Tag: reviews
group name: mnreaders
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June 18, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
I noticed that Nancy Pearl would be a guest on MPR's Midmorning today [June 18, 2007]:
From the Hardy boys to Harry Potter
Summer reading lists and the latest Harry Potter may absorb younger readers, . . . more
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July 22, 2008 03:28 PM EDT --
Want to become a book reviewer? Bright Ideas by Bestselling Authors is offering free copies of upcoming books to members interested in writing book reviews!
Request a copy by sending a message . . . more
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October 02, 2006 06:14 PM EDT --
What are you reading these days? Seems to be a lot of activity at Gather.com around the Book it to Bermuda Cruise, sponsored by PRBS and Gather, and for the book review contest that's part of it all. . . . more
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August 29, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
I love late August mornings. The light is gold, the air is cool and clear, the grass is deep green and the trees are already showing yellows and reds. With hay in the barn and wood ready to . . . more
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February 13, 2007 01:33 PM EST --
Sunday night in a small coffee house in what the Twin Cities people call “Greater Minnesota,” a group of approximately 100 people crowded around a small stage to listen to poet Robert . . . more
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December 20, 2006 03:13 PM EST --
I favor mysteries for light reading – Brother Cadfael (Ellis Peters), Adam Dalgleish (PD James), Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy Sayers) and, of course, Agatha Christie and Dick Francis. But . . . more
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February 14, 2007 10:46 AM EST --
Reported by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio
February 14, 2007
Listen to feature audio
It's safe to say not many of us have ever heard of writer Joseph Kalar. He was a contemporary of . . . more
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June 21, 2006 08:30 AM EDT --
Bruce Henricksen's "The Zero Club" made me think about how literary writers are received in my own region. Duluth MN has some authors to be proud of. Connie Wanek and Barton Sutter are poets . . . more
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October 11, 2006 12:24 PM EDT --
Indian writer Kiran Desai, who at the age of 35 has become the youngest woman ever to win Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, Wednesday recalled her parent's efforts . . . more
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August 28, 2006 01:55 PM EDT --
I just want to read today. I mean that's all, just read. Do you remember (fondly?!) how Jethro in the Beverly Hillbillies was a mattress tester? It was of course ridiculous but an easy laugh to think . . . more
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June 30, 2008 10:22 AM EDT --
Gather Personality Rhetta A not only read one of my books, but took the time to write a review for Gather about it, so go give her a 10:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977385456#comments . . . more
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November 15, 2006 12:47 PM EST --
Books are just about the best gift. You can give anyone a book, even if they look at you with a perplexed expression that says "why," they're still a great gift. It gets people thinking, . . . more
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September 30, 2006 05:15 PM EDT --
Guys,
I recently read a couple of Amazon books by an english guy called Steven Preece.
The first was called Amongst The Marines, it was a good read . . . more
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October 03, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
I've been indulging myself recently, reading books written by Gather members: Damian McNicholl's A Son Called Gabriel, Moya Goatley's Basket of Rain, and Brazil, the spectacular historical . . . more
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October 17, 2006 02:40 PM EDT --
Anyone else here sick of this untalented maudlin writer's treacly book being hawked all over the margins of Gather? His writing is as cloying as a Hallmark commericial and to boot he was busted for . . . more
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November 27, 2006 02:54 PM EST --
I'm a huge book dork and so I'm always eager to see what books I have read that made the NYTimes Notable books list. Last year I had read quite a few on the list, but this year I've only read four . . . more
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October 03, 2007 10:31 PM EDT --
For months I counted down the days until Ann Patchett's newest book Run arrived in my mailbox. When it arrived I immediately set aside what I was doing and lost myself in the joy of her story-telling. . . . more
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August 27, 2006 02:57 PM EDT --
Brazil , by Gather member Errol Lincoln Uys, is the epic saga of a nation I knew little about until I got sucked into its history by this master story-teller. Not only is it a "vast novel to . . . more
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August 07, 2007 02:23 AM EDT --
I would like to utilize the AmericaTakingAction.com National Education Network to provide my Gather friends with an opportunity to promote their books, those that have been published AND those being . . . more
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June 16, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
I was recently in a waiting room reading my Sony® Reader and was asked, among other things, if the number of titles available for the Reader wasn't rather limited. While it's true . . . more
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