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Review Date: 10/31/2011
Interesting ideas!
Review Date: 2/27/2010
Helpful Score: 2
This quirky mystery features a socially-inept retired P.R. executive trying to adjust to small-town life after a career in London. I confess I was not able to like the protagonist, who solves the rather contrived mystery by a matter of persistence and luck. This has been a popular series, so obviously others are more enthusiastic!
Review Date: 3/9/2010
Well, I read the whole thing, but I don't think Ms. Raisin is going to be a favorite. I find the character a little too unsympathetic, I guess. But she seems to have many fans, so hopefully someone else will enjoy the book more than I did!
Review Date: 8/19/2010
This book was fun! I thought the environmentalist angle was just a tad overdone, but the story was engrossing and the characters appealing. Baker did a good job of creating a coherent alternative world.
Review Date: 2/9/2012
This was a fun read, though dark in places. I enjoyed picking out all the different fairy tales that were interwoven into it; but it's not a children's book.
Review Date: 2/26/2010
This book turned out to be almost as good as I'd hoped! Good characters and an absorbing plot, with a quasi-Russian theme.
Chipi Chipis, Small Shells of the Sea / Chipi Chipis, Caracolitos Del Mar
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Review Date: 6/17/2012
This lovely illustrated book for children is printed in English and Spanish side by side.
Complete Custom Closet: How to Make the Most of Every Space (Popular Woodworking)
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Review Date: 4/17/2010
"The Complete Custom Closet" has some good ideas for maximizing the use of one's closets, mostly by creating built-in shelving and drawers. It's not fine furniture, but I'd advise anyone who wants to use the designs in the book to have a little previous woodworking experience. Or just use it for inspiration!
Review Date: 2/8/2013
I think I might have loved this book when I was about thirteen. Definitely geared to teenage girls, and unlike some works for children or "young adults," it's too simple in style to be really interesting to an adult. There's a little bit of implied sexuality, but on a very innocent level that shouldn't be a problem for most parents.
Review Date: 2/9/2010
Although M. C. Beaton is not great literature, she does produce a fun and engaging mystery story, of which this is a typical example. Recommended.
Review Date: 1/28/2010
Helpful Score: 1
This story is interesting because of the genealogy angle, but otherwise depends entirely on the rural western-Ireland setting for its interest; the characters are kind of flat. It breaks one of the cardinal rules of mystery writing: that the reader have all the information the detective does. Not a bad book, but not a superlative one, either.
Review Date: 3/5/2010
A modern fantasy based on old fairy tales. Beautifully done, though the ending is a bit weak, I think. Still, an enchanting story!
Review Date: 8/2/2013
Enchanting!
Review Date: 2/26/2010
Maybe not quite as good as Belorus (first book in the series), but still gripping.
Review Date: 8/14/2010
Helpful Score: 1
Delightful reading of this lovely non-murder mystery! Highly recommend.
Review Date: 6/26/2010
Helpful Score: 1
Much better than most sci-fi/fantasy short story collections I've read! Enjoyed the tales in this book thoroughly!
Review Date: 5/2/2012
Fun futuristic sci-fi incorporating thoughts about computer security and Heinlein's unusual ideas about sexuality. A good read.
Review Date: 4/21/2010
An excellent starting place for the beginning or casual bird-watcher who doesn't know where to begin!
Review Date: 9/27/2014
Interesting and somewhat surreal retelling of a Hungarian folk story, set in modern-day Detroit. I found it a bit confusing in the beginning; this was due in part to the frequent changes in points of view, and in part because the book plunges right into the story with no setup, leaving the reader to figure out for oneself what's going on. But I persevered and ended up with that delighted, surprised feeling one sometimes gets at the end of a good story.
I'm not familiar with Megan Lindholm, but I regard Steven Brust as one of the most interesting and creative fantasy authors I have read.
I'm not familiar with Megan Lindholm, but I regard Steven Brust as one of the most interesting and creative fantasy authors I have read.
Review Date: 7/11/2011
I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It was a little frustrating that the book ends in the middle of the story, but I was able to find a copy of the sequel quickly on PBS and am now in the middle of that. I enjoy the pseudo Sino-Japanese flavor of the culture, and the story itself is interesting and a little different. It's not "great literature," so I didn't give it five stars, but it's well thought out, believable, and absorbing.
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