Although written for young adults, the story was fast, fun and exciting. The two main characters are a little over simplified but they do flesh out in the second and third volumes. There is a lot of space to grow in Nix's created world. I'm sure there will be much more from him in the future.

My 6 yr old enjoyed the illustrations in this book, and although the subject matter was a little beyond her she was able to follow this true story of a barge full of garbage and it's travels. The illustrations were dynamic and fun, and the vast part in both of our opinions.

Janice does a great job capturing the setting of her books. As an actual resident of Tombstone I can't find fault there, but after a few previous reads I've given up. Bring in law enforcement, I just can't get behind her characters. I wanted to like this series, I really did, but I'll pass on the other titles. I just couldn't take another page of the over dramatized inaccurate portrayal of the current law system of Cochise County.

Simple and visual text I use to help explain hand spinning.

Pratchett never disappoints. Quick and easy read that puts a smile on your face. I laughed out loud on more than one occasion.

I appreciated the story in this book, and although it was clever, it was not my favorite Pratchett read. Still great, but his others seem to be more multi-dimensional.

I loved it. Quick and easy read with bits and pieces woven in from his overall vision of Discworld. So far my favorite of his books I've read so far. Hilarious if you get into his tongue in cheek sense of humor.

This was my first Terry Pratchett read, brought on by watching Good Omens on Amazon.
After I got in the right mindset I was hooked. I've read another 3 of his books since.

#wondrouswednesday @gradcat "I'm back!"
1. I've visited 2, and live in the 3rd.
2. Mountains, but need to be able to visit the coastline.
3. Virungas
4. A country straight out of the author's imagination.

These stories are just so much fun. The home of British humor at it's finest.

British humor is like no other.

There is nothing quite so much fun as a quick Sherlock tale. This one is fun, with that deduction twist that is always there.

As important as Uncle Tom's cabin is to the understanding of slavery, I think this book contributes another narrative, another perspective, another glimpse into slavery as experienced and recorded by those that lived it. I enjoyed the book. It was well written without it's words and grammar being inaccessible even though it was written 170 years ago. The characters were real people with real struggles and they have changed my life.

I really enjoyed this book. I got a little scared at times when he threw in a 90° turn, but I was enveloped again in the story. Good, quick, solid read.

I enjoyed listening to this in the car. I don't think I would have read it on paper however. It had a lot of slow places. I wanted it to be more like James Herriot's work. I enjoyed the small Irish town doctor stories. I did not feel the "big" story was anything but completely predictable and a real letdown.

Life is precious. A man enslaved with the weight of Injustice fully upon his shoulders still holds on to his will to live when someone attends to take it away.

Note: A breakdown in physical or mental health can alter the strength of the hold we feel upon our lives. I just felt that needed to be said.

I love a good heavy book. I'm not sure why, maybe it feels like accomplishment. But when I paged through this book before I started it, I was already put off. I can see why the typesetter did what they did, but....
When I got started in the story I saw that it had a lot of potential, but if at page 5 the character's health was already being explored I just couldn't see where the following pages could go.
I'd be hard pressed to pick it up again

The story was there, I know it was, but I just couldn't get into it. I might try it again when I don't have other books i'd prefer to read in my cue, or I go through a dark, cold, Russianesque time.

I'm loving this book. A good fast read. But I had to show off my newest orphans that I'm bottle feeding.
One week down, we're through the hard part.

I understand that I am not a person of the years of slavery. I understand that we have seen our mistakes and move to correct them. But the horror I feel when I read passages like this, I want to scream at my ancestors for their ignorance. And I pray that my descendants will never grieve at my actions or despair over the things that I have done.

I love when authors write about books. All of us bibliophiles hold our books so dear.

I loved this book. I did find it very similar to her book "spinning silver", but they had separate storylines that were equally wonderful.
I think every young woman can identify in some part to the heroine. She speaks to my inner Tomboy that also wants to be someone great!
I'd read as many of these books as she wrote

I recently read Spinning Silver by this author. This is an earlier book, and daresay I like it even more than Spinning Silver. Beautiful story telling, using all the wonder of fairy tales.

1. Fiction 90% of the time
2. 11/22/63
3. Mathematics (all)
4. Pretty much anything up to the 1920s. After that it gets boring.
5. @EliseJames @haileyeleanor @loraxiom

Thank you @gradcat for the tag and @SailorMoon

1. Once or twice.
2. On average nine.
3. Fiction, biographies, kids videos, audio books and occasionally video games.
4. The library automatically renews. When I can't renew any more, three times, then it's my responsibility to get it back to the library. I don't know when this started, but I'm thankful.
5. I had about 30 things on hold, but I missed a ton, so I am just working on a few. Plus the bedside table.
6. Uprooted by Naomi Novik.

