Tag: book reviews
group name: books
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March 05, 2008 09:37 PM EST --
Reading is the singing of angels, the heartspeak of the world, my most consuming passion (next to my grown ass kids).
I generally read between 12 to 14 books every two weeks, because I got it like . . .
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December 03, 2008 09:31 PM EST --
47. Killer Ratings by Warren Murphy and James Mullaney - Action/pulp -- (B)
This series is The Destroyer which started in 1971 and I have read everyone. . . .
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May 21, 2007 09:36 AM EDT --
I think it's fair to say that what preoccupies the minds of most book people is the question of which books sell, and why. The rumble around this issue has gotten louder in recent weeks, amid news . . .
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May 16, 2007 01:11 AM EDT --
I just got finished reading this book. I got hooked on it after reading the first part. It starts of about a normal family a woman and her husband and their son all going on a fishing trip with . . .
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December 01, 2008 07:44 PM EST --
38. Soarer's Choice - L.E. Modesitt, Jr - SF/Fantasy - (B)
Now it is the Soarer's turn. A powerful, ancient race that has been . . .
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December 02, 2008 07:12 PM EST --
42. Chainfire - Terry Goodkind -- Fantasy - (A-)
This is the start of the end of the Sword of Truth series. ( A three book arc.) . . .
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September 21, 2006 07:16 AM EDT --
Kris Radish presents a detailed composition about the very essence of being a woman in the tumultuous world today. Radish, who often speaks across the country on her writing and women's and feminist . . .
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June 02, 2008 07:35 PM EDT --
17. Brothers in Arms by Margaret Weis and Don Peppin – fantasy
This is a sequel or book 2 in the Rasitlin Chronicles. . . .
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August 10, 2008 02:03 PM EDT --
My computer has been down this month and I have been on vacation. A lot more time to read.
26. Blue-Eyed Devil by Lisa Kleypas -- romance/soft porn - rating . . .
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September 20, 2008 07:09 PM EDT --
The Shack , by William P. Young, is that rare book that challenges, questions, entertains, saddens, and delights ... all at the same time. The second dedication (after the author's wife) reads, . . .
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March 08, 2008 04:15 PM EST --
Everyone who's a reader loves that anticipatory thrill of opening a new book, settling into the corner of your overstuffed sofa, clearing one's mind, and sinking into the first line, the opening . . .
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June 30, 2008 10:22 AM EDT --
Gather Personality Rhetta A not only read one of my books, but took the time to write a review for Gather about it, so go give her a 10:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977385456#comments . . .
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February 17, 2007 09:38 PM EST --
A child born in the streets of 18th century France, immediately discarded by its mother, sounds a first cry that both condemns his mother to death and . . .
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May 14, 2007 09:30 AM EDT --
The recent announcements that several newspapers are making major changes in the way they cover, or, more accurately, won’t cover, books provoked the predictable reaction in Publishing Land. For . . .
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April 11, 2008 02:21 PM EDT --
I have been reading Tony Hillerman's Navajo mysteries for years. The first ones were great. The best part about them you learn about the Navajo Indians way of life. Over . . .
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September 21, 2006 03:15 PM EDT --
Book Review: Marilyn Johnson's the Dead Beat
Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
--This Bit Here by Ken Pothier--
Marilyn Johnson has written not only the bible . . .
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March 12, 2008 11:36 AM EDT --
I just finished The Yiddish Policeman's Union, by Michael Chabon, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. This book was not what I expected. There is, in . . .
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April 17, 2008 08:53 PM EDT --
After reading several of Alison Weir's books -- nonfiction as well as fiction -- I am convinced that time machines exist. How else to explain the richly textured dialogue and scenes of 16th century . . .
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July 21, 2007 07:22 AM EDT --
I happened to serendipitously wind up reading two books in a row that dealt in very different ways with making sense of our post-9/11 world. The first, On the Road to Kandahar, is the account of reporter . . .
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June 28, 2008 07:08 AM EDT --
John Grisham's latest novel, Playing for Pizza, is the first book I've read in a matter of days in quite some time (not counting Make Way for Ducklings and other such works). Parenting . . .
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