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04/29/2024

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2019-12-19 03:31

Vị Giám Đốc Một Phút (Tái Bản 2016) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Spencer Johnson, M.D

I loved the topic of this newest Jodi Picoult book (although I read this back in March so my use of the word ‘newest’ may be in question)! Married couple, Zoe and Max, divorce after nine years of marriage and many failed pregnancies. Shortly afterward, Zoe, a music therapist, meets and falls in love with a high school guidance counselor. A guidance counselor who also happens to be a woman. Meanwhile, Max turns to alcohol to drown his sorrows and then eventually repents and finds “truth” and peace in the conservative Christianity practiced by his older brother. Zoe and Max, in their attempt to make a family had frozen many embryos. Zoe and her new partner, Vanessa, want to implant the embryos into Vanessa and finally have the family Zoe has been dreaming of. Max’s new religious views lead him to believe that being gay is a sin and that gay couples should not be allowed to have children. A court battle begins as Max and Zoe fight for custody of their unborn children. This book started just a little slow for me. The end of Zoe and Max’s relationship and the beginning of the relationship between Zoe and Vanessa felt like background (albeit necessary background) to the “meat” of this novel- the court battle over the frozen embryos. With that trigger, the book really took off and kept this reader completely engaged. Unfortunately, the end left me wanting a little more… more resolution with the Lucy character and some mention of Zoe’s mom in the final chapter. While it was clear to me that Sing You Home was thoroughly researched and well-thought out, I did think it was transparent throughout the book that Picoult is an atheist. What I did not realize until I had finished the book was that Picoult’s son recently came out, so I am certain this topic hit home for her. As always, Picoult’s knack for portraying two sides of a very controversial issue did not disappoint. I loved the controversy in this book! All in all, a great book!

2019-12-19 05:31

Dựa Vào Vai Em Và Khóc Đi Anh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hà Thanh Phúc

First, in terms of a broad-brush perspective, this is just a delightful book. If you have some kind of spring break coming or perhaps a Memorial Day weekend where you’re going to be away and just want a fun, somewhat zany book to get you through perhaps the more boring parts of your weekend, this one just may do that for you. Josh and Eve Redmont seem like decent young people who love one another deeply and who are devoted to their two-year-old son. Years before he was married, Josh used to visit a bar where he would strive to pick up the occasional female NYU student and sound off loud and long about his radical views. But, like lots of former radicals, Josh grew up a little, got married, had a kid, and dumped most of the really conspicuous perspectives he held as a young single guy in that bar. Ah, but that youthful radicalism would ultimately land poor Josh in more trouble than he could have ever believed at the time. Seven years prior to the time when this book opens, Josh began receiving checks from a mysterious Washington, D.C., address. Every month like clockwork, a check for $1,000 would arrive in his mailbox; and every month like clockwork, Josh would deposit those checks into his bank account. He did try occasionally to figure out where they were coming from, but he was never successful in doing that. In those early years, those checks were extremely helpful to Josh, and while he felt a little guilty about taking money for nothing, he would ultimately cash them and use the money. But now that he’s been married a while, now that he has a little boy, and now that he’s a successful ad agency guy, Josh doesn’t really need the money as much as he once did. Still, the checks keep coming, and he keeps cashing them. Then one day, while he’s watching his son play in a park, a man eases up to Josh and utters three words that will change his life. “You’ve been activated.” It turns out that Josh was recruited by a former Soviet spy as a local sleeper—someone who lies in wait until his talents are needed to do a specific job. Now Josh learns that he must participate in the assassination of the president of a small eastern European country, and he learns that the assassination will almost surely kill scores of other innocent Americans at a baseball stadium. Now it’s up to Josh to figure out whether he can get out of doing the killing while simultaneously saving the lives of his wife and little son. The bulk of this book focuses on Josh’s efforts to prevent the assassination and preserve the lives of his wife and son, not to mention his own. Westlake has a truly strange and bizarre sense of humor—a sense of humor which he’s not at all afraid to show in this little book. It’s humor tinged with intellect, and frankly some of it is over my all-too-simplified head. Still, you’ll love the characters from the first sentence to the last page. At one point, Josh is severely tempted to muck up his loving relationship with his wife when the spy ring which has activated him moves a gorgeous, tall Eastern European model into his house—presumably to watch him to ensure that he doesn’t run off to the FBI or something. (His wife is away with their son at a beach cottage while Josh returns to New York City to work during the week.) For those of you who care about such things, Josh remains faithful, opting to sleep on the floor under a coffee table rather than enjoy the comforts of his own bed and the exotic model who’s sleeping in it. The conclusion is highly satisfactory, and the book is filled with funky characters, snappy dialogue, and highly believable interactions that will keep you reading. I’ve long been a lover of Westlake’s stories in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and those of you who haven’t gone beyond the bounds of his short stories can explore this short novel without concern. You won’t be disappointed. This isn’t really mysterious, but it’s intriguingly suspenseful. It won’t require huge amounts of mental resources, which makes it the perfect read for those vacation-type environments where there are lots of noise and distractions all around you. It’s interesting enough that you’ll keep reading it no matter how often you have to put it down, but it’s not so suspenseful and gripping that you’ll be forced to ostracize yourself from family and friends while you finish it.

Người đọc 宁 磊 từ San Vincente de Benítez, Gro., Mexico

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.