Ionuț Văleanu từ Loumbol, Senegal

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05/09/2024

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2019-10-21 10:31

Bán Sách Và Bán Giày Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tô Hải Vân

another terrible madeleine wickham book. i don't know if i even have the energy to go into it. but i'll try. so, liz is married to jonathan. they own a home in silchester. liz convinces jonathan to put the home on the market in the hopes of using the proceeds to pay down the mortgage on the "tutorial college" they just purchased. it took me forever to figure out what a tutorial college is. i guess it's like an american SAT prep company, sort of. liz & jonathan have a disaffected teenage daughter named alice. alice is sad about her parents selling the house, so she spends a lot of time sneaking into the garage of her old house to chain-smoke. marcus whitherstone is one of the owners of the realty company liz & jonathan are using to sell their house. he is married to some uptight supermom whose name i forget. they have two sons. the older one is about to sit the scholarship exams for a prestigious high school. supermom enrolls him in extra class at the tutorial school to help him prepare. marcus happens to be in the office one day when liz has to take a meeting regarding the fact that the silchester house hasn't sold yet. he offers to pull some strings at the bank so she can carry two mortgages, & also find her a tenant. the tenants he finds are ginny, a PR agent who does a lot of work for the realty company, & her husband piers. piers is an actor who has fallen on hard times, but he has an audition for a popular soap opera coming up. both he & ginny are hopeful that he'll get it. while marcus & liz are waiting for ginny & piers to come see the house, they end up kissing, & it soon blossoms into a full-fledged affair. liz is over the moon about it. marcus takes her to posh hotels & lets her raid the mini-bar & buys her expensive jewelry. she begins to fantasize about him declaring his love for her & asking her to run away & get married. she mostly seems excited about marcus solving all her money problems for her. she daydreams about being his wife, going to fancy parties, & wearing designer clothes. she seems totally oblivious to the fact that marcus is quickly running out of patience with her & isn't that interested in continuing the affair. marcus is also distracted by how he did some appraisal work on a fancy estate for a big-time banker named leo. leo asked marcus to under-value to estate so that leo could flip it & make a huge profit. marcus does as asked & is paid handsomely for it, but then people start asking questions & he kind of freaks. alice makes the acquaintance of piers & ginny after they move into the rental home & they kind of take her under their wings, even though she's just 14 years old. alice has a little crush on piers, which everyone seems to find cute. alice goes over to hang out with them pretty much every single day. blah blah. this all goes on for like 200 pages. finally ginny & piers decide to have a big party to celebrate...something. i don't know what. they invite alice & her parents, as well as marcus & his family (they rent from one couple & ginny works for marcus, remember). liz is thrilled to see marcus again. she thinks the party might be the setting for the marriage proposal she's been dreaming about. marcus pulls liz into the garage to break things off & liz makes an ass of herself. & it turns out that alice is in there smoking (marcus & liz didn't see her). so now she knows that her mom has been having an affair & she kind of freaks. meanwhile, piers just got the call about the soap opera gig. he was rejected. he & ginny are crying hysterically in their bedroom while everyone else parties. when alice tries to tell ginny about liz's affair, ginny screams at her & tells her to go away. jonathan talks alice down & alice decides not to tell him about liz's perfidy. marcus has clearly decided to re-dedicate himself to his family after his brush with danger, engaging in fraud for leo. liz is chastened & ashamed. marcus's son did great on his scholarship tests & word is spreading, bringing tons of new business to the tutorial college, so jonathan is pleased. at the end of the book, there's some hint that maybe jonathan knows that liz was cheating on him but chose to turn a blind eye. & marcus uses the proceeds of the fraud he committed to buy the silchester house & invites jonathan & liz to move back in for a reasonable rent. of course, he doesn't tell them he's the owner. basically, this book is boring & manages to make no sense at the same time. skip it!

2019-10-21 11:31

Combo Khéo Ăn Nói Sẽ Có Được Thiên Hạ + Muốn Làm Ông Chủ Giỏi, Trước Tiên Phải Là Một Thư Kí Xuất Sắc Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: La Nguyệt Đình

I loved this book and consumed it in 2 sittings. Fantastic story, beautiful told, satisfying but not overly schmaltzy.I've re-read it and even knowing how it ends thoroughly didn't distract from my captivation. I'm so glad I read this before I knew who Stephanie Meyer was - I would have been guilty of pre-judging the author as only suitable for teenagers. Such a mistake, first class.

2019-10-21 12:31

Học Viện Bóng Đá - Tập 9 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bách Lê

I love Ishiguro's style and loved the way this book was written - so effortless and yet so compelling. The premise, as well, was intriguing and had me hooked until the very end. However - and it's a BIG however - that end was so incredibly baffling, so unbelievably unsatisfying, I was actually angry when I put it down. Maybe I missed the point entirely, which is totally possible, and maybe I just need to read it again, but the thought of having to relive that sucker punch into my gut after rereading those 500+ pages (albeit 500+ very well written pages) makes me feel slightly ill. Oh well. I guess it's better than reading a book that makes you feel nothing at all.

