February 12th, 2009, is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincolns’ birthday The Life Story of Abraham Lincoln for Young People – American Era History Book Review History Book Review: Book Title/Title Page: The Life of Abraham Lincoln For Young People Told in One Syllable Words By Harriet Putnam Illustrated Copyright 1906 Published by McLoughlin Brothers, [...]
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The Life Of Abraham Lincoln For Young People – American Era History Book Review
Posted by on January 31st, 2011
Sunday Salon: Week In Review #5
Posted by on January 31st, 2011
What I Reviewed This Week: From Becky’s Book Reviews Pathfinder. Orson Scott Card. 2010. November 2010. Simon & Schuster. 662 pages.Heart of a Samurai. Margi Preus. 2010. [August 2010] Harry N. Abrams. 320 pages. Clockwork Angel. (Internal Devices #1) Cassandra Clare. 2010. Simon & Schuster. 479 pages. The Body in the Library. (Miss Marple) Agatha [...]
Some Thoughts on Free E-books
Posted by on January 30th, 2011
How often do you read free e-books on your Kindle? Always? Most of the time? Sometimes? Rarely? Does the fact that the book is free, make your reading process more enjoyable? Yes? No? Maybe? As I’m looking for different sources for free e-books libraries, I come to conclusion that every single source for free e-books [...]
A Study in Scarlet
Posted by on January 30th, 2011
A Study in Scarlet. Arthur Conan Doyle. 1887/2003. Random House. 160 pages. In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Readers are introduced to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in Arthur [...]
Is a Book Review the Same As a Book Report? A Guide to Writing Both
Posted by on January 29th, 2011
A book review and a book report are different in regards to their objective. A book report shows the content and structure of a book in an objective way. It summarizes the content and analyzes the structure. It intends to give valuable information about the book to help others decide if it is interesting and [...]
Kindle Books Hit New Milestone: Beating Out Paperbacks
Posted by on January 29th, 2011
So, as I recall it was last summer when Kindle books began beating out purchases of Hardcovers on the Amazon site. This was a big deal because it illustrated for people that eBooks were pretty clearly here to stay in a way that previous announcements of numbers (not that Amazon was the company making any [...]
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Tags: Beating, Books, Kindle, Milestone, Paperbacks 
No Comments »Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime
Posted by on January 29th, 2011
Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime. Robert J. Randisi. 2006. St. Martin’s Press. 288 pages. When I spotted Joey Bishop walking toward me across the Sands casino floor, I figured he wasn’t heading for a blackjack table. This adult mystery is set during 1960, during the filming of Ocean’s 11 in Las Vegas. It stars the Rat [...]
An Interview With the WOWIO CEO
Posted by on January 28th, 2011
Some Background: We’ve talked quite a bit here in the past about the potential for advertising entering into digital book media. The convenience provided by eBooks, both for readers in easy acquisition and for publishers in terms of easily and instantly updating an “edition” of a text without need for the delay of printing and [...]
Five Little Pigs
Posted by on January 27th, 2011
Five Little Pigs. (Hercule Poirot) Agatha Christie. 1941/2006. Black Dog & Leventhal. 256 pages. Hercule Poirot looked with interest and appreciation at the young woman who was being ushered into the room. I’ve enjoyed a couple of other Hercule Poirot stories this past month–including The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder on the Orient Express, and [...]
The Lotto Black Book Review – Secrets Revealed
Posted by on January 27th, 2011
After you read through The Lotto Black Book Review you will know the answers to all the following questions. Does The Lotto Black Book really work? Could I be using a method to help me improve my odds of winning? Is there really a secret formula to winning the lotto? Could I be the next [...]
