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When I first started reading the sugar queen I thought it would be a little strange, and then it grew on me and I really started to enjoy the characters. Josey was so many different people all wrapped into one. We also learn the same of her mother. I would have liked a little more detail into the life of Josey's father who had passed on. Maybe her hero worship could have been put to rest a little more. I love all the other side stories that were going on, it really was a fascinating tale. Not a masterpiece but a fun summer read for sure. If you want something fun not too heavy that you can just smile and enjoy this is a great way to beat the heat and enjoy some good old southern comfort.

I picked this up at the local library, not expecting to enjoy it. It seemed simplistic initially. However, that quickly turned into a sense of delight and desire to keep turning the pages. I'm not sure how to characterize this book, but certainly recommend it as a refreshing read.

I am thoroughly enchanted with this author! I found myself in the same scenario as when I opened to page one of, GARDEN SPELLS--from the first line there was no way I could stop reading-- I devoured this story the same way that Josey devours her stash of sweets!

Allen creates such unique characters-- her amazing ability to make these characters so human and flawed...and real...combined with unexpected magical touches throughout her tale had me enthralled.

I wish with all my heart that when her next book is published...I have Chloe's "gift". ;)

After I read Garden Spells in one sitting, I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one! I will admit that there were some twists I saw coming and others that hit me from left field. I really identified with out main character as somewhat of a sugar queen myself! Touching and fun. This one was also a 1 sitting book. I got a little grouchy when interrupted toward the end!!

I wanted both of these books to have sequals just so I could get more of the characters. I will be keeping my eyes open for her next heroine!

Sarah Addison Allen's follow up to Garden Spells, The Sugar Queen, has many of the same elements: lonely women, food, isolation, and magic. Set in the North Carolina skiing town of Bald Slope, we meet Josey, who's been enslaved to her hateful mother's whims since she was a child, and Chloe, whose life has been upended by the admission of her boyfriend that he slept with someone else. These two young women, who seemingly have nothing in common, meet and become fast friends, helping one another grow, learn forgiveness, and find love. Throw in Della Lee, an abused woman who turns up in Josey's closet one autumn morning, and Adam, the mailman for whom Josey secretly pines, and you've got a mix for odd relationships that somehow come together in the end.

I liked the magical realism of this book, and in particular the way books seemed to follow Chloe around. I also liked Josey's emerging personality, and her awareness that she needed more than her mother could provide. Helena the maid was also an interesting character with her charms and strange ways of speaking. Despite all these fun situations and characters, I never did feel a deep emotional connection as I did with Garden Spells. I began to suspect where the story was heading early on and while I found it delightful, I was a little letdown to find out I was mostly right. However, this is a light engaging story that I enjoyed and can recommend to those who like their chick lit with a dash of magic.

I have following comments on both Effective C++ and More Effective C++ CDs:
positive:
- good practical tips and advice on avoiding pitfalls
- heavily cross referenced
constructive:
- too informal at times and sometimes patronizing
- lack of structuring in explanation at some places

I am a huge fan of Scott's philosophy. I re-read his books every couple of years. Having his books on CD is most convenient. You can copy the CD to your hard drive and browse it whenever. Don't forget to look at his STD Lib book.

Very well written book. It not only give what to do and what not to do. It also has very detail explanations.

This book is not for C++ beginner nor a reference. But there are a lot of interesting and useful ways of programming C++.

This is the most disapointing book on C++ that I have ever read. Not only are the author's "simple" examples unrelated to anything that programmers do in the real world, they are written from the viewpoint of the programming gods on Mount Olympus. Does anybody really care whether your "pointer to a derived function of a virtual base class that inherits nothing, can end up being a consternation for those expecting a pure, inherited pointer to a class that is virtually derived?"

Huh? Enough said.

C++ is an obscure language enough. And not one that will be around for very long in view of the developments of web programming in general. It will always be a basis to start from -- then once learned, quickly forgotten, like Latin.

If you want more from this book then study FORTRAN, the precursor of the Latin we all know (and are struggling to work with to this day).

This CD does not work on modern computers. You need Internet Explorer 4.0 to view it. With other browsers no diagrams are shown.
I could not find a bug fix on the authors web page.

It is interesting to see that one of the big software gurus doesn't seem to know about graceful degradation. He could have easily added a statically linked HTML-only version to the CD.

