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The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast,...
Meat: The Art of Cooking Meat
Valery Drouet and Pierre-Louis Viel
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Meat Lovers, rejoice! The Art of Cooking Meat is a dream book for carnivores, with more than 60 meat...
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In 2014 Cape published Plumdog, a year's worth of entries from Emma Chichester Clark's blog of the...
The American Plate: a Culinary History in 100 Bites
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For generations, people have proudly defined themselves and their values through their national...
Twilight (Twilight, #1)
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About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a...
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'Read this book thoughtfully. It's fun. And, I think, the shape of some very interesting things to...
Lindsay (1717 KP) rated Dear Brave Friend in Books
Jan 14, 2021
The book shows the compassion of how to deal with losing a pet and it is okay. You can put your cat in where the dog is being interpreted. The book does a wonderful job of going through the feeling you or your child may go through with losing a pet.
The pictures are well done. I enjoyed them. I can see many pet lovers using this book. It helps with explaining the feeling and emotions of losing a pet. It also talks about what you can do to remember your pet. There are some blank pages in the back of the book that will let you write and draw your lost pet if you choose to do so.
I was captured by the pictures in the book. They are my favorite. They were beautifully done. I can not say that enough. The story is done well. It hit the meaning of losing a pet without getting too complicated. It was written well. I just can not believe this is a self-help book for children and middle-grade kids. It feels more than that when you read it. Any pet lover will enjoy this book.
Zuky the BookBum (15 KP) rated We've Come to Take You Home in Books
Mar 15, 2018
While I tried as hard as I could to enjoy this book, I couldn't quite click with it and found I had to push myself to continue reading it. The book was written beautifully and the story is tragic and heart breaking but uplifting in its own sense, however it's not the sort of book I'd normally read.
I felt the description made this book feel more like a suspense novel, when really it was a tragic drama and in some aspects reminded me of Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests (another book I wasn't a fan of).
For me the story just didn't flow well enough. While I understood the plot and the connection of the two main characters there was still some aspect of it that I just didn't get. I felt as though some of the "big reveals" in this book were subtly skipped over to provide as little information about it as possible which made the big reveals not so big and a lot less exciting.
By the end of the novel I had lost the will to read this and really had to force myself to read the last couple of chapters. Towards the end of the book I began to lose track of the story, the two peoples lives merging into one.
While it may seem like all in doing is complaining, I still found this book interesting in the sense that it was very well written, the story was unique and I actually managed to get through it. I think this book would be excellent for drama and war genre lovers, but for me this lacked the excitement I'm used to in a book and so three stars is all I can give.
