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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force.

Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment—a real life moment—when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history.

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life � a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.]]> 1105 Stephen King °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 0.0 2011
author: Stephen King
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/24
shelves: currently-reading, kindle, owned
review:

]]> 60504666
Ngôi làng ấy vốn dĩ không có tên, nhưng những ngư�i nơi đây mặc định chốn này là địa ngục. Dân trong làng không ai dám t� ý băng rừng thoát kh�i làng, càng không biết th� giới bên ngoài rộng lớn như th� nào, bởi l� h� s� ngư�i khác s� biết rằng bản thân mình vốn là hậu du� của băng cướp khét tiếng � truông nhà H� dưới th�i chúa Nguyễn � �àng Trong.

Vào một đêm cuối năm rét buốt, ông Thập � ngư�i duy nhất có th� ra kh�i làng � được báo mộng bởi một âm hồn mặc quan phục màu đ� rực. Làng �ịa Ngục sắp gặp h�a lớn!

Thành danh bằng những tác phẩm văn há»�c kinh dá»� đậm chất Việt Nam được phát hành qua mạng, lần này tác giáº� Thảo Trang tiếp tục mang đến má»™t câu chuyện hấp dẫn, má»� ra má»™t tháº� giá»›i huyá»�n bí vá»›i những sinh vật, tháº� lá»±c siêu linh mà ngÆ°á»�i Ä‘á»�c không bao giá»� hết hứng thú, Ä‘á»� lại những dÆ° âm không phai khi gấp sách lại.]]> 544 Thảo Trang 6043544776 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 1 2024, horror, vietnam-lit
Cảm giác rõ là tác gi� không biết cách xây dựng hình tượng nhân vật thuyết phục nên buộc lòng phải gi� chân ngư�i đ�c bằng các tình tiết giật gân, máu me. Các tình tiết này xuất hiện với tần suất liên tục, dồn dập, không có khoảng ngh�, thậm chí là có xu hướng lặp đi lặp lại cùng một mô típ. Vì vậy mới được 1/3 thôi là sách đã bắt đầu nhàm, các đoạn gây s� tr� nên tầm thư�ng, gây ngán ngẩm vì b� lạm dụng quá nhi�u.

Thêm nữa, tác gi� không sắp xếp trật t� logic cho câu chuyện mà ch� viết theo cảm hứng, xong cũng không màng tìm cách liên kết các chi tiết lại. Vậy nên có những nhân vật đến nửa sách t� dưng xuất hiện, có những nhân vật bỗng được mô t� khác trước (như v� ông Thập xuất hiện t� đầu nhưng đến nửa sách mới được t� thêm là tr� tuổi, xinh đẹp). Rồi cuối cùng tất c� được giải quyết bằng một cái kết dài lê thê theo kiểu "cho xong".

Dù gì sách cũng khai thác một th� loại hiếm trong văn h�c Việt nhưng giá như tác gi� chịu khó trau dồi bút lực thêm thì đã không uổng phí một ý tưởng hay.]]> 4.11
author: Thảo Trang
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.11
book published:
rating: 1
read at: 2024/01/13
date added: 2025/04/24
shelves: 2024, horror, vietnam-lit
review:
Tác gi� có một vài ý tưởng tốt nhưng triển khai quá vụng v�. �ặc biệt rất đuối trong việc mô t� tâm lý nhân vật và kiểm soát mạch truyện.

Cảm giác rõ là tác gi� không biết cách xây dựng hình tượng nhân vật thuyết phục nên buộc lòng phải gi� chân ngư�i đ�c bằng các tình tiết giật gân, máu me. Các tình tiết này xuất hiện với tần suất liên tục, dồn dập, không có khoảng ngh�, thậm chí là có xu hướng lặp đi lặp lại cùng một mô típ. Vì vậy mới được 1/3 thôi là sách đã bắt đầu nhàm, các đoạn gây s� tr� nên tầm thư�ng, gây ngán ngẩm vì b� lạm dụng quá nhi�u.

Thêm nữa, tác gi� không sắp xếp trật t� logic cho câu chuyện mà ch� viết theo cảm hứng, xong cũng không màng tìm cách liên kết các chi tiết lại. Vậy nên có những nhân vật đến nửa sách t� dưng xuất hiện, có những nhân vật bỗng được mô t� khác trước (như v� ông Thập xuất hiện t� đầu nhưng đến nửa sách mới được t� thêm là tr� tuổi, xinh đẹp). Rồi cuối cùng tất c� được giải quyết bằng một cái kết dài lê thê theo kiểu "cho xong".

Dù gì sách cũng khai thác một th� loại hiếm trong văn h�c Việt nhưng giá như tác gi� chịu khó trau dồi bút lực thêm thì đã không uổng phí một ý tưởng hay.
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Powerful and engrossing, capturing both the rich pageantry and stark realities of life in feudal Japan, ShÅ�gun is a critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book. Heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat action melds seamlessly with intricate historical detail and raw human emotion. Endlessly compelling, this sweeping saga captivated the world to become not only one of the best-selling novels of all time but also one of the highest-rated television miniseries, as well as inspiring a nationwide surge of interest in the culture of Japan. Shakespearean in both scope and depth, ShÅ�gun is, as the New York Times put it, "...not only something you read--you live it." Provocative, absorbing, and endlessly fascinating, there is only one: ShÅ�gun.]]> 1152 James Clavell 1982603844 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.42 1975
author: James Clavell
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1975
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/24
shelves: to-read
review:

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“The Lottery� stands out as one of the most famous short stories in American literary history. Originally published in The New Yorker, the author immediately began receiving letters from readers who demanded an explanation of the story’s meaning. “The Lottery� has been adapted for stage, television, radio and film.
]]> 30 Shirley Jackson 1563127873 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.08 1948
author: Shirley Jackson
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1948
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/24
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 18627915 "The Willows" is one of Algernon Blackwood's best known short stories. American horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature.[1] "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.]]> 70 Algernon Blackwood °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 5
Tôi chia nhà văn viết truyện kinh d� thành hai kiểu: một kiểu hù d�a bằng những th� d� hợm nhảy b� ra như Thảo Trang (Tết � Làng �ịa Ngục) hay Scott Smith (The Ruins), và một kiểu gieo rắc nỗi bất an bằng những đi�u lẩn khuất ngoài tầm mắt như Algernon Blackwood.

Ông khắc h�a nỗi s� và ám ảnh của nhân vật xác đáng từng chút một, như th� đang phản chiếu chính cảm xúc của ngư�i đ�c � tạo nên một sợi dây gắn kết mãnh liệt. Chính bởi sợi dây gắn kết này mà một bụi liễu rung rinh cũng khiến ta thấy bất an thay cho s� phận của nhân vật dù chẳng biết gì v� quá kh� hay danh tính của anh ta.

Ch� một bậc thầy k� chuyện mới có th� khơi gợi được s� đồng cảm ấy bằng v�n vẹn 70 trang sách.

Dù bạn có yêu thích th� loại kinh d� hay không, đây vẫn là một tác phẩm không th� b� qua.]]> 4.03 1907
author: Algernon Blackwood
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1907
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/09
date added: 2025/04/24
shelves: kindle, 2025, favorites, horror, owned
review:
The Willows là kiểu truyện nên ngồi xuống đ�c một mạch t� đầu đến cuối.

Tôi chia nhà văn viết truyện kinh d� thành hai kiểu: một kiểu hù d�a bằng những th� d� hợm nhảy b� ra như Thảo Trang (Tết � Làng �ịa Ngục) hay Scott Smith (The Ruins), và một kiểu gieo rắc nỗi bất an bằng những đi�u lẩn khuất ngoài tầm mắt như Algernon Blackwood.

Ông khắc h�a nỗi s� và ám ảnh của nhân vật xác đáng từng chút một, như th� đang phản chiếu chính cảm xúc của ngư�i đ�c � tạo nên một sợi dây gắn kết mãnh liệt. Chính bởi sợi dây gắn kết này mà một bụi liễu rung rinh cũng khiến ta thấy bất an thay cho s� phận của nhân vật dù chẳng biết gì v� quá kh� hay danh tính của anh ta.

Ch� một bậc thầy k� chuyện mới có th� khơi gợi được s� đồng cảm ấy bằng v�n vẹn 70 trang sách.

Dù bạn có yêu thích th� loại kinh d� hay không, đây vẫn là một tác phẩm không th� b� qua.
]]> 205043493
Emma grew up as a Hunter of the Cursed—those charged with eradicating monsters and magic from the Kingdom. She's good at it too and is revered as one of the King's most skilled hunters. At least she was—until she discovered she possessed magic herself.

Before anyone else can discover her secret, Emma abandons her post and flees to the far edge of the Kingdom, where she hopes she can settle down and live a quiet life as a bartender, out of the Hunters' watchful eye.

Fate, however, won't allow us to run away from who we are so easily.

When Emma is confronted by an exiled fairy and a man who claims to be a scientist (though Emma is convinced he's a sorcerer), she must evaluate what she believes and the confines of who she's been allowed to be.

Pulled on a journey that takes her further than she'd ever imagined possible, Emma is led on an adventure to discover where her fate lies and must confront her own biases, hopefully learning a drink recipe or two along the way.

A low-stakes cozy fantasy about cocktails, magic, portals, and finding where we truly belong.

If you enjoyed the themes of leaving it all behind in books like Legends & Lattes, and the fun and low-stakes magic in The Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, then this is the book for you.]]> 282 Herman Steuernagel 1990505171 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 1 kindle, 2025, fantasy, owned
My expectations were already pretty low, but this book still managed to disappoint.

The author clearly had no idea where the story was going. It starts off in this magical world with potential... and then the characters get yanked into the modern world to, I kid you not, sip cocktails for several chapters. Why? If you're going to pull them out of their element, at least make it interesting.

The most frustrating part? Every character talks and acts the same-same manner of speaking, same superficial personalities, same weirdly childlike confusion. They talk a lot-most of this book is just people talking, but fail to leave any impressions. If you covered up the names in the dialogue, I'd have no idea who's speaking because they're all so indistinct.

The main character was the biggest offender. She's introduced as this badass, accomplished witch hunter-and then spends the whole book acting like a clueless, helpless teenager sleepwalking through every situation. Why even bother with that background? Just make her a teenage peasant, it'd make zero difference.

Honestly, the only thing to gain from reading this far is a checklist of what not to do when writing a book.]]> 3.94
author: Herman Steuernagel
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 3.94
book published:
rating: 1
read at: 2025/04/13
date added: 2025/04/22
shelves: kindle, 2025, fantasy, owned
review:
DNF @ 70%

My expectations were already pretty low, but this book still managed to disappoint.

The author clearly had no idea where the story was going. It starts off in this magical world with potential... and then the characters get yanked into the modern world to, I kid you not, sip cocktails for several chapters. Why? If you're going to pull them out of their element, at least make it interesting.

The most frustrating part? Every character talks and acts the same-same manner of speaking, same superficial personalities, same weirdly childlike confusion. They talk a lot-most of this book is just people talking, but fail to leave any impressions. If you covered up the names in the dialogue, I'd have no idea who's speaking because they're all so indistinct.

The main character was the biggest offender. She's introduced as this badass, accomplished witch hunter-and then spends the whole book acting like a clueless, helpless teenager sleepwalking through every situation. Why even bother with that background? Just make her a teenage peasant, it'd make zero difference.

Honestly, the only thing to gain from reading this far is a checklist of what not to do when writing a book.
]]> 152094522 55 George Orwell °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.33 1945
author: George Orwell
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1945
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: to-read, kindle, owned
review:

]]> 15854054 Câu chuyện khó tin v� cuộc đi�u tra của Christopher v� cái chết bí ẩn của con chó hàng xóm đã tr� thành một trong những cuốn tiểu thuyết lôi cuốn, khác thư�ng và được biết đến nhi�u nhất trong những năm gần đây.
"7 phút sau nửa đêm. Con chó nằm giữa bãi c� trước nhà bà Shears. Mắt nó nhắm. Trong như nó đang chạy nghiêng một bên, kiểu như mấy con chó chạy khi chúng tưởng mình đang đuổi theo một con mèo lúc nằm mơ. Nhưng con chó không chạy hay đang ng�. Con chó đã chết. Một cái b� cáo cắm vào mình nó. Răng cái b� cào chắc phải đâm xuyên qua con chó và ghìm vào đất vì cái chĩa không đ� xuống. Tôi chắc rằng con chó có th� đã chết vì cái b� cào vì tôi không nghĩ có ai lại đâm cái b� cào làm vư�n vào một con chó sau khi nó đã chết vì một lý do nào đó, như ung thư chẳng hạn, hay vì tai nạn xe c�. Nhưng tôi không dám chắc v� việc này.
Tôi đi qua cổng nhà bà Shears, đóng cổng lại sau lưng. Tôi bước trên bãi c� của bà và qu� bên cạnh con chó. Tôi đặt tay lên mõm con chó. Nó vẫn còn ấm.
Con chó tên là Wellington. Nó là con chó của bà Shears, bà là bạn của chúng tôi. Bà sống đối diện bên kia đư�ng, chệch v� phía trái hai căn.
Wellington là một con chó xù. Không phải là loại chó xù nh� tỉa lông kiểu cách mà là chó xù lớn. Lông nó quăn màu đ�, nhưng khi đến gần ta có th� thấy bên dưới b� lông có làn da màu vàng rất nhạt, như da gà.
Tôi vừa vuốt ve Wellington vừa tá»� há»�i ai đã giết nó, và tại sao...".]]> 272 Mark Haddon °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.62 2003
author: Mark Haddon
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2003
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 34323328 Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing
Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize
A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly
A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian

" She spares no detail!" —Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake

In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theaters—no place for the squeamish—and surgeons, who, working before anesthesia, were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than patients� afflictions, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn’t have been more hazardous, an unlikely figure stepped a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister, who would solve the riddle and change the course of history.

