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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đỗ Kim Trung
Sneakily funny, with a lot of heart. I loved this book. I didn't think I would, but I immediately got into it and couldn't put it down. I can't seem to articulate why I liked it so much. I was rooting for all of the characters. Their stories felt imaginative and far flung, and yet real and possible. The writing was great -- spunky, with some tricks, but very readable. My only objection is that the 9/11 attacks make a brief but suspiciously convenient cameo that helps to wrap up the story, most of which takes place in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Why does 9/11 have to show up at all? Is it just a generic crisis to bring the characters together at the end? Or does every book that starts before the the present, and takes us up through the today, need to give 9/11 a nod? Is it possible for an author to create the sensation of being caught up to the present if we don't know what the characters were doing on that day? The book club, btw, were not big fans.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hồ Dzếnh
Boys that Bite the first novel in the Blood Coven Vampires series by Mari Mancusi is a great book for teen vampire lovers. The book follows Sunny who gets turned into a vampire mistakenly (the vampire meant to turn her twin sister Rayne). Magnus, the sexy vampire that bit her pledges to help her turn back. While waiting for answers Sunny deals with the symptoms of turning into a vampire (vampire attraction and her hunger for blood) and gets to know Magnus better. This is a great book that doesn't take itself seriously. It takes jabs at everything from Buffy The Vampire Slayer to Indiana Jones. It has a nice romance and is a really quick read. Appropriateness: This is a novel that's appropriate for the entire young adult audience (although it would appeal to the middle school audience more). There is no sex or drugs or violence.. Sunny drinks "wine" (although it's really blood) and she lies to her mother and sneaks out of the country. There is quite a bit of kissing which might turn off very young readers. The lexile for this book is 740 putting it at a mid fourth grade level.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Quốc Cường (Hệ thống hóa)
Talbot Course: Life of Christ Very similar in concept to Blomberg's book; thorough, but not as deep as I would like
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Patricia Cornwell
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Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
A well written and interesting book. The mystery is well created, unfurling slowly and revealing depths to the characters.
More action-packed than the first two, Specials is the kind of ride you want to get off but know you can't until you've experienced all it can offer.
excellent view of a great ballplayer with troubled life. good read that describes a truely great ballplayer but also a good read if you really want to understand how people will tell you anything to be around you if you are good and the devstating effect of alcohol abuse on family.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Andrew Betsis
A fascinating trawl through the history of social housing provision in the UK since the construction of the historic Boundary Estate in Bethnal Green in 1893. Hanley's account really comes to life in the book's pivotal chapter, "Slums in the Sky" with shocking tales of corner cutting and well meaning modernism. Erno Goldfinger - rehabilitated in some quarters in recent years - is firmly back in the Naughty Seat although a one bedroom apartment in his Trellick Tower will still set you back over £400,000. The book is polemical and comes across as more passionate as a result. The Conservative administration of Harold Macmillan is blamed for many of the ills. The book could perhaps have done with a little more international material - "La Haine" and Chicago's Cabrini Green are mentioned and it is crying out for an index, but overall, this is essential reading. Hanley's most interesting question revolves around the stigma of council housing - why are we embarrassed to have our homes provided for by the state when there is no such outcast status associated with free education or health? That Mrs. Thatcher was a great brainwasher.
This is an incredible story. It's actually many incredible stories, Louis Zamperini's experiences as a downed WWII airman, and POW, are just two. They comprise the bulk of the book, but the whole of his story is absorbing. The author is skillful at situating events in their historical context, as well, and peeling back the curtain on bits of that context that are hidden or less well known. Intensely readable.
There is no point in telling a story unless you tell the whole story. Other Words for Love does this, and does it well. It tells the whole story of 1980s Brooklyn teen Ari Mitchell, and it does this in a beautiful, captivating, and truthful way. The story doesn’t skip over anything, and that is how it should be. Ari gets involved in a relationship with Blake, a rich college student at New York University, and I was immersed in that relationship. I felt Ari’s ecstasy and her heartbreak, her joy and her pain. This story is so compelling that I found myself wondering what Ari would be doing today, figuring out the age of her sister and her nephews, and hoping that they are all well. That might sound silly, but these characters are drawn so beautifully by the author that they seemed real. The uplifting, non-traditional ending of this novel tells me that they’re all fine...especially Ari, who became so close to my heart as I walked with her on her journey from insecure 16-year-old to a young adult ready to take on the world. I loved that this novel doesn’t give a “men are everything” message, and it also doesn’t tell girls to “stay away from men.” What I got out of this story and what I’m sure teen girls will understand, is that it’s okay to be in love, and to enjoy everything that comes with it (emotionally and physically) without guilt or regret. But if that door closes, others will open, and it’s important to develop yourself as a person instead of being defined by a relationship. The title is also clever, and it speaks to Ari's relationship with Blake and with her mother, sister, father, friends, and her brother-in-law. I’m very impressed with this novel, which I was surprised to learn is the author’s first. Her writing is as beautiful as the story. I was also impressed with the quality of the story, which isn’t at all a formulaic teen romance. It’s romantic, but very realistic and filled with other aspects of Ari’s life. To summarize: it’s a great book that should be read and enjoyed by many.
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.