Tag: reviews
group name: thewritersreview
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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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June 24, 2007 02:55 AM EDT --
Last Friday evening, my seventeen year old son, Nick, and I attended a concert in Clear Lake, Iowa, at the historic Surf Ballroom. The Surf is best known as the last place Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, . . . 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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February 12, 2007 10:00 AM EST --
By Jill Conner Browne with Karin Gillespie
I have to get straight to the point. I was disappointed.
To be fair I LOVE the Sweet Potato series. I laughed out loud reading Jill’s . . . more
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July 31, 2007 01:19 PM EDT --
Gather membership does have its rewards well beyond the points. I love mystery/suspense novels. It was right here at Gather that I learned of “The Liar’s Diary” written by first-time . . . more
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October 14, 2007 01:37 PM EDT --
Dear People,
Why bother writing a book report or small piece on a book if you can say no more than the following:
"Title" by Someone is a good book. I enjoyed it. You . . . more
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January 16, 2007 12:44 AM EST --
This book is another thriller but it was very interesting reading it. It was about a young man named Odd Thomas. She Dean made it to where it looked like that Odd had written this book. Odd was a . . . more
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March 21, 2007 02:09 PM EDT --
What would you have done if you were an ordinary German citizen during World War II? Would you have risked your life to hide some Jews? Or turned them in? Would you have joined the Resistance? . . . more
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April 23, 2007 03:05 AM EDT --
Well Carl, no manuscipt ever seems ready. I go over mine several times, my wife is excellent in grammar and spelling spends hours on it. Then I send to my editor who proceeds to point . . . more
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March 08, 2008 04:15 PM EST --
Everyone who's a reader loves that anticipatory thrill of opening a new book, settling into the corner of your overstuffed sofa, clearing one's mind, and sinking into the first line, the opening . . . more
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February 06, 2007 09:28 PM EST --
"I don't think writing is an art. I think it's sometimes raised to an art, but basically it's a craft, like cabinet making or carpentry." William Zinsser, On Writing Well
No . . . more
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July 22, 2007 08:14 PM EDT --
She put on the booties and fins, strapped the tank to her back, and cleaned the faceplate of the mask with seawater. With tools in hand, Becky walked into the lagoon backwards . . . more
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January 19, 2007 01:27 PM EST --
There are people going missing everyday,but you read about that all the time.No biggy,sad but no biggy.What happens when it is your best friend?This can make you feel like they have passed on and are never . . . more
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May 08, 2007 09:10 AM EDT --
Reviewing has been a hot subject among kidlit bloggers lately, ever since the magazine n+1 came up with an article a couple of weeks ago which criticized—though not in such direct terms—bloggers . . . more
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May 11, 2007 01:12 PM EDT --
Recently, I was invited to submit my query to Ty T.'s group for the Gather members to dissect,and comment on. I plan on doing this. I know the feedback may be . . . more
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April 29, 2007 09:10 PM EDT --
Today I had a lovely afternoon with my Mom. My Mom turned 90 in January and since her retirement from the Old Colony Memorial Newspaper two years ago due to an injured knee, she doesn't get out much. . . . more
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January 22, 2007 12:19 AM EST --
This is just a quick one. Recently I've been exploring sites that pay you to write, but both the ones I encountered (Associated Content and PayPerPost) use PayPal (yuk!). . . . more
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April 11, 2007 11:58 PM EDT --
After the great comments from more than 90 people as a First Chapters submission, the Leviathan has been revised to meet YOUR suggestions. Most of them, anyway. The entire story is now in the past tense . . . more
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March 21, 2007 10:34 AM EDT --
The greatest teacher I've ever known/have had the honor of making their acquaintance was Mrs. June Clarkson. She was like no other teacher, I remember my first day in biology I walked into . . . more
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June 10, 2007 11:51 PM EDT --
Terminal
Brian Keene
Copyright 2005 by Brian Keene
Published by Bantam Dell
Thriller
What would you do if you only had a month to live? Tommy O'Brien decides to rob a bank.
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