melissa
This one exceeded my expectations. My favourite Shel Silverstein book so far.
I cannot recommend his poetry enough really.
You can feel your imagination expanding reading this.
A great remedy for writer's block, plus it's perfectly funny.
I am not a fan of what apparently constitutes contemporary poetry and that's
taking
a
sentence
and
spacing
it. out. as. much as.
possible.
however i did enjoy her prose. if she ever writes a novel, i would definitely check it out.
The series is still consistent, there was some more “emotion” in this one, if we can call it that, sadly very briefly, tho again, makes sense when your narrator is a psychopath.
The more the series goes, the more Dexter fumbles and the funnier it's getting. Another fun book, tho a bit all over the place. I mainly wanted some more Deb basically.
*the Cuba mentions were annoying but not as annoying as in other American media, so a bit bearable.
I remember when i used to work in a bookstore, a client once asked me if I had a book to recommend for a girl who lost her mother, I wish i knew about this book then.
The book is fine, I just couldn't get hooked.
I surprisingly loved this book. I usually don't like young adult books, as they seem too one dimensional, but this is a really good book. It's a slow book, where nothing really happens, is narrated by Death, and it's the most realistic book I've ever read set during a war. The waiting around, the improvised games, and the always present Death.
When death is coming from above, randomly and haphazardly, there's nothing to do, there's no action, and there's no planning. Everyone is a pawn in much bigger hands, and hoping death won't be coming for them this time, while planning their little rebellions here and there. I don't want to spoil any parts, so I'm being really vague, but it's a book that I have deeply felt, with characters that I truly got attached to.
Sure it's not Canon, I will never consider it as such, and it's definitely no JK Rowling either, but that never stopped me from enjoying HP fanfiction.
That world is so wide, that in my mind that world already contains many alternate versions. I enjoy many of them, and this play is an added one.
I feel everyone needs to read it, cause unlike what i expected (some set of rule book for Princes à la Art of War) it's more of a History analysis on how powers came to be, and why they succeeded or failed. It's eye opening, realizing that the political strategies are still the same, and how we're all still being played in the Machiavellian machinations of nations.
I have really enjoyed this one. The illustrations are nice, so are the tales. Weirdly, the tales are not strange at all comparing to Grimm's or Perrault's. They're just wholesome stories where good people have happy endings, and everything is for the best.
I'd already watched the movie, and the book is as awesome as I expected. Had a problem with the illustrations of the edition I have (by Chris Riddell), they were meh, nothing in comparison to the beauty and creepiness of Dave McKean's illustrations. I kept a google image page of his Coraline illustrations open while reading the book, they compliment each other perfectly. All in all, I feel like I want to watch the movie again, and read other books by Gaiman (recommendations always welcome).
I have found the best travelling book! I've been reading it on long train rides, or on flights, and it just puts me in such a good mood. The book made me laugh all through out, and got me really overwhelmed towards the end, but i think that's just me being tired from travelling. I am just truly happy for James.
I would've read it much earlier if I knew it was written from the point of view of a tomboy. ‘twas a delight being in the head of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. Great book. I enjoyed every facet of it, and there are many.
Thought Capote's blurb for the book to be perfect;
“Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable.” -Truman Capote
I will definitely be getting Go Set a Watchman, cause sure as hell one Harper Lee book is not enough.
It's a short one. I read Solitaire a while back so kinda forgot their dynamic a bit, still a nice short read.
I have no idea who this book was written for. If you've seen the show, you already know all that's in the book, and if you haven't, there isn't enough info for it to not be confusing? Maybe some people couldn't keep up during season 1? Maybe it was written to fill in the gap cause of the hiatus between S1 and S2?
Anyway it is obvious that season 1 and 2 had a very different concept for the Crystal Gems as a Resistance movement (also very clear in the book), and I personally feel, the direction of the show changed after that.
Now I want to rewatch season 2.
It's the kind of book that while reading, you have to fight yourself to not put it aside and start writing your own cause you have so many thoughts going through your head, and really that's the best thing a book can do to you.
I don't think I have the words to explain it, nor will I give it justice (many have written about it and much more eloquently), so I'm just gonna urge everyone to read it.
I do not like to write negative reviews cause writing any book is difficult, but that one had a big flaws on a political level. I personally feel offended when someone uses the tag “afro futurist” when the story is in no way shaped by the race of the character, and the protagonist just happens to be black. Like really, what is the point of writing a sci-fi book at this point.
