As a book reviewer I love to categorize books, but try as I might I cannot seem to find the right pigeonhole to put this book in. It has some aspects of Sci-Fi, some aspects of Science Fantasy, and even a little mythology, but it truly does not fit into any of those genres. The [...]
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Small Persons With Wings (MG)
Posted by on February 28th, 2011
Small Persons with Wings. Ellen Booraem. 2011. Penguin. 304 pages.Last June, my parents jumped off a roof because of a pinky ring. Small Persons With Wings is an interesting fantasy novel. It stars a young girl, Mellie Turpin, who is tired of being teased. Her nickname? Fairy Fat. It came about like this. In kindergarten, [...]
Sunday Salon: Week In Review #9
Posted by on February 27th, 2011
What I Reviewed At Becky’s Book Reviews Wyrd Sisters. Terry Pratchett. 1980/2001. HarperCollins. 288 pages. Night of the Living Trekkies. Kevin David Anderson & Sam Stall. 2010. July 2010. Quirk Publishing. 256 pages.Evil Under the Sun. Agatha Christie. 1940/2006. Black Dog & Leventhal. 224 pages.Taken at the Flood. Agatha Christie. 1948/1984. Penguin. 256 pages.North and [...]
Twilight Series for Kindle: Featuring Eclipse
Posted by on February 27th, 2011
The Edward-Bella-Jacob triangle is in full force in the third installment of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Bella and Edward are applying for college and consider marriage. Bella’s interest in Jacob, the werewolf goes to a new level when she discovers she might be in love with him as well. A major battle erupts in [...]
Lotto Black Book Review – Will It Help You Win the Lotto?
Posted by on February 26th, 2011
Have you ever wish you could win the Lotto, or if you can figure a way to figure out what the next set of numbers will be, without going to a physic? Well they say there is a way, they say there is a Lotto Black Book guide, but does it really work, or is [...]
Operation Bonnet
Posted by on February 25th, 2011
Operation Bonnet. Kimberly Stuart. 2011. David C. Cook. 272 pages. I didn’t set out to be the town luminary. True, there wasn’t exactly a lot of competition in Casper. Set in Casper, Ohio, Nellie Monroe, an amateur private-detective, stars in Kimberly Stuart’s Operation Bonnet. Her first client, Amos Shetler, is still getting adjusted to his [...]
Handmade Kindle Covers
Posted by on February 25th, 2011
If you are on a shopping spree and really feeling like dressing up your Kindle, then I’d be pleased to help you out. I find that there is something inexplicably charming, when people dress sup their gadgets in handmade accessories. Perhaps, Etsy really triggered this new fad of getting handmade covers for all sorts of [...]
How Poker Books Review Can Help You Play Game Of Poker?
Posted by on February 24th, 2011
If you want to be perfect in anything, you need a lot of exercise and a sound knowledge about the thing. Poker is not an exception to this. So, if you want to be a good poker player, you need to have a lot of knowledge about the game. The mere understanding the of the [...]
New Kindle Commercial Seems Rather…Vague?
Posted by on February 24th, 2011
Kindle advertisements have often been a little odd, in my opinion. I get that you want to highlight how fun and useful your product is, but when it’s something that facilitates an activity that will almost always take place while the user is immobile and not reacting in any overt fashion, it’s hard to do. [...]
Taken at the Flood
Posted by on February 24th, 2011
Taken at the Flood. Agatha Christie. 1948/1984. Penguin. 256 pages.In every club there is a club bore. The Coronation Club was no exception; and the fact that an Air Raid was in progress made no difference to normal procedure. Set, for the most part, in Warmsley Vale, this Hercule Poirot mystery focuses on a dysfunctional [...]
