3 stars This is not my kind of poetry. In “Reactions to the Poems of T.S. Eliot”, Charles Powell is quoted as having said that “‘the ordinary reader’ would ‘make nothing of it’” and I think that is the case with me. I give the poems themselves two stars, but bump the book up to…

3 stars I received a copy of this book from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review. This is a very interesting topic and Nelson covers it well. Overall, I liked the book. I think the sections on reparations were especially interesting in the brief history given and how DNA has been used in connection…

5 stars So I pretty much feel the same way about this book as I did the first one: it is absolutely amazing. This is a great continuation of the series. The characters and plot are just as fascinating, a true feat given the length of both books and the trend for the sequel to…

3 stars I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review. This was a really cool subject. I will admit I have only seen one or two episodes of Breaking Bad, but I was really interested in the topic of masculinity within the show. While this is a academic…

5 stars This is a great place to start to get a feminist look at pop culture. Well-written and easy to understand, this book gives a beginner’s look into pop culture as it has evolved from the 1940s to the 1990s. Since the book was published in 2008, it is obviously a few years behind,…

5 stars This is a great book for young readers! It is filled with fun history, which is made even more interesting as “the world’s first computer programmer and the world’s first science-fiction author [solve] the world’s first fictional detective mystery”. In the About the Author blurb, Stratford is described as “eager to shine a…

2 stars This may become a very long review, so I will briefly sum up my opinion of this book by saying that the author has great ideas, but poor execution in the actual writing. Basically, the story is a fantastic play on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland that is very creative and well researched, tying…

5 stars I loved this book!The book contains the stories from Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner as well as the poems from When We Were Very Young and Now We are Six. The stories are entertaining and fun. I highly recommend this to anyone who enjoyed the Winnie the Pooh movies. Some of…

3 stars This is a good collection of poetry. The poems are very descriptive and often evoke beautiful images. The book is broken down into three sections, which designate the themes of the poems included, such as the Greek inspiration of the poems in the section, My Greece. This book took me a while to…

1 star I received a copy of this book from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review.I hate leaving bad reviews. I usually try to find some redeeming quality in books, even if I don’t really like them, but this book was extremely difficult for me to get through.At first I absolutely loved it. The…