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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thư Quân
Interesting perspective on Genetic engineering, human nature and values.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mạnh Thụy
This book is about a black slave named Joanna who had escaped to Pennsylvania and was taken in by the Bergstrom family. She learned to read and had a baby the was fathered by her slave owner. She was eventually caught and brought back to her owner and her story begins in the Lost Quilter. Joanna's story began in the The Runaway Quilt. The author Jennifer Chiaverini has written numerous stories all revolving around a quilt group-but- not totally about quilting, it's the stories of the members of the group some of them going back several generations so there is a lot of historical information. I read the Lost Quilter in one sitting-I couldn't but it down excellent read. If you choose to read the Elm Creek Quilt books I recommend starting with the first book The Quilters Apprentice-some of the stories are continuing and makes the stories flow easier for the reader.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kang Min Kyung
I can't say enough good things about this book. Forget about the social/cultural implications, or whether or not we've fulfilled the Orwellian prophecy. In and of itself as a piece of fiction, this is one of the most visceral books you'll ever read- something about Orwell's writing style makes you truly see, hear, feel and smell every sensation that his characters are experiencing. For a truly creepy experience, read it while listening to Portishead's second album; they're like peanut butter and chocolate.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Koike Ryunosuke
I really enjoyed What the Baby Knew though unrequited teenage love and crushes are not my favorite themes. Quinn has been to hell and back in the past year and is still having nightmares about it. He was a Navy SEAL for 15 years and then his wife lost the fight with cancer and soon after he went on a mission in which his whole team perished and he spent his time in and out of hospitals. He blames himself and his grief for his team dying, so came back to the town he grew up in, working in his dad's garage, when one evening he hears some noise and tries to quieten his paranoia but then he finds a bag with the weirdest things ever, baby diapers and more and then finds a baby girl. Rachel is coming back from a visit to her mother and got a fender-bender, her car is about to die so she thinks of leaving it as Quinn's father's garage, she doesn't see anyone there and is about to leave a letter when she sees Quinn, a grown-up version and not the high-school football star, the guy she tutored in Shakespeare and the object of her teenage fantasies. She knows that Quinn has had some bad times and just moved to town. Rachel and her mother were walked out on by her father when she was little as a result of that her mother became bitter, obsessed with being independent and making Rachel the same way. Rachel was shy and used food to cope with her life, hence she was over-weight and made fun of in school but now she's changed, she loves her job as a kindergarten teacher and is what her mom wants, a successful, independent career-minded woman who doesn't want or need a man. So, when they meet Quinn doesn't recognize her, and thinks she is the baby's mother and they kind of get into it, but then the confusion clears. Rachel thinks the baby is his and like her father he is trying to run away from his responsibilities. Quinn doesn't like seeing disappointment in her eyes, he knew Rachel had a tough time in school and worshipped him, he in turn tried to make things easier for her by beating up people. Then he finds a letter in the baby's things whose name is Charli, where her mother writes that she is in danger and knows he will keep her safe, as he did for the team. Quinn thinks the football team, but when he thinks harder, he comes up with his SEAL team. He decides to keep the baby and track down the mother. The rest of the book is Quinn trying to take care of the baby with help from Rachel who knows about them, so we have him learning to bathe the baby, that results in some sparks between them and more. Rachel even moves in when Charli has the flu and tries and succeeds in helping Quinn bond with the baby and even confront his demons and nightmares. She is so sweet and giving and I liked how she tried to stop things from escalating between her and Quinn and is angry when he suggests that they burn up the heat between them, she didn't expect Quinn to be so crude, when he was so gentle with his wife Louisa. I enjoyed the whole progression of the relationship even the scene when Rachel sees herself slipping into old pattern of binging and asks Quinn what about me? She gives and gives and Quinn who is not a bad guy is blind, offering Rachel only half things like a marriage proposal based on what they like.
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Any book that helps me understand another time, another culture, another place, is fabulous, but when it's so well written, it's even better! Thanks Cindy!
Socio-political sci fi at its best.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đức Minh
** spoiler alert ** I have read Something Borrowed and Something Blue by this author, and loved them. The stories flowed so well, and Giffin is a good writer and kept a good pace with the books. So I recently got this one, thinking I was also going to really love it. While it was written good, and a quick read, I am merely disappointed with it. It was interesting to read both points of views of Tessa and Valerie, to hear both point of views. Overall I found myself liking Valerie and Charlie more (even though I thought that was interesting because Tessa was in first person so you'd think I'd feel for her more and also because Valerie was the other woman) But I still sympathized with them both. I really am against cheating of any kind and that's what conflicted me with this story because Giffin had me liking and sympathizing with each of the women and it was written well .... but it's still wrong and it made me mad. This would be easier if Tessa was a horrible wife and he was obviously not in love with her and if she wasn't right for him.... it would be easier if the other woman was I also didn't like the ending, Nick downsized what he and Valerie had which I thought was wrong because of how close he was with her and Charlie.
This is a recent addition to the Eve Duncan series. This is the woman who's daughter was abducted when she was 7 and her body has never been found. This particular book revolves around Joe Quinn, the FBI agent who is assigned her case and falls in love with Eve. This story fills in some background information on their relationship. This book does not end! I am looking to find the book titled Bonnie to finish this story!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hồng Thái
Three novellas set in three time periods in New York. The characters have the same names and ages and the reader can draw parallels between the stories. Walt Whitman poetry is referenced in each story.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: U Linh
I am going to wax so eloquent about this book that some of you may think I am the author's mother...or perhaps I have been paid for the review. Not so! This is truly one of the best detective stories I've ever read and I have fallen in love with the main character. (You know, in just that literary way.) Nick Polchak is a forensic entomologist-a scientist who studies bugs that are attracted to human remains. Think Gil Grissom of CSI. He is weird, coldly calculating and excruciatingly odd. And, about to be married. Lucky girl. Nick has to leave Alena, his fiancee, just days before the wedding at he request of a friend who needs help with a murder investigation. When that friend is also murdered, Nick has just a few days to solve the crime and be back before the wedding. Honestly, I wanted to stop reading on page 2 so that I could go back and begin this one with the first in the series (I believe this is the 7th one in the Bugman Series). The book was absolutely hilarious-witty and flippant and had laughing loudly at very inconvenient times. Nick's comebacks and one-liners had me losing myself in the story, absolutely convinced he is too 'real' to be 'fake'. The realistic characters and a plot that keeps you coming back was just icing on the cake. I loved the ending and rushed right to my computer to start this series all over again. Ahh, a new mystery man to love--what a great way to start a new year!
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.