I wanted so much to like this book, but for the life of me I could not figure out what Ms. Ibbotson was trying to do. Write a ghost story? Fine by me. I love ghost stories. Tell a touching family story? I'm as a sappy as the next person. But wow! I could not figure out here strange desire to combine nice people with ickiness and terror and dare to call it a children's book! The tone was completely inconsisten throughout the entire book, ranging between comedy, tragedy, and these weird, too-violent ghosts that seem to have nothing better to do than to make families and nuns miserable. It was odd and uncomfortable, which is sad because I have found other books of Ms. Ibbotson's to be absolutely enchanting. What was this book supposed to be? No one likes to see a combination of cuteness and tragic horror. At least I don't in a children's book.

this book is 'bout a boy named oliver that is an orphan and in the middle of da book he finds out he has ghost trying 2 kill him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although DIAL-A-GHOST was about ghosts, it was funny and imaginative, not scary. I really liked this book. And, because it wasn't that scary, I consider this book a ghost story for people who don't like ghost stories.

I love this book because it's about GHOSTS. The author of this book writes many ghost stories such as The Secret of Platform13 or The Great Ghost Rescue. I would compare this book to the Scary Stories Series. The author puts several interesting pictures in the book. The character I like the best is the dad of the Watson's family. I like him because he's a doctor and because he works for the navy. A really good part of the story is when Oliver sees Adie's hands go threw the closet door.

I think lots of people should read this book because if they don't
Believe in ghosts, after they read this book they'll believe in them. If I had to give this book a rating I would give it ***** stars because of all the time the author succeeds in making it scary and tries to make the pictures look good. Another good thing is all the good words the author uses in it. A scene that is very good is when the mom of the Watson's family is about to get her daughter and...Boom! ... a bomb falls right on the house and every single one of the family dies. I think any person who likes scary stuff should read DIAL-A-GHOST.

Eva Ibbotson is just pure magical. Dial-A-Ghost not only makes you laugh and slap your knee, but it also teaches valuable life lessons. Read it. That's all I can say.

I've only read two volumes of "Fables." The first volume and now this. While it can't be said that this book, "Animal Farm," was as good as the first one, Bill Willingham is an awesome writer simply for the way he switches things up. The first volume of this series was a traditional mystery,complete with a parlor scene at the end. This takes on a completely different genre, falling somewhere between adventure/thriller and war/revolution story.

Willingham also uses this book to flesh out his Fable mythology. The first book informed the reader that the Fables that couldn't pass for human lived on a sort of farm land up state, and the majority of this book takes place up there. We get to see Willingham and artist Buckingham's take on the animal and legendary-beast Fables, which ranges from pretty straight forward (Shere Khan the villainous tiger) to really surprising and innovative (the Three Little Pigs). There are literary references and nods to the original fables all around, which makes this a very loaded book, but it never really recaptured the intrigue of the first one.

All in all, despite being slightly less captivating than Volume One, this is a good addition to the "Fables" series and will certainly keep me reading.

PS: This volume includes bonus character sketches and a cover gallery in the back.

7/10

I was not sure if I should buy this collection after I read first one (Legends in Exile). But then I thought that the first one is a mere introduction to the world and characters - and I bought this one.

Second collection introduces even more characters and shows another location. But it also shows that this series is not about melodrama and nostalgia. It has some radical action and it looks into the "politics" as a system.

The continuing adventures of the inhabitants of Fabletown, Bill Willingham's Fables series continues in the second story arc, Animal Farm. With the more "un"-human occupants of Fabletown not being able to live in NYC with those that can pass as human, they have moved into the Fabletown extension in upstate New York called the Farm. Feeling they are being treated unfairly, they decide to rebel against the rules and regulations of Fabletown to try and make it back to their homelands, until one of their number decides to take things too far.

I continue to be impressed with this series. Bill Willingham is able to create ties between seemingly unrelated fairy tales and fables and create one of the most original stories I've seen in comics in a long time.

This particular volume I felt fell a little bit from the strong beginning of the first volume, Legends in Exile and the prelude volume 1001 Nights of Snowfall, but I still enjoyed it all the same. Looking forward to continuing reading this series.

Just when you thought the 3 Little Pigs were the victims, you get a whole new show with Fables 2. And Goldilocks just so happens to be bonkers and armed. Good thing all the characters at the Farm aren't ready for a Civil War. Best one of the bunch.

