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, . . .
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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. . . .
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December 15, 2008 05:05 PM EST --
I usually read novels really fast - maybe sometimes too fast - but this novel I read at a much slower rate than usual for me. I enjoyed the thoughtful emotional drama going on, and I enjoyed thinking . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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February 15, 2009 10:02 AM EST --
I have never been really crazy about legal thrillers. The ones that I did read tended to be a little too boring for my taste and with so many suspense and thriller books on the market nowadays, . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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February 13, 2009 09:06 AM EST --
Dean Koontz has been one of my favorite horror authors for quite a few years now. Since I hadn't discovered him until after he was an accomplished writer, I am excited to know that I still . . .
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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 . . .
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December 02, 2008 04:00 PM EST --
Follow the magic link and it will take you there. No need to comment, here - just give her a TEN for being fabulous (and read the thing, too) !!!
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977523813 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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January 19, 2009 09:55 PM EST --
I am one of those true geeks who prefer listening to books instead of music. When a few years back I discovered that there actually were books on audio, it was a magical moment for me. I have enjoyed . . .
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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 . . .
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April 19, 2009 01:12 PM EDT --
Hi. This is Brett Ortler, I'm a co-editor and co-founder of Knockout Literary Magazine . we just released the second issue of our print magazine ( www.knockoutlit.org ), and we've also branched . . .
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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 . . .
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