The Al-Baqara Crescendo: Understanding the Qur'an's Style, Narrative Structure, and Running Themes
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Recent manuscript evidence from al-Jami' al-Kabir in ?an 'a' suggests that the Qur'an took its final...
Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School: Learning to Teach, Teaching Well
Daniel R. Meier and Stephanie Sisk-Hilton
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As top-down educational reform policies at local and national levels increasingly isolate teachers...
Narratives of East Asian Women Teachers of English: Where Privilege Meets Marginalization
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This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to...
Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter
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"Narratives Unsettled" argues by way of close readings of three very different German-language...
graveyardgremlin (7194 KP) rated The Secret of the Golden Heart (Golden Heart, #1) in Books
Feb 15, 2019
Okay, I reached 130 pages out of 240 and I just cannot read anymore. While there are some interesting ideas within, this reads like a rough draft. Too much happens too fast for anything to sink in as nothing is fleshed out. It's all a series of "and then this happened and then this," etc, and mostly just telling instead of showing. Characters need more than a name to make them feel alive, scenes need more than just an action or two, and the story just felt lifeless. Sorry, I tried.
Received through Goodreads First Reads giveaway, along with a lovely bookmark.
Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated OUT (A Cam Thomas Story #1) in Books
Mar 4, 2018
And, I have to say, this largely follows the same structure as the mid part of JRR Tolkien's magnus opus, with the companions split into several groups, and of on several inter-connected quests.
As with the first book in the series, the characters are largely cardboard cut-outs, with it being in the world building where the novel excels. Of the companions, I also know that we are meant to associate with Tanis Half-Elf the most (or Raistlin), but I have to say: I've always had a soft spot for Sturm Brightblade the most!
Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit
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This study offers a distinctive new account of British economic life since the Second World War,...
The Death of the Messiah, from Gethsemane to the Grave: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels: v. 2
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Over his illustrious career, Raymond E. Brown, S.S., Ph.D., was internationally regarded as a dean...
Representing the Nation: Heritage, Museums, National Narratives, and Identity in the Arab Gulf States
Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla and Victoria Hightower
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The 1970s saw the emergence and subsequent proliferation across the Arabian Peninsula of 'national...