Tag: book review
member name: Sheila Deeth
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November 12, 2009 02:50 PM EST --
I saw the ads for this book when it first came out and was curious, but somehow never got round to reading it. Then I found it cheap in Powells and made up for lost time. It’s an incredible . . .
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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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December 02, 2009 07:31 PM EST --
I used to walk with my dog. I really miss her. But Clella Camp’s musings on her daily walk resounded with memories for me, hitting just the right blend between earthly interactions and heavenly . . .
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December 02, 2009 07:39 PM EST --
How do you trust someone who wants to control you? How do you protect someone who won’t take your advice?
CJ gave up trusting Mitch and went her own way, but in Final Warnings it . . .
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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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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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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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August 11, 2009 12:41 AM EDT --
Tales out of School, by Shirley Ann Howard was quite a surprise when I received it. At 364 pages, it was longer than I’d expected. And the switches between genres in different scenes . . .
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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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December 02, 2009 07:29 PM EST --
The idea of a novel by a psychiatrist, telling the tale of four murderers sharing a room, really intrigued me, and I was delighted to get the chance to read Don’t Look Down by David Laing Dawson. . . .
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December 13, 2009 12:44 AM EST --
It really wasn’t that long ago that I read the opening scene from Judi Fennell ’s novel, In Over Her Head, in a Gather writing competition. Part of me wondered how mermen and romance . . .
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December 13, 2009 12:50 AM EST --
Most of what I know about World War Two is based on what happened in Europe, or what happened to British and American soldiers abroad. Captive Dreams introduced me to the war at home in America, . . .
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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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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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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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