Fitzharris dramatically reconstructs Lister’s career path to his audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection and could be countered by a sterilizing agent applied to wounds. She introduces us to Lister’s contemporaries—some of them brilliant, some outright criminal—and leads us through the grimy schools and squalid hospitals where they learned their art, the dead houses where they studied, and the cemeteries they ransacked for cadavers.

Eerie and illuminating, The Butchering Art celebrates the triumph of a visionary surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world.]]> 284 Lindsey Fitzharris 0374715483 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.34 2017
author: Lindsey Fitzharris
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/20
shelves: to-read, kindle, owned
review:

]]> 230865213 READERS HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH LIFE AND OTTER MIRACLES
'The perfect book to escape into ... a lovely, uplifting book about new beginnings and putting nature first'
'There is so much to love and treasure in this story ... an otterly enthralling read'
'A very joyous read with a lot of heart'
'This book was a delight from start to finish'
_____

Nineteen-year-old Phoebe and her widower father Al have recently moved to Devon, to a small cottage with a river at the end of the garden.

Struggling with her own closely guarded issues, Phoebe doesn't go out much. Instead, she spends her time at home, watching detective dramas and playing detective herself - trying to deduce from Al's deliveries as a courier what kind of lives her neighbours lead.

But when they find an abandoned baby otter on the riverbank, it's just the push Phoebe needs to finally step into her new community. Taking the little one to the local otter sanctuary and witnessing the uncomplicated joy of its fellow creatures, she feels a burgeoning sense of happiness that she has not experienced in a very long time.

However, Phoebe soon starts to suspect that something is amiss at the sanctuary - and she will need to put all her sleuthing skills to good use if she wants to save the otters . . .

From the Number One bestselling author of Away with the Penguins comes this 'otterly' delightful, warm-hearted and uplifting story about the healing power of nature.
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Praise for Hazel
'Beautifully written by a born storyteller' Lorraine Kelly
'This gorgeous book has everything!' Clare Pooley
'A glorious, life-affirming story. I read it in a day' Clare Mackintosh
'Funny, bittersweet and wholly original' Daily Express ]]> 437 Hazel Prior 1473597579 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 4.27 2023
author: Hazel Prior
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/20
shelves: kindle, currently-reading, owned
review:

]]> 50519007 A curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be in this rich, heartwarming story from the acclaimed author of Ellie and the Harpmaker.

Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to leave her fortune to. When she sees a documentary about penguins being studied in Antarctica, she tells the scientists she’s coming to visit—and won’t take no for an answer. Shortly after arriving, she convinces the reluctant team to rescue an orphaned baby penguin. He becomes part of life at the base, and Veronica's closed heart starts to open.

Her grandson, Patrick, comes to Antarctica to make one last attempt to get to know his grandmother. Together, Veronica, Patrick, and even the scientists learn what family, love, and connection are all about.]]> 355 Hazel Prior 1984803816 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.99 2020
author: Hazel Prior
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/19
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 45159371
"Nạn nhân đầu tiên, Calli Tremell... Hai ngày sau khi b� bắt cóc, gia đình Tremell nhận được tải con gái mình trong hòm thư. Hai ngày sau đó, h� nhận được đôi mắt của cô. Hai ngày tiếp theo, chiếc lưỡi của cô được chuyển đến. Thi th� của cô gái được tìm thấy tại công viên Bedford... Bàn tay cô nắm chặt một mẩu giấy nh� ghi KHÔNG LÀM �IỀU �C..."

Suốt ná»­a thập ká»�, 4MK đã khủng bá»� những nạn nhân của hắn và khiến thanh tra Sam Porter Ä‘au đầu. Hắn đã đùa bỡn vá»›i há»�. Không bao giá»� Ä‘á»� lại má»™t manh mối nào. Cho đến khi má»™t manh mối cuối cùng xuất hiện, và Porter nhận ra mình Ä‘ang đối đầu vá»›i má»™t káº� loạn thần kinh nhân cách có chá»� sá»� IQ của má»™t thiên tài.]]> 504 J.D. Barker 6049763550 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.91 2017
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]]> 40961230
An instant international bestseller and indie bestseller, The Travelling Cat Chronicles has charmed readers around the world. With simple yet descriptive prose, this novel gives voice to Nana the cat and his owner, Satoru, as they take to the road on a journey with no other purpose than to visit three of Satoru's longtime friends. Or so Nana is led to believe...

With his crooked tail—a sign of good fortune—and adventurous spirit, Nana is the perfect companion for the man who took him in as a stray. And as they travel in a silver van across Japan, with its ever-changing scenery and seasons, they will learn the true meaning of courage and gratitude, of loyalty and love.]]> 281 Hiro Arikawa 0735235244 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.35 2012
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]]> 208430658 Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling.

An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry. When she finally claws her way up the ranks to become a highmage, however, she finds that her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues will stop at nothing to let her know she is unwelcome, beginning with giving her a janitor instead of a qualified lab assistant.

What neither Sciona nor her peers realize is that her taciturn assistant was once more than a janitor; before he mopped floors for the mages, Thomil was a nomadic hunter from beyond Tiran’s magical barrier. Ten years have passed since he survived the perilous crossing that killed his family. But working for a highmage, he sees the opportunity to finally understand the forces that decimated his tribe, drove him from his homeland, and keep the Tiranish in power.

Through their fractious relationship, mage and outsider uncover an ancient secret that could change the course of magic forever—if it doesn’t get them killed first. Sciona has defined her life by the pursuit of truth, but how much is one truth worth with the fate of civilization in the balance?

A standalone dark academia brimming with mystery, tragedy, and the damning echoes of the past. For fans of Leigh Bardugo, V. E. Schwab, and Fullmetal Alchemist.

(Content warnings for gore, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation)]]> 430 M.L. Wang 0593873351 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.40 2023
author: M.L. Wang
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]]> 123632 Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed that his work was understood by a wide public, rather than just by psychiatrists, and therefore he agreed to write and edit this fascinating book. Here, Jung examines the full world of the unconscious, whose language he believed to be the symbols constantly revealed in dreams. Convinced that dreams offer practical advice, sent from the unconscious to the conscious self, Jung felt that self-understanding would lead to a full and productive life. Thus, the reader will gain new insights into himself from this thoughtful volume, which also illustrates symbols throughout history. Completed just before his death by Jung and his associates, it is clearly addressed to the general reader.]]> 415 C.G. Jung 0440351839 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.19 1964
author: C.G. Jung
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average rating: 4.19
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]]> 386187
The story is peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the "soul of pampered self-absorption"; the uproarious black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else.]]> 386 John Berendt 0679751521 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.91 1994
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average rating: 3.91
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]]> 55723020
In Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author, explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain...and what to do about it. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric of her narrative. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives. In essence, Dopamine Nation shows that the secret to finding balance is combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery.

"Brilliant... riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued."--Beth Macy, author of Dopesick


INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
“Brilliant� riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.�—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick
As heard on Fresh Air]]> 304 Anna Lembke 1524746738 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.88 2021
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]]> 8392027 IN 2004, AT THE AGE OF FORTY-EIGHT, DR. DAVE HNIDA, a family physician from Littleton, Colorado, volunteered to be deployed to Iraq and spent a tour of duty as a battalion surgeon with a combat unit. In 2007, he went back—this time as a trauma chief at one of the busiest Combat Support Hospitals (CSH) during the Surge. In an environment that was nothing less than a modern-day M*A*S*H, the doctors� main objective was simple: Get ’em in, get ’em out. The only CSH staffed by reservists� who tended to be older, more-experienced doctors disdainful of authority—the 399th soon became a medevac destination of choice because of its high survival rate, an astounding 98 percent.

This was fast-food medicine at its best: working in a series of tents connected to the occasional run-down building, Dr. Hnida and his fellow doctors raced to keep the wounded alive until they could be airlifted out of Iraq for more extensive repairs. Here the Hippocratic Oath superseded that of the pledge to Uncle Sam; if you got the red-carpet helicopter ride, his team took care of you, no questions asked. On one stretcher there might be a critically injured American soldier while three feet away lay the insurgent, shot in the head, who planted the IED that inflicted those wounds.

But there was levity amid the chaos. On call round-the-clock with an unrelenting caseload, the doctorsâ€� prescription for sanity included jokes, pranks, and misbehavior. Dr. Hnida’s deployment was filled with colorful characters and gifted surgeons, a diverse group who became trusted friends as together they dealt with the psychological toll of seeing the casualties of war firsthand.Ìý

In a conflict with no easy answers and even less good news, Paradise General gives us something that we can all believe in—the story of an ordinary citizen turned volunteer soldier trying to make a difference. With honesty and candor, and an off-the-wall, self-deprecating humor that sustained him and his battle buddies through their darkest hours, Dr. Hnida delivers a devastating and inspiring account of his CSH tour and an unparalleled look at medical care during an unscripted war.]]> 314 Dave Hnida °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.44 2010
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]]> 199096481 In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life only to find himself under siege by mysterious assailants. It’s a kill-or-be-killed situation, but the first option is off the table. What’s a reformed hit man to do?

Mark was the most dangerous killer-for-hire in the world. But after learning the hard way that his life’s work made him more monster than man, he left all of that behind, and joined a twelve-step group for reformed killers.

When Mark is viciously attacked by an unknown assailant, he is forced on the run. From New York to Singapore to London, he chases after clues while dodging attacks and trying to solve the puzzle of who’s after him. All without killing anyone. Or getting killed himself. For an assassin, Mark learns, nonviolence is a real hassle.]]> 320 Rob Hart 0593717406 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.09 2024
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]]> 211642087 A stunning, standalone romantic fantasy filled with dangerous secrets, forbidden magic and passion, of a young ruler who fights to protect her kingdom, from bestselling author Sue Lynn Tan and set in the breathtaking world of Daughter of the Moon Goddess.

“To win the God of War’s support was wise—to fall in love with him would ruin me.�

As the heir to Tianxia, Liyen knows she must ascend the throne and renew her kingdom’s pledge to serve the immortals who once protected them from a vicious enemy. But when she is poisoned, Liyen’s grandfather steals an enchanted lotus to save her life. Enraged at his betrayal, the immortal queen commands the powerful God of War to attack Tianxia.

Upon her grandfather’s death, Liyen ascends a precarious throne, vowing to end her kingdom’s obligation to the immortals. When she is summoned to the Immortal Realm, she seizes the opportunity to learn their secrets and to form a tenuous alliance to safeguard her people, all with the one she should fear and mistrust the most: the ruthless God of War. As they are drawn together, a treacherous attraction ignites between them—one she has to resist, to not endanger all she is fighting for.

But with darker forces closing in around them, and her kingdom plunged into peril, Liyen must risk everything to save her people from an unspeakable fate, even if it means forging a dangerous bond with the immortalâ€� even if it means losing her heart.]]> 454 Sue Lynn Tan 0063267632 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.04 2025
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]]> 5659 “All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.�

For more than a century, The Wind in the Willows and its endearing protagonists—Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and, of course, the incorrigible Toad—have enchanted children of all ages. Whether the four friends are setting forth on an exciting adventure, engaging in a comic caper, or simply relaxing by the River Thames, their stories will surprise and captivate you.

Hailed as one of the most enduringly popular works of the twentieth century, this story is a classic of magical fancy and enchanting wit. Penned in lyrical prose, the adventures and misadventures of the book’s intrepid quartet of heroes raise fantasy to the level of myth. Reflecting the freshness of childhood wonder, it still offers adults endless sophistication, substance, and depth.

