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Smrfgrll (3 KP) rated Magic: The Gathering in Tabletop Games

Dec 10, 2018  
Magic: The Gathering
Magic: The Gathering
1993 | Card Game, Collectible Components, Fantasy, Fighting
9
7.5 (45 Ratings)
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This is a bit of a difficult game to learn because the possibilities are endless. It's a deck building game that has been around for years so there's literally thousands of cards at your disposal depending on the game format you want to play. It can be as simple as picking up a starter deck that is premade and playing against someone else who has a deck in the same format. The game is very good at motivating younger children to read as well as helping with basic math skills. My nephews have been playing along with adults since they were very young around 8 or so and still love playing to this day and they are 13+.
  
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Charlotte (184 KP) rated Victory Lap in Books

Mar 20, 2021  
Victory Lap
Victory Lap
K.A. Mielke, Riley Alexis Wood | 2020 | Contemporary, Young Adult (YA)
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Trying to put feelings into words is always difficult but with Victory Lap it's harder.

I love Kiki, her resilience, how she knows who she is, the beautiful soul that shines from within......I also ache for her.....becoming your true self isn't easy, especially with bullies always there. The support that a "normal" girl would get from their parents is lacking on her father's side, I hate him, his outdated ideas and his constant verbal abuse.

Josh is like a lot of people....blind to the signals of interest. I feel for him as it does cause a few issues.
    He also has his own identity to look into and work out what he wants from life. So on the whole I like him but he'd definitely be the mate I sigh about the most.
 
  It hurts knowing that this brilliant piece of fiction mirrors so many people's lives. Worse that it's the young that have to behave like adults and deal with things that adults themselves seem unable to wrap their heads around.

Regardless of who you are, where your niche is READ THIS!!
  
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Christine A. (965 KP) rated Losing Normal in Books

Mar 15, 2019  
Losing Normal
Losing Normal
Francis Moss | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Appropriate for those as young as middle school but adults would enjoy too. (0 more)
I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book so I could give an honest review.

Losing Normal by Francis Moss is relatively short, less than 300 pages, but do not let the length fool you into thinking it does not have a lot to say. There is a lot of action in this short book.

Alex, a highly-functioning autistic boy, likes things to stay the same. He knows how many steps it is from school to home and, to him, that is normal. He knows all the answers in math. That is normal. The strange giant television screens that are being put up all over are making him forget and that is not normal. Only the "defective" kids, those that are immune to the televisions, like Alex can save the world from becoming television watching zombies. What ensues is an interesting novel that shows how quickly technology could take over.

Losing Normal is not a post-apocalyptic novel. It shows the collapse of society by our rapidly advancing technology getting out of hand and beginning to think for itself.

This novel would be appropriate for those as young as middle school to read but it is an interesting story adults would enjoy too. I found it to be a quick, easy, enjoyable, and thought provoking read.

Review published on Philomathinphila.com, Smashbomb, Goodreads, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble on 3/14/19.