Jennifer Litsey từ Trinca, Moldova

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11/22/2024

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2019-12-25 03:31

Lonely Planet's Guide to Travel Photography Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lonely Planet

This semester, I read the book Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella. I really liked that the book has many description and visuals and it teaches you the real meaning of life. It also shows the reader that he/she doesn’t have to shop for pleasure when you are feeling down, that there are other ways of achieving your goals in life. At first, I was not really interested in the book, but it starts getting better afterwards. Some parts I really enjoyed from the book were when Rebecca Bloomwood wanted to buy her Denny and George scarf and she was at a press conference and Luke Brandon loaned her the 20 quid. I also liked the ending, when she realizes that she had to grow up and pay her debts and that she could not spend money in things she did not need. I really liked this part because it made me change my perspective that there are things that are more important in life than just materialism. It also made me realize that by settling down, and not hiding away from the truth or from other problems, you can help to solve situations easily. Some of the advice that Rebecca gave during the Morning Coffee show is right. If you save little by little, you will have a lot at the end and that you have to confront the situation so that you can fix it faster. The thing that impacts me the most about this book is that some people are actually shopaholics and they are in great debts because of it. I enjoy shopping a lot, but I think that people should understand that there is a limit. I really recommend this book to people of all ages, but I don’t really think that a boy will enjoy it as much as a girl. Now that the movie is out, I could compare the book with the movie and they have absolutely nothing in common. They are different, but both of them are good. If you enjoy the movie, you will also enjoy the book, you can just look at it as another story of Becky Bloomwood.

2019-12-25 07:31

Điều Kỳ Diệu Cho Con - Hành Trình Tới Xứ Sở Trong Mơ (Song Ngữ) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Emily Winfield Martin

On the plus side, this book can be read quickly, the little fictional vignettes about each event are somewhat entertaining, and the book touches on some good points. That said, as a work of history, this book has a whole lot of flaws. The authors are looking at seven different events, each separated by hundreds of years. There really is very little reason for these to be presented as one narrative, other than the vague, suspect notion that all of history itself can be viewed together. The authors draw from way too few sources to address these events. Each chapter switches from fictional presentations of the event, to historical describing the event to a discussion of why the event was important. While this sounds fine and could work, in this case, it often just breaks off the flow of each discussion. Further, each chapter is just way too short to really give a full picture of each event and the different nuances of its significance. This book clearly has a pro-European-American and Christian bias. To the authors' credit, this is stated. What makes this bias problematic is that they very clearly consider that if history had turned out differently in the case of the events presented, the modern world would certainly be worse off, especially in regards to freedom, which is a big assumption that can really not be supported. What struck me as the most glaring example of the questionable merit of the history telling here came in the chapter on the discovery of the New World. There is absolutely no mention made of native populations in the "New World". While at times throughout the book, the authors' do mention that there were missteps on the Euro-Christian grand path to freedom, I found it baffling that they made no attempt to even acknowledge the impact of the European arrival in the New World on people already living there. In the end, I suppose the authors' might say that their intention was just to present such a brief skimming of the topic to make their audience explore these topics further, but for me, they failed to make this point or provide readers with suggestions on how to do so. There were some potentially good points here, namely that freedom is rare and should be appreciated and defended, but the book and the history in it were just not good.

Người đọc Jennifer Litsey từ Trinca, Moldova

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.