The animalsâ€� world embodies the author’s wry, whimsical, and unfailingly inventive imagination. It is a world that succeeding generations of both adult and young readers have found irresistible. But why say more? To use the words of the estimable Mr. Toad himself: “Travel, change, interest, excitement!...Come inside.â€�]]> 197 Kenneth Grahame 0143039091 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.02 1908
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> 36056948
Does any of this sound like you?1. You NEVER know what to write

On most days you struggle to come up with blog post ideas and haven’t planned in advance what your content is going to be about.ÌýYou're always looking toÌýfillÌýa publishing queue. Ìý

2. You chase after content trends

You go after what you think will make your post go viral or get more shares. There isn’t necessarily a thread in any of your content pieces.

3. Your content doesn’t have a strong link to the products or services you offer

You’re not sure how to create content to promote your products or services.Ìý

If you’re nodding yes to any of the above,ÌýThe 1-ÌýHour Content PlanÌýwill help you generate COUNTLESS ideas. To be exact, a full year’s worth ofÌýtraffic building and sales boostingÌýcontent ideas in 60 minutes or less.Ìý



Here’s what’s packed in this how-to Ìý

Three core ways toÌýINSTANTLY generate content ideasÌýwith ease. Ditch the content overwhelm and never ever struggle with what to write again.Ìý5 types of contentÌýthat will inch your subscriber towards becoming a buyer and sell your products and services with ease.Ìý(And why you needÌýALLÌýfive!)ÌýThe fastest way toÌýdetermine your BRAND VOICEÌýso that you create content that fits you like a glove. No “whishy-washyâ€� ideas. No guessing.Ìý8 MUST-NOTÌýneglect elementsÌýthat either make or break your blog posts and how to optimize each of them.ÌýThe trapÌýthat bloggers and solopreneurs fall into with producing content and how ways toÌýHOOK more eyeballsÌýon your content.ÌýImagine for a minute how your blog and business would change if youÌýNEVER run out of blog post ideasâ€�

You knowÌýexactlyÌýwhat to create,Ìýwhen and what results it’ll drive.

Your offers (paid and free) becomeÌýSEDUCTIVE magnets of YES!Ìýthat readers cannot resist.



Every single piece of content has a purpose in growing your blog and business,Ìýsells your products and servicesÌýfor you andÌýbuilds your online presenceâ€�

That’s the power of a content strategy and the promise behind the ‘One Hour Content Plan.�

Intrigued yet?Then scroll to the top and click or tapÌý"Buy Now".

Get your content to work harder for you with the One HourÌýContent Plan!]]> 150 Meera Kothand °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.06 2017
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]]> 34928122
Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent.

Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself—and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.]]> 305 Andy Weir 0553448129 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.66 2017
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]]> 6493208
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored� ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia � a land of wooden quarters for enslaved people, faith healings, and voodoo � to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.

Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality� until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family � past and present � is inextricably connected to the history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.

Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance?

Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.]]> 370 Rebecca Skloot 1400052173 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.12 2010
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]]> 33052
The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's play bolstered his reputation as the most significant poet of his time.]]> 148 T.S. Eliot 0156632772 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.73 1936
author: T.S. Eliot
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average rating: 3.73
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]]> 33602148 I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has "captured the castle"-- and the heart of the reader-- in one of literature's most enchanting entertainments.]]> 390 Dodie Smith 1250146690 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.03 1948
author: Dodie Smith
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> 16981 Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be.

As he journeys from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem, from a horrifying "battle royal" where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies, Ralph Ellison's nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief. Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, Invisible Man is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century.]]> 581 Ralph Ellison °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.91 1952
author: Ralph Ellison
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]]> 29767627 From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe

What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. Fom Aristotle to Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday to the Higgs boson, he takes us on a wondrous journey to show us that beyond our ever-changing idea of reality is a whole new world that has yet to be discovered.]]> 256 Carlo Rovelli 5268439022 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.34 2014
author: Carlo Rovelli
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> 58831139
The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are among the most influential in the history of science fiction, celebrated for their unique blend of breathtaking action, daring ideas, and extensive worldbuilding. In Foundation, Asimov has written a timely and timeless novel of the best—and worst—that lies in humanity, and the power of even a few courageous souls to shine a light in a universe of darkness.]]> 255 Isaac Asimov °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, owned, kindle 4.16 1951
author: Isaac Asimov
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]]> 4980 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.]]> 303 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 0385334206 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.08 1973
author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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]]> 216678285 199 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1068859644 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, owned, kindle 4.21 1969
author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
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]]> 42623174 Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.]]> 290 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.41 1961
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average rating: 4.41
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]]> 21077036 37 Algernon Blackwood °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 kindle, to-read, owned 4.09 1910
author: Algernon Blackwood
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.09
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]]> 61032482
1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring—she’s happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane crash near her home awakens a strength in Alice she’d long forgotten. Determined to do her part, she finds a role perfectly suited to her experience as a schoolteacher—to help evacuate Britain’s children overseas.

1940, London: Lily Nichols once dreamed of using her mathematical talents for more than tabulating the cost of groceries, but life, and love, charted her a different course. With two lively children and a loving husband, Lily’s humble home is her world, until war tears everything asunder. With her husband gone and bombs raining down, Lily is faced with an impossible choice: keep her son and daughter close, knowing she may not be able to protect them, or enroll them in a risky evacuation scheme, where safety awaits so very far away.

When a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the S. S. Carlisle carrying a ship of children to Canada, a single lifeboat is left adrift in the storm-tossed Atlantic. Alice and Lily, strangers to each other—one on land, the other at sea—will quickly become one another’s very best hope as their lives are fatefully entwined.]]> 320 Hazel Gaynor 0593440323 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.52 2023
author: Hazel Gaynor
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average rating: 4.52
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]]> 8366378 400 Alan Brennert °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.32 2003
author: Alan Brennert
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> 8363923 “An amazingly entertaining crime novelâ€� from the New York Times bestselling author of the Butcher’s Boy thrillers (Chicago Sun-Times,ÌýFavorite Books of the Year). ÌýOne of Stephen King’s “Must-Reads for Summerâ€� (Entertainment Weekly)AÌýNew York TimesÌýNotable Crime Book Ìý An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu “Mancoâ€� Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman as he placed his cash receipts in a bank’s night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends his half-dozen security men out to find a suspect who is spending lots of cash and is new enough to Los Angeles not to know he was robbing a gangster. Their search leads them to Joe Carver, an innocent but hardly defenseless newcomer who evades capture and sets out to make Kapak wish he’d chosen someone else. Ìý Meanwhile, the real culprit, Jefferson Davis Falkins, and his new girlfriend Carrie seem to believe they’ve found a whole new robbing Manco Kapak. Lieutenant Nick Slosser, the police detective in charge of the puzzling and increasingly violent case, has his own troubles, including worries about how he’s going to afford to send the oldest child of each of his two bigamous marriages to college without making their mothers suspicious. As this odd series of difficulties explodes into a triple killing, Carver finds himself in the middle of a brewing gang war over Kapak’s little empire, while Falkins and Carrie journey into territory more strange and violent than either had imagined. Ìý “Perry is at his wicked best in Strip.â€�—The New York Times Ìý “[A] rambunctiously entertaining L.A. crime novelÌý. . . escapist reading at its best.â€�—Publishers Weekly (starred review)]]> 353 Thomas Perry 0547487185 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.10 2010
author: Thomas Perry
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average rating: 4.10
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]]> 208752269 From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, comes a fierce, visionary and darkly comic story collection.

A woman welcomes a parasite into her body.

A teenager longs for perfect skin.

A scientist tends to fragile alien flora.

A young man takes the night into his own hands.

Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humor, Eliza Clark’s debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger.]]> 192 Eliza Clark °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 3.78 2024
author: Eliza Clark
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> 219876684 In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities of modern life cause one man’s solitary world to spin suddenly, and comically, out of control.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone?

Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

Told in Fredrik Backman’s singular witty style with sharply drawn characters and relatable antics, The Answer Is No is a laugh-out-loud portrait of a man struggling to keep to himself in a world that won’t leave him alone.]]> 68 Fredrik Backman 1662526520 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 3 kindle, 2025, comedy, owned
But beyond that, it kind of falls short. Its catchy quotes about life feel like they come out of nowhere. Like when the main character proclaims, "You can make yourself happy if you don't let others make you unhappy," I’m like, duh. And the main character hasn’t even interacted with people until a few weeks ago—who is he to be giving advice on relationships?

Then the resolution feels both sudden and bland—like everyone just goes back to where they came from.

So yeah, I would’ve liked it much more if it didn’t try so hard to appear profound.]]> 3.94 2024
author: Fredrik Backman
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/10
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A charming and amusing short story. The highlights are, without a doubt, its relatable and cute cast of characters, giving you the warm, fuzzy feeling of watching an old Cartoon Network show on a weekend morning back in the day.

But beyond that, it kind of falls short. Its catchy quotes about life feel like they come out of nowhere. Like when the main character proclaims, "You can make yourself happy if you don't let others make you unhappy," I’m like, duh. And the main character hasn’t even interacted with people until a few weeks ago—who is he to be giving advice on relationships?

Then the resolution feels both sudden and bland—like everyone just goes back to where they came from.

So yeah, I would’ve liked it much more if it didn’t try so hard to appear profound.
]]> 13590366
This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place, things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.]]> 423 Eowyn Ivey °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.11 2012
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> 59460687
And in thirty years, no visitors for either of them.

Confined within the cemetery borders and yearning for closure to move on, the two ghosts can’t go after the people who killed them.

Until Clothilde receives her very first visitor � and along with it, the means to escape the cemetery.

Beyond the Grave is the first novel in the Ghost Detective series, following Robert and Clothilde in their search for justice.]]> 234 R.W. Wallace °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.32
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]]> 35113133
The outbreak killed many and forced the rest to evacuate towns and cities. In the Midwestern United States, a refugee camp shelters hundreds of survivors from the harsh reality of the new world. But how safe are they? Some suspect that their military overseers aren’t being completely honest with them. Others know more than they are willing to admit.

The Graham family are about to have any semblance of security ripped away. Together with their new found allies, they will have to learn how to survive in the realm of the dead, where there’s nowhere to hide and human flesh has become the ultimate prize.

Season one of this terrifying and bleak zombie apocalypse series contains eight episodes.

This publication also includes Finite: a poem by Ian Futter.
]]> 306 T.W. Malpass °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 kindle, to-read, owned 4.11
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]]> 50053890 304 Skylar Finn °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.14
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]]> 83638977
“Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.� —BILL HODGES

Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.

Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.

Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.

“I could never let Holly Gibney go. She was supposed to be a walk-on character in Mr. Mercedes and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart. Holly is all her.â€� —STEPHEN KING]]> 464 Stephen King °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.32 2023
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> 32200035 Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others. Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve.

Ted Chiang has long been known as one of the most powerful science fiction writers working today.ÌýOffering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar,ÌýArrivalÌýpresents characters who must confront sudden change. In "Story of Your Life," which provides the basis for the filmÌýArrival,Ìýalien lifeforms suddenly appear on Earth. When a linguist is brought in to help communicate with them and discern their intentions, her new knowledge of their language and its nonlinear structure allows her to see future events and all the joy and pain they may bring. In each story of this incredible collection, with sharp intelligence and humor, Ted Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by wonder.]]> 279 Ted Chiang 0525433686 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.20 2002
author: Ted Chiang
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average rating: 4.20
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]]> 42946966
A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?]]> 275 Olga Tokarczuk 0525541357 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 3.94 2009
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average rating: 3.94
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]]> 60840449
Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of Witchaven all her life. She was born there, and she intends to die there.

But when an overseas property developer threatens to evict the residents from their homes and raze Witchaven to the ground in the name of progress, all seems lost� until the day a mysterious fog bank creeps inland.

The Haar.

To some it brings redemption� to others, it brings only madness and death. What macabre secrets lie within� The Haar.

Romantic and deranged, The Haar is a gore-soaked folk horror fairy tale from David Sodergren, author of The Forgotten Island and Maggie’s Grave.]]> 206 David Sodergren °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, kindle, owned 4.08 2022
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> 157998171
In this groundbreaking book, Charles Duhigg unravels the secrets of the supercommunicators to reveal the art - and the science - of successful communication. He unpicks the different types of everyday conversation and pinpoints why some go smoothly while others swiftly fall apart. He reveals the conversational questions and gambits that bring people together. And he shows how even the most tricky of encounters can be turned around. In the process, he shows why a CIA operative was able to win over a reluctant spy, how a member of a jury got his fellow jurors to view an open-and-shut case differently, and what a doctor found they needed to do to engage with a vaccine sceptic.

