Tag: review
member name: Leslie ~ from NYC ~ R.
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July 11, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
I'd hoped to go see this with my movie buddy, but I am realizing since we get together so infrequently, and I've been missing movies I'd like to see, I should jump on this when it was available. . . . more
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June 07, 2008 03:21 PM EDT --
Adam Sandler and other SNL regulars - funny, silly, stereotypes, message movie, set in NYC (part in "Israel")
Light, fun, he looks good naked, and what's with all the male nudity in movies . . . more
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June 02, 2008 06:19 AM EDT --
I was taking a break from the difficult reading I've been doing about the Chinese Cultural Revolution... whew.
This book is light fantasy. It was SO much fun. The tension builds and builds - this . . . more
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June 07, 2008 06:22 PM EDT --
Deep into my reading about China and Chinese culture..
The book goes into depth about the VietNam war - veterans telling their stories (she led an on-going writers workshop in California), people who . . . more
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December 08, 2007 04:23 PM EST --
... to the museum
(American Museum of Natural History - www.amnh.org )
With four students and another teacher... I am so glad I'd bought the membership - family style - for two adults . . . more
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September 02, 2007 10:09 AM EDT --
"A Dead-End Job Mystery"
Author: Elaine Viets
When I was in San Diego, I went to a book talk with my mother. The person who leads the talks discusses a dozen books. She mentioned . . . more
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September 09, 2007 04:29 PM EDT --
The book is enchanting. I love the author, Orson Scott Card, and have read at least 10 of his books.
This is a re-writing of the fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, wherein the main character goes back . . . more
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October 02, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
Author: Calvin Trillin
I've read a few books by this author before. It seems as if his marriage was so strong that he "snuck" his wife in no matter the subject . . . more
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October 03, 2007 07:26 PM EDT --
Author: Robert James
I am SO clearly not the target audience of this book!
It is one in a series directed at pre-teen boys who liked the television show.
There are alternate realities, . . . more
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November 20, 2007 02:47 PM EST --
I've been to the restaurant before, with my movie buddy. This time I went alone. For some reason, there are a LOT of people eating there alone. The food is good and . . . more
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July 05, 2008 04:25 PM EDT --
After looking at the poster for this movie for the past few months, I thought it would be quite skippable. But it was the next movie to be playing when I arrived at the theater and I do like the . . . more
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August 24, 2007 04:23 PM EDT --
I saw the movie based on this book shortly after it was released. The book seems a bit more chilling and the story is organized differently. The older teacher, Barbara, is the narrator and everything comes . . . more
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September 01, 2007 07:38 PM EDT --
Author: Kathleen Cambor
This is a novel which is based on a factual occurrence - a flood in 1889 in Johnstown Pennsylvania. The rich had a hunting and fishing lodge above the dam, the town . . . more
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September 11, 2007 05:28 AM EDT --
Author: Robert Alexander
The mystery surrounding the death of the Romanovs - the last ruling family of Russia - has intrigued me for a long time. It was sparked again a few years . . . more
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September 19, 2007 07:22 PM EDT --
Author: David Williams
This book was advertised at the back of another book I was reading. It was published in 1976, but feels as if it had been written years earlier.
It is a British . . . more
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September 23, 2007 06:54 PM EDT --
Author: Steve Martin
Yes, that Steve Martin - he's an author AND an actor. I wonder, in reading this book, if he saw himself playing the "older man" lead. . . . more
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September 25, 2007 07:24 AM EDT --
Author: Robert Nye
This is a prose version of the story. It was different in feel and some details frm then verse version I'd read a few years ago.
I had found the verse version . . . more
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September 30, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
Author: W.P. Kinsella
Turns out this is the book "Field of Dreams" is based on. I thought it was a bit of a coincidence that the author's name was the name of the main character... . . . more
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October 06, 2007 04:59 PM EDT --
Author: Ann Brashares
This is basically chick lit for teenagers. The friendships are very important and while each girl goes through some harrowing, coming of age, experiences . . . more
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October 09, 2007 06:10 AM EDT --
All I remembered about this movie was the fact that it was always dark and that the two leading male characters had philosophized on the rooftop.
It was still dark; the rain was non-stop in the . . . more
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