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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngô Kiến Vinh
Very uplifting and thought provoking book. I especially liked the last chapter where the author breaks down all of the qualities of Charity. In spite of realizing that I fall very short of the Pure Love of Christ, I was motivated to try a little harder to be more Christ-like.
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It took me two tries to start this novel, of which Jesse Breedlove is the least interesting part. What really captured me is the lyricism of the language and the sympathy with which even the most disturbing characters are rendered. Jesse may offer redemption, but these are people are who have to make their own.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trương Lạc Bình
A fascinating story with memorable characters, Bel Canto is more of a thriller than I expected. In this novel, Ann Patchett tells the story of several different characters as they deal with being held hostage at a lavish party in a South American country. My favorite character is Gen, the translator and assistant of a Japanese businessman in whose honor the reception is being held. He ends up developing a relationship with one of the female hostage-takers, and unexpected twists and turns ensue. I did enjoy this book, except it was a little dark, and I found the ending strange and unexpected. I think I wanted to like this book more than I actually did, and I do recommend it, and it made me really want to read more of her fiction work.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Tuấn
How life pulls us along. And how often we realize that what we thought we wanted wasn't really what we wanted. And how easily authenticity is lost in the process.
This book could have been tighter towards the end; it gets a little bit predictable, and meanders to a close rather than ends. That aside, this is still an incredibly powerful piece of work. It's not a light book to get through; there are no heroes and there are very few innocents. Behrani, Kathy and Lester, three of the main characters of the novel, are all some of the most finely carved characters I've read in a long time. None of them are perfect; they are all fallible, none of them are even particularly likeable, to my mind. They are all however incredibly human, with a depth and complexity to their actions and reactions that feel utterly real. The most important character of all isn't human at all, though. It's the eponymous house that Kathy loses and Behrani pins all his hopes on. It really is exactly like the title says, a house composed of ephemeral, shifting things, the things Kathy wants to hold on to and the things Behrani wants to achieve. There's a real sense of the house shifting what it is, of being all things and all times to all people, as the book progresses. The prose is beautifully clear; not especially lyrical, but nicely fluid. Dubus also gets my approval for writing English from Behrani's perspective convincingly as the voice of someone who speaks English as their second language; he doesn't fall into cliches, but writes L1 interference convincingly, something which is all too rare. I'm definitely going to watch the movie adaptation if I get a chance, because I have the feeling that Jennifer Connolly and Ben Kingsley could make something truly wonderful out of source material as good as this.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jon Gordon
I just read this again and liked it even more the second time.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tad Waddington
** spoiler alert ** I really think Julia London outdid herself with "A Light at Winter's End," the last book in her contemporary Cedar Springs trilogy. All three books were excellent, really, but in my opinion this last book was particularly moving. It was hard not to empathize with both Holly, the heroine, and her sister Hannah, who leaves her infant son in Holly's care while she goes to rehab to overcome her addictions to prescription painkillers and alcohol. At first, Holly is overwhelmed and tries to get out of caring for her nephew, Mason, but she soon learns to cope with the demands of a small child and comes to love him as if he were her own son. Therefore, she is distressed when Hannah returns from rehab and Holly must face the prospect of giving Mason up. She worries about what will happen to Mason if Hannah has a relapse or if he begins to feel abandoned and unloved after being passed back and forth from sister to sister. Holly moves into her dead mother's house with Mason because she doesn't have enough space in her apartment for both of them. While staying there, she meets her mother's neighbor, Wyatt Clark, who was the odd man out in "The Summer of Two Wishes" (the first book in the Cedar Springs trilogy). Wyatt is still getting over the end of his marriage to Macy and must overcome his fear of being hurt again if he opens himself to love. Holly has issues of her own to overcome before she and Wyatt can have a lasting relationship. Aside from the problems with Hannah and Mason, Holly must learn to believe in her own self-worth and to value her talent as a songwriter. Her mother never believed in Holly and always belittled her talents, encouraging her instead to be more like Hannah, go to college and get a "real" job. However, Holly finally begins to achieve some success after signing a contract to write three songs for an up-and-coming artist. Quincy, the artist, offers to introduce her to his manager and enourages her to move to Nashville, where he believes she will be in demand as a gifted songwriter. The last 100 or so pages of the book are wrenching as Hannah returns from rehab to reclaim her son from Holly. Unable to cope with the thought of losing Mason, and scared of failing if she moves to Nashville to pursue her songwriting dreams, Holly pushes Wyatt away. He is supportive and encourages her to work things out with Hannah and also to pursue her dream of being a songwriter, but she finds his understanding to be too much to deal with. Holly breaks up with Wyatt, and after Hannah has proven her ability to take care of Mason, she leaves for Nashville. Fortunately, she soon realizes that she loves Wyatt and can't live without him, so she reaches out. He comes to Nashville to attend Quincy's album launch party, and Wyatt and Holly happily reunite. The 3 main characters were all so believable in their struggles, and I was happy for each one of them to end the book in a good place. There are a number of secondary characters (ie. Jesse, who works with Wyatt on his ranch) for whom I wish Julia London would write stories, but my understanding is that she plans to end the Cedar Springs series with this book. If so, she is going out on a high note. I highly recommend this book.
This is the third book I've read by Nicole Mones in as many weeks...enjoyed this one tremendously, as I did the others. This one features a porcelain specialist from New Zealand who comes to China to assess a huge collection that is up for sale - are they real, or are they fake? - but it's much more than that. The non-direct communication that is common to many Asian cultures is illustrated magnificently here. I learned so much, and am waiting for more from this author. I feel like a whole new world has been opened to me.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mario Puzo
Scepren daown ta gurnchy grummens.
Gift for Eugene?
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.