Second of all, I just knew the book was written by a second generation American immigrant from the first paragraph. Can they for one second not “defy their traditions” and then spend the whole book speaking about how alienated they feel outside their community. Why did you leave?!?! Third, I really have no idea about the lore of the universe in this book, thus I really did not care about the Meduse's operation or whatever the whole book was about. No description whatsoever about the History of these “planets”? satellites? Galaxies? where even are we?
Dear Binti, just go harmonize with your family, and enjoy the desert you come from. No one cares about you being the first to join a university, cause according to you, you already are masters of your trade, so just enjoy your traditions and stop defying them just to follow this ridiculous metaphor of an “American dream”.
This book was so American, i can't.
Sorry but [spoiler alert!] what kind of operation that starts with the killing of a bunch of civilians is then dealt with diplomatically. Really? no retaliation? Binti told the Meduses that she's gonna represent them after a massacre, and the uni was like “our bad, take whatever you want”. What the hell liberals? Wars were started over less! Especially when it's the oppressed people doing the damage.
Anyway, still 3/5 cause it was well written style wise, and an easy read, but some nuance and depth please. It's science fiction.
I really liked it, the last third was so beautiful, but it felt more like a novella than a novel. i wish it went more in depth, longer, more developed instead of a sort of just a metaphor.
I liked it. The story is compelling, the characters are awesome, and the art is really good. Ending every issue with an essay on Feminism is a great bonus, especially when they're beautifully written (also the Q&As, which remind you of the importance and the rarity of such a book to exist), but I'm only going to review the comics part of this volume for now.
Even though I really enjoyed it, I felt like there's a major flaw in the setting of the story.
It seems like we're in a dystopian future, but it doesn't feel like it. Usually in a dystopia, the writer finds out a pattern in our society's evolution and exaggerates it in the future, putting a mirror in front of our eyes, to scare us from what's to come. However, here, we have a 1950's society but with a better technology for oppressing women this time. I'm not saying that misogyny is gone, but I'm sure we're not on our way to having women shipped out to another planet. Or at least, not anymore.
It's a pretty cool set up, but usually when a writer doesn't want to follow the natural evolution of a society, they would insert a major event that would destroy Earth as we know it, so they'd be able to introduce their own logic, and suggest whatever consequences they want. Everything in this comic is really accurate, yet farfetched at the same time, because the backstory was not established (a sort of Deus ex Machina slipped at the beginning of the story).
I wonder what happened in this parallel universe that made Planet Bitch justifiable and women so disposable.
The series is still at its beginning, so maybe they'll be clearing up some of the issues in the volumes to come. There's a lot of potential in here. I will keep checking in, the story is still gripping and the character development very interesting, and of course the extended backmatter is the crown jewel.
The only flaw I can find in this book, is you need to be a fan of Sleater-Kinney to enjoy it, and that makes it quite esoteric. However, if you're a fan (and by “fan” I mean have memorised all of their back catalogue), it's definitely a must.
It feels familiar, reassuring and a love letter to the band.
What I enjoy most in sci-fi, is the reflection of the reality of the author, in the way he imagines the future, and how descriptive it is of their own time. It shows that the book was written when the “specter of Communism was haunting Europe”, and when the Theory of Evolution suggested that anything is possible. However, the future imagined by Wells felt a tad ridiculous. Even though he explains his theory in the book, and how the present we live in lead to that future, but all I could think of was “really? that's what you came up with?”. It's still a very enjoyable adventure book, but as far as sci-fi books being an observation of reality, I found this one lacking. It felt more like a fantasy book (i know that I have more than a century of science discoveries over him but that's not what I'm talking about).
It's a must read, but it's too concise so will be rereading it a couple of times more.
I always enjoy Nick hornby's books, but this one is not one of his best. Around two thirds, I felt the book was ready to be finished, but it still kept going on. Still enjoyable, the characters were real enough, it had the feeling of About a Boy, the protagonist kept digging himself in a deeper hole, but you keep chuckling, so still good. I feel this book would make a really good movie, the way his other books were adapted.
The title really says it all, and in this context “Bread” is not money, just the basic need for food. It obviously should be a priority, yet in the capitalist system and in many “revolutions”, bread (or food) doesn't seem to take part of the plan. Definitely necessary reading.
