Tag: reviews
group name: books
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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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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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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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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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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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July 10, 2007 03:48 PM EDT --
Have you ever picked up a book, started reading it and couldn't get into it right away but decided to keep reading it anyways? Most books that I have read and stuck I did end up liking... such as House . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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January 31, 2007 12:01 PM EST --
Set in a turn-of-the-Millennium South Africa flirting with social collapse, J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (Penguin, 1999) deals with messy social issues in a sloppy way. When this novel came out almost . . .
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June 19, 2007 04:46 PM EDT --
A spirited professional with hair as big as her heart, Stephanie Plum is back in Janet Evanovich's latest misadventure in bounty hunting, Lean Mean Thirteen. The bail bonds office of Plum's cousin . . .
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July 30, 2007 04:07 PM EDT --
The term “horror novel” gives a book a bad rap in the same way “romance novel” does and for the same reason. Both terms give the impression that the book is trashy and poorly written. . . .
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