Tag: books
member name: Erin S.
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December 14, 2009 08:03 PM EST --
Last week, I read Samhain's Embrace , a short novel by Jesse Fox. If you have any interest in Celtic mythology, you will find it a fascinating little volume. It's a contemporary story, set in modern . . .
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October 18, 2007 09:17 PM EDT --
January, 2000
Fred’s room was painted a bright white. She had a white dresser on which she’d stacked three rows of votive candles in red jars. They reminded Fred’s roommate, . . .
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December 06, 2009 06:29 PM EST --
Aniseed and juniper: what do the plants have to do with each other? In ancient times, they were used as medicines for epilepsy. The noble Roman hero of Aniseed and Juniper by G.S. Wiley, Marcus, has . . .
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January 04, 2008 09:04 PM EST --
I read some really great nonfiction this year, but my top 8 list is, nonetheless, heavily weighted toward fantasy novels. (But they're particularly good ones!) Please feel free to . . .
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November 24, 2007 08:48 AM EST --
Leesburg, Virginia: a small-town satellite of Washington, D. C. At first glance, the residents of Leesburg are typically hard-working, down-to-earth folks. Underneath the surface, however, Leesburg is . . .
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December 01, 2008 10:58 PM EST --
I have known at least one person with fibromyalgia, and I've seen the chaos it can wreak on the lives of the sufferer and those around him or her. Until I read Managing Fibromyalgia: Getting to Know . . .
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May 15, 2009 05:08 PM EDT --
Guy Arneson is being perfectly honest when he titles his collection of poems A Life in Poetry (Xlibris, 2009). The speaker in these poems lays bare the life of a man who's fallen deeply in love, . . .
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October 19, 2007 05:35 PM EDT --
Keith Miller's The Book of Flying , a fantasy novel for grown-ups, is a magical experience. To say that the language in which the story is told is "poetic" . . .
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December 11, 2007 08:57 PM EST --
If you love fantasy fiction, but lack the attention span to read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, then A. F. Stewart's Inside Realms is the perfect book for you. There are seven tales . . .
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October 30, 2007 08:45 AM EDT --
My first self-published novel is called Whip . To understand why, you'll have to read deep into the story.
Whip is a crime story. . . .
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October 18, 2009 07:51 PM EDT --
This book's blurb claims it's all true, but I contend it's all--or mostly--fiction. It's about a guy's exploits answering very personal online ads. Crazy stuff happens in this book...read my Rainbow Review . . .
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December 24, 2007 12:29 PM EST --
Just in case you have trouble distinguishing between Peter Parker, Peter Pettigrew, and Peter Petrelli, I offer this handy guide. (Don't even get me started on Peter Pan.) If you find . . .
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August 09, 2009 12:51 PM EDT --
BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Copy the list and put an 'X' after those you have read.
1 Pride and . . .
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October 07, 2007 04:24 PM EDT --
With all of the brew-ha-ha over J. K. Rowling's latest wizard novel, it's easy to forget that fans of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events got our last dose of the chronically . . .
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July 20, 2009 07:33 AM EDT --
I love poetry, and I'm always on the lookout for new poets. Sherrie Theriault has a unique point of view: lesbian, Jewish, recovering alcoholic, and survivor of childhood abuse. She informs the reader . . .
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June 24, 2009 10:54 PM EDT --
Stephanie Gibbs knows how to tell a spellbinding story. As her novel Christian's Calling (2009, PublishAmerica) opens, 38-year-old John Christian is stuck in a traffic jam, and reflecting on his . . .
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July 26, 2009 09:45 PM EDT --
If your reading tastes are a bit quirky, if you're an open-minded reader, and if you enjoy the premise of "What if?"...then Up For Grabs , edited by Lauren P. Burka (Circlet Press) is just the book for . . .
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May 03, 2009 07:59 PM EDT --
My latest book review is Sister Warrior by Teel James Glenn. As you may recall, I write reviews for Rainbow Reviews; I believe I am up to five of them now. If you like swords-and-sorcery novels with . . .
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June 14, 2009 07:43 PM EDT --
I rarely give a novel five stars, but I was tremendously impressed with the quality of storytelling in Sappho Sings , a fictionalized biography of the ancient Greek poet by Peggy Ullman Bell. Whether . . .
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September 28, 2009 07:14 PM EDT --
If you have a taste for paranormal romances...
If you love vampires and werewolves...
If more-exotic shapeshifters fire your imagination...
Read Belling the Cat by Julia Talbot. Sexy, slinky Luc . . .
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