![]() ![]() It explains how the endocrine system works and what influences it, from the food we eat to our lifestyle choices such as the sports activities we do or the beauty products we put on our skin. Content wise, I think it’s quite informative and covers some important basics in an easy to understand way. ![]() Alisa keeps saying how she will explain this and that again and again and keeps going in circles about what she is going to do, when in fact she should just go straight to the point and explain it – which would make the book 1/3 of what it currently is. This, however, is purely due to the writing style. I have to start by saying that my overall rating for the book is only 3.5/5. One of the books that I kept seeing recommended on the topic – by what I’d say are trusted sources – has been this one so I really wanted to give it a try. When it comes to the topic of women’s health and hormonal balance, I don’t feel too informed so I am trying to build up my knowledge to make better and more informed decisions and also ask better questions next time I’m at the doctor’s. The second book I read in January was “ Woman Code” by Alisa Vitti. As I shared in the past, accumulating knowledge on this topic is one of my 2021 goals, so today’s book review is WomanCode. Same as the first book I’ve read in 2020 (see review here), it’s also a book on the topic of health, but this time specifically focused on women’s health. Continuing to work through my 2021 reading list, I am ready to share my review of the second book I read in January. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() NAL, 25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-2-2 Mean Girls meets Back to the Future as bestselling memoirist Lancaster (Bitter Is. Start a free 30-day trial today and get your. Here I Go Again BUY THIS BOOK Here I Go Again Jen Lancaster. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:05:59 Boxid IA40264416 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Listen to Here I Go Again A Novel by Jen Lancaster available from Rakuten Kobo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Well,it's no secret that Him is one of my favourite M/M books, I even recommended it to my gay postman(I'm not joking). ![]() Warning: contains sexual situations, a vibrating chair, long-distance sexytimes and proof that hockey players look hot in any shade of green. With the outside world determined to take its best shot at them, can Wes and Jamie develop major-league relationship skills on the fly? When Wes’s nosiest teammate moves in upstairs, the threads of their carefully woven lie begin to unravel. At least apartment 10B is their retreat, where they can always be themselves. It doesn’t help that his new job isn’t going as smoothly as he’d hoped, but he knows he can power through it as long as he has Wes. It’s not the life Jamie envisioned for himself, and the strain of keeping their secret is taking its toll. There’s just one problem: the most important relationship of his life is one he needs to keep hidden, or else face a media storm that will eclipse his success on the ice. He’s living his dream of playing pro hockey and coming home every night to the man he loves-Jamie Canning, his longtime best friend turned boyfriend. Can your favorite hockey players finish their first season together undefeated?įive months in, NHL forward Ryan Wesley is having a record-breaking rookie season. ![]() ![]() He flashes in and out of family's life unable to settle. They have four adult children, but it's their third child Denny who is the wayward black sheep. ![]() At the start we're introduced to the Whitshanks who live in the perfect suburban home. In “A Spool of Blue Thread” she takes a new approach to this by writing a family saga which moves backwards through the generations. It's this daily risk which makes the finely constructed domestic detail of her narratives both terrifying and thrilling. In Tyler's fiction people can walk out the door one evening to become someone new or wake in the morning to see that their partner of forty years is someone they've always hated. Even though we can spend our lives with people we're linked to by blood or marriage and we can know their habits, we cannot know what's truly in their hearts. ![]() Of course there are a multitude of possibilities in life and we can't choose them all because we're caught in the unstoppable flow of time which necessarily limits the options we have. What if this life you've worked so hard for is something you wake up wanting to escape from? What if the people closest to you and the family you've known all your life turn out to be strangers? Tyler presents these insolvable dilemmas by following the daily life of her characters while also acknowledging the absurdity and uselessness of the questions. ![]() It's always felt to me that at the centre of Anne Tyler's novels about genteel middle class Baltimore life there is horrific fear. ![]() ![]() As the sister of a sister, I am a sucker for stories that highlight that bond (something that's still too uncommon in media). ![]() Since it's impossible for there to be no comparison to Disney's Frozen with this book, to me she felt like a lovely combination of both Anna and Elsa and it just works. She has selfish thoughts, she has selfless thoughts, she struggles with self-doubt but doesn't get weighed down by it at any point. ![]() Her inner dialogue never makes her either too mature or immature. ❤ The heroine acts like a 12/13 year old. ![]() That is the kind of connection to middle-grade literature that is hard to come by something that is clearly written for a young audience and yet manages to offer something for the grown-ups who might be reading along. I quite literally imagined myself introducing my child to the story, reading it to them at night (alongside other fantasy favorites of mine, like The Hobbit). It's the kind of book I wish I could have read when I was a girl and it's the first book in a long time that made me stop and wish I had a child of my own to share it with. It's a fun, adorable blend of many tried-and-true tropes used in the fantasy genre, some of them subverted (think Ella Enchanted in fact there were a few things that I felt might have been directly inspired by that story), that manages to do something unique in spite of it all. What this book lacks in originality, it more than makes up for in its sincerity. ![]() I'm even inclined to say 4.5 stars! Which is kind of a huge deal. