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The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors: A Novel
by Michele Young-Stone
Riveting Read, Disappointing End (5/13/2010)
The two main characters really captured my imagination, they were well drawn and interesting. However the HandBook inserts got tiring after a while and the repetition of the lightning strikes did stretch my credulity; I wanted the author to have me work a bit more versus spelling everything out.
Romancing Miss Bronte: A Novel
by Juliet Gael
Yawn, too long (3/12/2010)
I really wanted to like this book, but, when, after 100 pages both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights were already published, and I knew that the Brontes hadn't written any other books....Yikes! what would the remaining 300 pages be about? How plain, how sad the lives of themore
Making Toast: A Family Story
by Roger Rosenblatt
Toast a Little Dry (11/6/2009)
Making Toast is a gentle tale that reads like a reality show camera aiming at this heartbroken family. Unfortunately, although the story is tragic, it is curiously disaffecting. I couldn't help but think of how different this story would be if the family weren't somore
The Last Bridge
by Teri Coyne
TV Movie Fodder (5/27/2009)
I will admit that I read the entire book in one evening, it is a compelling, easy read. Within the first 50 pages, I had it categorized--this will definitely be a chick TV movie. We have seen the scenario in many slightly varied forms--abuse, rape, coming of age love, andmore
How We Decide
by Jonah Lehrer
Thinking about Thinking (12/22/2008)
If my science class had been as interesting as "How We Decide", I would have been more likely to consider a career as a scientist. The book has a heavyweight bibliography, extensive technical references and descriptions of brain parts that I will hopefully never have tomore
How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman
Do Patients Think about how Doctors Think? (7/23/2008)
I never really thought that much about how doctors came to their diagnoses or conclusions. To a certain extent like my parents and grandparents, doctors have held a more than human status in my mind.

This book does not really tell me anything that logically, I could havemore
Broken Colors
by Michele Zackheim
Broken Colors (3/13/2008)
The author defines the artistic term of "broken colors" as the mixing of two colors to create a third. The mixed color has a muddy cast versus the luminous quality of the pure, unmixed version. Unfortunately, the execution of this story is muddy, with the characters drawnmore
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