David Castillo từ Ranipur, Uttar Pradesh, India

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05/09/2024

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2020-01-11 10:31

Horrible Science - Thế Giới Ô Nhiễm Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nick Arnold

Jellicoe Road was a young adult novel that managed to offer depth and entertainment. It was a very layered book, with a story within a story and lots of intersecting storylines. Marchetta pulled off this complex novel with ease. I loved it and I think anyone would. Jellicoe Road is about Taylor Markham, a girl who's had trouble with commitment ever since her mother abandoned her when she was eleven years old. She was rescued by a a woman named Hannah who lives at the edge of the boarding school on the Jellicoe Road. Taylor is now a senior living at the boarding school with Hannah her closest thing to family. When Hannah leaves without warning one day it only deepens Taylor's conviction that she can't let people close. Taylor is starting to be haunted by her past and memories of her long gone mother and a father she never knew are resurfacing. She begins reading a manuscript Hannah left behind that is about five children who lived on the Jellicoe Road and may have some bearing on her life. And the boy she ran away with when she was twelve years old is back in town, a Cadet in military school and fighting with her in a territory war. As the suspense builds the mystery deepens and I was eager to discover all the secrets. Just watching all the plotlines come together was fascinating. Not only was the story excellent, the characters were so well developed they seemed to jump off the page. Taylor was a complex, very realistic protaganist and all the secondary characters were interesting too. I highly recommend Jellicoe Road. It's made me want to read more by Melina Marchetta.

2020-01-11 11:31

Con Đường Chuyển Hóa Ứng Dụng Bát Chánh Đạo Trong Cuộc Sống Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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I love this series - although I still think the first book was my favourite, but maybe that's because I love discovering new books/worlds, so the first one for me is always the best as it has the excitement of the 'new and unknown'. However, this was a pretty good story - as usual action-packed, sexy and exciting. I love that we hear from multiple characters and there are subplots running through each book - Ky & Gem have been a great little storyline running through the books and you see much more of them here. In the first two books I really liked Wraith's character and I was very much looking forward to reading 'his' story, and whilst I really enjoyed this third book in the series, I am a little disappointed. I found him to be not quite as 'bad boy' as I was hoping for - maybe because he was sick he couldn't be quite so macho with his fights etc - and I think more could probably have been made about him being a demon/vampire prior to her finding out at the end (for instance when they had the fights, didn't she wonder how a human could fight like he did?). But all in all another enjoyable read that I didn't want to put down.

2020-01-11 12:31

Tuổi Thơ Trong Truyện Ngắn Của Các Nhà Văn Nổi Tiếng Thế Giới Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

I love this book. I read this book from cover to cover in one sitting and just couldn't put it down. It details the life of Adeline and her need for acceptance by her Niang and her father. Their expectations of how she should live her life and her constant need for their acceptance and approval stem from her childhood where her birth was deemed a curse since her mother died after giving birth to her. Adeline struggle with this adversity and dealing with emotional abuse gives a genuine quality to the book, her prose and style of writing invites the reader in her journey and I was certainly enthralled and touched reading her book. Its a great read

2020-01-11 13:31

Văn Học Kinh Điển Dành Cho Thiếu Nhi - Cuộc Phiêu Lưu Của Robinson Crusoe (Bìa Cứng) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Daniel Defoe

This is the first book of the series city of ember. The city of ember is an underground city made by the Builders. The two main characters are Lina, a ten-year old girl who lives with her grandmother and baby sister poppie, and Doon, a ten-year old boy who is assigned to work in the pipeworks and helps Lina find a way out of ember. The city of ember is falling apart and the generator is dying so Lina finds some instructions made by the builders on how to leave Ember. With the help of Doon they plan to leave the city for good. They run into some difficultly when the mayor gets in the way of trying to stop them. Well they get out you’ll have to read to find out.

2020-01-11 14:31

Vở Bài Tập Toán Nâng Cao Lớp 1 - Quyển 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Thị Kim Cương

Twilight gets my highest rating of the books, simply because it ably sets the stage for what unfolds in the rest of the saga. It provides clear cut examples of what a woman needs from a man, albeit in dramatically exaggerated form (which is appropriate given that the book deals with a teenage girl, who is likely to see things in dramatic terms anyway). Here we see Bella's desire to be looked at, her desire to be protected, her need to be listened to -- and perhaps, above all, her need to be accepted despite her many flaws. This is one of the fundamental secrets to the success of the whole series: Bella is the everywoman, a girl of no particular talent or grace who is loved by a godlike young man...forever. That single fact encompasses much of the power of Meyer's series and is the reason I wrote my book, Everything I Needed to Know about Women I Learned by Reading Twilight: A Vampire's Guide to Eternal Love, to draw this fact out and show how couples can learn from this important series how to give each other the love they need.

2020-01-11 15:31

Doraemon - Chú Mèo Máy Đến Từ Tương Lai (Tập 26) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Beautiful. Weird. Unequalled. Possibly the only "story", if you can call this a story, where I was glad to have seen the film before reading the book. Tilda Swinton's image really helps connect the different parts of Orlando's life.

2020-01-11 16:31

Chú Heo May Mắn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kim Jong-Ryeoul

I keep forgetting how much I dislike Griffin. But he is all over the place and I, inevitably, wind up picking another of his and getting disappointed again.

