I received this book for free from the library in exchange for the possibility of my honest opinions/ review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. Unfortunately, this poor book slipped through the cracks. I read it & never reviewed it. I like reviewing books about a week after I've finished it - that's my sweet spot. It gives me a week to muse on it & I write much of the review in my head during that period, figuring out what I liked & didn't like about it while the plot, characters, structure, etc are fresh in my head. Months later is just not the time to do that.

 

That being said, I hugely loved this book! I'm actually going to reread it and then I'll review it properly. Because the book deserves that. IT's a fantastic mix of fantasy & dystopian elements, two favorite things of mine :).This review was originally posted on Rambling Reviews

So I've read the books a bunch of times, but I don't think I've reviewed all of them. I struggle to write reviews of super popular, been around for a while books, because what am I possibly going to say that hasn't been said a million times before?

That being said, we'll call it a mini-review.

So, this is my second least favorite of the books. When I first read this book - fifteen years ago, when I first got married - I didn't really "get" why the books were so wildly popular with adults. I mean, it was good, sure, but what was the huge crazy attraction? A friend of mine basically said to look at this first book as a world-builder, and that I got, and I read the next one, and was in love in the series & I finally "got" it, and got hooked on young adult books as a new-ish adult... (I was 24 or 25).

I think one of the things that bugged me is that Harry & friends don't act like any 11 year old that I know of. Once I got beyond that, I was able to really enjoy the series.

Rereading this book, after having given the entire series a break for at least a few years, did give me new perspective on the book, and I hope I continue to enjoy rereading, and I definitely look forward to reading my favorites!

This book is a great beginner book, for crocheters looking to make some thing beyond a simple scarf.

Easy how to’s, a variety of patterns, and great photographs, make this a must buy.

It’s #pubday for Cilkas Journey!
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I’m grateful to @netgalley and @stmartinspress for my review copy!
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This book follows Cilka’s life after Auschwitz, though there are multiple flashbacks to her time there throughout the book.
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Unlike the first book, this one focused on Cilka’s life and her friendships she made at the camp, and not about any romantic entanglements.
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I’ve read a little about the Gulag, but was grateful for the chance to read more.
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I give the book four stars, because I honestly couldn’t connect to Cilka emotionally.

I don't usually read "self help" books, but this one was recommended to me, it's such a short book, and lately procrastination has been a witch.

Overall, it's not bad. It's a short book - just over 100 pages - and could have been a 50 page book - the first chapter tells you what the book is about, the last chapter tells you what you just read, and several chapters in the middle repeat themselves, rather a lot. There is also not much text on any given page, so there's really not a lot to this - but I got the book from the library, so to me, it was definitely worth the price I paid - free.

To me, there were some helpful hints in here - I've heard of a "master list" before, but always thought of it as just a to do list - not as a "this is the stuff you do all the time, and probably don't even realize it" - which is true, but that's also the type of stuff that *I* procrastinate about. I know I should back up my phone every month - but haven't done it in a year. Once I wrote it on my master list, it got added to my monthly list (sounds repetitious, I know), which then got added to my weekly list - but guess what, it got done. Same with cleaning the damn coffee pot, another chore I know I should do monthly but haven't done in months. Once you write up that master list - a job which I did over the course of about six weeks, because I keep adding things to it (I started off only adding household chores, which I then realized was stupid, and started adding regular blogging jobs, social media items (I do social media for my church, besides my business & blog), etc. I'm sure I'll add to the master list as things come up).

There was another concept that I think I'll find useful - though I think I'll simplify it a bit (he talks about writing your to do list, and adding a "d" for delegate for jobs you can delegate. There's no point in me adding a D because there's no one else to do it. It's already on my list for a reason).

I think if you are a paper planner girl - like me - especially a bullet journaler who's already used to the concept of lists - you'll get some useful info from the book, but if you are an average joe who's not used to writing things on paper, you'll just get upset at the triteness of the book.