A Good Book For Pinkfloyd Fans
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I just finished reading this book and it was very interesting. If you know all of the music it gives you a very good incite about the concepts of the music.
I have been listening to this music since I was a teenager and never realized all of the stories behind the music.
If you are a Pinkfloyd fan then this will be a good book for you.
I do not believe this is for the casual fan though.
Happy reading
404920
Peripheral Encounters includes the latest in the Slowpocalypse series, as well as Durable Impressions, a prequel story.  Kat and Tony have been sent to the outlying areas surrounding the FURC, in order to convince those citizens of the relative safety of the FURC.  Returning to the meeting point after bringing a large group to the compound, Kat is distressed to learn that Tony has gotten himself into a situation.  Will she be able to figure out a way to help Tony, or will Kat wind up in trouble as well?

I like the direction that the author has taken in this book, as it was a natural progression of the series.  Being that the FURC is a community the size of a small town, the series would have become stagnant had the characters not traveled outside.  The potential for possible future plot lines exist, leaving one with the feeling that there is more to come.

Durable Impressions gives the reader a more detailed look into Kat, with regards to her life before become a citizen of the FURC.  This snapshot shows Kat to be decisive, instinctual, intelligent, and compassionate.  These "deleted scenes" help the reader to form a more complete picture of Kat, which I enjoyed because she is my favorite character.

Many thanks to the author, James Litherland, for providing me with a copy of Peripheral Encounters to read and review.
4448241
This book was a fairly decent read. It was different, and actually interesting to read from a different perspective in the world of the My Little Pony fandom - even if this is mainly small little episode synopsis' written in a compiled format with little blurbs about the fandom every-so-often.
Regardless, I liked it. It took some time to actually read through it all, but I still enjoyed it.

The only thing I could complain about is that the cover had a light film-like material when I first got it. It wore off as I had it, but I thought it was a little weird. Nothing to take a star off of, but I thought I should mention it.
1288376
Sophie Kinsella is one of my favorite chick lit authors. Twenties Girl is a worthy addition to her body of work. I'm giving the book four stars rather than five because it takes quite some time to really draw you in. However, there are several shining moments, and Twenties Girl is definitely worth reading. It's not Kinsella's best, but it's still very good.
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Gardener Pru and Chris, her new policeman husband, are at Greatoaks for a year, thanks to friends who will be gone on an archaeology dig. Pru's long-lost brother Simon has been the gardener there for 40 years.
The Skeleton Garden is one in the Potting Shed mysteries, and it's a little hard to keep the characters straight at first; that's the only problem with continuity.
Lots of these type of mysteries are completely plot driven. However in The Skeleton Garden, I liked the subplots and backstories: the WWII Nazi plane buried in the garden, complete with a skeleton; the semi-neglected nephew, the loyal woman whose soldier lover disappeared leaving her with a baby on the way; the conflict between Simon and Pru.
The pretty cover is way to cute for the book though. It makes the book like a much shallower book is inside.
This is an enjoyable book that I read through Netgalley.
4698181
My daughter loved this book. "Pink Tears" shows how important it is to talk about how you feel. It is a light, which is great for my five year. Since long or lengthened books bore her quickly. The illustrations are great, very cute for a child. I received these products for free for my unbiased review
810548
My 5 year old grandson loved this book. His older sister reads the Pinkalicious books. Glad to see Peter is now having his own adventures.  Hope to see more Peterrific books.
3691630
This is a good. Short read and Pink is a little fired up throughout. He gives some thought provoking observations.
4746645
My girls are big fans of Pinkalicious and we have purchased every book.  I really mean every book.  This story is about Pinkalicious playing on a soccer team named the Pinksters, and they are playing a game against the Ravens.  Unfortunately, this story brings back some of the negativity we have seen in other Pinkalicous books.  The girls on the Ravens team keep yelling "Pink Stinks".  Not my favorite part.  Well the game goes along and the teams end up tied.  Pinkalicous is getting ready to try to score to prove that Pink is great and all of the sudden, Goldilicous the unicorn shows up and sweeps her off into the sky and then they stop at a bunch of random countries talking to various people.  She eventually returns to score the winning goal, but that little fantasy journey in the middle just didn't really make much sense at all.  Very bizarre.

