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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tuttle Publishing
I love Olivia, but this one is just not as solid as the original. Olivia's mother is taking them to the fireworks and Olivia wants to know if there will be a band, because there has to be a fireworks band. When her mother assumes not, Olivia decides that she'll be the band. While cute, the plot sort of meanders then when Olivia finishes being a band and focuses on other things like her make-up. The images, however, are always worth the price of admission and the crash-bang-twink-ploink noises of Olivia's band make for a fun read-aloud. Read my full review and comparisons to other books at my blog: http://shorteasywordsreviews.blogspot...
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hằng Nguyễn
British humor fun - innovative nursery crime for adults
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Teo Aik Cher
This book was different than I thought it might be, but very fun to read. It's definitely non-fiction, but written in an enjoyable, informative and slightly morbid way.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Don Sexton
I'm actually re-reading this collection and so impressed with it. There are some real classics: Charles Baxter's "Gryphon" Amy Tan's "Rules of the Game" Susan Minot's "Hiding" that every short story writer should know, as well as more obscure, but quality works like Alice Munro's "Turkey Season" and Stephanie Vaughn's "Dog Heaven." One thing that makes this anthology special is the variety of narratives - voices, eras, points of view - and it is rare to find a collection so diverse that is not simply a show of the kind of stories the editor likes. Nicholas DelBlanco is quoted as saying we experience every major emotion by age four, from euphoria to fear of death, and this collection truly shows what rich material childhood experience is.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Thành Chương
funny
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Douglas A. Levine
When I was growing up my parents had a huge portrait of Thomas More (their favorite saint) hanging in our living room. One of my brothers was named for him and one of the first movies I saw was "A Man for All Seasons." I came to accept that More was a noble, God-like figure who became a martyr for the Catholic Church because his conscience would not allow him to go along with the plans of Henry VIII to displace the Pope as head of the Church. Later, in reading "Wolf Hall," I encountered a different Thomas More - clever, brilliant and committed to the Church, but with a dark side that led him to gleefully participate in the burning of heretics. So I decided to read this to get the real story of Thomas More. The book is very interesting, though not completely objective. The author is a Catholic and very sympathetic to his subject. He goes to great lengths to portray More as a man of his times, and the burning of heretics, well, that was just kind of the way things were done back then and More can be excused because he saw the heretics as attempting to bring down civilization as More knew it. Not sure that I totally buy that. Shouldn't a saint be held to a higher standard? And, some of his actions and the lack of tolerance for other viewpoints make for interesting parallels to some things that we see in today's world. The book is definitely worthwhile reading, particularly the second half of it. It is absorbing to follow More as he is brought into Henry's circle and his struggles to reconcile his duties to the Church with his duties to the king make for interesting reading. Not so the first part of the book. Since little is known of More's early life, due to lack of documentation after 500 years, the author spends a lot of time describing English life in the early 1500s and taking the reader on a tour of the areas in London where More lived and was educated. There is also quite a bit of speculation as to the details of More's life then. That is not without value, but there are times when I think that I would have gotten just as much out of the book if I had skipped the first twenty chapters. The last part of the book, detailing More's fall from grace, imprisonment, trial and execution, is very well done. One cannot help but to be moved by the way More conducted himself at the end - always gracious, kind, and devoted to his religious principles, yet still thinking like the lawyer who practiced his entire adult life. At the end, I was left thinking of More as not necessarily a saint, but as a fascinating human being.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
Fantastic. Throughout the book you see things coming, but you can't look away because of how they are presented. It is kind of like rubbernecking at a car accident in a good way. I constantly found myself having to force myself to stop reading in order to process what I'd read. The style is pure Max Barry: serious stuff but presented in a frothy foamy way that you don't actually realize that he's not glossing over things but he's handing you bigger and bigger things to chew on. By the time you realize you've got a mouthful you are choking on the ideas. I read this book faster than I've read any recent book I've picked up. Worth your time.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Thị Nhâm
This one is clever and funny. Big-busted blonde gold-digger meets warring sisters - intellectual snob and social climber - in a battle for the affections and cash of a ageing Ukrainian emigre engineer. I enjoyed it, even if the menfolk seem to be interested only in machines and sex!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Th.S Nguyễn Nam Thuận
Book is not as absorbing as expected. However contain interesting details about conditions in war tourn Afghanistan.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Hiến Lê
Enjoyable. Nothing too exciting, but I liked her writing. Occasionally I would come across a sentence or description that I just loved.
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.