She was a layered character whom I sometimes despised for her cruelty and sometimes felt sorry for the reasons of that made her like this. She was overbearing and angry but she had valid reasons to be so. Even this murderous, nearly villainous character crept up to my heart and took a place there. I wish she stood up to Minya a little bit more though. Sarai was a little meek and bland, but I cared about her nonetheless. And Lazlo is a great example of how you can be respectful, humble and confident at the same time. Humility is something I admire greatly in any character and his character is truly a contrast to today’s norm of making characters conceited, entitled and vain in order to make them “strong” and “confident” (*cough* Feyre and Rhysand *cough*). So soft hearted, so humble – in a world full of narcissistic, rude character types Lazlo is a pure gem. Lazlo Strange – the main protagonist of this book is a pure, sweet soul. And Laini Taylor’s characters ticked that box for me. Realistic and consistent characterization in a book is one of the most, if not the most, important criteria for my enjoyment of a book. What can I say about the characters except that I loved all of them dearly?
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Turns out you are not alone. What Porat has managed to achieve is the assured positioning of Kovner in the pantheon of Israel's heroes."-Leon Yudkin " H-Net Reviews " "This books is an excellent and reliable account not only of a major activist and author but also of a vital phase in Jewish history. Porat's book serves as a reminder that sometimes individuals do not have to wield power in order to inspire and to serve as moral lodestones."-Samuel Kassow " Studies in Contemporary Jewry " The scope of her achievement is all the more convincing given the fact that she chose a very difficult subject for a biography. "Dina Porat has written a superb book, certainly one of the most important works of modern Jewish history to have appeared in recent years. Dina Porat's exhaustively-researched and exquisitely-written biography of this partisan leader, poet, and shaper of Israeli perceptions of the Jewish past opens new vistas onto the Holocaust and the political, military, and cultural history of the State of Israel."-David Engel "New York University " "Abba Kovner's life story encompasses many of the central themes of twentieth-century Jewish history. Dodgson was also an avid photographer and often photographed young girls, something that, while normal by Victorian standards, has fueled questions about his sexual preferences in the years since his death in 1898. He never married, but his surviving diaries and letters suggest that he had several romantic relationships, including, possibly, with Alice Liddell's older sister and her governess. The three Alice books became Dodgson's most famous works, even though he also published a number of books on mathematics and politics. Though many believe that Alice Liddell is the titular Alice and was Dodgson's muse, Dodgson denied this later in life. As the sub-librarian there, he met four-year-old Alice Liddell and her family. He received a degree in mathematics from Christ Church at Oxford, where he'd remain employed in various capacities for much of his life. He did experience a stutter that followed him throughout his life. Young Dodgson was bright and precocious he supposedly read Pilgrim's Progress at age seven. His father was a very conservative cleric for the Church of England who, though mathematically gifted and on the path to success, married his first cousin and became a country parson instead. Charles Dodgson was the third child in his family. |