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Very well done. I loved the characters and the outcome. Insightful, thought-provoking, and humorous, with only a few sad instances.
Percy has another great adventure while siding to save the gods. It does come into question though why he defends other than they are family..... Book ends almost with a to be continued type finale. Can't wait for #5
A great book and timely (perhaps my friend who gave it to me knew that!). Good to remember the eternal perspective of things, not to judge others, etc. My favorite quote: "The gospel of Jesus Christ is not insurance against pain. It is resource in event of pain." It's short and good!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
"at this Mrs. Das gave an impatient sigh, as if she had been traveling her whole life withou pause. She fanned herself with a folded bombay film magazine written in English"
Ooooh =( Guessed wrong, it was about Gabe and Sarah. Quite logical though, since it's about the Halle pumas, wasn't thinking apparently
Wow! I could not put this book down. What an imagination that Laini has to create a world like this. There were so many things going on and going from different times and lives but the author flowed it together so well that it was very easy to read. Sometimes in books going from past to present and hopping around I find myself having to re-read parts or else I get confused but Laini's book flowed perfectly. There was mystery throughout the whole book that made you never want to quit reading..it all comes together at the end brilliantly. I laughed and cried...sigh. This book was fantastic. I know it will seem like forever until the next book comes out but I'm sure it will definitely be worth the wait. This is a bookshelf keeper for me.
Didn't quite capture my attention like the previous two. Taking a break before I hit the 4th book.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phạm Thiên Thư
Loved this book - my aunt jean's life followed this so closely. Very interesting to speak to her about it. Wondering what you will think of it since your background and geo is so different from me!
Another great read by Richelle Mead! Although, this was probably my least favorite so far. I don't really know why, I just feel like not a lot happened. yeah, something HUGE did happen, but it annoys me. Because I don't even really like Dimitri, I'm all for Adrian. <3 Then the ending.. WHY THE CLIFFHANGER?! Why did that even have to happen? They are so stupid, they are blind to who actually did that crime, it's pretty obvious. Now I can't find out what happens until sometime next week! Overall, it was good and exciting, just not my favorite of the series so far.
Morbid Curiosity #8 featured a story by sculptor Mary Jo Bole, who worked at the Dedouch Factory learning the techniques they used to create the photographic ceramic plaques that adorn graveyards across the US. Dedouch subsequently sold its technology to a Canadian company. I mention this as a little background on the tenuous modern survival of memorial photo plaques on gravestones. Forgotten Faces glosses briefly over the existence of modern plaques in its aim to document antique photographs. In fact, I was shocked to find there wasn’t already a book about ceramic memorial photos. The subject is touched on in Secure the Shadow, but Forgotten Faces is the first book to document 350 photographic mementos, mostly showing people whose images have otherwise evaporated from history. In this book, some of the photo plaques are gathered into “galleries” of similar images. Particularly touching were the children’s pages, with a naked infant (who didn’t survive a year) stretched out on a velvet cloth and nine-year-old Alice with her dolly in her arms. I also liked the collection of couples from Colma, California’s Italian Cemetery. Arms around each other or with the bride leaning against her groom’s shoulder: these people look familiar, like relatives caught at the happiest moments of their lives. I wonder if Heaven for them is symbolized in the photos that memorialize them. Forgotten Faces is a beautiful book, but a very strange one, too. Sometimes the photographs are labeled by which cemetery they came from. Other times, the cemetery is vaguely indicated as in “rural Northern California” or some such. I preferred the pages that not only displayed the memorial portraits, but also showed the monuments they adorn, along with their position in the cemetery. That sort of documentation strikes me as crucial, should the portraits ever go missing — or perhaps, turn up in an unscrupulous secondhand shop and need to be returned to their rightful places. Throughout the book thoughts and images that gave me pause, like the remark, “In our sample of 500 portraits, two out of every three subjects died before reaching the age 30.” A page that displays three postmortem photos of babies comments that the rate of infant mortality was so high that parents often did not name their children until after their first birthdays. Six postmortem photos from the Italian Cemetery are gathered onto two pages with the comment that sometimes the corpse’s eyes were intentionally opened before the photograph was taken, in order to capture the deceased in a more "lifelike" pose. The effect is as creepy as you can imagine. Since one “gallery” in the book collects the “Fashions of the Age” from high lace collars to furs to the variable width of men’s lapels, a student of historical costuming could find this book an invaluable resource. Several photographers other than Horne contribute images to the book. Richard Meyer, former editor of the Association for Gravestone Studies’ journal Markers, and British photographer Cathy Ward provide images from Hawaiian and European graveyards. While the memorial photographs they document are striking and curious, I’m not sure their inclusion benefits the book at hand. It makes it feel jumbled. I guess what I would have preferred to see was a brief recap of the history of personal images on grave monuments from the kings of stone in the European cathedrals to the invention of photography, which brought recording of an individual loved one into the reach of even first-generation immigrants. I suspect Horne might get around to that, as he plans to continue his documentation of these rare and fragile artifacts. Please support his work and buy this book.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Fly
Disfruto los relatos de cuentos de hadas, especialmente aquellos con algo único para agregar a la historia, como este. También me gusta el estilo de escritura de Jessica George. Una lectura divertida y rápida, no demasiado profunda, pero agradable.
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.