Tag: stats • BookLikes

show activity (+)

review 2020-04-28 12:05

TOUR, REVIEW & #GIVEAWAY - Winning Her (Perfect Stats #1) by Amber Malloy

Winning Her (Perfect Stats #1) - Amber Malloy

@GoddessFish, @Archaeolibrary, #Sports, #Romance, 3 out of 5 (good)

Winning Her is the first book in the Perfect Stats series and we focus on Bane and Dahl, both African-Americans and successful in their own ways. Bane is frustrated because he is blocked by the owner and the coach at the club he works for and constantly feels like he needs to be prepared for the chop. Dahl is an award-winning chef with plenty of TV shows and books behind her. At this point, she is helping her cousin with her restaurant in a vain attempt to keep it afloat.

Now, hold onto your hats, because there is LOT that goes on in this book. I'm still not actually sure when Bane crosses the line of wanting to get back at his ex-wife and just wanting her. I'm also not sure about a lot of went on in this book simply because there is so much. You have all the intrigue of the sports world, the cooking/baking world, drop-beat cousins, cheating cousins, a stalker nanny, (another) ex-wife and her anchor job, and a custody case - to name just a few 'themes' in this story. Due to this, it took me a while to get into it because I just couldn't figure out what was going on!

Once I got into it, I did enjoy the story but I had to work at it. I thoroughly enjoyed the ending and would love to know more about Warner. As for Bane and Dahl, I liked them but found the whole thing a bit too confusing for my tastes.

* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and the comments here are my honest opinion. *

Merissa
Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!

Source: archaeolibrarian.wixsite.com/website/post/winning-her-perfect-stats-1-by-amber-malloy

review 2014-01-23 03:56

The BEST nerd coffee table book EVAR

The Viking Bunny: Beyond The Written Horizon

Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe - Tim Leong

When I finally get a flat with a coffee table, this is going on it!

"Why would you not want to build infographics about comic books?!" Tim Leong (Author and Illustrator) in an interview with LifeHacker in July 2013.

I checked this book out from the library, thinking that I'd enjoy the graphics but likely have to diligently trudge through a mass of script as well. I was totally off the mark! Not only did I not have to trudge through any of the contents, but I occasionally had to pull deals with myself to put the book down after the next picture and go to sleep!

Super Graphic is OH. SO. PRETTY. as well as informative, quirky, and unique - ironically the same things I look for in my comic books, graphic novels, and..well..pretty much everything. At only 196 pages and sizing in at 9.4 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches (23.88 x 18.8 x 1.5 centimeters), this paper back might seem a little on the dinky side for a standard coffee table book (which usually come hardbound, three times as thick, and weighing in at a couple of pounds minimum). Don't let that fool you - this book was made to be looked at. Besides, since when did underestimating a superhero by it's size and appearance ever work?

Like Reblog Comment

review 2013-09-14 00:00

The Golden Darter

Stats and Curiosities: From Harvard Business Review - Harvard Business Review

Overall I was pretty disappointed in this book. I was expecting a more in-depth explanation of the interesting and off-the-wall research, but instead it it just condensed into a few sentences, with one research study per page. The sources are in the back of the book, making this little more than a conversation starter/novelty/coffee table book. I expected more from the Harvard Business Review. If you want to see what this book essentially is, check out The Daily Stat blog. Each post is a blurb about an interesting research study. These blurbs are what make up the book. The blog also includes a link to the source study making it, in my opinion, much more dynamic than this one-dimensional book. So the one plus? I will now be following this blog. And that might have been the whole point to this publication. ARC courtesy of Harvard Business Review Press, via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.