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2018-06-30 19:30

Thần Thoại Hy Lạp - Tập 1 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

I finished Brett McBean’s novel, The Mother last night coming home on the train and was left with a chilling feeling upon its completion. I bought the book from Infinitas Bookshop in Parramatta – near where I work – the day I got my first pay from my new job. Firstly, the premise for the book intrigued me and secondly, I hadn’t read any Australian horror and I was interested in seeing how McBean tackled the setting. The Mother is about a mother hitchhiking along the Hume Highway searching for her daughter’s killer. Each chapter is written from the point of view of a different hitchhiker as they pick up this woman – always going by a different name – and the reader experiences her changing appearance and mental state as the likelihood of her finding him becomes more grim. With this style, you can tell that McBean is indeed, a short story writer and I found the style unique and fresh. The characters are compelling. Each driver seems to have a different take on who she is and their relation to her. Even though these drivers aren’t her killer, a lot of them seem to have hidden horrors of their own. But there’s a sense of loss when you come to the end of each chapter. Just as Brett McBean has managed to suck you into the world of the driver, you’re spat back out only to start journey again in the next chapter. With this, and the changing personality of the mother, the compelling characters in the novel aren’t allowed to live their full potential. Also, the novel seems to contain two climaxes. The middle chapter of the novel, featuring the truckie, Blake, is one of the highlights of the novel. Slowly, it builds up to a climax where we think we’re going to make some progress, then it’s flipped upside down and we lose hope. I think that was the effect it was meant to have and you surely felt what the mother was feeling when a sense of a conclusion was taken from her. A lot of the second half of the novel contains this feeling of hopeless and despair as the deterioration of the mother’s mental state accelerates to a point where she becomes a very different person each chapter. The second climax, the real one, leaves you feeling empty and chilled to the bone. The final conclusion, is indeed, something to mull over for a time. For me, there are individual scenes of brilliance in The Mother. One, as also described in McBean’s article, is the scene at Lake Mokoan. Brett is extremely lucky to fall upon this piece of landscape near Benalla in Victoria. It’s perfect for a horror novel and leaves a lasting effect on you – I’m even tempted to visit it someday. As a whole, The Mother is brilliantly written and has a chilling resonance to it. However, the unique style of the story doesn’t allow you to grow with the characters in the story and holds it back from a punch that it most certainly has within it. If this is anything to go by, I’d really like to see if I can get my hands on some of Brett McBean’s shorter works. http://www.benjaminsolah.com/blog/?p=350

2018-07-01 01:30

Giai Thoại Lịch Sử Việt Nam - Tập 1 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Sometimes I don't think I am meant to read memoirs. Once in a while one really resonates with me but the majority of the time I read knowing I am supposed to be gaining some kind of understanding of a universal truth but not quite grasping it within the stories. I think a good part of my difficulty with memoirs is that they often do not run in a linear fashion with the story moving in chronological order. This is certainly true of Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs by Heather Lende. This is Lende's second book with the first being If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska. Both books revolve around the citizens of Haines, Alaska and the impact that living there has on the author. Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs begins as Lende prepares to go on a book tour for her first book but is literally hit by a truck instead. Her months of recuperation, the illness and death of her mother, and writing obituaries for the town residents lead her to reflect on her community and her faith. The book is deeply spiritual without being preachy and Lende is able to add some humor to what might otherwise be a very somber story. Lende moves fluidly throughout time tying together the past, the present, and even hopes for the future. One memory or story gives birth to the next as she tells the stories of those she knows and has known. While the book was interesting in parts, there was much that simply failed to capture my attention. I am not sure if it is because the wilderness setting of such a remote Alaskan town has no connection to my life or if it was because I was unable to relate to the various characters and events portrayed in the book. It is also very possible that I was simply not in the right frame of mind when I was reading it due to my own personal circumstances. I think Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs will appeal and resonate with a great many people. I just don't happen to be one of them.

Người đọc Erica Viva từ Roma, 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.