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Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
Beautiful story of the deep love and sorrow of a mother losing her daughter. Isabel Allenda writes with raw passion that is infectious. I feel as though she is my dear friend after reading her works.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Shin Yee Jin
Keep Smiling Through is a lovely book. Just like Ann Rinaldi’s other novels there is a strong female character who speaks about life truths in a very straightforward almost painfully honest way. I really like the theme in this one. You can do the right thing but things can still turn out badly. And I like the title, too. Kay is a girl growing up in World War II. The story starts out when her best friend learns that her brother has been killed and suddenly all the popular girls flock to her, leaving Kay out. And her runaway slave housekeeper who she was very close to runs away. Her stepmother is oppressive. But she finds a way to live on without too much misery. And then she is faced with a decision wether or not to support her family or her country. She gets conflicted opinions on all sides and has to make her own choice.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Sơn Nam
This one I only kept around for about 75 pages (of 300). For the record, I really enjoyed the other 4, but this one just felt like it was going nowhere fast. I wasn't convinced that there was going to be anything new and exciting going on with the characters - as if it is one of those day-time soap operas where the one hour episode should've been condensed into about 10 minutes and saved us all a lot of money. The originality of the series carried me along the first 4 books, but I'm not sure there is any originality left in the plot line for the 5th book, although I didn't stick around to find out, did I?
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Rahul Singhal & Xact Team
Almost a week later, I'm still pondering the ending of Beatrice and Virgil, the most recent novel by Life of Pi author Yann Martel. For Pi alums, that won't entirely surprise you. To me, a book that grabs you on the first page, keeps you moving steadily and with increasing intensity, shocks and surprises and offers you intriguing glimpses into an array of human endeavors, and then leaves you rather gratified yet stunned and moved at the end: All that rolled into one spells one fine book. Here, Martel returns to his explorations of inter-textuality and of our human drive to recreate our messy lives in somewhat tidier or at least more fathomable stories. And again we begin in one fictional reality and then journey with his central character, in this case a writer named Henry who echoes Martel himself, into an allegorical world of uncertainty, challenge, wry humor, and even violence, and finally return to a reality parallel to our own to reflect on the horrors that leach into our workaday lives no matter how carefully we strive to deflect them. And it will come as no surprise that in his attempt to bring renewed immediacy to literature of the Holocaust, Martel reaches back to the Absurdists to frame some of his allegorical commentary. The world within a world here is not a high-seas adventure as in Life of Pi, but rather a Beckettian play starring a donkey and a howler monkey within the frame of a writer's attempt to recreate his life in a foreign city when his writing career stalls. The questions Martel explores with us include a Life of Pi-esque focus on the cruelty of humans toward not only their own species but toward all other animals as well. Yet what makes all the difference here is protagonist Henry's central question: How might one write about the Holocaust in a manner that offers the philosophical & historical depth of an essay and the freshness of narrative fiction? Beatrice and Virgil acts as a vehicle to explore this question, and although certainly we see some comparable concerns and devices to those in Life of Pi, neither the intention nor the result is in any way similar. When it was first released, some critics railed at the very thought of a non-Jew writing a book attempting - in any way - to address the Holocaust. If you are willing to move beyond that concern to embrace a novel that respects its content but takes a unique tack in attempting to make us re-see an ever-present and understandably oft-treated topic, then you would do well to set aside a few hours for Beatrice and Virgil. In my estimation, better to stretch toward greatness on a challenging subject than to set one's writerly sights low and create a neatly constructed but depthless work In truth, saying any more than this would spoil your potential experience of Beatrice and Virgil, and I want you to read it. To transform your life and change the world with every book you read - whether you loved it or not, learn more about Action Reading by visiting me at http://whatsheread.blogspot.com.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trish Summerfield
A mystery, a romance and a perfect blend of gothic spookiness, what's not to love? Linda Martin arrives at the Chateaux Valmy high in the French Alps to care for young Comte Philippe, recently orphaned and in the care of his uncle Leon and step-aunt Heloise de Valmy. When Leon's son Raoul arrives, Linda finds herself falling in love, although things are not as they appear and Philippe begins to have several life threatening accidents. Or are they accidents? Is there something more sinister involved? Could the person behind these attempts want to set Linda up as the scapegoat? What about her beloved Raoul? Could he have a part in this deadly scheme? That's about all I'm going to tell, you know I'm not into book reports or spoilers. Linda was a charming Jane Eyre-ish type of heroine, and I loved the dark mysterious Raoul (ooh, that midnight "buffet"). Stewart has a lovely, subtle style of story telling and keeps the plot moving without too much in-your-face telling instead of showing and very reminiscent of Du Maurier. I also loved how she worked the mists and clouds of the high mountains (as well as that hair raising zig-zag drive to the Chateaux) to set a properly spooky atmosphere, "Out into a patch of clear darkness, and then another cloud was on us, but this time thin, so that our yellow-dimmed lights made rainbows in it that wisped away along our wings, and we were through." All in all a perfect book to cuddle up with for a rainy day, my only complaint is she took a tad bit too long to wrap all the lose ends up, so I'm knocking off one star. 4/5.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thùy Dương
Travelog/memoir. Drags a little bit here and there but well worth getting through for the fascinating infomation it offers.
Let's just say I haven't finished this book yet, however, I the parts I did read made me feel talked down to, and I work with neurosurgeons every day. Actually the one neurosurgeon I work with was in the same residency program with the author and said she was a pretty intense, focused individual. I will finish the book at some point, but I don't expect my rating to improve.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bộ Giáo dục và Đào tạo
an absolute must read. it includes his short stories (Which are fantastic)and plays.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hà Nguyễn
My favorite part of this series is watching JK Rowling's writing mature along with Harry. I felt like the books grew up with me.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phan Tử Ngư
I loved this book - a great romance/sci-fi, which is admittedly an odd combination but works. In fact I've read it twice; once on my own and again for my bookclub. It can be a bit confusing at first - just remember the title!
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.