Will Cashman từ Dnistryk, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

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12/22/2024

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2019-08-27 05:31

Thuật Tuyển Dụng Và Sa Thải (Tái Bản 2018) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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Think you know Joan Crawford? Think again. I thought I knew Joan. I loved "Mommie Dearest" and "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" so I figured Peter Joseph Swanson's "The Joan Crawford Murders" would be a fun read. And it was. I mean, what's not to like? Joan's making her big MGM comeback with the musical "Torchsong." As testement to her dedication and professionalism she's living in her dressing room, kicking back plenty of vodka and diet pills to help keep her girlish figure, hobnobbing around the studio with the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Debbie Reynolds -- and of course Joan Crawford. She's seeing Joan Crawford EVERYWHERE! Not the REAL Joan Crawford, of course. She's the only real Joan Crawford, which is a good thing because when she does Joan is usually wearing an ensemble from one of Joan's older films -- not to mention being dead. Now that's inconvenient, if not a little frightening. The real victims are actually drag queens, dressed as Joan Crawford in various stages of her career. This was all very entertaining, of course, but what surprised me was how much I learned about the ins and outs of a Hollywood Studio, and about Joan Crawford herself -- enough that I actually stopped hearing her shout "No more wire hangers!" and started to empathize with her as a character, and by the end I'm rooting for her all the way as Joan Crawford saves the day. But what else can you expect? She IS Joan Crawford.

2019-08-27 10:31

Các tình huống giáo dục đạo đức công dân - Sự khác biệt Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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I "fast-read" this book (paperback edition). I liked the idea about prayer as an epic journey, how it is OK to be mad at God, and how prayer changes us. Some quotes: "Unanswered prayer is not the end of the story, not for me and not for you. It can send us on an epic journey that will lead us to places we could never imagine. I will be a hard journey; it will also be a wonderful journey." (page 42) "Unanswered prayer breaks us, deepens us, exposes us, and transform us." (page 57) "God can take our complaints. He even welcomes our complaints. He tells us to express our frustration directly to him, even when it involves what appears to be his own failure." (page 77) "The point of prayer, after all, is the relationship itself, not the things we get from the relationship." (page 88) "I am slowly discovering that culture affects how I pray more than I would like to admit." (page 132) "The primary purpose of prayer is not to make life nice for us but to make us - and the world - new, according to God's will." (page 137) "What we pray for is not even the most important question. It is why we pray. We pray because God is worthy of our prayers." (page 140) "C.S. Lewis wrote, "God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to fed on... God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there., There is no such thing." (page 140) "If we pray to know God and to glorify God, then our prayers will put God right where he belongs, as the center of things." (page 146) "In our prayers we should also ask God to change us. He can then use us, as transformed people, to help change the world." (page 151) "God's greatest gift to us is the Holy Spirit; our gift to God is simply ourselves, offered as living sacrifices." (page 162) "My study of history reminds me that the people who pray usually end up being the same people who serve, sacrifice, and exercise influence." (page 190)

Người đọc Will Cashman từ Dnistryk, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

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.