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I so much enjoy reading May Sarton's books. They are all different from each other, but all are very insightful and introspective. This one is a fictional biography. Sarton writes sparingly, giving you a lot of room to think about things. Sarton grew up in Belgium and the US, with a Belgian father [a famous historian of science] and an English mother.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Ngọc Thuần
Isaiah Berlin said that some people, those who know one thing, are hedgehogs, and some, those who know many things, are foxes. Henry Adams was both. The Library of America Edition has his study of 19th century multiplicity, The Education of Henry Adams, and his work on 13th century unity, Mont St. Michelle and Chartres. How a Boston Brahmin and heir to the Unitarian tradition became interested in Medieval Christianity baffles me, but I love it--there are too few works that combine the two things I love Science and the Middle Ages. Every line from both books is disgustingly quotable, but the chapter from The Education, "The Virgin and the Dynamo" stands out. I am sorry that this glowing review sounds like something written for the back of a penguin classics edition, but I have been studying "science" long enough to almost have forgotten how to write in anything onther than the passive voice. Mea culpa, kyrie eleison etc. etc.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trác Việt
THis was a good read for me. Quickly done and had characters that all could be well liked in the circumstances they were in.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: ThS. Trịnh Thanh Toản
Most of the stories are worth reading/listening to - especially the one about workign in macy's.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: TS. Nguyễn Quang Phong
Wat een prettige roman. Eerst denk je dat het een lollig geheel wordt, maar allengs wordt het verhaal serieuzer, zonder dat het zijn lichtvoetige vertelwijze verliest. Het verhaal is geschreven in de vorm van brieven die een Indiase "entrepreneur" een paar opeenvolgende nachten aan de Chinese premier schrijft. Hij heeft namelijk vernomen dat de premier India zal gaan bezoeken en dat hij echte Indiase "entrepreneurs" wil ontmoeten. Voila. In de brieven vertelt de White Tiger, zoals de brievenschrijver zichzelf noemt, hoe hij zo ondernemend geworden is. Een eerst humoristisch vertelsel over hoe hij in zijn jeugd op het Indiase platteland als een van de weinige jongens uitblinkt op school (vandaar de bijnaam White Tiger, waarmee aangegeven wordt dat dat een zeldzaamheid was), tot er een bruiloft betaald moet worden en hij gedwongen wordt te gaan werken voor een van de grootgrondbezitters in het gebied. Hij verkast met diens zoon als chauffeur naar de grote stad. Tot aan het eind van de eerste brief de aap uit de mouw komt: de White Tiger heeft zijn werkgever de keel doorgesneden. Hoe hij tot die daad gekomen is, wordt duidelijk in de brieven die hij in de nachten erna schrijft. Omdat ik het boekje geleend heb, heb ik geen ezelsoortjes gemaakt. Geen quotes dus, helaas.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Scholastic
This book would be an excellent book to use in a history or social studies class, as well as a theater or English class. The author recommends how this book could supplement a study of medieval times: "I wrote these plays for a group of students at the Park school where I work as a librarian. They were studying the Middle Ages, and they were going at it hammer and tongs. They were experimenting with catapults and building miniature castles, baking bread and tending herbs, composing music and illuminating manuscripts. I wanted them to have something to perform" (viii). By either memorizing and performing or by just reading aloud, students can absorb part of the human experience of life during medieval times. The pieces are written in poetic form with some artful word play students could study to practice for reading and understanding Shakespeare and the times in which he set some of his plays. Each monologue (there are also two dialogues) is a voice of a person from a medieval village. Each person represents a social class and occupation, and he describes feelings and interactions that may have been a part of his daily life. Otho, for instance, is the miller’s son. His monologue opens: Father is the miller As his father was of old And I shall be the miller, When my father’s flesh is cold. I know the family business - It’s been drummed into my head: How to cheat the hungry customer And earn my daily bread. (27) Not only do we learn some realities about the miller’s trade, we also catch a glimpse of Otho’s feelings about it - his dad’s repetitious instructions and traditions have been given so often, he cannot mistake them. Each monologue has realistic elements like those described above. Taken together all the characters’ monologues could help a classroom get an overview of the historical facts as well as the human side of history. The book has great helps to further aid a student in understanding the times. A map at the beginning shows each character’s workplace or home in the village. Notes in the margins explain unfamiliar words or turns of speech. The word “fell” in the following lines has a different meaning: “Though I was born crookbacked,/ crippled, and fell,/ I will be cured at Saint Winifred’s well” (20). The margin note says, “Fell is an old-fashioned word for ugly and bitter” (20). In this one sentence, learning medieval language is dovetailed with learning the variety of problems people faced as well as religious beliefs and practices. Learning history is facilitated by visualizing the people of the time doing their daily work, speaking their words, dealing with their problems, using their tools, and otherwise walking in their shoes. The artwork compliments this process with pictures of people dressed in medieval-like clothing, and set in medieval homes and geography. The parts of the examples above that might help students practice for reading Shakespeare are the old English words and the indirect descriptions and puns. Otho’s family business is to grind people’s grain into flour, but it is more than that, too; it is to do it in such a way that the customer is cheated out of some of his flour so the miller can feed his family. “Daily bread” has come to mean daily monetary earnings and food, but in this monologue it means quite literally, bread one would eat to sustain life which would come of the flour the miller takes from the villagers. Inexperienced readers of Shakespeare could begin to get a feel for the way he writes and for some of his subject matter with these poem/monologues. This book is most suitable for ages 10-14. Parents need to be aware that death, homelessness, and abuse are addressed skillfully and realistically, but briefly.
I didnt read this book, I lived it. You can see the charaters & hear their voices.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Thị Linh Trang
I loved this book. It had a slight hint of Marxism, which can usually be fun. But really - David Mitchell used a pretty stupid idea of the structure Ukranian nesting dolls and turned it into a fascinating story that connected people across time, predicted the future, and made keen and depressing observations about human nature and society. His ability to write in multiple genres and invent new forms of English was fun too.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Tuấn Quỳnh
Too tragic a book to even describe.
Another gorgeous book by Winterson - unusual in that the narrator is never named or identified by gender. The narrator falls in love with a married woman who is dying; it's a beautiful meditation on the nature of love.
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.