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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngân Hà
In Saving the World, Julia Alvarez has given readers a well-structured novel-within-a-novel that deftly explores questions of altruism, imperialism, colonialism, and various forms of activism. The contemporary character Alma Huebner, a well-known Latina fiction writer, is struggling with her historical novel about Isabel Sendales y Gomez, the only woman to accompany Dr. Francisco Balmis on his cross-world 1803 voyage with 22 orphans carrying a smallpox vaccine. Through the stories of both characters, Alvarez illuminates each woman's struggle with grief, change, love, and finding hope in a difficult world. A particularly fortuitous novel for me to find randomly at the library during this time of transition in my life. Highly recommended.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
A little preachy at times, but worth the read. I'm a believer.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
A wonderful read!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Geoff Smart
thank you Patty!!!!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Richard P. Johnson
I just finished reading John Irving’s The Fourth Hand. While it is worth noting that I have previously read both The World According to Garp and A Prayer for Owen Meany, found each to be better than The Fourth Hand, and recommend that you read both, The Fourth Hand is especially significant today--two days after the Virginia Tech shooting. The Fourth Hand is a story that follows a cad of a television field reporter who loses his left hand to an Indian circus lion while on an assignment. The reporter, Patrick Wallingford, later falls in love with the widow of his hand transplant donor. The book has fewer layers than Garp or A Prayer for Owen Meany, and is without the adroit literary architecture present in most of Irving’s work. However, its commentary on the era of sensationalist ‘all-news-networks’ and their exploitation of national tragedies is particularly pertinent this week. The following is from a Facebook group, posted by a news outlet on Monday: "Hi everyone. My name is Karen Park. I am working with Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) in New York City. We are looking for (korean) people from VT who knew Mr. Cho personally, had a class with him, was his roommate in previous years, etc… We would also like to know if anybody has any photographs or video clips of him or with him. We are interested in only showing his face and so we will blot out the faces of other people in the photographs. Lastly, if anyone is willing to do a brief on-camera interview with one of our correspondents in Virginia or a telephone interview, please call us immediately..." On Monday night, Brian Williams did the NBC Nightly News broadcast from the Hokie campus in Blacksburg. Tucker Carlson, MSNBC’s chief political pundit, was also there. Hoards of reporters have descended on Blacksburg, looking for the “he kept to himself” sound bytes and B-roll of the hysterical, sobbing friends of victims; ESPN is reporting on the canceled Hokie spring game and how the ‘innocence’ of college sports will bring us back together. Even the all-sports-news network struck gold: “you realize there are 32 people who aren't walking down to the football game." In The Fourth Hand, Wallingford is at the anchor desk the week of JFK Jr’s plane crash over Martha’s Vineyard. He curses both the local news and all-news networks for taking telephoto shots of the victims’ friends and family, and the networks’ proclivity to stretch a tragic story into a multi-week feeding frenzy. Wallingford would chastise Brian Williams for his reporting with all the gravitas and feigned verisimilitude of having been in the classroom with the victims, and the way the press will scrutinize the writings of Cho Seung-Hui and opine that someone should have seen it coming. The Fourth Hand is about a man who loses his hand and finds his soul. Needless to say, it is a work of fiction. Our aggressive all-news culture will ride the Virginia Tech story like they did Imus and Duke and Anna Nicole Smith; they will be relentless. There are 28,000 students at Virginia Tech and, by the end of this week, each will have been solicited for an on-camera interview, photographs of Cho Seung-Hui and more information about the thirty-two victims. On the fourth or fifth day of non-stop reporting following Kennedy’s plane crash, Wallingford sits in the anchor’s chair watching—with millions of viewers worldwide—a network montage of Kennedy Jr.’s life. The montage ends—with the image of John-John saluting his father’s funeral procession—and the camera is back on Wallingford. In lieu of his usual signoff (“Goodnight, Doris. Goodnight, my little Otto.”) Wallingford says, “Let’s hope that’s the end of it.”
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả
OMG!! When they had the contest about Doms that are shorter than their subs I should have remembered this one. It is another of my all time faves by Mr Michael. I love the characters, the complexity yet simplistic men that they are. Tyger's sweet, adorable innocence contrasted by the strength and brutality he can reek yet submits so sweetly to his Master Palin, a small statured bespectacled man with the power to read minds and a stutter yet able to bring his Tyger to his knees. I have read this one over and over and over.
Interesting look at late 60s early 70s pop culture, but I guess I expected more from a poet/author.
Hated it. Not one likeable character in the entire book. Odious, self-involved twits. yuck.
Ohhhh,,SSooooo SWEET!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Song Hà
Like any compilation this is hit and miss but as a pure art object it is pretty impressive. Nice to see some of comics heavy hitters come out in the Kramer's Ergot fold for a change. Some of KE is a little too white-belt and Vice Magazine for my taste but I find it encouraging to see some younger American cartoonists developing.
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.