Anthony Brien từ Gusarovka, Belarus

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11/05/2024

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2019-09-17 14:30

Hướng Nội - Sức Mạnh Của Sự Yên Lặng Trong Một Thế Giới Nói Không Ngừng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Susan Cain

“Abigail Adams was a tiny woman, little more than five feet tall, with dark hair, piercing eyes, and a forceful personality that belied her size.” I don’t understand people who say they don’t like history. History not only provides a reader with events and people that are fascinating, but one can often make a connection with our own lives today. Abigail Adams is a perfect example of this. She was not only a strong and capable woman with her own opinions, as the wife of John Adams, she moved in circles that literally changed the history of the world. Lynne Withey’s biography, is an excellent portrayal of this amazing woman. I really got a sense of who Abigail Adams was. She believed strongly in the American Revolution and sacrificed much for her country. There were few women (and men, for that matter) who would have allowed their families to be separated for years at a time for the idea of a republic. Her sacrifices were not only separation: loss of income and the running of their farm were burdens that Abigail Adams shouldered as well. Having recently read a biography of Martha Washington, the amount of information present in Withey’s book was refreshing. Not the fault of Washington’s biographer, the correspondence that survives between the Adamses is a treasure trove, compared with Mrs. Washington, who burned all the letters between herself and her husband. I also enjoyed Withey’s writing style and incorporation of Abigail Adams’ own letters into this biography. There may be some that complain about the subject’s misspellings, but that was life in the 18th century, and I feel that modern readers should be exposed to original writings. I had also read that there were some complaints about Withey’s interpretation of Mrs. Adams’ feminism, but it seems to me the author was absolutely correct. It is wrong to dismiss her conservatism as merely a product of the times. There are many modern conservative women who do not see a contradiction with believing that a woman’s role is primarily as wives and mothers, and still believe in equality and abhor injustice. I very much enjoyed Dearest Friend and give it high recommendation!

2019-09-17 15:30

Thám Tử Kindaichi (Tập 20) - Án Mạng Trong Rừng Ma Khuyển Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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A dysfunctional Irish family gathers for the funeral of Liam, the most difficult of the dozen children. Some wonderful passages, particularly those describing characters (“He is the kind of man who looks like he should be wearing a bowler hat … Charlie is only ever passing through … It seems that he has information to impart though, after he has gone, it is often hard to know what that information might have been … He makes people feel warm and uncertain, as though they might have been conned – but of what? … By then, the things that go wrong with people's faces had gone thoroughly wrong with theirs; Rose's mouth pulled into a jag of disapproval, my mother's gaze now watery and vague … The problem with Liam was never something big. The problem with Liam was always a hundred small things. He had cigarettes but no matches, did I have matches? Yes, but the match breaks, the match doesn't strike, he can't light these cheap Albanian trash matches. Why don't I have a lighter?”), but all in all, the surly, self-pitying narrator is too much to take. The 2007 Booker Prize winner.

