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manikahemmerixh's Reviews (218)
Some of the jargon was a bit dense for me, but most of the science in the book is still easy to understand. The overall message is definitely clear whether you fully understand all of the case studies and scientific terms van Tulleken uses to break down his findings on processed foods. This is informative but it's not a self help book by any means. If you're trying to stop eating as much processed foods and want more info. to back that decision then this book is what you're looking for, but if you're looking for alternatives or recommendations to practically stop eating as much processed food this book doesn't have any of that piece.
I found this memoir to be a good marriage between informative and pondering. The format took a bit of getting used to, as Robb does start a story, interject with other things, and then come back around to tell more of the story that had started before, but once I recognized that pattern, it bothered me less. I've always carried a small torch for ballet, though I've never taken lessons, but still found pieces of this relatable.
A very touching Historical Fiction romance novel. I am not often drawn to war stories, but the twist of involving the Greek gods into the story made it something that appealed to me. I'm so glad it did, because the content of this novel is so much deeper. I came for the Greek gods, and in the end I stayed for the two young couples and the depiction of what life was like in a time ravaged by The Great War. There's a diverse range of hardships, violence, and bigotry portrayed in the novel, but there's also some of the sweetest accounts of a love story I've read in a while.
This book is not easy to read. Unless you are somehow the perfect vegan and animal rights activist (which doesn't exist - and I am positive Mance himself doesn't consider himself this), then it's going to make you uncomfortable. By picking up this book one can presume that you care about your individual piece in the large puzzle that is human-to-other animal relationships, no matter how deep or shallow that caring may be. If that's the case, it's bound to make you feel some kind of cognitive dissonance. Once you push through that though, this is very informative. It took me quite a while to read since it challenged me to sit in my discomfort, but I feel better having read it and feel that it did make an impact.
On a technical note, I could have done with more division in the way the information is formatted. I find long chapters hard to swallow in any case (and these chapters are definitely long). Especially since the information isn't always the easiest to ruminate with, I think it's one that's best to take your time with and the long chapters don't make it convenient to put the book down and pick back up.
On a technical note, I could have done with more division in the way the information is formatted. I find long chapters hard to swallow in any case (and these chapters are definitely long). Especially since the information isn't always the easiest to ruminate with, I think it's one that's best to take your time with and the long chapters don't make it convenient to put the book down and pick back up.
Gillian Flynn created the perfect storm with Amy Elliot and Nick Dunne. Neither of them is very likeable or the greatest character you've ever met, and yet something about the way they deliver themselves makes it so that you can't help but be invested in them. Their relationship is insane, and may a love like theirs NEVER find me - but also they deserve each other. I only wish that I had read the book before I watched the movie. It's been years but you don't forget a plot like Gone Girl's easily and so I went into the narrative biased. I'd love to know how I would have experienced this without that, but clearly it still worked for me.
Well, she wasn't kidding when she said this ends on an epic cliffhanger. The writing style isn't my favorite, and there are a lot of elements of this story that have been done in romantasy ad nauseum (which meant that little to none of it could surprise me), but it has just enough to keep me in the story instead of DNFing. As long as this isn't going to be one of those long, over drawn out series, then I'll probably stick with it to find out what happens. Huntyr (I thought this name was bad but somehow it gets worse, choosing to ignore that) annoyed me, but I liked Wolf (ignoring that one too). None of the characters are really well fleshed out though so it's hard to feel much for any of them.
Beautiful story of resiliency and how, and why, we find ways to survive and see beauty in even the most challenging cases.
I think I Who Have Never Known Men transcends description. There isn't much point in explaining the plot because the plot is ambiguous. It's not about answering why they were in the bunker, where they are, what happened, etc. (though it's human nature that both we as readers, and the characters, can't help but wonder about these things). Sure, it has a plot, but the true beauty in it is the experience of reading it, which is bound to resonate and feel differently to everyone.