Tag: book
member name: Leslie ~ from NYC ~ R.
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May 31, 2009 11:06 AM EDT --
Bookswapers.gather.com
Just for people who are willing to send out books others are interested in - and willing to express interest in books others review.
Come one, come all.
Ask and you shall . . .
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November 12, 2007 05:15 PM EST --
Author: Louise DeSalvo
This book is a memoir that reads like a novel.
It is a woman's coming of age and coming to terms with society, family, career pressures.
She's an Italian-American . . .
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June 02, 2008 06:19 AM EDT --
I was taking a break from the difficult reading I've been doing about the Chinese Cultural Revolution... whew.
This book is light fantasy. It was SO much fun. The tension builds and builds - this . . .
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February 12, 2009 11:32 AM EST --
author: Lou Jane Temple
This was NOT what I'd expected!
It was a fun light read (as light as a murder mystery could be).
Old New York - Civil War era. The beginning of department stores, . . .
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March 07, 2009 10:08 AM EST --
My movie buddy does not work on Fridays, so since I've been in and out of the city, we chose to go to the pre-noon (discounted) movie Friday morning.
I knew he wanted to see Watchmen. He'd . . .
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June 07, 2008 06:22 PM EDT --
Deep into my reading about China and Chinese culture..
The book goes into depth about the VietNam war - veterans telling their stories (she led an on-going writers workshop in California), people who . . .
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September 20, 2009 06:30 AM EDT --
author: Dan Brown
NO SPOILERS!
Although I had this book on reserve at the library, when I saw it just sitting on the shelf, I grabbed it up! I told the librarian to delete it from . . .
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January 24, 2009 08:48 PM EST --
Being that it was Friday, I set off for the movies - $6 is a very tempting price. I went to see Inkheart - based on the book. I am thinking it was loosely based as I remember reading the book, but very . . .
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September 02, 2007 10:09 AM EDT --
"A Dead-End Job Mystery"
Author: Elaine Viets
When I was in San Diego, I went to a book talk with my mother. The person who leads the talks discusses a dozen books. She mentioned . . .
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September 09, 2007 04:29 PM EDT --
The book is enchanting. I love the author, Orson Scott Card, and have read at least 10 of his books.
This is a re-writing of the fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, wherein the main character goes back . . .
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October 02, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
Author: Calvin Trillin
I've read a few books by this author before. It seems as if his marriage was so strong that he "snuck" his wife in no matter the subject . . .
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October 03, 2007 07:26 PM EDT --
Author: Robert James
I am SO clearly not the target audience of this book!
It is one in a series directed at pre-teen boys who liked the television show.
There are alternate realities, . . .
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February 19, 2009 07:29 AM EST --
author: Elizabeth Gilbert
I'd heard (and read) many rave reviews of this book. It had been on my shelf for a while, so I decided to take it with me on vacation.
I've heard that parents' . . .
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August 14, 2009 12:45 PM EDT --
author: Lionel Shriver
This is an engrossing, disturbing book.
It's written by the "mother" of a school shooter in letters to her estranged husband. He doesn't write back - these are a . . .
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September 11, 2007 05:28 AM EDT --
Author: Robert Alexander
The mystery surrounding the death of the Romanovs - the last ruling family of Russia - has intrigued me for a long time. It was sparked again a few years . . .
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September 19, 2007 07:22 PM EDT --
Author: David Williams
This book was advertised at the back of another book I was reading. It was published in 1976, but feels as if it had been written years earlier.
It is a British . . .
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September 23, 2007 06:54 PM EDT --
Author: Steve Martin
Yes, that Steve Martin - he's an author AND an actor. I wonder, in reading this book, if he saw himself playing the "older man" lead. . . .
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September 25, 2007 07:24 AM EDT --
Author: Robert Nye
This is a prose version of the story. It was different in feel and some details frm then verse version I'd read a few years ago.
I had found the verse version . . .
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September 30, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
Author: W.P. Kinsella
Turns out this is the book "Field of Dreams" is based on. I thought it was a bit of a coincidence that the author's name was the name of the main character... . . .
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October 06, 2007 04:59 PM EDT --
Author: Ann Brashares
This is basically chick lit for teenagers. The friendships are very important and while each girl goes through some harrowing, coming of age, experiences . . .
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