Ketutar
Hmm... interesting. A little... on your nose, every now and then, and... uh... “I know I'm different” or what it was. A bit too wobbly on the MC not knowing enough, and knowing more than she reasonably could. And in keeping the reader informed, and not letting us know enough. But I liked it, all in all.
I love this story! Zog is the best and hardest working little dragon. The book takes him through his school time. Things happen because he trains so hard to be the best dragon ever, and there's a little girl that happens to be there to help him out. In the end, he can help her out, in a wonderful twist in the story. :-)
THANK GOD IT'S OVER!!!
It was like chewing a piece of food, and it can't be swallowed, it just grows and grows and grows... but... just 200 pages. It won't take long. Just 100 pages. Just 15 pages... it's over, soon. Just one more word, and another, and... WON'T THIS CRAP EVER END!!!!
Ok, so you probably understand I don't like it much. Though I like the story. There were some nice bits in it. I liked the Puca bit and the solution to the thing.
But I didn't like Biddy at all. Well, I liked her in the beginning, but somewhere at 100 pages she became your typical teenage heroine and I hate those. Sorry, all the typical teenage heroines out there, it's probably me being autistic and never having been a typical teenager, but whatever it is, I hate you.
I didn't find her reactions to things to be believable. I think she is hypocritical. She accuses everyone else of lying to her but lies herself without thinking twice about it. She believes her 100+ years old “daddy” can't take care of himself, but needs her, a 16 years old girl who has never done much to take care of the “daddy” to that day - it was always “daddy”s familiar who did all the work there. She was just reading books and running around the island. And what's with the Japan love? Had it been explained somehow it would have been interesting spice to the book, but we are just thrown the snippet that Tokyo was the city she most wanted to visit, and a word, komorebi.
“At this time of year, the path was like a dark green cathedral, dappled with sun, and Biddy told the other two about the words the Japanese had for different kinds of light: Light through leaves was called komorebi.”
“Flickers first, like sunlight glimpsed through leaves, the light the Japanese called komorebi.”
OMFG!!!
One of those books that makes you want to lower the ratings of every other book you have ever read.
I was sobbing for good five minutes after I finished reading this book. Not because it was sad, it wasn't, but because it was so good! Right in the feelings!
I wish I could write like Fredrik... suck
Rather disappointing.Especially after having read [b:Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone 42117327 Sensuous Knowledge A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone Minna Salami https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1579613340l/42117327.SY75.jpg 65707688]Basically just guys talking. I was expecting gals talking, and about the fact how women have been conditioned to mask their true being for centuries, to please, to appease, to support stupid ideals and expectations, and pretend to be something they are not, something lesser, something non-threatening, non-dangerous... and here we had an excellent opportunity to make Eleanor something more, to reveal the glory of true Henrietta. I mean, I don't believe we have an “evil twin”, I believe we have a wild, untamed twin. I don't think The Purge would actually happen, because I don't think most people would commit crimes even if they could do so without any fear of consequences. There's always consequences. I was seriously expecting there to be a twist, and there wasn't. The ending was even more disappointing. It just kind of fizzled out, not that there ever was much of a story to begin with. I found most people's reactions odd and the story itself not very well thought through. Also, what's with the rabbits?
Now, that was interesting. Didn't expect that. Gladys was quite a lady. Daring choice, I say. For a 28 years old. Just some trivial information - Gladys Mitchell was born the same year as my grandfather.
“Dr Beatrice Bradley is elderly, ugly, has darkly sharp insights and an extremely wicked tongue”
And they choose Diana Rigg to play her in the tv series :-D
I think she liked that :-)
A non-USonian black feminist talks about feminism.It's amazing. Everyone should read this, together with [b:Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 23692271 Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1595674533l/23692271.SY75.jpg 18962767] Or, maybe not together :-D It is about women needing to define themselves through themselves, not through men, in relation to men, or through the patriarchal ideas we've been stewed in for a very, very long time.
Hmm... When we were in High School, my classmate read this book and she thought it was hilarious. She had a wonderful sense of humor. She thought [b:Don Quixote 3836 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1546112331l/3836.SX50.jpg 121842] was even funnier. She couldn't speak of it without laughing so much that her speech made no sense.I find the sarcasm in this book, but I don't think it's that funny. There are funny scenes, sure, but all in all, it feels to me as... well... perhaps I would have appreciated it more 250 years ago. Better knowing the circumstances. It also makes me think of [b:Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue 16182384 Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue Marquis de Sade https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1364181572l/16182384.SY75.jpg 13268607], even though in this one the virtues are being rewarded, and in that one, she was punished for being virtuous. To the end. Oh, G-d, how I despise that book! What I find interesting is that also in [b:War and Peace 656 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1413215930l/656.SY75.jpg 4912783] there was a gad luring girls to elope with him, to get married by a sham priest, just to bed the girl and then abandon her. Also... I thought the marriage between the villain and the rich girl didn't happen, that they were never married, but apparently, I'm wrong. Though... I don't understand how he could ever have received her fortune just by signing the papers. I thought there should have been a marriage for the agreement to be of any weight, but apparently not. It seems scrupulous guys could waltz around tricking rich girls off their heritage just like that.
