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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Maggie Stiefvater
Currently reading this one...I don't know if I care for the writing style or not, but it's at the least interesting so far.
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Very enjoyable, an unexpected love story
this is a really good short story collection, they all have a comon theme but you should find the out for your self.
reminds us to enjoy life as we know it.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Karen Kovacs
I really wanted to like these stories, but they just didn't do it for me. They were OK--maybe even 2 1/2 stars. I felt like they could have been better written than they were, though. They felt rushed and not sufficiently developed, especially when it came to the believability of the romances. The first novella in the book, "Almost Persuaded" by Mary Balogh, was very loosely based on Austen's Persuasion. Too loosely, which really was a large part of the problem. Jane Everett and Captain Mitford are soulmates who fall in love and then screw it up lifetime after lifetime. In this lifetime, however, each gets to keep a piece of memory from their past lives, although Jane has been raised to believe her memories are fantasies or dreams and has a hard time believing in reincarnation. Captain Mitford has no trouble talking her into making out with him within hours of their first meeting, swimming in just her shift, and having sex with him in the sunshine, despite her breeding as a proper young English lady, yet she can't overcome that same training when it comes to her memories, which she knows happen to coincide remarkably with local history? Seriously? Had Balogh stuck closer to the original story and characterizations, just folding in the reincarnation subplot, I think the novella would have been much more believable. In Northanger Castle, Colleen Gleason tells of young Caroline Merrill, who has read far too many gothic novels and is convinced that vampires and poisoners are around every corner. Which, as it turns out, is not too far off, although she gets most of the details wrong. Gleason sticks a lot closer to her inspiration, Northanger Abbey, and as a result, I think this is the second most successful of the novellas, right up until the fairly ridiculous ending. Blood and Prejudice, by Susan Krinard, had great potential: modern-day setting wherein Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham are 200-yr-old vampires & Elizabeth is a bookstore owner whose family's company is being taken over by Bingley's family's pharmaceutical company. Krinard stays relatively close to the spirit of the original story. But again, it all falls apart in the willing-suspension-of-disbelief department by the time they get to the rushed ending. There are only *legends* among the locals about "nightwalkers"? Really? No one noticed that the exact same people have owned/lived in Pemberley for 200 years?? And Darcy has a Twilight-esque vampire battle with Lady Catherine to save Elizabeth? *sighhh* Finally, Janet Mullany's "Little to Hex Her" rounds out the book. It's very loosely based on Austen's Emma. Also a modernized version, this one features Emma Woodhouse as the temporary manager of a supernatural dating service owned by her sister Isabella. Emma lives in Isabella's D.C. apartment in a building owned by Emma's ex-boyfriend, Knightley. Elton is an elf bent on revenge because Emma's assistant, Harriet, turned him into a frog (temporarily!) when she realized, while they were on a date, that he was interested in Emma instead. Frankly, this is probably the best of the novellas because it digresses so far from its inspiration. The romance is still slightly forced, but at least the story is fun. For readers' advisors: story doorway, primarily. Some sexual content, especially in the last novella.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Xuân Diện
Depressing doesn’t begin… But it’s a highly original piece of fiction and a tremendous war statement.
The sexual exploitation of a child (from age 11 to 17 and referred to as a "nymphet"), and its justification, forms the plot line of this book. I have read a few summaries and reviews to understand it's historical significance, but the subject matter horrifies me. I do not want to fill my mind with darkness.
Not engaging enough to be good escapist literature and not insightful enough to be anything else.
I've been wanting to read this book for a while, but I rarely go for non-fiction. The story was compiled/written by a Chicago-land author about 2 divers (and a few of their diver friends) who were unrelenting in a 6 year journey of dangerous deep shipwreck diving and research to re-write a piece of history. I finished it in 2 days....would have been a more compelling read had I not read the "acknowledgements" and looked at the pictures at the end (which isn't as much of a problem with the e-books as it is with "real" books)!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bằng Việt
D'Orso follows a high school basketball team from an Alaskan bush town throughout their season. Its a great sports story and a great view of life in Alaska. The players are a good group of students who were fun to "meet". The stories that come out of the season are so amazing, like the story of waiting until it warms up to -20 so the team can take off for a game or how the team camps out in the classrooms at the schools they play. A great read!
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.