Reviews and Comments

An enjoyable quick read that taught me about pieces of history I was unaware of. The writing is ordinary and the second half of the book, where Hedy is in Hollywood, was somewhat disappointing. Not a lot of depth or literary value, but worthwhile for the history and perspective on the devaluation of women's contributions.

I had hoped there would be more ideas in this book about what the new stories could be and how to get there. Instead I found compelling arguments detailing what is wrong with current cultural myths. A lot of what's wrong and not enough about what could be better. Still worth reading though.

A simply delightful book. It gave me a new appreciation of how some autistic people perceive the world around them.

A pleasant and interesting read. If I'd read it twenty years ago when it came out I might have been more impressed than I am now. It seems well researched and the story is nicely told. Beyond that it's not particularly memorable for me.

This didn't have as great an impact on me as "The Handmaid's Tale" but I still enjoyed it. So for anyone interested in how Gilead fell it's worth reading.

I'm not much of a fan of graphic novels but I'll admit I enjoyed this one, mostly because I'm fascinated by the topic - radio storytelling. And in the end it's about radio and a whole lot more . . . collaboration, the creative process, the bones of good storytelling of any kind, not just on the radio.

I absolutely loved this book! If you have any interest in color I highly recommend it. It's a mix of chemistry, history, archeology, anthropology, and travelogue as the author travels the world in search of the origins of the colors in our rainbow.

I rarely give a book a full five stars but this one definitely deserves it. I took much longer than usual to read this one, partly because most chapters are super short and I could pick up/put down this book waiting for this or that. On the surface this book is a science fiction story about an alien inhabiting a human and it's observations of our species. It is also much much more than that. A book that will have you laughing, any crying, and sighing, and thinking, and maybe making the reader a little more human in the process.

A sweetly unfolding love story that will catch you by surprise.

Unexpected. Inventive. Creative. Thought provoking.
At times reads more like a script than a novel. Enjoyed the mixture of voices and fiction with historical material. A quick read even at 350+ pages.

Enjoyable to read and thought provoking. Because it's only 400 or so pages it necessarily is rather simple in covering millenia of human history. This, however, does not detract a great deal from my enjoyment of this book. In fact it is this very simplicity that makes tackling such an expanse of history conceivable. Definitely a worthwhile read.

Throughly enjoyable. Hard to put down. Finished in just a few days. Not a work of great literature but a fascinating dive into the last days of WWII in northern Italy. At times uplifting and other times horrifying. Some aspects that I'm sure were condensed for the narrative arc were too quickly glossed over and that made them less believable. Particularly enjoyed how there were no clear cut answers for the questions raised by war.

A thoroughly delightful read that chronicles the paths of both the artist and model before and after it's creation. If you're a fan of art history I'd say it's a "must read".