Mer Barr

Good extension of book 1 on the narrative, the story, and use of the same narrators.

The non-English words were, gratefully, translated. The story is told with very good skill. A great mix of character building and individuals' stories. Considering the way things were going, I was expecting the end to be incredibly sad and horrible. I almost can't believe the author's parents and closest staff survived!

In the mid 90s, I spent a week working with scientists doing an animal census in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park. This memoir was a great catch-up for me and I wonder if the scientists ever went back once the situation improved.

I like when the mystery stretches out but I almost gave up on this one. So many twists n turns and I'm not sure I understand the whole timeline even after reading it!

Good storytelling telling, no going down rabbit holes, a nice variety of characters.

There is so much science packed in this book, I have to read it in short bursts. Lots of thought-provoking research and findings

Tons of good information on the history of the discovery of dna, genes, chromosomes, etc., lots of biographies, and another good job of relaying some complex ideas in non-scientific-minded language.

I will say I had to quit before finishing the entire book, my quote for science had been maxed out.

What can you say about the skill of an author that's on book #17 for the same 2 women but holy cow! These women are still interesting, still growing in character and personality, and thank goodness their mysteries are not always based on someone's death!

My personality is more like Mma Makutse's so I really look up to Mma Ramotswe's compassion, and calm, delay in response, and contemplation before choosing a response or action.

As other reviews have mentioned reading this book out of sequence does not create alot frustration when missing a book or two, but reading several of the first in the series helps set the characters' personalities and their relationships more easily in the mind.

I love how the author has each section being told from the perspective of one of the main characters, with each filling in gaps in the understanding. Thankfully when the author has the proverbial lightbulb go off over someone's head about who did what when, some of the information is made clear in the next section.

A good who-dun-it, with good character building, and the mystery not solvable too soon.

Great story telling skill by the author, telling of fascinating cultures so unlike my own which, sadly, probably doesn't exist anymore.

A nice continuation of the story, still good storytelling and visuals, and still too many Bob to keep track of. :-)

What a fascinating and wide ranging set of skills Milicent Patrick had! So glad the author was passionate about, and determined to complete, her research for the book.

A great read for those who went to work in the 50s-00s as a confirmation they weren't the only ones getting nauseous and angry over comments from male coworkers and other men. And I think a great read for those entering the workforce today, to see another woman in the working world that they can learn from.

The author's storytelling style is much like [a:Patricia A. McKillip 25 Patricia A. McKillip https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1220752490p2/25.jpg]'s early works; a bit slow in movement but robust in the descriptions and especially the word choices for those descriptions is what I love most.This book is a set of stories on the same place but each is more like novellas than shorts. Novellas I can enjoy, shorts I just don't.

As enjoyable as the previous book. The ending seems like a cliff-hanger to me.

If you're visual, consider watching the Starz mini-series of [a:Philippa Gregory 9987 Philippa Gregory https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1560883006p2/9987.jpg]'s The Cousins' War series https://www.goodreads.com/series/55424-the-cousins-war. Or keep a genealogy tree of those folks because you're going to need it to keep all these people straight!A good blend of continuing to move the story along, not much side tracking or bogging down in the details, but plenty of details to make each woman come alive, and better representative of them than most male opinions of strong women.

Didn't realize this was short, unconnected, stories. It's definitely different from the other books of the author's that I've read; this doesn't have the dreaming, descriptive, quality of those stories.

This checks off alot of my requests for a story. Science, the plot moves along no stalling or sidetracking, no confusion when switching between multiple story lines, and characters that have depth and personality.

Another book in the Discworld universe that I'm not fond of.

There's something lost in translation, for me, when reading this series in ebook form. Maybe I need to get the physical book or the audio because the scene changes, especially towards the end, are very quick and short, which generates alot of frustration and confusion for me.

Like some of the others, the story goes beyond the logical end of the story, leaving me wondering what this extra bit is for?

And alot of unanswered questions about plot references. What does the bit about the creation of a city have to do with Death's story? Any why is Death, not Death anymore?

Too much jumping around to stay in sync with what the author was trying to present and figuring out if a section was ‘now' or reminisce. Something need to have if I want to enjoy a book.

And the stories are waaaay too depressing for me, even pre-2020!

It was better the second time around.. several decades made a difference.

A rarity! A second book in a series that's not a ‘dud' but just as good as the first book, and possibly better. Thankfully the same two primary characters I enjoyed in the first book. This time there's alot of philosophy, I think is the right term, in this book.

Alot of what's going on in their own thoughts but not so much that it bogs down the movement of the story. Thankfully the end of the book doesn't end on a final note, giving the impression their story will continue.

My introduction to the story is not the video game but the movie of the same title. As with the movie, this book, created to accompany the game release, is full of people with enough detail and character that you become interested in their lives.

And altho this is about war between two different cultures, and alot of killing, the storyline does a great high-wire act, balancing between the blow-by-blow of the battles and the story between the battles.

And it's answered the question I've always had about the tv-series called Blue versus Red which is also in the same universe, I believe.

About half the book seems to be terms related to space and time travel, which is not a language I know and made it hard for me to become invested in the characters and had me wondering when the plot would get back to the opening scene.

A nice mix of humor, frustration, and information I didn't know.

I'm sure there's a good plot in here somewhere but I couldn't get past the depressing work environment at the start of the book. I managed to ignore it in the first 3 books but this year it hits too close to home.

This was so much closer to what I was looking for than the previous book I read, which focused exclusively on the tactics of the battles. Based on the last several chapters, this book is an excellent condensing of the history of the organization, how they came to be, and how they were actually brought down. Not only does the author go into what can be gleaned from historical documents but also talks about the various spinoffs from Christianity and the different branches of Islam and their relation to the reason for the Templars' creation.

He also goes into alot of the myths that have arisen over time. [The author is definitely not a Dan Brown fan.]

This is going in my personal library for rereading.

Could be a benefit to someone with, or is helping someone with, the higher ranges of the autism spectrum. Also an eye opener on the situation today when it comes to being able to earn an income or get additional help outside of the school systems.