Tag: book review
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December 11, 2009 11:13 AM EST --
Gordon Korman- Island: Shipwreck (Scholastic 2001) 3.5 Stars
Six kids are placed on a boat that they have no desire to be on, whether to avoid going to jail, for fighting too much, . . .
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June 27, 2008 09:31 AM EDT --
This book is regarded as a classic, but I only recently heard of it. I heard of it twice within a short time span, which is why it captured my attention. I was told that it was written in the same style . . .
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February 11, 2007 09:48 AM EST --
The Virgin Blue is probably the most colorful book I have ever read. The first of Tracy Chevalier's novels it is definitely well done and researched. The thing I loved the . . .
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July 26, 2008 04:25 AM EDT --
I really enjoyed reading THE SMART ONE by Ellen Meister. I was able to get into it right from the beginning. What more could you ask for Drugs, sex and rock and roll, along . . .
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February 19, 2008 04:45 PM EST --
Since I have been home sick the past two days, I have been getting a lot of my reading done.
I Want Candy - By: Kim Wong Keltner
This is pretty much a coming of age book about 14 year old Candace . . .
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January 14, 2007 02:25 PM EST --
Book Review
“The Husband”
by Dean Koontz
Mitch and Holly Rafferty are in love. Mitch is a successful landscaper and Holly works in real estate. Everything is idyllic and peaceful in their . . .
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March 14, 2007 10:15 PM EDT --
DiCamillo, Kate. (2003). The Tale of Desperaux. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press. [Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering]
The Tale of Desperauxwas a beautifully written and illustrated . . .
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March 31, 2008 12:17 PM EDT --
Have you ever wished that you won the lottery? Probably every one of us has. What would you do with the money, how quickly could or would you spent it? Where do you go . . .
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February 19, 2008 01:14 PM EST --
Eat, Pray, Love - By: Elizabeth Gilbert
It is hard to write a review about a book that is so good & that touches you in the way this book did for me. I did not want it to end, in fact I drew out . . .
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December 05, 2009 02:38 PM EST --
(The first number is the total for the year and the last is the total for the month, NF stands for nonfiction)
January 2009
1/1 . . .
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September 10, 2009 08:23 PM EDT --
Kill the Messenger by Tami Hoag
J.C. Damon is a young man lost in the fringe of life in Los Angeles. His nickname among his bicycle messenger coworkers is “The Lone Ranger” and . . .
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November 07, 2008 02:34 PM EST --
A graphic novel about a light-skinned African-American in the 1930's who reports on Klan and other racist activity in the south by "passing" as a white man and then publishing his reports . . .
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January 22, 2009 11:58 PM EST --
This is my new favorite book. It's a wickedly funny, irreverent parody of the End of Days, the Apocalypse, and the key players therein.
First, we have Agnes Nutter. Agnes has been dead since . . .
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August 06, 2007 09:31 PM EDT --
WARNING: Reading this book at the beach may give you a bad case of sunburn. It's that kind of page-turner!
Three women step off of a plane.
Thus begins the bittersweet . . .
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September 13, 2008 07:55 PM EDT --
Many of us first learned about autistic savants through Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of an autistic savant, Raymond, in the movie "Rainman". When the movie came out I already had personal . . .
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April 29, 2009 10:28 PM EDT --
Think you know Joan Crawford? Think again. I thought I knew Joan. I loved "Mommie Dearest" and "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" so I figured Peter Joseph Swanson's "The Joan . . .
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August 03, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
I love Patricia Cornwell, but this was not her best.
Trace- Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Forensic Medical Examiner is called back to Richmond to assist in the investigation of a girl’s murder. . . .
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November 15, 2009 10:46 PM EST --
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton, the author of Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Sphere, etc, may have passed away, but he left us an unpublished work to remember . . .
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December 08, 2009 10:23 AM EST --
Read this book. Seriously. Read it. Those who are familiar with the IPCC and with the climate change discussions will have heard of Stephen H. Schneider . Not only did he receive . . .
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December 09, 2007 10:15 AM EST --
I made a trip to the library on Friday and came away with two awesome Jane Austen books. I am a total Janeite, so I will be buying them.
I have a nice set of hardcover Jane Austen . . .
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