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Eloise Stanley (122 KP) rated Google Home in Tech

Nov 1, 2018

Google Home

Smart Home

7.8

(56 Ratings)

Tech Rating

Understands most things even my god awful mumbling (3 more)

Tends to be pretty good at searching through websites for specific information

Works brilliantly as a speaker and connects through Spotify

Amazing for essay writing when you need quick and short answers and facts

Has a fair amount of things it’s unable to help with (3 more)

You often need to try different phrasing to get the answer you’re looking for

Absolutely dire at letting you know if your alarms are set or not

Privacy.... and google.... really bad mix........

Personally I have found this device extremely useful just for the element of the speakers and as someone who is not going to notice a difference between speaker qualities I don’t at all mind that it isn’t rated the highest for that in comparison to some other smart speaker devices on the market.

Other than for music I use it for quick facts be it for essays or for weather and cooking and or these it works fantastically. You can quickly get fast responses on fairly niche topics that I would not have expected it to be able to have dragged up from the bowls of the internet.

The other great thing about it is that it can be updated and it will have the ability to be improved as time goes on and given that there is a fairly small collection of products like this one currently out on the market I think you are pretty safe from making an awful choice in choosing this one... I like it anyway!

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Goddess in the Stacks (553 KP) rated The Bees in Books

Dec 24, 2018

The Bees

Laline Paull | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry

8.4

(7 Ratings)

Book Rating

I was cautiously optimistic about this book, because I'd heard good things about it, but really? Bees? An entire book from the viewpoint of a worker bee? Even fictionalized, how much material is there really to work with?

SO MUCH.

My fears were completely ungrounded because this book is AMAZING. Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, tasked with taking dead bodies out of the hive, cleaning up wax cells after new bees have hatched, and other duties to keep the hive clean. Somewhat extraordinarily, it is discovered that she can produce the liquid needed to feed bee larva, and is taken to serve in the nursery for a bit, where she starts to develop a mind of her own.

As Flora develops new abilities and works her way through the ranks of the hive, we start to learn that something in the governing of the hive is not quite what it should be. Something is wrong. But the strictly enforced castes and other outside factors, like weather and predators, delay Flora's quest to ferret it out.

Between lying wasps, conniving spiders, and a conspiracy within the ranks of her own hive, Flora bounces from danger to danger trying to protect what she loves in an engrossing story of bravery and sacrifice.

I absolutely loved this book. I especially liked that anywhere possible, actual bee behavior was described and used to further the plot. This is definitely one of my favorite reads this year!

You can find all my reviews at http://goddessinthestacks.com