Review: How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I liked this book. It's short and to the point. And right now I'm writing a very short review on a book about writing a lot :) Without further ado, I'm proceeding to actually writing a lot. My first scheduled session is in 10 minutes. Maybe I'll come back here in a year or so and add something on how much it actually helped.

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Review: Flight of the King

Flight of the King by C.R. Grey
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review, and I'm sorry to report that I didn't like. It supposed to be a middle grade novel, and they are often simplistic, but here a simplistic plot is combined with a not-thought-through world-building. Like, yeah, people love animals and bond with all kinds of animals.... and keep farm animals. Apparently, just because they love them, not for eating of course. Any 10 yo would surely believe that. So in essence, it's just a naive version of fighting for a throne, where a rightful (but oh, so evil) heir must loose to her very nice little brother, who makes others fight for him. There is very little world building, absolutely no character development. And the author has no sense whatsoever of the space-time continuum. The map makes no sense; the "kingdom" is apparently smaller than an average city, surrounded by wild (!) areas; the same distance is traveled in two days or five, depending on the mood; people going somewhere important for them arrive an hour late without any mention of what kept them, even though they started in like five-minutes walking distance. I don't even want to know how exactly they are going to live happily ever after in the next book.

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Review: The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals

The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals by Missy Chase Lapine
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

For some inexplicable reason the author seems to think that if you take some food, that has nothing to do with eating healthy, and add a table spoon of a vegetable puree, the dish as a whole suddenly becomes healthy. Unfortunately, I don't share that opinion, hence the low rating from me.

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