tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80701914647720932732010-08-28T11:45:05.497-05:00Welcome to my reading corner, a book review blog.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958965839280504701noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070191464772093273.post-85932963632602737652009-08-12T20:40:00.004-05:002009-08-17T05:21:04.642-05:002009-08-17T05:21:04.642-05:00

Beasts of New York: A children's book for grown-ups by Jon EvansIn this story our protagonist is a squirrel named Patch, he lives in Central Park in New York City. There is trouble in the park, or Central Kingdom, as it's called. The rats are working with the Meadow squirrels and traitors to serve the King Beneath to kill all the squirrels in the Central Kingdom. Patch meets many adventures and

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The Ark has a slick cover and a nice description and I found it recently for free from the author's website and I thought I'd give it a try. I could tell right from the beginning but was hoping I was wrong. I kept reading and kept knowing more and more that it was true. This is another fill-in-the-blank romance. Just like 100 billion other stories that may or may not call themselves romances.

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958965839280504701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070191464772093273.post-23259389501464162802009-04-03T01:44:00.010-05:002009-04-03T02:22:49.352-05:002009-04-03T02:22:49.352-05:00

The Whiskey Rebels is set in America around 1791-1792. It's a story of the country's economy being threatened by greedy investors, and that part of the story is based on real history. The book is part mystery as Ethan Saunders spends most of the book trying to find out what's going on and we follow as he discovers secrets, makes choices, and figures it all out. Love, revenge, patriotism,

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The Basement is a 66 page story about a wannabe screenwriter and a couple of cops who think he's a serial killer. The point of view shifts between the writer and the killer throughout, and you don't know if they are the same person or not. The story keeps you guessing the entire time, until the end when there is a pretty good twist. I liked it and recommend it. I wake up like a jolt of

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Gone With The Trash is a humorous space adventure about a couple of trash men caught up between the military and a terrorist group. The book is fun adventure from beginning to end. The main characters are very likable as they face danger in their Spiffy Sensor Suit Undergarments, Geronimo with his stolen red cape. Their personalities are definitely different as Gladius is driven to do what he

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This is a romance. Everything that happens in the book is the author's excuse for why these two characters are forced together. Reluctantly; is there any other way? They are distracted from doing anything by how the other looks, smells, their awesome personalities and abilities, etc. (bank accounts completely unimportant) until they can't resist — strong and determined as they are — and must rip

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958965839280504701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070191464772093273.post-79376591614054627302008-12-01T12:30:00.012-06:002008-12-16T20:59:19.945-06:002008-12-16T20:59:19.945-06:00

Ok so I got an offer in the mail from Fictionwise: Your Wish List Is Our Command. It says I can get 15 to 25% off the books on my wish list. It specifically gives the book title and how much off they are giving me for each. Limited time promotion.I go to their site and there is no discount being shown either on the wish list page, nor on the cart when I move the books there. I write to them

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958965839280504701noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070191464772093273.post-8236541311794276842008-11-28T00:00:00.001-06:002008-12-28T23:53:03.994-06:002008-12-28T23:53:03.994-06:00

I have started a new blog with links to legally distributed free ebooks, called Finding Free eBooks. The purpose is to have one place where you can get a single rss feed and be notified of lots of free books. I will add individual author sites and larger multi-author sites (but only if they offer something different from those already listed), and time limited free give-aways. You can sign up for

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In this story, a young boy dies of cancer and his family has his brain scanned into a computer so he can keep on living in a virtual world. The boy doesn't even realize he's not real and his world is not real. This is a short story, and yet it brings forth different emotions and raises interesting questions. Personally, I like the "ignorance is bliss" concept. The boy is happy until he knows the

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958965839280504701noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070191464772093273.post-43311383570331784792008-10-23T01:00:00.008-05:002008-11-04T18:15:13.943-06:002008-11-04T18:15:13.943-06:00

In this story, after 17yo Chris Baker's father dies, he finds himself in some strange situations. What's even stranger is his ability to get out of them. This book reminds me of the Bourne books, when Jason Bourne wakes up not knowing who he is or who is after him, nor why he is so skilled at escaping these assassins. Chris Baker also has some unusual skills and doesn't know where or when he got

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958965839280504701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070191464772093273.post-31129944668522227012008-10-12T12:27:00.008-05:002008-10-16T10:10:28.714-05:002008-10-16T10:10:28.714-05:00

This is O.J. Simpson's story of his relationship with Nicole Brown Simpson and his confession of the murder of Nicole and Ron Goldman, up to the time he was arrested. It is a handbook for poor judgement and immature behavior, denial, blaming others for your own choices, and being oblivious to your actions and their consequences. How to have a terrible relationship and create trouble in your life

