Rhonda

read with Lucas.

Solid general overview. Gives you everything you need to know to get started on your study of Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood. The 3d maps are particularly interesting.

The brief historical blurb at the end was highly dissatisfying to me. I spent a lot of time answering questions for Lucas, explaining why the Japanese sought to attack America from all the way back in the mid-1800s. What I do appreciate is the book facilitated this important historical dialog and education. It held his interest. For that, I'll slap a 3 star on it for the experience.

finished with Lucas

Read with Lucas.

I disliked this enough I didn't actually finish it. I'm still counting it because the little bit I read was painful enough that I feel I deserve it in my goodreads count.

Infinitely better than the first. improved writing, improved character development. I do hope Maas gets over the words “bark” and “snarl” in the next installment. I got pretty tired of all the sex barking.

subpar writing, poor character development

saddest book I've ever read.

A wonderful cure for insomnia. I fell asleep every time I picked this up.

Quick summary:

Teddy Roosevelt listened to JP Morgan, Rockefeller and so on. Political conservatism started around 1900, not before. JP Morgan & co. were puppet masters. Government and business worked together to destroy small business. Etc.

Holds true from the time it was written in 1959 to today.

Easy to read, fairly unbiased account of the life of Lenin.

I found it rather disjointed, to be honest. I'm new to Russian history and found the book to jump around from 1907-1932, making the actual timeline hard to follow at times.

Welp, I won't call it a good read, but it's certainly an example of providential history.

Took me a week... it was good, but not much really happened, either.

read with Lucas. bad story, lots of stereotyping.

This was probably one of the crappiest books I've read in awhile. I'm not sure there are many people whose memoirs I've read who were more dislikable to me than Sonya Lea. She's lived a life of addiction, whining, and “trying to find herself.” I would say she is one big walking stereotype with the meditation, the Chinese medicine, the meditation and Buddhism with a sprinkling of prayers to God. Really, I couldn't stop reading because I was interested in the medical aspects of her husband who she miraculously didn't leave, but predictably they entered a polyamorous relationship. To any of my friends who see this I say to you: don't bother.

read with Lucas

read with Lucas

probably one of the worst books I've ever read. good idea, but didn't deliver at all. I didn't feel even remotely sorry for anyone. wish I could get the time I spent reading this back and apply it to a better book.

made me feel like crap.

One of the more disturbing books I have ever read. It is hard to escape life without hearing about the atrocities of the Holocaust or Dresden or the bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but as a history degree wielding woman about to start a master's, I had heard precious little about the Rape of Nanking until deciding to read this book. What I read shocked me–it was much like the grittiest of horror films, except I had the knowledge that all of this actually happened. Chang also did a great job explaining the multitude of reasons we DON'T hear about the Rape of Nanking. Easily one of the harshest things I've ever read, and I will be doing more research on my own.

this book was actually bad enough that it put me in a bad mood. I'm going to go eat a sandwich and not vomit it up and hope I can cleanse my memory of this one. Unfortunately I can never get the time I spent reading this back.

Hit or miss throughout, some I particularly enjoyed, some I could have done without.

it was a book. a predictable book.