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A Pale View of HillsKazuo Ishiguro
A Pale View of Hills
The SilkwormJ. K. Rowling
The Silkworm
Nesnesitelná lehkost bytíMilan Kundera
Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí
Water MoonSamantha Sotto Yambao
Water Moon
If You Could See the SunAnn Liang
If You Could See the Sun
The Let Them TheoryMel Robbins
The Let Them Theory
BabelR. F. Kuang
Babel
Wolf TotemRong Jiang, Howard Goldblatt
Wolf Totem
The Sixty Year DreamRenjun Yang, Washington Irving et al.
The Sixty Year Dream
The Cuckoo's CallingJ. K. Rowling
The Cuckoo's Calling
The Infinite ExtentDennis E. Taylor
The Infinite Extent
Country drivingPeter Hessler
Country driving
Do Not DisturbFreida McFadden
Do Not Disturb
Ward DFreida McFadden
Ward D
Recent reviews
Well let me start by saying that I really loved John Green's writing style in 'The fault in our stars', which was the main reason why I gave this book a chance. Story To me this book was basically at least two complete individual books (maybe even three). In the beginning we have a typical and cute love story and a teenager being away from home for the first time for a longer period. Then there is a book about the grieve of losing a person. All in all the story is well plotted but gets a little boring in the second part of the book. The prank in the end also seems rather disappointing and not special at all. I liked the topics being discussed in the book: Grieve, Death, Religion, Last words etc. Characters I think the characters could have been developed in much more detail. The only one developed enough was The Colonel. Alaska, Miles (not to mention Lara and Takumi) did not really come across as individual beeings. Additionally while I do like Green's smart writing style, I just dont find it very believable that young adults would speak the way that The Colonel and Alaska did. The dialogs therefore sounded often silly to me. However I think this is a solid novel, a nice and easy read and a must if you like Green's style.
我彻底热爱这个故事，这曾是我第一部看过的台湾电影也成为了我第一本开始读的中文小说。非常的打动我。我相信每一个男孩在他的回忆里也有一个沈佳宜。
Insightful, eye-opening, outdrawn
Quite possibly the best collection of short stories I have ever read.
Review for the full cast audio edition: https://youtu.be/XGk_zVoi9wI
unfortunately a lot weaker than the previous books
