Rachelle Beardall từ Gama, Palencia, Spain

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05/02/2024

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2018-09-09 06:30

Tự Học Tiếng Nhật Cấp Tốc (Kèm 1 CD) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: The Sakura

4/5 Stars The Way We Fall, Megan Crewe's second novel, takes all the potential I saw in Give Up the Ghost and capitalizes on it. She's switched genres and found somewhere where I think she can really thrive. It's a good small-scale dystopian (but I think the scale will grow in the next book). Recently I said to myself "Maybe I should give the dystopians a rest." But I'm glad I didn't. This book proves that dystopian isn't quite over yet. It's a worthwhile book--not too futuristic and grounded enough in the reality to be a little bit scary. The novel is written completely in letters to Leo, the main character's former best friend. It's one of the few novels where letters work. Keeping the perspective in close first-person POV also works, letting the reader piece together the puzzle with Kaelyn, not before or after her. The story maintains a perfect balance between what's known and what's unknown. The story starts with a lot foreshadowing. A dead bird here, someone with a strange cough there, before building into the island completely shutting down with the deadly virus. Because as the reader you know it's a book about a virus, the foreshadowing builds an atmosphere of foreboding and you're looking at everything as a possible clue. Kaelyn is a likable main character. She feels isolated and alone. Rather than whining, moping and feeling sorry for herself, she deals with it. She's in the process of trying to be the "new Kaelyn" and actively trying to improve her life. Like any teenager she occasionally falls into self-pity, but she keeps on trying to live her life. She's a little introverted, thinks too much and misses her former best-friend Leo who is currently off-island. Without being in the book, Leo's a constant presence because of Kaelyn's letter. You feel like you know him without ever meeting him. The book moves at just the right pace--not so fast that it forgets to leave clues, but not so slow that you feel like it's dragging it's feet. Kaelyn wants to figure out what's causing the virus, why some people survive and wants to protect her family. Over the course of the novel she becomes a strong heroine, helping the community survive rather than curling up in a shell-shocked ball and avoiding the world. (Which is what most people would do). Kaelyn wants to be a scientist so she's always observing what's going on around her. She's a teenager, but she's a smart teenager. Kaelyn doesn't hold back in the letters. They're her confessions and she records everything that she sees happening on the island. "You know, for all the talk you hear about "Mother Nature" and the harmony of the natural world, the truth is, nature doesn't give a crap about anything or anyone. Below is another quotation I love. To me, it just rings true. It's teenage angst but who hasn't felt like this? It's one of the reasons I find Kaelyn completely believable. "If there is a God I would punch him in the face ten times harder than I ever kicked Quentin." This book is a dystopian virus-sweeping-the-world done right. It keeps its scope small--focusing on the impact in one community following one girl's perspective. You see the government panic, the people panic and how when everyone starts dying the world just falls apart. But you also see the strength of the people who try to put it back together again. I kept expecting Kaelyn to give into the mope, and she did for about 2 pages before regaining her grip on reality. She's a heroine forced to become strong for those she loves. She doesn't want to save the world, she just wants to save the people she loves and protect the people around her. The characters are what makes this novel work and stand out in the sea of fast-paced, unrealistic dystopians. The novel doesn't look down on teenagers, but allows them to be human, make mistakes and grow up over the course of the story. I think the main reason I liked this story so much is that I found it believable. It didn't seem so far-fetched, Kaelyn felt like a real teenager and her motivations weren't grand, they were grounded. Somehow that's refreshing.

2018-09-09 07:30

Nhân Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tần Tại Đông

The weakest of the fine works by Winspear. The book seemed to lack the suspense and depth of the others. I have always "admired" this character, Maisie, for her intensity and understanding but in this story I felt that Winspear was making her out to be a bit too much of a genius. Maisie encountered a group of Nazi's in 1932 and was trying to press upon the British agents, with whom she was working, about the danger that the group posed. Every single one of the agents she discussed it with exclaimed that it was nothing to worry about. Not sure why that bugged me so much but it did. Weird that not a single person would have shared her concerns. What I do admire is Winspear’s assumption that the reader does have a clue about the historical context of the novel. Will I read more of the series—you bet!

2018-09-09 08:30

Diệu Âm Từ Miền Tĩnh Lặng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hồ Kim Chung

Well. This sort of read like fanfiction for the original trilogy.

2018-09-09 09:30

Các Món Ăn Chơi (Tái Bản 2015) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cẩm Tuyết

This is the only book I never finished!

2018-09-09 10:30

Star Darlings Gemma and the Ultimate Standoff Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Shana Muldoon Zappa

A brisk read. Prone to scanning. Not high on characterization, likely due to the narrative bouncing around so many different viewpoints. The main character was the alien city, silent and empty, always hinting at greater technology, but forever remaining an enigma.

2018-09-09 11:30

Malaysia (Sách Tô Màu) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Emila Yusof

This is one of the two most powerful books I've ever read. Anyone struggling with how God could allow bad things to happen to good people need to read this book. It is a book that will make you think. A book everyone should have in their collection. This has affected me in a way more personal level than I could possibly have imagined. Your heart will break and heal all at the same time. I only wish I had read this book a long time ago.

