Tag: review
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September 16, 2007 06:37 PM EDT --
The Way Life Should Be - Review by Tyron Paul Touchard
The last Thursday of November 2004, killing a slow afternoon at work, I told the finance guy that I was going to write a . . . more
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March 10, 2008 07:27 PM EDT --
I just got done reading "True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman. A published writer stuck on a juvenile delinquent character in a book he is writing approaches a friend that teaches writing . . . more
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March 14, 2007 10:15 PM EDT --
DiCamillo, Kate. (2003). The Tale of Desperaux. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press. [Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering]
The Tale of Desperauxwas a beautifully written and illustrated . . . more
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May 31, 2007 10:45 PM EDT --
On October 26, 1991 twenty-year-old Clare Abshire met the love of her life at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She planned the meeting. She had spent endless hours with Henry DeTamble since she was a child. . . . more
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April 06, 2007 02:16 PM EDT --
Here is a link to the Prologue, which is fairly short, if you want to read it first:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976948376
Chapter One
July 27, 2008
6:03 A.M. . . . more
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July 03, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
Many people saw the movie when it came out. To quote my professor, "it is not the kind of thing you can call good, but it is a moving emotional experience." I have found out one other thing, . . . more
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March 27, 2008 02:22 AM EDT --
Please join us today (Thursday March 27th at 7 PM EDT) as we host Cait Murphy, author of Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball . . . more
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January 07, 2008 08:10 PM EST --
Illusions, a book written by Richard Bach, was something I tried to read when I was nineteen, but the time wasn't right. A woman who was leaving me gave the book to me, and at that time, I considered . . . more
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April 07, 2008 06:16 AM EDT --
If you missed this one at the box office, don't bother renting it on DVD.
The reviews I had read for this film were so good that I actually went to the theatre to see it, and even taking into . . . more
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November 11, 2007 03:33 PM EST --
I first encountered "The Way Life Should Be" during the First Chapters contest. As one of the novelists in the contest, I had read perhaps 50 other chapters in the contest before . . . more
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July 13, 2008 11:25 AM EDT --
Children From the Sea
by Lookman
Young Adult Fantasy/Mystery
Nightingale Books/Pegasus Publishers
Cambridge, England, 2008
Trade Paperback, 164 pages
ISBN 9781903491638
**** Recommended. . . . more
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November 28, 2007 02:21 AM EST --
Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon
Fr. Tim - Book One
Whether you're a long time fan of Jan Karon's Mitford series or meeting Fr. Tim for the first time, you will enjoy this book. . . . more
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January 26, 2008 09:35 PM EST --
Shortly after submitting the first chapter of my novel in the Next Great Crime Writer Contest, I wondered just how good (or not so good) a former Gather.com . . . more
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February 03, 2008 10:25 AM EST --
One of the drawbacks of not getting to writing a review when you mean to is that - if you allow TOO much time to go by - you end up having to read the book twice.
Fortunately, that . . . more
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April 09, 2007 03:21 PM EDT --
Tom Hanks is a favorite of mine. I saw this in the theater with my Dad in one of those father daughter bonding moments. We had a good time and enjoyed the movie. Tom makes this movie . . . more
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February 11, 2007 09:48 AM EST --
The Virgin Blue is probably the most colorful book I have ever read. The first of Tracy Chevalier's novels it is definitely well done and researched. The thing I loved the . . . more
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November 14, 2007 04:20 PM EST --
Dearest KEO:
I need to ask about the deletion of this comment from a recent book review you published on Gather:
I think the removal was an accident. As a former journalist I know you would . . . more
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March 13, 2007 10:25 PM EDT --
Hesse, K. (1997). Out of the Dust. New York: Scholastic Press.
This book is being read in several schools and I thought I'd give it a review albeit from a parent/teacher perspective. . . . more
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September 12, 2007 08:24 PM EDT --
It's the most exciting story because it takes place in Hollywood in 1939, and that was a good year for that place. The rest of the Country was having a dreadful Great Depression, so you can imagine my . . . more
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April 14, 2007 05:44 PM EDT --
Chapter Two
Minding the Store
The door of the hardware store jingled as Will Jackson opened it to leave. Dwight, the storeowner grunted and returned to his catalog. S-hooks and short lengths . . . more
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