Thiago Oliveira từ Pian di Venano MO, Italy

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05/03/2024

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2019-08-10 14:30

Tín Ngưỡng Thiên Hậu Vùng Tây Nam Bộ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ

The Good: The characters were so unique and each had their own special personalities that makes them so memorable. Deirdre is awesome. She is such a freaking cool girl. She's brave, talented, and does not take any crap from anyone. A girl who can hold her own against faerie assasins focused on killing her, is pretty special in my book. Unlike some characters who make me want to bang their heads into a brick wall (Ex: Bella Swan, New Moon), I just wanted to give her a hug the whole time. Luke... OMIGOD. Luke just makes me go SA-WOON. Without making him seem overly perfect, Ms. Stiefvater makes him the everday guy. Except he's in assasin (that is borderline scary and hot). Luke has his faults just like everyone and you can't help but have a soft spot for him. Especially when he goes all protective over Deirdre. And the rest of the characters... I'd talk about them all day long if I have to. I especially love Thomas ___ and the rest of the fae. They just added so much for flavor and made the whole story more special then it already was. The romantic relationship... wow. It works, it totally works. It flowed and it progressed magically and I could go for a week about it. The Bad: I was a little confused when I first began reading. I guess I was a bit dazed by the cover so... yeah. Confusing in the beginning. Also, the cover... it sort of sucks. Okay, maybe sucks is a bit harsh but, still. The cover... it just makes my stomach churn. The girl looks like she's a zombie and the colors and technique that's being used... it just makes me uneasy. At least it catches your eye when you walk past the shelves. Did anyone else notice the similarity between this and Twilight? I mean, girl falls in love with boy. Boy turns out to be not human. Girl does not give a crap (well, in this case Deirdre does a little). Boy has to kill the girl. Other non-human people want to kill the girl (in Twilight's case it's the nomads and the Volturi. In Lament's case it's the Faerie Queen and her henchmen). The dude is older than the girl... by 98 years. LOVE TRIANGLE WITH HUMAN AND NON OVER A GIRL. AHH! I know I'm not the only one that thinks like this! ...right? It's bittersweet. It's not that big of an issue but... I was still sad. *sigh* Overall: Pick this book up! Go to your local bookstore and buy this book. If they don't have it, order it! OR go to Amazon or somewhere and order it! It's A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Better than Twilight if you're wondering since I went kind of crazy with the comparasion. You have to pay attention to the plot though, but it'll be worth it! Grade: A

2019-08-10 16:30

Giáo Dục Kỹ Năng Sống Đẹp - Bỉm Ơi, Tạm Biệt! (Song Ngữ) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Elizabeth Verdick

*Note: There are some tiny spoilers below.* This was my first Libba Bray novel, and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The premise is straightforward: a plane full of beauty queens crashes on a remote island. Throughout the book, we watch them surprise themselves at their capability, learn to have some confidence in their young womanhood, and of course, save the day. I think, by far, my favorite character is the oh-so-Texan Taylor Rene Krystal Hawkins. She starts off the book as the leader (duh) of the beauty queens. How could you not love the girl who starts off rallying her fellow pageant girls after a horrific plane crash by saying, "Okay, Miss Teen Dreamers, I know we're all real flustered and everything. But we're alive. And I think before anything else we need to pray to the one we love...I'm talkin' about my own personal copilot, Jesus Christ" (p.7). It's lines that like that had me busting out laughing often throughout the book. Taylor goes a little bat shit crazy, which lost me a bit, but she was so fascinating in all her gun-toting, survivor glory. Here's my personal favorite line: After describing a hilarious product called "Breast in Show" (use your imagination there), Bray writes, "Breast in Show. Because 'You're perfect just the way you are' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic" (p. 212). Priceless. The book is pretty sexy (hello boat full of hot pirates), which is fine by me, but I could see some overly-conservative parents having a problem with it, so my fellow librarians be aware. I thought the sex was handled well and was honest and real. Kudos to Bray there. That said, this is definitely a high school book. The book is dotted with footnotes explaining culturally significant products and people pertinent to the world in which the beauty queens live. Sometimes, I thought they were hilarious, sometimes they annoyed me. It's all so satirical (which is great), but oftentimes a little heavy-handed. Perhaps the most annoying part, to me, was MoMo B. ChaCha. We're supposed to laugh at the absurdity of his character (and his likeness to a foreign leader we know), but he just annoyed me. Ladybird Hope was much more fitting and could have been the villain all by her lonesome. Overall, I really enjoyed this one. I liked that Bray was trying to say, "Hey, girls, it's ok to be girls and have feelings and be tough and feel sexy and not want to apologize for any of it." It just felt too obvious sometimes. The beauty queens were hilarious, as was much of the dialogue and many of the footnotes. It's nice to have some well-written girl power lit to hand to my teen patrons. Rock on, Libba Bray.

Người đọc Thiago Oliveira từ Pian di Venano MO, Italy

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.