Lorenza Fagundes Fagundes itibaren Cipayung Datar, Megamendung, Bogor, West Java, Endonezya
It was a really good book but sad at the same time!
Cutting for Stone is an amazing story of epic proportion, taking the reader into an Ethiopia of the author's own childhood; the country and its people come alive in the telling. The reader also catches a glimpse of America through the eyes of its immigrants. For all of that, it is at heart a story of family and the complexities of love, betrayal, forgiveness.
The cream puffs are really good and relatively easy to make! Of course I enjoyed the story, too!
Let me preface this with my Earthsea background. I read the first 3 books when I was young and loved them. Then did them again on audio a couple years ago and enjoyed the 1st and 3rd books but thought the 2nd one was slow. Then I read -Techanu- and thought it was more like an interlude with a plot added in at the end for good measure. -Stories of Earthsea- was barely passable and now this -The Other Wind- left me with a final bad taste for a series I loved for a long time. It was nice to hang out with some old friends (Ged, Tenar etc...) but at some point toward the end it started this downward spiral into incomprehensibility. There would be a section I just didn't get but I'd just move on hoping that it would make sense later. It never did. When it ended I had no idea what had happened. Was it just too simple? I do see a lot of reviewers saying that the ending was predictable. I don't even know who was still alive at the end. It seemed like a bunch of snippets of action that never got resolved. Was it some type of literary experiment? I'm not sure, but my final stance on Earthsea is: Read the first 3 books and pretend the others don't even exist.