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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thái Lê Dinh
Title: A Step From Heaven Author: An Na I really liked how this book is easy on the eyes and the tone is soothing. The author seems like a calm person, but yet engages the reader throughout the book. It's about a young girl who moved from a place in Korea, Mi Gook, into America, starting life all over. Her father and mother were doing fine, and she soon received a brother. She was learning english and found herself a best friend. As she knew that having a best friend did not mean you had to tell her everything, this young protagonist did just that. She hid the fact that she did not live in such a fancy house,and lied that she had to go to the library every time the kind american family drove her home, just so that she could walk all the way home. Life was not going very well and her dad was turning abusive. Would things be okay for this young girl as she tries to live in this american world? With her father being abusive, her brother cutting school, and her mother working her butt off, life wasn't so good. I would recommend this book to those who would appreciate life. Because not everyone's lives are great.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dorothy Garlock
I love this book so much. It is so funny! I just bought a copy at a garage sale for a quarter, and I started re-reading it. Delightful.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
A bit sappy, as you might imagine from the Dalai Lama. But there are some thought-provoking ideas and it's refreshing to hear genuinely compassionate words in these hard times.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate -- a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister -- and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. I'm not sure how I feel about this book. One of the main characters has epilepsy and being epileptic myself I had some problems with the accuracy of Campbell's seizure activity. In the novel, Campbell, Anna's lawyer, has a dog that goes everywhere with him and later the reader learns it is a seizure dog. I have friend who has a seizure dog and had to go through many tests and paperwork to be accepted into the program and must produce this documentation to any future school or employer. I also was surprised that Campbell drove so soon after having a seizure in court as there is usually a waiting period before getting back behind the wheel, and is usually 6 months to a year depending on the state -- not 6 hours! Also, Jodi Picoult never clarified what the cause of the accident was. Did Campbell have a seizure behind the wheel, which is not that uncommon, or was it just a freak accident? I don't think Jodi Picoult completed her homework in the medical sense; but unfortunately, I think unless you have some connection to the disorder you may not be as quick to catch on. Overall, I enjoyed My Sister's Keeper, but that lack of information was a huge negative for me.
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I could not put this book down, and I finished it in less than a day. It is such a creative work of art, and it gives such great insight into the mind of a person with autism.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: John Dunning
It was an entertaining novel. Read kind of like a movie the way it jumped to different scenes that were happening at the same time. You can tell it was written by a guy...lots of action scenes.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Joseph Murphy
Hands down, my favorite book of all time. It has everything- Spanish-American war, guerillas, love story angle, unbelievable scenery... this is Hemingway at his all time best...
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hiroshi Sakurazaka
"As one pastoral minister reminded me, 'Our moral failure is more often in omitting what we should be doing than it is in committing what we ought to avoid.'" (pg. 7) "Contracts work well if the necessary services and fees can be clearly spelled out in advance. But a ministerial relationship is open to services that are not so predictable and so cannot always be spelled out in advance...Covenantal thinking wants to know what is the most we can do in grateful response to what we have received (pg. 15)." "It is awesome to think that, in our freedom, we have the power to keep Absolute Power at bay (pg. 17)." "In ministry, we covenant by entrusting to a pastoral minister our secrets, our sins, our fears, our hopes, our need for salvation (pg. 17)." "Most of the time we reach decisions almost without reflecting (pg. 33)." Consider William May's thought that "one test of our character and virtue is what a person does when no one else is watching (pg. 42)." Compassion "suffers with" the other. It is the capacity to participate in the joys and sorrows of others without becoming overwhelmed by their experience or lost in it (pg. 46)." "We are the ones to whom people turn in order to help them see the sacred dimensions of everyday life (pg. 53)." "It is one thing to have right knowledge about the Christian tradition and its theological concepts, but it is a special skill to use this knowledge to help people find meaning and value in their experiences from the perspective of faith (pg. 54)." "The significance of competence can clearly be seen in the lack of it...People simply give more power to those who are good at what they do (pg. 71)." "Ministers have been given a remarkable amount of latitude for defining what qualifies as confidential. We have mistakenly extended the seal of confession to covr every sort of pastoral activity and communication (pg. 117)." "Sissela Bok maintains that, if we were stripped of our secrets and had no control over what others knew about us, then we could not remain either sane or free (pg. 121)."
This is one of the worst books I've ever read. The narration is convoluted and complex, ruining a potentially interesting story. By the middle of the book I wanted to stop reading. Chapters last 20 pages too long. Peter Straub could have told this story verbally to someone else and have them write it. I stopped reading with 50 pages to go and skipped to the end. The last chapter was the same as the first: boring, wordy, and convoluted.
The older I get, the more disenchanted I become with Michael Moore. I don't consider myself a conservative by any stretch of the imagination, but his kind of activism is indicative of what's wrong with a lot of liberal activism- narcissism. He's so absorbed with his own righteousness -and the fact that so many people in his audience with reinforce his righteousness with blind praise and little analysis- that the causes he supposedly stands for are beside the point. Some might say this is giving too much credit to someone who's essentially a satirist, but his audience sees himself as more than that, and he seems to as well. At any rate, this book seemed like little more than a cash-in after the success of Stupid White Men. It has its funny moments, but again, I can't read a page of Michael Moore without its author somehow reminding me that, hey, you're reading Michael Moore!
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.