This series supposes that the mythical beings from our childhood fairy tales not only exist, but have been forced to flee their native land - arriving in New York City. Some, Snow White for example, can trade her princess' gown for a business suit and get by just fine in the city. Tom Thumb, the talkative three little pigs, and quite a few others would blow the secrecy of their exile in our world. So, the Fables (as the displaced ones call themselves) establish a refuge in a distant corner of upstate New York where the more unusual beings can live in peace and privacy.

But being run out of their hereditary lands galls them, and their isolation and the limits on their freedom chafe. The rhetoric builds up, instigated by Goldilocks (who still finds Baby Bear's bed just right) but pushed forward by the pigs - who suddenly seem to read from George Orwell's script. They're as venal and brutal as Orwell's, but better armed.

The rest of the story carries through on the promise made by the beginning. It offers excitement, imagination, and enough twists and turns to keep the ending in suspense. Well, if not the ending itself, at least the way it comes about. Capable, expressive artwork supports the writing well, even if it doesn't break any new ground. Since a different look in the artwork is usually what grabs my attention, it took me a long time to pick this one up. That was my mistake. You don't have to repeat it. Go ahead, enjoy this grown-up take on some of your childhood favorites.

-- wiredweird

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Notes from a Liar and Her Dog
By: Susanna Nicole Cobb
Gennifer Choldenk is the author of Notes from a Liar and Her Dog. I think but I'm not positive that this book is realistic fiction.
Antonia MacPherson thinks that lying is the way of life. Antonia's life would be miserable if it weren't for her best friend Harrison and a "minute ball of fluff" named Pistachio. No matter what she does whether it is right or wrong, her mother thinks she is either lying or is wrong. Her younger sister, "Katherine the Great" is taking notes on Ant's misbehaviors that she keeps in a spiral notebook for her parents. Her older sister, "Your Highness Elizabeth" says that Ant is training to be a juvenile delinquent, her best friend (Harrison) smells like a salami sandwich, and the "minute ball of fluff" should be put out of his misery. Who will listen to an Ant when EVERYONE in his family has nothing but royal opinions against her? (Read the book to find out!!)
This book is best suited for grades third to middle school. Maybe even your reading level! I liked this book because it teaches a lesson to people. It teaches people not to lie and that lying is NOT the way of life. This book was great! There's nothing

You should read this book because it is very intresting. If you start reading it you might not want to put it down it is very fascinating because it talks about a girl who is different. She feels left out and no one understands her. Her name is Ant she is trying to get away from many things. She just can't stand some people. Read this enjoyable story you will really like it.

hey this book was very good it was about friend ship caring and all of that stuff but any way it was very good I thougt and if you don't WHAT EVER THATS COOL FOR YOU right but if you like good and funny book here is one so read it's very good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
???????READ THE BOOK??????

The book was great and I think it would be a good book to write about. It's each girl's point of view of their life. This would be a good young ladies book.
I liked it because it was telling about each of the girl's personalities. I didn't like how Anotonia's sisters like to spy on her.
I like the Charcter Antonia MacPherson because she's different from everyone in her family and she always does something exciting.
An exciting scene was when carol says "you're been telling people your adopted... that your real parents are going to come and take you away from your real life."
I like it because she's expressing her feelings.
Somethings i didn't like that some of the chapters are short and it repeats alot of stuff.
I recommened this book because i like that they use to be good friends, but then she started writing bad stuff about her friends.That's why they didn't want to be friends.

The book I'm doing this book review on is Notes from a Liar and Her Dog written by Gennifer Choldenko. Antonia MacPherson is a 12 year girl who thinks she was adopted. Her mom doesn't believe anything she says. Her art teacher, who likes being called just Carol, believes her and gives her a chance. She tries to change Ant and make her start telling the truth. I read this book because it sounded funny. I recommend this book to anyone who likes funny books.
The book has a lot of unique characters. The book became funny because of these characters. The moments of this book are realistic and you can relate to them. Antonia's believes that "you can't waste the truth on people who won't understand". Harrison is Antonia's best friend and Harrison has a chicken that can use the litter box. The reason I think Harrison is cool because I like chickens. The one thing I don't like about this book is why there's an art teacher in Ant's business. I don't like that because I think it's an invasion of privacy and I don't like it when people are in my business.
This book was awesome because it's funny and Harrison has a chicken. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes funny books.

