alisarae's Reviews (1.65k)

I love this beautiful reference guide. The gorgeous design of the illustrated edition begs to be touched, looked at, and read. A benefit of this is I am subconciously committing these rules to memory. I wish more blog authors and journalists did the same!

I thought this was a boring book when I was younger even though I liked the idea of it. I just reread it and liked it, but the language is a tad archaic and the kids don't have real kid lives. By "real kid lives" I mean they don't have to deal with misunderstanding adults, school, being told No, being punished... I wouldn't try to force it on a kid.

This book can be described as a feminist theory primer for middle schoolers. It was fine but I didn't really like the plot. I did like this message: In the end, the main character realizes that you cannot change how other people act, you can only change yourself.

I really enjoyed this historical romance. It is laden with metaphors, the plot moves at a good pace, and I liked that pieces of language were so well thought-out to allude to painting references. I didn't like the shallow character development, over-explanations of other characters' actions through the internal dialogue of the main character, and I dislike first-person narration in general. I'd recommend it for a good airplane read because it is light, entertaining and short enough to read in one long sitting.

I had fun reading this surprising piece of chick lit... But as it was published in 1938, it comes with racism, anti-semitism, and domestic violence portrayed in a positive light. I have never read a book that so openly promoted those ways of thinking, so I haven't decided what to think about recommending this book.