I fell in love with the cover of this Novel but unfortunately the story didn't hold the same fascination or interest for me. Trying his best to weasel out of an appointment with the neurologist his only child, Máire, has cornered him into, the poet Thomas Murphy—singer of the oldies, friend of the ...
كتاب عن ثقافة الاستهلاك فى أمريكا وان الاستهلاك بهذه الطريقة أثر على البيئةلكن الصراحة لم استفد من الكتاب , كميه معلومات قليلة على صفحات كثيرة فحسيت بالملل وانا بقرأ الكتاب
I received this free from Audible. i am glad I did not purchase it. it was written like diary and a boring one I at that.
The writing in this book is beautiful and spare, but the author comes across as very self-absorbed and the family just a little too perfect. The world written of in this book, with private school, a nanny (who works five 12-hour days a week to take care of one child when there are three other adults...
I really needed an "inspiring writing book" over the last few days, and I think this served quite well. So why the middling rating? Well, while the book was an enjoyable read and a lovely memoir, I found the through-line to be a bit wandering. Rosenblatt structures the book as a narrative of some of...
rather ambivalent writing - not really clear what his intended message was supposed to be.
Roger Rosenblatt’s daughter Amy was 38, a doctor, a wife and a mother of three small children when she died. Making Toast is Rosenblatt’s memoir of how he, his wife, Ginny, and the people Amy left behind coped with their loss. Roger and Ginny moved in with their son-in-law, Harris, and helped raise ...
First read, this book made a big impression on me. I especially carried around the idea of the Jewish concentration camp survivors meeting up each year, sure that this reunion will always mean the same thing...only to find, as time went on, that it didn't. It lost its urgent impact.Second read, sure...
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