İris ve Roman, rakip iki gazeteci, sadece birisi köşe yazarı olacak. İkisi için de bu pozisyon çok önemli, ikisinin amacı da aynı farklı dünyalardan gelseler de. Köşe yazarı olmak için her şeylerini ortaya atacakları bu rekabette hayatın onlara sunacağı sürprizden habersizler.
Serinin ilk kitabı İris'in abisi Forest'ın Tanrıların Savaşı'nda savaşmak için cepheye gitmesi ile başlıyor. Bu gidişin ardından ise İris ve annesinin hayatı eskisi gibi olmayacaktır. Okulu bırakmak zorunda kalan İris gazetedeki işinde çalışırken Roman ile köşe yazarlığı rekabetinde her şeyini vermeye hazırdır. Tıpkı Roman gibi...
Roman ise zengin bir ailenin çocuğu. Ancak zıtlıkların birleştirici gücü ikisinin de kaderini yazmaya başlamıştır.
İris, cepheye giden abisine ulaşmak için daktilosunda yazdığı mektupları evlerindeki gizemli gardıropa koyduğunda mektupların abisinin eline ulaştığını düşünür. Taa ki mektupların ulaştığı kişi kendisinin Forest olmadığını söyleyene kadar. Gelen cevaptan sonra ise aralarında zamanla kendi hayatlarını, duygu ve düşüncelerini kaleme aldıkları büyülü mektuplaşmalara dönüşür.
Tanrıların Savaşı'nı, Roman ve İris'in yaşadıkları ve aşkın gelişini kendisine has kalemi ile aktarmış yazar eserinde.
"Bence hepimiz zırh giyiyoruz. Bence giymeyenler aptallık ediyor, dünyanın keskin
kenarları tarafından tekrar tekrar yaralanmanın acısını yaşama riskine giriyorlar. Ama bu aptallardan öğrendiğim bir şey varsa o da savunmasızlığın çoğumuzun korktuğu bir güç olduğu. Zırhını çıkarmak, insanların seni olduğun gibi görmesine izin vermek cesaret ister. Bazen ben de senin gibi
hissediyorum: İnsanların beni olduğum gibi görmesi riskini göze alamam. Öte yandan zihnimin derinliklerinde bir ses var, bana sürekli, "Bu kadar ihtiyatlı davranarak çok şey kaçırıyorsun," diyor." ( I
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The book suggests that the human mind is naturally composed of various "parts" and a core, undamaged Self. It emphasizes that there are "no bad parts," as even the most destructive behaviors are well-intentioned attempts by protective parts to manage trauma and shield vulnerable "exiles". Through practical exercises, the author demonstrates how individuals can access their compassionate Self-leadership to heal these parts and restore internal harmony and wholeness.
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I. INTRODUCTION: THE PURPOSE OF THE NOVEL
Tess of the d’Urbervilles is Thomas Hardy’s most powerful and controversial novel, written as a direct challenge to Victorian moral, religious, and sexual values. Through the life of Tess Durbeyfield, a poor rural woman, Hardy exposes the cruelty of a society that equates female worth with sexual “purity,” excuses male transgression, and disguises injustice as moral order.
Hardy does not present Tess as a fallen woman seeking redemption. Instead, he presents her as morally pure from beginning to end, and argues that the true corruption lies not in Tess, but in the social systems that destroy her.
II. DETAILED SUMMARY (WITH SPOILERS)
1. Origins and the Weight of Ancestry
Tess Durbeyfield is the eldest daughter of a poor rural family in Wessex. Her life changes when her father learns that they may be descended from the ancient aristocratic d’Urberville family. This discovery fills her parents with ambition and false hope, while Tess herself feels unease rather than pride.
When Tess accidentally causes the death of the family’s horse, Prince—their sole means of livelihood—she feels intense guilt and responsibility. This event, driven by chance rather than moral fault, sets the tragic pattern of her life: random misfortune followed by self-blame.
To help her family recover financially, Tess is sent to seek help from the wealthy d’Urbervilles—unaware that they are not true aristocrats, but merely have purchased the name.
2. Alec d’Urberville and Sexual Violation
At Trantridge, Tess meets Alec d’Urberville, a manipulative and predatory man who immediately fixates on her. Despite Tess’s repeated resistance and discomfort, Alec pursues her relentlessly.
The pivotal event of the novel occurs when Alec sexually violates Tess in
inspiring and convincingGirişimcilik
I thought such books are just doing emotional manipulation and they are far from real life. But now I really find this book as a guide book or Bible for managing your business. I also believe the principles in the book might be applicable to managing business or personal life. Below you will find the parts I underlined in the book while reading.
introduction 13: business is controlling you, you aren't have control
introduction 14: business itself is an entity, turn it into a self-sustaining organism
3: communicate visions to people
5: keep scorecard weekly 5-15 numbers
7: document all processes
16: build maintain leadership team
16: open minded, growth oriented, vulnerable
dictatorships not only are exhausting, but also precule future growth.
17: leadership team must present a unified front
21: stop working in business %100, work ON business often
22: delegate and elevate7
40: reputation outweighs profit every time
41: open and honest communication should be our goal
47: find your core focus, stick to it, and devote your time and resources to excelling at it.
I would like to divide my review into three parts: my assessment of the book itself as a biography, my thoughts on Kissinger and my general comments on America.
This is a very interesting book since it is written by one of the most renowned Jew writers on maybe the most famous Jew bureaucrat in the history. I felt Walter Isaacson spent extreme effort to portray Kissinger as objective as possible. I have to admit that it is not easy to depict people like Kissinger who have complex personalities. Isaacson managed to achieve this difficult task at the expense of offending Kissinger. Walter gave extreme detail on the events which took place when Kissinger was at the White House. So, this book is an invaluable source in understanding the background stories of historical events such as Vietnam War, Invasion of Cambodia, The Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt/Syria, the shift in American policies toward Russia and China around 1970s. As far as the writing style I can say it is very fluid which is typical of Walter Isaacson, and it can be classified as a page-turner.
Let me talk about Kissinger little bit. Before reading the book, I guessed that he was smart, ambitious, authoritative, cold-blooded pragmatist and realist which turn out to be correct. But I also, don’t know why, thought of him to be a wise, mature, deep, philosophical, spiritual, and religious. I was way off. It was very surprising to learn that he was an unsecure, childish, quick tempered, manipulative, coward, flattering man who has no religious attachment and who only runs after low level ‘things’ such as power, women, fame, comfort, food. Let alone being religious, he also had no moral compass or ethical values. Lying, backbiting, deceiving was very normal to him when he was trying to reach his
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First thing first I should say that I really like the style of author exclamation. I have enjoyed to see normal characters' lives and beside that to seen historical background of diversities in Yugoslavia War. The cruelty wreck me down, I looted to read how the Orthodox and Catholics had too villainous behaviours. They have abused girls and women. They forced them to having sex with them then killed. Some of those Serbian soldiers still might walk on the street without having shame. EU and the US were not too much participated until media had shown all bad things there. That is a huge disappointing point from my side. Why their helps were too late in order to save those vulnerable people. Because of their religion was different, need to ask too many questions. If I have to say something about Nimeta and her Croatian lover. That is a forbidden love. They should have been open and courageous if they loved each other. Otherwise that is disgusting behaviour. Overall, I recommend you to read this novel. I have enjoyed and learned many thing about near future.