Henry Ireland từ Piedralá, Ciudad Real, Spain

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05/12/2024

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2018-09-05 22:30

Sắc Màu Sáng Tạo (Sách Tô Màu Dành Cho Người Lớn) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

A really great book! It was like Water for Elephants in that the writing and the characters were very good, the story was interesting, but it wasn't so heart-wrenching that it was hard to read. (I did get a little misty-eyed though.) Having the dog narrate the story allowed for some funny and off-beat commentary. I really enjoyed it, even (especially?) with the racing theme. It was also nice to read a book about a guy, written by a guy, with a male narrative.

2018-09-05 23:30

Sách Của Những Bí Mật - Tập 1 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Osho

There's no way to do any definitive research on how the world would "end" after an all-out nuclear war, but I imagine that On the Beach is pretty close to how it'd go down. This is a hard book to pin down. It's not flashy or dynamic; we enter the book two years after the last bomb has fallen, with only about six months until the radiation clouds get to where the characters are living. There is a slow build up where we are introduced into the characters lives, and get to know them. They are all aware that they have six months left to live, "give or take three months," and we follow along as the weeks pass, and the characters realise exactly what that means. This is not a happy feel-good story, but then again, it's not meant to be. In the very last pages, the characters bring up an underlying theme of the book: how could this have happened/was there anything we could have done to stop it? The most telling part of this conversation is when the one character answers this question with something to the effect of "We could have educated them... we could have used newspapers to educate the masses on what nuclear war means," and first character says, "Well, I'm glad we have no newspapers now, it's been much nicer without them." Ah, the tragedy of human nature. On the Shore is a good book: slow to start, but with an effective and unforgettable unwinding conclusion.

2018-09-06 00:30

Điều Bất Ngờ Từ Madrid Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Thị Ngọc Quyên

In response to this annoying book, I wrote "Ten Minutes on the Toilet," by Alain de Botton.

2018-09-06 01:30

O, Mari! Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Robert Enghibarian

Fascinating and, at times, unsettling. The book is riveting at first, but the focus begins to wander in the latter half. While this makes for a less enjoyable read, one can only appreciate that Hrdy was unwilling to whittle the complex and competing forces under discussion into a more palatable narrative. my favorite quote: "One reason television is such a perilous medium is that even infants less than two years old imitate what they see on the screen, yet what appears there is determined by what happens to appeal or to sell rather than by what behavior helps individuals in a particular environment to survive or prosper."

2018-09-06 02:30

Bí Mật Vượt Thời Gian - Tập 1 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cô Bát

I read more short stories in 2011 than I had read in all the past 30 years. Not only did I read more short stories, the ones I read were extraordinarily rewarding: Tim Winton’s The Turning and Colm Tóibín’s The Empty Family to name two of the exceptional. I could easily add Hemingway’s stories published in this early volume to that list. Men Without Women was Hemingway's second published collection of short stories (1927), appearing after In Our Time (1925) and his novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926) . Even given its early publication date (1927), I found the 14 stories to have all the breath of modernity, realism and relevance that I have enjoyed from the short stories written by Tóibín and Winton. Hemingway’s stories, many set in Spain or Italy, deal with themes that marked Hemingway as a writer: infidelity, war, aging, loss of innocence, competition, masculinity, death, bullfighting. They also are written in his deceptively sparse, compact style in which sometimes much of the actual story rests almost unperceptively beneath the written words. In “An Alpine Idyll”, for example, the narrator relates a story told to him and his companion while dining at an Alpine inn. The story involves a peasant whose wife died in a valley closed off by heavy snows. Unable to bring the body into town for burial because of the heavy snows, the husband stored the corpse for months in a shed. When eventually he did bring the body into town, the priest interrogated him about the body’s condition. The peasant confessed: “’Well,’ said Olz, ‘when she died I made the report to the commune and I put her in the shed across the top of the big wood. When I started to use the big wood she was stiff and I put her up against the wall. Her mouth was open and when I came into the shed at night to cut up the big wood, I hung the lantern from it.’” But there is a subtle hint in the story that the husband may have used the body for more than a lantern holder—a hint that the husband may have used the cadaver for other purposes. Five of the stories, including “An Alpine Idyll”, involve Nick Adams, one of Hemingway’s enduring characters. We encounter Nick in those stories at various times in his life from youth to adult and begin to see him emerge in growing complexity. In “Hills Like White Elephants” Hemingway treats the issue of abortion; in “A Simple Inquiry”, the topic in homosexuality; in “Fifty Grand”, the topic is honor. One of my favorite stories is “The Undefeated”, the longest in the collection. It describes an aging matador in his last encounter in a bull ring, foreshadowing “Death in the Afternoon in regard to Hemingway’s masterful descriptions of the actual encounters between matadors and bulls and complimenting the bull fight described in The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway captures in the story much of the drama and worn pageantry of the fiesta brava. In “Banal Story”, the next to the last story in the collection, Hemingway hones his deeply satirical vein as he presents his eulogy to a fallen matador, Manual García Maera.

