Google Books

The www.books.google.com site is very useful as it has a large collection of ebooks. All the books are proper scanned and written. There is good description of each topic with accurate figure, so that we can learn easily, but there is a difficulty is that the language is somewhat hard to understand...

I would just like to say what a pleasure it was to use the Wize Books app to order my daughters books.

I liked the idea that everything that she needed was already loaded, it made things so much easier for me.

Also the delivery of the books was prompt, without fuss and well packaged.

I will most definitely use it again to purchase her next batch of books.

Thanks Wize Books

I bought myself a Christmas present and it was a full priced hardcover edition of Clanlands by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish. It was absolutely money well spent and this charming and quite funny book helped make my Christmas a wonderful one. Clanlands had it all as far as my tastes are concerned: excellent humor, history (sometimes enough to break your heart), the clear and sincere friendship and comradery between Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish and the sense of fun, and joy, emanating from the hit television show on which they both star, or starred in Graham's case (it was Sam who killed him, which causes much hilarity in the book). Each one of the authors is a joy in every way, and the book, in reflecting these two magical figures, in both their real lives and in their fictional characters we see in Outlander, proves to be an equal delight. I hope they both had as wonderful a Christmas as they provided me. Susan Smith

About 14 years ago I began using Google Books to read books online for some research I was working on. The subject matter of the project I was working on surrounded the 1800s, and Google Books had so many books from the 1800s scanned and on their site to read and download. Today, most of these books and many others that used to be open to public viewing like a library are no longer available to be read. Many have links attached to them now where someone can click and buy the book. That seems to defeat the purpose of what Google was originally doing with Google Books. Not happy about this at all. I don't want to purchase the books I use in my research, I want to read portions of them that pertain to my research like I would at a good physical library. Google Books is no longer useful. I hope they change back to what they used to be. The excuse for the change can't be due to older books having renewed copyrights, because other library sites on the internet, especially some at some large universities, allow free viewing of the books in their original copyright online.

I bought my books yesterday and i was told they will be delivered on the 1st March 2018 but today i am pleased to have received them before ETA :) well please guys, keep it up

I read the book The Outsiders by S. E Hinton as a school assignment but it shocked me how much I like the book. The Outsiders is the first book I have really liked. Personally I am not much of a reader but when I started reading The Outsiders I could not put it down. The Outsiders is a short read but it is a great read. The Outsiders is in the perspective of a 14 year old boy named Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy is an interesting character because he is rebellious but he likes things that other greasers wouldn't, for example books, sunsets, and movies. Ponyboy has two older brothers and after their parents died his oldest brother Darry had to throw away his dream of going to college, and his other brother Sodapop dropped out of school to get a job so that they could stay together. The theme of family comes up throughout the whole book. This theme comes up when they are talking about the Curtis family and their gang and the fact that they stick together after everything that happens. The book also shows you that family is not just blood related, it can be people in your life that act like your family. There are a lot of other themes and great lessons that come from this book and that is why I think it is a great read that teaches you many things.

I really loved this book. It has given lots of ideas when speaking to people and it is good fun. I take it on holiday with me when I go to Europe.

I've used these a lot in my studies. I only wish there could be more books with online previews. Could save many students a lot of money

Mati's review
© May 17,2023
Una historia ambientada en Ceballos (Cuba) de 1929, llena de secretos familiares, momentos duros y la vida de 4 hermanos y de sus antecedentes.
Tres hermanas ( Esther, Eugenia y Carmen) y un hermano, Osorio, cuyas vidas marcadas por muchas desgracias me mantuvieron enganchada durante todo el libro.
Aunque la protagonista del libro es Esther, empaticé más con Carmen, la hermana que siempre está por todos, la que les cuida, les protege y les vigila.
Tanto su madre (Luisa) como las dos hermanas (Esther y
Eugenia) han sido víctimas de violencia machista, una historia que se repite como un patrón y de la cual intentan escapar.
Manuela ( la abuela), una mujer fuerte que luchó por los derechos de su genero en una época poco agradecida por ellas, deseó una estripe de mujeres guerreras e independientes para su familia y creo que al final y a pesar de haber pasado por un infierno, sus nietas lo consiguen.
Hubo momentos muy duros y de mucha violencia que me hicieron sentir mucha impotencia pero la vida es así y, tal como han hecho los protagonistas de este libro, hay que afrontar el problema y salir adelante.
Una historia familiar ligada con la historia de Cuba, un casa, Esmeralda, 4 hermanos con historias desgarradoras y una pluma adictiva, natural y fluida componen un libro que no podrás soltar y leerás en una sentada.
De alguna manera ambos libros de Berenice me recuerdan las peliculas de Almodóvar, muy reales y "crudas" y las recomiendo muchísimo.