Justo Martinasso Martinasso itibaren Fratta Polesine RO, İtalya itibaren Fratta Polesine RO, İtalya

Vaov! Söyleyebileceğim tek şey wow! Bu kitap gözlerime gözyaşları getirdi ve bir zamanlar bu kadar güçlü olduğuna inandığım şeyler hakkında gerçekten farklı hissettirdi. Bu kitap kurgu olmasına rağmen, bir yerde, bunun gerçek bir insana olabileceğini düşünmekten korkutuyor. Tanrı'nın yaşadığımızda ve öldüğümüzde seçmesi gerektiğine inanıyorum ve gerçek olduğunu bildiğim tek şey bu!

This book is a wonderful collection of short stories about life in small town Alaska. I was worried being a TOTAL softy that a book written by the town obituary writer was going to drown me in tears or leave me feeling exceptionally depressed, but thankfully her stories were much more about the beauty of life than the pain of death. Lende does a masterful job of weaving past and present into her stories of small town life. I don't have any desire to live in an isolated small town in Alaska, but reading this book made me understand why others might choose too. The love Lende has for her community and her town shine through her simplistic yet beautiful writing. A very enjoyable read.

My husband and I have been reading this book aloud together for the past month or so, the survey format makes it kind of a slow read. I think this book is generally very insightful. The idea was, a woman put together a comprehensive sexual survey and then had thousands of American women fill it out and mail in the responses anonymously. Great plan. The flaw was in the execution. When the author gathered all the results and put them into book form in order to share her findings with the public she couldn't resist putting her own little spin on things. She's pretty vindictive, and bitter towards conventional marriage, intercourse and straight people. That being said....the information is great and if you can avoid being dragged down by her biting commentary, reading the results of the women surveyed is very illuminating. I'm learning a lot.

Fast- Paced and a GREAT Ride!