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Mythical male and mortal female fall in love in Maine against odds.
Formulaic but this week I needed an easy read...this was it.
I have read everyone of Rita Mae Brown's books from her earliest to this one and I have either loved or enjoyed almost all of them. However in this book it seems that Ms. Brown has forgotten that the essence of a novel is a good story. Tell me a story and you can preach politics all you want, make social commentary, and let your opinions hang out. But remember to show me not to tell me. I can read the daily news and get all the insanity and political naivete that I want. But when I'm reading a book by a successful novelist I expect much more.
I have been let down.
Awesome recipes but for the most part these are pretty labor intensive. They will definitely take some prep work. But I would most definitely eat everything in here. YUM!
A memoir that reads like great fiction but is so truthful it's like touching your tongue to frozen glass. Painful and sharp. Incredibly well written and extremely compelling. NOT a happy story but a harsh patch of life that is examined and lived through to healing.
There were some things that didn't jive for me so I have to go with a three ... specifically as another reviewer said there's a very bad thing that happens late in the book that for me seems a little too “randomly planned.” You see that it's going to happen but you don't really know why or how it advances the book.
Warning:The gift this book delivers is not tied with a bow but with a tightly knotted noose.
Everything you would expect from this genre and more. I had never heard of this author but I went for an introductory visit with my new primary doctor. I told him my wife had a book being considered by a publisher and he told me about his friend, William Landay. Thanks Dr. Keithann for leading me here.
The basic premise is every parents nightmare, “what if my child grows up to be a criminal?” But in this case fourteen year old Jacob is becoming the worst type of criminal - a murderer...or is he? Do bad things just happen when people are around Jacob? You will turn these pages till you read the very last sentence and then savor the shock at how everything falls into place.
Perfect summer read. Sure to be a movie if it's not already in production somewhere, trust me, it will be. Read this book.
Draw to Win shows you how to take your business ideas and draw them in a simple step by step format.
This book is much more than that though. There are profound lessons between the pages. I took more notes on this small book than I've taken on tomes many times its size.
From the inspirational to the practical, I'll use the tactics in this book again and again.
There is a nugget of wisdom on almost every page. One of the ones that made me stop was to paraphrase, “stop trying to break bad habits and replace them with new ones.” I've heard that advice before but the way the Mr. Coyle presented it made a pathway into my brain. Good stuff!
Getting rich on the end of the world as we know it. Great concept but I really didn't get into the book till about page 200. Up to that point it felt kind of like it was laying the foundation and sometimes the narrative...well I found myself skimming without losing the context. Some unresolved issues with one of the main characters (Charnobyl) that I would have liked to have seen wrapped up in some way so there wouldn't be a loose end. I know it doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement but it wasn't a bad read.
Reading this book is like eating your favorite comfort food. You feel warm, delicious, and satisfied during and after you've stopped reading. Lot's of twists that made my eyes pop in surprise and more than once I laughed out loud while in a few chapters I might be quite angry. Love this book.
Perfect summer read. Pirates, cooking, sex, adventure, lies, betrayal all rolled into a cannonball of fantastic phrasing. Loved it!
Series of loosely bound vignettes centered around an Indiana song-bird counter cemented with his love of a woman named Lola.
There were some laugh aloud moments in this book but in my opinion it did not have a real plot. Primarily several short and short-short stories that were amusing in themselves but if you're looking for a “story” this probably isn't it.
I read/listened to this book. The story was OK, the mystery was easily figured out for the most part, but it was still a fair book. I did have trouble with the reader as throughout the book she had a self-congratulatory tone in her voice that wore on me badly
I would give this a four if I didn't think those who take the time to read my reviews would take it the wrong way.
Very intriguing glimpse into the mind of an addictive dominatrix. Featured on NPR and by turns funny and complexly disturbing.
This is going to be a book that will be a very difficult read for many people. Ms. Barr is getting darker and more somber in both her stand alone books and in her continuing National Park series. The writing as usual is superb. The characterization is spot on. The subject matter for this book however is where many people may be put off. No more “nice” murders, this time we're dealing with the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children. It's not the same Nevada Barr we used to know but if you realize the author is changing and growing then you can begin to appreciate her last two works. Bottom line Nevada Barr is writing stories as good as Patricia Cornwell used to.
Eight grade female teachers sexual encounters with pubescent males.
Incredibly uncomfortable reading. Excellent story telling.
I listened to the book and perhaps it was the narrator but I at times thought I was hearing a somewhat clinical pedagogical essay as opposed to being immersed into what must be incredibly distressing situation. It was compelling enough that I finished so it's obviously got legs enough to sustain the reading/listening investment.