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Emily

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Poor

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1 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-12-24

2020 52 Book Challenge - 23) Title Beginning With The Letter "A"

This read very much like a knock off Hunger Games with vampires. Most of the characters were pretty much just stereotypes, and the main character suffers from "I'm not like other girls" syndrome.

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Good

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-12-24

2020 52 Book Challenge - 21) Written By A Blogger Or Journalist

I found this very interesting. When this happened, I was quite young and didn't hear about it, and looking back I always wondered how these schemes worked, and if they were the same as pyramid schemes. Well, now I know.

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Authentic

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-12-24

2019 52 Book Challenge - 1) A Book Published In 2019

This was such an authentic look at class and marriage and what questions you have when faced with a tragedy. I hope that it comes to stage one day, and that I have the ability to see it.

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Poor

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1 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 06-12-24

2022 52 Book Challenge - March Mini Challenge - 2) A Circle On The Cover

This was a pretty poor audio drama. The writing was weak and subpar, like the writer was writing an episode for the show and forgot that he was actually writing an audio drama and it would be a non visual form of media.

The standout narrator for me was Mitch Pileggi, and I don't know if he was honestly the best (because Gillian Anderson was also good) or just that I really liked him on Stargate Atlantis and every time I heard his voice, I thought about that show instead.

Aside from them, the rest of the narration felt very flat. If I had ever been in a room with a first read through of a script, this is exactly how I feel it would be. Maybe I've just been spoiled by how excited Paul McGann seems to be every time he does a Doctor Who audio, but I was expecting some level of emotion in this, and it didn't feel like there was any.

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Average

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
Story
3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-12-24

2024 52 Book Challenge - Summer Sport Mini Challenge - 4) Athletics; Long Jump - audiobook is 15+ hours long

It isn't the best biography of the Mitford sisters that I've ever read, but it isn't the worst either. I did get distracted quite a bit by the time jumps the author used, and it was clearly evident that the author was biased towards some of the sisters.

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Not For Me

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 28-11-24

2024 52 Book Challenge - November Mini Challenge - 4) 800 - 900 pages

I normally enjoy Chernow's biographies, but I found this book to be such a slog. The writing was decent, I just don't think that I was interested enough and it didn't pull me in.

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Interesting

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 19-08-24

2024 52 Book Challenge - 39) Non Fiction Recommended By A Friend

I really enjoyed this book. I've read a few books about Matilda now, and I find her such an interesting person in history. This book was one of the better ones at keeping the information both informative and engaging, and it was a pretty decent read.

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Boring

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2 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 25-07-24

2022 52 Book Challenge; March Mini Challenge 1) A Character Who Works In Maths Or Science

This is a bit of a marmite play, and unfortunately I come down on the side of I didn't really like it. It was slow and boring, and the maths and science were so boring, especially when you have no idea what it means.

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Hard To Read

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2 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 25-07-24

2019 52 Book Challenge - 16) The Retelling Of A Well Known Story

This was such a tough book to read. I thought, being about Batman, it would be pretty interesting, but it looked at aspects of Batman in such minute detail and with so much medical jargon that it was so hard to read.

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Mixed

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Story
2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 17-07-24

2019 52 Book Challenge - 5) A Play

The performance of this audio was absolutely incredible. The writer really has a knack for voices.

That being said, the plot isn't fantastic as a book. I can see it working on stage, because the message is clear, and heart felt, but over audiobook, it really doesn't pull you in.

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