Caprice Crane
Autor de Stupid and Contagious
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Caprice Crane
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Crane, Caprice
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1970-11-01
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Educación
- New York University (Film School)
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
screenwriter
producer
musician
back up singer
producer (mostrar todos 7)
jewelry designer - Relaciones
- Louise, Tina (mother)
Miembros
Reseñas
Cute romantic comedy. Could not give it a higher rating because the main heroine was rather annoyingly stupid in many parts and felt like her love interest deserved better.
I received this book from Wilbur, a pig. Yes, a real pig of the porcine variety. It was a thank-you for a calendar of pic portraits I’d sent him.
This is the biography of a pig who had a major life-changing effect of the two men who took her in.
Steve is an animal lover to the max. When he got a call from an old friend about possibly taking in a mini-pig, as she couldn’t care for it properly, he said he’d see. When he met the pig, it was so small and so cute je just couldn’t say no. How big could it get? It’s a mini-pig!
Convincing his partner, Derek, to accept it as an addition to the two dogs and two cats was a hurdle, but it was accomplished. When the pig, whom they had named Esther, reached the 100 pound mark it became apparent she wasn’t a mini-pig. But the men had fallen in love with their pig and couldn’t give her up. The two had learned how smart, affectionate, loyal, stubborn, devious and endearing a pig could be.
Through Esther, the two men found their view of animals, and the care of them was important. Dietary changes — sort of hard to enjoy a piece of bacon when looking at your pet, housing — a three bedroom house is not large enough for a 300 pound pig, two cats, two dogs and two humans. They bought a farm and became animal advocates by sharing their life with Esther on social media.
There is a lot of humour in the telling, but also a lot of love for lives. And you can see for yourself as Esther is on Facebook and YouTube. Quite the star!… (más)
This is the biography of a pig who had a major life-changing effect of the two men who took her in.
Steve is an animal lover to the max. When he got a call from an old friend about possibly taking in a mini-pig, as she couldn’t care for it properly, he said he’d see. When he met the pig, it was so small and so cute je just couldn’t say no. How big could it get? It’s a mini-pig!
Convincing his partner, Derek, to accept it as an addition to the two dogs and two cats was a hurdle, but it was accomplished. When the pig, whom they had named Esther, reached the 100 pound mark it became apparent she wasn’t a mini-pig. But the men had fallen in love with their pig and couldn’t give her up. The two had learned how smart, affectionate, loyal, stubborn, devious and endearing a pig could be.
Through Esther, the two men found their view of animals, and the care of them was important. Dietary changes — sort of hard to enjoy a piece of bacon when looking at your pet, housing — a three bedroom house is not large enough for a 300 pound pig, two cats, two dogs and two humans. They bought a farm and became animal advocates by sharing their life with Esther on social media.
There is a lot of humour in the telling, but also a lot of love for lives. And you can see for yourself as Esther is on Facebook and YouTube. Quite the star!… (más)
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I've read this book more than a few times but this is the first time I've read it this year. Is it the best book I've ever read? Definitely not. But it's hilarious, and sweet, and honestly Heaven's experience working at the restaurant really resonated with me, given my food service industry past. This is one of those books that I turn to when I just want to read a book that I know I'm going to like. There's not a lot of depth to it - I think it's safe to say that it's more of a junk food sort of book than anything.
But sometimes that's exactly what a reader needs.… (más)
I've read this book more than a few times but this is the first time I've read it this year. Is it the best book I've ever read? Definitely not. But it's hilarious, and sweet, and honestly Heaven's experience working at the restaurant really resonated with me, given my food service industry past. This is one of those books that I turn to when I just want to read a book that I know I'm going to like. There's not a lot of depth to it - I think it's safe to say that it's more of a junk food sort of book than anything.
But sometimes that's exactly what a reader needs.… (más)
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My Thoughts:
This book started off so stinking cute! Hailey was so observant and funny and just had interesting/witty things to say. I was really thinking I had found the next Kelsey Finkelstein or Ruby Oliver (from [b:Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters|11699323|Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters|Meredith Zeitlin|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1314883523s/11699323.jpg|16646431] and [b:The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver|301022|The Boyfriend List 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver (Ruby Oliver, #1)|E. Lockhart|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1342343845s/301022.jpg|292089]). BUT (you knew there was going to be a but here right??)... but then everything went downhill for me.
I'm going to go ahead and put this book in the classification of books I'm too old to read. Maybe if I was an actual high school-er who didn't read as much as I do, I would've enjoyed the entertainment of this book.... because it was entertaining. My eyes just started hurting from rolling so hard in the sockets, that I found the book hard to finish.
Ok so you have this girl who is pretty darn snarky and makes these really cute life observations that you can't help but smile at... and what was wrong with her? Nothing!! She was clearly a really talented artist and a good daughter and friend... so why did she have to have the dreaded makeover?? It was the whole "if I get contacts, lose 10 pounds, wear my older sister's clothes, and get a haircut I'm suddenly a brand new person". Straight out of that Freddie Prinze Jr. movie She's All That. Then she goes to her new high school and takes a disliking to the popular clique (this is after they immediately embrace her as one of their own) and forms her own clique.... only to start acting EXACTLY like the popular clique. Putting people down, being insanely cruel, being judgmental, and obsessing over completely vain and petty things.
I totally should have liked this book because I generally love books about popularity... but I just couldn't with this one. There were too many completely unbelievable situations like: of course the hottest most popular guy in school immediately wants to get with Hailey and when she decides she wants to hook up with him her friend helps her "practice" on a frozen banana! ICK!!!!! And then when she actually tries what she practiced on him, I was forced to read the most ridiculous, embarrassing, awkward, and unnecessary hook-up of all-time.
As the book wore on even the cute little observations started feeling forced. And that's when I realized this book was pretty much just a notebook full of anecdotes and teen-talk strung together. It pisses me off because this book had SO much potential. It could have been so cute and had a really good message. Instead it was full of stereotypes and unrealistic situations.
I won't tell you the ending, but as unbelievable as most of the plot was, the ending was even more unlikely to EVER happen... to anyone EVER. I know it's a small world, but it's not that freaking small! It also ended super abruptly, but as you can probably guess, if there's a sequel, I won't be reading it.
OVERALL: A book that I wanted to love, but just couldn't. It was entertaining and even had some laugh out loud moments, but it was too full of stereotypes and unrealistic situations for me to recommend. If you are looking to read a book about pranks and popularity wars, this is so your book. But if you want a message or a real story, I'd say try something else.
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