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Review Date: 10/8/2006
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"Adorable mouse chews his way through a set of wordless books. The titles are Wind, The Alphabet, The Numbers, The Opposites, The House, and The Colors. (all posted separately.) Simple concepts for young children."
Review Date: 12/25/2005
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
"This is absolutely the best, most chilling ghost story I have ever read. I love Barbara Michaels books but this is the best. I don't scare easily when reading but Ammie will have you sleeping with a night light. Not horror story but chilling ghost story."
Review Date: 9/27/2006
"The book was very different from what I expected. It is rather apocalyptic in nature, almost but not quite, Christian literature. The "good" is referred to as Light, the Good, Truth, etc, but never as Jesus, occasionally as God, even though Scripture is quoted. The ending was rather long in coming and drawn out. Some elements of the book seem borrowed from The Terminator, Omen. There is a sequel set several years after the first title but I'll pass."
Review Date: 10/14/2006
"Robert Langdon book which precedes _The_DaVinci_Code_ but didn't catch on until the later book became a hit. Really similar plot to Code. Langdon chases around Rome (instead of Paris) with a beautiful woman, seeking clues in Roman sculpture (instead of daVinci paintings) while people try to kill them. Fast-moving plot."
Review Date: 12/23/2007
7 member(s) found this review helpful.
"LUVVED this book and the women in it. The title refers to a monthly bookclub formed by the women of Freesia Court, so designated by a scornful husband but embraced by the women. The book begins in the present but flashes back through the decades that the women have known each other. Each grows, deals with spouses, affairs, children...all the stuff the rest of us deal with. Although the cover reminds me of my mother-in-law and her friends, the Angry Housewives are of my Boomer generation. I called a friend the other day and said, "You have to read this book. You ARE Audrey!""
Review Date: 5/24/2006
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
"This is one of the best novels I have ever read. It will NOT be posted! Five women, then more, and even an entire airport of stranded passengers are drawn into the traveling funeral. After all, funerals are about life, not death, right?"
Review Date: 10/6/2007
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
"Love this series! Actually I love this AUTHOR, both of her series. This series is very cozy, ex-nun married to NYPD detective. Although she is not a writer, Jessica Fletcher comes to mind. Christine asks questions of everyone around, cooperates with the police, goes off at night to meet suspects (while Joe babysits) and nobody seems to think it is odd. Still I love the characters. Just suspend your reality a little bit and have a great time."
Review Date: 6/9/2007
"Disappointed in this title in the series, which has its highs and lows. Lori and her twin sons are sent to Scotland under eye of bodyguards because someone has threatened to kill her boys. Once in Scotland, that mystery is somehow forgotten when Lori suspects the locals of smuggling. Aunt Dimity plays little or no part in the story although Lori journals nightly. At the very end the psycho killer reveals himself. Just started out on one mystery, diverted and then u-turned again."
Review Date: 5/7/2007
"From back cover: "Deply funny, subversive and splendidly entertaining. The Autograph man is a whirlwind tour of celebrity and our fame-obsessed times. Following one Alex-Li Tandem--a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organized religion--it takes in London and New York, love and death, fathers and sones, as Alex tries to discover how a piece of paper can bring him closer to his heart's desire.""
Review Date: 8/6/2006
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
"Another excellent Spenser mystery. Paul brings a friend who wants to know about her mother's murder....28 years before. Spenser uncovers more than his client wants to know and even more than he can tell her."
Review Date: 11/29/2005
"A Gregor Demarkian mystery--contains a little feminist agenda but doesn't detract from the story of a murder at a retreat during a hurricane. Love Haddam's characterizations. The recurring characters feel like old friends."
Review Date: 10/6/2007
"Love this series! Actually I love this AUTHOR, both of her series. This series is very cozy, ex-nun married to NYPD detective. Although she is not a writer, Jessica Fletcher comes to mind. Christine asks questions of everyone around, cooperates with the police, goes off at night to meet suspects (while Joe babysits) and nobody seems to think it is odd. Still I love the characters. Just suspend your reality a little bit and have a great time."
Review Date: 12/27/2006
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
"If you are a fan of the TV show "Bones", the Kathy Reichs books are very diffent, setting, characters, mostly everything. That said, I love the books and the show both. Just don't confuse the two."
Review Date: 5/13/2007
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
"Much better than the previous 2 titles in the series. Fremont returns to Boston for the first time since moving to San Francisco because her father is apparently dying. Of course, Michael is with her. But is her father's illness natural or is he being murdered slowly? Two people will die before Fremont and Michael get to the bottom of things."
Review Date: 5/22/2008
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
"Really enjoyed this book and didn't expect to do so. The characters are so human and well-drawn, not exaggerated or caricatures. I am a big fan of Heyer's Regency books and have frequently been disappointed by the tide of authors who tried to copy Miss Heyer. This book is a real winner."
Review Date: 4/14/2006
"This book was a little slow to start up but really picked up speed and became a run-away train of action and suspense. The defendent & Barbara Holloway's client is accused of killing her young daughter but there is so much else going on that quickly the case becomes much bigger. Paula and her young daughter had gotten in the way of some very scary people."
Review Date: 8/12/2006
"Amy and Tara had been best friends since elementary school, until Tara slept with Amy's fiance right before the wedding...and then married him herself.
The story is told from both Amy's and Tara's views when they reconnect after a few years. Tara has written a "Martha S"-type book and Amy works for the publisher who has bought the book."
The story is told from both Amy's and Tara's views when they reconnect after a few years. Tara has written a "Martha S"-type book and Amy works for the publisher who has bought the book."
Review Date: 5/9/2007
"Love this series! They never disappoint. Sex, murder, cool characters, snappy dialogue. I am always waiting for the next one to come out."
Review Date: 1/5/2006
"The program, for some reason, would not allow me to click on 5 stars, but that is what this book deserves. Georgette Heyer was and is the Queen of the Regency novel. She started the trend and all the rest are imitators. This particular book is actually part of a trilogy which includes "These Old Shades" but the other title eludes me. No matter, each stands alone."
Review Date: 2/25/2006
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
"As a minister's wife, I was interested in a mystery in which the amateur is also married to a minister. The mystery did not disappoint and the characters were charming and fascinating. Even the busybody in the title, who is loved by some and hated by others, is made human and understandable.
Aggie's husband is a minister of a Unitarian-Universalist church so there is no "religion" in the story. I did identify very strongly with Aggie's situation of raising children in the fishbowl of the parish.
This is the first of a series and I will definitely look for the second, out in December 2006."
Aggie's husband is a minister of a Unitarian-Universalist church so there is no "religion" in the story. I did identify very strongly with Aggie's situation of raising children in the fishbowl of the parish.
This is the first of a series and I will definitely look for the second, out in December 2006."
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