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You can swallow the horror because it is balanced by humor and love and passion and even hope and happiness. Each bird has it's own page with facts about it and a very detailed illustration of what it looks like.
Think of those stinking towns and foul bloody villages whose names will be turned into some bogus glory by fat-arsed historians who have sat in London.
The received anthology emerged from the “Mao tradition”, one of the four early schools, and is divided into four parts: 160 Airs ( guofeng), 74 Minor Court Hymns ( xiaoya), 31 Major Court Hymns ( daya), and 40 Eulogies ( song). Like a great mainstream movie, this was perfectly pitched, and in the end all the stories match up, and there's a sense you've just been on a great journey. Early imperial legend knows of royal officials “collecting” the songs from the “lanes and alleys” to reveal to the ruler the social conditions and sentiments of the common people; purportedly, only then were they adapted to court music.
Love this book for adults and for kids, though I eliminate some details when reading for my preschooler and kindergartener. take, for example, the great gatsby, which i had liked previously but became one of my favourite books of all time when i began to study it. Of course as is my rule, I always have to read and review the books before I gift them to make sure the stories are good and, if from my childhood, remain relevant and appropriate! The last surviving veteran passed away two years ago, taking the last living memory of those horrible years along with her.It begins as a love story between an odd and doomed French woman, Isabelle Azaire and a very young and impassioned Englishman, Stephen Wraysford.
I believe there are novels that affect you long after you have closed the book and I do believe that this is one of them.There is a very powerful understanding of the futility of war and its effects on everyone involved, regardless of national allegiance. The battlefield scenes are so descriptive and cleverly written and at times make harrowing reading but the author makes sure you are in that trench and you are witnessing the vivid descriptions of carnage and brutalities of War.