Linn Young - EDT 100 ml "Blue Window"

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all good questions, but also questions she fails almost utterly to answer in any meaningful or different way in this book. the normal, smooth children are the ones who save the day and they have very little positive interaction with any of the rough faced people. what does this do for the kids who already feel themselves outcasts because of how they look or are? the message this book leaves them with seems to be simply that you have to either be born special or hope that someday someone will change you.

The siblings and their relationships. Though the characters didn't exactly shine in this book, I could appreciate the dynamics between the five children (as an oldest of five myself). This book started out very promising, as I'm a fan of CS Lewis and portal fantasies. Unfortunately, there ended up being more things that I disliked about it than that I liked. I'll try to list them (briefly) below. I would say that this is on the older side of middle grade. However, I'm not sure that it would actually appeal to it's intended age group. Restart the PC, and see if the BSOD recurs. If not, you’ve probably isolated the cause and can start researching some kind of fix. I really loved the synopsis for this one, but I just could not get into it. The random additions from an exile, or the exiles, were odd and didn't seem to fit with everything else. I'm sure that perspective would have tied in later, but I was already confused without trying to decipher their cryptic words. Where are their parents?? They're mentioned a few times, and the mom shows up with orange juice once, but then just disappears. I feel like there should have been more interaction with the children, since the oldest is only 13. It wasn't just the parents that vanished in the middle of a paragraph. The other characters seemed to flutter around without a purpose, too.

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SUCH interesting world building, but for all that I felt like the end of it was rushed - I wanted to know more, about how the rough faces manifested, and how the change happened and if the 'smooth faces' of the people in the valley was actually 'fixed' or if it was only an illusion. also we saw a hint that the sexism was going to be righted, at the end, but it bothered me that no one ever explicitly came right out and said the valley's way of doing things was wrong and sexist, not even Nell.

I'm not too sure how to review this one. On the one hand, it's very well written, has many strong points, and is generally enjoyable. On the other, it consistently put me to sleep every night and took about 5x longer to read than my usual pace, so . . . I guess it's good fantasy, and most definitively does not follow the contemporary thriller-pacing that we're seeing more of in YA and MG books. Recommended for young readers who enjoy the classics of kid lit, rather than reluctant readers or those who prefer fast-paced stories. First popularised in Regency architecture, green and blue window frames are now a staple in period homes across the country. From rural cottages to townhouses, shades of green and blue are still much-loved by owners of traditional properties. The world-building does not flow well, and I think that the intended audience would struggle to follow along with what the society actually means. Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of GermanyI will preface this by saying that I am not a fan of fantasy, although I have found a lot of children's fantasy earns my grudging respect. Also, I received an ARC of this book through Library Thing. This is not the kind of book I would choose to read on my own. Now, on to the review: Ideally, we would publish every review we receive, whether positive or negative. However, we won’t display any review that includes or refers to (among other things):

For most genuine BSODs (remember, I forced this one to happen) the stopcode and the error code will often help affected users zero in on causes and potential cures for their woes. In my experience, at least 90% of BSODs become fixable simply based on this information. That’s because it will often be solved by disconnecting, disabling, or uninstalling related devices, drivers, applications, or updates – just as Microsoft recommends, and I summarized in the previous section. What About that Other Problematic 10% of BSODs? I also didn't understand why the characters were so anxious to get home. I got no sense of the home they left behind, and their parents are mentioned so rarely that I don't know if they were divorced, together, gay, straight, mean, or nice. So why were these kids always complaining? If the BSOD recurs despite the items taken out of the picture by removing, disabling or uninstalling them, whatever’s still left in the picture remains problematic. At this point you want to reboot into safe mode once again, and open an administrative command prompt or PowerShell session. From the command line, enter these commands, one at a time:In fact, the author found constant recourse to a sixth POV, a character we don't even meet until late in the novel. Early on, that POV speaks in riddles so mysterious that they mean nothing to the reader, and were an effort to read. By the end, this POV becomes the only way for the reader to see certain things happen, but again, they do so without the POV character's agency.

Five siblings fall through time and space into a strange, unkind world -- their arrival mysteriously foretold -- and land in the center of an epic civil struggle in a country where many citizens have given themselves over to their primal fears and animal passions at the urging of a power-hungry demagogue. also it bothered me that 'smooth' and 'small' was equated to being normal and good and the rough faces were someone's inner selves - the bad part of it - being manifested but people still were striving for that perfection with the waxing and filing. The immediate tendency following a BSOD is to get right into fix-it mode, start looking things up, and attempting repairs. Not so fast! Microsoft explains the entire troubleshooting process in its “ Troubleshoot blue screen errors” tutorial. While you can – and probably should – read the Microsoft advice in its entirety, here’s a summary of key recommendations: Told in a collection of alternating point of view, shared between the siblings in a way that almost represents the character who has assumed responsibility for the rest after the previous member fails, forgets, or is cast out further strengthens the descent into the world they’ve found themselves trapped in and the chance of returning home dwindling with new obstacle thrown their way. A good book, but one that misses out on great because of a variety of structural, pacing, and plot issues.Contributions should be appropriate for a global audience. Please avoid using profanity or attempts to approximate profanity with creative spelling, in any language. Comments and media that include 'hate speech', discriminatory remarks, threats, sexually explicit remarks, violence, and the promotion of illegal activity are not permitted. This book has all the usual tropes for the genre and handles them pretty well but overall I found myself getting distracted and having to read parts over again or force myself to focus, I’m not sure if that had to do with the length itself which is very long for a book of this nature, or if it was because it is something that has been done before so while it had moments with its own twists and sparks of originality it followed the typical formula with no real surprises to keep me fully interested. Though I enjoy multiple POV books, the way that this book is structured into 6 different POV chunks at a time doesn't work. Some perspectives were significantly less interesting than others. There was very little character growth or progression. These guidelines and standards aim to keep the content on Booking.com relevant and family-friendly without limiting expression of strong opinions. They are also applicable regardless of the sentiment of the comment. The language and description used throughout (some of) the book. Gewirtz's writing style worked well for me for the most part.