Above all, he reveals the techniques we can all master to successfully connect with others, however tricky the circumstances. Packed with fascinating case studies and drawing on cutting-edge research, this book will change the way you think about what you say, and how you say it.]]> 307 Charles Duhigg 0593243935 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 2
What kept me engaged were the stories and examples meant to illustrate the author’s ideas. I’m a sucker for a good story, what can I say.

Unfortunately, most of them fall short. Some drift too far into anecdotal fluff, while others outright contradict the book’s central premise. The most glaring example involves Netflix: after all the build-up about how communication can change the world, the story ends up showing how it’s often used as a shield to avoid meaningful change.

In the end, Supercommunicators might serve as a solid intro for those new to the topic. But for anyone who lives and breathes communication, it’ll feel like a conversation you’ve already had—just with someone trying a bit too hard to impress.]]> 4.20 2024
author: Charles Duhigg
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/07
date added: 2025/04/14
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As someone whose career centers on effective communication—and who’s been practicing active listening from a young age—this book didn’t offer many new insights. Much of its content has been explored more thoroughly and presented more compellingly elsewhere.

What kept me engaged were the stories and examples meant to illustrate the author’s ideas. I’m a sucker for a good story, what can I say.

Unfortunately, most of them fall short. Some drift too far into anecdotal fluff, while others outright contradict the book’s central premise. The most glaring example involves Netflix: after all the build-up about how communication can change the world, the story ends up showing how it’s often used as a shield to avoid meaningful change.

In the end, Supercommunicators might serve as a solid intro for those new to the topic. But for anyone who lives and breathes communication, it’ll feel like a conversation you’ve already had—just with someone trying a bit too hard to impress.
]]> 51456186 Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.

Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she's always wanted. But is it? She's exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she's beginning to miss London.

And then the Trehearnes come to stay. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married—a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Farlingaye Halle—fascinates Susan and piques her editor’s instincts.Ìý

One of her former writers, the late Alan Conway, author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew the murder victim—an advertising executive named Frank Parris—and once visited Farlingaye Hall. Conway based the third book in his detective series, Atticus Pund Takes the Case, on that very crime.Ìý

The Trehearne’s, daughter, Cecily, read Conway’s mystery and believed the book proves that the man convicted of Parris’s murder—a Romanian immigrant who was the hotel’s handyman—is innocent. When the Trehearnes reveal that Cecily is now missing, Susan knows that she must return to England and find out what really happened.

Brilliantly clever, relentlessly suspenseful, full of twists that will keep readers guessing with each revelation and clue, Moonflower Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction from one of its greatest masterminds, Anthony Horowitz.ÌýÌý]]> 592 Anthony Horowitz 0062955470 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 kindle, to-read, owned 4.20 2020
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]]> 123933 The play is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for all eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous and often misinterpreted quotation "L'enfer, c'est les autres" or "Hell is other people", a reference to Sartre's ideas about the Look and the perpetual ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object in the world of another consciousness.]]> 60 Jean-Paul Sartre 0573613052 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.13 1944
author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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average rating: 4.13
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]]> 28789711 SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean" (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating "the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life" (Economist) in a way that makes "your hair stand on end" (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this "highly informative, highly readable" (Dallas Morning News) work examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.]]> 606 Mary Beard 1631492225 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.04 2015
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> 51708831 From a brilliant young historian, a colorful journey through 7,000 years and twenty-six world cities that shows how urban living has been the spur and incubator to humankind's greatest innovations.

In the two hundred millennia of our existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. Historian Ben Wilson, author of bestselling and award-winning books on British history, now tells the grand, glorious story of how city living has allowed human culture to flourish. Beginning with Uruk, the world's first city, dating to 5000 BC and memorably portrayed in the Epic of Gilgamesh, he shows us that cities were never a necessity but that once they existed their density created such a blossoming of human endeavor--producing new professions, forms of art, worship, and trade--that they kick-started nothing less than civilization.

Guiding readers through famous cities over 7,000 years, he reveals the innovations driven by each: civics in the agora of Athens, global trade in ninth-century Baghdad, finance in the coffeehouses of London, domestic comforts in the heart of Amsterdam, peacocking in Belle Epoque Paris. In the modern age, he studies the impact of verticality in New York City, the sprawl of L.A., and the eco-reimagining of twenty-first-century Shanghai.

Lively, erudite, page turning, and irresistible, Metropolis is a grand tour of human achievement.]]> 464 Ben Wilson 0385543468 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.15 2020
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> 25017
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa � the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster � was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event that has only very recently been properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round the planet for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogotá and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significant of all � in view of today's new political climate � the eruption helped to trigger in Java a wave of murderous anti-Western militancy among fundamentalist Muslims: one of the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings anywhere.

Simon Winchester's long experience in the world wandering as well as his knowledge of history and geology give us an entirely new perspective on this fascinating and iconic event as he brings it telling back to life.]]> 416 Simon Winchester 0060838590 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.88 2003
author: Simon Winchester
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> 568236 Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived.]]> 714 Barbara W. Tuchman 0345349571 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.04 1978
author: Barbara W. Tuchman
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> 211004124 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential.

Where there’s a will, there’s a war.

Thayer Wren, the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology, is dead. Any one of his three telepathically and electrokinetically gifted children would be a plausible inheritor to the Wrenfare throne.

Or at least, so they like to think.

Meredith, textbook accomplished eldest daughter and the head of her own groundbreaking biotech company, has recently cured mental illness. You're welcome! If only her father's fortune wasn't her last hope for keeping her journalist ex-boyfriend from exposing what she really is: a total fraud.

Arthur, second-youngest congressman in history, fights the good fight every day of his life. And yet, his wife might be leaving him, and he's losing his re-election campaign. But his dead father’s approval in the form of a seat on the Wrenfare throne might just turn his sinking ship around.

Eilidh, once the world's most famous ballerina, has spent the last five years as a run-of-the-mill marketing executive at her father’s company after a life-altering injury put an end to her prodigious career. She might be lacking in accolades compared to her siblings, but if her father left her everything, it would finally validate her worth—by confirming she'd been his favorite all along.

On the pipeline of gifted kid to clinically depressed adult, nobody wins—but which Wren will come out on top?]]> 512 Olivie Blake 1250883407 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.86 2025
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> 33413556 Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...

Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family--and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra—a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.

Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself.

Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.]]> 400 Tom Sweterlitsch 0399167501 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.90 2018
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> 217869789 An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller

From the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society

“An ambitious analysis of how the trivial amusements offered by online life have degraded not only our selves but also our politics.� �New York Times

“Brilliant book� Reading it has made me change the way I work and think.�—Rachel Maddow

We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they’re us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, “With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade.� Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition whose only parallel is what happened to labor in the nineteenth attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated. The Sirens� Call is the big-picture vision we urgently need to offer clarity and guidance.

Because there is a breaking point. Sirens are designed to compel us, and now they are going off in our bedrooms and kitchens at all hours of the day and night, doing the bidding of vast empires, the most valuable companies in history, built on harvesting human attention. As Hayes writes, “Now our deepest neurological structures, human evolutionary inheritances, and social impulses are in a habitat designed to prey upon, to cultivate, distort, or destroy that which most fundamentally makes us human.â€� The Sirensâ€� Call is the book that snaps everything into a single holistic framework so that we can wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future.]]> 336 Christopher L. Hayes 0593653114 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.04 2025
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]]> 223436601 An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.

From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power and a rotten company culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative where a few people carelessly hold the world in their hands, this eye-opening memoir reveals what really goes on among the global elite.

Sarah Wynn-Williams tells the wrenching but fun story of Facebook, mapping its rise from stumbling encounters with juntas to Mark Zuckerberg’s reaction when he learned of Facebook’s role in Trump’s election. She experiences the challenges and humiliations of working motherhood within a pressure cooker of a workplace, all while Sheryl Sandberg urges her and others to “lean in.�

Careless People is a deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade—told in a sharp, candid, and utterly disarming voice. A deep, unflinching look at the role that social media has assumed in our lives, Careless People reveals the truth about the leaders of Facebook: how the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become and the consequences this has for all of us.]]> 400 Sarah Wynn-Williams 1250391237 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.31 2025
author: Sarah Wynn-Williams
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> 17826150 164 Nguyá»…n Nhật Ã�nh °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 5 4.56 2005
author: Nguyễn Nhật �nh
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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date added: 2025/04/10
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]]> 13541076
Má»™t hành trình thú vá»�, đầy chất lãng mạn của tuổi tráº�. CÅ©ng có dăm ba chuyện tình trong má»™t bối cảnh là con Ä‘Æ°á»�ng xuyên Việt được ghi nhận bằng má»™t đôi mắt tráº� trung, hồn nhiên. Ä�Æ°á»�ng còn dài, còn dài cá»� nhÆ° má»™t Æ°á»›c mÆ¡ ngÆ°á»�i tráº� nào cÅ©ng từng có: vứt bá»� tất cáº� và... lên Ä‘Æ°á»�ng!]]> 160 Nguyá»…n Thiên Ngân °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 4 4.00 2009
author: Nguyễn Thiên Ngân
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: pre-2017, romance, ya, owned, vietnam-lit
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]]> 10925338
Câu chuyện bắt đầu t� một đống cát, và được diễn ra theo nhân vật tôi - cu Tin. Có một hòn đảo hoang, trên đảo có Chúa đảo, phu nhân Chúa đảo, và một chàng Th�... Bảy. Hàng ngày v� chồng Chúa đảo và Th� Bảy vẫn phải đi h�c, nhưng sau gi� h�c là một th� giới khác, của đảo, của biển có cá mập, và rừng có thú d�. Hấp dẫn, đầy quyến rũ, có cãi vã, có cai tr�, có yêu thương, có ẩu đ�, và c�...những n� hôn!

Tuổi thơ trong �ảo Mộng mơ như trong những tác phẩm khác của Nguyễn Nhật �nh, trong veo và ng�t ngào. Những muốn bé lại bằng cu Tin đ� được cư�i, được khóc, được làm Chúa đảo thích đ�c sách và biết đánh lại lưu manh, bắt giam k� cắp. �� được hiểu rằng, đối với tr� con, nhu cầu được tôn tr�ng đôi khi lớn hơn gấp bội so với nhu cầu được yêu thương.

Văn Nguyá»…n Nhật Ã�nh vẫn luôn tháº�, trong sáng, dí dá»�m, đầy ắp thá»±c táº� tâm lý, hành Ä‘á»™ng và ngôn ngá»� của tráº�. Hy vá»�ng Ä�ảo Má»™ng mÆ¡ thá»�a mãn những khao khát "được chÆ¡i", được thá»�a chí tưởng tượng mà không bá»� mắng là "hâm", là "bốc phét" của tráº�, cÅ©ng nhÆ° những băn khoăn của các bậc cha máº�, làm sao có thá»� giá»� gìn sá»� trong trẻo hồn nhiên mãi cho con mình.]]> 256 Nguyá»…n Nhật Ã�nh °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 4 3.88 2010
author: Nguyễn Nhật �nh
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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]]> 10925246
Trong thiên truyện này, th� giới được nhìn một cách trong trẻo nhưng lồng trong đó không thiếu những ý t� thâm trầm, khiến ngư�i đ�c phải ngẫm nghĩ. �ây chắc chắn là tác phẩm không ch� dành cho tr� em.

Khi bắt đầu Ä‘á»�c cuốn sách này, dù không có sá»� phân biệt nào thì tôi vẫn có má»™t cảm giác đây là những câu chuyện viết cho những đứa tráº�. Ä�iá»�u quan trá»�ng lại bắt đầu tá»� chính á»� đây. Cuốn sách đã lôi cuốn tôi bởi nó không Ä‘i đúng nhÆ° những gì tôi dá»� báo. Má»™t cuá»™c sách viết cho tất cáº� chúng ta: tráº� con và ngÆ°á»�i lá»›n. Cuá»™c Ä‘á»�i của con chó nhá»� Bêtô cÅ©ng chứa Ä‘á»±ng tất cáº� hiện thá»±c Ä‘á»�i sống mà má»—i con ngÆ°á»�i Ä‘á»�u Ä‘i qua: niá»�m vui, sá»� thích, tình bạn, ná»—i sá»� hãi, lòng dÅ©ng cảm, ký ức, thiện ác, Æ°á»›c mÆ¡...]]> 230 Nguyá»…n Nhật Ã�nh 6041005428 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 3 4.21 2007
author: Nguyễn Nhật �nh
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: pre-2017, children-s, comedy, vietnam-lit
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]]> 10925109 207 Nguyá»…n Nhật Ã�nh 6041004758 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 5 4.22 2008
author: Nguyễn Nhật �nh
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> 14897112 Tác giáº� vẫn giá»� cách ká»� chuyện bằng chính giá»�ng trong sáng hồn nhiên của tráº� con. 81 chÆ°Æ¡ng ngắn là 81 câu chuyện hấp dẫn vá»›i nhiá»�u chi tiết thú vá»�, cảm Ä‘á»™ng, có những tình tiết bất ngá»�, tá»� đó lá»� rõ tính cách ngÆ°á»�i. Cuốn sách, vì tháº�, có sức ám ảnh.]]> 378 Nguyá»…n Nhật Ã�nh °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 2 3.71 2010
author: Nguyễn Nhật �nh
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2010
rating: 2
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date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: pre-2017, ya, coming-of-age, vietnam-lit
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]]> 26078333
Bà cô Th� N� ch� vào tận mặt cháu mà đay nghiến:

- Phúc đ�i nhà mày, con nhé. Ch� ôm lấy ông Chí Phèo.

