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Your Pregnancy Nutrition Guide: What to Eat When You're Pregnant

Henrietta Norton

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Drawing on over a decade of work with mothers-to-be, expert nutritionist Henrietta Norton provides...

Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Fence #4 (Fence, #4) in Books

Jan 6, 2021

In this part it's Nicholas' match and after some advice off their instructor in the last part, he's struggling to get his head back in the game and fence as good as he normally does. Seiji is watching, recognising something in Nicholas' technique. And at the end, the next match is between Seiji and Aiden - who everyone has a crush on, and breaker of boys hearts.

I feel like by now we know the boys quite well, they're all very different but all have a love of fencing. The only characters I don't really like is Aiden with his cocky attitude.

I am very intrigued by how their match will play out. I really want Seiji to win just to put a dent in Aiden's "perfection" and will be buying more books in the series soon.

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Joe Goodhart (27 KP) rated Lady Mechanika Vol. 2: The Tablet of Destinies in Books

Nov 30, 2020

Lady Mechanika Vol. 2: The Tablet of Destinies

Joe Benítez | 2015 | Comics & Graphic Novels, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)

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So, yeah, bit of a snoozer this one! Art was fab tho'! I find Joe Benitez J. Scott Campbell, no contest. Benitez brings the same gorgeous detail to this volume as he did for the first one. No character, not even Lady Mechanika, is "sexed up", allowing for character development and depth.

The story, unfortunately, did not hold as well as expected. I was great through the first two issues, feeling like I was witnessing an Indiana Jones-esque adventure. However, by the fourth issue, I felt the series had tanked. And the reveal (no spoilers, promise) of who the villains were made it seem like a cheap-ass SyFy Channel movie!

I have the third volume in my queue to read. Hopefully, it will not disappoint, as the first volume was all aces! My advice: skip it!

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Sam (228 KP) rated Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom in Books

Sep 24, 2019

Beautiful Imagery (1 more)

Outside Sources to Poetry

Repetitive (1 more)

Religious connotations

Good Advice, I guess

I was so close to loving this book when I first opened it. However, this ended after I got to page three, while this is advertised as a book of celtic wisdom I found instead the multiple turns back to christianity. Specifically the author's own views towards christianity. While I believed that I was finding a book about Celtic wisdom, history, and culture; I found instead a story of a christian missionary who had done some research and was putting together a past look at what wisdom could be drawn from the Celtic culture. The wisdom is beautifully written but if you're looking for a book specifically about Celtic culture, history, beliefs or anything of the sort this is not the book for you.