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The sky is yours: book review

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As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases with links in this article .  Get Your Own Copy of  The Sky is Yours  by Chandler Klang Smith . If you've ever picked up The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith you will get a grunge feeling from the neon-light-inspired graffiti cover. It's a different take on a traditional cover, but after reading the book, you realize that the design works well for the dark life the book ends up taking as you dive in further.  This is a story that follows the lives of several individuals in a fantasy sci-fi dystopian future where two dragons appeared from the depths of the water 50 years prior and took over the sky. They fly over Empire Island, where the story takes place, where the inhabitants learn to accept their fate at the dragons' mercy whether their homes burn or not that day.  The dragons' terror has been going on since they came to the world and the firefighters who were around to put out the fires disbanded

Keto Reset Diet Book: a review

If you leave with nothing else: the print version which I received was hard to read from a visual standpoint. The columns are too wide, but the information is golden and reflects what I've learned about Keto elsewhere. When I ordered "The Keto Reset Diet  by Mark Sisson with Brad Kearns" I was expecting an easy read that excited me to dive into more information about a lifestyle I was already familiar with. It looks friendly at first and has awesome recipes I have yet to get around to trying at the back. The cover is amazing and everything about the book as an object is amazing.  And then I started reading it. The first page of each chapter is set up nicely, the columns are spaced well and its easy to buzz through, and then you turn the page and it's a ginormous block of text with no end in sight. Giving myself until the chapter break occurs to finish a section is a nightmare as I read before bed, and the chapters are too long.  It's also hard to get very sc

How to Set a Table : a book review

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How to Set a Table is a quaint little book that was published by POTTER STYLE, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, but oddly enough doesn't credit any author on any of the standard pages. Much digging into the fine print on the very last informative page tells us that Chloe Lieske wrote it - but trying to find this book using her name doesn't show up readily in search results, as though she was discredited and only there to write up a joint collective voice. The book itself is textured in such a way from the burlap style of the cover, that it turns itself into a nice piece to display around your house. How to Set a table is extremely visual and easy to read over - but putting everything mentioned into practice is significantly harder if you're not a specific kind of person. If you don't have nice dinnerware of either porcelain, earthenware or stoneware of varied sizes and shapes along with different serving pieces, then everything mentioned in the boo

Spark Joy in your life - a book review

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"The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: a magical story" by Marie Kondo and illustrated by Yuko Uramoto Visually this book brings a sense of calm and a simplistic joy to look at. It's simple without much distraction and it leads you into showing how you'll experience a non-distracted, simpler life when you put the methods KonMari goes over in her tale. The back cover entertains you with the mess the main character Chiaki is currently living with before she hires KonMari to help her tidy up. Flipping through pages you find a refreshing art style that doesn't drown your visuals in ink. I've heard of Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" before and immediately realized it was a manga-tized version when I realized it was going over the same method I heard once before. "It's not the things I'm discarding, but the things I'm keeping that are in this room. I had been so focused on finding junk that I had completel

Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker - a review

I picked up Leading Lady: Sherry  Lansing  and the Making of a Hollywood  Groundbreaker  by  Stephen Galloway  without  any knowledge of Sheryl Lansing or what she had worked on.  But here was a confident woman on the front of a  book with raving reviews on  Sheryl at the back (rather than the  common reviews on the book itself).    My  experience with reading this  book was one of  inspiration, when her story began to pick  up. I started and put the book  down at least three times, telling myself to just get through it, because  even a poor story  deserves   the second chance opportunity, and for me it really did need that struggle through reading a few of the chapters.  It really doesn't pick up until chapter 4/5 and with such long chapters it's hard to say someone will sit with the story long enough to get caught in it.    When you understand that Sherry  Lansing  was  struggling   thro ugh  all of this in a time where women didn't hold any position of power , that

The Book Doctor is in- and his Perscriptions ROCK- A review on "The Story Cure"

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"The Story Cure" is a fun read that anyone who likes writing stories should pick up and read at least once in their life. Dinty Moore is the professor you would have wanted to teach any creative writing class in the history of writing. The easy to understand nature of "The Story Cure" mixed with light humor and little work areas to help you with the troubles you're currently facing in your writing, whether it's the latest sci-fi hit or an autobiography - everyone can be helped. I enjoy writing creatively in my spare time, but as a hobby they were made for my sister and me to enjoy, but with no real fleshing out or seeing if anyone else would want to pick up on them. "The Story Cure" helped me understand what to be looking for as I dive back into stories I considered finished and things I've yet to figure out. Out of encouragement for you to go out and get this book, I'm going to leave out mentioning most of the helpful hints I learned a

This Book Loves You - a review

This Book Loves You was created by YouTube sensation PewDiePie, published in 2015 by RAZORBILL. This Book Loves You is a collection of (in)inspirational quotes of the "wisdom" of PewDiePie in quote-graphic format across each page. There is no requirement to read this book from front to back, everything exists in itself - although some of the graphics relate strongly to the ones before or after. I don't really follow PewDiePie on YouTube, but I'm pretty sure "The Duck is Coming" is something prevalent there because it occurs way too much in this book. I would recommend This Books Loves You as a coffee-table kind of thing. It makes for a good laugh, but anyone who might be suicidal or chronically depressed might not want to read it if they can't see the humor in the context, as some of it can be a real let down. - I went to read through some pages at work once because we were too slow and ended up on a picture of a duck on the crucifix with a co