2019-09-17 16:30

Kaze Hikaru - Tập 34 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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The Darkness of Man’s Heart (A Book Review of Lord of the Flies by William Golding) **Read at you own risk** I believe that there’s always the proper time when a book is meant to be read. Such was the case when I recently read Lord of Flies by William Golding. I first encountered this slim book back in my high school days where it was never even made a required or assigned reading to us. It found its way to me as I was prowling the library’s dusty shelves. Described as an adventure story of marooned English schoolboys on a tropical island on the back cover, I readily grabbed and borrowed it. And that was the only thing that made that an impression to me as my interest for it waned when I couldn’t get past the second chapter, deciding that this “serious” book with its slow and drawling narrative was a bad choice after all. So I moved on another book, the one about this wizard boy in a magical land that was quite the rage of the day when I heard it from a loquacious female classmate who couldn’t be kept from ranting mad about it in between classes. So what made me finally pick it up? I didn’t know that Stephen King was the key all along. It was mentioned in a short story in his collection Night Shift and is one of his all-time favorite books. As if opening the floodgates of nostalgia for this half-read book left all these years, once again it found its way to me. This time I deem I’m fit enough to know what it speaks of. Lord of the Flies explores the dark side of humanity, the savagery that lies even within the most civilized human being. It begins as a simple story about a group of English schoolboys marooned on a tropical island when the plane evacuating them from atomic war-torn England crashes. The reader first meets Ralph who thought the island is a paradise, a perfect setup for playing with plenty of food, made specially wonderful without the supervision of "grownups" around. Can this really be the image that the island seem to project? Golding makes us suspect otherwise as he described Ralph’s immediate surroundings with phrases such as "the long scar smashed into the jungle" that the plane made when it hurtled to the sea, the "creepers" where Ralph broke through and the "skull like coconut" scattered along the Terrace. Initially, the boys tried to establish the culture they left behind, electing Ralph as their leader with the support and wise counsel of Piggy (the intellectual of the group), as they set up rules and put as their major priority the making of a signal fire in hopes that a passing ship might see thus making rescue possible. Eventually, the task of maintaining the fire was designated to the choir boys-turned-hunters commanded by Jack. From the very beginning, Jack hungers for domination so much so that he poses as the main threat and challenge to Ralph’s leadership and the semblance of civilization he creates and represents. As the duty for tending the signal fire was neglected, and as Jack and the boys become more and more obsessed with hunting due to their natural tendency and inclination to violence (symbolizing man’s evil side), an opportunity to be rescued was lost erupting the crisis between Ralph and Jack. The promise of rescue and the need for meat, both of equal significance to the boys, creates a tug of war tension amongst them as loyalty shifts and allegiances made. This conflict between Jack and Ralph—-and the forces of savagery and civilization that they represent—-is made worse by the boys’ fear of the beast that roam the island. Lord of the Flies for me is a piece of Literature, and of Art in general, whose view of modern of man resonates today and beyond. Within the boundaries of the novel Golding explored three aspects of human experience when different types of people under similar condition face new and difficult situation. One, is that some desire for social and political order (symbolized by the platform and the conch); others show man’s natural proclivity toward evil and violence (symbolized by the choir boys-turned-hunters-turned-murderers); while there are some who resort to divine intervention or superstitious beliefs (symbolized by the ritualistic dancing and offerings to appease the "beast"). The single most important symbolism central to the novel’s theme is that of the "beast" or the "lord of the flies," who according to my book edition’s critical note by E.L. Epstein, "is a translation of the Hebrew Ba’alzevuv (Beelzebub in Greek) a suggestive name for the devil…devoted to decay, demoralization, hysteria and panic." The beast in reality is human and represents man’s capacity for evil. Taking it to the novel’s context, the boys fear what is in fact themselves, for they have created the subject of their fear that even though sustaining their physical need, living thus finally degenerates them into the most inhuman form of savagery. In fact, when the book was first released in 1954, Golding went on to describe the novel’s theme as "an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature." As the book demonstrated repeatedly, human beings are capable of intense evil as result of their own natures and not because of any outside factors. Civilization, far from being a corrupting influence, is the only thing that restrains mankind from a life of barbarity and utter degradation. Human nature is what it is and there is no easy way to change it. Even if I could’ve tried and forced myself to read the book back then, I doubt if I’ll have the same appreciation and understanding of it as I have now. Truly, a book, not we, is the one who decides if we’re worthy to receive them. As I read this story I had this feeling of being atop a tower looking at the wider and wider prospect of human nature, each bleaker than the last. The novel ends with grief and a chilling warning. We wept and grieved with Ralph because of that indelible mark of evil in each person’s heart that we scarcely believed existed. Between reason’s civilizing influence and animality’s self-indulgent savagery, we choose to abandon the values civilization does and represent. As we awaken to this realization we don’t only mourn the death of friends, but the death and lost of our innocence. The finale of the book presents a disturbing message. As we look away from the boys and out toward the cruise rescue seems to have arrived. This dramatic change in perspective is Golding’s subtle mean of changing the focus away from the boys and turns it to the world and on to us. Ralph has not been saved to return home but to be plunged once again to another larger war not of his making. Nor does it also mean that Jack’s rule ends here for all we know those conducting the war have the same immature attitudes about civilization and power that the Jacks of this world may yet have their way. Golding tells us that we too will be destroyed. Then who will be there to rescue us? We must remember that the world that surrounds us is like an island, our only island. We have the responsibility to protect our civilization and its freedom, most importantly the freedom of choice and speech. _______________________ A Perigree Book published by The Berkley Publishing Group 208 pages Started: May 17, 2010 Finished: May 23, 2010 My Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦

2019-09-17 17:30

Những Sai Lầm Trong Giáo Dục Gia Đình Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lô Cần

Fourteen-year-old Mary Driscoll and her family have lived in terrible poverty in the Irish countryside every since the potato famine began several years ago. When Mary is offered a chance to join her aunt and older sister in America, the land of opportunity, she jumps at the chance to seek a better life for herself. But after a long, stormy, and miserable ocean voyage, Mary arrives in America to find that it is nothing like she expected. She takes a job in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, where she is scorned by most of the American workers and expected to work long hours under terrible, unsafe conditions. There are few bright spots in this account of the life faced by many girls in New England cities during the mid-nineteenth century, and most of what happened to the fictional character of Mary happened to various girls who lived back then and worked in factories and mills. I would recommend this to readers interested in this particular time period in history, or to those readers who are fans of the Dear America series.

2019-09-17 18:30

Doraemon - Truyện Ngắn Tập 1 (2014) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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This book about the Mann Gulch fire in Montana was a little rambling, but the author does a good job unraveling the mystery of why some died and some didn't. Good companion to The Big Burn.

2019-09-17 19:30

Tìm Hiểu 100 Kỳ Quan Thiên Nhiên Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Huyền Anh

This is the only book.

2019-09-17 20:30

Từ Điển Pháp - Việt, Việt - Pháp - Tái bản 09/2013 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Phương Thanh

I just did not like the way it was written. It might be because I saw The Social Network so I knew most of this information.

2019-09-17 21:30

Hãy Nghe Con Nói! - Con Khó Chịu Lắm Nha! Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Shinsuke Yoshitake

If you only read one book about literary theory...well, who would blame you? Still, the educated layperson who wants to bump their understanding of contemporary literary criticism up to a respectable cocktail party level probably can't do much better than Eagleton's slim, thoroughly accessible introduction to the subject. Literary Theory traces the history of literature as an academic discipline from English Romanticism, through Saussure and semiotics, all the way to the fashionable heavy-hitters of postmodernism. Neither an acolyte nor a debunker, Eagleton gives each theory a clear explanation and a fair shake in crisp, jargon-free prose. He is up front about his own ideological slants (feminist, Marxist), and although the last of these can at times make him sound quaintly Cold War, at no point does he drop into didacticism. This is a book that truly lives up to its subtitle.

2019-09-17 22:30

Nghiên Cứu Văn Hóa Phương Đông 365 Ngày Lịch Vạn Sự Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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This book was about how a young lady had regained herself when struggling

2019-09-17 23:30

Yoga Tăng Cường Năng Lượng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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perfect book for commute reading...

Người đọc Anthony Brien từ Gusarovka, Belarus

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.