rinnyssance's reviews
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I liked the parts of the book that I didn't find so chatty. Some of the book seems rather redundant and naive, but I expect that seeing as she's a new nurse and the tales are unique to her experience and what she's learned from them. Her lesson seems to always be that nurses are a valuable part of the team and that patient care isn't something that you learn in school. Sometimes the smallest gestures matter most to patients and families. She also talks a lot about death and dying, something that I worked closely with volunteering in hospice care. You never really know when a patient is going to die. Sometimes it's sudden and sometimes the signs are there. And dealing with families are always a unique experience. Sometimes the smallest gestures let them know that you care, and it's a wonderful thing. I liked this book because she seems to be a good nurse who actually loves her job, which is quite common in nursing, while I feel like a lot of nurses, specifically younger ones, are often the ones putting their exasperation in writing, giving the job the image of being a bunch of burnouts who aren't very patient or caring.

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I was reading this book for a MOOC I am taking. It's only 88 pages long so no need to pace yourself. The book is absolutely horrible and useless. There's nothing new, inspiring or motivational in it, which is typical for titles like these. It's a ton of other people's quotes, a horrible chart and a small original paragraph at the beginning of each chapter. You're better off not purchasing this book if you take the course. However, if you absolutely are curious, it's only $5. It's only 88 pages, and doesn't take more than a half an hour to read.

I got too bored to finish this book.

This is one of those books nerds recommend to passively insult your writing. Still, it's helpful. I've been meaning to read it for awhile. It doesn't feel like it, but I'm sure I got more from it than I believe.

This book isn't about what the title leads you to believe. I guess it's your typical "education is in mortal peril" type book. Very boring and redundant.

I could have read a Tumblr blog or all this "how I'm feeling right now" internal dialog. It feels like the water in my brain somehow transmuted into hydrogen peroxide and is now decomposing the organic matter. I am so ashamed I picked this book up. Where was the "science" in this "science fiction" novel? All I read was a bunch of mindlessly placed words and "visengineering?" Do you mean a tissue and organ engineer... that job already exists, y'know! I'm glad it's all over.

1) There is some synthetic, unknown biomass called God's City. The synthetic biologist or "Visengineer" didn't ever think to test it before simply walking in and looking around? Possibly by taking a sample?

2) How did Suh even know what or where that thing was? Was she really magic or just full of shit?

3) What was the point of the grandson plot? He came in, charmed the city, found the dead and swept them away. But it was all so distracting from the actual story, which was obviously Ren finding her fate in God's City. It was a needless plot device.

4) The entire story was anticlimactic. Riddled with so many random things, like a boy possibly being part tapeworm, then totally not being a tapeworm, but having a tapeworm. Something that the "advanced" technology of this planet couldn't decipher, but my lab equipment can?

5) There were no "twists" and "turns" in this book. There were just a bunch of random tidbits that threw us off the case. However, it became quite apparent that Suh killed herself very early on. It was always said that Mack killed the others "to hide what happened to Suh." I mean, what else were we supposed to assume form there?

6) It goes from "everybody died except Sun" to "there are also other survivors." Yet, all the people who happen to live inside of the camp cannot survive. Just the people outside of the pods are able to live and breed outside? How convenient.

7) How did she decide to divide her chapters up? They made no sense. You'd have a page break and then you were in the same place, in the same position.

8) It was extremely hard to tell when a flashback began or ended, or if it happened at all. The formatting of this book is so poor. I hardly knew what was going on.

9) How is the City of God man made, but also "to be closer to god?"

10)What exactly is Planetfall? I don't understand.

11) Ren just killed herself in the end. She didn't have anything left. She was outed at her home, she didn't want to be a work slave, so she killed herself.

Much better than my lecturer.