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Review: All Our Wonder Unavenged

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Title: All Our Wonder Unavenged
Author: Don Domanski
Date: April 2007

This was the winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2007. It won for Poetry. Its a collection of his poetry. There is 40 beautifully written poems. I had a hard time to pick a favorite to really brag about but too choose one I would have to say Three Ribbons. The reason why?

“I could remind you that the world
is still here in deepest space
that the human heart is still
three ribbons tied to a belief
in flesh and form.”

When I was reading them I could actually invision myself there. He writes beautifully. Plus he is Canadian. Born and raised in Cape Breton NS. He now lives in Halifax, NS. He has published eight books of poetry. Two of his books (Wolf Ladder, 1991, and Stations of the Left Hand, 1994) were short-listed for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. In 1999 he won the Canadian Literary Award for Poetry. Published and reviewed internationally, his work has been translated into Czechoslovakian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

 

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Review: The Kissing Hand

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Title: The Kissing Hand

Author: Audrey Penn

Date: June 2006

This is a wonderfully written children’s book. Its very heartwarming and by the end of the book I am sure you will be crying like I was.

The book is about Chester and he is afraid to go to school. His mother tells him about the family secret she was told when she was a little one. Its called the Kissing Hand. The kissing hand is about reassuring him of her love for him.

Going through the I don’t want to go to school with my son, I was recommended this book. The book talks about how we all have to do things we don’t like. That yes it will be scary and strange at first and we will end up liking it. I started doing this with my son.

This is a great book to own in ones library.

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Review: Butterflies In my Stomach

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Title: Butterflies in my Stomach & other school Hazards

Author: Serge Bloch

Date: August 5, 2008

This is such a cute book for kids that might be having a problem going to school. The graphics in the book are so well done. With they use of drawings and photographs of inanimate objects makes the book that much more special.

My son was laughing his head off. Serge uses child’s-eye look at idiomatic expressions like “ants in your pants,” “a tough nut to crack” and “every cloud has a silver lining”. This are all sayings we use in the adult world but have we ever wondered what kids picture when we say them? This book shows that.

Not sure if this will help him but he really enjoyed having it read to him over and over again. I am going to have to go out and check out his other books.

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Review: Mexican Bowl Fishing and Other Tales of Life

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Title: Mexican Bowl Fishing and other Tales of Life
Author: William Douglas Little
Date: June 20, 2008

I received this from Authorhouse. It was a Bostick Communications Email.

This book was such a quick and funny read that I read it in one sitting. I wasn’t sure when I started to read it but the very first short story was called “Eddie’s bad Day” made me change my mind. This story was funny. Its about a guy who has prepared for a presentation the night before and decided that he was going to stay home until it was time to leave for his meeting in the afternoon. He had no reason to go to the office. It was a time to take it easy and goof off. Well you know how Murphy’s Law works. If anything bad can happen it will. Eddie is struck by so many misfortunes that you can’t help but sit back and laugh.

The whole book is like that. One funny story after another. William has written 26 stories in this book. They are all filled with misfortunes that has happened to him all his life. When you read the stories you feel as though you have been in similar situations as him. From trips to Walmart and Speedy Lube to waiting for take out food from a Chinese restaurant. You can relate to William.

I have to say if you need a quick pick me upper then this is the book for you. It makes you realize that you are not the only one with bad luck, misfortune or minor complications in your life, that there is actually other people going through them too.

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Review: Summer Blowout

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TITLE: SUMMER BLOWOUT
AUTHOR: CLAIRE COOK
DATE: JUNE 2008 (ARC)

Summer Blowout by Claire Cook is the authors 5th book. This book is very lite and is a very quick read. This is a great summer book. I would say its chick lit.

The main character is Bella. She is a divorced make up artist/hair stylist. She is working in the family business with her father and siblings. She is obsessed with lipstick. “Lipstick is my drug of choice”.

We find out during the story that Bella’s life revovles around the family business. This family seems like a happy family but we discover that is not all that it appears to be. Her father has been married 3x already. Her brother Mario is gay and committed to his partner Todd.

Bella’s marriage is over and she is divorced. She founds out after he left that her half sister Sophie was involved with her then husband. Bella is bitter towards them both. She has thrown things at her ex’s car and doesn’t speak to her sister. Bella has sworn of men and relationships.

Bella thinks that she can be happy on her own with no man. Then by accident a little dog left in her care makes Bella realizes that love is worth taking risks for. Then during one of the make up demos she meets a young, handsome entrepeneur named Sean. Sean tells Bella that she has a talent as a make up artist and how she can make a name for herself selling make up kits.

Bella’s interest in Sean starts to grow. She tries to keep her distance with him and to keep it proffessional. That changes after a crazy family wedding in Atlanta when Bella realizes that its okay to move on.

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Books I have read in 2007

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This was the first time that I kept track of what I read in a year.

-The Xmas Factor—Annie Sanders
-Break No Bones—-Kathy Reich
-Reality Tv Bites—-Shane Bolks
-Judge & Jury——-James Patterson
-Shopaholic & Baby-Sophie Kinsella
-The Kite Runner—-Khaled Hosseini-
Size 12 is not fat—Meg Cabot
-Size 14 is not fat—Meg Cabot
-Step on a Crack—-James Patterson
-Helpless————-Barbara Gowdy
-Sisterhood of the travelling pants–Ann Brashares (book 1-2-3-4)
-Bloodletting & Miraculous cures—Vincent Lamb
-19 minutes———-Jodi Picoult
-Glass Castle——–Jeanette Walls
-Shelf Monkey——Corey Redekop
-Angel Falls———Nora Roberts

 

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Review: The Husband by Dean Koontz

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The Husband: A Novel TITLE: THE HUSBAND
AUTHOR: DEAN KOONTZ
DATE: 2007

This was the first-ever Dean Koontz novel that I have read. He came recommended to me by a person on an online site that I am on. I wasn’t sure at first when I started to read but then I was sucked in. His style of writing is very good and it captures you almost right away.

The Husband, Mitchell Rafferty, is a landscape contractor. One day a job he receives a phone call telling him that his wife Holly has been kidnapped, and unless he can come up with two million dollars in a very short time, she will be killed. To prove that they are serious, the kidnappers direct Mitch to look for a dog walker who is coming up across the street. As he watches, the man is shot in the head. The police are called. When he returns home, having been told to tell no one about the kidnapping, his kitchen looks as if a bloody struggle has taken place, and he realizes that it has been staged so that he will appear to be Holly’s murderer if the police should investigate.

Mitch and his brother and three sisters have had an unusual upbringing. His parents, both tenured professors of psychology at UCI.

In adulthood, all of them dislike, if not hate, their parents—the three sisters living as far from them as possible and having no contact, Mitch working in landscaping and having little to do with them, and his brother Anson living in Newport Beach, where he is a multimillionaire. As Mitch discusses his parents with Anson, Anson comments, ” I have no shame, no capacity for guilt.”

Mitch has no idea at all why Holly has been kidnapped. In the meantime, Mitch has been forced to fight for his life against an intruder in his house, his house and car have been bugged, and his brother Anson has suddenly balked at providing the ransom money. He has no idea of the motive or why these events are happening. As it finally becomes clear the reason behind the kidnapping, the terrifying implications regarding Holly’s future become clear, and Mitch’s ability to rescue her seems more and more unlikely.

There are many moments of excitement, plus an ever-increasing body count, and several fight-to-the-death episodes keep the action very high. I found it to be suspenseful and a page-turner and hard to put down at times.

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