So this is my jump back into BOTM. BOTM is doing an international theme this year, and we start out in Japan. It’s a graphic novel that I purchased on my Kindle...yeah a little interesting to me too. So the kindle version you read backwards just like it was a physical manga, which took me a moment to figure out, but was very cool!
Oh Moriarty didn't fail me again! This had a twist I didn't see coming.
My son has been struggling with turning in assignments and we spend a lot of time redoing assignments that he has rushed through in class. I picked this book up looking for some tips that may help me help him avoid this pitfalls.
There were a lot of examples of boys who struggled and then succeeded, but it takes forever to get into any actual tips. So many of the stories are so and so was a great kid who was struggling until he learned her organization skills, but doesn’t explain what those skills are. Finally starts to talk about how to organize a binder in chapter 5 (pg. 73), that is a lot of lead up time in my mind. And even then the chapter was so full of case examples that the information was lost in the volume of text. This was a very inflated book, thin information could probably been presented in a book 1/4 the size. It also felt very sparse and just common sense. Phones silent and in another room during homework time, etc.
Almost Missed You by Jessica Strawser (read 2/18/19 to 2/21/19)
I really enjoyed this book until the last chapter. The last 3 pages made me angry and disgusted. The heroine turned out to be pathetic and lacked the ability to protect her child. A marriage built on a lie that lead to a kidnapping. Finn was a POS and Violet was pathetic.
This was a great Moriarty, I spent the whole book wanting to know what happened at the BBQ. Thankfully not what I feared most of the book. There were so many little moving pieces of the story that when strung together equal the story of a few tragic minutes. Love it!
I kept seeing the ads for this movie and decided to read the book. It was a really sweet young adult knowledgeable about forbidden love and heartbreak as well. It made me cry, like ugly cry.
I liked the book because it was Liane Moriarty, and it had twists and turns and wonderful characters and relationships. But the story itself and the characters were my least favorite of her books.
I saw the movie year ago and I always meant to get around to reading the book. By the time I did, I didn't really remember the details. I can tell it is part of a series and and I wanted to pick up the next one. I liked it a lot better than the Twilight series. Still feel some of the characters are unhealthy relationships, bu not as much as Twilight.
This was a great book! Christine forgets who she is every night and wakes up to her loving husband who cares for her. But everything is not as it seems, what is real and what is not. How can she know when she can't remember the previous day? This was a page turner!
This is the story of a girls rape from a boy's perspective. How it effected the neighborhood and the boy's life. It was an ok read, I thought the story flowed and I read it fairly quickly. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either.
This was a story that I flew through. Sadly I didn't take notes, and as I only gave it three stars, I'm not really surprised I can't remember the details.
I hated this book! It was awful and jumps from past to present. It jumped from building the library, to the fire, to her writing about the library. I'm sure it would have been a wonderful history of the LA library if maybe she had stayed in a timeline.
I really enjoyed this book, it was a very typical romance. But it was super light hearted and a very easy read. The characters were likable and fun.
I liked this book, it was about scandal and people learning to be true to themselves.
This is my boyfriends favorite in the series, and I can see why. Honor is such a force, the honor and fortitude this woman has really is to be admired. And the loyalty she inspires is breathtaking.
I would have liked this book to focus a bit more on Honor and not so much what was happening at home. But it was a daring escape, 100% of what I would expect from Honor.
Once again an Honor Harrington book, not about Honor Harrington. It was a ok book but I wanted more of what Honor was doing, she really took a side role in her own story.
Well we have come to expect poignant love stories from Nicholas Sparks, but this was a real heartbreaker in the end. I put down my physical book and looked for excuses to listen to the audio book the story had me so engrossed.
Prologue starts with the heat of Chase Andrews. Then chapter one jumps back in time to 1952. I was very worried at first about the time jumps, they are often hard for me to like. This was a fealty good read though. The time jumps weren't jarring like I worried. They actually moved the story along quite nicely. To tell the truth, I was fooled right up until the epilogue as to what actually happened. This was a really great book, I flew through it. The characters were great as was the setting.
This was so well written that I had to google to make sure they were not a real band. The story was engaging and the twist at the end, did not see that one coming AT ALL.
This had some mystical realism to it. I read this on our Alaskan cruise after the kids went to bed and all I could do was read, couldn't leave the room and couldn't watch TV. I'm not sure I would have made it though so quickly under other circumstances. The characters were fine, and the story was fun. But it didn't stick in memory as an amazing book.
This was again needed as a quick read at night, it was ok. The writing was a little rough, I think it was a self published, it was missing some polish on the writing an editor would have brought. The story was interesting, Norse Gods and all. The book ended on quite the cliff hanger, so even though some parts were a tough read I think I am going to be forced to read the rest of the series.
This was a very typical romance with a little bondage included, 17th century wantonness. Like most romance novels, the story was a little unrealistic. Writing was really good though, there was good character develop in the narrow channel of the romance story. The murder twist was fun, and added an element of danger.
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