Th� cư�i và nói lảng:

- Hôm qua làm biên bản, Lý Cư�ng nghe đâu tốn gần một trăm. Thiệt ngư�i lại tốn của.

Nhưng th� lại nghĩ thầm:

- Sao có lúc nó hi�n như đất.

Và nh� lại những lúc ăn nằm với hắn, th� phải nhìn trộm bà cô, rồi nhìn nhanh xuống bụng.:

- Nói dại, nếu mình chửa, bây gi� hắn chết rồi, thì làm ăn th� nào?

Ä�á»™t nhiên thá»� thấy thoáng hiện ra má»™t cái lò gạch cÅ© bá»� không, xa nhà cá»­a và vắng ngÆ°á»�i qua lại..."]]> 186 Nam Cao °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 5 4.40 1941
author: Nam Cao
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1941
rating: 5
read at: 2018/03/19
date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: classics, 2017-2023, vietnam-lit
review:
Nh� lại ngày xưa, thấy truyện Nam Cao mà đem dạy h�c sinh ph� thông thì đúng là phí.
]]> 30201423
Rich with fascinating case studies and personal stories, A Practitioner's Guide to Account-Based Marketing offers readers privileged access to lessons learned by pioneering companies in the field, including BT, Fujitsu, IBM, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, SAP, and many more. The text is fully endorsed by the Information Technology Services Marketing Association (ITSMA), who run the only formally recognized qualification in the the Account-Based Marketing Certification Programme. Meticulously researched and highly practical, A Practitioner's Guide to Account-Based Marketing will help all marketers strengthen relationships, build reputation, and increase revenues in their most important accounts.]]> 288 Bev Burgess 0749479892 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.65
author: Bev Burgess
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 3.65
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rating: 0
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shelves: to-read
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]]> 57488805
Most companies suffer from a delusion, and it’s this: that buyers always make decisions in a rational, logical, and economic way. The result is a slew of features-driven B2B marketing that few people really care about. In recent years B2B customers have evolved. The don’t just want to buy from businesses anymore, they want to buy into them.

The problem is too few B2B companies realize this. They continue with the same product-centric marketing that increases revenue by a percentage point here and there. It seems safe but it’s dangerously short-sighted, because it doesn’t deliver the transformational and long-term growth that makes businesses category leaders.

It’s even more important to address this issue at such a critical and delicate moment in the world economy. Marketing leaders require strategies that have an exponential, rather than an incremental, effect on brand, marketing and sales, and to implement them they need the new super-skills this book teaches.

This involves establishing a core purpose, shifting the focus from products to people, from features to feelings and from messaging to storytelling, acknowledging that neuro science has proved that people buy on emotion and justify with fact. In other words, it requires a completely different mindset to the one that’s prevalent right now, one that we call ‘Humanizing B2Bâ€�.]]> 152 Paul Cash 178860251X °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.22
author: Paul Cash
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.22
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]]> 50892288 A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel.

Pray they are hungry.

Kara finds these words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring the peculiar bunker—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more you fear them, the stronger they become.]]> 341 T. Kingfisher 1534451129 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.76 2020
author: T. Kingfisher
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> 68428 What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?

Mistborn
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.]]> 541 Brandon Sanderson °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.48 2006
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read
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]]> 39943172
Trong nhi�u năm, đây là hướng nghiên cứu của nhà tâm lý h�c xã hội Daniel Gilbert, cùng các cộng s�, là những ngư�i đã và đang đi đầu trong việc nghiên cứu mô hình d� đoán cảm xúc và hành vi của con ngư�i. Trong Tình C� Gặp Hạnh Phúc bạn s� được Daniel Gilbert dẫn giải một cách d� hiểu và lý thú với nhi�u bằng chứng khoa h�c đ� dần sáng t� những câu h�i trên.

Và tất nhiên không ai có th� nói rằng bạn s� cảm nhận như th� nào khi bạn đ�c đến trang cuối của cuốn sách, k� c� bạn. Nhưng nếu con ngư�i tương lai của bạn không hài lòng khi đã đ�c đến trang cuối cùng, thì ít nhất nó cũng hiểu tại sao bạn lại lầm tưởng rằng nó s� hài lòng với cuốn sách.

Tình Cá»� Gặp Hạnh Phúc đã được dịch sang 30 thá»� tiếng và Ä‘oạt được giải thưởng The Royal Society Science Books năm 2007, dành cho sách phá»� biến khoa há»�c xuất sắc theo dạng thÆ°á»�ng thức, trá»� thành cuốn sách bestseller trên toàn tháº� giá»›i.]]> 381 Daniel Todd Gilbert °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 3 2025, non-fiction, psychology
Dù tên nghe có v� giống một cuốn self-help, sách này thực ra lại giống với Sapiens của Yuval Noah Harari hay Freakonomics hơn (thậm chí sách còn dẫn một vài nghiên cứu trùng với Sapiens.)

Sách không cho bạn bản đ� đến hạnh phúc, nhưng s� giúp bạn hiểu vì sao mình không hạnh phúc, những thiên kiến ảnh hưởng đến tất c� chúng ta� và quan tr�ng hơn, rằng cảm giác vui hay buồn đ�u ch� là tạm th�i.

�i�u này khá giống với cách Phật Pháp nói v� s� vô thư�ng, rằng hạnh phúc hay kh� đau đ�u là trạng thái nhất th�i, ph� thuộc nhi�u vào cách chúng ta nhìn nhận hiện tại, nhưng được lý giải theo khoa h�c cho bạn nào chưa tin vào tôn giáo.

� một góc đ� nào đó, hiểu được chuyện này tuy không giúp ta ra quyết định tốt hơn nhưng cũng khiến ta bớt khắc khe với những lựa ch�n trên đư�ng đ�i hơn - và như vậy cũng là một kiểu hạnh phúc rồi.

Cuối sách cũng có một l�i khuyên thú v� mà mình chưa thấy � đâu khác: Trải nghiệm thực t� của ngư�i khác có giá tr� d� đoán tốt hơn s� tưởng tượng chính chúng ta.

�iểm tr� lớn nhất là sách hơi dài dòng, lặp ý. Nếu cắt đi khoảng 1/3, có l� thông điệp của tác gi� s� súc tích và mạnh m� hơn.]]> 4.07 2006
author: Daniel Todd Gilbert
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/28
date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: 2025, non-fiction, psychology
review:
Lưu ý: Nên tìm đ�c bản gốc tiếng Anh, bản dịch của Thai Ha Books cực k� t�.

Dù tên nghe có v� giống một cuốn self-help, sách này thực ra lại giống với Sapiens của Yuval Noah Harari hay Freakonomics hơn (thậm chí sách còn dẫn một vài nghiên cứu trùng với Sapiens.)

Sách không cho bạn bản đ� đến hạnh phúc, nhưng s� giúp bạn hiểu vì sao mình không hạnh phúc, những thiên kiến ảnh hưởng đến tất c� chúng ta� và quan tr�ng hơn, rằng cảm giác vui hay buồn đ�u ch� là tạm th�i.

�i�u này khá giống với cách Phật Pháp nói v� s� vô thư�ng, rằng hạnh phúc hay kh� đau đ�u là trạng thái nhất th�i, ph� thuộc nhi�u vào cách chúng ta nhìn nhận hiện tại, nhưng được lý giải theo khoa h�c cho bạn nào chưa tin vào tôn giáo.

� một góc đ� nào đó, hiểu được chuyện này tuy không giúp ta ra quyết định tốt hơn nhưng cũng khiến ta bớt khắc khe với những lựa ch�n trên đư�ng đ�i hơn - và như vậy cũng là một kiểu hạnh phúc rồi.

Cuối sách cũng có một l�i khuyên thú v� mà mình chưa thấy � đâu khác: Trải nghiệm thực t� của ngư�i khác có giá tr� d� đoán tốt hơn s� tưởng tượng chính chúng ta.

�iểm tr� lớn nhất là sách hơi dài dòng, lặp ý. Nếu cắt đi khoảng 1/3, có l� thông điệp của tác gi� s� súc tích và mạnh m� hơn.
]]> 52758807
Lyra cùng con linh thú động vật của cô sống cuộc đ�i nửa hoang dã, vô lo vô nghĩ giữa các h�c gi� của H�c viện Jordan tại Oxford. Nhưng s� phận trực ch� t� khi sinh ra đã dẫn cô vào một hành trình đầy hiểm nguy lên Phương Bắc băng giá đ� tìm ngư�i bạn b� bắt cóc. �ó là hành trình s� đem tới những hậu qu� không th� đo đếm nổi, vượt xa th� giới của chính cô�

Má»™t ấn phẩm của WINGS BOOKS - ThÆ°Æ¡ng hiệu sách tráº� của NXB Kim Ä�ồng.]]> 464 Philip Pullman 6042124072 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 2 ya, fantasy, owned, 2017-2023
Th� so sánh Lyra với Harry Potter thì s� thấy rõ vấn đ�. Harry Potter cũng là một nhân vật có gốc gác đặc biệt, được đối x� đặc biệt. Tuy nhiên bản thân Harry ngoài lòng dũng cảm thì cậu không có gì nổi trội so với những ngư�i xung quanh. Cậu không thông minh bằng Hermione, không v� tha, hài hước bằng Ron. Và quan tr�ng là Harry luôn có s� khiêm tốn bất chấp cách m�i ngư�i đối x� với mình.

Lyra thì khác. Cô bé không có đối tr�ng nào tương đương trong truyện, cô thông minh hơn c� ngư�i lớn, cô đi đến đâu là có ngư�i sẵn sàng bảo v� cô đến đấy và bản thân Lyra cũng xem đó như là một s� hiển nhiên. Cô bé ít khi cho thấy s� nao núng, khiêm như�ng mà một cô bé m� côi 11 tuổi nên có. �i�u đó khiến cô tr� nên khó gần, ít nhất là theo cảm nhận của mình.

Dù sao thì câu chuyện của sách vẫn rất hấp dẫn, th� giới mà sách v� nên thật s� độc đáo và vẫn còn nhi�u đi�u chưa sáng t� nên mình vẫn có mong muốn tiếp tục đ�c hết b� này.]]> 4.12 1995
author: Philip Pullman
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1995
rating: 2
read at: 2022/06/12
date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: ya, fantasy, owned, 2017-2023
review:
Cuốn này gây cho mình nhi�u cảm xúc mâu thuẫn. Một mặt thì mình b� cuốn hút bởi câu chuyện và th� giới mà tác gi� v� nên, nhưng mặt khác, mình không tài nào "cảm" được nhân vật Lyra, là nhân vật chính trong câu chuyện đó. Mình băn khoăn mãi cho đến khi đ�c thấy một review g�i cuốn sách này là một cuốn "kinh thánh dưới lớp v� truyện viễn tưởng". Chính là như vậy. Việc mình không có cảm tình với Lyra là bởi vì tác gi� xây dựng cô bé này giống như cách kinh thánh viết v� Chúa Jesus vậy: hoàn hảo, thánh thiện và rất logic, vượt trội với bạn bè cùng trang lứa và quan tr�ng là đi đến đâu cũng được đối x� đặc biệt.

Th� so sánh Lyra với Harry Potter thì s� thấy rõ vấn đ�. Harry Potter cũng là một nhân vật có gốc gác đặc biệt, được đối x� đặc biệt. Tuy nhiên bản thân Harry ngoài lòng dũng cảm thì cậu không có gì nổi trội so với những ngư�i xung quanh. Cậu không thông minh bằng Hermione, không v� tha, hài hước bằng Ron. Và quan tr�ng là Harry luôn có s� khiêm tốn bất chấp cách m�i ngư�i đối x� với mình.

Lyra thì khác. Cô bé không có đối tr�ng nào tương đương trong truyện, cô thông minh hơn c� ngư�i lớn, cô đi đến đâu là có ngư�i sẵn sàng bảo v� cô đến đấy và bản thân Lyra cũng xem đó như là một s� hiển nhiên. Cô bé ít khi cho thấy s� nao núng, khiêm như�ng mà một cô bé m� côi 11 tuổi nên có. �i�u đó khiến cô tr� nên khó gần, ít nhất là theo cảm nhận của mình.