2019-10-21 13:31

Doctors (Flip And Find) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Samantha Meredith

"Other Sheep I Have…. The Autobiography of Father Paul M. Washington" is the story of Philadelphia's legendary Father Paul Washington, the reverend of the Church of the Advocate. Writing in the early 1990s after his retirement, he recounts three decades of being a force of social change in North Philadelphia. Being a Black clergyman in a predominantly WASP Episcopalian Church, he flings open the doors of the huge Cathedral doors to the events of the 1960s thru 1980s. Father Paul Washington stood side by side with Cecil B. Moore during the pickets of Girard College. He refused to back down during the many times the police brutalized young black high school students trying to better a rotten public school system. He let the Church of the Advocate be used for a Black Power conference in the 1970s, as well as a Black Panther Party conference. He butted heads with members of his own church about the direction that the Advocate was allowed to take in the struggles for Black self-determination. Paul Washington refused any other post in the Episcopalian church structure, even turning down the chance to be a Bishop or to go to New York City, instead staying in the impoverished neighborhood of North Central Philadelphia near Strawberry Mansion, at 18th and Diamond streets. Later, he recalls the bombing of the MOVE house in 1985, and while not entirely sympathetic to MOVE, he believed that the city overstepped their bounds extraordinarily. He expressed disappointment with how Wilson Goode, who many Black clergy had hoped would be a new wave of Black Power politicians who would finally bring the city to help the impoverished Black neighborhoods, turned out to be just as bad as other mayors. Today, there has been a proposal from community activists in North Philly to rename Diamond streets "Paul Washington Street" in the same as Columbia Ave was renamed Cecil B. Moore avenue. It makes sense. When you talk with people in that neighborhood, or you visit the Church of the Advocate, you can see the effect Washington had on the people who's lives he touched. Across the Advocate are paintings of biblical scenes transferred into Black Power messages. They are quite stunning, and I'd never seen something like that in a Church, but there they are. I first saw the Church on a class field trip across the neighborhoods of Philadelphia, and later went to it again at a Jazz and Art event. To view the paintings and an explanation of them, please go to: http://www.churchoftheadvocate.org/pa... For anyone living in Philadelphia, visiting the Church of the Advocate should be a priority at some point. A huge gothic cathedral built in the 19th century by Scottish stonemasons, there are what appears to be angel faces carved all over the building. However, in reality, they are the faces of the Stonemason's children, since they were homesick for Scotland. Fast forward to the early 1960s, when Paul Washington become the Rector at the Advocate. The neighborhood, traditionally a upper middle class neighborhood, is quickly changing as many white families flee to the suburbs and many poor black families from the south arrive, philly's "white flight." As such, Paul Washington encounters a congregation of racially mixed members, with the white members slowly dwindling and the black members being finally welcomed into a church that had turned them away. From here, he transformed the church into a haven for Black Empowerment activists. Washington strikes several times on the theme of balancing Martin Luther King's rhetoric of "turn the other cheek" non-violent protest with Malcolm X's "by any means necessary" Black empowerment for the improvement of African-Americans in the white supremacist United States. This debate continues today for people trying to change the world, and probably will continue for quite some time.

2019-10-21 14:31

Dare To Forgive - Dám Tha Thứ (Tái Bản 2016) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Oh Anne. One of these days I'll read all the other things you have written!

2019-10-21 15:31

Tự Học Tiếng Trung Cho Người Mới Bắt Đầu (Dùng Kèm App MCBooks) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Cute, quick little love story, entertaining.

2019-10-21 16:31

Vui Học Tiếng Anh Qua Chuyện Kể Bằng Đĩa Hình - Những Con Kiến Lửa Đổi Tính (Dùng Kèm 1 VCD) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Huy Lâm

I finished reading Play Dead by John Levitt not too long ago. This was book four in Levitt’s “Dog Days” series, and Levitt says it’ll be the last, “at least for a while”. This was a fun series; I enjoyed all four books and I’ll miss it. Levitt made me care about the characters and I'll miss them too. Considering the lurch he left them in at the end of this book, I'll probably wonder occasionally whatever happened to them.

2019-10-21 17:31

Combo Tuần Của Bé - Tháng 3 (Bộ 4 Cuốn) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Minh Tâm

If you had to sum up in one word what this book was about, it would be: Dark 16+

2019-10-21 18:31

Vui Chơi Để Kiếm Sống Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Huỳnh Minh Thuận

one of the best books for guys i've read.

2019-10-21 19:31

Hạt Giống Tâm Hồn - Tuyển Chọn Những Câu Chuyện Hay Nhất Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

I downloaded this title from the library, and I didn't bother to read the preview before I started reading. I knew it was a popular book with a large following, but I couldn't see what the big deal was about. It seemed to be about a wife and mother who was misplaced, under-appreciated, and trying to navigate her new home. Then, the main character revealed her past ... and I was HOOKED!

Người đọc Ionuț Văleanu từ Loumbol, Senegal

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.