Tag: book
member name: Elizabeth V.
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July 03, 2008 12:20 PM EDT --
Does anyone know how to restore a wet book?
I just went to an estate sale. It was in a garage and driveway, lots of old furniture and boxes of hard cover books, which I was hoping to find.
The . . .
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July 31, 2008 09:04 PM EDT --
This is a true story. You should know that. Before the story begins, Cassell says it’s fiction, but it isn’t. It really happened as he describes. It’s important that you understand this because then the . . .
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June 05, 2009 04:41 PM EDT --
If you aren't familiar with Lee Child's books, as I wasn't, you should know that his stories involve Jack Reacher, a former army officer who went to Westpoint, a big man who now, apparently, doesn't own . . .
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May 17, 2009 05:24 PM EDT --
A man is released from prison after he spent 13 years on death row for a murder he didn’t commit. Or did he? Throughout, Stephen White’s The Best Revenge , it seems so, then it seems not, . . .
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August 21, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
In VODKA NEAT , Faith Zanetti is a 35-year-old English journalist, a foreign correspondent. Her current assignment is to Russia simply because she lived there 16 years ago when it was the Soviet Union . . .
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April 10, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
Don't forget, The Memory Keeper's Daughter will be a movie on Lifetime this Sasturday (4/12) at 9 p.m.
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September 15, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penny is a mystery that is very different from your usual mystery. That's why I read it.
The story takes place in Canada around the time of the U.S. Civil War, maybe . . .
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April 02, 2008 11:07 AM EDT --
Last year I began reading Hush Money by Robert Parker. I read about half the book and felt I was wasting time. I liked half of his subject matter, but the other half (about a goofy sex pot client), . . .
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April 08, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
I think "I don't want to join a book club" is the name of a book I read part of and disliked so never finished, but that's not what this is about.
I really don't want . . .
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May 06, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
This post was supposed to be a review of Mary Doria Russell's Children of God . But I thought, if people read that book title, they probably won't click the article because it sounds like a religion . . .
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August 23, 2009 06:58 PM EDT --
Lisa Gardner’s SAY GOODBYE begins with a sex scene between a slutty girl and a high school football star. You’re safe in assuming that Chapter 1 and the next several chapters aren’t . . .
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May 07, 2008 11:51 AM EDT --
bookCELebration, a yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bookcelebration/) began as an offshoot of COPYEDITING-L, an Internet mailing list for editors of all types (technical, newspaper, book, freelance, . . .
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April 17, 2008 11:04 AM EDT --
I'm still reading Joseph Kanon's _Los Alamos_. It's been more than 2 weeks now. I've read all of Kanon's other books and liked them quite a bit (particularly _The Good German_), but . . .
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May 21, 2009 05:05 PM EDT --
Joseph Wambaugh's Hollywood Station , a novel he wrote in 2006, is fiction. But so much of it is nonfiction.
This book is about life at the Hollywood Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, . . .
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April 16, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
Here is my dynamic list of books that I want to read. Comments? Have you read these, and would you say any of them are losers? Should I take anything off the list?
Abrahams, . . .
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June 01, 2009 11:23 AM EDT --
Tom Rob Smith’s The Secret Speech is the sequel to his Child 44 , in which Leo Demidov is a state security officer with the MGB (later called the KGB) in Stalin’s Soviet Union. . . .
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June 03, 2009 09:14 AM EDT --
I don't know how long this will be available, but Philip Margolin's Wild Justice is free online, 100-percent of it, not just the first chapter, at http://browseinside.harpercollins.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061030635&WT.mc_id=NEWS_HOTHARPER_JUNE09 . . .
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May 23, 2008 08:57 AM EDT --
Because Borders Book Store is based in Michigan, you would think I'd have heard sooner, but I just noticed on the news this morning that they announced last March thay're going away or selling . . .
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August 10, 2008 09:06 PM EDT --
Superdove is a pigeon. There was a time when “dove” and “pigeon” were names used interchangeably for the same bird. I learned this from Courtney Humphries’ Superdove .
This is a short book. As a general . . .
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September 19, 2008 04:32 PM EDT --
Last September (2008) I found Oprah's book pick, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski, astounding not because it wasn't a good book but because I agreed with her, and I so seldom do. . . .
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