Ketutar

Pauli Mustajärvi is the singer and song writer of the Finnish band Popeda. Fascinating person. Interesting story.
But - the book... not so much. It's written partly as memoirs, partly as biography, partly as interview, and it's a bit too fractured to my taste, and felt like I was reading some music magazine. I suppose the lyrics bedded in are supposed to add dimension to the story, but... nah. The idea of the structure of the book was better than the finished product.
Nevertheless, quite worth reading, it's less than 200 pages, a quick read, and Pate feels like a very nice guy. It was a pleasure to find out more about him and his childhood, life, hobbies, interests...

Firstly, I love Margaret Mahy. That's why I wanted to read this book.
Secondly, I love the illustrations. That's another reason why I wanted to read this book.
And boy, it didn't disappoint! The illustrations are amazing! The story is wonderful! Should teach you to not listen to your children and believe them, even when their stories sound unbelievable. >:-[

Apollo has burned Icaros' wings and he's plummeting to the sea... suddenly, the water rises to catch him, and he wakes up in a mysterious library, with an even more mysterious man... or is he a man?
This book is about what happens next.

It has a very odd language, but it was a quick read and an interesting story. M. manages to get my attention and keep my interest through the whole book, even though the language and style is... hmmm... how to put it. Interesting. Irritating. I can say you'll learn a lot of names for colors you didn't even know existed :-D
Reading it feels like watching anime. :-D

I received an e-book from the author. Thank you, M. :-)
It is illustrated, but I read there's more in a physical copy, things like puzzles and games and such. Sounds interesting. (I suppose that's the adjective to describe this book. Nothing like anything else I've ever read.)

I find it confusing.
Who is Minka? Why is Mouse called Mouse but Minka has her own name, even though they are both mice? Is Minka Mouse's big sister or what?
How big are these mice? On this page Mouse is big as Minka's head, on that page, he reaches her shoulder. And the leaves are all kinds of sizes. And not proportionate to each other either.
Also, the blurb was confusing. What was the biggest leap of all?
The pictures are very colorful and nice, and I suppose it's a fun little book to read to very small kids. I suppose toddlers would find it fun to try to find Minka when she's hiding in the leaves. But I didn't like it.

So, I wanted to know who Minka was (from [b:Mouse's First Fall 1470671 Mouse's First Fall Lauren Thompson https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348832908l/1470671.SX50.jpg 1461629] ) but she was not in this book. I love the illustrations in this one, absolutely lovely, rich, dark colors. It's the night before Christmas and the house is all quiet except for one little Mouse, who investigates the quiet house. Now... this is why this book got only three stars from me. The Mouse finds different things in the house. Like a cup of cocoa on the kitchen table. And it's still “warm and melty”. Huh? And what would you say is “white and floaty”? I'm 100% certain that you'll never guess. It's a snow globe. Well, finally the mouse finds Santa and Santa gives him a gift. Merry Christmas!

Reread 2022. I read this book when I was a kid, 40 years ago :-D
I liked it better then. One should read all the books when one is a kid, and then reread only the books one didn't like as a kid when one is adult :-D I remember trying to read some books when I was young and didn't like them at all, and now I loved them :-D

Well... the idea is good, and the illustrations are nice, but the story is a bit stupid. Now, I don't know how I would see it, if I was a kid. I wanted to go to a leaf hunt, and hunt leaves from all the trees around here, but... climbing mountains and rowing over lakes is a bit much for a day trip for little kids.

What Katy Did is the first book in a series of girl books written in the 19th century by Susan Coolidge. I loved these books when I was a kid, but now - not so much. I really hate the Christian prim moral tale aspect, luckily it's not much. I really love the description of Christmas morning. And I absolutely love Helen. (Even though she's sometimes so dang prim and “good” it makes my teeth ache :-D)
But, but... this was published in 1872, so I suppose one may excuse the Christian moral attitude.
This book takes Katy from age 14 when she had the accident to age 16 or 17 at the end of the book. I think.

BTW, this is one of the books I read about once a year, or so, so I have read this book dozens of times in my life :-D I think this is just the first time I write a review on GoodReads :-D

It's too short and too... obvious. Of course, the children are all perfect. Of course, nothing bad happens. Of course, things happen in the most convenient way. Of course, they happen to find exactly what they need and want. Of course.
I didn't like the... how to put it... the doctor's meddling. Or how their dad scared them about their grandfather.
I liked the kids, I liked their adventures, I liked their attitude. I would have liked to read a more detailed, more “realistic” version. I mean, I don't wish any ill towards the children for the story to be better, but... maybe let “bad thing” happen closer to winter, and maybe the doctor could have talked with Henry more, or maybe Henry and the old man could have become friends...

Absolutely brilliant!

