Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★ Personal Growth: ★★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★.5 "Each morning is a do-over, a reset, the chance to make and do right, to laugh more, love more, learn from yesterday, live forward, begin again or just begin."
Book Review – Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★ Personal Growth: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "Keep this metaphor with you always - it is very useful when you have more than one problem at once. Sometimes you have to let the T.rex fight the raptors."
Book Review – The Ultimate Guide to Power & Influence by Robert J. Dilenschneider
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★ Personal Growth: ★★★.5 Enjoyment: ★★★ "Always seek information, no matter how high up you are. Never attack another's position if you disagree. Instead, prod and poke it, elicit suggestions, listen to the defense. Be respectful of other's opinions."
Book Review – Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
Length: 325 pgs / 4 hrs 36 mins audio Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★★ Character Development: ★★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★ "this writing thing/was some kind of magic trick/I didn't yet understand, except for this:/Magicians rarely share/their secrets."Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes The Story: Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a … Continue reading Book Review – Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
Book Review – When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★ World-building: ★★★
Book Review – Language Families of the World
Length: 15 hrs & 54 mins audio Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★★ Character Development: ★★★ World-building: ★★★ "This language is like a honey badger. This language just don't care. This language will kick your booty."Language Families of the World by John McWhorter The Story: This is a book for those with the passion … Continue reading Book Review – Language Families of the World