Ben Hammersley từ Saketsia, Georgia

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05/17/2024

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2019-03-27 02:31

Combo Con Đường Chuyển Hóa (Bộ 2 Cuốn) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Alan Watts

Christmas With Tucker was a gift from my friend last year. A box of Kleenex later, I made it through this touching story that still warms my heart. Christmas With Tucker is a pre-quel to Greg Kincaid's very popular A Dog Named Christmas ($9.99). It's 1962 in eastern Kansas and young George McCray is living on the farm with his grandparents. George's dad was killed in a farm accident that summer. His mom and older sisters moved to Michigan, but his mother sensed he needed to stay on the farm for a bit longer. As he tries to adjust to the aching holes in his life, Grandpa brings home an Irish setter who belongs to a neighbor serving a sentence in jail. Grandpa warns George not to get attached to the dog, which he promptly ignores. The dog fills some of the void in his life and guides him through a classic coming of age scenario. A major element of the story is Grandpa's job driving the county road maintainer. As a former country girl, I know full well the happiest sound on a winter day is the sound of the road grader opening a snow drifted road. Kincaid does an amazing job capturing that memory. I also appreciated the way he portrayed Grandma as a warm and caring, but hard working farm wife. Christmas With Tucker is sentimental with a strong backbone and the accurate description of rural life gives it strong appeal to wide audiences. It's available today for $9.99.

2019-03-27 04:31

Nghệ Thuật Quản Lý Nhân Sự (Dự kiến phát hành 9/5/2016) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Tiến Thành

** spoiler alert ** Well, I was actually a little surprised by my disappointment with this book. As another reviewer said, and I am totally paraphrasing, the whole of the book was good, but the last 66 pages was terrible. The last part of the book was probably more engrossing than the rest, in terms of it being a page-turner, but the was the book actually ended left much to be desired. It left me wondering what exactly the point of the whole book even was. *****Here's where the SPOILERS begin!!!***** The book took its first weird turn when Dr Papineau died. I had a hard time imagining where the story was going to go from there. When Edgar meets Henry Lamb, the story got a little interesting, but still seemed unsure of where it was going. I really think it's the whole Hamlet thing that messes it up - no one ever mentioned that similarity to me before, but of course Edgar's father's ghost telling him he was killed by his brother, and his brother's relationship with Edgar's mom, sort of makes it clear. So maybe the whole entire story is supposed to track Hamlet, and I just haven't read it in long enough to know for sure. I guess Almondine could be Ophelia . . . Anyway, if it is supposed to be a Hamlet retelling, what is the point of the dogs? I felt that question was never really fully answered. This book definitely felt like it could have been better, in someone else's hands.

Người đọc Ben Hammersley từ Saketsia, Georgia

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.