Tag: book review
group name: bibliophoenix
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November 06, 2009 11:41 PM EST --
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle originally published in 1963 This 2000 edition published by Gramercy Books
Recently I set myself down in front of my television and watched a marathon of all . . .
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November 07, 2008 02:34 PM EST --
A graphic novel about a light-skinned African-American in the 1930's who reports on Klan and other racist activity in the south by "passing" as a white man and then publishing his reports . . .
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April 29, 2009 10:28 PM EDT --
Think you know Joan Crawford? Think again. I thought I knew Joan. I loved "Mommie Dearest" and "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" so I figured Peter Joseph Swanson's "The Joan . . .
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August 15, 2008 10:29 AM EDT --
Are you stressed out by your daily life? Feel sluggish and would like to get reenergized? Super Cleanse, by Adina Niemerow, just might be the answer you need! This book is a great . . .
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May 17, 2009 06:49 AM EDT --
the variety of Chicano performers and musical styles over time
LAND OF A THOUSAND DANCES - Chicano Rock 'n' Roll from Southern California , Revised Edition by David Reyes and Tom Waldman. . . .
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July 16, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
It seems as though each time you check his website, Ian McEwan has collected another award, and with the success of Atonement he has to be considered one of the great living novelists in English. Although . . .
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August 03, 2008 08:42 AM EDT --
THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Childs
Monks at a Tibetan monastery so remote it has been overlooked by the Chinese ask visiting students, FBI trouble-shooter Aloysius . . .
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July 15, 2008 08:55 PM EDT --
When I received notice from Gather that I'd been chosen to get Saralee Rosenberg's Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead to read and review I was thrilled. I had previously read and greatly enjoyed . . .
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January 02, 2009 01:46 PM EST --
In the 1960's there was a TV commercial and print advertisements of a Native American weeping over the way the earth was being treated. I was just a child, but I remember it clearly. I did not . . .
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July 29, 2008 08:44 PM EDT --
author: Peter Dickenson
This is a young adult book by an author I'd read before. I liked the other two books, more sci-fi, firmly rooted in scientific possibility.
This was pure . . .
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August 17, 2008 10:41 AM EDT --
The Jupiter Myth, Lindsey Davis.
Private informer Marcus Didius Falco and his family wind up in Roman Britain, visiting Falco's in-laws, a high-ranking Roman aristocrat and . . .
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December 24, 2008 08:49 AM EST --
Deep Storm is a code-name for a secret undersea project beneath what seems to be a normal oil platform. Kevin Lindengood, a doctor and a former submariner, is sent to join the project and ferret . . .
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March 20, 2009 09:50 AM EDT --
The Legendary tales and Historical Truth of the Most Notorious Warriors, Daniel Mersey, 2002, 384pp, hardcover, index.
Excellent introduction to an assortment of legendary heroes, many drawn from . . .
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September 20, 2009 06:30 AM EDT --
author: Dan Brown
NO SPOILERS!
Although I had this book on reserve at the library, when I saw it just sitting on the shelf, I grabbed it up! I told the librarian to delete it from . . .
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June 08, 2009 06:58 PM EDT --
Well, it's hard to know where to start with this one. It's obvious, I'd think, why a person would want to read a book like this in these difficult times. And certainly, there is some advice within its . . .
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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 . . .
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October 30, 2008 12:44 PM EDT --
As I got off the bus the other day, on my way to leave a donation bag at the thrift shop, I saw a double stack of books. One stack was all Agatha Christie (like her, but don't love her); the other . . .
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November 27, 2008 09:19 AM EST --
this is the sequel to Twilight
Author- Stephanie Meyer
I was glad to have book two in the series already - it was a smooth transition.
This book was much longer and seems to go further afield. . . .
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September 12, 2008 05:01 PM EDT --
When I started this year, another Gather member had decided to read 50 books. I thought this sounded like a good idea. I joined the group. Now, ahead of schedule, I have completed my mission (although . . .
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November 05, 2008 05:26 PM EST --
Hooray for Gorey and his twisted, macabre brain. For those of us who delight in his ghastly wit, this is an alphabetical list of tragic ends.
"N is for Neville, who died of ennui."
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