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Dec 8, 2025

For: Life drawing for beginners [pbk.]

Live drawing. For beginners.

Yes, it's not "The life drawing, but Live figure drawing... class. The author is a wonderful writer: stylistically and grammar-wise. But it is the characters that all are a pretty low-life specimen that she draws here, in this novel: scary and not desirable, mostly. Among them, unwed young girls with children and fatherless. Or dead relatives because of drugs smuggling. I do not advice the reading of the book.

Published by: elaine55

Dec 6, 2025

For: Dreyer's english

Mr. Dreyer's views for and of English language in America setting...

Arrogant, poor and not deserving read.... As author himself states in his creation: "I hate grammar !"... And so do we, in his rendition. I do not recommend it to readers, or to future writers.

Published by: elaine55

Dec 3, 2025

For: A Mother\'s Love

Mother's love

Very dark, full of horrific, rather unusual abuse (physical and verbal) of a young child... The mother who later born identical twin girls.... The girls are inseparable and while loving each other tremendously, live together even when one of them is about to marry a man, they still play tricks on him being literally hard to identify by their identical looks... It's not a good read this time around from great Danielle Steel. I do not recommend it.

Published by: elaine55

Dec 3, 2025

For: Great private collections of imperial Russia

Great collections of art in Imperial Russia.

The book/album is of excellent quality: of paper on which it's printed and detailed and masterfully written and illustrated; with art prints on every single page with coordinated numbers that are easily located and information that belongs to each of them. The only negative is the fact, that previous reader had tore the entire full page from it ! It's the page number # 176 of the album....

Published by: elaine55

Nov 29, 2025

For: To Selena, with love

An Intimate Memoir Written with Intelligence, Self-Awareness and Devotion

This book is a tender, articulate, and deeply self-reflective memoir that offers an intimate look into his life with Selena. Pérez writes with a quiet intelligence, openly examining his own insecurities, growth, and the pressures they faced as young musicians in a world that demanded so much from them. This book shines as a heartfelt tribute to Selena. It is honest, joyful, profoundly respectful, yet incredibly sad. He captures her warmth, humor, determination, and humanity with a sincerity that makes the memoir both moving and unforgettable.

Published by: Zeigen71

Nov 22, 2025

For: A Mind of Her Own

A mind of her own.

I have read the novel before, and forgot that it left a bitter and depressing "aftertaste" in my mind. It's very gloomy, long-forgotten old time of WWI in Europe, and Russian Revolution (on the side) of miserable events.... Pretty much has a continuous theme of death, unending doom and suffering.... The ending has minimum amount of satisfaction and happiness. I do not suggest it to elderly or ailing people, at all.

Published by: elaine55

Nov 19, 2025

For: Inside The White House

The white house.

It's a good source to visit the inside of the White House. It's just too old (only by year 2012) and needs to be renewed and offer more photo-images of all the rooms, in old conditions and renewed or restored.

Published by: elaine55

Nov 18, 2025

For: Where is the White House?

where is the white house ?

The small book is about the residents of the People's House, and not about its history and architecture ! And the sketches are bland and without character... I cannot advice this to anyone: old or young.

Published by: elaine55

Nov 15, 2025

For: The Portrait

A Portrait.

An amazingly wonderful story ! About how anyone can survive and flourish after being dealt a heavy personal blows throughout their lives. The very best of Danielle Steel, yet ! Deep inside analysis into our inner feelings toward ourselves and close others: raw and truthful. Who can we really rely on when we're physically and emotionally harmed yet have a hope to live and create a beauty for the world and our own creative selves.

Published by: elaine55

Nov 10, 2025

For: The Art of Paper - From the Holy Land to the Ameri...

The art and the history of paper-making.

Very well illustrated and presented account of overall invention of paper and paper-printing tools and mechanisms of its mass-production and betterment. But a too sofisticated and difficult to read for a normal person. Perhaps, it's better suited for specialists in that field.

Published by: elaine55