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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2652 KP) rated A Bird’s Eye View of Murder in Books

Mar 19, 2022  
A Bird’s Eye View of Murder
A Bird’s Eye View of Murder
Jacqueline Vick | 2014 | Mystery
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Frankie Finds that Murder Isn’t Flighty
Frankie Chandler’s hardly recovered from the murder she got involved in the month before when her aunt comes for a visit. The aunt has scored some tickets to the taping of a live baking show, and Frankie joins her. That’s how Frankie stumbles on the dead body of the contestant winner. With the police looking at her aunt, her aunt hiding secrets, and animals starting to talk to Frankie again, can she figure out what is really going on?

Yes, this book falls into the paranormal cozy subgenre, which I tend to avoid. I appreciated how Frankie wrestles with her gift and what it means since those are the same things I struggle with myself. And it’s a minor part of the book anyway. In fact, this is more comedic, at least to me. I enjoyed laughing at the antics of the characters as the book progressed. The story started a bit slowly, but it grew stronger as it went along, and I was surprised by the ending. Do keep in mind that there is some violence to animals, but they are treated no worse than the human characters in the story. I really enjoyed the characters. I’m hoping I can get to the next in the series soon.
  
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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Duolingo in Apps

Nov 2, 2017  
Duolingo
Duolingo
Education, Social Networking
8
8.4 (61 Ratings)
App Rating
Good for beginners
I used this app to keep up with my Spanish, but the sentences kept distracting me as they were rather hilarious. For some reason Duolingo is obsessed with animals, and so some phrases included "This duck is pretty" and "my cow likes the colour green". While it's good for beginners, it doesn't seem to explore grammar in detail and so I stopped using it after some time.

Fun, and well made - I wish they had other languages such as Arabic and Mandarin, but bizarrely they have Esperanto? Easy to use, and good for starters.
  
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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) Jan 23, 2018

? My friend and I collect hilarious phrases from the app!
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Sasha (36 KP) Jan 24, 2018

For some reason it made all my animals into beer drinking alcoholics ? To this day the phrase that come into my head the most when I’m trying to remember Dutch is “De katten drinken bier”
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*＊✿❀ Maki ❀✿＊* (7 KP) rated First 100 Words in Books

May 3, 2018  
F1
First 100 Words
Roger Priddy | 2005
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
At this point, my daughter is still too young to actually read. I've been using this book more to get her in the habit of handling books than I have as an actual learning tool.

The pages are sturdier than the other board books she's gotten, so she can actually flip from one page to another on her own, and the pages don't dissolve when she chews on them. Bonus points for that!

I can see that this book would work nicely as a baby dictionary, to teach children to associate words with pictures of everyday things - from colors, to clothes, to animals.
  
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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2652 KP) rated Animal Farm in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
George Orwell | 2008 | Fiction & Poetry
10
7.8 (81 Ratings)
Book Rating
When the animals revolt against Jones, they find themselves responsible for their own fate on the farm. The initially set up a government where everyone had an equal say. But slowly, things begin to change. What will happen?

This is a powerful allegory about the dangers of socialism. It shows how things sound good in the beginning but slowly everything devolves. Written during Stalin's USSR, some references might be dated, but this is a warning well worth heeding today.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-review-animal-farm-by-george-orwell.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Arlie (10 KP) created a post in Magic Beyond Belief

Jun 17, 2018  
This is not your average magic show. Darren Romeo is a really good magician and singer. The illusions are top notch and worth going to see. This is a magic show so there are going to be dancers and assistants that wear outfits that show some skin. Live animals are a part of the show but it isn't an animal act.
I love watching magic in any way I can, live being the best, and I can say that this is a great show. The pop cultural references span the ages well and I have taken my niece there.
   
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Nicole Hadley (380 KP) rated Knitted Toys: 20 Cute and Colorful Projects in Books

Jun 18, 2018  
KT
Knitted Toys: 20 Cute and Colorful Projects
Jody Long | 2016
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
<a href="https://awindowintobooks.wordpress.com">Full Review</a>
Knitted Toys: 20 Cute and Colorful Projects by Jody Long is a book with cute knitted toy patterns. The book has instructions and images of the final project. I love the wide variety of toys to make. I'm not very good at knitting but I would like to try my best effort at making these adorable toys. There was a variety of toys from a fire engine, to several animals. The instructions are clear and straight forward.

I received this advanced readers copy from Dover Publications via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.