"Heaven is only people you met"1000Kitap
"Sum," is a collection of stories about the afterlife and the possibilities are endless. The author, David Eagleman, uses the far reaches of his imagination to create forty unique takes on afterlife. Death and what follows is, to many, a mysterious subject and the author capitalizes on that mystique. Eagleman presents his many scenarios of what might be or what could be in the afterlife. The author takes the image of the creator to the extremes. In one narrative, "The Microbe," he describes god as the size of a microbe, so small that he does not know that we exist. In another tale, the reader is told that god is a Giantess who is so large that it is virtually impossible to communicate with her.
Many of the stories focus on the consciousness of those entering the afterlife. For example, in "Graveyard of the Gods," afterlife is for man and for everything created or made by man. Therefore, anything that man invented has an afterlife. Everything from toasters to grand pianos have a place in the afterlife. But afterlife is also for the literary and mythic creations of man. All the gods that man ever created in stories have a place in the afterlife. In another story, those arriving in the afterlife are met with the daunting challenge of meeting versions of themselves - what they could have been - in comparison of their own filtered views of themselves.
In several stories god, or the creator, is seen as anything but all powerful. In "Reins," god is perplexed when a committee, urged on by angels, finds him incompetent of deciding who should go to heaven and who should go to hell. In "Narcissus," the creators are called Cartographers. These creatures are smaller than man and equip man's eyes with high-resolution cameras. During their time on earth, humans are to take photos
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Grisha evrenini toparlayıcı son niteliğinde bir kitap olmuş (ama bir son olmayabilir :) ) ve bu son iki kitap ilk üçlemeyle direkt bağlantılı o yüzden bunu okumadan önce Gölge ve Kemik serisini okumanız gerek. Kargalar serisini de okursanız bu kitaptan baya zevk alırsınız :).
Bu kitaba gelmeden önce bir önceki kitap olan Yara İzi Kralı’ndan biraz bahsetmek istiyorum. O kitabı bu kitaptan daha uzun sürede okumuştum ve yalan yok sıkıldığım birçok yer vardı. Ama Kurtların Hükmü’nü okuduktan sonra yazarın Yara İzi Kralı kitabını Kurtların Hükmüne temel oluşturmak için yazdığını düşünüyorum. Ya da bu kitapta bir önceki kitaba göre yazarın iyileştirmeler yaptığını düşünüyorum. Tabi bir önceki kitabın biraz sıkıcı olduğu gerçeğini değiştirmiyor. Bir kere farklı bakış açılardan okuma olayı alışılması zor bir şey ve ilk kitapta az bakış açısı olması bence kitabın temposunu düşüren bir olay. Çünkü zaten çok fazla olay olmayan bir kitabı az bakış açılı (Nikolai, Zoya, Nina) yazmak, okurken yer yer sıkıcı olabiliyor. Bu kitapta ise daha fazla karakterin bakış açısından okuma şansımız oldu (sürpriz isime de geleceğizz) ama Nina’nın bölümlerini okuduğumda bir önceki kitaba göre daha çok zevk aldım. Zoya ve Nikolai a zaten lafım yok. Bence en büyük iyileştirme Nina hikayesindeydi ve Nina için güzel bir yere bağlandığını düşünüyorum. Karakterin yaşadıkları ağırdı ve onun da mutlu bir sona ihtiyacı vardı :”).
Buna ek olarak hikayede tüm tanıdığımız ve sevdiğimiz karakterlerin (Alina, Kaz,Jesper, HERKES VARDI!!) kitap boyunca yer yer gözükmesi ve ana hikayeye katkı sağlaması her ne kadar fan service olsa da bence yazar karakterleri mantıklı kullanmış. İkinci iyileştirmenin bu olduğunu düşünüyorum. Bu yüzden kitabın sıkıcı olmasına imkan yoktu.
Zoya’nın
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Bir yıl boyunca verilen emeklerin ardından şimdi dinlenme, keşfetme ve yeni maceralara atılma zamanı. 🌞
Bu yaz bol kahkahalı, bol anılı ve elbette bol kitaplı geçsin. Tüm öğrencilere keyifli tatiller diliyoruz! 💙📖
I don't remember crying this much while reading a book. Tillie Cole ripped my heart; threw it on the floor, jumped on it several times and shattered it in pieces, and I'm not complaining, I desperately needed a good cry.
