Tag: book reviews
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November 16, 2006 12:52 PM EST --
If you're a self-published author, it's hard to get press--there's a couple of sites that specifically review self-published POD type books.
There's POD-DY Mouth--she's been . . . more
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September 25, 2006 07:09 PM EDT --
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig is a
coming-of-age story about a 13-year old boy, Paul,
who is living in Montana in the early 1890's. When
Paul's mother dies leaving . . . more
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July 05, 2007 10:16 PM EDT --
A new subgenre of mathematical books seems to have evolved over the past few years, in which the author chooses some special number and describes its history and properties. Books have been written . . . more
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October 26, 2006 07:37 PM EDT --
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
There are some books that are so good that I almost . . . more
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August 27, 2006 04:05 PM EDT --
Few adults who had young children in 1996 will forget the Elmo fever that swept the nation as Tickle Me, Elmo become the "must have" toy of the Christmas season. Anyone who unfamiliar with the . . . more
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October 05, 2006 10:47 AM EDT --
Just Beyond: Short Stories
by Anjan Ray. Stellar OmBooks International. Pages 251. Rs 195
When a friend of mine gave me this to read and comment upon, I was kind of thrilled for two reasons. . . . more
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November 15, 2006 10:11 AM EST --
I have never said this about a book before, but Dr. Martha Stout's "The Sociopath Next Door" should be required reading for All of us. In these 218 pages, Dr. Stout delivers a startlingly . . . more
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November 27, 2006 02:54 PM EST --
I'm a huge book dork and so I'm always eager to see what books I have read that made the NYTimes Notable books list. Last year I had read quite a few on the list, but this year I've only read four . . . more
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August 19, 2006 12:32 AM EDT --
The Piggly Wiggly in Second Creek, Mississippi, supermarket cum community center and town hall, is about to close its doors for good. The Mega-Mart across town has been drawing away customers and Mr. Choppy . . . more
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October 05, 2007 01:04 AM EDT --
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is the Jon Stewart of the knitting world. She skewers us with our own needles, unravels our obsession for the uninitiated and helps us learn to laugh at ourselves. Her fresh, tongue-in-cheek . . . more
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August 17, 2006 12:27 AM EDT --
"Are there situations, long-term situations, where conflict does not wait around every bend, where time does not unspool only in anticipation of your errors" – from The Man of My Dreams . . . more
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September 30, 2007 07:25 PM EDT --
As the last installment of the series, J. K. Rowling has made some interesting choices. First and foremost, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ is written for the fans and not first . . . more
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August 26, 2007 03:46 PM EDT --
A few weeks ago, when I was browsing through the shelves at the Dudley Library, looking and hoping I’d find one or two titles by Dambudzo Marechera, I came across The Gospel According to the Son. . . . more
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February 09, 2007 11:28 PM EST --
Written for the rhyme “This is the House that Jack Built,” In Arctic Waters grew out of a science unit on the Arctic. Laura Crawford was fascinated with the animals of the region and created . . . more
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November 02, 2006 12:24 PM EST --
While I've found them here and there, it is a rare book that can truly get me to reconsider my beliefs. The Innocent Man by John Grisham was one of those books. I do believe in the death . . . more
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August 15, 2006 11:00 PM EDT --
"Being an unpublished author is a bit like being an asylum seeker. You know this is where you belong - your Promised Land - but the gate is guarded. You're desperate to get in, but you don't . . . more
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August 27, 2006 11:30 PM EDT --
Jack Tennant is called home by his mother to reconcile with the father he hasn't seen in 15 years, after the old man succumbs to a stroke and ends up with "Locked-In" Syndrome. Hahva, his . . . more
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October 07, 2006 03:05 PM EDT --
When knitters enter a yarn store today, they have an endless selection of fibers from which to choose. Increasingly, some of those choices are high end, luxury fibers with equally high price tags. Most . . . more
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December 15, 2006 02:37 PM EST --
I recently listened to The Camel Club by David Baldacci. It was narrated by Jonathan Davis.
The story introduces us to a group of old friends living in DC, who call themselves the "Camel . . . more
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October 13, 2006 01:58 PM EDT --
I wrote this article in August for an online publication which did not end up publishing it. So, even though it is already early October I thought it was worth posting here.
2006 has been a year of . . . more
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