Lia
Pretty decent productivity book that tries to toe the line between the stressed out productivity crowd and the light positivity mental health focused crowd.
I remember hearing about this book and not knowing anything about the oil sands made it seem like they were drowning people for money but the people employed had no other income streams and just had no choice but to drown people.
Certainly there were negatives and positives, the misogyny, the sexual abuse, the way the loneliness crept up on the men and made them into a different sort of person, the way these people needed to make money to send home but lost all that time with their families versus the camaraderie and looking out for each other and the pay but unfortunately all the negatives are things that crop up with humans any sort of where.
I also appreciated the nuance as the book goes on as Katie starts to be changed herself by her time in the sands, hearing the vitrol in the comments from people back home, where she would so desperately love to be if she didn't need the money and how awkward it feels to make money somewhere else and take jobs from the locals because you yourself can't find jobs closer to your home.
A thoughtful graphic novel that deserves to be with other classics of their time.
Does what it says on the tin, I can't really get mad. But it's ...literally just letters.
Sometimes a book on TSG seems.... unpopular or uncared for and it's curious to find out if it's terrible or a diamond in the rough.
This is neither?
This seems like a new agey sort of The Emotional Code companion, slash beginner magic for non-witches or closeted witches. I am past this part of beginner magic/practical thinking phase. I listened to the Beginning the Little Work section after the first section turned into a list of correspondences for each of the cardinal directions that every other beginner magic book has listed before, and then figured nothing else would be of use to me.
Not as fun as the first book (which wasn't as great as I hoped either) but I like the almanac format.
Just like the musical, this really only gets good in the back half but it's surprisingly meatier and thematic than the musical would lead you to believe.
More enjoyable than I expected it to be, I may have to check out her other books! Great historical timeline jumping mystery set in New York. Hit the exact vibe I was hoping for. Narrator needed a better producer, though. Lots of words mispronounced.
Kinda enjoyed the movie version better but the MC is much more vain and self-absorbed than Clooney ever seemed (which says more about his acting, I guess) so it's harder to relate to him in the book.
Everyone made it seem like this was going to be truly weird and out there. All I got was half of Fleischman Is In Trouble. Did you know being a woman sucks?
I think my copy is a more updated version but it's still very dated in explaining anything other than “you just gotta do it”
The lore isn't all that interesting as a whole but I'm sure if he'd been able to complete it it would make sense. As it is, this is to blame for all the fantasy authors who Care Too Much about their world and think their readers care as well.
Funny and cute look at modern motherhood and womanhood. But not really my thing. Took a look at this because apparently it's being optioned as a movie (what isn't these days) and thought it'd be nice to read a modern book before it's been adapted.
Before we had drunk history, we had rejected princesses on Tumblr!
That's basically how I feel about this. It starts out saying that people may not finish this book because they will read some inaccuracy or something that they don't understand and decide the rest of the book is full of inaccuracies also (which sounds strange because... is history not ever changing?). But the book also paints half of the tales and folklore and myths as fact and doesn't explicitly tell you every time that they might be propaganda or myths or legends until after the fact. Some of them are very clearly folk stories and other ones are pieced together from legend and fact but never is it clearly delineated which is which in every story. Some get graphic and some are very realistic and others are like children stories. Thankfully there is a legend that explains which are kid-friendly and which aren't, but honestly, it's a book about women's history, it's not all roses ever. I think ordering the stories for children and the ones that include mature events separately would have made for better reading to kids instead of skipping around the book. Instead everything is shuffled together and leads to a very odd rollercoaster of emotions as a reader. It doesn't feel well researched when everything is cobbled together in that sense, even though the bibliography and acknowledgments seem VERY thorough.
Anyway. I'm glad this this exists and that I own this, and have read it, finally. I just had issues with the presentation.
Also every trigger warning is needed.
Decent if you care about their drama show, it gets more fun once I realized it wasn't going to be a book verison of their travelogue show but just blurbs of their memories during the show interspersed with some history. McTavish is hilarious.