Dù sao thì câu chuyện của sách vẫn rất hấp dẫn, th� giới mà sách v� nên thật s� độc đáo và vẫn còn nhi�u đi�u chưa sáng t� nên mình vẫn có mong muốn tiếp tục đ�c hết b� này.
]]> 13248567 252 Tô Hoài °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.65 2007
author: Tô Hoài
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 3.65
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]]> 7445 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.]]> 288 Jeannette Walls 074324754X °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.32 2005
author: Jeannette Walls
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.32
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]]> 45252 Second Chance, is dispatched to learn what has occurred and whether it represents a threat. In command is Wilson Kime, a five-time rejuvenated ex-NASA pilot whose glory days are centuries behind him.

Opposed to the mission are the Guardians of Selfhood, a cult that believes the human race is being manipulated by an alien entity they call the Starflyer. Bradley Johansson, leader of the Guardians, warns of sabotage, fearing the Starflyer means to use the starship's mission for its own ends.

Pursued by a Commonwealth special agent convinced the Guardians are crazy but dangerous, Johansson flees. But the danger is not averted. Aboard the Second Chance, Kime wonders if his crew has been infiltrated. Soon enough, he will have other worries. A thousand light-years away, something truly incredible is waiting: a deadly discovery whose unleashing will threaten to destroy the Commonwealth... and humanity itself. Could it be that Johansson was right?]]> 768 Peter F. Hamilton 0345461622 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.23 2004
author: Peter F. Hamilton
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> 208840265 A deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free.

In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast as one of the leads on the hit drama One Tree Hill. Her career was about to take off, but her personal life was slowly beginning to unravel. What none of the show’s millions of fans knew, hidden even from her costars, was her secret double life in a cult.

An only child who often had to fend for herself and always wanted a place to belong, Lenz found the safe haven she’d been searching for in a Bible study group with other Hollywood creatives. However, the group soon morphed into something more sinister—a slowly woven web of manipulation, abuse, and fear under the guise of a church covenant called The Big House Family. Piece by piece, Lenz began to give away her autonomy, ultimately relocating to the Family’s Pacific Northwest compound, overseen by a domineering minister who would convince Lenz to marry one of his sons and steadily drained millions of her TV income without her knowledge. Family “minders� assigned to her on set, “Maoist struggle session�–inspired meetings in the basement of a filthy house, and regular counseling with “Leadership� were just part of the tactics used to keep her loyal.

Only when she became a mother did Lenz find the courage to leave and spare her child from a similar fate. After nearly a decade (and with the unlikely help of a One Tree Hill superfan), she finally managed to escape the family’s grip and begin to heal from the deep trauma that forever altered her relationship with God and her understanding of faith. Written with powerful honesty and dark humor, Dinner for Vampires is an inspiring story about the importance of identity and understanding what you believe.]]> 303 Bethany Joy Lenz 1668067307 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.28 2024
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name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.28
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]]> 143629572
Khi cuá»™c Ä‘iá»�u tra má»� rá»™ng và những chi tiết kinh hoàng bắt đầu xuất hiện, câu chuyện của King bắt đầu lao Ä‘i vá»›i tốc Ä‘á»� rất nhanh, tạo ra sá»� căng thẳng mạnh máº� và sá»� hồi há»™p gần nhÆ° không thá»� thá»� được. Terry Maitland có váº� là má»™t chàng trai tốt bụng, nhÆ°ng có phải anh ta còn mang má»™t khuôn mặt khác?]]> 728 Stephen King 6043978768 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 2 2024, mystery-thriller, owned
Cuốn sách có một điểm mạnh duy nhất: cái bí ẩn � phần đầu. Câu chuyện m� ra hấp dẫn, khiến mình thật s� tò mò. Nhưng càng v� sau, m�i th� dần trượt kh�i qu� đạo. Nhân vật thì thiếu chi�u sâu, không ai đ� lại dấu ấn rõ ràng.

T� hơn, nửa sau cuốn sách gần như "lật kèo", chuyển t� trinh thám sang k� ảo. Nhân vật chính thật s� được hé l� theo kiểu rất đột ngột, và các câu h�i lớn mà bác King đặt ra � đầu sách thì bây gi� bác giải thích h�i hợt bằng các yếu t� siêu nhiên.

Cảm giác như bác đang viết một câu chuyện hoàn toàn khác, nhưng vì Mr. Mercedes thành công quá nên bác c� gắng lồng ghép Holly Gibney vào đ� nối gót.

Thật buồn khi nghĩ rằng đây là những gì Stephen King viết ra dạo này.]]> 4.13 2018
author: Stephen King
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2018
rating: 2
read at: 2024/06/03
date added: 2025/04/07
shelves: 2024, mystery-thriller, owned
review:
Chắc cũng một phần là lỗi của mình khi đ�c cuốn này ngay sau The Shining, nên k� v�ng hơi cao. Nhưng thật lòng mà nói, The Outsider làm mình khá thất v�ng.

Cuốn sách có một điểm mạnh duy nhất: cái bí ẩn � phần đầu. Câu chuyện m� ra hấp dẫn, khiến mình thật s� tò mò. Nhưng càng v� sau, m�i th� dần trượt kh�i qu� đạo. Nhân vật thì thiếu chi�u sâu, không ai đ� lại dấu ấn rõ ràng.

T� hơn, nửa sau cuốn sách gần như "lật kèo", chuyển t� trinh thám sang k� ảo. Nhân vật chính thật s� được hé l� theo kiểu rất đột ngột, và các câu h�i lớn mà bác King đặt ra � đầu sách thì bây gi� bác giải thích h�i hợt bằng các yếu t� siêu nhiên.

Cảm giác như bác đang viết một câu chuyện hoàn toàn khác, nhưng vì Mr. Mercedes thành công quá nên bác c� gắng lồng ghép Holly Gibney vào đ� nối gót.

Thật buồn khi nghĩ rằng đây là những gì Stephen King viết ra dạo này.
]]> 214151420 From eldest daughter Shari Franke, the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog and the hidden abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and how, in the face of unimaginable pain, she found freedom and healing.

Shari Franke’s childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a façade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented the day-to-day life of raising six children for a staggering 2.5 million subscribers. But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface—Ruby’s wholesome online persona masked a more tyrannical parenting style than anyone could have imagined.

As the family’s YouTube notoriety grew, so too did Ruby’s delusions of righteousness. Fueled by the sadistic influence of relationship coach Jodi Hildebrandt, together they implemented an inhumane and merciless disciplinary regime.

Ruby and Jodi were arrested in Utah in 2023 on multiple charges of aggravated child abuse. On that fateful day, Shari shared a photo online of a police car outside their home. Her caption had one word: “Finally.�

For the first time, Shari will reveal the disturbing truth behind 8 Passengers and her family’s devastating involvement with Jodi Hildebrandt’s cultish life coaching program, “ConneXions.â€� No stone is left unturned as Shari exposes the perils of influencer culture and shares for the first time her battle for truth and survival in the face of her mother’s cruelty.]]> 320 Shari Franke 1668065398 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.43 2025
author: Shari Franke
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.43
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]]> 152034931 A rollicking historyÌýof England's earliest kings and queens, a story ofÌýnarcissists, excessive beheadings, middle-management insurrection, uncivil wars,Ìýand more, fromÌýaward-winning British actor and comedian David Mitchell

Think you know the kings and queens of England? Think again.

In Unruly , David Mitchell explores how early England’s monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects� destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky bastards who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear to us today in their portraits.

Taking us right back to King Arthur ( he didn’t exist), Mitchell tells the founding story of post-Roman England right up to the reign of Elizabeth I ( she dies), as the monarchy began to lose its power. It’s a tale of bizarre and curious ascensions, inadequate self-control, and at least one total Cnut, as the English evolved from having their crops stolen by the thug with the largest armed gang to bowing and paying taxes to a divinely anointed King.

How this happened, who it happened to, and why the hell it matters are all questions Mitchell answers with brilliance, wit, and the full erudition of a man who once studied history—and is damned if he’ll let it off the hook for the mess it’s made of everything.Ìý

A funny book that takes history seriously, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how the monarchy came to be—and who is to blame.]]> 433 David Mitchell 0593728491 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.13 2023
author: David Mitchell
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 46003542
Bỗng một ngày, Maria cùng phi hành đoàn thức tỉnh giữa một b� máu. C� sáu vừa b� giết, máy móc trên tàu thì đã b� phá hoại, và không ai nh� chuyện gì đã xảy ra hết, thậm chí còn chẳng nh� gì v� nhau. Nguy hiểm hơn, th� phạm hẳn phải là một ngư�i trong nhóm b�n h�. K� ấy vẫn đang rình rập, ch� th�i cơ ra tay lần nữa�

Sáu đợt thức tỉnh tên gốc là Six Wakes , má»™t cuốn trinh thám vá»›i bối cảnh tÆ°Æ¡ng lai của Mur Lafferty. Truyện từng lá»�t danh sách Ä‘á»� cá»� các giải lá»›n năm 2017 nhÆ° Hugo, Nebula, Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice, và được mệnh danh là "10 ngÆ°á»�i da Ä‘en nhá»� ngoài vÅ© trá»�."]]> 485 Mur Lafferty 6049769753 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.96 2017
author: Mur Lafferty
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 3.96
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]]> 56791389 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B08BKGYQXW


The apocalypse will be televised!

A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible.

In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground.

The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe.

Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style.

You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big.

You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That's the only way to truly survive in this game—with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy.

They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything but a game.]]> 446 Matt Dinniman °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.49 2020
author: Matt Dinniman
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.49
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]]> 48670867 HOW DOES MAGIC HAPPEN? The Ogilvy advertising legend—“one of the leading minds in the world of brandingâ€�Ì�(NPR)—explores the art and science of conjuring irresistible products andÌýideas.

"A breakthrough book. Wonderfully applicable to about everything in life." —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan

“Veins of wisdom emerge regularly and brilliantly from these pages. Don't miss this book.â€�Ì� —Robert B. Cialdini, author ofÌýInfluence

Why is Red Bull so popular, though everyone�everyone!—hates the taste? Humans are, in a word, irrational, basing decisions as much on subtle external signals (that little blue can) as on objective qualities (flavor, price, quality). The surrounding world, meanwhile, is irreducibly complex and random. This means future success can’t be projected on any accounting spreadsheet. To strike gold, you must master the dark art and curious science of conjuring irresistible ideas: alchemy.

Based on thirty years of field work inside the largest experiment in human behavior ever conceived—the forever-unfolding pageant of consumer capitalism�Alchemy, the revolutionary book by Ogilvy advertising legend Rory Sutherland, whose TED talks have been viewed nearly seven million times, decodes human behavior, blending leading-edge scientific research, absurdly entertaining storytelling, deep psychological insight, and practical case studies from his storied career working on campaigns for AmEx, Microsoft, and others.

Heralded as “one of the leading minds in the world of branding� by NPR and "the don of modern advertising" by The Times, Sutherland is a unique thought leader, as comfortable exchanging ideas with Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman and Richard Thaler (both interviewed in these pages) as he is crafting the next product launch. His unconventional and relentlessly curious approach has led him to discover that the most compelling secrets to human decision-making can be found in surprising places:

What can honey bees teach us about creating a sustainable business?

How could budget airlines show us how to market a healthcare system?

Why is it better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong?

What might soccer penalty kicks teach us about the dangers of risk-aversion?

Better “branding,� Sutherland reveals, can also be employed not just to sell products, but to promote a variety of social aims, like getting people to pay taxes, improving public health outcomes, or encouraging more women to pursue careers in tech.

Equally startling and profound, Sutherland’s journey through the strange world of decision making is filled with astonishing lessons for all aspects of life and business.

Ìý]]> 384 Rory Sutherland °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.06 2019
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average rating: 4.06
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This is also a great resource for people who dislike copywriters. Read this book and soon you’ll be able to casually point out flaws in their work, making the fragile copywriter in your life feel even more insecure.]]> 176 Dan Nelken 177778350X °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.47
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In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band � and meeting the man who would become her husband � her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live.

It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

Vivacious, lyrical and honest, Michelle Zauner’s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.]]> 243 Michelle Zauner 0525657746 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.25 2021
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]]> 57693457 After several deaths punctuating a series of all-too-brief life spans, a clone reassesses his purpose � and his humanity � in Edward Ashton’s Mickey7, “a unique blend of thought-provoking sci-fi concepts, farcical relationship drama, and exotic body horror� (New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin).

EXPENDABLE \ik’spen-d�-b’l\ n. A human clone utilized for dangerous work on space exploration missions. An Expendable’s personality and memories may be transferred intact to a new body if and when the current host dies.

