I`ve just finished reading this book and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it! I agree with a previous review that it was a little like little house on a prairie but I loved that series when I was growing up anyway. I identified with Linnea, being a teacher myself, and the antics of the children that she taught. I especially enjoyed the development of the relationship between Linnea and Ted and the importance of family during this trying time in history. I bought this book after reading other reviews and now I`m looking for other books by this author. They have a lot to live up to!
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I`ve just finished reading this book and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it! I agree with a previous review that it was a little like little house on a prairie but I loved that series when I was growing up anyway. I identified with Linnea, being a teacher myself, and the antics of the children that she taught. I especially enjoyed the development of the relationship between Linnea and Ted and the importance of family during this trying time in history. I bought this book after reading other reviews and now I`m looking for other books by this author. They have a lot to live up to!
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I`ve just finished reading this book and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it! I agree with a previous review that it was a little like little house on a prairie but I loved that series when I was growing up anyway. I identified with Linnea, being a teacher myself, and the antics of the children that she taught. I especially enjoyed the development of the relationship between Linnea and Ted and the importance of family during this trying time in history. I bought this book after reading other reviews and now I`m looking for other books by this author. They have a lot to live up to!
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As a football fan now, it's tempting to think that the game has always been played with the current rules, and that the key differences between the early years of the FA and today's game is that the on-screen footage is now in colour and the ball is a little lighter. In fact, when you read Spencer Vignes book that is about all that is different between then and now. Reading about the league games of the early 20th century is very much like reading about the trials and tribulations of a modern player or team playing "one game at a time". Showmanship, occasional crowd trouble, financial scandal and the pull of the game's money men all feature here - in a book written about the trials and tribulations of a footballer I hadn't previously been ... Read More:
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As a football fan now, it's tempting to think that the game has always been played with the current rules, and that the key differences between the early years of the FA and today's game is that the on-screen footage is now in colour and the ball is a little lighter. In fact, when you read Spencer Vignes book that is about all that is different between then and now. Reading about the league games of the early 20th century is very much like reading about the trials and tribulations of a modern player or team playing "one game at a time". Showmanship, occasional crowd trouble, financial scandal and the pull of the game's money men all feature here - in a book written about the trials and tribulations of a footballer I hadn't previously been ... Read More:
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While not as good as Tinker, Wolf who Rules, holds its own.
Tinker is still a genius and still struggling to make sense of life and the different intrigues that she has become enmeshed in. Being the wife of the viceroy of the elves involves a lot more than she could have imagined. While struggling to hold her head over water in the intrigues of court brought to the outpost of Pittsburgh, she also has to save Pittsburgh by solving the riddle of the discontinuation. Having strange dreams to guide her is not helping that rather one-track mind of hers (one that thinks in physics and high maths), not fairytales.
Wolf who Rules (or Windwolf) has a much larger part in this book. We see him as a ruler of the elves of Pittsburgh, ... Read More:
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While not as good as Tinker, Wolf who Rules, holds its own.
Tinker is still a genius and still struggling to make sense of life and the different intrigues that she has become enmeshed in. Being the wife of the viceroy of the elves involves a lot more than she could have imagined. While struggling to hold her head over water in the intrigues of court brought to the outpost of Pittsburgh, she also has to save Pittsburgh by solving the riddle of the discontinuation. Having strange dreams to guide her is not helping that rather one-track mind of hers (one that thinks in physics and high maths), not fairytales.
Wolf who Rules (or Windwolf) has a much larger part in this book. We see him as a ruler of the elves of Pittsburgh, ... Read More:
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This is effectively a textbook for Renaissance artists. It is split into three sections, the first dealing predominantly with issues of composition and perspective, the second with light and shade, colour and the artist's duty to his art and his public, and the third predominantly with what qualities one must bring to the job of being an artist.
If you are only loosely interested in art as a pragmatic practice, and you don't have some mathematical knowledge which will steer you through the first section it may be rather impenetrable in places. I am one of these people and found myself really struggling with the first section.
It is however fascinating as a glimpse into the mindset of a humanist scholar and as someone practicing ... Read More:
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This is effectively a textbook for Renaissance artists. It is split into three sections, the first dealing predominantly with issues of composition and perspective, the second with light and shade, colour and the artist's duty to his art and his public, and the third predominantly with what qualities one must bring to the job of being an artist.
If you are only loosely interested in art as a pragmatic practice, and you don't have some mathematical knowledge which will steer you through the first section it may be rather impenetrable in places. I am one of these people and found myself really struggling with the first section.
It is however fascinating as a glimpse into the mindset of a humanist scholar and as someone practicing ... Read More:
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