Tag: book reviews
group name: talkaboutbooks
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April 17, 2008 08:53 PM EDT --
After reading several of Alison Weir's books -- nonfiction as well as fiction -- I am convinced that time machines exist. How else to explain the richly textured dialogue and scenes of 16th century . . . more
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July 21, 2007 07:22 AM EDT --
I happened to serendipitously wind up reading two books in a row that dealt in very different ways with making sense of our post-9/11 world. The first, On the Road to Kandahar, is the account of reporter . . . more
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July 09, 2008 10:56 PM EDT --
LIllie would like to do a book review on a YA book, entitled My Chocolate Year , by Charlotte Herman, illutrated by LeUyen Pham. We just finished reading it! Here she goes...
This book is about a . . . more
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January 26, 2008 11:50 AM EST --
I've been on Gather.com for some months now. Some of you may know that I work part-time as a professional book reviewer. What you don't know is why you may not recognize the authors . . . more
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May 06, 2008 06:14 PM EDT --
Hey all,
What sports book are you reading at the moment? I am reading John Feinstein's latest, "Living on the Black," which follows the 2007 seasons of Mike Mussina and Tom Glavine. . . . more
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May 03, 2008 07:47 PM EDT --
Some golfers hate to review their round after hacking their way around the course. It's just too painful to recall, and those duffers are content to sit at the clubhouse bar and muse about . . . more
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November 02, 2007 09:51 AM EDT --
Sometimes there is a sentence or passage we read that makes us think about everything differently. Pain and suffering are not topics I like to think about, but my pleasure reading this . . . more
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July 07, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
Over the years I've gotten involved and learned about all phases of publishing a book, including writing reviews for publicity packets. I have an interest in helping new authors through . . . more
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May 30, 2007 02:45 PM EDT --
Book lovers still reeling from cutbacks at newspaper book sections have a new reason to be upset: Amazon.com is reducing space for book reviews too.
Amazon is cutting the number of book reviews displayed . . . more
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June 29, 2008 02:25 PM EDT --
Let me preface this review with an anecdote. Since my mother grew up in South Brooklyn, I asked her if she knew the family of the main character of " Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss," . . . more
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August 26, 2007 04:59 PM EDT --
The other day when Papa and I were at the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, I spent some time in the book section of the Visitor's Center. There was a large selection of books about Cape Cod. . . . more
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November 07, 2007 10:45 PM EST --
Just read an article on authoress Diana Gabaldon and her plans to continue the Outlander Series. This is the best news I have had, book wise in weeks. Since I finished Snow and Ashes I have . . . more
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May 17, 2008 10:36 PM EDT --
In today's multimedia, Internet-driven, YouTube culture, John Montague's private life would have been made public within days of his splashy debut in Hollywood -- and his story may have ended . . . more
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March 17, 2008 02:01 PM EDT --
Thanks to everyone who responded on the Get a Free Book and Test Your "Memory" . It's great to see so many avid readers on Gather who would love to review the book! Unfortunately, only . . . more
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October 23, 2007 09:09 PM EDT --
Stephen Colbert, who currently has his own show on Comedy Central, has a new book out called I Am America (And So Can You!) and it's a worthy read for anyone sick of all the political noise on TV . . . more
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May 14, 2007 11:47 PM EDT --
I don't read a lot of fantasy, but I do read a lot of teen literature (as a former young adult librarian). I just finished reading the book, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and it will go on record . . . more
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July 14, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
I recently finished reading the first book in the Ravenloft series, Vampire of the Mists, and really loved it. The author, Christie Golden, did a great job of building the world and establishing the characters. . . . more
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May 04, 2008 05:33 PM EDT --
(a gaslight mystery) by Victoria Thompson
As much as I like mysteries, and as much as I like books about old New York, this did NOT excite me.
First, it's written at a fifth grade reading level, . . . more
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July 25, 2007 03:16 PM EDT --
QUESTION: I'm considering mailing review copies of my self-published novel to a mailing list of reviewers. Since this will cost quite a bit of money, I'm concerned whether I'm likely to actually . . . more
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December 30, 2007 05:49 AM EST --
When Collins.gather.com offered its members a chance to review this wonderful book, The Ultimate Tea Diet , by Dr. Tea, aka Mark Urka, I jumped at the chance. I had read about several different studies . . . more
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