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Kincaid Investigates the Death of a Friend in Crombie's All Shall Be Well by befus Pros: Likable characters; strong mystery plot with plausible ending; more time with Gemma James
Cons: None this time out! Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid is tired. He’s been working hard on a case that’s just wrapped up, and all he plans to do is go home and get some rest. But when he arrives at his flat, he discovers, much to his dismay, that his ...
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May 26 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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The squeaky wheel always gets the grease. by curryjacket14 Pros: It's gory, claustrophobic, dark. This one shows that King knows just what scares us.
Cons: At almost 500 pages (paper-back), this could have been trimmed down a lot. Warning: This review may contain spoilers. Reader beware.Stephen King is a name people always associate with horror - especially killer clowns hanging out in sewers and teenage girls with telekinesis bent ...
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May 26 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies — The World’s Finest Vs. President Luthor by elvisdo Pros: Fun story and adventure; great action and team-up; artwork is great
Cons: Some may not like the cartoony-like artwork Lex Luthor is President of the United States of America and he has just declared Superman the number one enemy of the country. There’s a bounty on the Man of Steel’s head that every villain is ready to collect. No, this isn’t an ...
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May 26 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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_If Walls Could Talk:_ a light review of the British home over the centuries by telynor Pros: Some great photographs, interesting angle on some topics.
Cons: Far too much focus on human waste and hygiene. Very much a television tie-in. I tend to be a bit geeky when it comes to my nonfiction books. I enjoy reading history and how we lived in the past, finding the story of how we evolved into the people that we are today. For most of us today, living in the past must seem terribly dirty ...
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May 26 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Wildly Inconsistent - Wonderful, Boring, and Confusing Things Await You in Wild Thing by quasar Pros: One truly fantastic story, another good story
Cons: Stories part of series, one boring, one confusing I've really enjoyed Meljean Brook's steampunk series The Iron Seas so when I stumbled on Wild Thing, an anthology containing a short story she wrote, I grabbed it. In addition to the Brook story, this collection of four paranormal novellas ...
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May 25 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Disgraced? Who's been disgraced?! by cripper Pros: Well-written
Cons: Very controversial J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace is about David Lurie, a professor of communications at Cape Town Technical University. Formerly a professor of modern languages, David is 52 years old, twice divorced and is largely dissatisfied with his professional ...
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May 25 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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A Strong Collection by theycallmep Pros: Contains some of King's best work
Cons: Wildly inconsistent Combining suspense, terror, and bits of black humor, Stephen King has created a collection of 20 tales to entertain his audiences and make them afraid of the dark once again. Many people associate Stephen King with novels such as It and The ...
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May 25 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Laura Robb Writes a Handbook for Students by keithpruitt Pros: Excellent examples for each covered area, appealing format, website
Cons: Opening suggestions might be met negatively by reluctant students, not comprehensive Laura Robb has long been one of the leading promoters of creative and meaningful classroom experiences for adolescents in education. Her work has been touted for building capacity in teachers for working with struggling readers and writers. ...
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May 25 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by Marilyn Bardsley by pippadaisy Pros: gives additional background for fans of the original book
Cons: reads too much like a term paper Being a huge fan of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, to the point where I dragged my then-husband along on the walking tour of Savannah based on the book during our honeymoon, the promise of Marilyn ...
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May 25 '12 |
Overall Rating: Helpful |
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Night Swim by Jessica Keener: Missed Potential by pippadaisy Pros: lovely writing
Cons: too-predictable plot Jessica Keener's Night Swim is one of those books you want so badly to love and can't quite get there. A period drama set in the 1970s, Night Swim follows Sarah Kunitz as she navigate the dissolution of her ...
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May 25 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Goldfish for Trade! ...or... Ode to the Underdog of Pets. by dandj Pros: Shows value of quiet pets; Norman's expressions; font size; appeals to children
Cons: Digital illustrations An unnamed boy receives a pet for his birthday . . . not a cat or a dog like the ones on his balloons, but a goldfish named Norman. The boy is determined not to keep the goldfish. He wants something else, a pet that can climb, chase, run, ...
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May 25 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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James Cain's prototypical femme fatale and her sap-fallguy by Stephen_Murray Pros: the hard-boiled boilerplate
Cons: silly ending Having spent more than six hours on the HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce", I discovered that I could not easily turn to the source: James M. Cain's 1941 first novel. Though I remember owning a hardcover copy tie-in ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Liars for Jesus: Religious Right Revisionism Exposed by Bryan_Carey Pros: The research; The actual quoted material showing the deception
Cons: Tedious reading- it may put you to sleep at certain points; Redundancy American history is rife with controversy. There are the obvious moments of shame like the repression of different races, the abhorrent treatment of native Americans, etc., and each one of these events seems to inspire some to take up research on one ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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The Joy Luck Club by kairosdreaming Pros: Emotional and well told.
