Jon Garza từ Ray-sur-Saône, France

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12/22/2024

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Jon Garza Sách lại (10)

2018-03-12 10:30

Biển Cả & Giá Trị Cuộc Sống Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Richard Bode

i used to give this book as a gift a lot because i thought it was very profound. i remember loving the dad & son road trip part and having a changing relationship to the quasi-religious epiphany at the end. this site makes me want to re-read everything.

2018-03-12 11:30

Boris Đi Học Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Carrie Weston

This book is never not awesome.

2018-03-12 12:30

Thành Ngữ & Tục Ngữ Việt Nam Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

To see your country and your countrymen as they really are, you have to leave them behind. That was Kipling's view, at any rate. In this moving novel Kristofer Oliver takes the advice of the master story-teller. Ben is an ex-pat living in Paris, having fled there at the end of a traumatic relationship. Several years on the new, if rather rootless life he has built for himself is turned upside down by the arrival of Emily, 14-year-old daughter of his former partner. The narrative traces the growth of their relationship, not-really father with not-quite daughter, and gradually unravels the mystery surrounding Emily's unconventional mother Clara. Oliver comes from the north of England, but he has lived in France "amongst smelly cheese and fresh coffee" since 2003. Eight years is enough for some of it to rub off. This is not a travel guide. The Eiffel Tower and Montmartre make brief appearances, but his default view is from pavement level: cafés and shops, traffic and the Metro. Locations are blocked in with a sense of familiarity, just enough to give freshness and lift. The same goes for the writing. I would guess that Oliver has been in France for long enough to start thinking in the language. Once or twice there are hints of a Gallic turn of phrase: meeting Emily's grandmother after a long absence, Ben thinks There are some many years Elizabeth and I have to catch up on... Sometimes this gives the prose a slightly bumpy quality; generally, though, the effect is to strip it down to essentials. The first person voice is clear and direct: I can't remember the time from when I first plucked up the courage to ask her out for a drink, to the time when I understood her when she was brushing her teeth in the morning. We fell into a partnership instead of a relationship. We were coupled from the start. I remember a day when we both came home separately from the rental shop with the same video. Like the locations, the characters are fresh and convincing, particularly the trio at the centre of the story. Emily is a delightful mix of teenage savvy, edging towards adulthood, and childlike innocence. Her mother Clara, seen in flashback, has a convincing rawness, someone not built to stand up to the blunt instrument of everyday life. Even minor characters are "there" on the page. Ben's latest girlfriend Sarah, leaving as Emily arrives, takes advantage of a difficult phone call to scoot round their flat and pack a few extra items: Sarah picks up the iPod she bought me for my last birthday, mouths 'mine now' and places it in her pocket. The two important relationships in the novel - between Ben and Emily and between Ben and Clara - are both rich and satisfyingly ambiguous. There is none of that irritating sense you get from some books that the narrator knows the whole story from the beginning, but is perversely keeping the reader in the dark. Ben discovers Emily, but through her he also rediscovers Clara. Father of Emily has the contemporary charm and honesty of One Day. Like Nicholls, Oliver has an intimate grip on the minutiae of modern life - the wine and the chocolate, the bedclothes and the luggage. His characters' dilemmas are not philosophically profound, but we recognise every detail of their bafflement faced with love and tragedy. The difference is that they live in Paris.

2018-03-12 13:30

The 5th Wave: The Infinite Sea (Book 2) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Rick Yancey

The cliche is true - this is an amazing book, and the rest all suck. When Herbert got it right, as he did in this first book, it was a spellbinding novel of colonization, cultural conflict, and political tension; he uses a sci-fi setting the way it should be used.

2018-03-12 14:30

Phong Tục Nhật Bản Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

This was definitely my favorite of the four...

2018-03-12 15:30

Bèo Mây Bờ Bến (Di Cảo Thơ) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bùi Giáng

brilliant bright lights big openended bohemian blues city

2018-03-12 16:30

Giấc Mơ Hóa Rồng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Huỳnh Bửu Sơn

I only am giving it 4 stars instead of 5 because it took me a long time to get through this book. It had something of a humorous text book feel to me. Not quite light enough when the only other books I get to read actually are text books. I need one that feels like I'm on a break. Ohter than that...funny and informative again. Wow.

2018-03-12 17:30

Cửa Tiệm Hạnh Phúc Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Di

Blind man gets good sex and lives happily ever after.

2018-03-12 18:30

Tiệm Đồ Cổ Á Xá - Tập 2 (Tặng Kèm Poster) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Huyền Sắc

Great book, 1 thing i love about his books is that it doesnt matter if you have ever read any of his books yo can pick them up and from the start will grab and keep your attention and keep you wanting more. It made the movie look like garbage.

2018-03-12 19:30

Từ Điển Mẫu Câu Đàm Thoại Tiếng Anh Phổ Biến Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hoàng Thanh

Wow, an amazing story. a crazy millonaire, a car chase, 25 nuclear missiles, hijacking a plane at heathrow... This book is surely one of the most actionpacked books in the world. My favourite bit has got to be hijacking the plane at heathrow. I definatly would recommend this book to a friend!

Người đọc Jon Garza từ Ray-sur-Saône, France

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.