Jessica Vega

Light and fun. Story is being more adventurous and meeting new people.

Ready for the adventure. Just the starting point for now, but seems to get more interesting.

Good reminder of how you feel can affect you physically. Good exercises to work through slowly.

I liked the different perspectives with each character. Their inner thoughts and emotions of hate and love toward each other was in contrast with each other and made you understand why they did what they did. Not much of a history buff but learned about the tumultuous relationship in indonesia with the Chinese and Japanese people.

Liked that it delves into each person’s perspective. To learn more about their past and what they are feeling.

Wow. Definitely tells all. I’m sad that she had to go through all she did, but I’m glad that period of her life is over.

Fun story always worrying about the main character and what he’s losing when trying to help others. Definitely different from the movie from what I can remember.

Intriguing in some areas. The back and forth was funny but got annoying towards the end. Or it’s just me trying to finish the book.

Having seen the movie beforehand I knew what I was going to read and it came through. Fun read overall.

Great book. Leah's character and the way she reads it makes this an entertaining read. Quite informative with scientology being so private.

Makes you think about how your life is and how you can get spiritually better.

Took me a while to read. Plenty of information that I had not known even after watching the movie but quite fascinating. A little too much information at times as there was a lot going on but gets the point across.

Great devotional to use as a journal or just meditate. Gives you things to think about and act on.

Short, inspirational to kick start your decluttering. Made some good points as to why get rid of your stuff and had some good resources to sell your things.

Very informative. Breaks down things so they are easy to understand and be able to focus on them. Can’t wait to try the recipes.

Good book. Interesting magic system, wanting to look more into it.

3.5

Maybe it's my conservative Christian upbringing that made me dislike this book. I understand it's a commentary on how society was and still is. We tend to be obsessive about things and people mostly. And in our journey to obtain them, we go down roads that are not healthy for us. The writing was great, the descriptions, everything. Just that for me I just couldn't get into the book.

Very interesting studies.

Easy to understand if reading on own. A little difficult going back and forth when praying with others.

3.5
Informative, but a bit sluggish at the beginning. It captured my attention a little more towards the end. Could have been the type of anecdotes that just weren't resonating with me.

Maybe 3.5 stars

This is just a depressing book. It feels like he's writing down everything in a journal of past repressed memories. Everything he's writing about he's complaining for one thing or another. Even the good times, he finds something to complain about.
In the second part is him coming to terms with what he goes through and the start of seeking help, which I applaud him for. Unfortunately it's only a small section. Overall, the book was just too depressing but it does give us a glimpse of what he's gone through.

I've read this before as the book. This manga was from a copy from the library and was in PDF format so I couldn't read it very well. The story was good, it had the main points and added narration to it. The only downside I had was the format I read it in.

Cute book, showing how to share and count.

Only halfway in the book but oh my, this is excruciatingly painful to read at times but can't stop reading it. Not sure if I can get my thoughts in order on this one. On the one hand, the book's topic is important. What Vanessa goes through what she believes to be her truth and not willing to reconcile to what everyone else is seeing is hard to read about. Yet, I know that it is something that happens to people with these traumatic experiences.

At the end of the book now, the part that got me the most is, “I just really need it to be a love story... because if it isn't a love story, what is it? It's my life, my whole life.” I feel like it's the moment she realized what truly happened and from then on she can move forward, I don't want to trivialize it, but I guess fixing that part of her life and be better. It certainly gives us a glimpse of what someone can go through and still decide not to press charges.