Tag: book review
member name: Sheila Deeth
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October 05, 2009 09:12 PM EDT --
It’s beginning to go dark. Cars crawl up the road then turn, re-turn. Someone’s waving and showing the way. I guess we’re lost as each other, same destination, same place beckoning . . .
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October 14, 2007 02:35 PM EDT --
Okay, so I’ve never written a book review before; never – not even in school - honestly! But I entered First Chapters and read lots of entries, enjoyed following through to the end, and loved . . .
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April 23, 2008 01:12 PM EDT --
Here's a confession. I didn't like fairy tales as a child. I wasn't scared of them - they just annoyed me. Life wasn't meant to be so unpredictable and so unfair, or if was I . . .
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June 06, 2008 08:24 PM EDT --
Meeting Delaune Michel at her book-signing was like making a new friend. And reading her book, The Safety of Secrets, was like making another. The story is told in present tense by a first . . .
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September 08, 2008 09:03 PM EDT --
My husband sometimes tells me I'm stubborn. I guess it takes one to know one. But when Forrest Gump came out we were as stubborn as each other. Even when the movie was available to rent, it took us . . .
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September 29, 2008 06:55 PM EDT --
I used to think I didn't like the classics--as a small kid, loathing Alice; as a young reader in despair at the Ice Queen; and as a teenager bored by the Hobbit. I'm not sure how old . . .
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April 09, 2009 02:15 PM EDT --
I remember loving those dark detective novels, set in dark times in dark American cities. They were narrated by downbeat private eyes who kept getting it wrong but somehow always ended up right. The . . .
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March 13, 2008 05:32 PM EDT --
The first First Chapters competition produced two excellent winners and some fine runners up. I will never deny that. However, my own entry failed rather dismally at the first hurdle, and I . . .
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June 11, 2008 11:37 PM EDT --
Peter Joseph Swanson is a popular character on gather, with many faithful friends and readers commenting on his postings. He's also the author of Hollywood Sinners and the recently published . . .
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August 15, 2008 04:15 PM EDT --
Ernie Johnson was one of my first friends on Gather, and I've loved crafting poems to fit his Poetry Play on Words group. I pin my PPOW badge to my writing bag with pride, and my computer . . .
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October 13, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
I'd never read an e-book before. I struggle just to read articles on Gather if they get too long--scrolling down the page, remembering where I was, and keeping my eyes in focus while the . . .
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January 04, 2009 06:02 PM EST --
The snow brought many delays here at Christmas and surprises for New Year-white roads and ice, layers of black and gray, and speckled flakes that flattened and broadened the scene beyond my window-pane. . . .
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March 07, 2009 07:24 PM EST --
When I was small I used to love big books because you got more words for your pennies. These days I tend to go for more slender volumes—old age and dry rot, maybe, or else I’m acquiring a shorter . . .
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May 23, 2009 06:23 PM EDT --
J.J.Dare’s "False Positive" certainly starts in style, with first-person present-tense narration pulling the reader straight into Joe’s upended world. Did someone get hurt? Did he kill . . .
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April 10, 2008 07:42 PM EDT --
I used to watch Friends on TV. That was back when we lived in England. The networks showed it late at night when my kids were safe in bed. Then we moved to the States and it was shown at 6pm. . . .
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June 02, 2008 07:25 PM EDT --
My husband is a reading a large very scholarly-looking tome. It's called Between Silk and Cyanide , written by Leo Marks whose father owned a famous London bookstore, 84 Charing Cross Road. . . .
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October 27, 2008 12:59 PM EDT --
There are groups on Gather that write stories collectively, one chapter at once. I enjoy reading their alternate versions and watching the multiple directions resolve each time into a chosen . . .
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February 14, 2009 08:32 PM EST --
I'm trying to get back into writing book reviews, and Kenny Lee was kind enough to let me read a copy of Thundering Hearts...
Kenny Lee’s novel Thundering Hearts: The Razor’s Edge . . .
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February 24, 2009 11:21 PM EST --
I’ve decided one disadvantage of reading on a computer is that I read too fast. And because I’m lazy, I don’t bother going back to check when I’m not sure what’s just happened. But “ The Devil’s Crescent” . . .
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February 24, 2009 11:23 PM EST --
I never thought I’d write a review of a cookery book. Ask any of my family—I’m not exactly an expert in the kitchen. Though, of course, they should take at least some of the blame. It’s hard to produce . . .
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