"It sounds good, don't you think? 'Poppy and Rune, best friends for infinity!' "
*The plot:
When her mamaw is on her deathbed, she gives Poppy a jar with one thousand blank pink hearts in it. She asks Poppy to go on an adventure, which consists of collecting "a thousand boy kisses" from a boy that she genuinely loves. When Rune; her Norwegian neighbour kisses Poppy under her favourite blossom tree in the grove at the age of eight, he promises her to help collect the thousand kisses as her friend. As they grow up, they realise that they have bonded. However, when Rune moves back to Norway and Poppy cuts him off, the thousand boy kisses come to an abrupt halt. Is their love as strong and "as special as special can be" to collect the remaining thousand kisses? Only time would show...
*The characters:
They were all amazing characters, I adored and envied Poppy's relationship with her parents and her sisters, they were truly a great family. I also loved how close they were with their new neighbours, the Kristiansen's.
"You're mine. I'm yours. To hell with anything else."
Poppy was perhaps the most amazing, happiest and strongest main character I've read about. She felt everything with such astonishing passion that she inspired me to focus more on playing my guitar like she did with her cello. I feel like this book and Poppy, thought me a lot, changed my outlook on life.
"Even through all the hurt, pain and anger, I would have been drawn back, like a moth to a flame."
Rune was also one of my favourite characters. I loved how loyal and selfless he
Sahilde Kafka, Haruki Murakami
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II
1. Kafka Tamura
2. Your servant Nakata
3. Entrance stone
4. Colonel Winston
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Kafka Tamura
A fifteen-year-old boy. His mother left home when he was 3 years old and he was living together with his father. But the father was so busy with his own life and he was not aware of his son. One day he decided to escape from home. He prepared his bag, took some money from his father's valet.
He did not have any idea where to go. He did not have any plan. He just wanted to leave home and live alone in an unknown place, far away from all his relatives and friends. He did not only left home but he also left the school. He was studying at a middle school and he was to finish it because it was compulsory for anyone to finish at least middle school.
This story is an interesting affair for any teenager. Leaving home and school. Packing his suitcase putting some underwear and t-shirts. One hand in the pocket and the suitcase on the shoulder, sun glasses on the eyes... Money enough to live for a few days... Later... No problem... Solutions are to be explored... Experience is to be tested.
I want to travel now in the cells of his brain. What kind of expectations or which reason is to be handled as the key word of this travel desire... leaving all his life behind, for a new but an unknown life considering that on that time he was only fifteen years old. No mother. No brother and sister. Father, yes, but just a name, he was outside of this sight, busy with his job, not aware of his son, even he was at home or not he never thinks...
He generates his own wish to travel with his bag as a companion. Why? How does a human, a teenager feed his wishes for such a travel?
This is the question
It's an infuriating experience in general, almost every gender discriminative expression is used in this book to tell our character's life that one can't even believe it all. It's fiction combined with Korean facts and real life which is scary and sad. Because I almost forgot average people with real experiences and stories existed and just focused on their awesome digital content (kpop, kdrama). From the beginning to the end I felt like I was going through this hell. Altough it's hard to believe that every single thing could happen to only a person I heard even worse experiences than this. I added this book to my favourites but I know it's not everybody's cup of tea, it just made me feel extremely hopeless about gender issues. We see it on the media everyday in my country, I hear people talk about it and go through it even but I never once thought it could be this much full of hell.
The one thing I couldn't make sense of is the use of fantastical theme in the beginning, the idea of her talking and acting like other people like she is possessed. The idea is great but it didn't really reach an ending point to make it awesome as it could have been.
To dream the impossible dream
İmkansız rüyayı düşlemek
To fight the unbeatable foe
Yenilmez olan rakibe karşı kavga etmek
To bear with unbearable sorrow
Dayanılmaz üzüntüye katlanmak
To run where the brave dare not go
Kahramanların gitmeye cesaret edemediği yerlere koşmak
To right the un-rightable wrong
Düzeltilmez yanlışı düzeltmek
To be better far than you are
Uzakta olan saf ve iffetli olanı sevmek
To try when your arms are too weary
Kolların çok güçsüzken bile denemek
To reach the unreachable star
Ulaşılmamış yıldızlara ulaşmak için
This is my quest, to follow that star
Bu yıldızı takip etmek benim görevim
No matter how hopeless,
Ne kadar umutsuz olsa da,
No matter how far
Ne kadar uzak olsa da,
To fight for the right
Doğru için savaşmak
Without question or pause
Hiç durmadan ve soru sormadan
To be willing to march into hell, for a heavenly cause
İlahi bir neden için, cehenneme atılmaya istekli olmak
And I know if I'll only be true, to this glorious quest
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