The Little Dog (A Red Grouse Tale)
5.5
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An adult, speculative, spiritual and philosophical tale of good and evil and retribution, which...
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Home to Wickham Falls
4.0
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There's No Place Like Home… Nothing could draw Sawyer Middleton back permanently to the town...
Merissa (12914 KP) rated A Summoner's Tale (Knights of Black Swan #3) in Books
Apr 3, 2023 (Updated Apr 10, 2023)
You also get the chance to catch up on "old" favourites and enjoy as they all intermingle with each other.
Definitely one of the best series I've read in a while. Can't wait for Book 4!
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Merissa
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April 10, 2021
Cori June (3033 KP) rated Alanna: The First Adventure in Books
Jun 5, 2022
It holds up. I still enjoyed this book as an adult having just finished before writing this review. There are better grow with you books that I've read (even by this author, her skills keep getting better) , but sometimes you want an easy read. Highly recommend.
Merissa (12914 KP) rated The Pumpkin Man in Books
Jun 8, 2023
Although this is only a short story, it covers a year of time. Well-written and with enough of a story to make it enjoyable, this has humour, passion and loneliness. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
* Verified Purchase on Amazon - October 2012 *
Merissa
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Jun 11, 2016
Extreme Food - What to Eat When Your Life Depends on it...
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"There's no getting away from it; I've eaten some pretty extreme things in my time - live...
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
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John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect...
Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
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In Why Grow Up, the latest volume in the Philosophy in Transit series, world-renowned philosopher...
Erika (17789 KP) rated Shuggie Bain in Books
Jan 30, 2021
I don't think I ever need to read another coming of age story ever again, this one was so good. Now, this is a 'novel', but I think it's pretty obvious that it may be pretty close to the author's life.
This was the second book I read in 2020 that was named after the child 'Shuggie', but, in truth, it was about his alcoholic mother. It was mostly focused on her, which really made me think.
This book stuck with me because as I read it, it made me wonder if some of this was what my own father went through. He was the youngest, left by all his siblings, to care for his alcoholic mother after his father cheated on her and left her (exact story line of the novel). I have to thank Douglas Stuart for this novel, it really helped me understand my father's family dynamic and situation.
Damn, it was so good.
Kristy H (1252 KP) rated Scrappy Little Nobody in Books
Feb 1, 2018
I've always enjoyed Kendrick and have seen several of her films (and heard her sing about a million times, thanks to my young children and the popularity of the film, <i>Trolls</i>) but didn't know a lot about her early career. Her autobiography does a good job of filling in some of the gaps of Anna's childhood career (working on Broadway at twelve - who knew?!), but isn't told in any chronological order, so we don't get a sense of any real span of her career from Point A to B. Most of the book is told in short little bits. Many of them are quite funny stories, and there are some truly laugh out loud moments. In many cases, Kendrick is a very relatable person, who seems like the type of friend you'd like to hang out with. At other points, she seemed a bit whiny, and for me, the book spent too much time with her protesting about some of the travails of being in the celebrity industry. I can only take so much "woe is me" from famous people who write books about their lives.
The book is on more solid ground when we're reading about Anna's early life, where you gain a true admiration for her talent, and with her silly and snarky stories about her misanthropic personality (misanthropes unite!). Still, the jumping back and forth in time makes it hard to get a true trace on the arc of her life at times, and beyond some of the complaining and expounding on the travails of award shows, press junkets, and the like, there wasn't as much about her post-fame life as I was interested in.
If you like Kendrick's films, or her twitter feed, you'll probably enjoy the book and its organization, even if you find yourself wishing for a little more at the end. She's led an interesting life so far, and I'm sure another autobiography down the road would be quite intriguing.