As someone who has spent most of her life living a sheltered life in a rural community, it was enlightening to read about the life of an inner-city police officer, and about the lives of the people she encountered in that environment, without the filter of fictional prose to soften the edges.
TL;DR: Get out of your own way. That said, unlike many other people who say the above phrase until they're blue in the face while the rest of us throw up our own hands or smack them in their smug faces with a heavy frying pan, Pressfield does a good job of pointing out ways you might succeed in actually following through on this age-old annoying piece of crinkly advice.
TL;DR: Get out of your own way. That said, unlike many other people who say the above phrase until they're blue in the face while the rest of us throw up our own hands or smack them in their smug faces with a heavy frying pan, Pressfield does a good job of pointing out ways you might succeed in actually following through on this age-old annoying piece of crinkly advice.
Stories are everywhere. If you work in any industry where you need to persuade others, or at least make even the most stubborn of minds see things from another point of view, then this book is the jackpot.
Review of 'Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ' on 'Storygraph'
3 stars
The prose was dry and devoid of any insight into the character's emotions other than when they spoke about them out loud. I suspect that was a choice, reflecting the dry writing of the source material. Don't come at me - I'm a bible fan (secular). That said, if I hadn't been listening to it while playing cities skylines, my ADHD ass would have given up on it midway - though that is true of many books. Overall, I am a fan of biblical retellings, and this is pretty good. I've read worse fanfiction.
The prose was dry and devoid of any insight into the character's emotions other than when they spoke about them out loud. I suspect that was a choice, reflecting the dry writing of the source material. Don't come at me - I'm a bible fan (secular). That said, if I hadn't been listening to it while playing cities skylines, my ADHD ass would have given up on it midway - though that is true of many books. Overall, I am a fan of biblical retellings, and this is pretty good. I've read worse fanfiction.
For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There …
Review of 'Building a Second Brain' on 'Storygraph'
3 stars
Remember that when you build your PKM/second brain, no one method is necessarily going to work for you. There are some good tips here, but take only what works for you and leave the rest.
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted …
Review of 'Cinder' on 'Storygraph'
3 stars
Bad move for the only polyamorous character to be the villain. The story was otherwise good. When we struggle with representation in general, bad representation is a gut punch, and it's an effort to look past it.
Bad move for the only polyamorous character to be the villain. The story was otherwise good. When we struggle with representation in general, bad representation is a gut punch, and it's an effort to look past it.
The Yellow "M" (French: La Marque Jaune ("The Yellow Mark")) by the Belgian artist Edgar …
Review of 'La marque jaune -t6' on 'Storygraph'
1 star
I felt like I was experiencing the story like an adult watching kids perform a romantasy play, complete with a shallow understanding of its themes. It starts so well with an amazing premise, but after chapter one, all that is thrown out of the window. A badass assassin who would do anything for her freedom will later whine about wanting to sleep in, as if the consequences were being late for school and not execution. Then we get to the romance arc. Jealousy as a theme can be done so well, but the depiction of it in this book is shallow, and I hate when it is used as a driving emotion to suit certain circumstances without resolution, ESPECIALLY when it fuels a love triangle, and ESPECIALLY when its used to dumb down the majority of the female side characters for the protag to verbally wail on. This set back …
I felt like I was experiencing the story like an adult watching kids perform a romantasy play, complete with a shallow understanding of its themes. It starts so well with an amazing premise, but after chapter one, all that is thrown out of the window. A badass assassin who would do anything for her freedom will later whine about wanting to sleep in, as if the consequences were being late for school and not execution. Then we get to the romance arc. Jealousy as a theme can be done so well, but the depiction of it in this book is shallow, and I hate when it is used as a driving emotion to suit certain circumstances without resolution, ESPECIALLY when it fuels a love triangle, and ESPECIALLY when its used to dumb down the majority of the female side characters for the protag to verbally wail on. This set back feminism at least a decade. The teenage version of me would probably have loved this, but now I'm in my 30s, I've developed a strong distaste for certain tropes. Perhaps I'm just a grump. Perhaps I've gotten old. Perhaps I'm not the intended audience, even though peers my age love this series. To me, it's teen fantasy, not YA. Whatever the reason, I did not vibe with this novel and I will not be continuing the series.