I bought 2nd & 3rd edition of this textbook for collection because it is
4th year undergraduate coursework for major in electronic which is not my major. But I bought 4th edition as the principle reference for research.
This edition has additional chapter on Fully differential op-amp which is very useful for me but I still don't no why do we need CMFB circuit for single stage fully differential OTA. I think CMFB is necessary to set DC output voltage of foled cascode or cascode only and maybe it maybe used as
a design variable to increase CMRR.

This book is one of my favorite in my entire graduate experience. The language is easy to read. It's very coherent with good examples. In this book all the theory and operation of BJT and MOSFET amplifiers, differential pairs, active loads, as well as, frequency response and feedback is explained in depth. I found this book to be complete.

I would say if you want to understand and do some analog circuit designs, you must have this book!

It will help you go from a beginner to a master!

Truly helpful and comprehensive from Professors at Berkley.

Bible!!!!

This is good book for Analog IC design, but very complex to understand. Quiet good for senior graduate students.

It's a very good book but I think you need to have some knowledge of integrated circuit design and analysis before discovering this book.

This book does its stated purpose very well. Not too indepth, not too shallow. Find a property, check it out, and back to work.

Probably a good reference if you already know CSS.
Not useful if you're learning CSS from scratch.

Developing accessible, standards-based websites that work and look properly on everyone's screen (I'm looking at you, IE) can be a real struggle sometimes, but this book has been a life saver for me. Having the book at my desk and being able to quickly look up this syntax or that modifier is extremely helpful. I can't recommend this book more for anyone who does a lot of web development and is just looking for a quick, to the point reference guide.

You know CSS, but you are not using it every day thus not remember every single attribute and specific syntax for every style there is?

You are like me and you will appreciate this little helper. It is very compact and filled with every CSS 2.0 style there is.

It also shows which properties and styles are compatible with which Browser. It is up to you if you want to use the latest styles available or rather fall back to the styles and properties that virtually every browser in use today can render correctly.

This is a compact reference for CSS and not meant for people who want to learn CSS. It would make a good addition when you buy a book to learn CSS and get this reference for quick look-ups of the already learned styles.

Not as Handy as It Should Be

I liked the Idea of a quick reference for CSS, because I always struggle with remembering the exact syntax (or confuse them with HTML or JS attributes) or can't recall which properties can be applied to which HTML element. I have to problems with this reference, which makes it for me less effective than I wish it to be.

1) This is not and issue with the content, but the page layout. It wouldn't be too hard to print the chapter and the property that can be found on the page at the top of every page to make scanning of the book easier and reduces the need for a detour to the index.

2) It would have been great if there would have been not only a list of attributes sorted alphabetically, but also a list of HTML elements sorted alphabetically with the information for each of them, which CSS attribute can be applied to it. It makes the book thicker, but you could have compensated that by using thinner paper and use less empty line in the content.

I hope that my suggestions might find it into a future, version of the book, which also incorporated the CSS 3.0 attributes that are supported by some of the latest browsers like Mozilla Firefox.

By the time I was taking my second or third CSS course, this book became a life saver. Even now, 2 years later, this is the one book I cary around with me for syntax.

Mr. Meyer also adds a lot more flavor and discussion than I would expect from a desk reference. Impressive!

If you are still saying Lord I am not sure if it is your voice or not then please read this book it was a blessing and to God be all the glory.

Joyce Meyer is one of the best by far! She has a way of writing so everyone can understand what she is saying. The Lord really works though this woman for our benefit! Read it, study it and most of all believe it because she backs up everything she says with the Word of God!

Joyce Meyers teaches us in her plain spoken, easily understood, practical way how to hear the voice of our God. Everything I've ever read of hers is so very well written and easily grasped. I forwarded this on to my mom to read once I had finished with it. This book is a must read for the new or young Christian. It's very very important that we come to know the voice of our Lord lest we be deceived by the enemy or our very own flesh.

I really love this book (and love the audiobook even more - because Joyce Meyer really gets the point across with her great personality)

I'm not even a Christian and I love this book. It will help you tap into your inuition and learn right from wrong.

Thank You Joyce for such a wonderful book!!!

