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The only book on cat behavior that addresses the multi-cat home-from the acclaimed author of …
Good solid book with good advice on every page.
Somewhat relieved now that my cats are not THAT bad. Eeesh.
I saw this guy on Animal Planet. I wondered how on Earth he got onto TV, or into cats. You don't find out why the TV show, but you do find out why cats -- Jackson Galaxy was an addict, and working at a shelter gave him something to live for.
It's hard to read Galaxy's discussion of drugs, and harder to read the withdrawal. But the hardest thing is reading the realization that he can't be the most important thing in the world and be able to listen to anyone else. In order to do his job, and pay attention to how a cat sees, he has to learn compassion, silence and humility. This kinda sucks for him.
Under the Dome is the story of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine which …
This is Stephen King's idea of what would happen if you stuck the GWB presidency in a small town and the stuck a glass jar over the entire thing. This isn't subtle. It's the entire thing. You've got a knock off version of Dick Cheney (the Second Selectman) running the show, with his amiable but idiot First Selectman being the figurehead. You've got people saying there's a "heck of a job" being done. You've got no holds barred political rants about libruls.
Which is fine, if that's what you're into. But in 2015, everyone would prefer to forget GWB and Cheney ever existed, and the entire thing is cringeworthy at this point -- the payoff comes when people die because Dick Cheney is Evil and Stupid and they are Weak and Easy Led Sheeple. But it turns out that watching people die for being stupid or because they're disposible got …
This is Stephen King's idea of what would happen if you stuck the GWB presidency in a small town and the stuck a glass jar over the entire thing. This isn't subtle. It's the entire thing. You've got a knock off version of Dick Cheney (the Second Selectman) running the show, with his amiable but idiot First Selectman being the figurehead. You've got people saying there's a "heck of a job" being done. You've got no holds barred political rants about libruls.
Which is fine, if that's what you're into. But in 2015, everyone would prefer to forget GWB and Cheney ever existed, and the entire thing is cringeworthy at this point -- the payoff comes when people die because Dick Cheney is Evil and Stupid and they are Weak and Easy Led Sheeple. But it turns out that watching people die for being stupid or because they're disposible got old about the second season of Lost.
The first essay, about her mother, is fascinating. The rest of it... Do I really care that she wanted or didn't want kids, was in hospital, met Nora Ephron and Joni Mitchell, loves her dog, and doesn't like cooking? No. And amount of careful reflection is going to make me care. It would be interesting to see her look and talk about her husband directly, but she's very careful not to make him the focus of her gaze.
And oh my god, the... entitlement(?) with which she claims the title of "lesbian" despite not actually having any sexual attraction to women. Or calling transexual women "trannies" -- it's clear she has no idea how rude she's being, or how much like her mother (who is "intellectual" because she likes people who look smart) this behaviour is.
It's clear this man reads the same blogs I do. I don't quite believe the characters, but the setup is all too believable.
Using "Marcy Wheeler" as a character was a bit much though, and it took a while to realize he hadn't included Firedoglake.
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER ... Dr Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top …
Goddam, this book is a disappointment.
After N books of Bob Howard's Laundry, it should be interesting to see Mo O'Brian's Laundry, and see the world through Mo's eyes. Unfortunately, in this book the role of Mo has been filled by Bridget Jones.
Just once, I would love to see a book where the middle aged female protagonist doesn't have a hunky co-worker she finds hard to resist, while her absent husband and struggling marriage labor on in the background. Or find herself in a contrived situation that requires her to work with her husband's ex-girlfriends. It's.... derivative.
This is made worse by the static nature of the plot. The premise of the book is that Mo's and her team is in the middle of London, on call to put down third tier supervillains. Mo never escape this. She never figures out who Freudstein is on her own. She never …
Goddam, this book is a disappointment.
After N books of Bob Howard's Laundry, it should be interesting to see Mo O'Brian's Laundry, and see the world through Mo's eyes. Unfortunately, in this book the role of Mo has been filled by Bridget Jones.
Just once, I would love to see a book where the middle aged female protagonist doesn't have a hunky co-worker she finds hard to resist, while her absent husband and struggling marriage labor on in the background. Or find herself in a contrived situation that requires her to work with her husband's ex-girlfriends. It's.... derivative.
This is made worse by the static nature of the plot. The premise of the book is that Mo's and her team is in the middle of London, on call to put down third tier supervillains. Mo never escape this. She never figures out who Freudstein is on her own. She never puts the pieces together. Even at the end, Mo's big escape plan involves telling Officer Friendly to pick up the script and run. And there's no reason why Mo is even kept in the dark here -- the SA knows exactly who is responsible, so why keep her in the dark?
Oh, and a thinly veiled Tony Blair as the Mandate was just cringe inducing.
This is the world. It is not the one we wanted, but it is the one we deserved. The Four …
"At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub …
Not much plot. It's a decent tech description of a generation ship.
Just because a book is written from the point of view of a 12 year old, doesn't mean that all the dialogue should sound like it was written by a 12 year old. The ending in particular is cringe inducing.
Throughout her studies, Ceony Twill has harbored a secret, one she's kept from even her …
Boring fluff with a protagonist who can think of nothing better to do than stalk an incredibly dangerous prison escapee, with no plans of what to do when she find him. There are a number of headdesk moments, but the biggest one is when she barely gets called out for endangering everyone around her.
Eric Klinenberg, Aziz Ansari, Mary Jordan: Modern Romance (Hardcover, 2015, Penguin Press)
From NYU Wagner:
At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, …
