Definitely fits the cozy category. Doesn‘t mean there weren‘t moments of distress but satisfying ending. A lot of cute for people who love books, baking, gardens, and magic. Love the designation of garden plants as book genres. That chapter with the tree spirit bears was beautiful. Initially the narrative felt kind of cold to me. Like I couldn‘t really connect with Kielan but didn‘t even think of it by the middle and through the end.

Pretty complimentary for an unauthorized biography, I‘d say. Of course, it‘s not complete as this was in honor of his return to basketball after his stint with baseball. Informative, varied, interesting.

Loved it. I started reading Emily Henry with Book Lovers on audiobook and absolutely loved it. Wasn‘t as big a fan of Happy Place. Big fan of this one. Her writing is so clever and sassy and fun with lovable characters. Soul searching was great in here. Setting was enjoyable.

I read it cover to cover, but good reference book. I would have liked maps, there were none. State of the Art, Tourist Information, and Road Trip sidebars were unnecessary as well as Canadian provinces. I now most want to visit Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Washington, and Hawaii. I knew I already wanted to see Washington.

Thank you for the free book, @penguinrandomhouse and @zeitgeistpublishing! This book removed any fear I had of tarot. I learned that tarot cards do not predict or tell the future but confirms intuition. It seems like more of a reflective exercise. There are no innately negative cards and no spirits lurking in them. There's a lot of opportunity for creativity: making your own cards, your own spreads, your own interpretations.

Thank you so much to @penguinrandomhouse and @zeitgeistpublishing for this free book! I‘m a pianist and music teacher. First, I loved the illustrations in here. Second, I love how many songs are in here - the full gamut of traditional Christmas carols. It would have been nice to see more contemporary updates. The non-middle C hand position is odd. The stretching pinky to pinky isn‘t great technique. I like the fun facts.

Read this ARC on NetGalley. I liked the art style, it had a soft quality to it. The story kept coming back to a song to deal with big feelings. Even as a musician and music teacher, I had a hard time figuring out the rhythm of the lyrics. It would be a nice feature of the book to have the song audio somewhere, even just as a link provided in the back of the book like the parenting resources.

SO GOOD!!! It gets even better on multiple readings. I even had to pause after each chapter just to let the cleverness, character fun, and plot development sink in and appreciate. I did come to this story and all of Jane Austen after falling in love with the 2005 movie, so I am still comparing it to those scenes that I see and hear in my head, which is quite faithful to the book. So many great, direct lines.

Love how that‘s worded

Preach, Elizabeth, preach! I feel that 😩

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Re-reading Pride and Prejudice. Love that first line so much 🥰

Very dense, especially the last third or so. I can‘t say I‘ve read any other metabiographies, as the author describes the genre, so perhaps this is par for the course. I did learn some things, though.

There were some interesting and enlightening moments, but it didn‘t feel very profound to me. It‘s about a mom, son, and daughter. The son works at a warehouse but his head is in the movies and poetry and the clouds. The daughter is debilitatingly shy, has uneven legs, and only cares for her glass menagerie and Victrola. The mom is overly ambitious for the both of them.

Loved it. Quick, engaging read. I enjoyed learning about both Leonard and Bill through this book. A lot of great stories about their friendship. As a Star Trek fan, I did appreciate that a lot of it was about Star Trek.

Fantastic book. Flows well and kept me engaged the whole way. It was primarily about the whole process of the film, A Star is Born, but it also provided history on the two previous versions as well as the Streisand Version. It also ended up being a biography of Judy Garland and recollections from her daughter, Lorna, the author with Vance. I‘ve always loved the film and Judy Garland‘s voice, so it was a great book for me to read.

Fantastic. Concise, enlightening collection of women in science. I had heard of only 10 out of 50 of these women, several because of the Stuff You Missed in History podcast. The artwork is colorful but the faces are a little too caricatured for my liking with the weird lips and noses. I like the fun facts and quotes surrounding the main text. It‘s a little overwhelming to look at, but I like the information.

Not really what I was expecting. It was more like an exploration of religions and mythologies and stories.

What an incredible story. I heard about the book because the author was interviewed on The Book Case podcast. I love that even though the book was historical fiction, it is really convincing you with facts that Shakespeare did not write his own plays. Picoult did an extensive amount of research into the subject, concluding that Emilia Bassano was the true author of most plays. Or at least that she was one of many authors using his name to write.

I felt like I couldn‘t trust Judy at her word. I understand that you have to present yourself and your career and life in the best possible light to the public, but it‘s not a great way to learn about someone‘s life. As in, this format is not an autobiography. Five husbands—that was more than I remembered, but I read a biography years ago. A lot of interviewers talked about her rough life and past, but all seemed to think she was happy now.

Didn‘t like the new lady cat. Even less of a plot. Yes, still cute.

Certainly cute but almost…awkward? Like it seemed sexualized somehow. Certainly highlights the ways in which cats are good for your health. No plot, really. Just cuteness overload.

This was so fun! I only just learned about the Manga classics series. The manga was pretty faithful to the original; I was impressed. They definitely leaned into the romantic side of things make than the original. The scenes with the Palmers were mostly excluded, and that jewelry shop scene was new. Marianne‘s sickness also wasn‘t as serious here as the original. The art of the characters was very pretty. Bummer it wasn‘t in color.

The formatting of the book was pretty blah. I feel like the presentation could have been nicer. The categories of quotes made sense. I don‘t know much about publishing, so that was over my head. A lot of quotes on writing. More than reading.

Beautiful matchings of artwork to the poem subjects. It would have been nice to label the art, though. The collection of poetry goes from Spring to Summer to Autumn to Winter with flowers as the subjects. I liked three of them: Another Spring by Christina Rossetti, Winter Violets by Edith Nesbit, and Flower Chorus by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I thought I was pretty up and up on ways that we women are oppressed, ignored, dismissed, and harassed in the world. I feel like I knew nothing after listening to this book 😭 It was a highly depressing and enlightening listen. I appreciate that this author put all this data together for a really impactful eye-opener. The sound editing of the transitions wasn‘t good in the audiobook; kept chopping off the beginning words of chapters.

Wow. Fantastic way to advertise the dangers of pollution, industrialization, and business that harms the environment to a young audience. And that‘s an abrupt ending that leaves a great impact rather than an unfinished one.

Adorable