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The end was satisfying

Read aloud by a creative writing teacher, she has a background in improv, who has an amazing cache of fun voices. Additionally, it made my usually stoic, nonsense only on my terms, third grader laugh out loud with the rest of the kids.

Also, there a certain type of kindness I think it is trying to teach. I thought it was funny, too.

Loved the art! Loved the use of that aqua blue.
The third story (Monsters!) was so satisfying. I thought that the “speech” bubbles being in the shape of the monsters was clever. As well as the ending of him ‘telling' it as a fishing tale (at least that's how I interpreted it).

I liked the first tale ‘Có' but it kind of fizzled in the middle for me. As for the middle story, I felt its depictions were a bit much at times and started to ‘skim'.

It was essentially fan fiction. Lots of fandoms mentioned, sometimes that was fun, but other times lazy, cheap, or poorly done.

Sense of time was weird, story was supposed to have happened in one day , except for the campy ending.

I loved the quote, “one should reconsider perpetually one's reasons for doing something, because it may be that circumstances have changed.”

So good.

2.5

Her cursive script was lovely, but hard for me to read.

It was not a happy story, which I acknowledge is what life is for some, but in the telling of it, something was missing.

Sometimes I could hear his voice to narrate it. So good!

I really enjoyed this. The pacing towards the end could have been a little smoother, a question or two popped up that was a little distracted.

Loved the fairy tale feel.

Great art and cute story

Great artwork!

Wish I had read with my goddaughter :)

2.5
I am very thankful that Grimalkin shows up to make some connection to the rest of the series. Not a lot of substance; I couldn't connect to the characters.

Took me forever to find.
I've enjoyed similar concepts of gods gaming strength from their followers. This was cute, I think it had a lot more potential, but still a fun read.

One of the better volumes with consistently great art.

I loved certain parts of this and there were decent characterization. Also I laughed at many points.

Draw backs: what school has their senior class start reading Moby Dick in May?! Way to shoe horn in a way for you to make allusions and it kind of broke the suspension of disbelief for me.
There we too many times John Green described the act of peeing.
how is it that the omnicitionary blurb for what a paper town does not show up earlier? Q searched for that phrase but only said that he found it buried in a realestate forum. Either Q is really bad at using the Internet, or plot convenience, either way it weakens the story for me.
Pro-tip: if the only shirt available has a confederate flag on it, turn that shit inside out (although I didn't mind that part)

Started it, didn't get into right away. It wasn't bad, just not what I was in the mood for, maybe I will try it again later.

Really enjoyed this. Good writing and what I thought was excellent characterization of a goblin.

Read at: http://www.tor.com/2015/12/09/the-log-goblin-brian-staveley/

Read at: http://mrkwon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/1/13216665/the_paper_bag_princess1.pdf

At first I wasn't sure about the art or the story. The story is a bit convoluted in the beginning, but then I got into its rhythm and it became a good (albeit, fast) paced saga.

2.5
Not bad for a free introduction, but it's not exactly my genre (close though)

Really liked near the end the reference to Gene Yang. It's cheesy, but I enjoy cheese from time to time. I enjoyed the portrayal of the father (only ever viewed as from behind the newspaper) and the possibility of the job he never gets the chance to take, but that the readers knows he'll never take.

Probably closer to a 3, but it was easy to get caught up in the characters and their familiar stories.

I liked it, however I felt it fell a little flat. The ending was lacking.

The nostalgia! Always a good, quick read. Makes me want to gobble up the pages and stay up past my ‘bed time'. I remember devouring this series when I was younger, I'll see if I can find the 9th book.

I was expecting more, but it was ok.
There was some dry humor, as well as a few actually funny parts. Some characters were more likable than others, but they mostly seemed younger than they were supposed to be. I don't think the narrator helped, or that the audio book was clipped into less-than-a-minute segments.
I'll still listen to ‘Looking for Alaska', even though it's the same narration and audio style.

Originally I had rather enjoyed this book. A while ago I learned that Mortenson had been quiet dishonest.

Here's a refresher for those who might need it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Mo...

Financial mismanagement
Dishonest accounts of events

2.5
Unfortunately, the audiobook that I checked out had a faulty disk, so I missed about three chapters (20, 21, and 22), but I still felt that the ending fizzled a little. I didn't want a bow, nor did I expect one, it just felt like he turned off the tap. The chapters were starting to feel more and more like short stories, instead of a cohesive narrative.

There were also some difficult subject matters, and some I felt were a bit over done. As a whole I enjoyed it more than I didn't. If I'm able to find it I'll view the movie as well :)