Patricia Ortiz từ Isapur, Madhya Pradesh, India

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12/22/2024

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Patricia Ortiz Sách lại (10)

2019-01-19 00:31

Thiện, Ác Và Smart Phone Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đặng Hoàng Giang

It's possible that I was just burnt out on Murakami when I read this.

2019-01-19 01:31

Truyện Ehon Nhật Bản - Ai Ở Sau Lưng Bạn Thế? Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

A great book for soaking up pleasant summer days. Not a lot of twists and turns in this one, just a straight-ahead story about smart cons, dumb cons, and regular schmoes. Like a hearty meal, it fills you up and leaves you satisfied.

2019-01-19 02:31

Thức Tỉnh (Tái Bản 2014) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kelley Armstrong

Great book.

2019-01-19 03:31

Tủ Sách Tác Giả, Tác Phẩm Trong Nhà Trường: Anh Đức - Tác Phẩm Chọn Lọc Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tôn Phương Lan

I gave this book 3.5 stars I thought this book was interesting for its portrayal of the class structure in India. The characters were all basically mistreated women in various ways. From the point of being a servant to the wealthy, to being a servant to one's husband, this novel brought out the fact that all women are captive in some form to the men in their lives. It was a pathetic book, one that made the reader think of the trials that many women go through as slaves to a culture that honors men and wealth. These woman were virtual prisoners to their environment. Their husbands lacked backbone, morality, humanity and treated their wives like vassals. There was not a good man among the crew of them and one feels that Ms. Umrigar had little respect for them as Indian men. The men seemed to be able to escape from their faults and were virtually condoned in their treatment of the women. The surroundings, the slums, the poverty, the houses of the rich all played into the story's line. How could people have so little concern for each other was at times appalling. It didn't seem to matter what the circumstances were, you were unclean, lower class and did not deserve respect or believability. If you were a man, however, great liberties were given to you because of your sex. I did not understand the significance of the ending as life is left up in the air for our protagonist as well as the families she served and loved. I would have liked a conclusion to one of the characters's lives and yet we, the reader, are left to guess the result.

2019-01-19 04:31

Đi Cùng Ánh Sáng - Tập 8 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Keiko Tobe

This book was great. I had read parts of it, several times, but had never picked it up during a time where I was actually able to sit down and read it, in full. I loved his style, his sarcasm and just overall the stories were hilarious. I will definitely be reading more Augusten Burroughs in the future.

2019-01-19 05:31

Bàn về chữ "Thời" Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Francois Jullien