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1929 he was to open his first restaurant in Quincy Square’s Granite Trust Building, the only high rise building in the city at that time, and strategically located at the busy intersection which faced Quincy City Hall and the famous Church of the Presidents. ![]() It was said that Howard Johnson “sold $60,000 worth of ice-cream cones that summer - 14,000 cones on one Sunday - and there’s good reason to suppose that when the summer visitors went home they kept up the argument about the flavors” and thus a word of mouth publicity spread compliments on his business. His ice cream stand on Wollaston Beach in Quincy, a small stand attached to a house which he leased for $300.00 for the summer, proved so successful that the next summer he was able to open an ice cream stand at Nantasket Beach in Hull, Massachusetts and at Revere Beach in Revere, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() This 28 flavors of ice cream brought a steady stream of loyal customers to the store, which was later augmented by grilled frankforts and fried clams. In the mid 1920’s Howard Johnson began producing a rich, creamy ice cream that had a doubled butterfat and was flavored with all natural ingredients with the important fact that the quality and taste of the ice cream never varied. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mischief and the Marquess by Sylvia Day (reprint from 2007) The Arrangement by Sylvia Day, Minerva Spencer & Kristin Vayden (1/28) If only he could find a way to show Avalon who he really is on the inside - a good, true soul looking for its other half and one who has never given his heart and body to another. But she’ll have nothing to do with a vicar with a wild reputation. Devan wishes he didn’t have to meddle in her affairs - he’s not one to tread on a woman’s independent nature and keen sense of convictions. Devan Farris comes to town.ĭevan Farris - charming vicar, reputed rake and the brother of Avalon’s son’s guardian - is reluctantly sent to town to keep tabs on Avalon and her son. She’s lived these past ten years with no desire to remarry - that is, until Mr. Avalon can now live freely and do the work she loves: helping fallen women become businesswomen. It’s a blessing she’s widowed and left to raise her son all by herself. ![]() Lady Avalon Warwyk never did love her husband who was arrogant, selfish and cruel. Wild, Wild Rake by Janna MacGregor (2/25) ![]() ![]() ![]() In desperation, a team of CIA agents drags Charlie into the hunt, needing her brilliance to find it first-even though this means placing her life in grave danger. ![]() ![]() Fearing what would happen if the equation fell into the wrong hands, he hid it.īut now, a diabolical group known as the Furies are closing in on its location. From New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs comes the first novel in a thrilling new series about a twelve-year-old genius who’s forced to use her unbelievable code-breaking skills to outsmart Einstein.Ĭharlie Thorne isn’t old enough to drive.Īnd now it’s up to her to save the world…ĭecades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth-or destroy it. ![]() ![]() ![]() She must learn both how to stand up for herself and when to submit to the Faith. But eventually, this distinction begins to break down and she is forced to reconcile the two aspects of herself. She repeatedly asserts that she is not Esther she is Kirby. Her relatives rename her Esther and she struggles to deal with her two identities. She is no longer in charge of her life the Faith controls what she can wear, what she can say, and what she should expect out of life. Kirby is forced to adhere to the Faith's rules and has no contact with anyone she knew in her old life. These relatives are members of Children of the Faith, a strict religious cult. ![]() Her mother suddenly and mysteriously has to go away, leaving Kirby with relatives she never even knew existed. But all this changes when she finds herself unexpectedly thrown into a new life. She takes care of her flaky mother, manages the house, pays the bills, and does the shopping. ![]() JSįourteen-year-old Kirby is used to being the one in charge. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rakushou no Goku (落照の獄, The Prison of Declining Light) is set in the kingdom of Ryu. However, Hisho suffers from crippling artist's block after three unsuccessful rulers who have not understood or appreciated his designs and from the deep seated grief and regret over the loss of his friends and colleagues during those long years before Youko's arrival. As part of the ceremony celebrating her ascension, an artisan named Hisho has been commissioned to create beautiful bird ornaments to be flown up and shot down. Hisho no Tori (丕緒の鳥, The Birds of Hisho) is set shortly before Youko Nakajima's enthronement as the new monarch of Kei. ![]() ![]() Some stories are between earlier novels or involve familiar characters, while others do not. Birds of Hisho is composed of four short stories set in the Twelve Kingdoms. ![]() |