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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Michael Ondaatje
If you have an interest in the plants around you and herbal/natural medicine, this is an excellent place to start. Susun Weed walks with you through 6 or 7 specific plants, getting down to the details of each one. It's a good way to meet the ideas of natural medicine without leaping headfirst into the complexities of A Modern Herbal or other more esoteric works. Weed is an herbalist par-excellence and the information is all extremely solid. Easy to work with, delightful to read, a joy to recommend.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jay Burreson
I realize I’m late to this particular party, but it’s OK to show up a little late, if the party’s still going, right? Fashionably late, maybe? I might be stretching the statute of party-limitations by extolling the virtues of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” a solid six years after its acclaimed publication, but sometimes we can’t control when we get around to things. So, “Curious Incident” party, here I am! I’m (fashionably) late, but I made it! If you are like me and sometime get turned off by ubiquity, you may (like me) have turned up your nose when the little paperback copies of this book with the red cover and the upside-down dog cutout started popping up everywhere. But the hysteria has died down, so you (like me) are free to revisit the book, post-phenomenon. And it’s worth revisiting, because it is really a very interesting and imaginative book. I enjoyed, for all the complications and sadness and difficulties, going inside the mind of an autistic 15-year-old. It was eye-opening and really a huge, worthwhile exercise in empathy. Rarely has a book offered me such a connection and such an overdose of empathy for a fictional character – especially a character different in such a profound way from myself. Since the people who write the books I like are often (I’m going out on a limb here) somewhat like myself, I tend to really enjoy books about literate, verbal, oftentimes somewhat cynical characters. This book, and its central character – Christopher – couldn’t have been more different from that type, and yet couldn’t have been more enjoyable for me to read. Various professors and teachers I have had have offered the injunction that literature (or, more generally art) ought to “make the strange familiar and the familiar strange.” This novel is an excellent example of doing just that: making what is certainly strange to me (autism and the inner experience of an autistic youth) feel utterly familiar. The reader is dropped inside Christopher’s mind, and between the covers of the book, that mind makes perfect sense – coherent and understandable – even as you can stand back from the text and realize what a difficult, crippling affliction Christopher’s autism can be. What an achievement to give that kind of insight to readers within a digestible, enjoyable package. (Of course, I am no expert in autistic youth by any means, so I may be way off-base here, but the descriptions and details certainly felt genuine and authentic to this layman.) My only critique might be that the story builds so gradually to such an extreme “rolling boil,” that it seemed sudden in its ending…I wanted a more gradual cessation of intensity – a equally gradual calming of the bubbling waters. Yet I think the book was true to itself, and felt perfectly unified in tone. So I can forgive the suddenness of the ending, and the lack of a truly satisfying resolution. Given the story itself and its difficult subject matter, there could hardly be a sunshine-and-rainbows happy ending. The cleverness of the first-person narration by Christopher, and the slow, careful unfolding of the real story were expertly done. Really well-written and moving. It’s a slim book that starts strong and doesn’t let up for the entire 200-or-so pages, almost poem-like. And if I had any qualms about the ending, I should temper them by saying it is probably a far, far better thing to pull the plug quickly (and “leave ‘em wanting more”), than to allow your story to peter out listlessly or overstay its welcome. For any of you party-poopers, like me, who thought you had missed your chance – it’s ok: the “Curious Incident” party is still going strong, and it’s well worth stopping in.
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The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill (2004)
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mặc Bảo Phi Bảo
I think it's beautiful, but I wonder about its kid appeal.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngô Thừa Ân
I love this book, it's about Richard III and the era of the Black Plague. It's a wonderful read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Yu Dan
So wonderful! Literally and figuratively magical! I've read them all numerous times.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tô Thanh Hải
Every writer writing about writing quotes this book. And well they should. I find myself reading bits out loud to my partner; saving quotes for my own groups; and even taking Mr. King up on his writing challenge.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Amanda Quick
I admired the brave Kavita's decision but the themes and characters were not original or stand out to me.
I'm having a hard time maintaining interest. I've stopped reading and am now reading Lolita so as appreciate the many references.
This is one of those books that I found myself smiling along while reading. The author lays out the where, what and why of Heaven in a pleasing, fun manner. The hope of who you will "run" into and talk to in Heaven is certainly worth the work to get there.
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.