Wow was I disappointed... I love to hear Joyce preach! I love to read her books! She is so anointed! And she always speaks to me. However, maybe it's just me, but this audiotape wasn't the same. When she read the book she wrote, I found it to be dry and without life. How to Hear from God is another of her great books! Please don't discount the book if you didn't like the audiotape of it being read. I won't get another tape of her reading her books. I'll just continuing listening to her teaching tapes, reading her books, and watching her programs on tv and online.

Nicely written, very informative. My deduction of a star is for the reference having neither examples nor page numbers where a more detailed explanation would be found. This is a common omission, so I would still recommend this book. I would not recommend this as a first introduction to web authoring, as it is strictly CSS, which of course does nothing without structural mark-up. For those who have been building sites for a while, and need some guidance and insite into CSS, this is a great choice. However, for those who have very little or no experience I would instead recommend 'Build your website the right way...' by Ian Lloyd.

As others have pointed out this is not a CSS "cookbook" full of design templates. If that is what you are looking for, you will be disappointed. If however, you want to understand CSS, how it works, best practices and so on, this is a great book. Although you can find all of the info in various places on the web, Mr. Meyer is a good author explaining in detail how things work and bringing up valuable points to be aware of along the way. A good addition to any web developers library.

Most of the stuff that you learn in CSS can be found already ONLINE and before I bought this book, I had a very good fundamental understanding CSS and thought I buy this book for more knowledge and learn anything that I could have missed. Well I did, but I could have found this information online, however I've spent months learning CSS and it's very difficult to found all the things in this CSS book in one place.

I recommend this book if you have the stimulation to learn from a book and the money because of course the internet is FREE.

Before purchasing this book, I had purchased about a half dozen books on css, one from the same author. I was really surprised to find new ways to use css that I hadn't learned in the other books. Each topic is discussed completely and in detail. For a reference on css, this book is the best I've found.

This is a book about CSS, and CSS, is about the presentation aspect of web pages. How the text appears, the size, the layout, etc.

However, the presentation style inside the book is kind of sloppy. For example, on page 186 and 187, when it talks about inline elements, Figure 7.33 "Strongly emphasized" is printed not as tall as Figure 7.34 and 7.35 when the CSS style is the same. And the word being used is "which is" and is changed to "that is" in Figure 7.34 and 7.35, when it is changing the vertical-align only. The reader would be better helped if they can see the contrast of the CSS style, without the change of wording for no reason at all. Also, in Figure 7.34, the bigger words should not overlap with the smaller words above, as tested in CSS compliant browsers, but it is printed so on the book.

Then again, in Figure 7.36, for no reason at all, the picture is shrunk down to 1/4 size of the previous examples, when they are all talking about the same case except for some vertical-align difference. It may be done just because the page is running out of space. That is pretty sloppy.

On page 181 to 182, it talks about various terms of the inline box model, and there is no figure at all to exemplify the terms at all. Then after the reader goes through a tough time to read through those text of hard definitions, 3 pages later, the figures start to appear. Please, can the book be designed so that the readers are considered? CSS is partly for making the content easy for the audience, and how about this CSS book is made easier for its audience too?

This book is a great help for any writing project. I would have liked it better, however, if there were more samples of personal writing projects.

This is a pretty good book. It focuses on writings though. If you would like to have a book that speaks on communication in general, then I would suggest "How to Use Power Phrases" by Meryl Runion or optimally both books. The examples in "Power Phrases" are verbal examples, but can be used in both situations. "How to say it" should be titled "How to put it in writing"

I believe the ability to write a thoughtful and effective letter is an important skill to have, and one that many younger people today are not developing due to all of our electronic communications. I got this for a graduation gift and it has truly helped me become better at writing good letters for my new "adult" life, from thank you letters to job correspondence and more.

This book is an absolute must for any office professional. I purchased the book for a co-worker as a gift, then wore-out my welcome borrowing it and had to get a copy for myself! I've used it for writing Christmas cards to clients, letters of recommendations for employees, writing notes of condolences for clients and co-workers, requesting reviews from magazine editors, and in many more situations. I can't think of a book I have in my library that I use more. This is a great gift for any office professional, especially those just starting their career!

This is a must have for anyone who writes, talks, or otherwise communicates with other people. I use it all the time for writing letters.