Tracy C
Good book... another take on the “Great Depression”. Kind of like the Grapes of Wrath. Frustrated with some of the storyline and some of the characters. Things left undone and unsaid.
Overall enjoyed it.
What a story of humanity and how we treat each other.
Hope, faith, greed.
Eye-opening, with the capacity to change the reader and have an impact, if the reader is open to such things.
I really enjoyed this book. I loved the characters. I was emotionally tied to some of them. But I really didn't like how the book ended. I won't give anything away, but... I didn't like it. Yet, I enjoyed some of the characters so much that I've giving the book an overall 4 star rating anyway.
Wonderful story. I really enjoyed this book and the way the various characters were intertwined. Back and forth on the timeline usually gets me confused, but this one I was able to follow.
Crazy! A baffling look at human emotions and one way that Huxley came up with to address life and “balance” things out. The person that they referred to as “the savage”, is the only “real” human. People are expected and raised to take any erotic behavior and play as acceptable, even for children. Some of this book is quite shocking, but I believe that is its' goal!
Interesting book about the life of James Beard. I wasn't really “into” in the first 2/3. But the end was much better and more engaging to me.
Almost became a DNF (did not finish). But I “powered through”. I really wanted to like it more because of my interest in food tv right now.
This volume in the series was still an “ok” book, but felt like an intermission, or interlude. Like... wait... we know you're waiting and we're trying to get everything together backstage as quickly as we can!
I actually understood this better reading/listening to the story than I did following the movie!
Excellent book. Change your thinking, read better, become limitless. I still need to download the extra resources and go through the different Jim Kwik provides. I can't wait to see where these improvements will take me. I was initially about a 350 word per minute reader. Using the pacer method, I bumped up to 450. After a couple of weeks of trying these new tips, I can't wait to see where I am with my new skills.
Interesting book. Based on war, or focused on a soldier named Billy Pilgrim, and his life. Going through war, flashing back forward and back in time, to times before and after the war, and even traveling to another planet.
Daily life of Anne Frank as she lived in hiding during WWII. The atrocities that power-hungry men subject the world to are unspeakable, and need to stop. We're living through it all over again... I just hope not to the extent. Her references to Crimea being taken struck a chord for me at this moment, with Russia invading Ukraine! Power-hungry white men.
Read book. Recommend for Shea maybe, depending on content due to her love for all things “Paris”, if that's still the case.
Recommended by Nathaniel Drew.
Need to expand on this later, but Rachel always does such a great job of laying things out. She makes everything bare, and “obvious”... like “duh”, how did I not see that?
Excellent book. One that will stick with me for a long time. I realize the amount of privilege I have, as a white woman, born in the US. If you're able to get through this book without those realizations, you have a hardened heart (in my opinion). The challenges this woman has to overcome, and the things she goes through, as well as the people around her... just heart-wrenching.
I know they only share with us what they want... but I love when artists tell their stories and let us get a glimpse of their world. I loved hearing about Alicia's.
I cannot recommend this book enough.
Our history and its stories are heartbreaking. I love the story that Mr. Coates built around the actual histories presented by Mr. Still.
Nuri and Afra lose their son Sammy, and are chased out of their home in Aleppo. They head west, seeking refuge from the violence brought upon them by the Asad regime. What a heartbreaking story of love, love lost, and love found. Such humanity.
Interesting book. The original still creeps me out, as does this. But it was interesting to see how Margaret Atwood wrapped this up. I watched the first two seasons of the show on HULU, and wondered how true they were to the book. It looks pretty accurate to me.
Spoiler beyond here.
Wonder if she was prompted to go back and “make things right” because people were unsettled, or if she had already been thinking about it.
Eye-opening! Information for the uninformed! There is so much history that surrounds this war on humanity (my own term). I'm going to have to listen to this again, and frankly, study it. The whole situation is much more complex than I had ever imagined. But it also goes back to British colonialism again... it makes me angry as a person, that the Palestines have been put through what they have been put through, and then the situation that the Jews were put in, and how decisions were made surrounding the people of this region of the world, and their diaspora as well!
I have to listen to this again.
I have to read this again.
I have to study this!
And I realize this was written from one perspective, and that there are others, and I plan to find and research those as well.