Review of 'Die drei??? und die Rache des Tigers' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Etwas flach, aber immerhin wurden Umweltthemen mitangesprochen, und Justus lernt, wie scheiße Rauchen ist.
Das Buch soll aber besser als das Hörspiel sein.
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DE/EN*; lots of fanfiction, some books and sheet music.
Experimenting with Bookwyrm, to get away from Goodreads and a manually kept text file with things I read.
I mostly keep to the Goodreads rating scale (2 = it was okay, 3 = I liked it, 4 = I really liked it, 5 = top), where I also hand out a 2/3 for a 1/2 when my reason to dislike is more personal than caused by the book. Bad spelling tends to get a downgrade.
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mirabilos reviewed Harry Potter a tajemná komnata by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter #2
Throughout the summer holidays after his first year at Hogwarts School of …
Review of 'Harry Potter a tajemná komnata' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
The second book in this series is still written in present tense. It gets slightly worse though, as sentences dealing with the relative past are formed incorrectly.
The author’s A/Ns get worse, too.
Harry has some successes and otherwise keeps being his oblivious self.
And then, in the midst of a chapter, without this being recognisable, the author explodes the fourth wall, and the fifth to go with it, and switches to their PoV and basically deals with the rest of the year (which is just most of it) in a short bullet-point list and ends it. Just like that.
This is utterly insulting.
The only saving grace might be that the author hates Year 2 and might recover a bit for Year 3… might. But nothing of that is published yet.
Woah, going from five stars to one in just 10½ rather short chapters. (Even less, considering most …
The second book in this series is still written in present tense. It gets slightly worse though, as sentences dealing with the relative past are formed incorrectly.
The author’s A/Ns get worse, too.
Harry has some successes and otherwise keeps being his oblivious self.
And then, in the midst of a chapter, without this being recognisable, the author explodes the fourth wall, and the fifth to go with it, and switches to their PoV and basically deals with the rest of the year (which is just most of it) in a short bullet-point list and ends it. Just like that.
This is utterly insulting.
The only saving grace might be that the author hates Year 2 and might recover a bit for Year 3… might. But nothing of that is published yet.
Woah, going from five stars to one in just 10½ rather short chapters. (Even less, considering most of the story was still good enough.) This has to be some kind of record.
mirabilos rated Don Quixote: 3 stars
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don …
mirabilos reviewed Winnetou I by Karl May
Review of 'Winnetou 1.' on 'Goodreads'
Better cover image (here until I finally become a Librarian and can add it myself):
mirabilos rated Die drei??? Geisterstadt: 4 stars
Review of 'The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore' on 'Goodreads'
mirabilos rated Die drei ??? Hidden Fouls: 4 stars
mirabilos reviewed Lies In a Mirror by Peter Charleton
This essay from one of Ireland's leading barristers explores the nature of evil and the …
Review of 'Lies In a Mirror' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
archiveofourown.org/works/1379752
Alternative edition of: www.goodreads.com/book/show/43790134-scales-of-change
2½ stars, but tonight’s Brexit is kinda fitting. Not the best writing, but overall made me smile. Also, Luna.
mirabilos rated Artemis Fowl - Die Akte: 4 stars
mirabilos reviewed Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by …
Review of 'Alice in Wonderland' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
2½ stars, rounding up for story length (and even then, I’m generous)
At times hard to follow. Way too much romance. Tons of OCs, and a rather OOC Harry. Family Magic as a panacea, inconsistent enemies and inconsequent dealing with traitors in various kinds. I never understood where Bill stands in all this, till the ending (which wasn’t all that satisfying either), and other loose threads exist.
mirabilos reviewed Dao de jing by Laozi
No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le …
Review of 'Lao Tzu' on 'Goodreads'
Commentary by Ursula K. Le Guin herself on this book: web.archive.org/web/20191125013821/https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/10/21/lao-tzu-tao-te-ching-ursula-k-le-guin/
mirabilos rated Lord Is My Shepherd: 4 stars
mirabilos rated Meitantei Konan: 4 stars
Meitantei Konan (Japanese language, 2013, Shōgakkan)
Meitantei Konan by Gōshō Aoyama
A high school boy, who is an excellent detective, is poisoned and shrunk to the size of a six-year old …
mirabilos rated Meitantei Konan: 3 stars
Meitantei Konan (Japanese language, 2012, Shōgakkan)
Meitantei Konan by Gōshō Aoyama
A high school boy, who is an excellent detective, is poisoned and shrunk to the size of a six-year old …
mirabilos reviewed Meitantei Konan by Gōshō Aoyama
A high school boy, who is an excellent detective, is poisoned and shrunk to the …
Review of 'Meitantei Konan' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Aaaaaaah, the suspense! It’s killing me!
Where did Shinichi’s Mom come into play here, anyway? She seems to have her own game going on in parallel, too… and the little guy doesn’t even know almost any of it…
At least I figured out who the “guest player” is… one page before it was revealt. But, hey!
And, who is Subaru? Also, why does nobody take out Bourbon, now that he’s revealed?
More importantly, “the detective known as ‘the sleeping Kogoro’” is now a point of interest ☹