Fevereiro 5, 2010 por -Angie-
Por Allan & Barbara Pease
Sabe aqueles livros que você começa a ler e não quer parar? Esse é um deles, ele não tem uma história em si mas tem um estudo sobre o comportamento humano no que diz respeito aos sinais que emitimos, sem ver, com o nosso corpo e que revelam nossos sentimentos e pensamentos, através da nossa postura sentada ou em pé, expressões faciais, posição da mãos, braços, pés, enfim, cobre tudo! É muito interessante ler e, depois, tentar observar os outros e colocar em prática o que aprendeu; e, também, se policiar para não dar impressão errada sem querer. Um dos capítulos que achei mais interessantes foi sobre como se comportar numa entrevista de emprego, o livro bate na tecla que 90% das pessoas formam uma impressão dos outros nos primeiros 4 minutos de contato com a pessoa e, 60 a 80% do impacto causado é não-verbal. E, os autores, dão dicas de como causar uma boa primeira impressão, até porque, na maioria das vezes, a segunda impressão sempre reafirma a primeira, e, para mudar a má impressão causada previamente, você tem um trabalho dobrado! Para quem está solteiro tem um capítulo bom sobre sedução e paquera, e é engraçado ver que realmente emitimos esses sinais e nem dos damos conta na hora hehe No final do livro tem um exercício bem legal para fazer e testar o que você aprendeu. O livro tem uma escrita bem clara, sem rodeios, uma pitada de bom humor e muitos fatos curiosos que não vao mudar sua vida mas que é interessante saber, como: “setenta por cento das pessoas cruzam o braço esquerdo sobre o direito”; “As mulheres tendem a ignorar as palavras que entram em conflito com a mensagem corporal da pessoa que fala”, “A maioria das pessoas dá tapinhas nas costas para interromper o abraço – os abraços sinceros são apertados.”, entre outros, o livro é todo interessante, cada capitulo melhor que o outro. Recomendo mesmo!!
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Janeiro 22, 2010 por -Angie-
Por Lois P. Frankel

Nice Girls don't get Rich
Comprei o livro Nice Girls don’t get Rich porque começando o ano queria ler alguma coisa em termos de ficar rica hehe ok, talvez não ficar rica mas ler como investir ou melhor forma de aplicar o seu dinheiro. O livro começa bom mas é muito repetitivo e direcionado para o público americano. Claro que muitas coisas você pode usar no seu país com instuições semelhantes, e tem muitos websites legais (destinado para o público americano). Quando se escreve um livro para o público em geral, muitos escritores escrevem para leigos outros para além de leigos, meio lentinhos. Esse livro é assim, ela repete e repete e repete, fala coisas muito básicas e em praticamente todo capitulo ela fala que os homens foram educados para investir e as mulheres para guardar o dinheiro. No final de cada capitulo ela dá dicas (coaching tips) e elas são o que eu achei de melhor no livro. Se você for ler o livro e ler só as dicas, já basta.
Em geral, eu não recomendaria esse livro, existem outros que vão direto ao ponto.
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Dezembro 19, 2009 por -Angie-
By Jodi Picoult
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate — a life and a role that she has never challenged…until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister — and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.
My Sister’’s Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child’’s life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? Once again, in My Sister’’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.
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Novembro 25, 2009 por -Angie-
por John Grogan

Marley e Eu
John e Jenny eram jovens, apaixonados e estavam começando a sua vida juntos, sem grandes preocupações, até ao momento em que levaram para casa Marley, “um bola de pêlo amarelo em forma de cachorro”, que, rapidamente, se transformou num labrador enorme e encorpado de 43 quilos. Era um cão como não havia outro nas redondezas: arrombava portas, esgadanhava paredes, babava nas visitas, comia roupa do varal alheio e abocanhava tudo a que pudesse. De nada lhe valeram os tranqüilizantes receitados pelo veterinário, nem a “escola de boas maneiras”, de onde, aliás, foi expulso. Mas, acima de tudo, Marley tinha um coração puro e a sua lealdade era incondicional. Imperdível.
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Novembro 8, 2009 por -Angie-
“Ao ler, deverá ser possível perceber e apreciar os detalhes.”
(Vladimir Nabokov – 1899-1977)
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Novembro 1, 2009 por -Angie-
“Um verdadeiro grande livro deve ser lido na juventude, outra vez na maturidade, e novamente na velhice, como um edifício bem construído deve ser visto sob a luz da manhã, sob o sol a pino, e à luz do luar.”
(Robertson Davies -1813-1914)
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Outubro 7, 2009 por -Angie-
By Melissa Panarello
An instant blockbuster in Italy where it has sold over 700,000 copies, and now an international literary phenomenon, 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is the fictionalized memoir of Melissa P., a Sicilian teenager whose quest for love rapidly devolves into a shocking journey of sexual discovery. Melissa begins her diary a virgin, but a stormy affair at the age of fourteen leads her to regard sex as a means of self-discovery, and for the next two years she plunges into a succession of encounters with various partners, male and female, her age and much older, some met through schoolmates, others through newspaper ads and Internet chat rooms. In graphic detail she describes her entry into a Dante-esque underworld of eroticism, where she willingly participates in group sex and sadomasochism, as well as casual pickups. Melissa’s secret life is concealed from family and friends, revealed only in her diary entries. Told with disarming candor, Melissa P.’s bittersweet tour of extreme desires is as poignant as it is titillating. One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is a stunning erotic debut, a Story of O for our times.
Publicado em O | Tagged eroticism, orgies, sex | 3 Comentários »
Setembro 17, 2009 por -Angie-
By Mark Haddon
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.
Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christopher’s mind.
And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a heartbreaker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.
Publicado em C | Tagged autism, investigation | 4 Comentários »
Setembro 17, 2009 por -Angie-
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
One of today’s most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and resigned from the Dutch Parliament. Infidel shows the coming of age of this distinguished political superstar and champion of free speech as well as the development of her beliefs, her iron will, and her extraordinary determination to fight injustice. Raised in a strict Muslim family, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries largely ruled by despots. She escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim immigrant women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Even though she is under constant threat, demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from her family and clan, she refuses to be silenced.
Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali’’s story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no story could be timelier or more significant.
Publicado em I | Tagged Islam, murder of Theo van Gogh, Muslam family | 3 Comentários »
Agosto 23, 2009 por -Angie-
By Jeannette Walls
eannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn’t stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an “excitement addict.” Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town — and the family — Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents’ betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home.
What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
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