Gonca Gülbahar từ Dorozhno, Novgorodskaya oblast', Russia

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05/02/2024

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2018-02-23 17:30

Paw Patrol My Busy Book Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phidal Publishing Inc.

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom? Okay, okay, books by Michael Pollan are clearly a fad right now, but I have bought into it whole-heartedly. He is an amazing, amazing writer: he makes me want to plant a garden, to tour his garden, to only eat organic food, and to find out the story and origin of every morsel of food I put in my body. But he does it in a way that isn't overly preachy or agenda-driven. Instead, he lets you get what he is saying while at the same time telling an engaging, well-researched story, both personal and historic, and one that made me want to read quickly to the very end. It does make you wonder, however, what it would be like if plants could fight back…or maybe our dependence on the few varieties that now have weaknesses engendered by continuous cloning/inbreeding will result in a plant-revenge of our own “mono-culture” in the making.

2018-02-23 21:30

365 Ý Tưởng Sáng Tạo Vẽ Và Tô Màu Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Fiona Watt

** spoiler alert ** I threw this book on the ground and screamed at it when I finally, blessedly reached the last wretched page. Can i give a negative star rating? I only finished it because it was for my book group. I despised this trite, overwrought excuse for a book. Why is it so popular? I just don't get it. Granted, some of the descriptions were poetic and I adored Almondine. But he KILLS her. Don't kill the best character in your whole entire book--before she has a chance to be reunited with her soul mate. Yes, I know it's a rip-off, I mean rewrite of Shakespeare, but if you can't do it justice, don't do it. And Wroblewski didn't do it. Oprah should take him to her wood shed. Trudy, the mom, had such a close relationship with Edgar that I can't imagine she would not have believed what he told her. They way they grew apart so suddenly was unrealistic, as were so many parts of the book. Examples, the Starchild Colony, the way Claude moved in on Trudy even though she knew Gar had hated him and the fact the town believed anything from Claude when they knew him as a young man. There were so many tangents that I lost track and I really wonder if the book even had an editor. It just meandered along mindlessly for a good 200 pages after a rational author would have called it quits. The ending of this book, where everyone dies horribly, except Trudy, who will go on to suffer endlessly, was beyond awful. This was a just a lousy book.

Người đọc Gonca Gülbahar từ Dorozhno, Novgorodskaya oblast', Russia

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.