Contains slight spoilers!
Okay first things first — I am completely obsessed with this series. Diana, Samkiel, Imogen… honestly, I love every single character in this series, the good ones and the bad ones.
But HOW did you make me fall for Kaden like this?? I literally went from "meh, not a fan" to "wait, Diana and Kaden could totally be endgame??" ,and this is coming from someone whose favorite book husband is Samkiel!! Why would you do this to me??
And what you did to Reggie?? I was an absolute mess, ugly crying the whole time! We needed him, he was our dad figure why did you take him away from us, Amber, WHY??
Okay but real talk, the pacing was perfect, and this book had me glued to the pages the entire time. I honestly don't know how you do it, queen, but you just get it. Keep doing what you're doing — even if you destroy my emotions every single time, I still love you for it.
Also the 5th book needs to come out NOW because I genuinely cannot wait anymore!!
A Critical Review of Humankind
Rutger Bregman’s book Humankind is one of the books that questions negative ideas about human nature and makes readers think. For many years, many people believed that humans are naturally selfish, bad, and only care about themselves. However, Bregman does not agree with this idea. According to him, human nature is not as dark as people think. Instead, people are more willing to help each other, understand others’ feelings, and do good things. In the book, the author supports these ideas with many examples from wars, psychology experiments, history, and biology. One of the best parts of the book is that it gives hope about humanity. Still, when I finished the book, I did not only feel admiration. On one side, I was happy to read it because it made me think differently. On the other side, some of the author’s ideas felt too optimistic to me. Because of this, the book was both interesting and questionable for me.
One of the strongest parts of the book is that it makes people question ideas about human nature that many accept without thinking. Today, we often see violence, murder, wars, and fights on television, social media, and in the news. After some time, people start to believe that the world is full of bad people. At this point, Bregman asks an important question: If humans were really bad by nature, how could societies survive for so many years? A big part of human history was shaped by helping each other, working together, and surviving together. From this side, the writer’s ideas are important and meaningful.
His ideas against the belief that humans are naturally wild are especially interesting. Today, when someone behaves badly, people sometimes say, “Did you grow up in a cave?” However, Bregman says that hunter-gatherer societies were not as violent as many
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In Amis’s famous novel, London Fields, the witty language is used and highlighted in the book repatedly. With the use of wit and pan (word play) Amis creates one of the most intelligent written novel ‘London Fields’. These uses of high elevated language and word plays also gives us the hints of postmodern fiction. As the novel is considered one of the best novel representing postmodernism, one can appreciate it due to the style that the novel is written, by means of wit and language. To give examples from the book;
-It was fixed. It was written. The murderer was not the murderer. But the murderee had always been a murderee.
The quote from Samson Young foreshadows that the real murderer is not the one we think, it will change. However the murderee ‘Nicola’ will always be the victim, not be affected by the inconstant murderer.
- I know what his poetry will be about. What poetry is always about. The cruelty of the poet’s mistress.
In this quote we can also sense the metaphor that is made to Nicola. Here Samson , as a writer, claims that the poets are writing poetry due to the relationship between their mistresses. It is known that Young also writes a novel about Nicola, creating the same plot with the poets he criticizes.
-I close my eyes, trying to see a way- how do writers dare do what they do ? – and there is just chaos. It seems to me that writing brings trouble with it, moral trouble, unexamined trouble. Even to the best.
-When God got mad he was a jealous God. He had other planets, thanks, and in better parts of the universe. He promised plague, famine mile-high tides, sound-speed winds and terror, ubiquitous and incessant terror, with blood flowing bridle deep. He threatened to make her old and keep her that way forever… Cross that firebreak and then cross that
I’m really happy that I read this book at this time of my life—it makes me feel good. I used to think it was only a children’s book. I saw it in my friends’ hands; it was even given as a gift to my younger brother. But I didn’t have one.
Now I have read it in English and I just finished it. Near the end, I started to like it more and I understood its message. Trying for something, not giving up, and working hard… On this way, a person learns to be with themselves, and this is a very nice feeling.
Sometimes we feel tired or hopeless—this is normal. I think feeling all these emotions is a very good thing for a person. And if we understand them and still do something, we are really lucky.
the book that made me want to be a neuropyschologist for a good amount of time. the way Lisa found herself, her way to choose this very specific, untouched, large subject to research on and had her whole laboratory-from monkeys to humans- (not your usual science lab!) work on it is truly what i always wanted to do. even though i haven't fully grasped on the scientific terms when i first read it, it has changed my way of thinking a lot. it completely cleared the classic concept of 'emotions' from my mind and put something way more complicated instead of it. i struggle explaining people why emotions were made by people and that there aren't just 4 or 5 of them around. so this book is a nice standing point for me. ofc it's hard to put something that's pages long in a single paragraph, so im just gonna say i will read it once more, maybe adding up my experiences from med school, and maybe see if some of these researches are still scientifically valid. (since this book was written in 2017, i'm sure A LOT has changed!)
The tales of Beedle the Bard was mainly written for the Harry Potter series.The book was inherited from Professor Dumbledore to Hermione Granger in the course of the story. Later, Jk Rowling decided to write the book apartly. Therefore, we have a chance to read it rather than just being a mentioned book.The story "The Tale of The Three Brothers" is placed in the movie and the main book. But in this book , there have been four other stories except for it.
*The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
*The Fountain of Fair Fortune
*The Warlock's Hairy Heart
*Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump
In the book , also Albus Dumbledore's notes are given after the stories.The notes answer the questions in our minds such as "Where does the story come from?" , "What is the subtexts in the story?" or "What do people think about this story in Wizard world?" and goes on.In my opinion, the note parts have been like a milestone of the stories. They have enriched all of them.
What the most influential thing is that in muggles' fairy tales, good people are good because they are powerless while evil ones always have power. When we think of the Snow White and her evil stepmother, it could be more clear.But this is not the main point.On the other hand, in Wizard fairy tales, a person who has power in his/her hands can use that power in a good way or a good person doesn't have to be powerless.Starting from this point of view, even if you have the power,the important thing is to use it for good.
Lastly, thanks to the book I have decided to add.more fairy tales in my reading adventure. Because they reflect not only the story itself but also the culture they belong to. We can see sometimes the other side of the world, sometimes the Wizard world...
