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Cassie's Marvelous Music Lessons - Sheri...

Cassie's new owner, Mrs. Applebaum, is a music teacher. Cassie wants to teach her students also, but she gets told to go to her bed. Cassie finally has enough of her bed so she shows Mrs. Applebaum she knows music. Mrs. Applebaum gets an idea and makes a surprise for Cassie. What is the surprise? Will Cassie be allowed to teach the children?

 

I enjoyed this story. Cassie has definite ideas about how she can contribute to the lessons, but will Mrs. Applebaum let her? I liked how Mrs. Applebaum brought Cassie into the lessons. It was a perfect solution. I appreciated how Cassie wanted to be involved with the students as well as their acceptance to her.

 

I look forward to reading more of Cassie.

The Marvelous Adventures of Gwendolyn Gray by B.A. Williamson is a coming of age story of self discovery and what the imagination can do. 

This was a great story for young and old alike. The author has a great imagination and fantastic world building, with wonderful character development. 

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Brilliantly written with excellent illustrations and a full scope of Stan Lee's life in comics.

The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Wi... I think I've mentioned before that I absolutely love reading Women in Translation. It started when I found Women in Translation Month over on Biblio and it has brought me books like this. Well, it worked with Kindle First to bring me books like this. Kindle First does have a tendency to have some WIT selections and I appreciate that they're doing their part on this. This was yet another example of how reading translation exposes us to experiences we would not have had. While the author is new for me, I have also read another book translated by Chace, The Unbroken Line of the Moon which was also a great book but for vastly different reasons.

The premise is fairly simple and something that could be encountered anywhere, sure, but it was Ingrid herself that made this so much fun. I've read and seen on television several versions of paranoid white American woman and it's just not fun anymore. It's too predictable or trying to hard not to be. But then this. Ingrid Winter is Norwegian and handling her problems in ways that are not necessarily foreign to that paranoid white American woman but different enough that I was thoroughtly entertained.

There were a early-ish moments when I knew I was going to enjoy myself, the first was her explanation of how much she hated meetings and the way she avoided them. I was pretty sure she was going to be a likeable character after that, which didn't exactly turn out to be true. I liked her in that "I'm going to watch your form of crazy from afar" kind of way. We couldn't be friends, maybe not even coworkers, but she would be a great distant cousin to call and catch up with just to make sure that I'm not the craziest or most imposive person my family.

I really wanted to see her succeed throughout the story and stick to Peter and Ingvil too. Everything about her work life made me cringe and be ever more grateful that I have escaped the world of endless meetings where nothing gets done and where things like "internationalization" is important. It was in the work stuff that I felt sorry for her for most of the book. Then Russia and I really started to have fun with those two creeps and what was going on and her plunge into some really great paranoia. I mean really great. I'd feel bad for a real person in this situation with these people and this level of paranoia, but as a fictional character I'm not sure it could have been more fun. And I especially loved the way each piece of her story was resolved.

As opposed to most of my reading, it's not particularly deep or enlightening, it doesn't change the way I see the world or give me a window into an unfamiliar culture. It's just fun and a little ridiculous, just as the title and synopsis promise. As a comedy and one that centers around a woman who already has her love life together (as opposed to many books of it's nature that surround women who are looking for love), it's a book that I'd recommend to any of my friends. I do especially love that it's a book about a woman my age in about my life situation; working and married with kids but haven't perfected any of it yet.

This was my Febuary Kindle First read.