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I really like the television series. I do think that without having been faithfully watching it that this wouldn't have been a good read.
The graphics are okay, I have seen better, but also seen worse. The dialogue leaves a bit to be desired, and at times there seemed to be too many gaps in the story line, too much cut out. I will probably read a few more installments as they come before deciding whether to continue with this, or to throw in the towel.
I received a copy in exchange for an honest review.
This is another great story written by Haidji. I love the way the words she uses string together so lyrically. This is beautiful. Parts made my heart ache, I truly felt this story with every feeling imaginable. I can think of no other way to describe this than to share an excerpt:
Believe in deeds and not just words.
In acts we see who persons are
In words we see only
who they would like to be.
Believe in those who make you smile
and not in those who just smile at you.
Those will leave you crying alone
after you wiped their tears.
For as they did not see your smile.
They will not see your tears.
But only their own tears
and their own smile.
They smiled at Ines,
and then they killed her.
They ignored her tears.
They did not think about her children.
Driven by conveniences.
In a world where there was no room for love.
Her tears fell and gave rise to Tears Fountain.
Love?
Love fell with her,
touched the ground, took root and was
reborn, as the Tree of Love.”
This begins with a brief telling of the tragic love between Ines de Castro and King d Pedro I. The present swirls and intertwines with the past, their story.
Book won in LibraryThing giveaway. I agreed to review in exchange.
I love these books. They are packed with so much information. My son brought this home from the school library today. We read it together, but he is still examining the pictures and cool facts.
My counselor had me read this a while back when I first started taking suboxone. This helped me to better understand the road ahead of me.
This is okay. I liked some of it, but other parts feel like they were added in for girth.
What we have here is an alphabetical listing of advice/guide for those who are “on the spectrum:” Autism, ADHD, Aspberger's Syndrome, etc. In my opinion this isn't specifically for that though. Some of this is good advice for people in general. I do want to add that I think there are a lot more people in our society that are on the spectrum than we are aware of. They just don't get help for their tendencies. I wish some of this advice were maybe backed up by stories from people living on the spectrum.
Some of this was amusing, but felt like general ranting (which I am not saying is a bad thing):
Arranging things (see OCD) I recently saw a TV show where a forensic psychologist implied that a man was a psychopathic killer by asking him if he arranged his socks by color in a drawer. Aunt Aspie was was shocked and appalled! If arranging things were aa system of mental dysfunction, imagine hoe difficult buying groceries would be... “Excuse me, can you tell me where your pasta is?” “I don't know lady,your guess is as good as mine... somewhere.” Neatness and tidiness means there is one less thing to confuse us in our day.
Some of us take it to an extreme level. Those people make good overseers, organizers, engineers, teachers...
The entire time I was reading this I kept picturing Tyler Perry's Madea reading this book to me. To be honest, it was quite entertaining to imagine.
My main problem was the formatting of my ecopy. The ABC's were not bold, at times I found it almost difficult to decipher between one topic to the next. I reslly had to pay attention when a simple use of bold would have sufficed.
For each letter there is more than one topic, often times there are quite a few. Examples: Gender Issues, Sex, Relationships, Self-Pity...
Recommendation:
There is quite a bit of good information here. I think this would be of great help to a family member wanting some understanding without feeling overwhelmed, or someone just needing something funny to lighten a recent diagnosis.
Review copy via Edelweiss.
This is not as good as I thought it would be. I feel it lost so much of what made the story so good. Too much bouncing around. It has been a while since I read the book, over two years. I was lost on who was who, what was what. The graphics were good, not great, just good. I haven't read manga in a while, but when I did read it, I was really into it. I will give the second installment a chance, but if that doesn't spark more interest I will not continue.
Expected publication: October 2016
This shows you how to build different apparatuses to send different items shooting in the air! It is AMAZING. I have always had a liking for this type of thing. I got in trouble in high school for building a pipe bomb. NO LECTURES, I know it's dangerous! This fuels the pyro/adreneline junkie side of my personality with easy to follow instructions, nice graphics to help to instruct, and so many option as to send things flying through the air. This is a must have for all you who want to know the fundementals to this. Do it the safest way possible and follow the directions.
I forsee so many fun spent summer afternoons in my future! Summer fun with the family (the marshmallow guns!).
Thank you so much Edelweiss for providing a review copy of this!
This is intended for children age 0-6.
What an adorable book this is. It is only about 32 pages long, the perfect bedtime story for nights when you are short on time.
This is about a little girl, Mabel. She hates to go to sleep. She will try everything. I have have heard these same things from my children on many occasions...
“I'm thirsty.”
“I need to use the bathroom.”
I recommend this for girls age 0-6. This would have definitely been a favorite for my girls when they were younger.
This is nice, but not at all what I expected. I thought the illustrations would be brightly colored, and there would be more to read, but all in all this is great. This is one of those books that you sit n you coffee table (or toilet) because it is such a simple, but interesting book that will keep someone entertained, but not engrossed.
The illustrations are back and white, they remind me of a coloring book. There is not dust jacket. The reason I point that out is because I like that feature because it makes it much easier for my clients at work to keep in one piece.
When I pick up a shifter book by Suzanne Wright, I expect a story full of alpha men, dominant women, laugh out loud fun, and steamy sex. I got what I expected.
