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Review Date: 1/19/2011
Helpful Score: 2
Of the 29 gifts, at least 20 were "pay and walk away" kinds of gifts. If you really want to change a life: share yourself, share your time, share your experiences. The author was so wrapped up in her own poor-pitiful-me brokenness that, even on the 29th day, it still seemed to be all about her. Also, wayyyyyyy too much woo-woo in the book for my sensibilities. If you buy/read the book, skip her 29 gifts and go to the end of the book or go to the blog where others shared their experiences.
Bottom line: good idea, bad book.
Bottom line: good idea, bad book.
78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might
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Review Date: 10/30/2013
Tells it like it is and doesn't leave any prisoners
Review Date: 12/9/2013
DH just finished it and can't wait to re-read it. He felt it is an "important" book.
I'm hoping to have a chance to read it before he grabs it back.
Its a lo-o-o-o-ng book but worth the read.
I'm hoping to have a chance to read it before he grabs it back.
Its a lo-o-o-o-ng book but worth the read.
The Best Kitchen Quick Tips: 534 Tricks, Techniques, and Shortcuts for the Curious Cook
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Review Date: 10/23/2021
Helpful Score: 1
Read it from cover to cover as soon as it arrived. Well-organized. Some of the ideas were "duhhhh, why would you do it any other way?!?" but others lit up a light bulb over my head and will make my life easier.
Review Date: 12/18/2022
In Garrison Keillor's usual style, these stories were a welcome antidote to the usual saccharin Hallmark-y sentiments of the season while still emotionally sucking us in to the magic and pain of Christmas.
Review Date: 10/30/2013
Good solid reference book
Review Date: 4/20/2011
Well written but dragged in some sections in the same way that real autobiographies do. Satisfactory ending.
Review Date: 1/20/2021
Just what I expected. Great basic Italian cookbook with enough unexpected recipes to tickle my interest. Well laid-out. Easy to understand instructions.
Review Date: 1/2/2014
I passed this book to my husband who teaches 2nd grade. He thought it would be a humorous explanation of the importance of apostrophes in clear communications. I thought that some of the comparative sentences were too nuanced for 2nd graders but appreciated that explanations for the differences in each sentence group were offered at the back of the book.
Review Date: 9/5/2009
I don't know why its a best-seller. The action rarely lifted from the light-weight correspondence among some mostly love-sick letter-writers and the reader didn't get nearly enough time with the members of the "Society."
Review Date: 3/19/2014
The language is a joy to read and the story is woven together as carefully as a tightrope walker's rope.
Review Date: 9/6/2011
Despite the well-written descriptions, the intrigue and "naughty" behavior, it was a somewhat boring read. There is a glossary in the back of the book but it covered only 60% of the unfamiliar words I came across. Probably much more satrisfactory if you grew up in India or are part of an Indian-American family.
Review Date: 9/20/2014
I finally got this book because a good friend keeps raving about it ... and finds that none of her friends like it as much as she does. Unfortunately, I am becoming another of those friends who doesn't understand why it is so special. I'm about 1/2 way through and still haven't found the spark that makes me want to keep reading. Its not a "badly written" book, its just not at all special.
Review Date: 12/31/2010
I was skimming other reviews and would have to agree with others' responses: good writing but shallow, flawed somewhat unlikeable characters put into shallow, predictable and boring story lines.
Review Date: 11/13/2013
Although this book was written 30 years ago, the themes are still timely. It should be part of high school reading lists. What 16 year old doesn't identify with being awkward and "not as good as [fill in the blank]"? What family doesn't struggle with members who need more love than others are willing/able to give?
Review Date: 10/16/2021
Two talented and widely-published friends sharing together in one book! My kind of meditation.
Review Date: 10/5/2011
Not the same ol'"lonely man orders mail order bride" kind of book. Lots of interesting characters, plot turns and complicated moral choices.
The School of Essential Ingredients (aka The Monday Night Cooking School) (School of Essential Ingredients, Bk 1)
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Review Date: 10/13/2011
A sumptuous, sensuous couldn't-put-it-down read. I loved the language and identified with the characters. That it took place in Seattle, where we have such an abundance of "essential ingredients" and ethnic diversity, was a plus. I can't wait to nominate it as a reading selection to my book group.
Review Date: 9/5/2009
Interesting and sometimes amusing take on the images of God but theologically light-weight and pat ending. Most people I've talked with either loved it dearly or hated it passionately.
Review Date: 7/22/2010
Its a badly written piece of non-literature that the author readily admits he wrote hoping for a movie deal. The pseudo-theology is not well thought out and diminishes the true goodness and power of our Triune God. The ending is comparable to the "...and then I woke up and it was all a bad dream" kind of ending that come from Jr. High writing classes. The violence against children is comparable to the cheap thrill of a slasher movie. After I read it, I wanted to scrub off the icky feelings the book left me with.
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