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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 ...
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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
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
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...
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,...
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
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!
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
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
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 ...
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
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. ...
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
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 - 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...
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...
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, ...
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
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 ...
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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