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Saving Montgomery Sole
- De: Mariko Tamaki
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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Montgomery Sole is a square peg in a small town, a girl with two moms forced to go to a school full of homophobes and people who don't even know what irony is. Her saving grace - her two best friends, Thomas and Naoki. Monty's obsessed with paranormal mysteries like ESP, astrology, superpowers, and the healing powers of frozen yogurt, but when strange things actually start happening to Monty, she realizes that the greatest mystery of all is herself.
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Satisfying
- De Alexandra Ortiz en 01-20-22
- Saving Montgomery Sole
- De: Mariko Tamaki
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
Beautiful and unique - instantly made me a fan
Revisado: 04-14-18
I picked up this book because of how touched I was by the graphic novel "This One Summer" by Mariko Tamaki (and her sister) and it did not disappoint.
"I particularly enjoyed the thoughtful look at the clash between queer families and fundamentalist Christianity." - I lifted this from another review because this is what spoke to me the most about this book as it was so beautifully handled with an emphasis on THOUGHTFUL. It obviously was written with great care.
The characters are beautiful and unique and yet drip real enough to remind me of friends and experiences from school to make it feel real. Mariko's words and the character's observations are so beautifully crafted you cannot help but be transported.
This short review feels like a school report, but I just loved this book and wanted write something real quick... I loved it.
And yeah - I cried at the end:)
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Looking for Alaska
- De: John Green
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words - and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called "The Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
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Humorous YA for Adults
- De FanB14 en 05-24-12
- Looking for Alaska
- De: John Green
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
Blew my heart away:)
Revisado: 04-14-18
I have only physically been brought to tears while reading one book before reading Looking for Alaska and that was reading Bill Falangan's "A&R" back in 2000 at the end of a particular chapter that left me quietly devastated in all the best ways a story can.
John Green's story had me in tears four times; Twice happy, once very sad and the last very overwhelmed from a combination of both.
Don't get me wrong - I'm moved by great stories all the time and have no trouble getting emotionally involved with well written characters and adventures that take me to far off places, inside a character or even myself. BUT... while I may well up inside I just don't physically cry tears from reading the way I do with other media such as movies, television and music, so reading this book was quite an experience for me.
I don't read a lot of Young Adult fiction, but have become a big fan of John Green (and his brother Hank Green) as internet personalities and thought leaders on YouTube as the VlogBrothers and finally thought I'd give one of his books a try. I'm glad I did.
Great characters. Great story.
It didn't exactly blow my mind or change my life, but in the words of my friend Ronnie who helped me find the words to describe how I loved this book:
It blew my heart away:)
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Catching the Big Fish
- Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
- De: David Lynch
- Narrado por: David Lynch
- Duración: 1 h y 48 m
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David Lynch’s Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker’s methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.
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Interesting insight into Lynch's creative process
- De Jessica en 10-11-10
- Catching the Big Fish
- Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
- De: David Lynch
- Narrado por: David Lynch
Some of it will be for everyone, some not so much
Revisado: 04-14-18
This is great book about the creativity and balancing life. I can attest first hand that you don't have to be a fan of an artist's full work to admire an artist. There is a lot of insight into the how David Lynch has become who he is, how he has gotten to where he has, and how his films came to be as they are.
Part autobiographical, part inspirational - David Lynch genuinely wants to share with you what has worked in his life to help him find creative satisfaction and happiness. He's not trying to sell you anything here, but pulls no punches in being direct about his beliefs in where he's coming from.
The subjects and moments of this book come somewhat linearly flowing out almost as if as stream of consiousness in minor bits of information presented like factoids of information. But if you pay attention, it does all string together quite nicely to become almost like a bit of "Fatherly Advice" to take with you as you go out into the world and create (or do whatever you to be be happy).
Much of the book is a heavy endorsement of transcendental meditation - how it becomes apart of his life - and how it continues to play a huge role in his work. He has some great things to share about life that he has learned through these experiences.
There is a lot of discussion of unified fields and parts of Quantum Theory presented as scientific fact and while I share SOME overlapping ideas referenced I would argue they are not quite endorsed by science at this point.
Some of it will be for everyone - some of it, not so much:)
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The Sleeper and the Spindle
- De: Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Julian Rhind-Tutt, Lara Pulver, Niamh Walsh
- Duración: 1 h y 5 m
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You may think you know this story. There's a young queen about to be married. There are some good, brave, hardy dwarfs; a castle shrouded in thorns; and a princess cursed by a witch, so rumor has it, to sleep forever. But no one is waiting for a noble prince to appear on his trusty steed here. This fairy tale is spun with a thread of dark magic, which twists and turns and glints and shines.
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A suprising twist to the Sleeping Beauty
- De Jacobus en 12-15-15
- The Sleeper and the Spindle
- De: Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Julian Rhind-Tutt, Lara Pulver, Niamh Walsh
Didn't see this one coming!
Revisado: 04-14-18
I don't know that anyone paints a picture with words the way that Mr. Neil Gaiman does. I've barreled through his adventures the past few years and must admit that this is one of my favorites to date.
Having not read a fairy tale classic in some time,this somewhat short tale with a skewed take on familiar ideas was so wonderfully put together that I can't get my hands on another fast enough.
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Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
- A Book by Patton Oswalt
- De: Patton Oswalt
- Narrado por: Patton Oswalt
- Duración: 3 h y 31 m
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Oswalt combines memoir with uproarious humor, from snow forts to Dungeons & Dragons to gifts from Grandma that had to be explained. He remembers his teen summers spent working in a movie Cineplex and his early years doing stand-up. Readers are also treated to several graphic elements, including a vampire tale for the rest of us and some greeting cards with a special touch.
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It's deep. Deal with it.
- De Arlette en 10-14-11
- Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
- A Book by Patton Oswalt
- De: Patton Oswalt
- Narrado por: Patton Oswalt
For Patton fans
Revisado: 04-14-18
I find this book hard to describe where as on the macro level - it's somewhat incoherent. It's funny, it's real it's slap stick , it's sad - I guess the only thing i can point to is that if like me, you're a Patton Oswalt fan, then this book is for you
Definitely recommend this Audible Audio version as read by Patton Oswald himself who not only reads his book but occasionally makes comments about reading it.
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