Tariana
I got really mad at Frances, she was acting like a mad scientist. I just hoped there was more character development, some characters descriptions were unimportant for the story and I saw no reason for existing like mentioning that Frances husband is bissexual and that's it, it doesn't make any difference to the story.
After chapter 6, I was really into knowing what was happening, what great mystery laid ahead, but the end was pretty disappointing.
I almost DNF at 96%,
it was somehow disgusting, non creative to the point of reminding me of the last book of Twilight when Jacob imprinted Esmee.
On a side note, I wonder what is the point in describing the skin color of characters when the white characters are never described or when the description adds nothing to the story beyond stirring the readers prejudices?
Um baita livro de autoajuda, a estória as vezes até cativa um pouco, mas o excesso de filosofia de autoajuda atrapalha. Provável que darei mais uma chance ao Paulo Coelho, mas certamente não é o tipo de literatura que curto.
This is not the kind of book you can read in one sit. It's very intense, it makes you sad, it makes you mad, it makes you want to scream, it makes you want to cry. For many times while listening it I had to pause to breath, there were times I was walking with my dog and I would just freeze in the middle of the sidewalk and stare blank at nowhere because I was overwhelming with emotions.
Not the best detective book I have read, but it is good. It is my first Agatha Christie so I can't say much. Some friends said this is one of the weakest Christie's books, so I guess I'll have to read the other to be sure of that. Her writing is so simple that makes the read really easy and get us involved with the characters.
Um dos livros mais emocionantes que já li, reflete uma vida de total entrega e confiança em Deus, e me fez querer ter o mesmo relacionamento com Ele e até mais profundo. David Wilkerson também demonstra um amor sem preconceitos ou receios ante jovens que muito sofreram na vida e nunca conheceram o verdadeiro amor de um Pai, e cuja sociedade os marginaliza e discrimina. O livro mostra que é possível fazer a diferença na vida de uma pessoa e mudar a vida dela para melhor.
The only reason I am not giving 5 stars is because from 20 to 60% of the book it was sooooo slow, too much details about sword fights, military strategies, extensive descriptions, which must be great for those that understand it and are into it, but for me it was boring, it was like the story was stuck. The whole thing happened in less than a year for the characters but for me it was like an eternity. In spite of that, the whole book is amazing. At two different moments I had to hold my tears, I have ene highlighted the passages. They were:
62%: “Rin... what am I going to do?”
88%: I heard what you did to that Hesperian soldier.
One word only: disturbing 😳
But a little bit more..., I don't know what to make out of it. The story really caught me and made me angry and sad and depressed and made me feel impotent.
Things start to get darker and darker. It is interesting to see how Marji writes from her privileged position but she recognizes that for those in poorer conditions than her and her family, life was worse. What they were doing to the poor boys was just crazy.
I have enjoyed listening to it but I felt like something was missing, maybe more details about her inventions.
This zine was more about presenting tools and techniques than explain the meaning of stuff.
Mindy never disappoints me, her books are a lot of fun and I can relate a lot with her.
Inspiring and instructive. It opened my eyes to how capitalism and patriarchal issues have molded and still molds today's society and it helped me see a way out of all these madness, and the answer is love. Not love as an abstract noun but an action based on respect, acceptance and other more concrete nouns. I would have given 5 stars if it wasn't for the last chapter, it seemed it was there just to fill up some pages.
Half unexpected ending, the story was very self driven so it was fun to listen to and try to figure out the end.
I don't even know where to start talking about this book. I read it through my French Class Book Club, recommended by a fellow student. I hated the main character all the way through it up to the epilogue. She lacks communication skills, she is super emotionally dependent of her husband, she is mean, she has “Bentinho” vibes, and she is a bad mother (if you decide to have kids for whatever reason, own your responsibility and take good care of them, they didn't ask to be born).
Despite all of that, the book really kept my interest through its writing, there's a dark mysterious tone that makes you curious about what is going to happen, specially because the story is narrated through a week of the characters life, as the days pass you get more excited about the plot.
I was expecting a book as fun as Mindy Kalling's book. Also some of Tina Fey comments about minorities left me uncomfortable.
It is an interesting book, a little too romantic for my taste, but I like the message that it presents. I am thinking about buying some of them and giving as gift for family and friends.
It was the first 100 pages book I have ever read. It consists on a collection of poems written by the brazilian author Cecilia Meireles. A great recommendation for kids who just learned how to read.
This story is so fun, it completely changed my perspective over life, romance, friendship, career. The 5 hens are so fun and I got myself many times comparing them to my grandma stories and how they would be happier if they had a group of friends like those.
It was a fun reading (even with the tough French vocabulary), I compare it as the suspenseful male version of Judy Leigh books, but there's not much character development. I am still not sure if I liked or not how the assassin is described. I'll give some time to reflect about it and update the review when I have an opinion about it.
Once and again, learned so much with Julia Evans zines. This topic is pretty dense, it is not something you can easily understand or that you'd see on a daily basis while working as a programmer. But it helped me understand other topics and gave me tools and the path of where to look at if I ever get bugs related to it.
Long before Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, there was Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon. Their feminist lyrics won over young women in the 60s and 70s, at the height of the hippie movement and female sexual liberation. If today it is still difficult for a woman to be successful in the music world and remain relevant after the age of 30, just imagine what it was like for them. Although their lives were made easier because they were all from middle to upper class families, they still suffered society's prejudices, the impositions of how they should behave as women, mothers and wives. And I felt sad to realize that the world simply forgot about them and I keep wondering what the future will be for the current generation of feminist singers. Will they still be able to stay relevant after 40? Or are they doomed to oblivion? The younger generations know who Madonna and Cindy Lauper are.
In addition to these questions, observing their behavior in relation to their partners, parents, children, friends made me question my own stance and try to be more emotionally independent and take control of my life without expecting others to take any attitude towards myself.