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Feel Good Book

Revisado: 03-17-21

A light read and a good narration that left me wanting, by the end of the book, to visit England just to meet everyone at Monica’s Cafe.

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All over and leading nowhere

Revisado: 02-27-21

This book struck me as Bennett having to come up with a 2nd book to honor the terms of her book deal… and when I heard the title was committee-driven, that sealed it. What ‘vanished’ for me was any reason to keep reading… but I managed to finish it to its blah conclusion. A waste of time. But most of my disappointment is with the person who performed … every character, male or female, young or old, black-or white, sounded exactly alike. HORRIBLE.

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Depressing...

Revisado: 09-05-18

I'm sure this is a story that 'must be told.' It's just not one that is in my wheelhouse. Depressing.

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Dim View of Writers, Eh?

Revisado: 04-03-18

I'm new to JKR as RG, and I very much enjoyed the 1st in this series, CC. This one... very twisty and grotesque, ghoulish murder, and the narrative was fine, but my takeaway is... does JKR truly have such a dim view of writers? Since writers are the main characters in this book, and every one of them is a grotesque troll, what's with that?

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Heartwarming

Revisado: 06-10-17

The narrator was perfect. The story was heartwarming and the perfect counterpoint to all the hideous real life news. I didn't want the book to end. Ove was a class act.

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Clap Trap

Revisado: 10-27-15

I can only imagine the community that has sprung up around this "movement."
Aside from the adolescent sounding recording, the content, at its best (which is a low bar to start with), is either common sense or available by having a cup of tea with a good friend. Are there really women in the world who are so bereft of good mirrors that they pay money to be told these bromides? Dont waste your money - wish I hadnt wasted mine.

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GOP propaganda

Revisado: 12-14-14

Hard to tell who the real author is... Forstchen or Eye of Newt... Survivalist scare tactics.

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Interesting peek into the life of a SCOTUS judge.

Revisado: 07-14-13

Having Rita Moreno narrate was an inspired selection. Ms Sotomayor's early life isn't exactly riveting but it was a welcomed peek into what compels and propels a person to reach for the stars - and get there. It was an easy listen and Ms Moreno kept the pace and the emotional balance perfect.

It doesn't examine her current life (ends just as she is being chosen for Supreme Court) but it certainly gives a good example of her basic values and beliefs that guide her.

Highly recommend it - especially to young women.

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Pretty good tale of Wild West and Hearty Women

Revisado: 03-05-13

After a few chapters, or, once the characters all get together and embark on their journey, this reads more like history than fiction. Never heard of this author before, but he tells a spell binding (fictionalized) account of white women who in 1875 volunteer to travel into the wild west to intermarry with native Americans/Indians, at the direction of Pres Ulysses S. Grant. Had me in tears at the end, such is the author's power to draw me in.

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Old WIne in New Bottles

Revisado: 01-29-13

The over arching issue I had with the book, and I have almost all of Julia Cameron's written work, is her scratchy, monotonous delivery. Almost 6 hours of it. WHen I first met her back in the 90s, at a workshop for her breakout sensation The Artist's Way, she was ethereal. Like a faerie spirit. She was able to weave magic out of air. Easy listening. Time and life have apparently taken its toll on her voice, and I hope she opts next time for another more mellifluous narrator.

Now to the book: maybe because I have all of her variations on the central theme of Artist's Way, I have become jaded. I keep waiting for another breakout AHA Julia moment, and instead, it is just Artist's Way (as it relates to diet, money, relationships etc) with a new title. Her main credo is creativity, and yet she hasn't really plowed any new creative ground since her seminal work.

I know each new generation needs telling the same advice, but it smacks of crass commerciality to restage her basic premise in a new title every year.

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