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Minwei Liang monnmurmur — Beautiful picture-book with amazing Robert Frost' words, shows the beauty of the snow and the season. The illustrations reminded me of Russia in the winter time where everything is covered in the snow, it is quiet and peaceful. I like it, but my 1st grade class did not appreciate it.

Mohnad Ahmad mohnad — another book that I wanted to love but only liked. I'd heard so many good things about it and did find a lot to like but was ultimately disappointed in some of the writing style itself. It's a wonderful story, just not always wonderfully put-together. For the most part, the author's voice is very clear and poignant, a joy to read. The landscape, food, and daily life comes alive brilliantly. However, all too occasionally, she goes off on these tangents of train-of-thought writing into memories of her childhood. etc. that she can't seem to connect back to the rest of the book very well. These sections become aimless and disconnected from the rest of book. It's like she's trying too hard to be deep and intellectual, so instead of adding a layer of insight into her childhood/lifeview, she just taints the rest of a beautiful memoir of a beautiful place. I don't want to be too harsh, I'm sure the sentiments are true and meaningful, but I just wish she would have left some more of it in her personal journal and stuck to what she does best (i.e. not deep diving pyschology). Just because you have the money to buy a place in Italy and have other people restore it for you, does not mean you are an intellectual god. I am at once attracted to the life of a priveledged intellectual as I am repelled by the inescapable pretensiousness of it. What does she do great? The recipes for instance! What a great way to bring that aspect of the book full circle. I would love to see a well-designed/scrapbookish/full color version of this book with photographs of the places and food. She really opens this personal world up to the reader and brings them into the house and gardens, a warm and welcoming place where i would like to spend so many afternoons drifting into my own dreams of owning and restoring an old house.

Muhammad Asim _amphotography — I thought this book was very interesting and kept my attention the whole time. It's a true story about the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The story has combines the stories of an architect and a killer in one book. All my planner friends should read this because the description of the architecture and what it took to build the "White City" is fascinating. Here is the review from Amazon... Amazon.com Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham's challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair's incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing. --John Moe

Alan Cotino ascotinoc3b7 — I stopped reading this book pretty early on. It seems like it was primarily written for 15-year-olds, which is, by no coincidence, how old I was when it was published. I'm sure that it was marketed to 15 year old me and some part of my brain put it down as, "You should probably read this book some day." But don't read it when you're 30 and more cynical than your 15 year old self. That said, stories of people standing up for what they believe in can be encouraging. What is less encouraging is the attitude that everybody who is not a Christian must be some terrorist, bent on destroying Christianity. Just because someone is a Muslim or a Communist doesn't make them anti-Christian. The "Us Vs. Them" attitude of this book turned me away early on. This review is from my blog: http://mrsundquist.blogspot.com/2013/...