Xiao Lu từ Belén, Paraguay

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05/14/2024

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2018-12-21 22:30

Thép Đã Tôi Thế Đấy - Tái bản 12/2010 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhicalai Axtơrốpxki

Martinez has written one of the best, most humane accounts of illegal immigration from Mexico into the United States. I especially appreciated how this book is laid out. In the first half, he describes his experiences visiting a small provincial Mexican town. The people there are poor, and the economy is almost entirely driven by work performed in the United States. American inner city culture has returned to this small town with migrants, who come back whenever they can. There are tensions there between those who have found success on their voyages north and those who remain very poor. In the second half of the book, Martinez visits many of the families from this small Mexican town at their US residences. He describes the trouble they have finding a place in communities that aren't very welcoming. It is interesting that many families who exist near the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder in the United States are considered wealthy when they return to their communities of origin. In all, this is a fantastic book. It certainly doesn't tell the whole story of migration between Mexico and the United States, but it tells an important part.

2018-12-21 23:30

Cậu Bé Và Chú Chó Nhỏ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Eva Ibbotson

*4.5 stars* I am so enjoying these books! Bones is so wonderful! And how he loves Cat is even more wonderful! There are so many laugh out loud moments along with twists you can see coming and some that you can't. I am greatly looking forward to the rest of this series!

2018-12-22 00:30

Sunday Times - Giải Tỏa Mâu Thuẫn Và Stress Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Brilliant and fascinating. One of the few books that I re-read often.

2018-12-22 01:30

Tư Duy Như Một Kẻ Lập Dị (Tái Bản) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

this book is okay i guess....

2018-12-22 02:30

Để Học Tốt Giải Tích Lớp 12 (Phần 1) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I loved this book. The bravery of the children. I cried all the way through the last chapter. Verified my belief that animals and children are wiser than adults.

2018-12-22 03:30

Một Trăm Công Án Thiền Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nyogen Senzaki

** spoiler alert ** I'm not a big fan of the whole espionage genre, but I really enjoyed this one. My favorite character ended up dead so I am sad he won't be in the sequels.

2018-12-22 04:30

Những Năm Tháng Nhọc Nhằn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Văn Thảo

70 years after genetic engineering cured cancer but cursed new generations with a much-limited lifespan–20 years for females, 25 for males–16 year old Rhine is kidnapped from her life with her twin brother Rowan in New York and sold into a polygamous marriage 1000 miles away. Now married to the weak House Governer Linden of her own generation and under the watchful eye of his pre-disease father, the sinister Housemaster Vaughn, Rhine must navigate the politics and agendas of her sister-wives and captors if she’s to have a chance of escape. But with only 4 years of life remaining, is Rhine sure she wants to abandon her comfortable prison, or will she find love in her new life after all? Dystopias–and dystopian trilogies–are in right now. Based on the ARC synopsis, I assumed Wither would be along the same lines as Awaken or Delirium, a romance about a girl’s choice to love or act in defiance of the rules of her progressive, emotionless society. But Wither is different. Unlike the faux utopias of those books, the world of Wither is broken. People are dying too young to maintain civilization as we know it. Members of the last generation to age naturally are still alive, but most children are orphaned early and left to fend for themselves. Powerful men have the luxury of kidnapping wives. If a cure is not found–and not everyone wants one to be–it’s easy to envision the future as successive generations of Lord of the Fruitflies. Despite its heroine wrestling with her feelings toward her new husband Linden and the house servant Gabriel, Wither is not a romance novel. Reading it brought to mind Wuthering Heights (the name association between Linton and Linden helped) and Jane Eyre, with its introspective young woman trapped in a mansion of secrets and desire. Wither is more about personalities, and how each of the sister-wives responds or adjusts to her captive marriage and new social situation. Although the story seemed to slow at times, I liked that Rhine’s feelings for both Linden and Gabriel are sometimes conflicted, and that she doesn’t lose her personality or agenda to their pheromones. The sense of menace of the house and villain are palpable, and other characters, even sympathetic ones, perpetuate iniquities through either willful or oblivious ignorance. The science fiction aspect of the series seems underdeveloped and even extraneous. The science of and social response to the crisis seem glossed over at best, although they may be further explored in the continuation of the trilogy. While the age-limiting disease helps to explain the reason for Rhine’s kidnapping, this feels more like a book about captivity that could take place at any time: future, past, or even in today’s present. Consider the same synopsis as above, with a few omissions: 16 year old Rhine is kidnapped from her life with her twin brother Rowan and sold into a polygamous marriage 1000 miles away. Now married to the weak Linden and under the watchful eye of his father, the sinister Vaughn, Rhine must navigate the politics and agendas of her sister-wives and captors if she’s to have a chance of escape. But is Rhine sure she wants to abandon her comfortable prison, or will she find love in her new life after all? The future setting does distance the horror of Rhine’s situation, as well as appeal to the current YA dystopian trend. But does it really need to? In The Hunger Games, Awaken, and Delirium, there is a real sense of rebellion. In Wither, other than her captors, there’s no government or establishment to rebel against (or if there is, we don’t know enough about it). The focus is instead on how a group of individual characters deal with their own lives under the oppression of a single household–and by extension, how we might approach our own–and that’s enough.

2018-12-22 05:30

Kinh Ngọc - Kinh Kim Cương - Qua Suối Mây Hồng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

when i think of christmas, all i think of is the santaland diaries.

2018-12-22 06:30

Ngoi Lên Từ Đáy Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Trí

A really fun premise and great characters--funny, sometimes annoying, very real. I felt like I knew those people.

2018-12-22 07:30

Những Tấm Lòng Cao Cả Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Edmondo De Amicis

That I love the work of Katherine Mansfield probably is apparent from the way I've rattled on in this blog.How I wish for a new biography of this doomed and brilliant miniaturist! In the meantime, I recommend this 1987 work by Claire Tomalin. Tomalin can always be counted on for clarity and an unbiased rendition of a life. In the case of Katherine Mansfield, both must have been difficult. Not only did Mansfield try on various personae and artistic identities, not only did she hide and lie about some of her past - she even changed her name several times, finally alighting on the name we know today. She was, for her times, more sexually adventurous than many. Her early lovers may have included women. Some of the physical suffering she endured before her death from tuberculosis may have been the result of an STD she contracted, relatively early in her life. Even as her strength ebbed, she flung herself into her art and the artistic life, socializing with such luminaries as Lady Ottoline, Virginia Woolf, and Aldous Huxley. She and her odious husband lived with the volatile D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Lawrence for a tumultuous period. (Lawrence later based two characters in Women in Love on Mansfield and Lady Ottoline.) Her stories, crystalline and (sometimes) bitter, caught the attention of Virginia Woolf, who considered Mansfield her only true literary threat. Mansfield's death in the enclave of the mystical Gurdjieff was part of a desperate search for a cure when conventional medicine failed her. Tomalin takes the reader through the last days and last hopes with the dispassionate details that make Mansfield's decisions tragically clear. Tomalin's biography brought me closest to feeling that I was in the presence of this complicated woman. I recommend it to all who love Mansfield, and all who admire a good biography.

Người đọc Xiao Lu từ Belén, Paraguay

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.