Tag: books
group name: bookshelfreview
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August 27, 2009 10:23 PM EDT --
Time for an update on where I am at with my reading for the year.
Lately I have been reading more print books than the Kindle as I can find print books for little to nothing, Kindle books are on average . . .
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July 06, 2008 01:49 PM EDT --
One of my favorite books.
It's told in the words of three different people whose lives are all intertwined with the others. Differnet points of view and and the background of each character.
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December 08, 2009 04:03 PM EST --
The Infinities by John Banville Picador ISBN: 9780330513210, Trade Paperback, October 2009, 256 page/s, $32.99 AUD
On the surface of it, The Infinities is a simple story, set, like Joyce’s . . .
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June 17, 2009 04:42 PM EDT --
and it was a great book! Kinsey Millhone is at it again.. She gets herself in some tight squeezes but comes out in the end! While the book is not one of those I can't put it down.. the . . .
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September 12, 2008 01:21 PM EDT --
This book giveaway is for 2 books that are for the pre-teen or teenagers that my gather connections might have, or know - or for themselves!.
Horsefeathers by Dandi Daley Mackall
The 1st one . . .
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June 21, 2009 07:49 PM EDT --
ONE GOOD TURN by Kate Atkinson begins with a road rage incident involving one crazy guy beating a man with a baseball bat and another man, a wimpy writer of popular crime novels, knocking the crazy . . .
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June 27, 2009 09:10 PM EDT --
The first half of Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO presents two separate lives in Sweden: Mikael Blomkvist, a 40-something journalist convicted of libel, and Lisbeth Salander, a 24-year-old . . .
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July 06, 2009 04:47 PM EDT --
HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET , Jamie Ford’s first book, tells the touching story of Henry Lee, a Chinese-American, and his childhood friendship with and ongoing love for Keiko . . .
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October 26, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
Yesterday I went to the mall, by myself. A real rarity when you have a 13 year old daughter.
So I was free to spend as much time looking at what I wanted to look at - all day! I spent a long time in . . .
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July 28, 2008 06:36 AM EDT --
Title: Henri and the Alien Author: Lookman
Publisher: Pen Press Publishing
ISBN 13: 978-1-906710-07-1
Paperback p 160 . . .
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July 23, 2009 05:17 PM EDT --
IN THE WOODS by Tana French is a novel about the investigation into the death of a child. But it is more complex than that; much more is going on with the people involved.
A . . .
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December 08, 2009 03:59 PM EST --
The Infinities by John Banville Picador ISBN: 9780330513210, Trade Paperback, October 2009, 256 page/s, $32.99 AUD
On the surface of it, The Infinities is a simple story, set, like Joyce’s . . .
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June 17, 2009 08:48 AM EDT --
Michael Connelly's latest book, THE SCARECROW , involves a soon-to-be-laid-off long-time LA Times reporter Jack McEvoy, who decides to "go out with a bang" by writing an investigative story . . .
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August 10, 2008 11:08 AM EDT --
I just finished reading The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. What a book. It was a quick read and very worth it. I laughed, literally out loud and parts made my heart break a little. It is a memoir . . .
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September 12, 2008 01:31 PM EDT --
This contest is for 2 books - 1 winner wins both books!
Italy - A Traveler's Literary Companion
Ital's rising literary stars join some of its best-known writers - including Nobel-laureate . . .
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August 18, 2009 08:55 PM EDT --
Now that I am done with my traveling, I am going to start my book give-away's once again.
This give-away is for a memoir book called: White Bucks & Black-Eyed Peas; Coming of age black in white . . .
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August 23, 2009 06:58 PM EDT --
Lisa Gardner’s SAY GOODBYE begins with a sex scene between a slutty girl and a high school football star. You’re safe in assuming that Chapter 1 and the next several chapters aren’t . . .
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July 29, 2009 06:01 PM EDT --
Lisa Scottoline’s COURTING TROUBLE is a novel she wrote back in 2002, a continuation of her series about an all-female law firm. It had seemed to me that Scottoline likes to present legal . . .
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October 17, 2008 07:59 PM EDT --
Ok, I'm ready to start doing some book give-away's again, now that I have gotten a little bit of unpacking done.
Up for the contest this week is a book I was just reading. It wasn't a favorite . . .
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September 07, 2009 01:59 PM EDT --
My daughter just gave me a heavy bag full of books. I love reading and sharing books. I want to share with you a wonderful website that I recently discovered. The web site is:
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