2018-09-06 03:30

Cuốn Sách Đầu Tiên Cho Bé ABC Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thái Lý

I particularly enjoyed his youthful journey. He is very honest about his quest to create himself. As a motherless son, and a black man in a white household, he had a lot of creating to do. His father abandoned him, as he did many of his many half siblings (6?) The africa journey I found less engadging as it was just told, not explored in the same way as his earlier life was.

2018-09-06 04:30

Bài Học Vô Giá Từ Những Điều Bình Dị (Tái Bản 2016) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Francis Xavier

This was a great read! I enjoyed every part of this woman's amazing tale of her life through food. The parties her family used to throw when she was a girl that involved roasting whole lambs, her crazy years in NYC and wandering Europe and finally opening her own restaurant back in NYC. It's a fairly quick read because it's so interesting. Her's was not the normal path to restaurant ownership. She's also the head chef and has two small children. I don't think she sleeps. If you like Anthony Bourdain's work, you should check this one out.

2018-09-06 05:30

Từ Điển Tranh Dành Cho Thiếu Nhi - Giao Thông, Thể Thao, Âm Nhạc Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

At first glance, The Soloist is a portrait of Nathaniel Ayers, the title character, a homeless musician suffering from mental illness. The author does a great job painting a picture of Nathaniel ... his personality, his illness, his circumstances, his history and his progress towards living a more "normal" life. And if it that was all the book offered, the Soloist would still be a book well worth your time to read. But what struck me was that The Soloist is also a portrait of the author, journalist Steve Lopez. As someone who worked as a counselor in a residential program for individuals with mental illness, I could identify so much with this story. Lopez's journey with Nathaniel is an excellent example of the emotional roller coaster the well intentioned face when trying to maintain a relationship with a schizophrenic.... the frustrations, the anxieties, the abuses clashing with compassion, idealism and the glimpses of people you wish you could help more.

2018-09-06 06:30

Trời Đất Tác Thành Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

contains the very best essay on the nyc subway system i've ever read.

2018-09-06 07:30

Bưu Thiếp Của Rừng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phan Hồn Nhiên

Cormier is super-weird. I am not sure if his books are really targeted at young adults - perhaps those in the 17-20 age range? 'Fade' is about a boy who can disappear and remain invisible until he wills himself back into being seen. He inherited this dubious gift from his uncle, who had in turn inherited it from his uncle. There are the usual motifs of bullying, sexual longing and alienation that increasingly seem to me to be key to Cormier's novels. His view of the world is so very dark. Then again, the unexpected breaks in the structure of 'Fade' won me over. I did not expect the narrative to switch into another voice halfway through the book, and I think it was pretty creative. (I can't say more without giving the story away!)

Người đọc Henry Ireland từ Piedralá, Ciudad Real, Spain

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.