Bronwyn

This is a cute little book. My son likes the flaps and making the animal sounds (when he knows them! -What sound does a camel make anyway...?). He knows puppy now too. :)

I feel like I've read this more than the twice Goodreads says... Maybe I'm just so familiar since I've seen multiple adaptations? This is a classic for a reason. Such a good mystery. I don't know that I buy the end though; it seems a bit out of character for Poirot. So good though.

Nice illustrations, fun words chosen.

In a lot of ways I shouldn't like this (all the pop culture references, all the wish fulfillments, everything being tied up with a bow at the end), but man if this wasn't a fun ride. I think I like Ready Player One better (it felt a bit more organic if that can make sense at all given the topic), but so, so good.

Half listened to, half read. The pictures are wonderful.

Really sweet little book, good rhymes. My son loves the hugs. :)

(Don't know the exact date/s I read this, but we've read it multiple times in the last month.)

This book felt a bit confused in parts, but I did really enjoy it. It just seemed like it was trying to be a few things at once and so the central argument about well-behaved women making history got a bit lost. I thought it was most effective in the discussion of the abolition and first wave feminist movements.

I most identified with the book near the end in the discussion of women's studies classes and the women who didn't take them and later felt they ought to have. I'm feeling like that lately; like I'm coming to this all about a decade late and I'm trying to catch up.

Overall it was a really good book even if it didn't always seem to follow Ulrich's thesis.

This was such a bizarre story, but super interesting!

I've recently listened to this podcast about the Victorian bird market, which is super interesting too: https://www.dressedpodcast.com/podcasts/murderous-millinery.htm

Also, guys, Edwin Rist does flute covers of pop songs and tv music! https://youtu.be/CKnEp5qdANQ

Listened to the Audible recording.

What a crazy book. I'd watched the documentary when it aired (and rewatched it as I was nearing the end of the book), but the book has so much more. Nuts.

Cute book that I hope will help come potty training time.

Read for the first time in a year:
January 26, 2021

This is a fun book. My son loves it. Some of the pages are a bit hard to read though.

This is a sweet little book about home.

4 stars for the rhymes, because they're fine, some were new to me.

5+++ for the illustrations because the art is just amazing.

This was interesting enough. I found Rachel and Nick pretty boring and not very fleshed out though. Astrid, Peik Lin, and even Eddie were more interesting. Wikipedia says Kwan wanted to introduce modern Asia to North America, and I do think the book was successful that way.

I was mainly interested in this subject because I read a novel based on it. Otherwise it's not really my cup of tea. That said, this book was really interesting and told a really interesting story from WWII. Macintyre meandered a bit with the story, going off on a number of tangents, but since I listened to the audiobook it didn't bother me as much as it might have if I were reading the physical copy. Overall a good book, but I don't know that I'll reread it, I'd rather reread the novel.

I wish I'd liked this more than I did. It sounded like such an interesting idea for a story but just didn't work for me. :/

I probably would've given this five stars but I really couldn't get over how both Wills described Tiny. He's large, you can say that once, you don't have to keep making issue of it. It bothered me quite a bit really...

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I have a feeling this book will stick with me and I'll wonder why I only gave it four stars, but for now four stars is what it is. It's a charming, small, sweet, haunting story and I'm glad that's what it is. It's no American Gods but its perfect in a completely different sort of way. Just charming.

I really loved this. Maisie is fun and smart but has her faults. The side characters are fun. Billy and Rowan and (in flashback) Priscilla. Simon... I'd like to hear more about Maisie at school and in the war and with Simon... I like that it's kind of like the Poirot books and you don't get all the information (which I know people don't always like, which I get). Maisie was going to figure it out and I wasn't. I've read too many lately where I've figured it out before the main character, so that was nice. I really look forward to continuing the series. :)

Mary Poppins definitely isn't Julie Andrews. She's a bit abrasive, but still caring, just in her own way. The bits that weren't in the movie (the first few chapters were, roughly, plus the bird woman) were charming. The scene at the zoo, the gingerbread's stars, and the bit with Maia were great. The chapter about John and Barbara (there are two more Banks children!) was sweet but sad. Very episodic, but no less enjoyable.

More like 3.5 but...
First the good. There was a lot of interesting information and I'm glad to have this and to have read it, but...
This wasn't really about Christmas at this time. It was more about Jane Austen at certain Christmastimes. The actual Christmas stuff seemed forced a lot of the time. Also...
There were a lot of typos. You don't quote saying “X wrote”, it's “writes”. I'm pretty sure Henry III couldn't have visited an Elizabethan home...
Still, an interesting book.

Just wasn't that interested in what was going on. May try again in the future.

This was fine. Rather dull considering how much is going on.