73% geek, the rest is girly bits.
A relatively thorough look at how autism can present in girls. The book has a fairly academic perspective of little use to me personally, but should be valuable for adults who spend time around children. An interesting read, and though this is a book I wish adults around me had read when I was young,…
Perhaps this book might be most useful to younger people? Once you’ve been an adult for a few (too many) decades, a lot of the content is information you’ve no doubt seen many times before. That being said, I found a new-to-me technique called cognitive shuffling which sounded both interesting, and potentially very helpful. Age…
At first, I was very taken with this and thoroughly enjoyed a good chunk of it. However, at a certain point the narrative veers into a type of sci-fi I don’t enjoy, and it became a slog to finish. Though well written, interesting and with well drawn characters, once the pivot happened I simply lost…
This was recommended to me years ago as something I’d love. A female protagonist involved in timey-wimey shenanigans mainly around in Tudor times? Made for me. If I’d read it back then I’d have loved it. Now it fizzled out as a merely OK read. The writing is fine, and I didn’t dislike it, but…
I really struggled with this book, taking a long time to finish it because I found myself avoiding it. I hated the protagonist, didn’t like any other characters, didn’t get a sense of time or place, and just found it very dull. The prose was too florid for my tastes and without enjoyable or interesting…