fiona_gs's reviews
214 reviews

A story that highlights many problems of a girl in country that is living in a broken family. A lot of hard hitting issues were covered in this book. It brought back memories when I worked as a teacher in the country schools. Made me appreciate the times we live in ans the students I helped. Maybe I have saved my own Justine Lee.

Started off well and very funny and insightful. The down side eas most of it changed style and becoming diary entries which made it boring. Though at the end of that bit hearing the rest was crupted and lost I cheered. So in the end it was back to the old style. Would like to hear about the next decade though but Stephan Fry need to stick to story style not tbe diary.

A beautiful story with some hard hitting issues.

A wonderful insight to this great man. As I listen to it as an audio book with Stephen reading it I found I was able to enjoy it more. It is an inspiring read/listen for anyone who my have self esteem issue can also be successful to.

Interesting story took me a bit to figure that it was a work of fiction given that I don't watch the news a lot due to it depressing nature. Found the twisted at the end good. Talking about the end I found it lacked a bit unsure what was going on as to Kevin and his mother. It took listening to an interview with the author to understand what she was aiming at. Just don't think it came through probably.

A grand adventure going wrong. Funny, serious and the characters well written. The only reason I did not give 5 stars is that for most of the book I wanted to bang Percy's and Monty's and heads together. The crossing wires of their relationship could have been sort out earlier. Can't wait to read the next book.

I found this book difficult to read as I am unsure which audience Cyndi is aiming at with this book. Sometimes it reads as a beginners guide to Wicca and then switch to an advance Wicca guide to initiation guide to a deity. To inviting new reads to her blog and then assume all the reads are following her blog and some times written as Cyndi personal autobiography. This book could have been split into 3 different titles with more detail and would have gain Cyndi more audience for her works.

The other annoying thing and this my do with my scientific and librarian back ground is the lack or the badly referencing used as I am assuming like most Wiccans' myself include read and research what we want to know widely. This can be easily fix by hiring someone or learning to do this properly so her work and research she has done is well recognized.

After all this I did take some positives from this, the hymns and chants were beautiful and powerful. It also gave me some more information I need to make imitation even if I don't think I am ready for the next step. I really liked the person story/journey part and would like a book more on that part.

The lesson part which was really the main focus of the book I found to be good but the instructions a bit weak. Example guide meditation with words is hard to do when reading at the same time. Either rough guide to visualization and allow the person meditating on their own way of doing it or sell on your blog the audio for guide meditation. The lessons would be easier to follow if in dot points instead of paragraphs as this can get people lost quiet easily which is a shame as the lesson themselves are quiet detailed.

These are my opinions this format my make sense to someone else give it a try and see what you think. Thanks for Netgallery for giving me access to this title.

This book I could not stop listen too. I usually find YA contemporary hard to inspire me to read this genre and usually have to find a quirky one to do so. As I have also made a goal to read more than on Inky nominated book this set the challenge for this book. I enjoyed the issues like resilience, mental illness, friendships/relationships in the age of social media and coming of age. Each of the main and sub characters had both a deep realistic character development, as well has exploring a 1-D mask/shield to the world of social media/ fame and how it is created and maintained in an online world. It didn't finish as I thought it would which was refreshing and nor was the story conclusion rushed at the end. I did find it started a bit slow for me to get to the main meeting of the two main characters but I understand why it was done that way as the development and growth of Angel would have been lost otherwise. This book is really worth the read or listen to even if it is a genre you normal shy way from.

An interesting read/listen even if I found the story predictable. I like the way it described country Victoria and how life functions there. Just found the ending a little stunted after the whole build up.