Showing posts with label Teddy's Reviews. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Teddy's Reviews



Below are the links for reviews that I have posted, listed by author:

Art Related Books: 

Adams, Ansel: Ansel Adams In the National Parks 5/5
Gertler, Nat: The Peanuts Collection 5/5 
Greenburg, Jill: Bear Portraits 5/5 
Rosing, Norbert:World of the Polar Bear5/5

Children and Young Adult Books:

Bailey, Linda: Gordon Loggins and the Three Bears 

Blades, Ann: Mary of Mile 18

Brown, Marcia:  Stone Soup 

Calvani, Mayra: Crash 

Maria Campbell: People of the Buffalo

Gay, Marie-Louise: When Stella Was Very, Very Small

Hancock, Lyn: Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon 

Hayden, Davey: Davey Bighead: Dream Big

Highway, Tomson: Caribou Song / atihko Nikamon

Highway, Tomson: Dragonfly Kite 

Highway, Tomson: Fox on the Ice 

Livingson, Irene: Finklehopper Frog Cheers

Lunn, Janet: Amos's Sweater

Marion, Suzanne Davis: Too Too Many Tutus

Moir, Betty: The Adventures of Snip in Oregon

Munsch, Robert: A Promise is a Promise

Munsch, Robert: From Far Away 

Munsch, Robert: Mud Puddle

Munsch, Robert:  The Paper Bag Princess 

Munsch, Robert: Pigs

Munsch, Robert: Show and Tell

Munsch, Robert: Stephanie's Ponytail 

Munsch, Robert: Where is Gah-Ning? 

Ohi, Ruth: Chicken, Pig, Cow On the Move

Reid, Barbara: The Party 

Simmie, Lois: Mister Got to Go and Arnie

Spalding, Andrea: It's Raining, It's Pouring

Walker, Melissa: A Place for Delta 5/5

Wiiliams, Deborah A: Her Name Was Beauty

 Yee, Paul: Bamboo 

Classics:

Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451 4/5

Forster, E.M. : A Passage to India5/5

Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird  5/5

Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables 5/5

Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence  4.5/5 

Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 4.5/5 

Cookbooks:

Simmons, Marie: Fresh and Fast Vegetarian: Recipes That Make a Meal


Dystopian:

DeStefano, Lauren: Wither by Lauren DeStefano 4/5
Holmqvist, Ninni: The Unit  3.5/5

Graphic: 



Historical Fiction:

Addiego, John: The Islands of Divine Music 3.5/5

Addiego, John: Tears of the Mountain DNF

Anam, Tahmima: A Golden Age 5/5 

Baker, Jacqueline: The Horseman's Graves 4/5 

Barnes, Margaret Campbell: King's Fool: A Notorious King, His Six Wives, and the One Man Who Knew Their Secrets 4.5/5

Barnes, Margaret Campbell: The Tudor Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York 4/5

