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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tiina Nopola
I am a huge fan of the tv adaptation of the take so I was really excited to read the book. It was just what I expected, yes it's not a work of lyrical art, it's gritty and it's written as in you are actually in London not just looking from the outside. I did skip some bits out of repetition and the swearing shocked even me (and my family are bad!) but overall I really enjoyed it.
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Another page turner by Harlan Coben.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Gwyneth Montenegro
I really enjoy the Womens Murder Club series and this one was especially good. Lots of sub-plots and intrigue to keep you reading.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Go Deuk Seong
I like Artie Lange, and I think he's funny. He's also apparently willing to be brutally honest about himself and his problems. Which makes this book simultaneously fun and heartbreaking to read. Honestly, it's like reading a first person version of last year's "The Chris Farley Story", with a talented guy so far down in the world of drugs and booze that you just know what's coming. And you just want to get ahold of him and slap some sense into him, even though you know it wouldn't do any good.
I spent a week in the hospital during late July 2006, and this was the book my mom gave me to kill the time. Overall, I'd rate it the weakest of the Weiner books I've read. I really liked Good In Bed and loved In Her Shoes, however this little murder/mystery twist was just okay in my eyes. I can't deny that I enjoy Weiner's writing. Her dialogue is still peppered with pop culture references and lots of zings which keep me reading. Overall, it's a decent read.
So, far it's great. But I'm a sucker for a good Nicholas Sparks novel.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phan Thị Hồ Điệp
I finished this a while ago. Very enjoyable reading. The author says at the outset that she wants to "present Catherine the woman, the multi-faceted, very eighteenth-century woman, principally through her own words and those of her contemporaries[]." Also? Apparently the horse story is a complete fabrication. Not a big surprise. I can't remember if I knew that before or not. But since this is something of a personal biography with political aspects, it spends a lot of time on Catherine's relationships with her favorites. (They'd be called mistresses if the genders were reversed.) This is something that modern polyfolk might find to be interesting, because for much of her life she had two favorites and had to figure out how to deal with having both of them around. (This is even more complicated when you're being the Empress of Russia, apparently.) Catherine expresses herself well, and her excerpted letters are a lot of fun to read. I'm tempted to see if I can track the originals down, since presumably many of them would have been written in French. (Both because of Francophilia in Russian culture of the period, and because IIRC at this time French was (still) the dominant language of diplomacy.) Here's an excerpt (p.331) from a letter from 11 November 1778, concerning American privateering: Do you know what wrong those American ship owners have done me? They have seized some merchant ships which were setting off from Arkhangelsk; they carried out this delightful business in the months of July, but I sincerely promise you that the first to meddle in the commerce of Arkhangelsk during this coming year will pay me dearly for it, for I am not Brother G. [i.e. King George III]: one doesn't push me around with impunity; they can do what they like to Brother G., but not to me, without getting their fingers burnt; I am angry, very angry indeed. Here's another interesting one - Catherine's reaction upon seeing drawings of some loggias decorated with paintings by Raphael. (Go here for pictures of the originals.) "When Catherine received these drawings on I September [1778] she immediately went into an acquisitive ecstasy over them and determined that she must have replicas of the loggias for herself. ..." I'll die, I'm sure I'll die: there's a strong wind blowing from the sea, the worst kind for the imagination; this morning I went to the baths, which made my blood rise to my head, and this this afternoon the ceilings of the Raphael loggias fell into my hands. I am sustained by absolutely nothing but hope; I beg you to save me: write at once to Reiffenstein, I beg you, to tell him to get these vaults copied life-size, as well as the walls, and I make a vow to Saint Raphael that I will have loggias built whatever the cost and will place the copies in them, for I absolutely must see them as they are. I have such veneration for these loggias, these ceilings, that I am prepared to bear the expense of this building for their sake, and I will have neither peace nor repose until this project is under way. And if someone could make me a little model of the building, the dimensions taken with accuracy in Rome, the city of models, I would get nearer to my aim. Well, the divine Reiffenstein could have this lovely commission as well, if Monsieur the Baron Grimm so desires; I admit that I would rather charge you with this than Monsieur Shuvalov, because the latter is always raising doubts about everything, and doubts are what make people like me suffer more than anything else in the world. One of the Empress's favorites was mentioned as having an apothecary set, which he used to mix and test drugs (!). But I wonder if this was a predecessor of modern chemistry sets. 1789 made the Empress unhappy. Not a big surprise. "Do you still remember," she wrote to Grimm, "how the late King of Prussia claimed that Helvetius had confessed to him that the project of the philosophes was to overturn all thrones and that the Encyclopédie had been made with no other aim than the destruction of all kings and all religions? Do you also remember that you never wanted to be counted among the philosophes? Well, you are right never to have wanted to be included among the illuminati, the enlightened ones, or the philosophes, for their only objective is destruction, as experience has shown." Also the part about the illuminati made me smile. Incidentally, I love Amazon's Search Inside This Book feature, because when I want to excerpt from a book whose publisher has provided the text, well, it saves me a lot of typing.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
Hooks shares a similar philosopy as Palmer in my opinion. Hooks is an advocate for a democratic education within the classroom in which everyone is an active participant, contributing in class as they should in community. She believes there cannot be too much governing, and everyone can bring experiential knowledge to the classroom. Like Dewey, Hooks believes in the communication of experience in order for a community to be affected, and grow together. This is used to promote a non-dominating vision of freedom, where all con contribute equally, empathize, and attempt understanding.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Neil Rackham
I really liked this. A good old-fashioned, Encyclopedia Brown type comic with a cute protagonist and little more on its mind than spinning a straightfoward but exciting yarn. Just fun. Calling stories "yarns" is extremely relaxing.
This series started out with a fabulous story, but I find my attention wandering now when I pick up a new volume. More fights with the sand ninjas, o rebellion. It's becoming a bit too predictable. Yet I'll still pick up the next copy...
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: E.H.Gombrich
最难熬的犯罪小说,这使詹姆斯·埃罗伊看起来像一个青春期的幻想家。
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.