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Thoughtfully and graciously shared memoir. Really enjoyable read!

Revisado: 06-11-24

Really enjoyed learning more about her life, her thoughts, and who she is beyond Baywatch. What an interesting and thoughtful human, and fantastic writer. Great quotes, as well.

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Short format was, in fact, too short

Revisado: 06-09-24

Story didn’t take off really. I was excited knowing how much I like the author and Agatha Christie, but I didn’t feel like I actually learned about her contributions.

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Very self aggrandizing, not enough about Pluto

Revisado: 06-04-24

I was really hoping to learn more about Pluto. While learning when and why it was demoted to dwarf planet was interesting enough as a part of the story, I didn’t feel like I learned as much as I’d hoped about actual Pluto. It felt like A LOT of justification for Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and not enough education of the subject.

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Absolutely awful. Abusive behavior is not romantic

Revisado: 04-18-24

Wow this was truly terrible. I'll grant that while there were a few entertaining moments, it did not in any way outweigh the abhorrent behaviors of some of the characters. Stalking and gaslighting are not attractive qualities. Really gross how much abusive behavior was celebrated as "romantic." The portrayal of LGBTQ characters leaned heavily into over-the-top stereotypes, and felt insulting. Just soooo bad. Regretting now that I bothered to finish this.

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Classic Agatha Raisin

Revisado: 11-12-23

Good mystery with a pleasant twist, complete with the usual antics of small town Cotswolds life, a will-they-won’t-they romance, and lots of rich characters. Enjoyed getting some backstory

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Really enjoyable short read

Revisado: 11-12-23

Art history, a bit of a mystery, and plenty of humorous character descriptions. All around enjoyable listen

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Terrible narration, accents were all over the place

Revisado: 11-08-23

Half the time the characters were given Southern accents and half a bad attempt at midlands or Yorkshire accents. Dreadful.

All of the tongue-in-cheek aspects of this novel are lost to poor narration.

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Interesting read, weird narration

Revisado: 10-07-23

Really enjoyed the topic. This was informative and interesting, tying in many well-known US historical events into their relationships with rum. (Some may have been a stretch of the truth)
The narrator, however, had a thoroughly bizarre way of reading some words. I don’t think it’s an ESL or an accent thing. I think he just says some words in a odd way, which I found distracting. I also found it weird that although this is supposed to be a professor narrating on a subject they are meant to be well-versed in, much of his reading felt like the first time he’d ever seen or read these words. Just…weird.

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Really interesting read that challenges long-held myths

Revisado: 04-20-23

I really enjoyed learning which medical myths were actually true, and which were completely wrong. I especially enjoyed learning about which “superfoods” are useless.

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Incredibly compelling story that felt real

Revisado: 04-04-23

I laughed, I cried, I was angry, I was shocked. Although I know this is fiction, it felt like it was the TRUE story for any number of actors and actresses throughout film history who had to claw and scrape and hide themselves just to survive and succeed. I want faux biographies of ALL the characters now. Brilliant writing, funny, and believable.
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Trigger warning: the book does feature death, rape, and disease.

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