Tag: review
group name: bibliophoenix
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March 13, 2009 10:29 PM EDT --
I recently read a book called On Love by Alain de Botton. It is written in the form of a first personal male narrative, very analytical and philosophical point by point prose. This novel analyzes . . .
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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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March 21, 2009 09:42 PM EDT --
I recently read a non-fiction book called A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr. It is a a story about the leukemia clusters that had occurred in Woburn, Massachusettes in the 1970's. TCE, or tetrachlorothylene . . .
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June 08, 2009 03:42 PM EDT --
I recently read A Mercy by Pulitzer Prize-winner Toni Morrison. It is a fictional novel set during the 1680's Maryland. The novel goes back and forth from a variety of viewpoints, from Jacob Vaark, . . .
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July 20, 2009 08:08 PM EDT --
Skin by Ted Dekker is a different type of book than I normally read. It involves a group of 5 people that run into each other in the midst of a serial killer. They must try to figure out if the serial . . .
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August 22, 2009 10:33 AM EDT --
I recently finished reading The Cat Who Cried for Help by Dr. Nicholas Dodman. It was a really interesting non-fiction book about the behavioral problems that cats experience, some of which have biological . . .
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September 05, 2009 01:27 PM EDT --
I finished reading Bob Schieffer's America by Bob Schieffer today, and it was quite a good book. It is a non fiction book, a collection of his commentaries he had written over the years of various subjects . . .
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September 12, 2009 11:31 AM EDT --
Jack and Stephanie are a married couple that got lost, and wound up on a backwoods road. The car's tires get slashed, so they are forced to stay at a hotel/house called The Wayward Inn. It becomes pretty . . .
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March 02, 2009 10:05 PM EST --
Last week I read Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara, a novel about the US Civil War told in the perspective of 4 generals US and Confedarate: Robert E Lee (C)., Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (C), . . .
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September 26, 2009 12:28 PM EDT --
I just finished reading A Man Called Blessed by Bill Bright and Ted Dekker yesterday, and I have to say that I greatly enjoyed the read. It was about the search for the Ark of the Covenant. An Ethiopian . . .
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October 08, 2009 10:15 PM EDT --
I finished reading Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster, and it was an amusing look at the challenges of losing weight in a caustic manner. She loves food,but eventually came to the conclusion, and a book . . .
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October 17, 2009 11:15 AM EDT --
I recently read Stranger in Paradise by Robert B Parker. It is one in a series of Jesse Stone novels that Parker writes about. This is set in Paradise, Massachusetts, with Jesse Stone, of course, . . .
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January 05, 2009 03:33 PM EST --
Roberts finishes her Sign of Seven Trilogy with the story of Gage and Cybil, the unwilling couple.
Gage has fled Hawkins Hollow after a miserable and abusive childhood. Cybil has a past tragedy as . . .
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May 22, 2008 12:08 AM EDT --
I was walking through the store on my break, heading to the grocery side to grab some pop for my boyfriend for work last night, and on my way back to the checkouts I stopped mid stride and said two simple . . .
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September 08, 2008 12:21 PM EDT --
Stuff White People Like: The Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions
Christian Lander
Random House
Hipster Navel Gazing through a tattered Vintage T.
(This article . . .
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June 17, 2009 04:38 PM EDT --
Empire by Orson Scott Card is a sci-fi/political/military thriller set in near future. The US President and Vice-President are assassinated using the theoretical plans from Major Reuben Malich, . . .
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July 08, 2009 02:38 PM EDT --
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman is a non-fiction book, dealing with her experiences as a mother and the high expectations . . .
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August 09, 2009 05:18 PM EDT --
I had never really heard of Fort Pillow before I read this book, and the atrocities committed by the Confederates, and then denying it ever happened, are rather shocking. It was a particularly vicious . . .
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August 13, 2009 03:40 PM EDT --
I just finished reading The Ghost War by Alex Berenson today. It was an engrossing spy thriller with John Wells as a CIA agent, who previously stopped a terrorist attack in New York City. He goes to Afghanistan . . .
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October 24, 2009 02:02 PM EDT --
I recently read Poems From the Women's Movement, which was edited by Honor Moore. The poems come from different points of view from women who had lived during the 1960's to the 1980's. There were the . . .
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