Beascuchemin, Yves: Charles the Bold: The Dog Years 4/5

Blake, Sarah: The Postmistress by Sarah Blake 4.5/5 

Borodale, Jane: Book of Fires by Jane Borodale 3/5 

Brown, Kate Lord: The Beauty Chorus3/5

Bryant, Jen: Ringside 1925: Views From the Scopes Trial  5/5

Bundrick, Shermy: Sunflowers 3.5/5 

Chadwick Elizabeth: For the King's Favor 4.5/5 

Chadwick Elizabeth: Lady of the English 5/5

Chadwick, Elizabeth: To Defy a King 5/5

Crummey, Michael: Galore by Michael Crummey 4/5

Davidson, Andrew: The Gargoyle 4/5 

Dogar, Sharon: Annexed 5/5

Donoghue, Emma: The Sealed Letter 4/5 

Ellison, Lynne: The Green Bronze Mirror 3/5

Epstein, Jennifer Cody: The Painter from Shanghai  5/5 

Essex, Karen: Stealing Athena  5/5

Eugenides, Jeffrey: Middlesex 4/5

Fortier, Dominique: On the Proper Use of Stars 3.5/5

Gabaldon, Diana: Outlander4/5

Gortner, CW: The Last Queen 5/5 

Gortner, CW: The Confessions of Catherine de Medici 4.5/5

Grenville, Kate:The Lieutenant  3.5/5

Grenville, Kate: The Secret River 5/5

Grey, Juliet: Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey 3/5
  
Gruen, Sara:  Water for Elephants 5/5 

Gulland, Sandra: Mistress of the Sun 4/5

Guterson, David: Snow Falling on Cedars 4/5

Harper, Karen : Mistress Shakespeare 4/5 

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia: The Founding 4/5 

Higginbotham,Susan: The Queen of Last Hopes 4.5/5

Higginbotham,Susan: The Stolen Crown by Susan Higginbotham 4/5

Hill, Lawrence: Book of Negroes 5/5 (reviewed by Bill Rose)

Hollick, Helen: The Kingmaking  4.5/5

Hosseini, Khaled: The Kite Runner  4/5

Jordan, Hillary: Mudbound 5/5 

Kacer, Kathy: Restitution 4.5/5

Keane, Mary Beth: The Walking People  4/5 

Kelly, Mary Pat: Galway Bay  4/5

Kolpan, Gerald: Etta  4/5

Laird, Elizabeth: The Betrayal of Maggie Blair 4.5/5

Landvik, Lorna: Oh My Stars 5/5 

Lee, Julianne: Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel of Queen Mary Tudor  3.5/5

Llywelyn, Morgan: 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion 4.5/5

Lofthouse, Lloyd : My Splendid Concubine 4/5

Lofthouse, Lloyd :Our Hart: Elegy for a Concubine  4/5 

Machart, Bruce: The Wake of Forgiveness 3.5/5 

Mandanna, Sarita: Tiger Hills 4.5/5

Maxwell, Robin:O, Juliet 3.5/5

Maxwell, Robin: Signora da Vinci  4/5

Mayo, CM: The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire  3/5

McCaig, Donald: Rhett Butler's People 3/5

McEwan, Ian:On Chesil Beach  3/5

Michaels, Anne: Fugitive Pieces 3.5/5

Michel, Paul: Houdini Pie 3/5

Michener, James A.: Hawaii  5/5 

Mitchell, David: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet 3.5/5

Moran, Michelle: Cleopatra's Daughter 5/5 

Noyes, Deborah: Captivity by Deborah Noyes 4/5

Patterson, Diana and Turner, Rita:The Longest Journey 5/5

Peacock, Caro: A Foreign Affair 4.5/5 

Parry, Robert: The Arrow Chest 4.5/5

Rosenthal, Reid Lance: Threads West 3/5

Shors, John: Beneath a Mable Sky 5/5

Simmons, Dan: Drood

 Sundaresan, Indu: The Twentieth Wife  5/5

Stockett, Kathryn: The Help 5/5

Trevanian: The Crazyladies of Pearl Street 5/5

Towell, Ann: Grease Town 3/5

Vreeland, Susan: The Passion of Artemisia 4/5 

Wills, Gabriele: The Summer Before the Storm 4/5

Yoshimura, Akira: Storm Rider  3/5

Literary Fiction:

