Tag: review
member name: Erika S.
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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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January 22, 2009 11:58 PM EST --
This is my new favorite book. It's a wickedly funny, irreverent parody of the End of Days, the Apocalypse, and the key players therein.
First, we have Agnes Nutter. Agnes has been dead since . . .
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April 02, 2009 12:13 AM EDT --
This is the Newberry Award winner for 2008. It's a charming story about a baby boy who toddles out of his house while his parents and sister are being murdered, and wanders into the local graveyard. . . .
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April 07, 2009 11:35 PM EDT --
I admit that I had low expectations going into this movie. I wasn't a fan of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? when it was on television (is it still on the air? I have no idea). I'm not a fan . . .
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June 20, 2009 06:40 PM EDT --
After hearing for years what a classic "The Great Gatsby" is, I was pretty disappointed in it. Gatsby is the next-door neighbor to Nick. Gatsby throws huge and lavish parties. Gatsby is mysterious.
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November 30, 2007 11:16 PM EST --
The climax of Roberts' vampire trilogy, and quite possibly the best of the bunch. As typical of her trilogies, Roberts offers three heroines - one per segment - one blonde, one brunette, one redhead. . . .
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August 13, 2008 09:49 AM EDT --
Ah, New Jersey. The pollution. The Mob. Stephanie Plum.
I've been hearing raves about Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels, so I had to try at least one. I started at the beginning, with . . .
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January 08, 2008 12:58 AM EST --
A few months ago I joined BzzAgent , a sort of reverse secret shopping/product testing program. Every so often they'll send a product to try or, as in this case, send you off to check out a new or . . .
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December 08, 2007 12:40 PM EST --
I'm trying to collect every version of A Christmas Carol available on DVD.
It seems like there are a dozens to choose from. From Alastair Sim to Kelsey Grammar. Musicals, cartoons, live action. . . .
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May 31, 2008 05:10 PM EDT --
The second in Roberts' Sign of Seven trilogy, and a bit stronger than the first. The three emerging couples in the trilogy each embody an aspect of vision: past, present and future. The Hollow represents . . .
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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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September 10, 2009 06:49 PM EDT --
I like Julia Ormond. I think she's a lovely, talented actress. However, I've been disappointed with her choices of roles on many occasions. This is one of them.
Surveillance starts out interestingly . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:08 PM EST --
I have to say, I'd never appreciated Stephen King's wit quite enough. I read a few of his books, most notably, 'Salem's Lot , and I've seen a few of his movies ( The Stand . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:59 PM EST --
I'd seen the old 1945 movie And Then There Were None years ago, and came across the book recently.
The story should be a quick read, but the archaic language of Christie's 1930's . . .
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December 01, 2007 12:03 AM EST --
Reece Gilmore has to be Roberts' quirkiest heroine yet, especially if you count only her big titles, and not the category romances.
On the run from her memories, in search of herself, she lands . . .
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December 07, 2007 04:27 PM EST --
Michael Moore's controversial documentary about the American healthcare system takes a hard look at the worst of the worst medical hardship stories. From claims denial to patient dumping, from retroactive . . .
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December 15, 2007 03:13 PM EST --
The story of a young, unhappily married waitress (Keri Russell) who becomes unhappily pregnant. The impending birth destroys her plans of escape from her lout of a husband (Jeremy Sisto), but it introduces . . .
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December 29, 2007 02:27 PM EST --
Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy , photo courtesy of Amazon.com
I giggled like a kid when I first pulled the shrink-wrap off Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy . It combines . . .
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January 02, 2008 03:04 PM EST --
I read The World Without Us based on an online recommendation. Time lists it in their top 10 nonfiction books of the year.
Several years ago, Weisman had written an article about how the wildlife . . .
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December 22, 2007 06:18 PM EST --
Tim Burton's excellent retelling of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" is dark and macabre - as it should be.
Thetale of Sweeney Todd is an old one, . . .
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