Joseph Oh từ Chapaki, Uttar Pradesh , India

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04/25/2024

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2018-12-20 16:31

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This YA book tells one girl's story in 1941, during the time of Stalin's deportation of the people of the Baltic nations (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia). Lina and her family are put on a cattle train and sent to Siberia to work for the Soviets on collective farms. Eventually they are shipped to the Arctic Circle, and nearly freeze or starve to death. It's her tale of survival, and of her attempts to both document her life and to get word to her imprisoned father through her charcoal drawings. This is a heartbreaking, horrifying story, yet there is love and hope in its telling. I never will understand mankind's cruelty to other human beings based on ideology. Having said that, however, I wasn't drawn into the story or characters as much as I could have been. I felt detached from almost every character. Maybe I am comparing this book too much to "Maus" (graphic novel depicting Polish Jews in Nazi concentration camps) which despite the charaters being drawn as, well, rats, I felt their pain, humiliation and drive to survive. "Maus" was a VERY personal story that brought me to tears throughout the book. I just didn't feel that way about the characters in "Between Shades of Gray." That is not to say I do not recommend this book; I do. But I wish it was written in a more personal way, so I could really feel what the characters were going through. Still, I give it 4 stars.

2018-12-20 19:31

Hồi Ký Tâm Phan Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tâm Phan

I just finished Billion-Dollar Kiss: The Kiss That Saved DAWSON'S CREEK and Other Adventures in TV Writing by Jeffrey Stepakoff and was intrigued by his account of how television writing--and quality--waxed and waned through several decades, and how it transformed incredibly during his own heyday on the late-90s/early 00s. Since I read this directly after Hollywood Car Wash, it sort of came off to me as a more realistic and comprehensive perspective on the TV writing/producing industry. Sure, they are different books -- one is non-fiction and written by an MFA in Playwriting-trained person; the other comes off as more of a shallow-though-entertaining-on-that-level chick-lit lark -- but they both have protagonists that started with a certain set of "artistic, non-Establishment values" and got swallowed up by the money and big business and youth-obsession of Hollywood industry. And since Stepokoff makes it very clear he is talking about Hollywood LA, and not necessarily all of LA, he got a pass for me on the generalizations head. In fact, his specifics are what enthralled me, and his recounting of his journey through the shifting vagaries and priorities of the Industry. From the 1960s, when networks were deflected from creating their own cookie-cutter shows, to the rise of quality programming from writer-centered independent production companies like MTM that thrived into the late 80s, and then the impact of writers' strikes, the consolidation of media after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (which also diluted music and radio and hip-hop, as well as TV programming), and the transformation of networks into youth-obsessed "branding" sites, where the networks wanting to make a buck--not the writers wanting to create diverse stories--became the first and last say on everything, that long and winding road was fascinating, somewhat disheartening, and certainly illuminating.

Người đọc Joseph Oh từ Chapaki, Uttar Pradesh , India

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.