Mickey Barnes is an Expendable, now on his seventh iteration, living � and dying � among his fellow colonists on the near-uninhabitable ice world of Niflheim. Some consider him immortal. Others believe he’s a soulless monstrosity. For the past nine years, he has been deployed for hazardous assignments and subjected to experiments that test the limits of human endurance, his humanity sacrificed for the greater good.

While on reconnaissance, Mickey7 is injured and left for dead, only to be saved by Niflheim’s native species, thought to be insentient by the colonists. Returning to base, Mickey7 meets his next generation, Mickey8. Neither clone is willing to recycle himself, but if anyone discovers multiple Mickeys exist, they’ll both be executed � and there won’t ever be a Mickey9.

But Mickey7’s premature twin isn’t his only secret. He hasn’t uploaded his memories in a month, leaving his clone in the dark about his near death and close encounter with the planet’s inhabitants. Mickey7 also doesn’t know how all of his previous selves died, and those he remembers have left him traumatized and mistrustful of the colony’s mission. A mission that has Mickey Barnes questioning his moral and mortal existence...again...and again....]]> 296 Edward Ashton 1250275032 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.74 2022
author: Edward Ashton
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 3.74
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]]> 127282939 From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth.

At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings.

For years, as she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and surprising joys of their existence. Then, at a precarious moment, a beloved friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world. Is there a chance she is not alone?

Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life on our Earth and in our universe. It is a remarkable evocation of the feeling of being in exile at home, and it introduces a gentle, unforgettable alien for our times.]]> 327 Marie-Helene Bertino 0374109281 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.08 2024
author: Marie-Helene Bertino
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average rating: 4.08
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After developing an unlikely friendship with the grouchy old woman who lives in his neighborhood, Hiroto suddenly finds himself inheriting not just her house but some rather difficult emotions as well. His 18-year-old cousin, Natsumi, moves in with him, but as a struggling art student, she has her own troubles to deal with and may just put Hiroto’s easygoing lifestyle to the test.]]> 192 Keigo ShinzÅ� 1974746917 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.45 2021
author: Keigo Shinz�
name: °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ
average rating: 4.45
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In HAPPY ENDINGS, the new hit graphic novel from LUCIE BRYON (Thieves), all stories are intwined. And they all end up with a smile.]]> 172 Lucie Bryon 1960171240 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.13 2024
author: Lucie Bryon
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average rating: 4.13
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Astrid Lindgren tạo nên th� giới tr� thơ trong veo, tinh nghịch, chẳng khi nào to tát nhưng rõ ràng lại đầy “uy lực�. Tr� em mê thích truyện bà viết bởi l� chúng được làm quen với những “ông bạn�, “bà bạn� đồng điệu � tít một đất nước xa xôi; còn ngư�i lớn � chúng tôi tin rằng ngư�i lớn cũng khoái chí h� có dịp đ�c những sáng tác cho tr� em của Astrid Lindgren, bởi h� s� thấy lại tuổi thơ tí toáy đáng yêu năm nào.

Lũ tr� làng Ồn Ào gồm 6 đứa tr�, với cô bé Lisa 7 tuổi dẫn chuyện. Phe con gái có Lisa, Anna và ch� Britta; phe còn trai thì tập hợp Lasse, Bosse (hai anh trai của Lisa) và bạn Olle. Hai phe trêu đùa, giễu cợt nhau c� ngày không biết chán: Lasse và Bosse thư�ng nói đám con gái không đ� trình đ� chơi trò ngư�i da đ�, rồi 3 cô con gái thì cho rằng đám con trai còn lâu mới biết gi� bí mật � còn lâu!

C� th�, c� th�, cuộc sống của lũ tr� � làng lúc nào cũng sôi động, tươi vui: thi nhau tỉa c� cải, thi nhau nhảy vào đống c� khô “thâm thấp phăng phẳng như tấm nệm�, xây đư�ng hầm, thậm chí lên k� hoạch “b� nhà ra đi�. Thật đáng ngạc nhiên � đã có th�i lũ tr� không cần tới điện thoại, tới những thiết b� thông minh mà vẫn vui n� tr�i đến th�.
�i�u giá tr� bậc nhất là truyện của Astrid Lindgren không ch� mô t� những trò đùa vui thu� ấu thơ mà còn ngập tràn tình yêu thương được lũ tr� lan t�a trong cuộc sống. 6 bạn nh� tại làng Ồn Ào rất thích chơi với Ông, đ�c sách báo cho ngư�i ông mắt kém nghe; các em không ngại tới nhà cô giáo đ� chăm cô b� ốm; rồi các em có th� “cảm hóa� chú chó hư bằng s� chăm sóc, v� v� đầy nồng ấm

Xuất phát t� ao ước được “làm vui� đứa tr� bên trong chính mình nên những câu chuyện mà Astrid Lindgren viết đ�u quá đỗi t� nhiên, hồn nhiên, không phải một ngư�i lớn đóng vai con tr�. Làm đi�u ấy khó, bởi vì lũ tr� rất “tinh�: Chúng yêu mến những gì t� nhiên, trong trẻo, chân thành. Ni�m mến yêu của tr� thơ tạo nên sức sống tươi xanh cho truyện của Astrid Lindgren.

Tác gi�

Astrid Lindgren chào đ�i � Vimmerby, Thụy �iển vào năm 1907. Trong cuộc đ�i mình bà đã viết hơn 40 cuốn sách cho thiếu nhi, và đã bán được hơn 145 triệu bản sách trên khắp th� giới. Bà từng chia s� rằng: “Tôi viết đ� làm vui đứa tr� trong tôi, và tôi ch� có th� hi v�ng rằng những đứa tr� khác cũng cảm thấy vui theo cách đó.�

Nhi�u truyện của Astrid Lindgren dựa trên những kí ức th�i thơ ấu của bà, trong những truyện đó đầy ắp các nhân vật độc đáo và sống động. Có l� cuốn truyện nổi tiếng nhất của bà là tác phẩm Pippi Tất Dài, xuất bản lần đầu � Thụy �iển vào năm 1945. Nó thành công ngay lập tức và được xuất bản � Anh vào năm 1954.

Các giải thưởng dành cho sáng tác văn chÆ°Æ¡ng của Astrid Lindgren bao gồm Giải thưởng Hans Christian Andersen danh giá. Năm 1989, má»™t công viên chá»� Ä‘á»� dành riêng Ä‘á»� tưởng nhá»� bà â€� Astrid Lindgren Värld (Tháº� Giá»›i Astrid Lindgren) â€� chính thức má»� cá»­a tại Vimmerby. Bà qua Ä‘á»�i năm 2002 á»� tuổi 94.]]> 138 Astrid Lindgren °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.77 1946
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]]> 60439641 T� tác gi� cuốn sách bán chạy s� 1 New York Times � Ngư�i đàn ông mang tên Ove

Một tên cướp ngân hàng thất bại đã xông vào một căn h� đang m� cửa và bắt gi� tất c� những ngư�i trong đó làm con tin. �ây là những khách mua nhà ti�m năng đang tham quan căn h�: một cặp v� chồng mới ngh� hưu đang n� lực hàn gắn hôn nhân, một giám đốc ngân hàng giàu có quá bận rộn đ� quan tâm đến bất k� ai, một cặp đôi tr� chuẩn b� đón con đầu lòng nhưng có v� không có tiếng nói chung trong bất k� việc gì, một bà c� tám bảy tuổi đã sống đ� lâu đ� không biết s� một k� gí s.úng vào mặt, một ngư�i môi giới nhà đất bối rối nhưng vẫn sẵn sàng ngã giá và một ngư�i đàn ông bí ẩn đang giam mình trong phòng tắm duy nhất của căn h�. Nhóm con tin tồi t� nhất trên đ�i.

Mỗi ngư�i trong s� h� đ�u cất giấu một cuộc đ�i đầy thương tổn, đau đớn, bí mật và đam mê sẵn sàng sôi trào. Không ai trong s� h� là hoàn toàn như những gì h� th� hiện ra. Và tất c� trong s� h� � k� c� tên cướp ngân hàng � đ�u khao khát được giải cứu. Khi nhà chức trách và giới truy�n thông bao vây khu căn h�, những đồng minh bất đắc dĩ này s� tiết l� những s� thật không ng� v� bản thân và kích hoạt một chuỗi s� việc không ai có th� đoán định hay giải thích.

Vẫn là “phong cách đối thoại hoàn hảo và s� hiểu biết vô song v� bản chất con ngư�i� (Shelf Awareness), Những K� Âu Lo là một câu chuyện được xây dựng khéo léo v� sức mạnh của tình bạn, s� tha th� và hi v�ng � những th� giải cứu chúng ta ngay c� trong những lúc nguy ngập nhất.

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“Backman má»™t lần nữa nắm bắt được bản chất rối rắm của việc làm ngÆ°á»�iâ€� Cuốn sách tài tình và có sức ảnh hưởng, có thá»� khiến bạn cÆ°á»�i thành tiếng cÅ©ng nhÆ° khiến bạn khóc.â€� â€� Washington Post]]> 544 Fredrik Backman 6041212245 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.32 2019
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]]> 18849394 � Drayton Bird, author, Commonsense Direct and Digital Marketing "The lessons contained within The PR Masterclass should be plastered over the walls of organisations seeking to utilise the media effectively for their campaigns. This book is a must-have reference point."
� Ryan Bourne, CityAM columnist and Head of Economic Research, Centre for Policy Studies "This is an important book about public relations and how the media is changing. Singleton is a straight-talking journalist-turned-practitioner who pulls no punches. He calls on the industry to grow up and adopt the rigour of a professional discipline. It's a call to action that I wholly heartedly support. You should read The PR Masterclass if you're new to public relations or work in the profession and want to continue doing so."
―Stephen Waddington, European director, Ketchum, and 2014 President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) "Provides all you need to know about securing press coverage."
� Fraser Seitel, O'Dwyer's PR magazine "Every page is packed with insight and practical advice."
―Steve Harrison, co-founder, Harrison Troughton Wunderman "Written in a no-nonsense style, every chapter contains a mine of information about the subject. What's more, it's clear that Alex knows the business inside out. This is the kind of book you need to have close at hand. Do what it says, and you'll be miles ahead with your PR."
� James Hammond, brand consultant "Alex Singleton's book on public relations strategy is an excellent practical guide to the real world of PR."
â€� Ray Hiebert, Editor, Public Relations Review]]> 208 Alex Singleton 1118756231 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.77 2013
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]]> 39107310 276 Mary Abbajay 1119437164 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.77 2018
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]]> 21937409 552 Dennis Lehane °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read, owned 3.85 2001
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]]> 22095744
Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally—to think, that is, like a Freak.

Levitt and Dubner offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. As always, no topic is off-limits. They range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain. Along the way, you’ll learn the secrets of a Japanese hot-dog-eating champion, the reason an Australian doctor swallowed a batch of dangerous bacteria, and why Nigerian e-mail scammers make a point of saying they’re from Nigeria.

Some of the steps toward thinking like a Freak:

First, put away your moral compass—because it’s hard to see a problem clearly if you’ve already decided what to do about it.
Learn to say “I don’t know�—for until you can admit what you don’t yet know, it’s virtually impossible to learn what you need to.
Think like a child—because you’ll come up with better ideas and ask better questions.
Take a master class in incentives—because for better or worse, incentives rule our world.
Learn to persuade people who don’t want to be persuaded—because being right is rarely enough to carry the day.
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Levitt and Dubner plainly see the world like no one else. Now you can too. Never before have such iconoclastic thinkers been so revealing—and so much fun to read.]]> 268 Steven D. Levitt 1846147891 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 4 3.69 2014
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]]> 209282181
Với cách hành văn kinh điển và thông điệp đầy thấu hiểu, quyển sách Con �ư�ng Chẳng Mấy Ai �i giúp chúng ta khám phá bản chất của các mối quan h� và của một tinh thần trưởng thành. Quyển sách giúp chúng ta h�c cách phân biệt s� l� thuộc với tình yêu; làm th� nào đ� tr� thành những bậc ph� huynh tinh t� và nhạy cảm; và cuối cùng là làm th� nào đ� sống chân thật với chính mình.

Vá»›i dòng má»� đầu bất há»� của quyển sách, "Cuá»™c Ä‘á»�i này rất khó sống", thá»� hiện quan Ä‘iểm hành trình phát triển tinh thần là má»™t chặng Ä‘Æ°á»�ng dài và gian nan, Tiến sÄ© Peck thá»� hiện sá»� đồng cảm, nháº� nhàng dẫn dắt Ä‘á»™c giáº� vượt qua quá trình khó khăn đó, Ä‘á»� thay đổi hÆ°á»›ng tá»›i tầm mức thấu hiểu bản thân sâu sắc hÆ¡n.]]> 344 M. Scott Peck 604400967X °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 5
Tôi đ�c nó năm 23 tuổi và có một câu trong đó theo tôi suốt 8 năm: "Chúng ta đ�u là những con ngư�i bất hoàn hảo sống trong một th� giới bất hoàn hảo."