Aaaah! i can't review this right now. It might end up with two stars, it might end up with four. Need to give it some distance. OK. here is the review. warning - it's one of those subjective/personal ones. ######################################################################## At 54 years of age, I don’t have a particularly coherent narrative version of my own life. Some of the more obvious events stand out in relief, but there are discontinuities, there are periods where everything seems to flow together, and there are many, many gaps - weird lacunae of years at a time. Did I really do nothing but work my butt off between the ages of 35 and 45? Kind of seems that way now, more’s the pity. Oh wait, didn’t I co-author a book in there somewhere? I’m proud of that book, less so of the friendships I allowed to wither on the vine during the process of writing it. Any narrative cohesion that does exist in my version of my life story comes, I have no doubt, at the cost of accuracy, because it just represents the fact that I have been able to reshape those parts of the story mentally to fit some kind of narrative arc with which I am satisfied. I think we all tend to do this, which is why all memoirs need to be filed, once and for all, under the rubric of “fiction”, and why maybe, at long last, we need to stop beating up on the unfortunate James Frey. (And why I should probably give my bete noire, Frank McCourt, a pass for one of my least favorite memoirs, “Angela’s Ashes”; though my review of that book continues to annoy certain people so much that I am reluctant to change it at this point). Proust, and assorted neuroscientists, would have us believe that our sense of smell plays an important role in generating our memories. I can’t really argue the point, but in her latest work, “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, Jennifer Egan taps into something that seems to me to be far more powerful, and far more relevant to most of our experience, when she identifies music as playing a key role in shaping memory and the resulting versions of our lives that we carry with us. Certainly, in my case, this is true. Whatever my memories, real or invented, music has a way of keeping me honest. Sometimes the associations are of my own making. Thus, for instance, all I have to do is to hear the Al Stewart song “Year of the Cat” to be transported immediately (and viscerally) back to the winter of 1978-1979, where this particular album formed the background to my relentless onslaught on functional analysis and probability theory as I studied for my joint master’s in Math/Statistics at University College back in Cork. Or flash forward a few years to when I was grappling with my doctoral problem in Chapel Hill, both “breakthrough” ideas, those that formed the core of my eventual dissertation, came to me to the soundtrack of Jackson Browne’s “The Pretender”, which blared from the record player in my office in Smith Building at 3 in the morning. Sometimes the musical associations are laid by others. For instance, it occurs to me that - no, the period between 35 and 45 in my life was not completely given over to work. There was the disastrous 7-month interlude when I dated Marty, one of the most charming, but completely messed-up, drunks inhabiting the Bay Area during the spring and summer of 1998. The guy was mad, bad, and dangerous to know, and he had a complete thing for the music of Celine Dion. So that if I want to be transported back to the particular state of vulnerability and fury that characterized our entire relationship, all I need to do is put “The Power of Love” on the stereo, and it all comes flooding back. By the same token, if I want to remember my first unrequited crush (on that oh-so-cute music teacher in Gaelic camp when I was 15), the slow movement of Beethoven’s 7th (in my defense, I was 15, it all seemed very tragic to me at the time) will take me back there every time. But it’s the cues we are unaware of that are perhaps the most powerful in keeping our memories honest. How else to explain my recent experience, driving back up 280 to SF a few days before leaving for Paris? With no warning, the radio station began to play the song “Driver’s Seat” by Sniff ‘n the Tears, and the effect on me was so profound I had to pull to the side of the road until the song ended, after which it still took me several minutes to recover. Because I was no longer on 280 or anywhere near it. I was in my room in Craig Dorm in Chapel Hill, in September 1979, newly arrived the previous week from Cork, feeling that mix of trepidation, promise, fear, and possibility that characterized that whole first year in Chapel Hill. Only these musical cues, lodged in our psyches like so many time bombs, have the visceral power to take us back in quite the same way. What does any of this have to do with Jennifer Egan’s book? Everything, really. Because she captures that power utterly and completely, with something approaching genius. Which may be why this book left me flummoxed at the outset. But which is also why I can give it no fewer than 5 stars. Ms Egan, you rock!

2019-01-19 06:31

Sword Art Online (SAO) - Tập 8 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Reki Kawahara

This is an historical novel of the 7 years or so before the US entered WWII, from the vantage point of 5 members of a military family who, coincidentally, find themselves spread apart across the globe in just about every significant arena of Europe and the Axis. If you can get past the somewhat stilted dialogue, it's pretty good. An informative and easily palatable bit of history, it provides some insight to current US/Europe/Russia/England relationships. I read this because Emily liked it, not because I was inspired by the made-for-TV movie, which regrettably featured Robert Mitchum as Pug Henry, and Ali McGraw as Natalie Jastrow (yikes!).

2019-01-19 07:31

Thú Hoang Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Thị Thụy Vũ

Fun quick read. Will give my book to my grandchildren. They will love it. This is a nice prequel to Peter Pan. Must read the original some day.

2019-01-19 08:31

Giữa Một Niệm Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

It's amazingly simple, but I have to say that I wish there had been a bit more about the religious ideas.

2019-01-19 09:31

10 Nghịch Lý Cuộc Sống (Tái Bản 2017) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kent M. Keith Ph. D.

Das Tal der Angst war die letzte Geschichte um Sherlock Holmes, die mir noch gefehlt hatte. Sie gehört zu den 4 Romanen über Holmes, zusätzlich zu den 56 Kurzgeschichten. Das Buch war - würde ich sagen - eher untypisch angelegt, denn der Mittelteil schildert die vorangegangenen Ereignisse zu dem Fall, in dem Holmes ermittelt. Und somit unser Ermittler-Duo Holmes und Watson zu Beginn und am Ende des Buches auftauchen. Nichtsdesttrotz ist der Fall sehr spannend geschrieben und aufgebaut, reizvoll gestaltet und interessant und flüssig zu lesen. Die Geschichte beginnt mit dem Fall des Mordes an einem Mr. Douglas. Holmes und Watson finden einige merkwürdige Umstände an diesem Fall und machen sich in gewohnter Art an ihre Arbeit. Und Holmes wittert seinn Erzfein Moriarty. Der andere Teil des Buches beschäftigt sich sowohl mit dem Opfer und als auch dem Mörder des Falles und deren (gemeinsame) Hintergründe. Das Tal der Angst ist nicht meine Lieblingsgeschichte von Doyle rund um Holmes, aber sie ist sehr spannend aufgebaut und definitiv lesenswert.

Người đọc Patricia Ortiz từ Isapur, Madhya 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.