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Bow Grip
5 of 5 stars
I'd have to agree with the vast majority of people. This was a great book. Ivan certainly knows how to draw her audience in. I was captivated from the cover photo to the last page. No question about it, well worth the read, I didn't ...
The Gong Show
1 of 5 stars
Dogbrindlebarks.blogspot.ca Dog Brindle’s Book Review The Book: The Gong Show ~ Re-Inventing Self Author: Michael J. Varma If you want to know what’s going on in a schizoid, paranoid, crystal meth addicts head...
Whatever
3 of 5 stars
WHATEVER MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ To tell you the truth, I lost interest. I wasn't going to finish. I was no where near the ending. Only a third into it. I hummed and hawed, I struggled through the rest. I...
The Vanishing Track
4 of 5 stars
The Vanishing Track author: Stephen Legault A Cole Blackwater Mystery Touch Wood Editions Who would have thought, that a sleepy town like Vancouver, could have so much drama? New York, look out you have a rival! From the beginn...
Always Coca-Cola
4 of 5 stars
Written by Alexandra Chreiteh Translated from Arabic by Michelle Hartman Interlink Books Always Coca-Cola Abeer Ward, the narrator, a woman, says it like it is. In Lebanon. Scary. Rape, pregnancy, abortion, menstral flow. In a count...
I Hate Everyone... Starting with Me
2 of 5 stars
JOAN RIVERS I HATE EVERYONE...STARTING WITH ME Is it just me or is it right? Joan has a good attitude, I will give her that. But.. Is it right? She seems to be oblivious about her own age. As if she's not old. She's bionic! How doe...
Mein Kampf
3 of 5 stars
Mein Kampf Author Adolph Hitler So... I'm walking through the library, Guildford Surrey Public Library. minding my own business, browsing through books. Looking at the books on a shelf, I stumbled upon this one book. A book th...
Konstantin
5 of 5 stars
Konstantin Author: Tom Bullough What a beautiful story. Well told. The story of a poor boy, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, stricken with disease which left him deaf. The story of would be scientist, an astronomer growing up in Russia in the...
A Year at River Mountain
2 of 5 stars
A Year at River Mountain I'm not even going to ask how this book got on the 'books we like' shelf at the library. Is there a panel that sits around and reads all the books that come in and do they vote on it? Who gets to say which bo...
The Importance of Being a Bachelor
5 of 5 stars
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING A BACHELOR Author: Mike Gayle A Book Review Three grown men living in Manchester; brothers Adam, Luke and Russell Bachelor deal with the dilemma of their parents, George and Joan Bachelor, splitting up after fo...
Rise: Stories
4 of 5 stars
Rise Author: L. Annette Binder What a strange tale, with lots of eerie visuals, funerals, baby birds, autism what’s it all about. L.Annette Binder is a very fine writer and knows how to get to the bones of a subject. Something you and...
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
5 of 5 stars
While Europe Slept How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within Author: Bruce Bawer Book Review If you're not paranoid now, in these post 911 times of terrorism, sky bombings, anthrax, and all that shit. Then read this boo...
You're in Canada Now ...: A Memoir of Sorts
5 of 5 stars
You're In Canada Now Susan Musgrave Book Review This book makes you proud to be called a Canadian... What a great comical wit Susan has. Her enduring life, her infamous rouge of a husband Stephen Reid, the Queen Charlotte Islands an...
Something Like Summer
3 of 5 stars
Something Like Summer Author: Jay Bell A Book Review Again, from the books we like shelf at the Surrey Public Library. I'm going to have to complain next time I'm there. What a perfect world Jay Bell writes, Houston, Austin, Galvest...
Signs and Wonders
5 of 5 stars
Signs and Wonders Author Alix Ohlin Book Review What a kaleidoscope of colourful stories, brilliantly bright fading to gray then to black. I'm going to read her other book, titled Inside. From the mundane to sublime, twisting and turn...
Jacob's Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History
4 of 5 stars
Jacob's Legacy JACOB'S LEGACY A GENETIC VIEW OF JEWISH HISTORY Author: David B. Goldstein Book Review What makes a Jew a Jew... DNA, chromosomes, the male Y factor, the female X factor, genes, disease, history, all come together in ...
Seriously...I'm Kidding
5 of 5 stars
Seriously...I'm Kidding Author Ellen Degeneres New York Times Bestseller A Christmas present, from a neighbour. I was surprised to see so many book reviews already posted on GoogleBooks and GoodReads. What more can I say? There's...