Cons: Hard to keep track of characters. I'm always interested in books about China. While this book is more about women and their lives than China itself, it still is very interesting and definitely an emotional read.Four daughters and four mothers, all very much different and ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Journey Into the Desert by Alena Pros: good chracters, good story, gives you something to think about
Cons: slow in spots The Names of Things by John Colman Wood is not a book I would usually pick up. I do tend to be very eclectic about the genres I read, but I am not sure that I would have picked this one up in a bookstore if I had read the back. I ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Sebastian Faulks is no Dickens, but worth a read by silly_mattface Pros: Some characters and stories are interesting. Some good satire. Well written and researched.
Cons: Others are dull and heavy-handed. Pacing is uneven. Less profound than it would like. Seven characters in seven days. It’s a fun premise, and alongside fond memories of Faulks’ Birdsong, and the fact I hadn’t read any non-fantasy fiction in a while, it’s the main reason A Week in December caught my eye. ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Ponyo Picture Book: The Perfect Visual Companion to the Movie by GravityGirl Pros: Thorough, amazing illustrations
Cons: None I have three daughters. The oldest one is five, and my twins are almost three years old. All three of the girls just love Studio Ghibli films. Their favorite movies are My Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo. When I found out that there ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, great Newbery Medal winner book by artemis8 Pros: wonderful writing, interesting characters, unique theme
Cons: can get a little complicated Recently I read a good review of Newbery Medal winner When Your Reach Me. I had forgotten what it was about by the time I started reading it. The story took an interesting turn and I really enjoyed it.Miranda is in 6th grade and lives with ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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RACHEL MADDOW'S "DRIFT..."-A STRONG WARNING FOR OUR NATION by mike.holmes Pros: Well written and researched with no "left or right" agenda
Cons: None The full name of Rachel Maddow's new book, her first, is "Drift-The Unmooring of American Military Power." The book has been out for a couple of months and was number one on the Times list for several weeks. The name, "Rachel Maddow" is sure ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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"Don Giovanni in Sicily" part of the way into English by Stephen_Murray Pros: Brancati
Cons: translation Perhaps because I share his interest in sexual politics, Vitaliano Brancati (Born in Pachino, Syracuse in 1907, died in Turin in 1954) is the Sicilian author I find most entertaining, though I think it is also that he brought out the poignancy of ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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The Taliban Shuffle: Kim Barker's Strange Journey to Afghanistan and Pakistan by toiletoctopus Pros: Afghanistan, Pakistan explained-alliances and enemies, funny, sad, well written
Cons: None. Kim Barker has a lot of courage. I admire her for not only being a journalist who digs deep, but also for her humor, along with being willing to extend herself to find out the truth in places of grave danger. Afghanistan and Pakistan are certainly that, ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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A Brand New Me: Zipzer Series from Winkler and Oliver by keithpruitt Pros: story, characters, message, voice
Cons: Absolutely none Hank Zipzer is a fifth grader who has too much energy and not enough intellectual prowess. At least that is what principal Love and his teachers think. Graduation is at hand and Hank has not yet fulfilled his public service requirement for ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Dracula Step-Up Classic Chiller: Enough Bite For The Tween Crowd by Freak369 Pros: Retains most of the original story.
Cons: Stuffy dated illustrations. Any time I come across a Dracula or vampire themed book I have to check it out; mind you I was into both subjects long before Anne Rice and the whole Twilight debacle. Stoker's tale of ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Happy Birthday You Swine, Uhh, I Mean Miss Piggy by Freak369 Pros: Awesome Lift-The-Flap design, cute story, fun for kids.
Cons: $5.99 cover price. I had no intention of getting Happy Birthday Miss Piggy! but it was a quarter so I couldn't pass it up. I've never been fond of the she-swine. She never treated Kermit the way she should have and she has an ego as big as ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Grisham’s Fictional Story of Calico Joe by keithpruitt Pros: Great story, fiction that reads like reality, baseball, relationships, forgiveness
Cons: Excellent book, no problems Americans love baseball, but baseball’s story is one filled with tragedy or so says one of the characters in John Grisham’s latest bestselling novel Calico Joe. The Doubleday published 198-paged quick read is the story ...
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May 24 '12 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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