Barry, Brunonia: The Lace Reader 5/5 

Bass, Rick: Nashville Chrome 2.5/5
  
Bergen, David: The Time in Between  5/5

Betz, Norma: Dear John 3/5

Coyote, Ivan E.: Bow Grip 4.5/5

Donoghue, Emma: Room 4/5

Geye, Peter: Safe from the Sea 5/5

Camilla Gibb: The Beauty of Humanity Movement 5/5

Gruen, Sara: Ape House 3.5/5

Hay, Elizabeth: Late Nights on Air 5/5 

Irving, John: Last Night in Twisted River 4/5 

Jackson, Joshilyn: Backseat Saints 4/5

Kallay, Chitra: The Flat on Malabar Hill 4/5

Karlen, Josh: Lost Lustre 3/5

King, Thomas: Green Grass, Running Water 3.5/5

Meeks, Christopher: The Brightest Moon of the Century 5/5 

Meeks, Christopher: Love At Absolute Zero 4.5/5

Ellen, Meeropol: House Arrest 4.5/5

Meyer, Philipp: American Rust by Philipp Meyer5/5

Morrison, Toni: Sula 2.5/5

Ondaatje, Michael: Divisadero 3/5

Perrotta, Tom: Little Children 4/5

Picoult, Jodi: My Sister’s Keeper  3.5/5

Ravel, Edeet: Look for Me 4/5

Richardson, CS: The End of the Alphabet 4/5 

Roesch, Mattox: Sometimes we're always real same-same by Mattox Roesch 4/5

Sebold, Alice: The Lovely Bones 4.5/5 

Shors, John: Dragon Houses4/5 

Simon, Rachel: The Story of Beautiful Girl 4/5

Stein, Garth: The Art of Racing in the Rain 5/5

Tyler, Anne: Digging to America 3.5/5 

Vann, David: Caribou Island 3/5

Wallace, David Foster: The Broom of the System 2.5/5

Memoirs:

 James, Emmett: Admit One: My Life in Film 2.5/5 

Kacer, Kathy: Restitution  4.5/5 

Levin, Larry: Oogy 4/5

McCourt, Alphie: A Long Stone's Throw 3.5/5 
  
McPherson, Rachel: Every Dog Has a Gift 3.5/5

Oblath, Valerie: Chloe Anne: Force of Nature4/5 

Ollestad, Norman: Crazy for the StormSweet Mandarin  4/5

Travel Memoirs:

Bryson, Bill: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir 5/5

Muller, Karen: Japanland: a Year in Search of Wa  4/5


Non-Fiction:

Fogarty, Mignon: Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips 5/5

Fogarty, Mignon: The Grammar Girl Devotional

Goldstein, Nancy: Jackie Ormes The First African American Woman Cartoonist  5/5

Hasselbeck, Elisabeth: The G Free Diet: A Gluten -Free Survival Guide 3/5 

King, Martin Luther: The Concise King-Audio 5/5

Kingsolver, Barbara: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life  3.5/5 

Laird, Roland: Still I Rise  5/5 

Perkins, John : Hoodwinked by John Perkins 4/5 (Reviewed by Bill Rose)

Wilkinson, Richard & Picket, Kate: The Spirit Level

Other:

Taylor, Kathleen: The Big Book of Socks 4/5

Self Help:

Eguaras, Louis: 101 Things I Learned in Culinary School  3/5

Sakoutis, Zoe & Huss, Erica: The 3-Day Cleanse 4.5/5

Short Stories:

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: The Headstrong Historian 

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: A Private Experience 

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Quality Street

Aitchison, Barry: Finding Jesus 

Akpan, Uwen: An Ex-Mas Feast

Bannerman, Louise: 100 -Words Short Stories

Barry, Kevin: Fjord of Killary

Barthelme, Donald: A City of Churches

Boyden, Joseph: Driving Lessons

Boyle,  T. Coraghessan: Captured By the Indians, Achates McNeil, and Mexico

Boyle,  T. Coraghessan:  Chicxulub 

Boyle,  T. Coraghessan: Killing Babies

Boyle,  T. Coraghessan: Nighttime in the Pool

Boyle,  T. Coraghessan: She Wasn't Soft 

Boyle,  T. Coraghessan: Termination Dust

Brian: Goodnight, Mrs. Morehead

Camp, Richard Van: UNT by DL Stone and Show Me Yours

Chabon, Michael: The God of Dark Laughter

Danicat, Edwidge: Ghosts

Dasgupta, Rana: A Delhi Story 

Doyle, Roddy: The Plate

Dumas, Alexandre: Solange: Dr. Ledru's Story of the Reign of Terro

du Maurier, Daphne: The Doll 

Egan, Jennifer: Found Objects  

El-Mohtar: The Green Book

Enright, Anne: Natalie by Anne Enright

Eugenides, Jeffrey: Extreme Solitude

Fish, Charle : DEATH BY SCRABBLE

Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 

Fitzerald, F. Scott: The Jelly-Bean by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Frame, Janet: A Night At the Opera 

