lena7's reviews

lena7
October 28, 2025
Dallas, TX (US)
Picoult, Jodi

small great things...

Intelligently written, but so very Not a novel or true story, at all. The end of the trial is as fictional, as only can happen in fairy tale.. Evil cannot turn out angel and vise-versa. Second, there are no African-Americans in the USA of 20th Century. There are Black people: good or bad... Ignorant or well-educated. The end of this book which is Not a Novel, at all, but Fiction with criminal content, can never ever happen.... A disappointing read, even if the writer seems to be capable of much much better.

Live drawing. For beginners.

Yes, it's not "The life drawing, but Live figure drawing... class. The author is a wonderful writer: stylistically and grammar-wise. But it is the characters that all are a pretty low-life specimen that she draws here, in this novel: scary and not desirable, mostly. Among them, unwed young girls with children and fatherless. Or dead relatives because of drugs smuggling. I do not advice the reading of the book.

Dreyer, Benjamin,

Mr. Dreyer's views for and of English language in America setting...

Arrogant, poor and not deserving read.... As author himself states in his creation: "I hate grammar !"... And so do we, in his rendition. I do not recommend it to readers, or to future writers.

Danielle Steel.

Mother's love

Very dark, full of horrific, rather unusual abuse (physical and verbal) of a young child... The mother who later born identical twin girls.... The girls are inseparable and while loving each other tremendously, live together even when one of them is about to marry a man, they still play tricks on him being literally hard to identify by their identical looks... It's not a good read this time around from great Danielle Steel. I do not recommend it.

Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky and Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia and Emmanuel Ducamp, general editor.

Great collections of art in Imperial Russia.

The book/album is of excellent quality: of paper on which it's printed and detailed and masterfully written and illustrated; with art prints on every single page with coordinated numbers that are easily located and information that belongs to each of them. The only negative is the fact, that previous reader had tore the entire full page from it ! It's the page number # 176 of the album....