I did not like Ripley as a character and she didn't see any need to change until the very last second and then she was still irrating after learning.

Very insightful

Not my usual genre but it is a decent book. It’s a story of friends who were in university together making a pact to always stay friends and have reunions throughout the years, but as time goes by lives change events happen and slowly people fall. Away from one another.

This may actually be a 4.5. The idea of a respectable Victorian woman writing penny dreadfuls under a man's name was intriguing. Eden's plot was a revealed mystery, and the strong point of the writing was the banter between characters. Extra kudos for the understandable dialect writing. That's not easy to pull off.

Very great early reader books. Provides a little lesson in the beginning to prepare the reader for all the words used in the book including the characters names. I like that they include sight words and simple words that cab be sounded out. I like the questions at the end which allow you to engage with your child.

I love that it’s encouraging people to change their lifestyle instead of slouching on the couch the whole day

A raw, yet carefully-navigated, story concerning the aftermath of sexual assault. Innocence shattered, yet carefully guarded, becomes a fine line throughout this story. The value of life, whether on a deathbed or in an adoption agency, becomes the emerging message, inspiring hope and freedom.

I LOOOOVE ME SOME BLOOM COUNTY

To my regret, sixteen years ago in Ms. McCullough's 10th grade English class, I cheated on my book report and didn't actually read this book as intended by the assignment. Instead, I read the SparkNotes version. My twisted moral reason being that this lie was better than reading a book with "witchcraft and magic." Such material was prohibited in my upbringing. Years later, I saw the film as an adult along with the other Lord of the Rings films and was quite fascinated with the tale of courage and found middle earth completely captivating. During this winter reading challenge, I was delighted to find the book on Libby and had every intention of correcting this wrong of sixteen years ago by reading it (listening). It wasn't until I was about halfway through that I realized it was a 1968 BBC radio dramatisation that, while apparently a classic in its own rite, leaves a great deal of content out from the original book. I hope this is still considered an audiobook as it was on Libby, but I was dismayed to find that it was not, in fact, the original book. The task remains for me to read the other book, but I did enjoy this retelling nonetheless.

It was CRAZY!