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Posted on October 2, 2008.
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by Pamela Rice Hahn
Short-sighted sites like m-w.com and Wikipedia limit their definition of a muse as any of the nine sister goddesses in Greek mythology who presided over song, poetry, and the arts and sciences. Things have evolved since the day of the Zeus excuse. (Evidence)
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Posted on December 12, 1998.
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Review Submitted by Luanne Oleas
Angela’s Ashes
Angela’s Ashes is available in:
HARDCOVER
AUDIO CD
Written (and read) By
Frank McCourt
‘Tis sure that only the Irish could take a childhood filled with lack, poverty, and drunkenness and make the world smile. Frank McCourt tells of his youth in the lanes of Limerick with a lyrical, lilting voice and a knack for detail that touches the heart.
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Posted on December 9, 1998.
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NOTE: This book is now out of print, but there are used books available. (Chances are you’ll pay more for shipping than you will for the book. If you still use Paint Shop Pro as your computer art-creation program, the book is therefore now a bargain.)
Review Submitted by:Jodi Cornelius
Creating Your Own Web Graphics with Paint Shop Pro by Andrew Bryce Shafran and Dick Oliver is an excellent book for novice and expert Web designers alike. If you’ve ever wanted to create graphics, be they .jpg or .gif, and didn’t know where to start, this book is for you. If you want to learn how to create or make .gifs that are transparent, this book tells you how, step-by-step.
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Posted on December 8, 1998.
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Review submitted by Luanne Oleas
Here on Earth
By Alice Hoffman
For those over 40 who still wonder about that one person from long ago and why it never worked out, Here on Earth lets you know. March Cooper returns to the rural Massachusetts town she left as a girl without her first love, who left her staring out an icy window for three years before she moved to California and married Richard Cooper.
It’s the funeral of her nanny, Judith Dale, that brings March back, carrying more emotional baggage than the red-eye express in the form of her rebellious, spike-haired 15- year-old daughter, Gwen, and an unrequited love for Hollis. In the author’s own unique style of poetic prose lays bare the tale of what happens when a fantasy love becomes a reality.
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Posted on December 7, 1998.
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Review submitted by Dave Silberstein
As thrillers go, Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter has to be an “11″ on a scale of 1-10.
Here’s the plot. A retired sniper, living in the Arkansas moutains by himself, is framed as the shooter who takes a shot at the President. The FBI and the Secret Service are after him, and they have him IDed at the site of the shooting, they have his rifle, and they have his notes on shooting sites where the Prez will be.
The guys who framed him are also after him because he knows who they are, and he just plain doesn’t have a friend in the world.
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Posted on December 6, 1998.
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Murdering Mr. Monti
by Judith Viorst
Brenda, a thrice-weekly advice columnist, plots to off Mr. Monti because of his threat to her favorite son. (Mr. Monti doesn’t approve of Brenda’s son dating his daughter, so forget any chance of him marrying her.)
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Posted on December 5, 1998.
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Thirty years ago, in Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey first introduced readers to the world of Pern and the flying dragons that protected it from the ravages of Thread. In the ensuing years she has written over a dozen books set in that same world–each one giving her readers more insight into the people and dragons that populate Pern. The world of Pern and the threat of the Red Star have become mainstays in the science-fiction genre.
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Posted on December 4, 1998.
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I must admit my reasons for buying and beginning to read War and Peace by Count Leo Tolstoy, were superficial at first. My thoughts were, “Well, I’ll be able to say I’ve read War and Peace.” Thereby making myself an instant intellectual, of course. As I began to read, however, a strange, deepening realization began to take hold within me. This was a book that was going to change my perspective on life.
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Posted on December 3, 1998.
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Worst Fears
by Fay Weldon
Alexandra, an actor starring in a production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, is summoned home due to forty-nine-year-old Ned’s sudden death from a massive heart attack. Weldon uses an interesting disjointed story-telling style to expose Alexandra’s husband’s infidelities. During the course of the book, Alexandra works her way through the devastating realizations that nothing about her marriage was as it seemed.
Alexandria’s journey of self-discovery is both painful and poignant.
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