Andrew Stanford từ Kärsu, Pärnu County, Estonia

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12/22/2024

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2018-03-26 19:30

HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Harvard Business Review

When you first meet Zoey, shes just a normal teenager, who goes to a normal high school (soon changes). She has a best friend, a boyfriend (Heath), a mom, a step dad, and (her perfect) siblings. Her best friend, Kayla, has always been there for her, through everything even Zoey's relationship problems with Heath. Heath has always had a thing for Zoey, (even in grade school) his always loved her and still does. Since his played football, Heaths been around the wrong crowd a lot (he begins to smoke and drink, which changes him). Zoeys at home life hasn't been that great either. Her mom just got re-married to a guy, Zoey likes to call "Step Loser", who is very religious. Before, Zoey was very close to her mom, but since the marriage began, "Step Loser" has all control over her, and she begins to change. When she needs to escape, the only place she can go is to her grandma, a older Cherokee women, who lives on a lavender farm. During one of these escapes, Zoey doesn't feel good, and she cant find her grandma anywhere on the farm, that's when she passes out, shes going through the change (to a vampire fledgling). The only way a fledgling can survive is go to a vampire school, The House Of Night. Her entire life changes, she meets a cowgirl named Stevie Rae, who becomes her new best friend. She also finds her new "Nerd Herd", Damien and the twins. But whats a good teen romance novel without a mean girl? Zoey also meets the leader of the Dark Daughter, Aphrodite, who just happens to be doing something, (in the hallway on Zoey's first day) with a cute boy named Erik (who doesn't want, what Aphrodite wants to give him). Single Zoey soon begins to have feelings for Erik, and he does the same. A very sweet relationship, which kept me reading this book till the end. Aphrodite soon invites Zoey to one of their Dark Daughter meetings, this is where she realizes how unfair (sneaky, rude and back stabbing) Aphrodite is. I don't want to ruin the story for you guys, but at the end Zoey becomes the leader of the Dark Daughters with the help of her friends, and her new boyfriend(: I love romance, but there wasn't too much in this story. But this book keeps you on your toes, and is a new spin on the whole "Vampire Thing".

2018-03-26 23:30

Hoa Ở Trong Lòng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dạ Ngân

In Michael J. Fox's movies, I loved how he was always able to play unassuming, normal characters and then inject them with a certain heroic quality that I think arose from his own inner-passions and zest for life. He radiated "cool" in a seemingly effortless way, which is a nice change of pace from the usual sexed-up, overly made-up, unlikeable crop of young actors that have become the norm in Hollywood. Unfortunately, in this, Fox's second book, he comes across as every inch the celebrity, making it hard to relate to him the way I could in his films. Maybe if I could afford to ponder life's difficulties while swimming with turtles or vacationing in Paris, or if I could get pep-talks from the likes of Muhammad Ali and Lance Armstrong, I could be an incurable optimist, as well. Not that I begrudge him those things...not at all!...I simply wonder exactly how "incurable" his optimism would be if he didn't have so many other things in his life going for him. One can only speculate. I tend to be more interested in artists' views on art than on their personal lives, so this book isn't really my cup of tea. The first part on politics is interesting, but I have little respect for Fox's views on politics because the only issue that really matters to him when choosing who to vote for is whether or not they support stem cell research. I could be wrong, but I think there are a vast number of other, equally important issues that should be given consideration before casting your vote. I think Fox's political activism is positive and admirable, and I respect the hell out of him, but it is also somewhat self-serving, so I don't think of it as being particularly heroic. I was disappointed to see him rake Rush Limbaugh over the coals so much in this book, as I had thought Fox had taken the moral high ground when responding to Limbaugh's criticisms a couple years back by not resorting to personal counter-attacks. The section on faith is disappointing because it is more from the perspective of an outsider looking in than from that of a man with strong religious convictions. It's refreshing to see how devoted he is to his family, however, and it is the last section of the book that makes me respect him the most. All in all, though, I would highly recommend that you read his first book, Lucky Man, instead.

Người đọc Andrew Stanford từ Kärsu, Pärnu County, Estonia

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.