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958965839280504701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070191464772093273.post-47462378130046193442008-10-01T19:34:00.005-05:002008-10-02T10:39:59.384-05:002008-10-02T10:39:59.384-05:00

Originally published 1987.In this story an innocent man is sent to a penal colony on murder charges. The colony is an island where there is no supervision at all, the prisoners are dropped there and left to fend for themselves. The only time the government takes notice is when something happens that might bring the world's attention to what they are doing with the prisoners. I liked the book a

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958965839280504701noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070191464772093273.post-15259880485366065622008-05-29T08:35:00.043-05:002009-02-05T14:13:48.830-06:002009-02-05T14:13:48.830-06:00

(This post will be updated with my experiences with the Cybook.)As you may know, I have a Cybook ebook reader by Bookeen. It used to be a buggy product with bad customer service and a stupidly high price, but since I "upgraded" to their new firmware release I cannot read for even an hour's time without problems. It won't save bookmarks unless I have just reset and rebooted it. It loses settings,

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Published 2003. This is a love story about a man who has a medical condition which causes unexpected and uncontrolled time travel, and the woman he loves. She first meets him when she is six years old and he's thirty-six; he first meets her when he is twenty-eight and she is twenty. It's very sweet and also well thought out and well written. A page turner. I liked it.

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This is a relatively short book about several characters living in Hollywood, some of whom happen to be serial killers. It's not so much a crime story as it is peeks into these character's minds. There is a constant comedic undercurrent which I thoroughly enjoyed. Michael threw the tuxedo on the bed. He began to unbuckle. He didn’t have a black button-down shirt so he had to settle on dark navy

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If you knew everything, were smarter than everyone, were better at everything than everyone, and had far, far more money than anyone, what would you do with your time? The Count of Monte Cristo lavishly spends incredible sums, and elaborately dishes out his own version of justice."I too, as happens to every man once in his life, have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17958965839280504701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070191464772093273.post-62933947100512739362008-03-10T22:39:00.007-05:002008-03-14T14:10:34.884-05:002008-03-14T14:10:34.884-05:00

I bought this electronic dictionary for use with my Cybook because it boasts "over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, covering general and specialist words, literary, historical, and technical terms, and new words that have recently entered the language." But my 1983 American Heritage Dictionary paperback, which claims only 60,000 words has many defined words that the Concise Oxford does

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Published in 1852, nine years before the beginning of the American Civil War. Written by a school teacher, and Christian Abolitionist. It's hard to imagine something dividing this country so strongly that one half would turn and wage war upon the other, and yet that's exactly what these years were leading up to. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the second best-selling book of the 19th century, behind the

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edit October 15, 2008:I have formatted some books for mobipocket, they are available through links at the bottom of this blog page. There are websites coming along now that post a lot of free public domain ebooks. (By the way, stores are charging for some public domain books, so you may want to check other sites before buying one because you can probably get it for free.) Reasons I may do a hand

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Most of us know the basics of the Arabian Nights stories: A sultan is going to kill his wife in the morning and in an effort to keep living she starts telling him stories and leaves off at a moment that will encourage him to want to hear the rest of the story the next night. Then follows the various short stories. These stories are actually very old and probably passed down as an oral tradition

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First published in 1848. I read a mobipocket ebook. I wanted to read this book, and I wanted to like it. My favorite kind of fiction is when the author bases it on historical fact, and that's what this author claims repeatedly to have done. I also like reading about English kings. I know the author has a bad reputation, but I wanted it to be worse than he really deserved. I am giving up on this

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First published 1912. I read a mobipocket ebook.On Monday, April 15, 1912, 2:20am, the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic after having struck an iceberg. 1500 people perished. The author of this book is one of the 700 survivors. He wrote the book and it was published in June of 1912, just a couple of months after the incident. The author gives his first hand experience as a passenger, and it's

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First published in 1881. I read a mobipocket ebook.A young Edward, Prince of Wales and a Pauper called Tom accidentally switch places one day and what follows are their adventures in the other's life until they finally manage to set things straight. This is a charming story, full of adventure. We go around the countryside trying to find food and shelter while trying to escape the company of

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Published 1897. I read a mobipocket ebook.Dracula, famous for making vampires famous. A group of friends discover strange happenings through two independent incidents. One, Jonathan Harker goes to Transylvania to visit the Count on business and finds himself a prisoner of his unusual host. Then, back in London another of the group is deathly ill and they come to realize that her problem is a

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This blog has been moved from my own webspace to Blogger. I think it'll be faster for me to publish new reviews this way. The RSS feed at feedburner will now come from Blogger, so you don't need to change it if you're subscribed.

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