Andrea Ferraroli từ Gyumri, Armenia

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12/22/2024

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2019-05-02 18:30

Lính Trận Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trung Trung Đỉnh

This is a really interesting book that deals with some important issues in a non-intrusive way: prejudice, family, home.

2019-05-02 19:30

Bài tập nâng cao Hoá học 12 (tập 2-Hóa vô cơ) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Xuân Trọng

I understand how one might enjoy this book, but I found it to be a little fluffy. The entire book read like an introductory chapter and aside from being heartwarming, I did not take much away. An easy read but in general, meatless. And this is coming from a vegetarian!!

2019-05-02 20:30

Cánh Chim Kiêu Hãnh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đỗ Bích Thúy

The Briar King is one of those delightful books that slowly grows on you. It starts off a bit slow, gaining in momentum, until you look up and it is 3am, and you kick yourself for all those "just one more chapter..." moments. Not only does the story grow on you, but most of the characters do too. Notice I said most. There were a few characters that I never got in touch with, but overall I was happy with the characterization. Actually, I feel that way about the entire book. The story was great, though in some places I felt a bit lost. The world building was equally good, though again, some parts left me a bit confused. The interesting thing is, it all balanced. I cannot think of a single area, pacing, characterization, world building, or plot that strikes me as being exceptional when compared to other areas. There were plot twists I saw coming, and there were some that left me stunned. There were characters I loved, or hated, and others I wished I knew better. There are questions asked and answered and questions left hanging in the air. All I know is that together, it all worked and was more then enough to make me read that "one more chapter..." Full Review here: Dragons, Heroes and Wizards

2019-05-02 21:30

Mối Tình Đầu Của Nàng Bọ Cạp Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Điệp Chi Linh

Perfect for the true Jane Austen fan! I felt like I had gone back in time and was waiting for Mr Darcy to appear! This book is for older Adults really...

