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Michael's teaching is good, helpful, encouraging, and clear to understand and to learn to do.

Waiting for sales of additional meridian healing course books for cats especially, I saw this gem in my recent second-hand purchase pile. I knew it was worth reading however old or sparse and it is already to hand. To my surprise, reviews regard Michael Bradford highly. It is not about meridians but I already love these first pages. It is a simple, elemental, and yes, sparse prelude to all that Donna Eden covers.

Oh gosh, I thought this would be about a group of kids solving mysteries. I do like the protagonist's uncle, even if he swears and drinks too much. It is nice that he brought his same sex partner to babysit the child and spend time with her. But I loathe that partner, Devon, a terrible gay stereotype! The diva personality would be annoying to me on anyone, including another woman! He ruins the whole book for me.

This story is very bizarre and I am unsure which genre it is entertaining but I will see where it goes. I have had it for years I think. I appreciate its originality.

So good from the first word!!!! Oh, it is as excellent, intelligent, unique, action-packed, well-crafted, sympathetic, and compelling as I remembered it to be (Do you see what I did there?) from elementary school!

I have not read this since I was a child in about 1986! I have sought my own copy for about 30 years! Thanks to my friend, Kerri, I have it for Christmas! I have at long last taken to bed to read.... "The Mystery Of The Stuttering Parrot"!

I am really enjoying this novel, even though I am aware of a slowly building pace. The people, situations, and music worlds with whom Martha Grimes slowly acquaints us is fulfilling to me. I love Melrose Plant and Richard Jury but like most of these guest personages too and it is full of animal love. I am curious about how other fans and also plain readers liked this story and mystery. I hope its quality is felt.

I got ahead without falling asleep too early. Onward we go! Bedtime readers snuggle under the covers earlier if we have to.

I am enjoying Martha Grimes' familiar humour from page one, about loveable characters and the eccentricities observed in new locations. A cockatoo peers out of livingroom foliage, a spider repairs its web in Richard's office, and Cyril boldly tinkles the glass inside chief superintendent A.E. Racer's wooden cabinet.

You would think I could breeze through more than 10 pages a night but I fell asleep each time. Zzz.