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Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Taylor, Laini
Bridget Oliver
, August 08, 2013
Not really impressed. I am not a fan of books that end with "to be continued". It's like a slap in the face, like you've finished the book for nothing. But I WOULD like blue hair...
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Best Awful
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Fisher, Carrie
Bridget Oliver
, August 08, 2013
I don't know if it was because I was miffed that she was just writing a memoir in the third person using different names, or that the characterization of Suzanne Vale reminded me too much of someone else in my life, but either way it made it extremely difficult to enjoy this book.
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Did I Do That?: The Best (and Worst) of the '90s - Toys, Games, Shows, and Other Stuff
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Amber Humphrey
Bridget Oliver
, August 08, 2013
A genuinely fun book to read, and obviously a quick one. The book is full color with tons of pictures, which helps the whole nostalgia factor. There were very few things in the book that I wasn't also obsessed with in my youth, save maybe Captain Planet. Compiled almost as if it was blog entries, but that's what keeps it fun and easy. If you need a break from heavy fiction, this would be a good one.
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Circus Of The Damned Anita Blake 03
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Laurell K Hamilton
Bridget Oliver
, August 08, 2013
I honestly cannot tell if these books are getting better and better or worse and worse. It's like a black hole of sugary goodness - you know it's rotting you from the inside out, but you just keep falling anyway. Has the writing gotten any better? Absolutely not. This third book in the series had more typos than you could shake a stick at (not that I'm sure that shaking a stick could really prove much of anything). Has Anita's annoying inner dialogue been improved? Yeah...riiiiiiight. (Did you get that joke?) But yet there is something almost intangible that makes me want to keep reading these damn books. Will it bring me through the dozens of volumes left? Who knows?
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Batman Volume 2 The City of Owls The New 52
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Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Rafael Albuquereque
Bridget Oliver
, August 08, 2013
When I finished The City of Owls, I proposed marriage to Scott Snyder over Twitter. Unfortunately, I have yet to hear back. If you love Batman - you will love Court/City of Owls. If you love drama - you will love Court/City of Owls. If you love mystery - you will love Court/City of Owls. If you love good art - you will love Court/City of Owls. If you love Superman - you will love Court/City of Owls. If you have never, ever, ever read a graphic novel in your life - you will STILL love Court/City of Owls.
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Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
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Michael Singer
Bridget Oliver
, August 08, 2013
Full disclosure: I chose The Untethered Soul because of the cover. I looked at it and said to myself, "Self, a horse running wild and free on a beach? That is so damn cheesy, they might just be on to something." And, oh, they were. I could count the number of "self-help"/"personal growth" books I've read in my life on one hand, but I've always side-eyed them with interest. As I am in a MAJOR turning point in my life right now where I can't tell if it's all a shambles or it's just being re-built, I was looking for some guidance. There was nothing in The Untethered Soul that I haven't heard before, nothing that I hadn't already thought of myself. But it's the way that Singer says things, and repeats them (he repeats himself a lot, which I've read criticism about, but I think it's being used as a gentle way to drive really important points home) that really made all these things make sense to me. I am still not quite sure if I totally believe that my whole sense of being and my whole life is completely in my own control - I love science, so I understand chaos - but I am teaching myself to control some of it. I am not the kind of person that would all of a sudden turn my back on everything in my past and live by the rules of one author, and one book alone. However, reading this book has been a really important experience for me and has given me some basic tools to take control of the ways that my life changes in the next few months/years, instead of feeling totally out of it.
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When Parents Die
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Edward Myers
Bridget Oliver
, August 08, 2013
When my father passed away, almost 2 years ago now, I lamented to a few of my closest that there were no books out there for my particular situation. After reading 'When Parents Die', I kind of get why that is. Everyone's experience with their parents - in life, and in death - is so unique that there is no way there could be one book that could help us all. Myers goes out of his way to try, showing how situations may be if you had a close relationship, or a strained one, or if you're in your 20s or your 60s when your parents die. But the reality is, we all fall under so many different categories, that it still falls short. This is a great book as a general guide. He includes a lot of resources in the appendices that could be very helpful to many people. But as soon as someone writes the "I stopped talking to my dad when I was 18 because he was a violent alcoholic and then he tried stalking me and then he drank himself to death and I didn't love him but I still feel bad for him and sometimes I dream about him" book, let me know, okay?
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Embrace
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Jessica Shirvington
Bridget Oliver
, August 08, 2013
I have the first book in 4 different series that seem to be all the same thing - Hush, Hush & Embrace & Fallen & Fated. When I finally picked up Embrace, after having read the entire Hush, Hush series, I was sure there would be no way I could like it more. And I don't. But I kind of do? Oh I am so undecided. Violet Eden is much stronger, much smarter, and much more self-determined than Nora Grey. Lincoln is way less creepy than Patch (but Phoenix might be more creepy?) The Hush, Hush series seems like the mythology was much LESS fleshed out than in Embrace, and I kind of liked that. But I missed the amusement park. But...but...but... Okay, maybe it's completely unfair to be comparing the two. Maybe if I would have read this first, it would have changed my perception? I'm just very distraught that these two stories exist and now they are forever embedded in my brain. And I REALLY DESPERATELY want magical angel tattoos on my arms. *The preceding has not been a review but a word!vomit.
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Contactees: A History of Alien-Human Interaction
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Nick Redfern
Bridget Oliver
, August 08, 2013
Repetitive information, glosses over the facts. Introduces interesting concepts and does no further work on them (such as cryptoterrestrials and government faked E.T. encounters used to study media response). A small handful of chapters kept my interest, but mostly I had to fight my way through this. This is not a "history of alien-human interaction". It is 5 or 6 detailed occurrences between the 50s and the 70s, and the author keeps finding things to link to these few things (hence the repetition). Finally, the formatting in this book is inexcusable. Bottom margins change page-by-page and vary throughout the book from 1/2 to 2 inches (?!), and on one wonderful page, the text inexplicably splits into two columns for a few paragraphs.
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