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I'll be honest and say that I picked this physical copy up on a camping trip near where Lucy Ann/Joseph lived solely due to the idea that this person may have been transgender. But having read this, it feels more like the sort of “sworn virgin” type of life that many women in the wild west era of history did to keep themselves going (the references to sexual perversions and genital appearance aside). The preface and epilogue sections highlight a lot of the better parts of the narrative in a way that finally getting past both to read the actual narrative felt like a letdown. All the good parts were already discussed!
Any woman living today understands the plea at the end of the narrative and it's sad to me that we're still fighting for this. But also poor Mr. Slater, fighting to feel like a protector for someone too independent to need him. Strange that he would abandon them when they were actually about to need him most. Some mystery is to be had on both their accounts of their life together. Neither seemed to add up to the truth.
Anyway. This is an interesting, rare find of a first hand account of the times. Only available digitally as an e-book that's somehow more expensive than the physical copy. And only two places have copies of their original manuscript? They belong alongside Calamity Jane as an icon of that time.
it's like the burn book from mean girls but a nicer, better evolved version. yungblud is a chill dude.
I don't know why they thought this needed a movie, or how they made it better than the book without making a good movie.
Pretty decent and accessible guide to chicken raising. Most of the info I had to crash course myself in after a chicken wandered into our yard one day and stayed. And from what I have gathered on various blogs and Youtube channels, to supplement reading this book, this book is fairly accurate to all kinds of styles of backyard chicken keeping.
An okay memoir that doesn't really say much. She needed a better ghost writer or whatever because it gets repetitive, the story is not outlined well, and the constant privileges checks get so annoying. Just write your story and don't stop every five sentences to annotate or paren what people might be thinking as they read! It kept the story from feeling deeper. Also I guess Sue Rider is getting a portion of the money from this. With how much the charity is mentioned throughout this it felt like an ad or sponsorship, if that is poss.
TBH nothing here that you won't figure out after being in cockatiel circles and forums online, or having a bird for more than a year. And lots of outdated information on nutrition and housing.
Not as good as the main storyline but really fun to watch other artists and writers play in the Mouse Guard realm.
A fun introspective collection of Nick teen star thoughts. Are these really all poems? I don't know.
Something about western ecchi/nsfw titles that just can't keep up with the first volume. Sex Criminals was the same. I won't bother with the next volume.
Cute little Cliff Notes for all of your high school career. I wonder if there's an updated version that could be useful for future generations as a tome to have on hand when needing to look up concrete things instead of just googling always.
So terrible the way this show went downhill so quickly. It deserved a 8-9 season run. Everything was there, but the writing just didn't keep up to what could have been. That first season was like lightning in a bottle and this journal is a testament to how exciting it all felt back then.
As someone who had a starling from 14 days old to 12 years old, I was hoping for a book about the most famous of his kind. And the title is misleading in that sense This book is not completely about Star, Mozart's starling, but also about the magnificent world of starlings, in the past and present, as the author also shares her stories of living at home with her own starling.
I recommend this to people who hate starlings because you're missing out on a gorgeous personality in these birds. But I also recommend it to people who love and possibly have loved individual starlings in their lives as well, because all the stories of Carmen made me weep with familiarity. They could have easily been about my little guy as well. This is an educational and fantastic ode to starlings everywhere.
One of the more original takes on zombie and xenofiction that I've read. I laughed out loud at many things and felt deep sadness at others. At times it does get preachy, as some reviews said, but that's part of the dystopian genre at this point. Genuinely loved this despite its faults. It's so rare for me to enjoy a more modern book but it gives me hope that there are still good books being written, you just have to find them in all the overhyped trash.
I don't remember what book gave me this recommendation, but I do like Bojack Horseman so I thought I'd give it a shot. Not really my type of thing anymore, definitely a 20 something's set of stories but some were good despite not being directed at me, and thus relatable. Not to say a book has to be relatable to be good but sometimes they're written just for a certain audience and that's ok. That certainly seems to be the focus here. For anyone else, it's a good collection but nothing too memorable after a week.
This is the sort of book that could only exist in the same world as social media. We need little blips of light in this chaotic world, but without social media having dragged us down this far, it wouldn't have been needed in this way. Very interesting read.
When this book came out I was crazy about Ali Wong but after hearing about her marriage fall apart, this book is cringey at best to read. All her pride about how well their marriage works and how they're different than other couples... well, as a love letter to her girls there's definitely a few lessons to be learned.