Frederick Ayala từ Muir of Ord, Muir of Ord, Highland , UK

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12/22/2024

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Frederick Ayala Sách lại (10)

2019-08-21 12:30

Tiểu Thuyết Lịch Sử Võ Thuật Việt Nam - Múa Thiết Lĩnh, Ném Bút Chì Nho Sĩ Đô Vật Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Toan Ánh

Alice told me one night after our father had gone to bed that she’d been thinking maybe this wasn’t right, this business of having multiple lovers. Forty, fifty? How many lovers would she have by the time she was done? She’d be so far into the triple digits, she’d need an abacus to keep track. Peering into my eyes she added, “There’s no joy in frivolous sex, Angie. I’m lonesome.” Suddenly self-conscious, I wondered if my envy was always this apparent. “Maybe I never should have gone with girls at all,” she said. “The Universe is about miracles, and creativity and life. Two girls can’t create life. Two girls… must make no sense to God.” *** Billie Livingston populates Greedy Little Eyes with tiny, independent disasters—the wreckage and detritus of our daily trespasses, errors in judgement, and complete and utter fuck-ups. From an unstable grasshopper-collecting, wife-murdering uncle, through a possible kleptomaniac, prescription drug-addicted job hunter; backdropped against the Pickton pig farm massacres, nursing homes, shopping centre hostage situations and performance art catastrophes at the Vancouver Art Gallery; through the eyes of those suffering sexual addictions, mental and emotional confusion, and spontaneously-adopted religious piety, nothing in Greedy Little Eyes could be called neat or tidy. Livingston isn’t interested in tying together loose narrative strands or offering firm conclusions to any of her stories. She’s more interested in the dissection, the pulling apart of tendons without concern for what might be found beneath the first few levels of skin and blood and bone. The result is a collection of stories that hits like a sack of nickels, turning and walking away from the crime without bothering to offer a wet towel for your broken lip. Set primarily in Vancouver and surrounding areas, with the occasional detour to a New York hotel and locations between, Livingston’s constructed worldview is one that takes the road less written about at every opportunity—never content to follow the path of least resistance. She’s more interested in showing us the life of the daughter who flounders and flails and experiments with sex, religion and parenthood while her instability grows and festers like a cancer, not the life of the one who watches and picks up the pieces of afterbirth with each successive life retooled and reassigned. Greedy Little Eyes was the winner of this year’s Danuta Gleed Literary Award for short fiction, and it’s not difficult to see why. Livingston’s tendency to walk away from the messes she’s left behind gives these stories a harder edge than most. She’s willing to let the narratives breathe on their own, with or without her presence at the end. There’s confidence in that approach, and it reinforces the diversity and strength of the personal disasters she’s chosen to display. As with all short fiction collections, certain stories are stronger than others—“Before I Would Ever Hurt You”, “Make Yourself Feel Better”, “Did You Grow Up With Money”, and “Georgia, It’s Me” are the standouts—but there are no weak links to Billie Livingston’s surprisingly sane madhouse of characters. Greedy Little Eyes is not for everyone. The stories are rife with murder, suicide, abuse, exploitation, and a strong amount of sexual/religious/mental confusion. They benefit from this very naked approach, but the harshness of many of the realities in this book, and the manner in which the reader is often left hanging in the thick of an uncomfortable occurrence, might turn some readers off. There are many tonal similarities to Julie Booker’s Up Up Up, released earlier this year. To lovers of that title, Greedy Little Eyes comes highly recommended.

2019-08-21 13:30

サヨナラのその日までそばにいさせて。 (ケータイ小説文庫―野いちご) - Hãy để tôi tạm biệt cho tới ngày đó Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: 陽‐Haru‐

this was an informative read uniquely focusing on sociological issues of adolescent/teenage girls.

2019-08-21 14:30

Fừn Nèn - Củi Tết Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I really loved this book. I honestly couldn't put it down! I like the again different take on vampireness. This also would make a good movie. Kinda a cross between Smallville and Twilight. Loved it!

2019-08-21 15:30

Không Xinh - Không Thông Minh - Không Bất Bình Thế Giới Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phan Ý Yên

من شاید این کتابهایی که یک نسل یا یک خانواده را سالها پیگیری می کنند دوست دارم. برایم مثال زندگی واقعی است و خوب درکش می کنم حتی اگر براحتی نشود خواندش مثل این یکی.. ولی برای من دوست داشتنی بود، نسخه درجه 2 یا 3 از صد سال تنهایی..

2019-08-21 16:30

Học Vẽ Qua Nghiên Cứu Giải Phẫu Cơ Thể Người - Giải Phẫu Tạo Hình Cơ Thể Người Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vương Bính Diệu

Yogi Ramacharaka is the pen name of William Walker Atkinson who wrote advanced esoteric books at the turn of the last century. ATkinson was very prolific. I've found all of his works to be worthwhile. Mystic Christianity is my personal favorite. Here's a quote from Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism that gives an idea of his direction. "Unless we understand something about the nature of God, we cannot understand anything about the nature of the Universe or of Life."

2019-08-21 17:30

Mùi Đồng Quê Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Hiệp

The basic foundation of our legal system and the basic areas that you learn in your first year of law school. It helps you categorize different legal problems that you face on a daily basis. When people ask me what is it your learn in law school, I direct them to read this book to understand the basic principles.

2019-08-21 18:30

Phần Thưởng Lớn Hơn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Margaret Heffernan

wow...i think of parts of this book at the most random times, even 10 years after first reading it!

2019-08-21 19:30

Bồi Dưỡng Vật Lí Lớp 8 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Thirteen Reasons Why is a very sad story written by the author Jay Asher. This book is about a young teenage girl who has a tough time as a new student in a new town. There are two main characters who are Hannah Baker, the new girl in school and Clay Jensen who is a friend of hers. This book tells the challenges that teenagers encounter and how remarks and rumors can affect them. I thought this book went a little too much in detail, but I would definitely recommend it to all teenagers due to the fact it has a good message behind it.

2019-08-21 20:30

Sổ Tay Sử Dụng Đàn Ông - Tập 1 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lam Bạch Sắc

Great dystopian novel: Gaia is an apprentice midwife to her mother. The first three children born outside the "wall" are given to those inside the wall to be adopted and raised in the finest in luxury. What no one knows is that the kids who are adopted are to be bred for their genes. And should they breed outside of their allowable partners they are killed.

2019-08-21 21:30

Cổ Tích Việt Nam – Thạch Sanh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Easy to settle into and empathize with the challenges of the sandwich generation - the same in India as in North America. Great character development.

Người đọc Frederick Ayala từ Muir of Ord, Muir of Ord, Highland , UK

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.