Samia Nascimento Nascimento itibaren Texas itibaren Texas

Bu kitaptan bir şey öğrendiğimden ya da Kilbourne'un tüm sonuçlarıyla aynı fikirde olup olmadığımdan emin değilim, ama kesinlikle söyleyemedim.

Bu kitaptaki bilgiler büyüleyici. Bununla birlikte, yazı değil. Neredeyse bir liste gibi kapsamlı bir araştırma kroniği gibi okur. Çok küçük bölümlerde okudum çünkü çok kuru. Bu kitabı okurken edindiğim bilgilerle zenginleştiğimi hissediyorum, ancak bu deneyim özellikle eğlenceli değildi.

I think the beauty with this book was this quietness over it, this stillness and contemplation that what happens happens. Which also makes this one hard book to rate, because even if I liked the story and so on I would rate it one way. But then I look at the writing and the feeling and it has to have a better rating. Because it is just good. The story is about Minna who is a servant in Odessa, bad times being a Jew there, or anywhere for that matter. So she signs with an agency and becomes a mail order bride. Poor Minna has hopes for a better life and she is not prepared for the harsh life of a farmer's wife. She could have managed but the thing is that her new husband is no farmer. He knows nothing at all and he is very strict orthodox and the farm suffers because of it. Well the hut, the mule, the cow and a little field that makes up the farm. But there is freedom there, freedom to be themselves. And this in a land where there is another people worse off than they are. The story is good, and I liked Minna and her silent suffering. Her husband is a good man, just too good and clueless. Her stepsons are nice too, but there we get the little bit of drama, attraction. Not to mention a winter of suffering as they have no food and it's cold. The only thing I did not like was the end, it was ok, but that was just it. We got a little insight in what happens in her life. But I was not happy. Still, why should I be, she seemed happy and that is all that matters. It is a book I recommend, because in the end I have not read a book like this. Yes sure I have read books about pioneers, but not about Jewish pioneers, and rules brings another dimension to this new life. Neither did I know about the am olam movement. And I do like a book that manages to teach me something too. In the end, it is the author's voice that I like, and it is a great debut

This was a weird book. Sometimes I would be confused if she was having a nightmare, or if it was happening to her. I did finish it but it wasn't as good as some of his other books.

I thought this story was a little chaotic. The characters seemed to jump at quantum speed from one disaster to the next. The bonus scene at the end was fantastic.