Timothy Tanner từ Labastide-Marnhac, France

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11/22/2024

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Timothy Tanner Sách lại (10)

2019-07-05 22:30

Tử Vi Đẩu Số Toàn Tập - Tập 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lâm Canh Phàn

My dad's autobiography!

2019-07-05 23:30

Món Ngon Hà Nội Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lam Khê - Khánh Minh (Sưu Tầm - Biên Soạn)

He needed a good copy editor, but the book is amusing enough. He's also surprisingly honest and self aware.

2019-07-06 00:30

Big Nate's Greatest Hits Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lincoln Peirce

Enjoyable historical romance set in Victorian-era London. Independent-thinking heroine challenges all kinds of conventions about proper behavior for "ladies" but at the end when she is happily married the author says she doesn't mind in the least having given up her career as tailor [that she had been so proud of and fought so hard for earlier:]...

2019-07-06 01:30

Câu Đố Dành Cho Trẻ - Chủ Đề Hiện Tượng Tự Nhiên Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

This book began beautifully and ended like a bad Jerry Bruckheimer movie. So dissapointing.

2019-07-06 02:30

Hiệu Ứng Photoshop (Tập 9) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Kim Hải

Very disturbing but good. I read a lot of true crime books so I already knew about the real story that Ketchum based "The Girl Next Door" on. It makes me sick to my stomach that someone can do such horrid things to another human being. Boggles the mind.

2019-07-06 03:30

Tiểu Tề Thiên KaKa - 36 Phép Thần Thông (Tô Màu & Kể Chuyện) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

Let me first get one thing straight: this is not chick-lit. I saw a review of this book in which it was classified as such, but whoever wrote that about Three Sisters clearly did not get it, nor did he/she know much of the novel's historical background. With that off my chest, I have to admit that I am not particularly enthusiastic about the book. Bi Feiyu attempt at a satiric, yet tragic portrayal of Chinese village life in the mid-70s (up to the 1980s) is a good one, but the bleakness and cruelty were a bit too harsh for my liking. Prior to reading this book, I had always assumed that with Communist rule - whether it was good for China or not remains debatable - women's emancipation received a boost. Mao Zedong wanted to get rid of traditional hierarchy (heavily influenced by Confucianism) and replace it with a society in which everyone (but natural state enemies like the bourgeoisie) would be equal. But right off the bat, the Wang sisters' family is described as a dysfunctional one. Embarrassingly, there are too many daughters, so something must be wrong with either the father's genes or the mother's womb. Then, after mother Shi Guifang finally gives birth to a son, she concludes that now that her place has been earned, she can resort to hanging about lazily around the house. It's Yumi, the eldest, who cares for baby brother Little Eight, and she enjoys flaunting him around the village. Clearly, men are still more important than women, even in seventies' China. The father of the Wang girls (and boy) is the local Party Secretary and with that comes power: he enjoys sleeping around with married women. And they all comply without protest. He only comes to grief when he is caught in the act with the wife of a fellow Party member: a clear-cut case of double standards. Another example is Yumi's unfortunate engagement to "the aviator" Peng. Differences between city and countryside are emphasized by her lack of education and his eloquent written Chinese. In dynastic China, her village peers would congratulate her for baiting a city scholar(-bureaucrat). In Communist China, she has done well by hooking a potential hero. Again, women's rights are an alien concept when Peng tries to convince her to sleep with him (before marriage) and she can only protest weakly. After a certain calamity takes place in the Wang family (which underlines the inequality between the sexes all the more) and false rumours reach him in faraway Beijing, he does not hesitate to cut all ties. Women who lose their virginity before tying the knot or who have intercourse with someone other than their husband will always be considered sullied goods. It truly does not matter whether they were overcome by romantic feelings and lust, coaxed (by a man in power) into a sordid affair, or raped. Finally, I thought the construction of the book was a bit haphazard: the Chinese title translates as "Yumi", which is the eldest sister's name. But only the first chapter is dedicated to her. The second part centers on Yuxiu, who tries to follow in Yumi's footsteps (or not quite) and flees the village. The third part is the odd one out, as Yuyang is the youngest girl in the family and has made it into teacher-school, but she has nothing to do with Yumi nor Yuxiu. I had hoped that, like in chapter two, the relationship between the sisters would feature more prominently. For me, it is therefore the most disappointing part of the book. Three Sisters is a book that I'd recommend to someone who is interested in changes in Chinese society, but I'd advise reading up a little on twentieth century Chinese history first.

2019-07-06 04:30

Thực Đơn 3 Món Cho Gia Đình Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Very interesting. I would like to read a whole book of just descriptions of what people do in stores. However, it's also a bit disturbing; you feel like even the author is a little creeped out by the extent to which people can be manipulated into buying things.

2019-07-06 05:30

Sách Chuyển Động Thông Minh Đa Ngữ Việt - Anh - Pháp: Thức Ăn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nathalie Choux

This is one of those amazing historical novels set at the turn of the century (19th-20th) and the attendant transformation from Victorian to Modern society that allows for a deep and rich mosaic. Baker is great at scenes, moments, currents and tides of time. This is a novel to get lost in, to revel in while you try and absorb what a brilliant time it was when all was changing.

2019-07-06 06:30

Hướng Dẫn Chi Tiết Thi Hành Luật An Toàn Thực Phẩm Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I loved this book for so many reasons. And at the same time, it made me really frustrated. I want to have the luxury of dropping off to Italy once or twice a year! I want to live in an idyllic Italian village! I want to be eating everything that she describes in the book! So as much as I enjoyed her story, really it made me a little dissatisfied with my present circumstances. But the writing, the writing! Mayes writes in such a luscious style, with wonderful eloquence that it is ALMOST like being in my own home in Italy. Not quite, but almost. So read this book, but be prepared to long for foreign parts, money for travel, and piles of fresh olives to take to the mill and be pressed into your own oil.

2019-07-06 07:30

Sự Tích Việt Nam Và Thế Giới Hay Nhất Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thục Anh

Hmm. The meta-ish-ness was fun, in its chronological context, but it was a little too Scarlet Letter/fleshing-out-a-female-character-by-a-male-perspective that lost me. And -- it's not really worth going into greater detail about what lost me. At least it wasn't *actually* a horrid Victorian novel, buh.

Người đọc Timothy Tanner từ Labastide-Marnhac, France

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.