Tag: book review
group name: randomreviews
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September 25, 2007 08:58 PM EDT --
The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy
By Diane Stanley
ISBN-10: 0060858176
ISBN-13: 978-0060858179
Hardcover, 272 pages
January 1, 2008
HarperCollins
Reviewed for HarperCollins First Look
Allbright . . . more
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September 25, 2007 09:32 PM EDT --
Downriver
By Erik Hare
ISBN-10: 1420887165
ISBN-13: 978-1420887167
Trade Paperback, 188 pages
October 10, 2005
AuthorHouse
Erik Hare writes of an Earth where humans (Giants) and gnomes (Hopnegs) coexist. . . . more
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June 02, 2008 06:19 AM EDT --
I was taking a break from the difficult reading I've been doing about the Chinese Cultural Revolution... whew.
This book is light fantasy. It was SO much fun. The tension builds and builds - this . . . more
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September 17, 2007 12:44 AM EDT --
Black Wind by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler; G.P. Putnam & Sons, 2004
I don't know if you've ever read one of Cussler's books in the Dirk Pitt series but I became . . . more
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September 09, 2007 04:29 PM EDT --
The book is enchanting. I love the author, Orson Scott Card, and have read at least 10 of his books.
This is a re-writing of the fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, wherein the main character goes back . . . more
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July 28, 2008 09:59 PM EDT --
BOOK REVIEW: Among the Cannibals by Paul Raffaele
Perhaps not for the overly squeamish, Paul Raffaele's book, Among the Cannibals , is sure to entice readers seeking an interesting travel narrative. . . . more
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September 11, 2007 05:28 AM EDT --
Author: Robert Alexander
The mystery surrounding the death of the Romanovs - the last ruling family of Russia - has intrigued me for a long time. It was sparked again a few years . . . more
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September 19, 2007 07:22 PM EDT --
Author: David Williams
This book was advertised at the back of another book I was reading. It was published in 1976, but feels as if it had been written years earlier.
It is a British . . . more
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October 23, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
I don't usually go in for what I term Housewife Porn, but sometimes a cute title does sucker me into it. Such is the case with Michele Beardsley's I'm the Vampire, That's Why! Don't . . . more
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January 14, 2007 02:36 PM EST --
I just wanted to let you know about an awesome review I just got on Amazon.com for Playing With The Devil.
Reviewer:
Reader Views "www.readerviews.com" (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews . . . more
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June 09, 2008 05:57 AM EDT --
author Marcus Zusak
At the beginning, I am having a LOT of trouble getting "into" this book. I read 30 pages at a clip and it kept putting me to sleep.
Once I finally got into . . . more
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June 13, 2008 10:14 PM EDT --
by Amy Tan
This book has a little of everything in it:
There's mystery, politics, spiritualism, superstition, magic, eco-friendly tourism...
It's a travelogue, and a where not to travel-ogue. . . . more
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July 18, 2008 09:47 AM EDT --
Author - John Wood
This is a wonderful book about a man who saw a need in the world and decided to do whatever he could to fix it.
In a trip to Nepal, he realized that although there were some abandoned . . . more
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June 24, 2008 06:39 AM EDT --
I am so glad I haven't experienced what this character has gone through in the first 100 pages.
Cute, light British humor.
Culture shock of a librarian from London who takes a job in northern Ireland . . . more
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June 12, 2007 06:49 PM EDT --
Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life . . . more
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May 13, 2008 09:16 AM EDT --
I read this book approximately 2 months ago and failed to write a review. With the author (PETER JOSEPH SWANSON) being one of our own, I do feel I owe it to the gather community (and to Peter) in . . . more
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July 05, 2007 11:33 AM EDT --
A German pensioner who runs a Google book finally got my novel from a German version of Amazon. He liked it and left this review:
Sister Agatha of the Street Car, July . . . more
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January 19, 2007 03:04 AM EST --
....We look forward keenly to the appearance of their last work ~ The Review of Reviews of Reviews
This slim volume...... ~ The Bookworm
...vague.... ~ Vague
Thus goes the snippets of imaginary reviews . . . more
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December 05, 2007 11:15 PM EST --
Open Me by Sunshine O'Donnell
MacAdam/Cage, 2007
$13 trade paper original
230 pages, ISBN: 1596922362
I can't recommend this book highly enough--it's elegant, informative, . . . more
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July 17, 2008 07:03 PM EDT --
This review can also be found in The Mixed Bag Review
Have you ever constructed a jigsaw puzzle? This is much the way I felt as I made my way through A.F. Stewart's collection . . . more
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