The Husky and His White Cat Shizun [Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun]: vol. 3 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

Some parts of this I really enjoyed, while others bored or annoyed me, making it difficult for me to rate this volume.

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The Husky and His White Cat Shizun [Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun]: Vol. 2 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

Overall, I enjoyed this volume more than the first, but its beginning was rough for me. I only got this one because I wanted to know how volume 1's cliffhanger resolved. ( spoilers )

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun [Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun]: Vol. 1 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou ( Read more... )

A quick-feeling read that pulls the reader along. I really liked most of the stories here, my favorite from this collection of short stories and novellas of varying genres being "The Fifth Step." "Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream," "Two Talented Bastids," and "The Answer Man" were also standouts. "The Dreamers" started out slow and with some sentence ( Read more... )

I would've given Store Front NYC: Photographs of the City's Independent Shops, Past and Present by James Murray and Karla Murray four stars instead of three if not for something that drove me weirdly crazy. In the Introduction, the Murrays say that some of the stores represented here no longer exist... but don't say which those are. Some of them I ( Read more... )

I'm finally done, finally free. I started reading at the end of February but it feels like I've been stuck slogging in it forever.

It's a problem for me that I dislike or hate most of the protagonists, especially Lila Bard. They make so many bad or petty decisions. Especially Lila Bard. I'm not rooting for them. (I liked Tes and Kosika, though ( Read more... )

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This was a mismatch of reader and material. I wanted more parts like Flight 1 (worldbuilding, slice of life, and the way they hunt dragons) and Flight 5 (sky pirates!) but got much more dragon killing and way more preparing for cooking and eating dragon meat than I expected or wanted. Seriously, pages of cooking tips, along with eating ( Read more... )

Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 8 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

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This is a continuation of Network Effect, Murderbot Diaries #6, so it's a good idea to have that fresh in your memory to read this, because if it's not it'll take you even longer to get into this book.

I found the first 40% of System Collapse so boring that I nearly gave up on it entirely, though it picks up considerably once they ( spoiler )