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@jasmineeyzc
"scientia protestas est"
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Türk şiirinin en kaliteli, en dokunaklı şiirlerinin toplandığı bu esere, şairin kalemine hayranım. Kelime haznesi, içtenlik, alıntılar ve dili çok iyi kullanma en beğendiğim özelliklerinden. Her ne kadar bir noktadan sonraki görüşlerimiz ayrılsa da, kalemini kirletecek bir şey diyemem hak etmez.
📚🔔 Tatil zili çaldı!
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! 💙📖
This superb novel by Bronte, literally enchanted me for a while even though I've finished. The way somebody's emotions transferred me directly is the writer's magic. Also, I really enjoyed the references to Shakespeare, Greek mythology and other English novels. Besides, I liked the kind-of-gothic atmosphere of the book. The gloomy imagery fits the fiction.
My favourite quotes from the book:
“Do you think I am an automaton?–a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!–I have as much soul as you,–and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;–it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal,–as we are!”
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still.” –Mr. Rochester
“I can live alone if self-respect and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
Kesinlikle hayran kaldım. O kadar "ilginç" alışılmadık bir üsluba sahip ki Asaf Halet Çelebi, bir yandan anlamaya çalışıp aynı anda büyülerine kapıldım ki his akışı muazzamdı.
Before reading this book, I assumed it was a classic "American Dream" novel, and it's flashing the "old money lifestyle" of the 50s. But, I was wrong. Obviously, Fitzgerald blended the desperate romantic Gatsby with the era which makes the book heavier and sad. I really liked the clean writing and advice-type quotes about life. Despite all of this, I did not approve of the character development of Daisy. It was clearly obvious that The Great Gatsby was written by men since Daisy & Myrtle described as an object. Maybe he wrote that way just to show the old times behaviours towards women but - I noticed the lack of character development anyway.
My favourite quotes:
"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Since this book was the owner of a Nobel 98' literature prize, my expectations were already high for this book. Even though that was my first Saramago novel, his language was quite simple and smooth to understand. I like the fact that he did not mention any "specific" names in the book but I managed to differentiate people easily.
Plus, I really felt and see all of the similes throughout the book. I felt uncomfortable, nervous, and upset at the same time which is an awesome reaction since it's hard to reflect those feelings through words.
The underlying logic/moral of the book was astonishing for me as well. I like the thing about him that he used "blindness" and "governments", "soldiers" as a metaphor but also felt extremely real at the same time. It was quite a "dystopian-ish" book that I think everyone should read at once.
My favorite quotes from blindness:
"..all the images in the church had their eyes covered, statues with a white cloth tied around the head, paintings with the thick brushstroke of white paint... that priest must have committed the worst sacrilege of all times and all religions, the fairest and most radically human, coming here to declare that, ultimately, God does not deserve to see."
"I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind. Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see."
