Laura Krikke từ Gorgdan, Fars, Iran

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05/07/2024

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2019-10-28 14:31

Combo Sống Khác - Sống Như Người Nhật (Bộ 2 Cuốn) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Taketoshi Ozawa

Unfamiliar Fishes is Sarah Vowell's take on the history of Hawaii. Vowell recounts the unraveling of the warrior kings, the arrival of the first missionaries, and all the way up to the end of the Hawaiian nation when Queen Liliuokalani was removed from her throne, the provisional government was established and Sanford Dole became president of the Republic of Hawaii. Then the country was annexed by the US. It is supposed to be the story of how we imported "our favorite religion, capitalism, and our second-favorite religion, Christianity." This passage really stuck with me, and carried me through the book. The idea of Hawaii as a sort of canary in the coal mine of American imperialism and conquest drew me through the pages. I wanted point, evidence, counterpoint to support this narrative. This quote is from the second page. I started looking into Hawaii's bit part in the epic of American global domination. I came across a political cartoon on the cover of Harper's Weekly from August 27, 1898. Above the caption, "Uncle Sam's New Class in the Art of Self-Government," Uncle Sam poses as a schoolmaster in a classroom festooned with a world map in which little American flags are planted on the barely visible island dots of Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba & the Philippines. A barefoot, frowning boy wearing a dunce cap labeled "Aguinaldo" represents the Filipino revolutionary who began the Spanish-American War as an American ally against Spain; but after Spain surrendered and handed over the Phillipines to the United States, Aguinaldo led the guerilla war against his new American colonizers. Uncle Sam is trying to break up a fight between two other barefoot boys, one wearing a satchel marked "Cuban Ex-Patriot" and the other a belt marked "Guerilla" meant to symbolize the unruly discontentment of Cuban freedom fighers also dismayed that their American allies in the fight against Spain for Cuba libre had just become their new colonial overlord. Meanwhile, off to the side, two good little girls, their headdresses identifying them as "Hawaii" and "Porto Rico," have their noses in the books they are quietly reading. Presumably because well-behaved Hawaii & Puerto Rico have politely and graciously accepted the blessings of annexation without any back talk. See? That's good. But the book gets caught up in churchy Puritans and fails in what I wanted/expected. There are several references to Barack Obama, America's first Plate Lunch President. It seems pretty obvious that Obama is an important factor in both the writing and the reading of this book, but I'll say it anyway. He's the cultural touchstone that lends this book relevancy. Sarah Vowell is a polarizing author and you usually love her or hate her. Generally I appreciate her work. But this book fell short on several things I love about her writing. Despite her meticulous research and humor, something is missing. Vowell has a nuanced understanding of the political, cultural, economic, religious and contradictory events of Hawaiian history, but there is no counterpoint to the elimination of the culture & ethnicity of the islands. There is no silver lining. What good came from this? Where is the justifiable outrage? Instead, you get a sort of grumbling, complacent indignation. Even the trademark snarky humor serves to turn atrocities into punch lines instead of skewering the perpetrators. The white people who handed over the nation to the US may have been morally bankrupt and motivated by greed, but they were not, in the strictest sense, doing anything illegal. They didn't break the law, Sarah Vowell tells us, because they wrote the law themselves. And maybe that's just how it had to go, after the Hawaiians gave up taro cultivation, the monarchy and the hula. They got a written language. Besides, the Puritans had lived there for generations, so they were Hawaiian too. That was so totally not the conclusion I thought we were going to come to. Ultimately, this book could have been a lot of things, but it just wasn't. Above all, I read Sarah Vowell for fun in my free time, as nerdy as that sounds, and this book most certainly was not fun to read.

2019-10-28 15:31

Từ Điển Đồng Nghĩa Phản Nghĩa Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Khang Việt

This is so cleverly written, and so powerfully engaging. I dreaded the ending and had to break when I saw what was coming, but this was truly masterfully done.

2019-10-28 16:31

Khi Bạn Tắc Đường Thì Tôi Đang Chơi Golf (Tái Bản) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

i read this in the 6th grade during the spring

2019-10-28 17:31

Giúp Em Viết Chữ Đẹp - Vở Ô Li Có Viết Chữ Mẫu Lớp 5 (Quyển 1) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

This was my favorite of the series so far. It's hard not to be impressed by JK Rowlings' creativity and how she can make a 700+ page book into a page turner. However, I also closed the book rather disturbed because there was a definite turning point to the series here and it wasn't a kids' book anymore, but the kids were already hooked. Of course there was darkness in the other books as well, but at least for me, the focus was more on the story, inventions, and spells being revealed and they stayed lighter. (Maybe that's not really true in hindsight with the movies as there are some quite grisly images and happenings in the other books as well). This book ended with a foreshadowing of the battle between good and evil (as depicted by JK Rowling) which I didn't necessarily agree with. It's definitely a fun, fast read but I wouldn't recommend it to any kids that haven't already started HP.

2019-10-28 18:31

Lấy Gốc Siêu Tốc Môn Hóa Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Đăng Khương

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and read it over a rainy weekend. I liked where it took me and getting lost in it but I've already forgotten the story a week later.

2019-10-28 19:31

Phòng Chống Động Đất, Sóng Thần Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Very clever. And I like clever.

2019-10-28 20:31

Một Với Một Là Ba Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Scarey. I felt bad for the monkeys.

2019-10-28 21:31

Trái Tim Anh Ở Đó Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mary Balogh

** spoiler alert ** It seemed like this could have been a three part book, it just ended up being too long and I lost interest. The beginning of the book tells of her childhood growing up as the gravedigger's daughter and the tragedy that unfolds, then she grows up, starts a family of her own and more tragedy which she escapes, part one ends there, great book. Part two her new life with her son and new husband and her new life, all is well end of part two. Part three, the epilogue, which I couldn't even finish, she connects with her long lost cousin who she thought died as a child, connects to her roots. The end. I don't like giving up on books so I stuck with it, seriously took four months to finish this book, not a recommended read.

2019-10-28 22:31

Từ Sierra Maestra Đến Santiago De Cu Ba Cuộc Phản Công Có Ý Nghĩa Chiến Lược Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I've finally finished the book, and I was a bit disappointed because I could have finished it in a day if I hadn't had other things to do, which means I have to go find the third book of the series. Oh well. =)

2019-10-28 23:31

Nàng Hai Báo Oán - Chuyện Không Kể Lúc Nửa Đêm Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Người Khăn Trắng

One of the few books that made me fall in love with it in the first read. I'm still reading it over and over again, and its story is so soothing that I found haven in it to escape from the boredom of daily routines and all the frustrations of modern working life. If there's a score more than 5, I would gladly give it to this book.

Người đọc Laura Krikke từ Gorgdan, Fars, Iran

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.