The Paternity Test
5 of 5 stars
The Paternity Test Author Michael Lowenthal Book Review Two gay men, Stu and Pat Living on Cape Cod. A model couple. Decide they want a child. They enlist a heterosexual woman as a surrogate. After, meeting with her and her husband,...
Fifty Shades of Chicken: A Parody in a Cookbook
5 of 5 stars
A BOOK REVIEW Fifty Shades  of: Fifty Shades of Chicken a parody in a cookbook FL Fowler I received this book as a Christmas Present. A parody.  A funny cook book. "Not another funny cookbook," I said. I fingered her. Carefully, slowl...
Life Outside: The Signorile Report on Gay Men: Sex, Drugs, Muscles, and the Passages of Life
5 of 5 stars
Life Outside Michelangelo Signorile The book, Life Outside written by Michelangelo Signorile, is now a history book. Things have changed since this book has been written. Written in the late 90‘s. Documenting, what life for the ga...
Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
5 of 5 stars
Help for Writers! by Roy Peter Clark A Book Review of Sorts 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces I came across this book at the library. I love these self-help books, on writing. You've just sat down at your desk, Yo...
The Middlesteins
5 of 5 stars
The Middlesteins A Novel Jami Attenberg A book review. The Middlesteins a dysfunctional Jewish family living in Chicago. Three generations: Grandparents, Richard and Edie, their children, Robin and Benny (pot heads) and their child...
Reconciliation
5 of 5 stars
Reconciliation Author - Dorothy Speak A Book Review A collection of Short Stories, about life and relationships, as told by Dorothy Speak. She uncovers all those hidden emotions that we pretend don't exist and has a knack for getting ...
Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead
5 of 5 stars
Author Robert Brockway THE TERRIFYINGLY REAL WAYS THE WORLD WANTS YOU DEAD. Another doom and gloom book. but, oh so interesting... Everything is Going to Kill Everybody A Book Review From Nuclear Bomb Explosions a hundred times ...
The Cars of Pullman
4 of 5 stars
The Cars of Pullman Three people collaborated to make this book. Joe Welsh, Bill Howes, & Kevin J. Holland The death of an era. The most important mode of transport in it's day. Especially cross country, and long overnight trips. ...
I Married You for Happiness
5 of 5 stars
Lily Tuck I Married You for Happiness A Book Review What is it with me lately? I'm so emotional. Like a little girl. How can a small book leave me with a tear in my eye? I'm a grown man. Real men don't cry. From the first sent...
Take the Mic: The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word
3 of 5 stars
Take the Mic The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word Marc Kelly Smith A book review. This is something I thought I'd be good at. Not that I think I have a voice. Because I don't. Like everyone else I'm not happy...
Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell
5 of 5 stars
JONI - Katherine Monk The creative odyssey of Joni Mitchell by Katherine Monk JONI A BOOK REVIEW Roberta Joan Anderson a Canadian, born November 7, 1943. From childhood, a special child. I was never a big fan of Joni Mitchell. Gro...
Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
5 of 5 stars
A BOOK REVIEW Just Listen by Mark Goulston Discover the secret to getting through to absolutely anyone... I love self-help books don't you? Google Books and Amazon are pumping them out left and right, Big Sellers. But this one "Ju...
Red Dog, Red Dog
5 of 5 stars
A Book Review Red Dog Red Dog by Patrick Lane It amazes me. Settlers crossing North America in the 1800's. The hardships they had to endure. Covered wagons, hostile Indians, winter. Food. Eating their dogs. Hard to believe, ...
With Pen In Hand: The Healing Power Of Writing
5 of 5 stars
A Book Review With Pen In Hand by Henriette Anne Klauser Ph.D. The healing power of writing. What a beautiful book. Did I just say that! We've all been in situations of complete depression, or what we thought was depression. Rem...
APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book
5 of 5 stars
APE Author ~ Publisher Entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki Shawn Welch Guy Kawasaki has written several bestsellers, Enchantment, What the Plus, The Art of the Start. Shawn Welch also has written three books but in his genre. I haven't a clue ...
Carry the One
1 of 5 stars
A Book Review carry the one A Novel Carol Anshaw Carol Anshaw is an award winning writer. The author of several novels, Aquamarine, Seven Moves, and Lucky in the Corner. In this novel... carry the one, Carol starts with a bang then e...

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