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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Diana Wynne Jones
This is in my top three Bukowski books of poems. It's the one I go back to when I just need to read some poetry. Very effortless to read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
Lina is preparing for bed one night when the Russian soldier come to take her and her family away. From this moment on her life will never be the same and she will find herself taking a dangerous journey from her native Lithuania to Siberia. Along the way, she will make friends, suffer losses and discover that to some people, her life and those of her countrymen means very little. I had never heard about this episode in history so this book was both very good in its general theme, human beings relating to one another in adversity, as well as serving as a gateway for me to do my own independent research on another blot on humanity's existence. I loved the character of Lina because she was so normal. She was not a shrinking violet waiting to be saved from herself but she did not also turn into a ninja warrior able to take down everything and everyone. My heart broke as I read of the indignities suffered by her and the other women, such as being forced to undress publicly while the soldiers ogled them and made jokes about their bodies. My heart was in my throat all through the story as I read in fear wondering when it would all be over. Would she, her mother and her brother every leave this work camp or would their dead bodies end up thrown in the forest like trash or down a hole dug with their own hands? By no means is Lina without faults, she takes risks that infuriated me like keeping her drawings and writing notes when she knows this could get her in serious trouble. But her strength of character, compassion and love for her family redeem her. Even her acts of carelessness feed back to her essential belief in what is right and standing up for it. Andrius, a boy a few years older than Lina, has also been ripped from his family and all he has left is his mother who is also traveling with him on the same train as Lina and her family. He is lucky to have escaped a more dreadful fate of either being killed earlier on in the Russian take over or being shot for some offense or another. His mother manages this by pretending he is mentally incompetent and she later pays an even higher price to keep him alive and get him a bit of an easier work load in the camp. This story is wrenching and I found myself getting emotional more than once. The inhumanity that we are able to muster toward each other remains a subject of much discussion and one that will continue until there are no humans left to quibble over it. It still remains heartbreaking to see how much pain we are able to inflict on our enemies and justify it to ourselves. But the willingness to live, to fight for survival even in the face of so much suffering speaks to man's inherent strength. I LOVED this book. It was great from start to finish and I am grateful to have the opportunity to have read it. There is a love story in here but it is very quiet which makes it even more powerful. Side Note: I found it odd that one of characters in the book referred to what was happening to them as "genocide". That immediately jumped out at me because I do not believe that that word came about until later in the war, or probably after the war ended and this book starts in 1941. Also I could be very wrong here but it seemed surprising that the prisoners were allowed to send letters out to family and loved ones. I do not know the history on this but it was surprising to me that despite all the brutality constantly visited on them, they would be given the liberty of corresponding with outsiders. **Review copy received from Philomel, a division of Penguin Group.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
This has been a great cookbook/organization guide for a single apartment dweller like me who is a complete idiot in the kitchen.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
2.5 Stars Imaginative, magical, but bizarre and perhaps a little too long.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Challote Bronte
I was hesitant to read this book at first, I'll be honest. Lauren Oliver is a friend of friends (I don't know her personally), and I thought, there's absolutely no way one of my peers can write something THAT fabulous, right? Well, as it turns out, she can. Lauren Oliver is a beautiful writer. One of the most lyrical YA authors I've ever read, right up there with my favorite, Laurie Halse Anderson. I'd recommend this to absolutely anyone who loves a great YA read. I can't wait to read her second book, Delirium.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đỗ Bích Thúy
A pretty sparse review of world football in the context of globalization. There are some neat insights though - in particular the sometimes contradictory relationship between capital, tribal identity and football. Too many of the chapters were focused on European football (taking brief pit stops in Brazil and America). This means that you missed out on learning about how the game is a metaphor for globalization in Asia or Africa.
As a read-alone, I'd give this 3 stars, because though the storyline is enjoyable, it's not strong, and my 8 year old was bored of it after the first few chapters on her own. However, as a read-aloud, the "voice" is so fun and packed with a cowboy-poetry-Hank-The-Cowdog-I'll-leave-the-light-on kind of presence, that vocalized, my girls were giggling and begging for more, which encouraged me to read later than bedtime and finish up in the morning during breakfast.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: First News
that book was AAAWWWEEESSSOOOMMMEEE!
Awesome book for a beginning chef. Good to keep on as a reference, etc.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Giáo sư Nguyễn Khánh Dư
I really enjoyed this book, although at times it was incredibly gruesome and sad. Illustrates the power of education and the importance of community.
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.