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TOEFL iBT Preparation

Education and Book

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The most challenging in the TOEFL test is that you have to familiar with a wide knowledge of...

Virilio for Architects

John Armitage

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Paul Virilio is an innovative figure in the study of architecture, space, and the city. Virilio for...

Jet City Rewind: Aviation History of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest

Timothy A. Nelson

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From the dawn of human flight to today, Seattle has hosted flying history from dirigibles and fabric...

Nicole Hadley (380 KP) rated Trail Blazers: An Illustrated Guide to the Women Who Explored the World in Books

Jun 18, 2018

Trail Blazers: An Illustrated Guide to the Women Who Explored the World by Lisa Graves is a picture book full of famous women explorers. I found it interesting and educational. There’s not a great amount of information, but what’s here is enough to give a sense of these women’s accomplishments, as well as their determination, in just enough detail to whet the reader’s curiosity.

Graves introduces readers to thirteen women who were influential explorers. Each woman gets one spread with a column about their life and most famous accomplishments. Further textboxes on the spread highlight major accomplishments, places travelled, etc. Some of these women are well known names, like Nellie Bly, Amelia Earhart, and Sacagewa, others are not so well known like Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Harriet Chalmers Adams, and Gertrude Bell. They explored any time between the mid 1700s to mid 1900s, used different methods of transportation, explored different areas of the world, but all were intrepid adventurers and left their marks in society, literature, science, archeology, geography, and more.

I received an ARC from Xist Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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Spatio-temporal Approaches: Geographic Objects and Change Process

Helene Mathian and Lena Sanders

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Spatio-temporal Approaches presents a well-built set of concepts, methods and approaches, in order...

Cori June (3033 KP) rated Destiny (Rogue Angel, #1) in Books

Jul 29, 2021

The idea (1 more)

Fight scenes

Getting pulled out of the narrative (2 more)

Mary Sue-ish character

The execution of the idea

Yeah , I finished the book, I'm not sure why.
There was something about the use of passive voice or phrasing that pulled me out of the story. If it was obvious in its rudeness I usually rolled my eyes and moved on, it was the subtle stuff that had me going am I supposed to be reading it this way?

The fight scenes where well choreographed that's the best I can say about this book. That and the anthropology and archeology which can be a dangerous profession especially for women (as my teachers repeatedly told me with anecdotes). But sometimes when they talked about it, I felt like they (the author) was chasing rabbits.
I tried to like the main character, Annja, but she was too full of cliches that even though she was quippy it fell short. Like the author was trying too hard. And there was so much plot armor in actually put the book down during fight scenes because there wasn't a sense of danger.

I'm not continuing with the series and will be rehoming this book, either giving it away or selling to a used bookstore, so that someone who can appreciate it has a chance to find it.