pickSoft pick - 3/5
Alia, librarian in Basra, Iraq, does her best to save the books of her library from being destroyed by the raging war.
Why soft pick? Not a fan of the illustrations and of the writing style.
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pickSoft pick - 3/5
Alia, librarian in Basra, Iraq, does her best to save the books of her library from being destroyed by the raging war.
Why soft pick? Not a fan of the illustrations and of the writing style.
1- yes it can expand and reflect your own experiences of the time period
2-tagged is Vonnegut‘s response to the turbulent and existentialist absurdity/cruelty of the Vietnam war era
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“El pan de la guerra“ cuenta la historia de parvana, una niña afgana de 11 años que vive en kabul bajo el régimen talibán. Su padre sin un trabajo. Parvana decide disfrazarse de niño para poder trabajar.
En general el libro me gustó, trata temas muy complejos pero muy interesantes como la fuerza y la resiliencia de las mujeres
Recomiendo este libro para jóvenes pues destaca la importancia de la paz y los derechos humanos.
Learning is improved when silly goosery is involved. 🤪
«Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti.»
#weekendreads
Thinking of all those who have served while reading the tagged title this weekend. 🇺🇸
so-soThis book had all the ingredients that I should enjoy, but somehow they just didn't work here. Miss Carter is a middle-aged woman, never married, who lives by herself in a small flat in London and works for the censor's office during WWII. Through a series of events, she finds herself in possession of an ifrit (i.e. genie). Part of the reason this book didn't quite work for me was that the ifrit's magic never really made sense to me. Apparently ⬇
💙Chinese. The logograms in their writing system are fascinating.
💙💙I haven't read The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna in English or in Finnish. It's hard to find it in translation (it's out of print), and my Finnish is nowhere near good enough! But I long for the day that I can do it, and I'm back to practicing my Finnish!
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