Tag: review
member name: lilly @Reading Extravaganza
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December 23, 2009 08:33 AM EST --
I am usually not a big fan of books with animals as main characters. I decided to break away from this pattern and read The Elephant Keeper , especially that the description mentioned . . .
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March 21, 2009 08:45 PM EDT --
F irst of all, Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione was my first ever paranormal romance, and a Demonica novel, I might add. I was always wary of reading these types of books and now I am just . . .
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December 20, 2009 12:17 PM EST --
This was my first encounter with Ms. Graham's writing. All I knew about her was that she wrote in a few different genres, including romance and thriller. Nightwalker is a paranormal thriller, . . .
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April 14, 2009 07:11 AM EDT --
My life, just like, I suspect, everybody else's, has been filled with many hardships. Some of them resolved and others still lingering. Because of those unresolved misfortunes, I need a lot of . . .
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April 15, 2009 07:43 AM EDT --
Do most people learn from their mistakes and I am one of the few that fall for the "oh, so fantastic" blurbs printed on the covers of books time and again? Or do we all stubbornly buy . . .
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November 16, 2009 06:57 AM EST --
Psychological thrillers have got to be one of my favorite books to read. And yet for the past ten months or so I feel like I have completely abandoned them for the sake of discovering . . .
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March 12, 2009 07:49 AM EDT --
L et me just come straight out and say that I am not a die-hard fan of Jane Austen or chick lit. Not that I hate either of them, I simply would pass on books by this author or in this genre . . .
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March 31, 2009 09:34 AM EDT --
Since I started reading romance fiction I have realized that there truly is an abundance of different sub-genres within the romance category. And I have also been lucky to read romances that I really . . .
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April 01, 2009 06:48 AM EDT --
I have to come right out and say that I did not use to consider myself a die-hard fan of romance novels. I did devour them when I was a teenager but then the real life happened and a happily-ever-after . . .
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April 13, 2009 11:16 AM EDT --
I really wa nted to read a book that I could write a positive review of. Before I bought The Birth of Venus, I had heard praises sung about it. Following other people's advice I acquired it for . . .
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April 21, 2009 10:26 AM EDT --
Today is another Day of Remembrance and I am writing here about a book that is just perfect for the remembering of Holocaust. First however, I would like to say a little bit on my experiences . . .
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March 30, 2009 09:27 PM EDT --
Many books have been written about the Tudor England, especially about Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, but King's Fool is a special one. I write 'special' because it is written from the . . .
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April 03, 2009 08:27 AM EDT --
As promised two days ago, I give you a short interview with Donna Lea Simpson, the author of Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark . I hope you'll enjoy reading the interview and maybe even consider . . .
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December 16, 2009 07:54 PM EST --
I will tell you a secret. Up until Alice I Have Been appeared on the horizon, I had no idea that there really was a girl named Alice and that Lewis Carroll (Reverend Charles . . .
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April 08, 2009 07:53 AM EDT --
W hen I find out that one of my most favorite authors comes out with a new book I am both very excited and anxious. That was the case with BoneMan's Daughters by Ted Dekker. Among the contemporary . . .
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June 28, 2009 10:15 AM EDT --
From time to time I really like to read something that will truly scare me. That's why early Koontz and King are my favorites. I also like it when a horror fiction doesn't involve supernatural beings . . .
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March 28, 2009 03:40 PM EDT --
Ho w does one review a classic? I have always had major issues with doing that. I do enjoy reading classic literature, probably more than any other genre, but when it comes to actually reviewing . . .
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July 04, 2009 06:39 AM EDT --
I am one of the people who yearn for spiritual peace but get instead spiritual turmoil. There have been times in my life when I was absolutely certain of my faith and of God's existence, and His benevolent . . .
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August 28, 2009 08:40 AM EDT --
Blood on His Hands by Mark P. Sadler
I have performed very poorly as far as reading goes in the past couple of months (*gasp* is it really months?! Yes, I guess it is!!!). I started . . .
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August 29, 2009 09:04 AM EDT --
Back in my days working for a big chain bookstore I would let myself be swayed in my reading choices by what the customers were buying. If I noticed a trend, I would start making a list of titles . . .
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