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Book Review: “L is for Lawless” by Sue Grafton
Genre: Mystery Rating: 3.5 WaterTowers In “L is for Lawless”, Kinsey has agreed to help a friend of Henry Pitt’s (remember Henry is Kinsey’s octegenarian landlord). A few months ago, this friend, Johnny Lee died of a heart attack. His son and grandson are now trying to get reimbusement for the burial expenses from the…
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E-Book Sales Increasing
I stumbled across this article on the increasing sales of the electronic books (E-Books). UPDATE: Jan 6, 2009 Here is another interesting article on this subject on CNN. Amazon’s Kindle appears to have gathered the approval of Oprah (see the post directly below this one) and is now out of stock until Feb…
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Advice for Oprah
See this article concerning the cancellation of a book by Holocaust survivors. The person writing it appeared on Oprah’s show more than once. Seems that lately a lot of non-fiction isn’t. Here is some advice: Fiction is a great genre to cover. 🙂
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Book Review: “First to Kill” by Andrew Peterson
Genre: Thriller Rating: 3 WaterTowers “A smile touched Nathan’s lips. Nathan McBride in his environment–ready, willing, and able to kick ass.” Once again I was lucky to find an autographed copy of a book. This time at Costco in Tracy, CA. I was even luckier that “First to Kill” is smack dab in the…
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Book Review: “The Mystery of the Sea” by Bram Stoker
Genre: Mystery Rating: 4 Water Towers Archibald Hunter was spending his annual vacation in Cruden Bay, Scotland when he sees two women and a man walking abreast. Suddenly, he has a vision of the man carrying a coffin and the two women walking behind. Just as suddenly, he sees the three walking normal again.…
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Book Review: “Black Wind” by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
Genre: Adventure Thriller Rating: 3 Water Towers “By the time the chimera ran its course, tens of millions would lie dead in the U.S., with untold more around the world. Not a family would go unscathed by its black touch….” In “Black Wind” Clive and his son Dirk have given us a thrill ride of…
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Breaking News: Michael Crichton
I was just looking at CNN when the headline came up that Michael Crichton has passed away. I’ll get a link and put it here in a bit. (I’m hoping the news is wrong.) A very sad day for readers. Mr. Crichton was one of the best….he will be greatly missed. Here are the Reviews…
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Obama Wins!
At last…..at long last….we have HOPE.
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Three Quick Book Reviews
As I was long term subbing for the 7th grade class, I fell behind a bit in my reading and blogs. Here are 3 short reviews of the books I read while subbing. “The First Billion” by Christopher Reich 3 WaterTowers Jeff Gavallan is planning to take a new Russian telecommunications company public. Unfortunately, Gavallan…
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“Fatal Care” by Sanjaya Kumar, MD
NOTE: This is a preview rather than a review since I will proceed reading “Fatal Care” one story at a time over the next few months. As you know, I collect signed books. I have recently been lucky enough to receive a signed copy of “Fatal Care” written by Sanjaya Kumar an MD who lives…
TracyReaderDad: Book Reviews 