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Nicole Hadley (380 KP) rated Eat Up!: An Infographic Exploration of Food in Books

Jun 18, 2018

Eat Up!: An Infographic Exploration of Food by Paula Ayer; Antonia Banyard is colorful and has many interesting facts about food. The information is presented in a way that children can understand but the pages are a bit cluttered. Readers will have the ability to learn where food is grown, where meat comes from, how the food gets to the store. This is a book that will allow for basic learning and will cause the reader to study further.

The book has vibrant pictures and diagrams that will catch reluctant readers attention.

I received the advanced reader's copy from Annick Press Ltd. and Annick Press via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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Milleen (47 KP) rated Three Things About Elsie in Books

Nov 14, 2018

Three Things About Elsie

Joanna Cannon | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry

8.1

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Lying on the floor of her flat in Cherry Tree, 84-year-old Florence thinks about her past and present. She wonders about the new resident who closely resembles a man from her youth. A man her and Elsie had tried to forget. Joanna Cannon has written a wonderful exploration of old age, nostalgia and memory and cleverly combined it with solving a mystery from the past. There are moments of complete wisdom and some of naivety and a few that were poignant and funny. This is a profound book that has been praised for it’s tenderness but it made me laugh out loud as much as contemplate the pros and cons of old age.

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Emily (1430 KP) rated the PlayStation 3 version of Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution in Video Games

Feb 18, 2020

Note this is for the same game as played on iOS, but wasn't able to select that as a platform.
This was an attempt to give a version of the Civilization games on a mobile platform. For me it just didn't work. Yes you had the key things from the main games such as City building, exploration and everything, but the sizes of the maps just made it impossible to move around after only a few short turns due to expanding rival cities blocking off the path.

I prefer to play a less warmongery style but you're forced into battling rivals in this version simply because you can't get anything done if you don't.