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85% (82 of 96)
Location: Nanaimo, B.C. Canada
In My Own Words:
My rating system is the key to understanding my reviews: 1. Poor:This item has no redeeming value to speak of. An utter waste of time. You were warned. 2. Below Average: Not bad, but a bit below average. Read an excerpt first. 3 - Average: Buy it used. It may go on my shelf for a while if there's room, but it likely wouldn't survive a cleaning blitz. 4. Above average: something I wil… Read moreMy rating system is the key to understanding my reviews:
1. Poor:This item has no redeeming value to speak of. An utter waste of time. You were warned.
2. Below Average: Not bad, but a bit below average. Read an excerpt first.
3 - Average: Buy it used. It may go on my shelf for a while if there's room, but it likely wouldn't survive a cleaning blitz.
4. Above average: something I will want to keep forever. It has at least one flaw that keeps it from reaching classic status.
5. Exceptional: A classic. As close to perfect as there is.
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If a person is an education student and is interested in a historical perspective on education theory, this book is a quick enough read to warrant a look. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother. I was really put off by the fact that the author uses the word 'retarded' frequently. As the book was written in 1974 and that was the common terminology, I can't blame him - I just found it off-putting. He is very anti-IQ testing. In and of itself, I don't have a problem with that. In fact, I can see where some of his work could've provided the foundation for our current thinking on multiple intelligence. So there is value in that. What bothered me is that he tried to oversimplify and… Read more
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This book is number five in the Shopaholic series. It's about a woman named Becky Bloomworth who has a serious addiction to shopping, and the wacky situations she gets herself into as a result. I loved the first two books of the series, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan and Shopaholic Ties the Knot. Loved them. TThey were side splittingly funny, fast paced, and had some sly satire in them, if you wanted to see it. Book four, despite a few strong points, wasn't up to the quality of the first three, so I was a bit leery when a friend gave me Shopaholic and Baby. Despite that, I dove in this past weekend. In the end I fell back in love with the character of… Read more
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I liked this book. It was definitely was funny in parts. I especially appreciated the fast pace of the novel. It held my attention and I was able to read it quickly. The problem is that even by 'beach read' standards, it wasn't as challenging or as satisfying as it was capable of being. I can best liken it to eating Chinese food, or movie theatre popcorn. It's tasty, but ultimately you're left feeling hungry later because it ultimately isn't satisfying. I predicted the 'big secret' fairly easily. Now, in and of itself, that isn't a problem to my thinking. What bothered me was that I didn't find Beth's relationships with Nicola or Sophie well developed enough for me to believe… Read more
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