arcalumens's Reviews (251)

More enjoyable than I expected it to be, I may have to check out her other books! Great historical timeline jumping mystery set in New York. Hit the exact vibe I was hoping for. Narrator needed a better producer, though. Lots of words mispronounced.

Not as fun as the first book (which wasn't as great as I hoped either) but I like the almanac format.

it's like the burn book from mean girls but a nicer, better evolved version. yungblud is a chill dude.

Pretty decent and accessible guide to chicken raising. Most of the info I had to crash course myself in after a chicken wandered into our yard one day and stayed. And from what I have gathered on various blogs and Youtube channels, to supplement reading this book, this book is fairly accurate to all kinds of styles of backyard chicken keeping.

A good beginner field guide to birding.

Decent if you care about their drama show, it gets more fun once I realized it wasn't going to be a book verison of their travelogue show but just blurbs of their memories during the show interspersed with some history. McTavish is hilarious.

One of the more original takes on zombie and xenofiction that I've read. I laughed out loud at many things and felt deep sadness at others. At times it does get preachy, as some reviews said, but that's part of the dystopian genre at this point. Genuinely loved this despite its faults. It's so rare for me to enjoy a more modern book but it gives me hope that there are still good books being written, you just have to find them in all the overhyped trash.

I don't know why they thought this needed a movie, or how they made it better than the book without making a good movie.

As someone who had a starling from 14 days old to 12 years old, I was hoping for a book about the most famous of his kind. And the title is misleading in that sense This book is not completely about Star, Mozart's starling, but also about the magnificent world of starlings, in the past and present, as the author also shares her stories of living at home with her own starling.

I recommend this to people who hate starlings because you're missing out on a gorgeous personality in these birds. But I also recommend it to people who love and possibly have loved individual starlings in their lives as well, because all the stories of Carmen made me weep with familiarity. They could have easily been about my little guy as well. This is an educational and fantastic ode to starlings everywhere.