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This was my first novel by Jennifer Armintrout and I would read another by her. The book was given to me by my friend. Nothing was given away too soon. The building of the story kept me there till the end.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cao Thị Hải Yến
Promise Canyon by Robyn Carr is the story of vet tech Clay Tahoma, originally from Flagstaff and the Navaho Nation and Lilly Yazhi, a Hopi who is trying to forget her traditional native background. She works for her grandfather (“Yaz”) keeping books at his feed store and delivering feed to nearby ranchers and Nate, the local vet where Clay has come to work. Both have baggage. Divorced, Clay has left the Los Angeles area and his beautiful, wealthy ex-wife and the stable where he worked to put distance between himself and her, also to have a suitable place in which to raise his seventeen-year-old son, Gabe, who still lives with Clay’s grandparents on the Navaho Nation. Lilly hasn’t recovered from a romantic disaster where she was betrayed and abandoned at a much-too-early age. She’s spent the intervening years getting an education and putting her heritage behind her, and she’s not about to become involved with a drop-dead sexy Navaho. Fate has other plans, however, and both Clay and Lilly feel a huge attraction toward each other. Finding an injured and abandoned horse provides Lilly with a turning point, and she begins to enjoy working with the horses at Nate’s, and to realize how much she belongs with them. Meanwhile, in Virgin River, Jack, the owner of the town’s only bar and eatery, has been given the task of administrating Hope McCrea’s trust, which the recently deceased widow left to the community. As people come out of the woodwork with suggestions on how the funds should be used, Jack finds himself becoming increasingly unpopular as he tries to do what is best for the community as a whole. And Colin, Luke and Aiden Riordan’s brother, finds himself in a helicopter accident with dire consequences. Three stories mesh together and bring old and new faces to Virgin River. I love the way Ms. Carr is able to weave the plots together. This is a wonderful book with different storylines, each of them tied to Virgin River and her great cast of characters.
I loved it when I first read it. Dan Brown is great at thrillers. Once you start, you definitely have to finish. But I don't like how an obscure theory supported by very tenuous evidence is treated as fact. So my 2 stars are more for the annoying furor that the book caused, and not so much for the book itself. It really was a fun read! It just could have used a disclamatory foreword / afterword, in my opinion.
This book was good, but not quite outstanding enough to merit keeping around on my bookshelves. I'd recommend it for a summer book to read in the park under a tree. It's good light reading.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: M.L. Stedman
This is possibly one of the most beautiful books I have read in the longest time. The language and writing was exquisite. Though the story of the plague was horrific, the reader was able to endure the sadness just as the heroine of the novel was. At times, the reader certainly would like to cry out from all of the pain in the novel but there is so much hope that it keeps the story moving and surprisingly upbeat. My only complaint is that the ending seemed a bit far-fetched. Still, it left me with a great feeling. www.iamliteraryaddicted.blogspot.com
Damn. I didn't want to finish this book. Was pretty riveted. Now it's over. Damn. Don't know if it's 5 stars or 4, but I'll be generous today. "Legality is just the name for everything that's not dangerous for the ruling order."
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tiêu Đỉnh
Wow!! A collection of essays by common and famous Americans, written on the subject of belief. I think the CD version is much better, though, since you can hear each essay read by its author. You can also read and hear them online for free: http://thisibelieve.org/
3Q, 3P, J This is about an orphan who has come of age and is on his way to his new career. He is kidnapped on his voyage, but eventually manages to escape, which is when he meets up with a monster slayer. This book has the potential to be enjoyed by a broad range of readers, such as teens who feel out of place or picked on. But largely it will be teens who enjoy fantasy stories that will be most likely to read and enjoy this story.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tình Không Lam Hề
Another fine Lew Archer novel--perhaps the finest. Once again, troubled young people haunted by the past are implicated in a murder, and solving that murder will involve bringing the past to light. Although I don't think the resolution of the plot is quite as effective as some of the others (The Galton Case, The Chill, The Goodbye Look, for example) the imagery that structures the narrative is profound, resonant and organic. Toxic pollution is a powerful metaphor here (DDT and the birds, psychedelics and the '60's generation), but the basic metaphor of the book is a California wildfire: a canyon filled with fifteen years of desiccation ignites from the fall of a murdered man's cigar, and, as we follow the progress of the fire, we learn how the lives of two generations of Californians have been scarred by a fifteen-year-old crime. There are other images of nature too--the breaking up of a yacht against the rocks, a relentless chilling storm, the threat of mudslides after fire and rain--that suggest that a chaos, haphazard and arbitrary, dominates even the merciless Furies that customarily rule Archer's world. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the denouement lacks Macdonald's usual elegance: the lack of Sophoclean clarity here is intentional. At the end of the novel, Archer finds himself thinking that "quite often nowadays the low-life subplots were taking over the tragedies." When Chaos is unleashed, tragedy can never be the same. There's an even more effective metaphor alluded to in the title--but I'd be giving away the plot if I talked about it. This metaphor is a little over the top, but I love it; Lew Archer is definitely the archeologist of crime!
This is a great book that argues that where civilizations emerge and where they don't is largely determined by geography. Very convincing and enjoyable.
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.