2020-01-11 17:31

Những Mảng Màu Ký Ức Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I liked the concept of the book but found it read too much like research stories for a newspaper and not like a memoir, with notes on each chapter at the end of the book, and a long bibliography. This book may be for those with very little knowledge about Chinese food. But I'm sure it's a valuable contribution to the general literature on Chinese food and restaurants. Here's what I wrote for my book blog, www.bookbirddog.blogspot.com: A New York Times metro reporter researches and writes about Chinese food in her memoir, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food, 2009. Here is one of the questions in her book: "It gnawed at me. Could fortune cookies have been introduced to the United States by the Japanese?" Many people wanted to know the answer to the question. The truth is: "Two men in the early 1900s in California claimed the credit - a Japanese man who served tea and fortune cookies in 1914 in San Francisco, and a Chinese man of the Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles who stuffed Biblical messages in cookies. A judge ruled that Japanese-American Makoto Hagiwara of San Francisco was the real inventor of the fortune cookie!" (from Everyday Mysteries at http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/) Jennifer 8 Lee tackles other questions about Chinese food as well in her memoir -the origin of chop suey, American stir-fry, and the phenomenon of multiple lottery winners on March 30, 2005 who bet on the same numbers provided by their fortune cookies! The book details Chinese restaurants in the U.S. and around the world in places such as Australia, Brazil, Toyko, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. There are explanatory notes on each chapter at the end of the book, and an impressive bibliography. The author certainly did her homework for this one!

2020-01-11 18:31

Yêu Nhầm Chị Hai... Được Nhầm Em Gái - Tập 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Leo AsLan

They really are whiny little jerks, aren't they.

2020-01-11 19:31

Nghề Biên Kịch Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tuyết Hường

I have a hard time reading manifesto style books. I tend to find hyperbole for non-comedic purposes irritating. I'm just not very radical, I suppose. This book suffers too from being dated; some of the ideas are obviously still very relevant, but they've since been written about and reformulated in ways I find much more interesting, or at least less shrill. Wolf alternates between really piling on with the statistics and data, and writing melodramatic stories about her own life. Neither tone worked very well for me. Mostly, in a broad sense, I agree with her thesis that the societal pressure on women to look a certain way is purposely Sisyphean and consumer driven. I also thought Wolf did a good job of discussing the ways in which "health" has been elided into beauty; Shape, Women's Health and, for that matter, Men's Health may as well be Glamour. This has only expanded, I think, in the time since Wolf wrote the book. I'm hardly anti-medicine, but the "health" market is probably the next great consumer myth. Also, I thought Wolf did a reasonable job of including the detrimental affects on men in her discussion. True, it was a small focus, but her book was aimed at women and expanding the discussion of men's issues would have been inappropriate. She did repeatedly state that individual men are not responsible for the beauty myth, and that the beauty myth harms men as well. Her writing did have the unfortunate tendency, common to sociological and political tracts dealing with large, impersonal forces, to make it sound as though the problems she was lamenting were being instituted by some evil cabal that runs society from the top down ( I, personally, pictured the Springfield Republican Party w/ Mr. Burns, Count Dracula, Sideshow Bob and Arnold Schwarzenager whenever the writing leaned too far in this direction -- try it, it makes it more managable.) But it's hard to both avoid the passive voice and the tendency to make it sound like these are unchangeable, natural forces, and to avoid sounding like a paranoid conspiracy theorist, so I'll cut her some slack. I will not cut her slack on some of her ridiculous statements, however. For instance, her belief that the beauty myth comes between couples and makes it harder for them to bond is one thing, but expanding that to an assumption that the military industrial complex needs the beauty myth to keep men and women apart because it "depends on men choosing the bond with one another over the bond with women and children"(p. 144) is seriously overplaying her hand. The beauty myth is not the root of war, are you kidding me here? Perhaps the single most irritating moment of hyperbole in the whole book was the paragraph that begins with this sentence: "Nothing justifies comparison with the Holocaust; but when confronted with a vast number of emaciated bodies starved not by nature but by men, one must notice a certain resemblance"(p. 207). If nothing justifies comparison to the Holocaust, then just don't make the comparison. She later compares plastic surgery to torture and dieting to famine in ways that are equally irritating. I know she's trying to shock, and, especially in the dieting/famine comparison, I think there are probably appropriate ways to relate the two. I've been known to point out that Audrey Hepburn's much admired figure was largely a result of childhood malnutrition during WWII. And, just this week, there's been an uproar over the Bush administration's justification of providing starvation level rations of food to detainees by pointing out that Western women choose to diet at that level, as noted here. But Wolf is so over the top that it gets offensive. I also find her haphazard endnotes to be offensive. Several times she mentioned something inflammatory that I would have liked more context to, and either cited it with the least information possible or not at all. Specifically, she mentions offhand that a woman was ordered by a judge to lose 3 pounds a month (or some similar figure) to keep her job, and the endnote for that claim just cites a random Newsweek article, with no elaboration. That's at least a citation, if kind of irritating, but later she states that the AMA in 1978 claimed a preoccupation with beauty is the same as a preoccupation with health, and doesn't bother to cite that assertion at all. Complaints aside, I am glad I read this book. I don't think it's particularly good, mind you, but it is a widely referenced book on an issue that concerns me. I read a fair amount of feminist media that rehashes these sorts of discussions regularly, and in spite of that, this book did make some points, on the health/beauty spectrum and female rape fantasies in particular, that I had not thought of in quite that way before.

Người đọc David Castillo từ Ranipur, Uttar Pradesh, India

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.