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Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
A great children's book with fun illustrations and cute story. It is a Beehive Award nominee for this year.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dr. Giáp
This book reads like a mashup of a few other young YA novels to me, meaning it doesn't feel very original, and the plot is a bit ludicrous. The writing, though, is so original and clever and the kingdom's history so well laid out and explained that combined they prevent any melodrama. First, the writing: Fly by Night flows smoothly, yes, but it also showcases a uniquely twelve-year-old experience. Hardinge removes her perspective so completely from the novel that she manages to create characterization through word choice. The novel never lets you forget, through its very words, that this is its protagonist's story. This is seen most cleverly through use of metaphor and simile, which themselves depict Mosca's age and range of experience: The jokes they exchanged were like clods of earth thrown at the face, mean good-humoredly - but meant to bruise as well. ...Mosca felt less alone. It was a strange and shiny new feeling, and she decided not to think about it too hard, in case she wore the paint off it. The kingdom's history is wonderfully done as well, rich in metaphor and completely believable. It evokes the French Revolution with its descriptions of terror and wanton death, tyranny and rebels. Some of the novel's strongest writing describes the evolution of the kingdom's religion. Afterward it was hard to be sure exactly when the sublime light had dazzled their minds and driven them mad, since they went insane with such calm and dignity that nobody noticed. The ways Hardinge uses words and multiple meanings to create layers is nothing short of brilliance. One can read the book for the writing alone. An added benefit, though, is the book's description of the discovery of truth and the ways it can be hindered and spread. The discovery of the importance of both freedom of speech and of the press. The discovery that people are never what they seem and that they can be more complex than ever imagined. That not even smart twelve-year-olds can foresee everything or always be correct. All this in a highly entertaining, potentially ridiculous but ultimately wonderful story.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
This book was written by my former Head of School. While the portrayal of boarding school life is romanticized and a bit idealistic and the weight/gravity is nothing of _A Separate Peace_, the characters face real challenges with equally real life lessons to be learned.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ichikawa Takuji
Our protagonist, a "teleport" with family issues, is gifted at the art of revenge, a troubled teen who could very well hire out his payback services at premium rates. I'd love to see that in a sequel, clever vengeance being but one of many elements that compose this tale. Davy Rice narrates us through a lot of angst and romance with the voice of the boy next door, convincing throughout and never falling into stereotype, blind to his deep-set issues even as we and the people around him wait for them to explode. Though it appears at a glance to fit in the genre, I hesitate to call this novel speculative fiction. Granted, the jumping element is a fresh take on the superhero origin, yet it never develops to reveal Davy's higher calling or a larger, less mundane world, resulting in an enjoyable and unique coming-of-age potboiler with untapped potential. The "speculative" aspect got me to pick it up, but Jumper's portrayal of alienation and self-deception is what ultimately sets this book apart.
This is a wonderful collection of stories from people who have rescued pets or dedicated their lives to helping animals. Reading this made me want to run over to the local humane society and take all the cats home (which my two cats would certainly not appreciate)! Anyone who has pets or loves animals will love this collection of stories. Very interesting and well put together.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: An Nhiên
I love Madeline :-)
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Thanh Hoàng
I gobbled this book up. An exploration of fear that is mesmerizing. A mix of all the things I like in modern lit: non-linear narrative, a bit of darkness, a cabin in the woods, characters that are simple, yet layered, and a story that unfolds in a way that makes me hold my breath a little at times. The only reason I withheld the fifth star was because just sometimes I wanted to know more and it was withheld from me - part of the genius of the story after all too maybe.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Bính
Ordinarily I'm not a fan of the self-help daily-affirmation genre. But Dowrick's book is really sensible and thoughtful. Better yet, she is one of the few authors in this genre who isn't offering a "turn your life around in 7 days or your money back" solution. Her thinking is sound, and any advice is gently couched. She doesn't really offer advice so much as a reflection on how to live thoughtfully. There's no frantic urgency to what she writes, more a gentle encouragement to slowly, slowly begin to approach life differently. She doesn't pretend you can transform your life just by reading something; instead, she recognises that a lifetime of practice is required. There's a sympathy between her approach and that of Kathleen Norris' discovery of Benedictine values - "an ordinary life lived extraordinarily well" as the Benedictines are fond of saying. There are some minor things that irritate me about the book but this may have more to do with my hyper-sensitised Louise Hay-type BS detector than anything really present in Dowrick's approach.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, come to think about it, perhaps I like it more than Chocolate War . . . completely changes your idea of how we think and define "heroes".
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Noboru Baba
An absolutely beautiful book.
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.