In this book we have Ryan from the Pheonix pack, and a lone wolf named Mackenna. Ryan is a man of few words, he rarely holds a conversikn, and states on facts when he speaks, except when Mackenna is around. She gets under his skin, but he can't get enough of her.
Mackenna is happy being a lone wolf who volunteers at a shelter for other shifters who find themselves suddenly packless. She meets Ryan while trying to find a home for a young teenager who she finds passed out on her doorstep. She is spunky, self confident, and not looking for a mate. She admits that there is an attraction to Ryan, but doesn't agree with him that they are mates.
If you're new to this series, I recommend starting from the beginning.
I recieved a copy of this book from Netgalley.
I just picked this book up but I have a comment about the cover. At first glance I thought I had grabbed the wrong book because the hot dude on the front looked like a muscular chick in an orange tank top...lol
Entertaining read but it was kind of hard to follow. I didn't read the first in series so I'm going to in hopes of answering some questions I have. Very original idea but it could have been executed better.
Ok, my thoughts...I, um...what the hell was this?!?! I hated the whole thing BUT it is well written. I would not call this book erotica but it is filled with sex just not the kind that gets you carpal tunnel. I felt sorry for everyone's asses through out the entire book because it was full out spankathon.
Parts of this book were great others were not so great. Skimmed through parts but I will put rest of series on my to read list. Lot's of sex.
Greif stricken heroine can't move forward with life plus a hero who has also experienced loss. Heroine is human and hero is selkie. They happen to be mates. Throw in a powerful bad guy wanting to use said heroine to procreate with.
I read this with my 6 year old son. We had a blast! There is so much going on in the illustrations with Roly-Poly Monster hopping all over the page leaving a dotted line trail behind him as he explores the zoo. My son enjoyed tracing the trail with his finger! The story itself was written with a mix of words that he could sound out and others that I had to read. Taking turns reading became game and soon he was really concentrating on trying to sound out the larger more complicated words. I usually have a hard time getting him in the mood to read with me but this book grabbed his attention right from the beginning. It also gave me the perfect opportunity to show him how a map and key work using an illustrated railroad map in the book (his favorite page)! I had a hard time getting my tablet back from him.
Big round of applause to both the author and illustrator!
What caught my attention about this book was the description, more accurately the sentence: A library with the secrets to the universe. I clicked the request button without reading anything else wanting to ensure myself ne of the w5 available coies. I am so glad I did. It's one of the strangest, creepiest, memorable and shocking books I have ever come across.
What an opening sentence:
Carolyn, blood-drenched, and barefoot, walked alone down the two-line stretch of blacktop that the Americans called highway 78.
After that, I couldn't it it down without impatiently waiting to pick it back up. I still haven't fully absorbed all that I read, and am not sure that I ever will. I already want to pick it back up to restart reading this. I think I will, I am sure there will be more that I find the second time around now that I know what to expect. This is easily one of the best books I have ever read. I was so shocked to find out that this is the author's debut novel, I so wanted more from him. I hope there is more to come, soon, I am not a patient person.
How can you be attracted to a guy who just said he wants to kill you?
Ara was so damn annoying that I kept on hoping that he actually would kill her...lol
Has potential. Needs polished in a bad way. Like the first book in series it has so much potential. Even with all of the amateur mistakes in this book the story line is very memberable.
I read this book a while ago when it was titled GLAMOUR. It had so much potential but needed edited in a BAD WAY! I accidentally ran across this book and recognized the author's name. I hoped it had been through a rewrite. This story has so much potential but it is not there yet. I will read the next in series hoping for improvememt.
I really wanted to enjoy this. The problem was that for me it felt like it needed one more tweaking and polishing before being published. Words ran into each other making it distracting and easy t lose my train of thought. I thought word choices culdnt have different. The dialogue felt flat. And the character developement was just so-so. I didn't connect with anyone from the book and didn't really care what happened to them.
You know those freebie shifter romance books you can get on Amazon for free that are mediocre at best? That is what this reminded me of.
I recieved a copy of this through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
A sweet coming of age book. A story about how blooming personalities change a friendship. My daughter really enjoyed this book mainly because she has an aunt very close in age to her and she could relate to the main characters through personal experience.
It is a very cute book but it confused my son who is in kindergarten and learning to read. The animals in the book are fictious animals and my son doesn't get that even though the word is printed in the book it is not a real word. The pictures really grasp his attention. Kudos to the illustrator!
Let me start with the reason I requested this book. I have two teen/tween girls. They are constantly scouring the internet for new ways to style their hair. Normally, they end up on Youtube, which is fine, but I have seen so much frustrating come from trying to pause, rewind, or slow down the videos they watch. Plus, I hate when they plug their phones/tablets in my bathroom. Toilets and electronics do not mix well.
I really didn't expect this to be as nice and easy to understand as it is. I love this book. I am horrible with hair, I can even accomplish some, maybe most of the styles. This is perfect for athletes who like to braid their hair before games or practice. It was a hit at a slumber party this weekend.
I recommend this to mothers of girls who like their hair done up and you're out of ideas.
I recieved a copy of this through Blogging for Books in exchange for an honest review.