Tag: review
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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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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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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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April 02, 2009 12:13 AM EDT --
This is the Newberry Award winner for 2008. It's a charming story about a baby boy who toddles out of his house while his parents and sister are being murdered, and wanders into the local graveyard. . . .
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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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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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January 05, 2009 03:33 PM EST --
Roberts finishes her Sign of Seven Trilogy with the story of Gage and Cybil, the unwilling couple.
Gage has fled Hawkins Hollow after a miserable and abusive childhood. Cybil has a past tragedy as . . .
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June 20, 2009 06:40 PM EDT --
After hearing for years what a classic "The Great Gatsby" is, I was pretty disappointed in it. Gatsby is the next-door neighbor to Nick. Gatsby throws huge and lavish parties. Gatsby is mysterious.
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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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September 04, 2009 11:55 PM EDT --
Try Fear by James Scott Bell
Last night I uttered a sentence that I NEVER thought I would hear coming out of my mouth. “I can’t go to bed, the nun just got shot!” Okay, . . .
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October 28, 2009 05:02 PM EDT --
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr - A Review
Mary Karr has proven my own personal idea that behind every alcoholic is a creative comedic genius just crying to get out. Lit is not only her story of . . .
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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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November 30, 2007 11:16 PM EST --
The climax of Roberts' vampire trilogy, and quite possibly the best of the bunch. As typical of her trilogies, Roberts offers three heroines - one per segment - one blonde, one brunette, one redhead. . . .
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February 14, 2007 04:10 PM EST --
Hey Gather lit lovers, here's an opportunity to be the envy of your book club…
Thanks to our friends over at Borders, We have three signed advanced reader copies of Jodi Picoult's . . .
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September 03, 2008 01:35 AM EDT --
Winner of the Great Lakes Book Award in Fiction
Published 2006 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Available also in paperback.
ISBN: 978-0-06-056478-0
If your . . .
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February 17, 2008 06:03 PM EST --
The Black Sun is James Twining's second novel. Tom Kirk, from Twining's first novel The Double Eagle , is back - and so is the FBI - but not Jennifer Browne, though she is mentioned a couple . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:08 PM EST --
I have to say, I'd never appreciated Stephen King's wit quite enough. I read a few of his books, most notably, 'Salem's Lot , and I've seen a few of his movies ( The Stand . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:59 PM EST --
I'd seen the old 1945 movie And Then There Were None years ago, and came across the book recently.
The story should be a quick read, but the archaic language of Christie's 1930's . . .
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October 31, 2009 01:05 PM EDT --
Ambrose Bierce, Alone in Bad Company by Roy Morris, JR.
Ambrose Bierce might best be described as the forgotten man these days, but in his time, he wielded an amazing amount of journalistic power. . . .
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