Book Reviews
About Me
- Name: Amanda
- Location: United States
As you can tell, I love to read! Total books read for the past few years: 2009- 138 2010- 152 2011- 138 2012- 129 Goal for 2013- 150 (already surpassed as of August 2013)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
The Pirate Queen
The Pirate Queen
By Susan Ronald
9781400105335 14 hours (book on CD)
Didn't like the narrators voices that much and probably should have read this instead of listening to it, since there were so many dates and costs and such. Got a little confusing at times since it jumped back and forth date wise. Still, good in-depth view of all those pirates and their excursions and the motivations of both them and the queen in letting them do all they did.
8/10
By Susan Ronald
9781400105335 14 hours (book on CD)
Didn't like the narrators voices that much and probably should have read this instead of listening to it, since there were so many dates and costs and such. Got a little confusing at times since it jumped back and forth date wise. Still, good in-depth view of all those pirates and their excursions and the motivations of both them and the queen in letting them do all they did.
8/10
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Secular Spirit
The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages
Put together by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
0870990969 275p
Nice overview, nice categories of topics. But the organization was odd, there seemed to be too many explanations of pictures and too few pictures! Sometimes I couldn't figure out what the book was talking about, because none of the pictures on the page corresponded with the description. Numbers below each image would have helped. And I don't quite understand the title, since so much of the works had to do with religion and the church.
7/10
Put together by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
0870990969 275p
Nice overview, nice categories of topics. But the organization was odd, there seemed to be too many explanations of pictures and too few pictures! Sometimes I couldn't figure out what the book was talking about, because none of the pictures on the page corresponded with the description. Numbers below each image would have helped. And I don't quite understand the title, since so much of the works had to do with religion and the church.
7/10
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come
By Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
9780842360616 356p
Good ending to the series. Didn't like how it jumped around from story to story so often. As many as 3 stories were touched on in one page! Didn't make me feel as connected to the characters as I might have if there was more depth and time spent on the stories at any time.
8/10
By Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
9780842360616 356p
Good ending to the series. Didn't like how it jumped around from story to story so often. As many as 3 stories were touched on in one page! Didn't make me feel as connected to the characters as I might have if there was more depth and time spent on the stories at any time.
8/10