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Enjoyable and well written, but not grabbing me at this point in time

I'm in a Bible study we were discussing the Beatitudes as the author describes them. Am enjoying sharing various English translations plus the Aramaic back dash translation with others and reflecting on them.

Author is a gifted writer, but some stories, mostly the ones with contemporary settings, characters in plots that didn't appeal to me. I enjoyed several of the historical stories, including the first one. Nice to have a sitting in New England instead of be more common major city or southern US. Recommended if you like realistic, historical or contemporary fiction

Jung seems rather fixated on communism, but that was the major sociopolitical issue of the 1950s. I don't agree with everything he says, but I have a different society, education, and a perspective 70+ years newer than his. Curious about this next chapter on self knowledge. I did skip chapter 4 because it wasn't getting my interest.

I plan to be reading and talking about this section on the beatitudes with a Bible study group

Excellent window into the life of a young gay Black boy and man/nonbinary person. Nothing is left out:
the ups and downs, but most of all the love and acceptance of a close-knit Black family
Struggles of puberty, sexuality, and (content warnings) sexual activity & abuse.
School life all that being both black and gay brings into it
The damage white privilege does (content warning for conservative snowflakes)

A beautiful adaptation of this classic, with most wirds chosen verbatim from the original and art that brings one into Earthsea and close to its people. A future award winner, I am sure.

This was pretty well written with some interesting characters, but I just got so fed up with one of them and wanted to kick his arrogance backside across every one of the ancient Chinese countries mentioned in this story.

Recommended for teens through adult adults who were introverted and don't like a lot

This is an excellent, wonderfully detailed (if you enjoy neurological and brain science and know a little about it), & engagingly written book! I ran out of renewals of my library copy, but I will pick it up again soon and finish it.

An enjoyable if occasionally confusing conclusion. Intense, sprawling, sometimes spicy, often funny danmei.

Absolutely fascinating, detailed, accessible, and providing many points for contemplation.

Mostly fascinating. I skipped much of the chapter on post-death housecleaning having read about it in another book and I found the cleaner somewhat unlikeable.

Sort of lost my interest. Will try later. Love the humor especially her name for a certain ship's AI

This is really good, but it's so complex that it's a slow read. Also I'm usually in the mood for something lighter but this is too good to give up or set aside for later.