� tuổi đầu 20, tôi thấy bản thân và nhi�u ngư�i xung quanh trong câu này. Lúc đó, tôi chấp nhận rằng những khiếm khuyết, những cảm giác bất hạnh trong mỗi ngư�i là đi�u hiển nhiên. S� bất hoàn hảo - theo tôi hiểu - chính là tính ngư�i.

Và kết luận của tôi khi đó là nhiệm v� làm ngư�i trong đ�i đơn giản là sống tr�n vẹn và hạnh phúc nhất cho bản thân mình. Suy nghĩ đó giúp ích tôi nhi�u năm sau - hoặc là tôi tưởng vậy.

Cho đến một ngày, tôi thấy mình còn chẳng biết "sống tr�n vẹn" là như th� nào. Tôi qu� thật đã đi rất nhi�u, trải nghiệm rất nhi�u, nhưng chẳng mấy khi "sống" trong hành trình đó.

Hóa ra, những s� bất hoàn hảo tôi đã nghĩ chẳng th� chạm đến mình vẫn � bên trong, không được sửa chữa và đ� lại dấu vết khắp nơi.

Gi� đây, đã qua đầu ba, tôi mới tìm thấy phần nào câu tr� l�i trong cuốn sách này � sống tr�n vẹn không phải là ngó lơ những khiếm khuyết của mình, mà là hiểu vì sao chúng tồn tại và dũng cảm ch�n cách cư x� với chúng.

Cũng như tôi từng thấy bản thân trong Rừng Na Uy, tôi thấy mình trong nhi�u trang sách của "Con �ư�ng Chẳng Mấy Ai �i" và nó nhắc tôi rằng, hạnh phúc chúng ta tìm bắt đầu � bên trong. ]]> 4.00 1978
author: M. Scott Peck
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book published: 1978
rating: 5
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Có những cuốn sách có th� làm thay đổi một cuộc đ�i. Với tôi, cuốn sách đó từng là Rừng Na Uy.

Tôi đ�c nó năm 23 tuổi và có một câu trong đó theo tôi suốt 8 năm: "Chúng ta đ�u là những con ngư�i bất hoàn hảo sống trong một th� giới bất hoàn hảo."

� tuổi đầu 20, tôi thấy bản thân và nhi�u ngư�i xung quanh trong câu này. Lúc đó, tôi chấp nhận rằng những khiếm khuyết, những cảm giác bất hạnh trong mỗi ngư�i là đi�u hiển nhiên. S� bất hoàn hảo - theo tôi hiểu - chính là tính ngư�i.

Và kết luận của tôi khi đó là nhiệm v� làm ngư�i trong đ�i đơn giản là sống tr�n vẹn và hạnh phúc nhất cho bản thân mình. Suy nghĩ đó giúp ích tôi nhi�u năm sau - hoặc là tôi tưởng vậy.

Cho đến một ngày, tôi thấy mình còn chẳng biết "sống tr�n vẹn" là như th� nào. Tôi qu� thật đã đi rất nhi�u, trải nghiệm rất nhi�u, nhưng chẳng mấy khi "sống" trong hành trình đó.

Hóa ra, những s� bất hoàn hảo tôi đã nghĩ chẳng th� chạm đến mình vẫn � bên trong, không được sửa chữa và đ� lại dấu vết khắp nơi.

Gi� đây, đã qua đầu ba, tôi mới tìm thấy phần nào câu tr� l�i trong cuốn sách này � sống tr�n vẹn không phải là ngó lơ những khiếm khuyết của mình, mà là hiểu vì sao chúng tồn tại và dũng cảm ch�n cách cư x� với chúng.

Cũng như tôi từng thấy bản thân trong Rừng Na Uy, tôi thấy mình trong nhi�u trang sách của "Con �ư�ng Chẳng Mấy Ai �i" và nó nhắc tôi rằng, hạnh phúc chúng ta tìm bắt đầu � bên trong.
]]> 36390390 Nhiệm vá»� lá»›n lao nhất của má»—i ngÆ°á»�i là tìm ra ý nghÄ©a trong cuá»™c sống của mình. Frankl đã nhìn thấy ba nguồn ý nghÄ©a cÆ¡ bản của Ä‘á»�i ngÆ°á»�i: thành tá»±u trong công việc, sá»� quan tâm chăm sóc đối vá»›i những ngÆ°á»�i thân yêu và lòng can đảm khi đối mặt vá»›i những thá»�i khắc gay go của cuá»™c sống. Ä�au khá»� tá»� bản thân nó không có ý nghÄ©a gì cáº�, chính cách phản ứng của chúng ta má»›i khoác lên cho chúng ý nghÄ©a. Frankl đã viết rằng má»™t ngÆ°á»�i “có thá»� giá»� vững lòng quáº� cảm, phẩm giá và sá»� bao dung, hoặc ngÆ°á»�i ấy có thá»� quên mất phẩm giá của con ngÆ°á»�i và tá»� đặt mình ngang hàng loài cầm thú trong cuá»™c đấu tranh khắc nghiệt Ä‘á»� sinh tồnâ€�. Ông thừa nhận rằng chá»� có má»™t sá»� ít tù nhân của Ä�ức quốc xã là có thá»� giá»� được những phẩm chất ấy, nhÆ°ng “chá»� cần má»™t ví dá»� nhÆ° tháº� cÅ©ng Ä‘á»� chứng minh rằng sức mạnh bên trong của con ngÆ°á»�i có thá»� Ä‘Æ°a ngÆ°á»�i ấy vượt lên sá»� phận nghiệt ngã của mìnhâ€�.]]> 220 Viktor E. Frankl °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 3
Cũng vì tác gi� là một nhà khoa h�c, không phải nhà văn nên dù là trải nghiệm ngư�i thực việc thực nhưng không th� đ� lại cảm xúc sâu đậm như The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas được.

Phần đáng đ�c nhất nằm � nửa sau cuốn sách, vốn được viết b� sung v� sau, nh� tác gi� triển đúng chuyên môn của mình là phân tích tâm lý. Dù là một chuyên gia, một nhà khoa h�c nhưng đáng ghi nhận vì cách viết của tác gi� không giáo đi�u, không áp đặt.

Tóm lại, cuốn sách này không làm tôi “choáng ngợp" như k� v�ng nhưng nếu đ�c vào đúng th�i điểm nhất định của cuộc đ�i thì s� có giá tr�.]]> 4.14 1946
author: Viktor E. Frankl
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average rating: 4.14
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rating: 3
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Cuốn này viết t� tít tận năm 1946 nên có nhi�u điểm trong này 80 năm trước là thông tin chấn động th� giới nhưng th�i nay đ�c thì không đ� lại ấn tượng mấy.

Cũng vì tác gi� là một nhà khoa h�c, không phải nhà văn nên dù là trải nghiệm ngư�i thực việc thực nhưng không th� đ� lại cảm xúc sâu đậm như The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas được.

Phần đáng đ�c nhất nằm � nửa sau cuốn sách, vốn được viết b� sung v� sau, nh� tác gi� triển đúng chuyên môn của mình là phân tích tâm lý. Dù là một chuyên gia, một nhà khoa h�c nhưng đáng ghi nhận vì cách viết của tác gi� không giáo đi�u, không áp đặt.

Tóm lại, cuốn sách này không làm tôi “choáng ngợp" như k� v�ng nhưng nếu đ�c vào đúng th�i điểm nhất định của cuộc đ�i thì s� có giá tr�.
]]> 10108463 The Devil All the Time follows a cast of characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifi­cial blood he pours on his “prayer log.â€� There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial kill­ers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte’s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.]]> 261 Donald Ray Pollock 038553504X °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.13 2011
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And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…�

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict.

Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.

As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.]]> 438 Christopher Buehlman °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.43 2012
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Ngư�i th� nhất độc ác, ngư�i th� hai dối trá, ngư�i th� ba ích k�.

Tuy nhiên h� có cùng một điểm chung, một bí mật, đại loại th�: c� ba đ�u mong ước ra đi...

Mư�i ba ngày trôi qua như một dấu ngoặc đơn trong cuộc đ�i h�... M� ngoặc là một v� giết ngư�i, vào ngày đầu tiên, và đóng ngoặc là một v� giết ngư�i khác, vào ngày cuối cùng..."

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Chính là t� khu vư�n ao nổi tiếng, - những bức tranh hoa súng nổi tiếng của Monet đ�u được v� t� khu vư�n này.

Và khu vư�n với ngôi làng Giverny đã là bối cảnh cho tiểu thuyết trinh thám ly k� của Michel Bussi. Trong mư�i ba ngày, hàng loạt v� giết ngư�i khuấy động cảnh tĩnh mịnh của Giverny. M�i th� liên quan tới ba ngư�i ph� n�, cùng những l�i đồn thổi v� một kiệt tác hội h�a b� đánh cắp.

Vá»›i Hoa súng Ä‘en, Michel Bussi càng khẳng định biệt tài dẫn dắt - ông đã hòa quyện thá»±c và ảo má»™t cách Ä‘iêu luyện, khiến Ä‘á»™c giáº� cuốn Ä‘i, mê say tá»›i tận trang cuối.]]> 390 Michel Bussi 6045348907 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.05 2011
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Những bóng ngư�i lảo đảo qua lại, chậm rãi và có h� thống, nhanh chóng và điên cuồng.

Những tiếng kêu xé ruột, những tiếng rên khóc khác ngư�i phát ra t� th� gì đó nghe như tiếng kêu dưới lòng đất của một sinh vật c� đại đang hấp hối.
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Sage Winters đã “đi tìm� ngư�i em gái song sinh tội nghiệp trong bối cảnh như th�. �� rồi khi những đi�u vượt quá giới hạn dồn dập xảy đến, cũng là lúc Sage phải đấu tranh cho s� tỉnh táo của bản thân và phải vật lộn đ� giải thoát mình kh�i CƠN �C MỘNG mang tên WILLOWBROOK.

Dá»±a trên má»™t sá»� kiện có thật vá»� vá»� bê bối chấn Ä‘á»™ng tại New York vào tháº� ká»� trÆ°á»›c, Ellen Marie Wiseman đã tận dụng má»™t cách khéo léo những tÆ° liệu sẵn có vá»� °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ Công lập Willowbrook Ä‘á»� tạo nên sá»� Ä‘a tầng đầy cảm xúc trong tác phẩm của mình.

Quy t� đầy đ� các yếu t� làm nên một cuốn tiểu thuyết xuất sắc, với lối đặc t� chân thực đến đau lòng được cài cắm vào mạch văn dồn dập qua từng trang sách, “Những cô gái mất tích � Willowbrook� s� gián tiếp đưa độc gi� vào th� giới của tội ác vô nhân đạo, thức tỉnh h� v� những s� thật kinh hoàng � “một th� trấn ngầm� sâu thẳm dưới lòng đất.

Dung hòa giữa hiện thá»±c và hÆ° cấu, câu chuyện vá»� cuá»™c hành trình đấu tranh vì sá»� sống đầy quáº� cảm của Sage Winters hứa hẹn mang lại má»™t cuốn tiểu thuyết hấp dẫn tá»� đầu đến cuối.]]> 384 Ellen Marie Wiseman °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 3.73 2022
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]]> 43834909 Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then, one of them goes missing.

In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling.

Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit--and her sister--before it's too late.

Alternating its present-day mystery with the story of the sisters' childhood and adolescence, Long Bright River is at once heart-pounding and heart-wrenching: a gripping suspense novel that is also a moving story of sisters, addiction, and the formidable ties that persist between place, family, and fate.]]> 482 Liz Moore 0525540679 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.03 2020
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Ä�ằng sau sá»� việc này rốt cuá»™c ẩn giấu tình hình vá»� án kinh thiên Ä‘á»™ng địa đến nhÆ°á»�ng nào? Những nhân vật trong truyện đứng giữa ranh giá»›i giữa cái thiện và cái ác, giữa sá»� sống và cái chết, má»—i quyết định Ä‘á»�u thay đổi cáº� vận mệnh cuá»™c Ä‘á»�i há»�. Liệu há»� sáº� ráº� vá»� hÆ°á»›ng nào? Liệu cái thiện có lên ngôi và cái ác có phải chịu sá»� trừng phạt?...]]> 468 Zijin Chen 6049767882 °Õ°ùÆ°á»×Õ²µ 0 to-read 4.52 2024
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