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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Kỳ Trung
This book is so simple and full of great stories that seem surreal. I love the connection Kathy has to her animals and only wish the corporate treatment of animals was easy to change. Her efforts go beyond the care for animals. These include raising money, running a board, coordinating barn building or fixing, etc. There's so much that goes on in the life of an innovator of making change - no matter how small it is to the whole picture - it still has an effect. The booklist she suggests at the end of her book is incredible and documents all that is going on in our agribusiness world and the choicest we make unconsciously. This book only encourages a more holistic way of life and strives for the conscious life as a goal for everyone to hold dear to their hearts for the sake of the other being's hearts on this planet.
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A bit hard to read at first, but it is worth it.
Reading this book is like being engulfed in a breaking wave. In this first of an expected trilogy author Sarah Porter does for mermaids what J.K. Rowling did for wizards and Stephanie Meyer did for vampires. The Clique series of the underwater will mesmerize readers and you definitely want to include it in your collection. Meet Luce, a 14-year-old girl who’s uncle is a lecherous drunk who pushes Luce to the brink with his debauched behavior. When he crosses the unspeakable line, so does she; into becoming something else, a mermaid. Luce dies on her birthday and is born again in the water as a mermaid. Catarina and a tribe of mermaids save her from death. The girls in this story are lost and they use their voices to lure others to their deaths because after all, people have treated them all terribly. Each girl has a story with depth and deep despair of abuse, neglect and abandonment. Of all of the girls, Luce still retains her humanity refusing to follow the leader, but tries to find her way. Her motives, even her song is called into question by the tribe’s queen. The girls are moody and constantly testing the code; the Timahk. Porter creates an exceptional, intriguing world for these characters and readers will find the first installment bewitching.
Very interesting look at gender duality. The book gets dragged down a bit in places, but it recovers for the end.
The mid '70's. The party after the poetry reading was now in full swing, and Robert Bly, the evening's featured poet, was sitting bolt upright on my friend Bob's couch, still draped in his red and orange serape. As he discoursed on some aspect of American myth, gesturing dramatically as he spoke, his expressive arms--in the light of the table lamps--glided like a hawk's wings at sunset. Just then, my friend Michael, arriving home from the bars--considerably the worse for wear, and oblivious to the context--took one look at Bly and blurted out, "Who the hell do you think you are? Certainly, too much beer had much to do with Michael's inappropriate exclamation, but that doesn't mean his question isn't worth asking. Indeed, I find myself asking it about Robert Bly too, sometimes even when sober. Who is Robert Bly? And who the hell does he think he is? First of all, he is an influential editor and gifted translator who published in his magazine The '50's (later called The '60's and The '70's) superb unrhymed translations, mostly from the Spanish, that glowed darkly with images of a deep surrealism. Second, Bly was a powerful influence on one of America's greatest poets, his friend James Wright, and on American poetry in general. The "deep image school" they pioneered together rescued Wright from poetic stagnation and depression; it is not an exaggeration to say that it might have saved his life. Their work in turn provided a point of departure for new a generation of poets, an influence continues to be felt fifty years later. Third, Bly is a great showman: part actor, part guru, part performance artist. At best, the showmanship enhances the power of his poetry, as he recites "I am Goya" in a very scary voice or reads his "Hockey Poem" while wearing a goalie's mask. At his worst, he seems like a snake oil salesman or a cheerleader or both, spouting truisms as if they were profound truths--as he did in that bible of the "Man's Movement," the best-seller Iron John. Finally, though, we must ask ourselves, "Who is Bly, considered as a poet?" The answer is "a little of all these things." He lacks the astonishing gift for original language that his friend Wright instinctively possessed, and even his best poems often seem like translations from Spanish or Arabic or Sanskrit, poems we are certain must have been even better in the original. Also, Bly has written much (too much), and, when his inspiration inevitably fails him, he compensates with meretricious enthusiasm and rhetoric--the snake-oil ingredients of poetic expression. And yet Bly's best poems, particularly the early ones, seem suffused with the spirit of contemplation, as if they are poised to enlighten the reader like the slap of a zen master's palm or the touch of a guru's peacock feather. Enlightenment is a hit-or-miss affair--sometimes the slap is just a slap, the feather just a feather--but when these poems work as they are supposed to, the result is astonishing. His first two books are his best, and this one--his first--is the more spiritual and private of the two. It is filled--of course--with fields, snow and silence, but also with dead leaves, black trees standing starkly against gray skies, and long highways graced by the welcoming lights of barns. It evokes, better than any book I know, the spare, cruel beauty of winter in the American Midwest, and the sudden, unexpected rushes of joys that this beauty may bring. I'd like to close with three very short poems from this book. Each is an example of an "enlightenment" that works, and each includes a reference to snow: In a Train There has been a light snow. Dark car tracks move in out of the darkness. I stare at the train window marked with soft dust. I have awakened at Missoula Montana utterly happy. "Watering the Horse" How strange to think of giving up all ambition! Suddenly I see with such clear eyes The white flake of snow That has just fallen in the horse's mane! "Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter" It is a cold and snowy night. The main street is deserted. The only things moving are swirls of snow. As I lift the mailbox door, I feel its cold iron. There is a privacy I love in this snowy night. Driving around, I will waste more time.
the story of my childhood.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dominique Morin
"How dare you imprint on my baby? Have you lost your mind?" - p. 449 "She's taken to immortality with amazing finesse." - p. 584 "Say what you want, I still think Dracula One and Dracula Two are creeptacular." - p. 631 "You look good. Immortality suits you." - p. 696
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Brian Tracy
"I needed orange juice, a toothbrush, a blood transfusion, a Bloody Mary, Abigale Ponders, Leslie Cunningham, a Thneed, someone to watch over me, a miracle every day--anything but a moment of truth between myself and Zelmo Swift." - p. 361 "I'd read a novel, a thriller in which glamorous people destroyed themselves by sexual intrigue. ...One character [...:] was infinitely dangerous because she was damaged. This character's damage made her an involuntary criminal, the book seemed to say. Her damage--orphanhood, abuse, I couldn't remember what it was--made her unfit to mix with those who'd been luckier, who'd squeaked through life innocent of such knowledge. ...I'd loathed [the story:] for its implicit assertion that the undamaged ought to bolt their doors against the damaged ones, who would hurt them if they could, who couldn't help wishing to." - p. 375
this is THE most inspiring book i have read in ages. and i read. a lot.
An interesting take on how creepy a house can actually be... with romance. Yus. No, don't be fooled, this is awesomesauce.
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.