Tag: reviews
group name: bookcorps
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March 08, 2008 04:15 PM EST --
Everyone who's a reader loves that anticipatory thrill of opening a new book, settling into the corner of your overstuffed sofa, clearing one's mind, and sinking into the first line, the opening . . .
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March 31, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
The story revolves around politics and the intrigue that surrounds being part the behind the scenes goings on that happens when you are a known political figure. Taking place between England . . .
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April 14, 2007 10:23 PM EDT --
I love it when I come upon an author who has written several books in a series. I get to start at the beginning with the first book and eventually read every book in the series. The characters . . .
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February 17, 2007 09:38 PM EST --
A child born in the streets of 18th century France, immediately discarded by its mother, sounds a first cry that both condemns his mother to death and . . .
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March 09, 2007 12:58 AM EST --
Call it the fatal question. Ask it too often, or too needily in a relationship and you may eventually end up hearing the response you fear most. It’s a matter of simple psychology. Doubt your own . . .
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June 19, 2007 04:46 PM EDT --
A spirited professional with hair as big as her heart, Stephanie Plum is back in Janet Evanovich's latest misadventure in bounty hunting, Lean Mean Thirteen. The bail bonds office of Plum's cousin . . .
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June 26, 2007 01:46 PM EDT --
Let this be a lesson to me. I really thought I knew what to expect when I picked up Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer (Houghton Mifflin, 2002). After all, when it came out five years ago, . . .
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May 24, 2007 04:15 PM EDT --
The Search for the Million $$$ Ghost
By: Dorothy Thompson, Heidi AW Kaminski and Pamela Lawniczak
Loneliness can drive a person to do lots of things. But it can also bring old memories to the surface. . . .
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March 27, 2007 06:01 AM EDT --
We are, all of us, prisoners of the way we talk about things. Greed, fear, ambition and- all too rarely- love and kindness shape the stories we tell about our reality and about our lives. Once the stories . . .
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February 15, 2007 11:51 AM EST --
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solder, Ishmael Beah’s chronicle of his life in war-torn Sierra Leone in the ’90s, starts with scenes of his peaceful early childhood. But they don’t . . .
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May 17, 2007 05:13 PM EDT --
This is another great writing from Mr. King. The first story I was ever willing to spend time with was “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon”. I had always thought of his writing as things . . .
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February 27, 2008 08:09 PM EST --
I go to a massage therapist regularly and know the benefits of massage. I thought SELF-MASSAGE FOR ATHLETES would be a book that I would like.
It is divided into three sections. . . .
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September 28, 2007 04:20 PM EDT --
Every wish you had a special card for a special friend’s gift? Now you can have one! FAST FABRIC GIFT CARDS provides 12 such cards ranging from Christmas to Spring to general themed cards. A . . .
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November 01, 2007 04:52 PM EDT --
Paper piecing ---the minute I hear that, I quake in fear. BUT Ms. Vosters has written a book that just might change all that. Instead of trying to learn this technique on full . . .
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May 29, 2008 02:16 PM EDT --
I am always pleased when I find an author that reads his own work. In BORN STANDING UP, that is the case. Who better to tell the story than the person who wrote it!
When Mr. Martin . . .
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July 08, 2007 02:33 PM EDT --
Seven Top artists show you how to paint their original designs. Not only do you get to see their works, you get a blurb about the artists themselves. It is always interesting to learn about . . .
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November 16, 2007 04:07 PM EST --
Do you have a little boy who needs a quilt? Then AQUATIC CREATURES is a book to get. Darcy Ashton has taken fish, frogs, turtles and toads and turned them into lovely appliqué . . .
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January 12, 2008 03:38 PM EST --
This 32-page book provides you with the basic steps to learn needle felting by machine. It talks about different types of fibers and even has photos so you know what they look like. There . . .
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December 16, 2008 04:25 PM EST --
This is the 2 nd time I have found a "flip-book". OK, if you are not old enough to know what that is let me explain. It is a book that you read half way through and then need . . .
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May 31, 2007 02:15 PM EDT --
There is a whole class of novel nowadays in which we follow a contemporary white man through a day or a week or a couple months, riding the coattails of his neuroses, hanging on tight as he screws his . . .
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