Tag: literature
group name: commonerbookrevs
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December 08, 2007 09:26 PM EST --
Nobody is ever supposed to admit this, but I just can't get into Jane Austen.
Sweet polite stuff that's mainly about protocol and manners and polite society has just never been my thing. . . .
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April 19, 2009 06:06 PM EDT --
Thought I'd share with anyone that's interested. I love reading, and I do it almost every day. I belong to this site (www.bookmooch.com) where I can post books into my inventory and . . .
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October 16, 2009 02:55 PM EDT --
Last update I made was at book number 20. I have a lot of catching up to do as far as the posts go, but I have read at least 73 books at this point. Here are a few that I just got through . . .
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April 13, 2007 08:39 PM EDT --
Proimos, James (2002). If I Were In Charge The Rules Would Be Different. New
York: Scholastic Press. [Author and Illustrator]
I didn’t find this book; . . .
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November 05, 2009 07:44 PM EST --
The Time Traveler's Wife is a non-traditional love story. Henry DeTamble is a Chicago librarian at the Newberry with what the author refers to as Chrono Displacement Disorder. This means that Henry randomly . . .
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April 07, 2008 06:32 AM EDT --
The other day I read When Sophie Gets Angry by Molly Bang. The book is about a young child getting angry and how she reacts in anger and later how she calms herself down. Molly is a good . . .
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November 01, 2009 09:20 AM EST --
author Nadeem Aslam
This is another book about expats living in England. The characters are originally from Pakistan and are Moslem (some more religious, some less religious).
The book . . .
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September 09, 2008 09:21 AM EDT --
Sal and Sally "All God's Critters Toddler Series #2 by Jay Miller (A Book Review)
Recently, I was fortunate enough to receive from the author Jay Miller a childrens . . .
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March 10, 2007 07:46 AM EST --
My name is Marduk of Ulrak. And this is my story.
Having come from a family of royal highnesses, growing up to be one of the normal boys was never easy. Expectations were set even before I was . . .
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May 03, 2008 12:50 PM EDT --
As a reviewer of Harper Collins First Look Books I received an advance copy of " 13 by Jason Robert Brown & Dan Elish
This book will be released on July 1, 2008.
This book was . . .
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February 29, 2008 05:43 PM EST --
This is How It Happened by Jo Barrett
The book's title poses the theme. This IS how it all happened, although we are not certain at first what "it" is supposed to be until the twist . . .
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May 23, 2008 03:36 AM EDT --
About the Author/s
April Robins is a story telling Diva who writes with her family members for their company, Robin Falls Children's Stories. She is the author and writes . . .
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July 05, 2009 12:47 PM EDT --
Anansi Boys
By Neil Gaiman
(3.5/5 stars)
"Anansi Boys" is not so much a sequel to Gaiman's "American Gods" as it is more of a spin-off, a literary "Rhoda" or "Facts of Life." In "American . . .
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April 29, 2008 07:32 PM EDT --
As a reviewer of Harper Collins First Look Books I received an advance copy of "' Ghost of Spirit Bear' by Ben Mikaelsen
This book will be released on June 17, 2008.
The . . .
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July 17, 2009 04:35 PM EDT --
The Winter King
(Warlord Chronicles, Part 1)
by Bernard Cornwell
OK, most everyone should know the legend of King Arthur by now. If you don't, the basic summary is that there was once a king . . .
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January 15, 2008 09:18 AM EST --
Book Review: The Fables of Aesop
Based on the texts of L'Estrange and Croxall
When my children were very young and we were homeschooling, I incorporated into our history and geography . . .
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August 28, 2007 09:09 PM EDT --
The Species Crown
- a novella and stories
by Curtis Smith
Press 53
US $18 / Can $22
ISBN 9780979304903
I strongly recommend this collection to the more literary-leaning readers of our magazine, . . .
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June 16, 2009 07:45 PM EDT --
Whitney, Georgia is a small town, and like any small town everybody's face comes with an internal list of family members, embarrassing moments from childhood to present, triumphs, failures, misdeeds . . .
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March 08, 2007 11:45 AM EST --
March is the month to celebrate all things small press. From the organization's website: "Now in its 11th year, this is a nationwide promotion highlighting the valuable work produced by independent . . .
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March 22, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
The longlist for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction has been announced, with 20 books on the list. (None of which I've read, although I have two in my possession.)
* Half of a Yellow Sun . . .
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