The saws all work well and are good quality; I figured they’d snap in half but they're actually made pretty well. The scooper was genuinely impressive. I chose an insanely thick pumpkin and had to remove about 3/4” from around the inside. The scooper’s handle is sturdy and comfortable to hold, and the scoop’s serrated teeth make it easy to scrape quickly.

The poking tool was honestly useless for me, but I could see it being more useful for marking outlines if I had used one of the included patterns.

I can’t comment on how good the patterns are because I threw them out and made my own design, but I can’t imagine they were anything mind blowing.

4.5/5 stars. This kit is surprisingly good.

I’m sure she’s had her difficulties, but the whole time, I found myself thinking, “Where is the struggle?” I was looking for more details about how she functioned in relationships and what kind of negative impact her diagnosis had on her life, while most of the book basically describes her behavior as a collection of quirks. The memoir is written in a flat, apathetic voice, which may have been intentional, but only made reading it more of a chore.

I found myself at the end of 368 paperback pages about how unique this woman feels she is, but with few examples of how these differences negatively affected her life. I also felt that her background of extreme privilege cheapened the book. So many of the difficulties she describes seem lessened by her advantages and connections, and I was left, again, wondering where the struggle was.

3/5 stars. Find a better book if you’re looking for a psych memoir.

First of all, there’s no doubt Aaron Lewis is a talented singer and that comes through in the live album, and the instrumentation is phenomenal. The songs all remain close to their original versions with the exception of It’s Been Awhile and Outside, which unfortunately were the two songs I was most excited to hear. It was like someone gave Lewis a cowboy hat and a banjo and let him loose on the two most defining songs of the album. Huge disappointment. The songs were stripped of almost all feeling and left me wondering why someone wanted to mess with something that worked so well to begin with.

Shoutout to For You though, which was actually better than the original album version and somewhat made up for the bitter disappointments that were It’s Been Awhile and Outside.

3/5 stars. Stop fucking with the originals.