2018-09-09 12:30

My Little Pony - Nông Trại Táo Đỏ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

I have struggled to decide what I think about this book, having to give it a couple of days before reviewing. In my mind, I have gone from rating it 3 stars to rating it 5 stars (finally ending up with a compromise of 4). It is beautifully written, terrifying, frustrating, infuriating at times. It called me on some of my basic beliefs, which was rather upsetting, but also to which I should tip my hat. This is a post-apocalyptic saga written in the late 1940s. The vehicle of the apocalypse is a disease which wipes out most of the world's population, and was apparently a strong influence for Stephen King in writing The Stand, given the many details that seemed to be directly ripped off from it (the secondary kill, the wind-up record players, preventing the mentally disabled from producing halfwit children, etc.). Our hero is Ish, a young male ecologist/geographer, who manages to overcome the disease because he had rattlesnake venom in his bloodstream at the time of infection. I related to him immediately--his tendency to observe rather than participate in society, his curiosity in seeing the disaster aftermath unfold (for which an old boyfriend claimed I was a terrible person; at least I know there is one other person like that out there, fictional may he be), and of course his profession. The beginning of the book was highly entertaining for me, as Ish gets his bearings in the new world, interspersed with poetic descriptions of what is happening biologically in the world, now that man's influence has been mostly removed. One of my favorite lines: "During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens." Great stuff! The story follows Ish over the decades as he finds a wife and starts a tribe of survivors. He wrestles with the wisdom and necessity of keeping up the old ways of civilization, as the children born to the tribe are increasingly resistant to them. After 20 years of a happy, simple life of scavenging canned food and lounging around, Ish starts to worry that his tribe will have no survival skills for when all the goods run out, and that maybe he should have enforced his reading and writing lessons more thoroughly. This is where my brain began protesting, for a couple of reasons: 1--I would have thought that as a scientist, Ish would have been less lazy about this, and extremely concerned about preserving all of the knowledge built up by humans over their tens of thousands of years of existence. Certainly, civilization has its downsides that could stand to be discontinued, but also in that knowledge base is contained information about past mistakes and successes that could guide the survivors in reestablishing their society. By not enforcing literacy in his tribe, Ish was dooming all of this gathered knowledge to obscurity, and making their lives unnecessarily difficult in the end. 2--I am not a social scientist by any means, but I found it incredibly difficult to swallow the survivors' rapid "de"-volution and ignorance of the very recent past. Sure, Ish asserted that the other survivors of his generation were not the brightest bulbs in the shed, but you would think that they would continue to read books to their children, educate them in some way, and tell them about the world prior to the disaster. By the time Ish was an old man (about 70 years post-disaster), the young people already thought he was a god, that the "Americans" created the Earth and the sun, and there was no longer any written language. I find this preposterous. Or maybe, I just do not WANT this to be the case. My other major, major problem with the book was its treatment of women. It was almost like reading the Bible, with how small a part they played and how they were regarded. They were for the most part empty-headed vessels expected to bear children. Even Ish's own wife, whom he commended for being courageous and peaceful, was dismissed as being stupid. The sharp, religion-refusing Jeanie was dismissed as being adorable and feisty. When pondering the future of the tribe and who might be its leader, Ish never even considers any of the daughters. It makes me wonder whether Stewart really was this dismissive of women (it was the 40s, after all), or if he really thought this is the way society would be after a disaster, reverting to its caveman days. In the end, Ish lets go of his preoccupation with maintaining the norms of our previous civilization and is at peace with the fact that humans will evolve and find their way, as they always have. Though I was still sore at the whole illiteracy thing, I had to admit that this was a well-fitting end.

2018-09-09 13:30

Combo Kim Bình Mai (Trọn Bộ 3 Tập) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Amazing book! Over 600 pages and I read the whole thing in a day because I didnt want to put it down. You could really identify and sympathise with the characters. Well most of them, two I just wanted to slap lol Made me want to read the rest of her books which didnt appeal at first glance.

2018-09-09 14:30

Bách Khoa Trẻ Em Kỳ Thú - Các Loài Cá (37) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I haven't read the updated biography. The original is an amazing portrait not only of an eccentric painter but of an entire generation or two of artists and writers whose influence extended from the countryside in England to the Slade art school to London, to the South of France, to New York. Holroyd is a wonderful writer and a careful and unquenchable researcher who seems to be totally immersed in his subject. He has almost re-created the world surrounding Augustus John.

2018-09-09 15:30

Allegiant (Divergent) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Veronica Roth

Super book!

2020-05-09 16:39

Thiết Kế Thiệp Điện Tử Với Macromedia Flash8 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hương Tinh Vệ

Kafka nos enseña en The Metamorphisis que no importa qué forma física tomemos, los seres humanos merecen y necesitamos contacto humano para mantener su cordura. Si no, tal como lo vemos con Gregor (ya sea que sea víctima de alienación intencional o no), esa alienación es una fuerza destructiva tanto en el cuerpo como en el cuerpo, aunque esta novela es absurda, creo que todavía tiene una enorme capacidad literaria. Mérito y discusión filosófica. Y uno nunca debe olvidar que el dinero, un motivo principal en este texto, tiene una influencia vociferante en nuestras decisiones y el tratamiento de los demás.

Người đọc Rachelle Beardall từ Gama, Palencia, 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.