For fans of Da Vinci Code kind of adventures with mysteries and puzzles. It's a lot better than anything Dan Brown has ever written.

Helena managed to keep me interested, intrigued and guessing the whole time. And I did not guess the solution. And I learned new, interesting things. I love maths, and I got a lot of goodies in that way.
I love Layla, and all the other characters as well.
When I read the Latin script Maeve had written, I started laughing out loud :-D

Five stars for what it is - a very funny, action packed, violence packed romantic fantasy about weres. This is a story of three bad-ass half sisters with a no-good honeybadger daddy, and each their own mom. The eldest, Charlie, has a wolf mom, who ends up being mom for everyone, as first the middle-sister's (Max) honeybadger mom leaves her daughter to be watched after while she was busy doing a heist, and then the little sister's (Stevie) tiger mom did the same. And then when their dad gets the wolf mom killed, the girls wander to live with her dad's pack. It was so funny, I laughed out loud a lot, and read a lot of passages to my husband. :-D Not that much hot sex, but some. I love it how Shelly makes the shapeshifters behave like the animals they are supposed to be, even when they are in their human form. I love these people, most of them. The villains are adequately evil and scary, the dad is an a-hole, and I love the violent fighting scenes. Charlie is my hero! :-DNow, this is the first in the Honey Badger Chronicles, but it helps, if you start with [b:Pack Challenge 112539 Pack Challenge (Magnus Pack, #1) Shelly Laurenston https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388246223l/112539.SY75.jpg 108358], the first book in the “Smith's Shifter World Series”. There were quite a lot of people I didn't have the slightest idea of who they were or what they were, and that made it a bit hard to understand.

Not as good as Hot and Badgered, but better than a lot of others in this series. Especially the wolf and the lion books.
I keep hopping over the sex scenes, so it's good Shelly makes it possible. Sex scenes are all about sex, a little about their relation and such, but one misses nothing if one hops over them. Except hot sex, of course :-D

This is a candy cookbook with a story. The story is not that interesting, which makes me give it only 3 stars. It was published in 1918, but written before the Great War - the war isn't mentioned in the story, but in both the foreword and a small appendix with recipes using less sugar, so that most of the sugar can be used by the army. The recipes are as one would expect, your ordinary hard candy, caramels, fudges, fondant, and sugared fruits and nuts. There's also quite a lot of popcorn recipes.
And they repeat everything for every recipe because as Betsey says, it's easier to have the whole recipe on its own page so that one doesn't need to go back to find the “mother recipe”. But there's like over 40 fudge recipes and most of them say “After beating the fudge until it was as thick as heavy cream, Betsey poured it into the buttered pan and marked in squares”. After the fifth, it was getting irritating. After the 20th I felt like screaming :-D

The story is about a little girl who loves candy, but her mother doesn't like her eating the cheap penny candy one buys from a candy store because one doesn't know what ingredients they have used and the bright colors are not good for children. One day, her friends and she are discussing what they want to do when they grow old, and she says she wants to become a domestic science teacher. Her mother is very pleased to hear this and tells her she doesn't need to wait until she is old enough to go to college, and teaches her how to make candy. And this is basically her notebook where she wrote all the recipes and other information. Then there are some stories about events during the year where she made special candies etc. It's actually a surprisingly long story considering it's a very short book and there are many recipes.

Another moderately entertaining read.

Drink every time she mentions corsets or stays as something negative.

It is interesting how many stories Marion Chesney manages to put in these few pages. It's a pity she keeps them very shallow.
There's also the... wildness of ideas, I suppose... for example, there's a couple who gets a lot of money, but still decides to steal some things. It doesn't add anything to the story, they are in no way connected to anything, it's not even enough to be a red herring, and everything about that story is rather confusing... but it's there. We even get to know their further adventures in the end of the book.
I like that detail, BTW, that she tells the “what happened to XX” and ties up all the threads. Most of them are totally irrelevant and uninteresting to the main story, but still fun.

I also like the quotes every chapter begins with.

Rose is better in this book, the rest of the characters worse.

Oh, dear! Poor Agatha! :-D

This book was better because James wasn't in it much :-D I really hate that twat!
But Charles was in it... and even though he's an a-hole, too, at least he's an “honest a-hole”, meaning, he knows very well he's an a-hole. And I believe he sincerely likes Agatha, even though he cannot fight his spots, and treats her badly. I like him.

Er... I don't really understand what the author wanted to do with this story. It starts as some sort of rhyme book, and then it's not, and in the middle, she goes back to her original idea, and then moves on to something else... and I don't think the events move along chronologically either. It feels like a huge hotchpotch and makes me slightly confused, and I don't like that. The illustrations are nice, I suppose, but they are a bit uneven as well.