Franzen, Jonathan: Agreeable

Franzen, Jonathan: Two's Company

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins:The Yellow Wallpaper

Gottfried, Susan Helene: Mannequin

Greene, Graham: The Basement Room

Griffin, Daniel: Promise 

Hadley, Tessa: Friendly Fire

Hurston,Zora Neale: The Gilded Six-Bits

Hurston,Zora Neale: Sweat

Isaac, Sherry: Sweet Dreams

Jackson, Shirley: Charles by Shirley Jackson

Johnson, Kij: Ponies by Kij Johnson 

Kamata, Suzanne: Havana by Suzanne Kamata 

Keegan, Claire: Foster by Claire Keegan

Monica Kidd: Still Life with Blake

 LaGuire, Camille: TRAIL OF THE LONESOME STICKPIN: A Mick and Casey McKee Mystery

Lahiri, Jhumpa: Trading Stories: Notes from an apprenticeship 

Le, Nam: Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice

Li, Yiyun: A Man Like Him 

Lippman, Laura: The Babysitter's Code 

Livingston, Billie: Do Not Touch 

Lychack, William: Stolpestad

Mansfield, Katherine: The Doll's House

Mansfield, Katherine: The Fly 

Maupassant, Guy: Abandoned

Maupassant, Guy: Farewell

McCullough, Gretchen: Khamaseen

Mengestu, Dinaw: An Honest Exit

Montgomery, Lucy Maud: Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket

Moran, Eva: He Wishes This Were Something Else

Murakami, Haruki: The Second Bakery Attack

O'Neill, Heather: Riff-Raff

Parker, Dorothy: A Telephone Call

Pushkin, Alexander: THE QUEEN OF SPADES 

Pushkin, Alexander: The Snowstorm

Rain-Snow, Laurel: Family Values  

Redhill, Michael: Breaking Fast

Roberts, Charles G.D.: The Vagrants of the Barren

Rochford, Kellerman: "Hanukkah Candles" 

Rogers, Susan D.: The Poor Boy's Piano

Saunders, Jon: Jon  

Sayrafiezadeh, Said: Appetite

Scalzi, John: Missives from Possible Futures #1, Alternate History Search Results 

Selecky, Sarah: Paul Farenbacher’s Yard Sale

Silver, Marisa: The Visitor 

Slade, Nicola: MY DEAR MISS FAIRFAX

Stockton, Frank:  The Lady or the Tiger 

Stone, D.L.: A Quiet House

Stone, D.L.: UNT 

Tallent, Elizabeth: No One's a Mystery

Tardif, Cheryl Kaye: Picture Perfect 

Theroux, Paul: Mr. Bones

Thurber, James: A Box to Hide In

Updike, John: A & P 

Vlautin, Willy: Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

Wallace, David Forster: All That

Wharton, Edith: Xingu 

Wilde, Oscar: A Note of Admiration

Wilde, Oscar: The Shelfish Giant 

Wilde, Oscar: The Sphinx Without a Secret

Williams, Walter Jon:  The Millennium Party

Winter, Kathleen:  Madame Poirier's Dog 

Xingjian, Gao: The Accident

Yasunari, Kawabata : The Pomegranate

Young, Terence: That Time a Year

Short Story Collections:

Kamata, Suzanne: The Beautiful One Has Come 4/5

Smith, Neil: Bang Crunch 3.5/5

Young, Terence: The End of the Ice Age 4/5

 

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