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Book Review: The Vintage Caper By: Peter Mayle Reviewed by: Renee Weinberger Rating: Good Effort This is a fictional mystery written by the author of “A Year in Provence,” Peter Mayle. Peter Mayle was made famous by his travel writing about France. So, perhaps unsurprisingly, much of the action takes place in various cities in [...]
Book Review: The Stupidist Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror By: Christopher Moore ISBN-10: 0060842350 Reviewed by: Lynn Peterson Rating: An excellent and hilarious book! If you think the horror genre is limited to Halloween, think again! In The Stupidest Angel, Christopher Moore introduces horror to Christmas, and a hilarious story is born of [...]
Book Review: “A Pearl In the Storm, How I Lost My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean,” By Tori Murden-McClure Reviewed by: Renee Weinberger Rating: Excellent, a must read A Pearl in the Storm details one woman’s journey across the Atlantic in a row boat. This is not a book about the weather or [...]
Book Review: “Extreme Natural Disasters” by Christine Gibson Reviewed by: Lynn Peterson Rating: An excellent overview! Today is the four-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and residents of the Gulf Coast region are still struggling to rebuild. As devastating as Hurricane Katrina was, it is not the worst-case scenario, in terms of natural disasters, as Christine [...]
Reviewed by: Lynn Peterson Rating: An Excellent Book “Positively Crochet” by Mary Jane Hall is a special treat. At times, it seems to me that the world is flush with knitting patterns for making garments but rather lacking when it comes to crochet patterns for making garments. Hall completely reverses this trend with Positively Crochet; [...]
So, Comment Inbox is great in that it allows me to quickly sort through the comments and get rid of the spam. But still the amount of spam was getting too much to handle even with the spiffiest of tools. I have decided to close commenting on all posts older than one month and all [...]
I saw this stairs and bookcase in one over at Unclutterer, one of my favorite sites. Now, if you are like me, you’ve got so many books that they are coming out of your ears! I put in track and bracket shelving from floor to ceiling in one of the rooms in our house [...]
Borders has a coupon for 25% off the list price of one item. At Barnes and Nobel, you can save 30% on Real Life by Dr. Phil, Indignation by Phillip Roth, or Liberty by Garrison Keillor.
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A new eBook reader has just hit the streets, the Plastic Logic E-Reader, at DEMOfall ’08 in San Diego, CA. According to BoingBoing, the E-Reader should be competitively priced with the Amazon Kindle. It’s 8 1/2 x 11 inches and about as thick as a legal pad. I could easily see slipping this into my [...]