since it was first released. That said, I did find she also contradicted herself within the book at times. Either that, or she was unclear between telling the reader what an specific ingredient's role was and telling us it was an okay ingredient for our homemade beauty concoctions. There were definitely ingredients I took as being okay that they showed up in the 100 Ingredients to Avoid list at the back of the book. The book has a very thorough index, as well as bibliographic information for each chapter which I really appreciate so that I can do my own research into some of the things myself. The resources section for suppliers of some ingredients called for is helpful, though I expect could have been a bit more extensive. The format and layout of the book makes it pretty easy to use as a reference. Though while I checked the title out from my local library I think I will be purchasing an electronic version of it for my own library because of the ease at which I can take notes that are searchable. Sprinkled throughout the book are some recipes for creating your own green beauty products. They were pretty standard and did not stand out to me as being terribly different than many other natural beauty titles that are more focused on recipes. Some of the recipes do call for harder to source ingredients, however. Overall, this is one of the most comprehensive natural beauty titles I've found. Though I do think one has to be prepared to make their own judgements about product ingredients and such. But it is a good place to start researching the ingredients in your commercial beauty products.

2018-06-13 01:30

Enchanting Hong Kong (Enchanting Asia) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Martin T. Williams

This was my first Picoult book and remains the one against which I measure all others.

2018-06-13 02:30

Kinh Khủng Gì - Đâu Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

No fair. You can't just describe stuff and feelings. Something has to HAPPEN.

2018-06-13 03:30

Em Muốn Biết Vì Sao - Máy Bay Có Cánh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Christopher Maynard

Sweet book for the middle grade. I loved hanging out with Lucy Wu and her family in this book. I learned a lot more about Chinese-American culture through the eyes of a sassy, smart and thoughtful middle-schooler with the "perfect" older sister and a brainy, but loveable older brother. Who can't relate to that? You will love The Great Wall of Lucy Wu. I would love to see more stories about the Wu family! Recommend.

Người đọc Nathalie Tveter từ Kimbolton WA , Australia

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.