Thanks to the network for the review copy of this book - all opinions are my ownįrom the very first page the reader is immediately drawn into the book through the excitement of the narrator - Junior an enthusiastic dog! "OOOH! You opened the book! You actually opened the book!" Junior speaks to the readers in a conversational tone which creates a fun and engaging vibe. Singura scăpare este absolvirea cu brio a unui curs de dresaj, dar cine vrea să urmeze ordine plictisitoare?Īm scris mai multe despre lectura perfectă pentru orice iubitor de câini într-un articol publicat pe blog. Viața lui Junior este HAMtastică, însă un raton pare să îi pună capac visului său. Singurul inamic este aspiratorul din debara, ce mereu îl bagă în sperieți. Mariham devine instantaneu prietenul lui cel mai bun, iar casa locul său de joacă și mirosit. Saint-Bunica, Doamna-Mamă, Fălcuțe și Mariham Prindosu sunt membrii noii sale familii, pe care o iubește nespus încă de la primele priviri. Junior tocmai ce a fost adoptat de la tristul adăpost de animale. Jurnalul unui câine poznaș este prima carte pentru copii scrisă de un câine, pe numele său de Junior, ce împrumută penițele lui James Patterson și Steven Butler pentru a-și împărtăși gândurile cu noi, cei mai buni prieteni ai săi. După română și engleză, uite că am citit și prima mea carte în câineză.
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In 1860, when Harriett was fifteen, her father’s real estate holdings were valued at $16,500 and his personal wealth at $2,100. Harriett’s father, Sidney Stone, was an architect who designed public buildings and houses for wealthy New Haven clients. At the time she and her husband (no relation to the Lathrops, despite the similar name) moved into The Wayside, the first volume in the series – The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew – was already a record-setting bestseller. Harriett Lothrop is better known as “Margaret Sidney,” the pseudonymous author of the Five Little Peppers books. Just over thirty years later the youngest Hawthorne, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, sold The Wayside to a Boston publisher and his wife Harriett Stone Lothrop, keen Hawthorne admirers who jumped at the chance to spend their summers in Hawthorne’s old house. In 1852 the house was purchased by Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, who for a time were next-door neighbors to the Alcotts at Orchard House. For three years (1845 – 48) this early eighteenth-century house was the home of young Louisa May Alcott and her family, serving as the real-life setting for many of the episodes Alcott later incorporated into Little Women. I really couldn’t get through this review without spoilers. It felt unnecessary and completely out of tone for the book itself. It also ends with an open-ending (ish), which usually I appreciate, but for this novel totally threw me off. Questions I still had floating through my brain. There were things that I felt were unanswered. So many things felt unfinished with the ending. The thing that I hated the most was the ending. Most of this is due to the fact that it started so strong and just couldn’t hold its momentum through part two and part three. While I still loved the characters (Charlie especially for her fire), the story was hard to follow. The plot felt jumbled and not well thought out. In part two and part three, everything started to slow down. After that, though, was where things started to fall off for me. I loved the writing, the tension, the dire circumstances that Silas and Charlie were in. Never Never is broken up into three parts. I can’t say the same for part two and part three. The good, you ask? Well the first part was amazing. Anyway, let’s get to the review.Īlright, so as always, I wanna start with the good. So, I actually read this book with one of the older cover editions. It’s actually being re-released but with a gorgeous new cover (that I’ll most likely end up buying, because, let’s be real, it is a beautiful book). Never Never, I’d like to clarify, isn’t a truly a new release. When it was hot and sunny, Briny Beach was crowded with tourists and it was impossible to find a good place to lay one's blanket. This particular morning it was gray and cloudy, which didn't bother the Baudelaire youngsters one bit. The three Baudelaire children lived with their parents in an enormous mansion at the heart of a dirty and busy city, and occasionally their parents gave them permission to take a rickety trolley-the word "rickety," you probably know, here means "unsteady" or "likely to collapse"-alone to the seashore, where they would spend the day as a sort of vacation as long as they were home for dinner. Their misfortune began one day at Briny Beach. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair. 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