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Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
its great. you should read it.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Christophe Boncens
A magic-realism story set in Cuba.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phạm Thị Nhất
I couldn't decide whether this book fell under the "loved it" or "it was amazing" category. I finally settled on "loved it" but only because I want to try (try) to keep my "it was amazing" books to an exclusive few. However, I must say that I was amazed by the book. Barnes writing was smooth and effortless to read. At the same time it was penetrating, and he could articulate feelings and contradictions with clarity. The story was wonderful. It is about Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, and George Edalji, a wrongly convicted solicitor. The book gives a great narrative about Doyle's youth and adulthood. I found the psuedo-biography fun and enlightening. Though the book is fiction, I'm sure that some of how Barnes characterized Doyle was accurate. I think one reason I enjoyed this book was because of Barnes' depiction of Edalji's legal mind and of Doyle's Victorian mind. I loved how George would analyze things thoroughly and then cross examine himself. It didn't get in the way of the story for me to have the characters constantly feeling strongly one way only to then convince themselves that they were wrong. On the contrary, that is one of the reasons I loved this book. Personally, I think this book, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize in 2005, was better than Banville's The Sea and Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Banville won the Booker, and it is rumored Ishiguro's came in a close second. But Arthur and George was much better than either of them.
This book focuses around the short lives and mysterious death of the two sons of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. (Who, as a fun little anecdote, Edward IV threatened at knifepoint to get her to marry him. In any case.) They were declared illegitimate after Richard III took power, and imprisoned in the Tower of London and were never seen again. Richard III supposedly had them murdered within a year of this time. Alison Weir does clearly have a bias against Richard, but I think that the bias is reasonable given the evidence presented. There are other suspects, but none with as much reason and evidence against them as Richard. The bodies of two young children were discovered underneath a part of the tower in in the late 1600s, right under where they had been housed. Elizabeth Windsor won't let people touch them and see, but the leap isn't hard to make. Richard III may not have been as evil as Shakespeare painted him, but he was certainly coldly calculating enough to have done it to secure his power. I really enjoyed this book. If you are a dorky fan of English history like me, so will you. Alison Weir writes very well and tries hard to make her books accessible to people, which is a plus for history based tomes!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Minh Nguyệt Đang
A must read for everyone, but hard to say I loved it. Disturbing. But sometimes we need to be disturbed.
I 'bought' this as a free book for the Nook. I would have been disappointed if I had paid for it. It's not a bad book necessarily, but it didn't do anything for me. I wasn't expecting greatness, but even with the lowered expectations, there just wasn't much of a plot, and the characters weren't very interesting.
The famous gator wrestler of Swamplandia!, Hilola Bigtree dies at the beginning of the book, leaving Swamplandia! without its main attraction, and the Bigtree family without their mother and wife. Set in the swamplands of Florida, the three Bigtree teenagers have never been to school and have rarely gone to the “mainland.” Kiwi, the oldest son, moves to the mainland to try to earn money to save the park, Ossie, the middle daughter, leaves to get married to a ghost, and Ava, the youngest, leaves with a man who mysteriously arrives in bird suit (the birdman) to rescue her sister from the underworld. This book is bizarre, and disturbing, and good. Not quite as disturbing as “Geek Love” (nothing is , really), but in the same vein. The author notably acknowledges Katherine Dunn.
Literacy skills: Print awareness-The text bubbles in the book will help children notice the print on the page. Print Motivation-This book is part of a series, building a relationship with characters in a story help to foster a love of reading.
I choose an audio book for the second reading of this book, and it was actually a better experience than reading it in book form. I'm updating to four stars.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Paramahansa Yogananda
not as good as the other two in the Trilogy
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.