Tag: reading
member name: Janelle Martin
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June 12, 2006 08:32 AM EDT --
"Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink." Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fred Pearce has been writing and consulting on environmental issues for decades. . . . more
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August 27, 2006 04:05 PM EDT --
Few adults who had young children in 1996 will forget the Elmo fever that swept the nation as Tickle Me, Elmo become the "must have" toy of the Christmas season. Anyone who unfamiliar with the . . . more
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March 08, 2007 11:45 AM EST --
March is the month to celebrate all things small press. From the organization's website: "Now in its 11th year, this is a nationwide promotion highlighting the valuable work produced by independent . . . more
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July 26, 2006 01:09 AM EDT --
"Kristallnacht was the prelude to the destruction of a whole people, and an indication of what happens when a society falls victim to its baser instincts." Sir Martin Gilbert
On November 9, . . . more
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September 01, 2006 01:34 AM EDT --
I just finished reading Before I Wake by Robert J. Wiersema and this is an incrediblely moving book. I don't know how to write most of my reaction without giving away a lot of the plot so all . . . more
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March 22, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
The longlist for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction has been announced, with 20 books on the list. (None of which I've read, although I have two in my possession.)
* Half of a Yellow Sun . . . more
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May 07, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
The Seas, Samantha Hunt's debut novel, relates the coming of age story of a nameless 19-year-old young woman as she struggles to free herself from small town life and a terrifying destiny. Branded . . . more
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June 01, 2006 09:33 AM EDT --
The fourth entry in Katie MacAlister's paranormal romance series featuring the Dark Ones is sure to satisfy her many fans and earn her some new ones. Full of her trademark sense of humour and kooky . . . more
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June 06, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
As the title implies, Innocence is about three young women in London, learning about themselves as they leave home for the first time and attend acting school. Fourteen years later, as Evie faces a turning . . . more
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June 06, 2006 11:49 AM EDT --
The Monsters of Gramercy Park by Danny Leigh draws the reader into a haunting tale of need and a struggle for power between two determined personalities. Wilson Velez, the convicted felon and leader of . . . more
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June 20, 2006 12:55 PM EDT --
William Wilson, a down-at-the-heels conjurer, is engaged as the warm-up act to a pair of "dancers" at Inspector James Montgomery's retirement party. Put up for the job by his friend Sam, . . . more
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June 27, 2006 09:17 AM EDT --
Haley Farrell has a lot on her plate; redecorating your shrink's office is no easy task, especially for a first-class snoop like Haley. The temptation to "overhear" conversations is . . . more
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June 30, 2006 03:33 PM EDT --
We all work from lists: to do lists; the books you'd take with you to a desert island; the criteria for a perfect mate. In The List: a Love Story in 781 Chapters, Aneva Stout has taken the novel, distilled . . . more
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July 02, 2006 03:22 PM EDT --
Dodecahedron: A Platonic Solid composed of twelve pentagonal faces, with three meeting at each vertex. It has twenty vertices and thirty edges. Definition from Wikipedia.org
Paul Glennon's The . . . more
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July 27, 2006 01:48 AM EDT --
Kate Barlow grew up knowing her family was "different" but was unclear about the details. In 1948, Kate, her mother and her two sisters moved into their grandmother's home Agapemone (Greek . . . more
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August 17, 2006 12:27 AM EDT --
"Are there situations, long-term situations, where conflict does not wait around every bend, where time does not unspool only in anticipation of your errors" – from The Man of My Dreams . . . more
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September 22, 2006 02:57 PM EDT --
Light My Fire, the third novel in Katie MacAlister's Aisling Grey, Guardian series, may just be her best yet. Aisling, demon lord, Guardian, and wyvern's mate, has just moved to London to finally . . . more
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October 13, 2006 01:58 PM EDT --
I wrote this article in August for an online publication which did not end up publishing it. So, even though it is already early October I thought it was worth posting here.
2006 has been a year of . . . more
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December 27, 2006 02:15 PM EST --
When a witch is born, a doppelganger is also created. In order for a witch to gain control of those powers, her doppelganger must be destroyed according to traditions passed down for generations. . . . more
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February 09, 2007 11:28 PM EST --
Written for the rhyme “This is the House that Jack Built,” In Arctic Waters grew out of a science unit on the Arctic. Laura Crawford was fascinated with the animals of the region and created . . . more
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