2019-05-02 22:30

Khai Mở Đạo Tâm Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Duy Tuệ

I finished Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, which I picked up a few months back on some nostalgic childhood whim. I remember reading it when I was probably 10 or 11, I'm thinking it was 5th grade, and have been left all these years with the distinct impression that it was one of the best things I'd ever read. Not quite remembering the intricacies of the plot, I was curious to see why that was and if it is still true. It is. I have said this before, although perhaps not comprehensively or concisely, but I will try to do so again while keeping it relevant to my reflections on the book. I am not an overwhelmingly religious person. I have faith, yes, but it's an unspecified etherial sort of fashion that you could call fate or destiny or kismet or any of those other things that imply that there is some plan out there whether you consent to it or not. And I can't help but feel that it was one of those irresistible fingers of fate that pushed me to read this exact book at this exact time. The gist of the story I remembered - retarded man (okay, so it's not exactly PC by today's standards...) undergoes an operation that grants him with genius, albeit temporarily, and eventually declines to approximately his previous state. This progression is echoed and foreshadowed somewhat by a white mouse who had undergone a similar procedure. And this is exactly what you would expect a still emotionally immature child to take away from the book. Actually I wonder in retrospect if I read a perhaps abridged copy or only the short story because there were some very mature themes that would have been easily discernible to even inexperienced eyes. However, my youth was not one of censorship, so I'm fairly certain that I must have been exposed to the same words and simply took only as much from them as I was able to at the time. Rather than being some rote account of a fictional procedure that impacts the intellectual potential of a man, Flowers for Algernon is instead a journey of emotional exploration, of human capacity, and of the potentials and implications of physical love. As his intelligence increases, Charlie Gordon (our protagonist who has just tortured us with stifled, phonetic, and unedited prose which serves to illustrate his naive satisfaction and ambition in life leading up to the operation) starts on a journey to make sense of the things he has experienced in his life thus far. He has suffered a disappointed and mildly abusive mother, a bratty sister, and the ridicule of people that in his stupor he has believed to be his friends. Guiding him through this are some scientists at the University (who are not terribly well developed characters, but they are tertiary and this doesn't detract from the story) and Alice Kinnian, formerly his teacher at a special-education facility. Alice is a very interesting character, and in my opinion as a reader, it is a shame that we don't know more about her. She is a kind and compassionate woman who serves as a constant to the ever-changing spectrum of Charlie's mental faculties. She has taught him to read and write and recommended him for the procedure that could improve his abilities. It would be interesting to know more about WHY she chose Charlie, but the reason given to the reader has more to do with Charlie's motivations than Alice's - he is a dedicated worker eager to pursue knowledge, which later he says is a reflection of his mother's desire for him to be normal. Alice is fond of Charlie from the start and loves him throughout, even when the tables are turned in regards to their respective understanding and he vastly exceeds her brilliance. She stresses to him the value of who he was before the surgery, and in doing so shows him a kind of validation that no one else can offer. Because of this he loves her. LOVES her, and doesn't merely lust after her as he does other women. Also as a result of his love, Charlie's shadow-self prevents him from becoming intimately involved with her until he is able to come to terms with who he was and exactly the gift she is giving him with her acceptance. I don't usually pull direct quotes from books, but this bit was so perfect, so completely and analytically human that I want to be sure to get it down: "I don't pretend to understand the mystery of love, but this time it was more than sex, more than using a woman's body. It was being lifted off the earth, outside fear and torment, being part of something greater than myself. I was lifted out of the dark cell of my own mind, to become part of someone else - just as I had experienced it that day on the couch in therapy. It was the first step outward to the universe - beyond the universe - because in it and with it we merged to recreate and perpetuate the human spirit. Expanding and bursting outward and contracting and forming inward, it was the rhythm of being - of breathing, and heartbeat, of day and night - and the rhythm of our bodies set off an echo in my mind. It was the way it had been back there in that strange vision. The gray murk lifted from my mind, and through it the light pierced into my brain (how strange that light should blind!), and my body was absorbed back into a great sea of space, washed under in a strange baptism. My body shuddered with giving, and her body shuddered its acceptance. This was the way we loved, until the night became a silent day. And as I lay there with her I could see how important physical love was, how necessary it was for us to be in each other's arms, giving and taking. The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway toward the goal-box of solitary death. But this was the counterweight, the act of binding and holding. As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other's hands to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into the nothing. And in the moment before I fell off into sleep, I remembered the way it had been between Fay and myself, and I smiled. No wonder that had been easy. It had been only physical. This with Alice was a mystery. I leaned over and kissed her eyes. Alice knows everything about me now, and accepts the fact that we can be together for only a short while. She has agreed to go away when I tell her to go. It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime." And eventually Charlie does tell her to go. His capacity to love her disintegrates with all the rest, and though it hurts her, she lets him go. She denies her claim to him so that he can find the pieces of himself that were what made her love him in the first place, the pieces lost to and eclipsed by his brief burden of genius. So Charlie does go on, back to where it began, and finds a special kind of peace in doing so. It's very bittersweet thing to the reader, who is by now crying out for some balance. Some way that Charlie can be kind AND smart, understand AND disregard, love and be loved... But this is not that story, and it ends much as it began. Which is rather the point, when you think about it - if someone could come to the kind of emotional understanding that he could love perfectly and in the moment, knowing that the end was looming, that even in living and loving together, we still die alone and then have the peace of forgetting that - well he has both learned something of infinite value, and received a blessing of fate in its loss. I thought it was a beautiful and touching story, and creatively written besides. I worry, though, about what happened to Alice... and I wonder if I always will?

2019-05-02 23:30

Trẻ Em Pháp Không Ném Thức Ăn (Tái Bản) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

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2019-05-03 00:30

Combo Mệnh Kỵ Sĩ (Bộ 2 Tập) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngự Ngã

Love this insight into Emma's view of the restoration- she truly was an elect lady.

2019-05-03 01:30

The Vocabulary Files C2 Advanced (Không CD) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

An old analytic philosopher's jab at postmodernist thought, ironically marketed for general public consumption. An interesting proposition for sure, but with too transparent a motive.

2019-05-03 02:30

The Idea Writers: Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era (Advertising Age) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: T. Iezzi

Very good short read filled with lots of action, a sassy heroine and a strong alpha hero! To get the full copy go to Allromanceebooks.com.

2019-05-03 03:30

Kết Hôn, Anh Có Dám Không? Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lục Nguyệt Mạc Ngôn

This book inspired me to live with no regrets.

Người đọc Andrea Ferraroli từ Gyumri, Armenia

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.