Isabelle IRISAWA
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A "must read" book.
When Mr. SCOTT wrote this book, he already had years of life experience and was able to look back on them.... This is a key.
Experience is always something to be respected.
I first read it years ago and was very interested because human relationships were always important for me.
I am reading it again at least, 20 years later.... And it really rings in accordance with the years gone by.....
The Different Drum
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A "Must read" book.
Shows the nature of people in politics and real life.
And true value in humans.
This author has a real talent for expressing and exposing the real characters and must have looked around a LOT to know that much and being able to use his knowledge so well regarding human characters.
True value, talent and good will.
And the litany of the opposite dreadful traits and the results led by desire of power.
And that value has nothing to do with where people come from.
The Tin Princess
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I just read the book and it is very deep.
One may need a bit of perspective on life in general and be able to appreciate this book. One might need to have had intergenerational relationships with people of all ages and try to understand why they turned the way they did.......
The Remains of the Day
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I'm moved to tears. I already read it once...Years ago. And loved it.
And found it again... years later...
Later in life.
Now I see MITCH... as well and this fabulous MORRIE.
The word NEEDS people like this more than ever because it is certainly NOT going in the right direction. Nowhere.... Let's try..
Tuesdays with Morrie
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I've read them all. It shows that the author is a totally exceptional human being. Using her imagination, yes, but every bit of experience she had or things she witnessed in the world, creating an incredibly rich world that shows it all. Totally outstanding.,
Chronicles of Chrestomanci
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I really liked the book and saw the movie later. Very good adaptation.
It shows that the author shared a lot with her mother and people of her mother's generation.
She exposes the cultural problems of the society then, and what occurs when society has been shaken by war, how hard it is, for good or bad reasons, to go back as it was before, and some people do resent the changes.
But others go for it, grabbing new opportunities and decide to use them in a good way....
Very interesting and human.
Goodnight Mister Tom
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This is a truly outsanding book.
I recommend it any time I can.
It opens a window on abuse, resilience and also about what is must have been like for so many people and how it impacted their life, memory, and how to go on.
Goodnight Mister Tom
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I think it is a fabulous manga. No fairy tale.
A single widowed mother's total commitment to bring up her children the very best she can.
I never expected the depht of it. It shows the unwitnessed tireless efforts to bring up children (and children WHO are different, respecting their difference) and what it is to make them a priority.
It does not only show good mothering. Some children aren't fortunate that way and they know it. Yet the ones who do have a good mother do not realize it until way later.... Things could be easily taken for granted. That what it shows since this woman is alone.
It is the first manga ever to show this kind of thing and depicting what real strength is. And it brings into focus a lot of other issues like priorities and even clearly then, the importance of respecting the earth and the need for ecology..
Wolf Children
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