All that being said, my girls love it as a bedtime story and my kindergartner does great with it as an early reader.  They would probably rate it higher, but there are better Pinkalicous books out there.  Try out Pinkalicious: Fairy House.  It is great.
3055500
This is a good book. It seems a shame that it is apparently only available for kindle. There are some especially nice touches with something for the Wallander fans at the beginning. Like Mankell the author uses a lot of real places in this book, a technique to be commended. While some bad things happen to the people around her, Anita fares somewhat better in this book than in the first two.
258369
THIS BOOK IS FANTASTIC. PINK IS MY FAVORITE COLOR, SO I WAS SOLD ON THE COVER AND ORDERED IT BEFORE THE RELEASE DATE. I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED WHEN IT ARRIVED. I HAVE SEVERAL OF PAULA'S BOOKS, AND THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST. THE PHOTOS IN THE BOOK ARE OUTSTANDING. IF YOU LOVE THE ROMANTIC ENGLISH GARDEN LOOK, OR THE SIMPLE CONTEMPORAY STYLE YOU WILL FIND SOMETHING OF INTREST. SIMPLE ARRANGEMENTS, LARGE TABLE CENTERPIECES, WEDDINGS, CHILDRENS PARTYS, AFTERNOON TEAS, AND DINNER PARTIES ARE JUST A FEW OF THE DESIGNS SHOWN. PAULA ALSO GOES INTO DETAIL ON TECHNIQUES WHICH INCLUDE HAND TIED BOUQUETS, CONTAINER DECORATING AND AIDS TO ARRANGING FLOWERS. THE FLOWER DIRECTORY IS REMARKABLE. SHE BREAKS DOWN THE SHADES OF PINK INTO THREE CATEGORIES, PASTEL PINK, BRIGHT PINKS AND MIXED PINKS. EACH FLOWER HAS A PHOTO AND DISCRIPTION AS TO AVAILABILTY, HOW LONG IT WILL LAST, AND OTHER FLOWERS IT WORKS WELL WITH. THIS BOOK IS A MUST FOR ANYONE WHO IS INTRESTED IN FLORAL DESIGN. IF YOU HAVE NEVER PURCHASED ONE OF PAULA PRYKE'S BOOKS I SUGGEST THIS BE YOUR FIRST. IF YOU ARE A PAULA PRYKE COLLECTOR, THIS IS A MUST FOR YOUR COLLECTION! YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. AFTER READING THIS BOOK YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO WAIT TO CREATE YOUR OWN ARRANGEMENT.
978709
My daughter has been a Pinkalicious fan since she was little, and my niece is as well, so we bought this or her birthday! Awesome stories in here!
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First Ladies of Gardening by Heidi Howcroft is a collection of fourteen short garden portraits and biographies of the women who made those gardens. The writing covers enough detail of the history and development of the gardens, together with broad sketches of the lives of the women, to provide fairly satisfying portraits, despite the limited space available in a 170-page book.

The garden photos by Marianne Majerus are lovely, showing the peak moments of glorious flowering in the best parts of these world-class gardens, and the photos include enough big-picture shots to show the layout of the garden areas, not just pretty flower close-ups that communicate little to those interested in garden design.

However, the title of this book is poorly chosen; it leads readers to believe that this is a book about noted women gardeners  while the book actually focuses on descriptions and photographs of gardens that the author admires that also happen to have been created and owned by women.

This sounds like an unimportant difference, but in fact, it leads to puzzlement on the part of the reader about the choice of gardeners and gardens covered: Part One of the book starts out as one would expect from the title: by portraying seven gardens and women gardener-owners who are established 20th-century legends: Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Beatrix Havergill, Margery Fish, Rosemary Verey, Beth Chatto and Mary Keen. But also included, inexplicably, are the three less well-known generations who created Kiftsgate Court Gardens: Heather Muir, Diany Binny and Anne Chambers.

Part Two then veers away from well-known women gardeners by including six more recent, less famous gardeners and their gardens. However, I would argue that Helen Dillon and Xa Tollemache, both in this section, are nearly as well-known gardeners as Mary Keen and Beth Chatto (and certainly more recognized than the Muir/Binny/Chambers trio).

And the four amateur gardeners included in Part Two, while certainly having created admirable gardens, are not at all in the same league as the other gardeners. Less well-known amateur women gardeners could certainly merit an entire book, instead of merely being tacked onto a book of notable British gardening women.

This would allow more coverage of each of the well-known women gardeners in this book that purports to be about the First Ladies of gardening, or for more women and gardens to be included. Arabella Lennox-Boyds garden at Gresgarth comes to mind.

And a book about leading historic British women gardeners should surely include Ellen Wilmott, among the most interesting early 20th century women gardeners; however, her garden at Warley Place has not survived and therefore cannot be gloriously photographed today. Equally, Penelope Hobhouse is among the best-known women gardeners in Britain, yet she is not the gardener-owner of a famous garden of her own design.

Perhaps Im just being overly picky; after all, the photos and gardens in this book are gorgeously beautiful and I greatly enjoyed learning more about some of the most glorious gardens in Britain.  The writing was interesting and the research seems to be of a high caliber (although I did notice that the author referred to noted 20th century American landscape architect Beatrix Ferrand as Beatrix Farrell in the first chapter). I do look forward to reading more by Howcroft and seeing Majerus future photos of glorious British gardens  and I hope their next books titles will be chosen more thoughtfully.

(Note: I was provided a copy of this book for review purposes by Frances Lincoln publishers.)
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Oh man this is such a fabulous book with tons of facts, weird pictures, interesting insights etc.  So good for kids to discover all the amazing things right under their noses. A great gift for the pink lover in your life.  I can't wait for her next book What Makes a Monster to come out.
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An easy chapter book about friends.  Backed up with colorful illustrations by Mary-Louise Gay.  (I often wonder what secret income allows characters such as Houndsley and Catrina to live their lives of contentment, but never mind.)  Don't miss out on Howe's Bunnicula novels.  And, if you like this title, you will also enjoy the Arnold Lobel books.
1567601
If you like short stories, then this is the book for you. It's interesting to see the different approaches of different authors for stories that include the phrase (& in most cases, not just the phrase) Pink Snowbunnies in Hell.
982246
They pull no punches, and there's a lot of good stuff in the book. Also a lot of evolutionary biology, which I found off putting. But good conclusions were reached, regardless of the reasoning used to get there. Definitely written to men, thus the "pink" edition also available.