Tag: reviews
group name: books
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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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September 14, 2006 04:29 PM EDT --
Is it a bad thing when a reviewer has a bias? Not necessarily. Sometimes it takes the voice of someone passionate about an author's work to generate the enthusiasm that gets a disinterested . . .
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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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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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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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April 06, 2007 10:15 PM EDT --
Reading “The New American Story” by Bill Bradley was a breath of fresh air. His focus on the Oil Industry and how it relates to the future of a water shortage was both interesting 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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August 04, 2007 09:35 AM EDT --
My favorite horror novel is actually a series of novels by Laurell K. Hamilton that tell one continuing and continuous story. They are the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels. Now don't let the Buffy-esque . . .
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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 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.
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August 07, 2007 03:27 PM EDT --
Is Stephenie Meyer's gripping teenage vampire love story, Eclipse, the next Harry Potter? Those of you who have already read the first two volumes in the series — New Moon and Twilight . . .
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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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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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February 15, 2007 03:16 AM EST --
I "read" this book in the car during my frequent long commutes between students each day; actually, it was an unabridged audio book, and, like the last audio book, The Tender Bar, I loved it. . . .
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May 31, 2007 10:45 PM EDT --
On October 26, 1991 twenty-year-old Clare Abshire met the love of her life at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She planned the meeting. She had spent endless hours with Henry DeTamble since she was a child. . . .
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April 14, 2007 10:23 PM EDT --
I love it when I come upon an author who has written several books in a series. I get to start at the beginning with the first book and eventually read every book in the series. The characters . . .
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March 26, 2009 12:06 AM EDT --
I’ve just finished reading Margay Justice’s novel, Nora’s Soul . The front page says “Watch for future volumes by Margay Leah Justice from Beckoning Books,” and I will certainly be watching.
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August 12, 2007 12:06 PM EDT --
I, like most people who like to read, keep a long list of books I want to read, and I add to it frequently. So it's a long list. Therefore, I don't like to waste time on a lousy book. If I read . . .
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October 21, 2008 12:52 PM EDT --
You're invited to a live chat on Wednesday, 10/22 from 8-9PM ET, with Sara Gruen, the author of the NYT Bestseller, Water for Elephants . The chat will take place in the comment field at the bottom . . .
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