The characters that are in the book are those that you've always heard.
Morlocks... Heard it? Yup, this is the book.
I read it because it was a "classic" I'd never read. If you go in with that mindset, you'll be nicely surprised that there is a pretty good story involved.

This book is amazing. The characters are deep, lovely, rich, conflicted. The storytelling perspectives really entering the whole plot. I cannot say enough good things about a random pick off the library shelf. I am waiting patiently to read Uprooted, her first book.

All of the books published in the Images of America series are fun. The pictures show history in a more immediate way than by text. Pictures and captions teach me so many things about so many places. I believe the series head close to 1200 titles for many, many areas around the US.

Fast read with some interesting mysteries. Some of the stories get a little winded and get a bit jumbled in their retelling, but lots of fun.

From page one I have enjoyed this book. Page one! I cannot read it fast enough.

I'm a huge Edgar Rice Burrough's fan, but this is the first time I read this particular story. To me it feels like a first draft for John Carter of Mars. I love his premisses despite their similarity.

I've just started this, and I'm afraid. I don't know what I've gotten into! It's beautiful, in an artistic, print way. I hope the typesetter got paid a lot more for this book.

"Very well, then, let us live while we live, and enjoy to the fullest whatever of adventure or pleasure each new day brings, since any day may be our last, and we shall be dead for a considerable while."

I've been looking for a nice motivational quote. Who knew I'd find it in an Edgar Rice Burrough's book? And with a bit of humor too!

This book took so very long to get started... Soooo long. But the second Poirot came on scene it moved very quickly and all the threads came together!
If you can push through the beginning you'll like it.
I've rated it a so-so for those first 158 pages. The following 60 pages are pick all the way.

Sherlock is such an iconic character. No matter how many times you've read a story you can always go back and read it again.

"No information could be got from the lady herself, who was temporarily insane from an acute attack of brain-fever."

If I could only use this at times in my everyday life!!!

This was a bit slow going at first... But on page 80ish it all started coming together and I know I'll finish today now.

I tried. I really, really did. But in the end I just couldn't do it. With a mere 40 pages to go I had to call it. I could have read ten books in the time I got through the first 240 pages of this book. I love linguistics. I love travel books. I love little nuggets of factual information. This book has ALL of those things. But the author could not hold a thought through a paragraph. It was like stream of consciousness confusion.

I read this in a lot class in high school. It had the most profound effect on me. I was just in awe of a story constructed like this. Short but maddening!
I reread it today. Just as amazing.

I listened to this on podcast. After about 4 hours I got bored. The idea, wonderful. The description, wonderful. The complete lack of anything actually happening! Yup!

I love the classic terror that is Lovecraft., However, with this story it feels like the truly terrible was too long in coming and much too unfocused for good reading. It is Lovecraft but maybe another choice would be wiser.

Such a classic short story. It's been construction has been the basis for so many novels and novellas. My guess is that this story has had a very influential effect upon Stephen King.
For 20 minutes of reading you can't go wrong.

Since I love everything Sherlock I much expected to enjoy this short story. I did.
The great thing about Doyle, is that because we're used to the way Sherlock Holmes speaks, there's very little dialogue that's misunderstood

I prefer not to leave a review at this time.

I enjoyed this book quite a bit. I especially liked the narrator. She was the perfect Amelia. I actually found the beginning of the end, the climax of the story as it were, to be expected and a bit boring. But overall, I enjoyed it.

I was a bit disappointed in this Lovecraft. He's usually quite descriptive, with the story moving pretty slowly. But fun because of the things you see. However this has ho-hum descriptions and let story than usual. It's still a venture into something new, but like a Star Trek with nothing but 60s scenery.

I'm still not feeling this book. 😐 I've never encountered this with a Christie book. But, I guess every one can't be awesome. But at least these cats are still awesome. I feel like I'm running a cat sanctuary.

I like Lovecraft. I find his short stories pretty great and I see why he's still regarded as a great writer...
But I think it only speaks of the Age he lived in, that everyone's writing is filled with blatant racism as we see it now. This is not the only example, but the most recent.

This book was fun, but thankfully it was short. I feel like he wrote in the style of Poe, but not with the same mastery of the thriller. There is a twist, but it's guaranteed as you go through the chapters. I enjoyed it, and it's entertaining for the 30min read, but you'll not walk away with any great insight or change in your life.

The author is discussing Shakespeare's birthday which is arbitrarily celebrated April 23rd. But what really gets me was the Sept 2nd - Sept 14th part. Boy that work project due date came up fast. LOL