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Paige (428 KP) rated The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain in Books

Jul 28, 2017

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Betty Edwards | 1979 | Art, Photography & Fashion, Reference, Technical

7.0

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really great for building confidence and teaching basic exercises (2 more)

Perfect for people who think they "can't draw" (drawing is a skill, and perfectly learn-able)

Will help a whole lot if you are just starting

Will hold you back if you let it (1 more)

The neuroscience this is based on is sadly outdated

Great book, but FOR BEGINNERS ONLY

So this book is really, really good for beginners. I have bought multiple copies of it to give to people who are afraid to start drawing, and they loved how fast they improved. It also kind of helps you learn to learn more (if that makes sense)

If you cling to it afterwards, it will stunt you, though. It doesn't teach much in the way of perspective, color, composition, art historical precedents, or mastery of techniques and materials (but really, there are whole books and disagreeing theory families on each of those topics...)

To start drawing, I have yet to find something better. Just give it to someone else when you are done.

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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2450 KP) rated G is for Gumshoe (Kinsey Millhone #7) in Books

Mar 9, 2018

At the beginning of May, PI Kinsey Millhone is hired by a woman named Irene to track down her mother. The two usually talk one a month, but it’s been several months since they last talked. Before Kinsey can head out to the Salton Sea area, she gets words that a dangerous criminal is vowing revenge on the people who put him away, and one of those people is Kinsey. She does take the threat seriously. Should she? Will it complicate her search for the missing woman?

I was hoping with two parallel plots that they would build off each other. That doesn’t happen quite as well as I would have liked. In fact, the book begins to drag in the middle, although it certainly picks up near the end. We get to know another supporting character pretty well here, which in turn lets us get to know Kinsey better, which I love.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2017/04/book-review-g-is-for-gumshoe-by-sue.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Veronica Pena (690 KP) rated Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern in Books

Mar 19, 2020

gouge my eyes out with a spork. please.

This godforsaken book. It took everything in me to finish this book. I had to read it for a class - Intro to American Studies: The 1920s and I thought it was going to be great. I was really looking forward to it. And then I started. The first couple of chapters are great. The introduction? Amazing! And then it just takes a turn for the worse.

I think this was the most poorly constructed book I've read in a long time. The chapters didn't have any sort of fluidity whatsoever and it felt like it was all over the place. I was reading about so many different people in really different orders and then 3 chapters later, we'd find ourselves back to those people and it just made no sense. Literally none.

I am almost proud of myself for finishing this book. It really was that hard. I had such high hopes and it just flopped. If my reviews mean anything to anyone, please don't read this book. Don't waste time.