Tag: review
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August 02, 2006 11:11 PM EDT --
Though not religious myself, I'm fascinated by religion, and do a lot of reading about it. I lately read Bart D. Ehrman's "Misquoting Jesus", and was so fascinated by it that I put aside . . . more
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August 01, 2006 10:35 PM EDT --
With Viet Nam and the draft hanging over our heads like a bad moon rising, we feared and partied with equal fervor, sometimes doing one . . . more
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August 13, 2006 09:11 PM EDT --
Imagine that you're a distance swimmer training for an upcoming event – one that you do not yet know will set a world record. You are seventeen-years-old and swimming in the cool Pacific just . . . more
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June 17, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
Michael Jecks has written some 22 historical mysteries involving the characters Baldwin (loosely, an investigator for the king) and Simon (a bailiff). Jecks is a meticulous researcher and always includes . . . more
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January 04, 2007 09:42 AM EST --
Review of Sergio Ruzzier's The Room of Wonders.
Pius Pelosi, the rat and hero of The Room of Wonders, collects many delightful things he discovers in the course of his daily routine: shiny keys, . . . more
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December 16, 2007 12:23 PM EST --
I know this movie came out quite awhile ago but I never go to the theatre. Partly because we don't have one here and partly because I refuse to pay $8.00 to see a movie that I can buy on DVD . . . more
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August 24, 2006 03:01 PM EDT --
John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" is a fascinating book that traces out story of two generations of two families whose lives are somehow interlinked. We can say that its by chance rather than . . . more
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September 04, 2007 11:28 PM EDT --
I love cookbooks and books by chefs. I particularly enjoyed Anthony Bourdain's book because it is irreverent, truthful, and gutsy. From his start in restaurants on Cape Cod in Massachusetts . . . more
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May 02, 2007 10:10 PM EDT --
How many fairy tales do you read in a years time?
For those who wonder, a fairytale is a literary concoction not bound by any forms of logic, except emotional. Time, common sense and science are generally . . . more
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December 21, 2007 11:50 AM EST --
Disclaimer: I have only reviewed the book. I am yet to follow it through.
Title: The Ultimate Tea Diet
Author: Mark "dr. tea" Ukra with Sharyn Kolberg
ISBN: 9780061441752 . . . 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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December 13, 2007 07:43 AM EST --
Title: For the Love of Rachel
Author: David Loewenstein
ISBN: 0979194342
Publisher: Enalan Communications
Pages: 147
David offered this book and I won it from here in a draw. . . . 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, 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 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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April 30, 2007 09:07 PM EDT --
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October 22, 2007 01:01 PM EDT --
With much book distractions, and a good helping of work, I have finally been able to finish reading "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen. I started reading this a couple of months ago, but I kept . . . more
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October 04, 2007 12:18 PM EDT --
Title: The Handmaid’s Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0770428207
Publisher: Seal Books
Genre: Fiction/388 pages
The Handmaid’s Tale is my first book by Atwood. It kept lingering in my . . . more
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December 02, 2007 08:49 AM EST --
My Own Little Reading Room
Title: Perfect Match
Author: Jodi Picoult
ISBN: 9780340897225
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton/389 pages
It seems I am in some kind of . . . more
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January 01, 2008 05:32 AM EST --
Title: Salem Falls
Author: Jodi Picoult
ISBN-13: 978074318713
Publisher: Washington Square Press/2001
Pages: 434
Salem Falls is the last book I read in the last day of 2007. It was a . . . more
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