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A good story marred by over-wrought writing, although the romance genre is so unfamiliar to me that perhaps the style is standard?

A good story marred by over-wrought writing, although the romance genre is so unfamiliar to me that perhaps the style is standard?

A good story marred by over-wrought writing, although the romance genre is so unfamiliar to me that perhaps the style is standard?

Sweet romantic queer dramedy with charming magical children. My only two complaints are that the general course of the plot was predictable from quite near the beginning and that the Underlying Message was conveyed entirely without subtlety. It's a good message, mind you, but I prefer the moral of the story to be offered rather than being hot over the head with it. But it's a fun and quick read and I definitely recommend it.

Personally, I would have preferred am original spelling version but modernized was arguably less distracting. If you read this book, be advised that there are both brief footnotes - primarily glosses on archaic vocabulary - and more substantial endnotes. There's a good history of the 1559 book following the edition proper, going back to the Edwardian prayer books and forward to the 1662, discussing their textual and doctrinal relationship.

Beautifully printed edition of the principal edition of the Book of Common Prayer published between the two books published during the reign of Edward VI and the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. There's a very brief preface but the main body of the edition is followed by almost 50 pages on the history of this version of the BCP, about 30 pages of notes, and a very brief bibliography. The spelling (but not vocabulary) is modernized, about which I feel ambivalent, and there are brief glosses on archaic vocabulary.

Fascinating book about fungi, filled with wonderful tidbits of information. One tip: If it seems to you like a book of this sort should have footnotes, you're close: it has endnotes in abundance, some as long as a full page; in others words, many are substantial, not just references.

Fascinating history of mental illness and its perception in society - primarily in the West, but with a good bit of comparative perspectives from other cultures - and of treatments. Although the author is an anthropologist, his father and grandfather were psychiatrists (as is his wife) and the account is enlivened by stories from family history, including his grandfather's psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud. A substantial part of the book is devoted to mental illness in the military: its classification and treatment during and between wars.

The sexual violence was to disturbing for me.