Tag: book reviews
group name: books
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March 23, 2009 12:16 AM EDT --
I seem to have sidled into the book review business. Well, not business exactly, because no one is going to pay me, but a few people asked me to review their books, and I volunteered to review a few others, . . .
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July 06, 2009 05:56 PM EDT --
Inspired by La Lady Lisa Westerfield’s article on Gather, I decided to create my own list of 50 books I think are worth reading, along with a 6-word review for each. I hope a lot more readers will . . .
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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 27, 2008 01:06 AM EST --
I've decided that I don't like free books. Oh, don't get me wrong. When someone I know gives me a gift of a book, I love that. Friends and family members usually know what . . .
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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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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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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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June 24, 2009 05:15 PM EDT --
I feel like I have been reading slower than usual because I have been doing a lot of other projects and sometimes I get bogged down in nonfiction, but I guess that I am doing alright.
(little . . .
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August 23, 2009 06:35 AM EDT --
Got an advance copy of Impact magazine today. They gave me a whole page for my book reviews. I'm thrilled! AND they listed me as a contributor.
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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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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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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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May 22, 2009 04:25 PM EDT --
If I read any book to about page 30 and then stop and ask myself if I care what happens next, especially to the main character, and the answer is 'No', I don't bother to read the rest. Lately I have read . . .
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July 05, 2007 10:16 AM EDT --
In the comments posted to my last two articles, a lot of folks mentioned self-publishing in a negative light. I think it might be important to clarify a few misconceptions folks have about . . .
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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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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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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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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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