August 2012 | Saw Wiki

The Trouble With Magic (Bewitching Mysteries, No. 1) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The Trouble With Magic draws you right in from the first page. Maggie, dissatisfied with her current job makes a leap of faith,and accepts a job offer to work for Felicity, owner of an upscale antique shoppe, and incidently a practising Witch. The two womnen quickly become friends, and their story spirals...

A Guide to Elegance: For Every Woman Who Wants to Be Well and Properly Dressed on All Occasions Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I hate to admit but since I bought Elegance and started following its advice I look much better. People have actually stopped to comment. Although I'm cringing (what did I look like before?) it has been fun to get the compliments. Madam Dariaux was a designer, a director of Nina Rici and a fashion writer....

Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The book is good for people who have very little exposure to enterprise metadata. The Good:* simple and effective language* broad coverage of the subjectThe Bad:* A very "database" focussed approach - this is a little at odds with some of the latest developments in this field where Enterprise Search...

Metzger's Dog: A Novel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Metger's Dog is one of the finest novels I have read in quite a while -- and working in publishing (don't hold it against me) I see hundreds a year. There are moments in this narrative, many moments, when the reader realizes he has placed his or her attention in expert hands. Humor and seriousness are...

A Tale of Two Castles Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've had a good stretch lately, where I've been reading at a ferocious pace. But I suddenly came to a grinding halt a few days ago. Nothing I was reading was inspiring me to keep turning pages. At times like that, a trick that often perks me up is to read a young adult book and I lose myself in pure...

How We Age: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Growing Old Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Dr Marc Agronin, who specialises in geriatric psychology in Miami, has written a memoir about his medical practice. It's a small book, with many short chapters of personal anecdotes, about how the mind ages and how different sorts of dementia, including Alzheimers', can be treated. This is not a "how-to"...

Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In the 1940s I attended a country school with a single teacher and 20 kids ranging from first to eighth grade. During the last four years, I was the only kid in my "class" and was permitted (encouraged?) to do a great deal of independent reading. Once a week the county superintendent would send around...

Love in the Time of Dragons: A Novel of the Light Dragons Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Ahhhh...Baltic, Baltic, Baltic. For so long, us readers viewed you as one of the bad guys...especially when you helped wipe out many of your own kind. Were we right...thinking Baltic is a big ol' bad guy? Or were we wrong...judging him using circumstantial evidence? "Love in the Time of Dragons" by Katie...

America's Cheapest Family Gets You Right on the Money: Your Guide to Living Better, Spending Less, and Cashing in on Your Dreams Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I saw the show. I already had the book. I bought another copy to give to my son. I use the tips in the book and, yes, we DO save money. Here is the REALITY you have to face before you even buy this book:To get the full benefit of this book, you do need to be willing to buck certain attitudes that are...

One Summer Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Everyone always said that Johnny Harris was headed for nowhere, and their predictions were confirmed when this rebel was put in jail for killing his girlfriend.Only Rachel Grant, his English teacher, believed that he was innocent. When her former student was put on parole, he came back to their small...

A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.," edited by James M. Washington, is an impressive volume. This book brings together essays, speeches, sermons, interviews, and excerpts from King's books. Together, these many documents offer insights into the life and...

Eternal Hunger: Mark of the Vampire Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Here is the thing, I am an average, read for pleasure type of girl. Paranormal romance is my favorite genre. I am always looking for new authors to fill my fantasies. So, when I was introduced to Eternal Hunger, I curled up on the couch and gave it a go. I was intrigued with the new world, and new take...

Unbillable Hours: A True Story Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Ian Graham's "Unbillable Hours" weaves the true narrative of a young lawyer stumbling into counsel for the murder conviction appeal of Mario Rocha. Mario -- a young man who by all accounts appeared innocent -- was the on the wrong end of systemic oversight and miscarried justice that led to nearly a...

America's Bubble Economy: Profit When It Pops Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)You can give this book a pass. There's really nothing to it, so save your money. While one might agree wholeheartedly with its premise and conclusions, the exposition here is not the best. For comparison, take a look at Stephen Leeb's Chapter 5 in his "Oil Factor" of 2004 and you will see a much cleaner...

The Raising: A Novel (P.S.) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The author taps into the insular environment of a college campus and the public's fascination with the supernatural in an era when life beyond death offers an alternative explanation to the cold hard truth of an untimely loss. A year after sorority girl Nicole Werner dies in a car accident, her boyfriend,...

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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)How to start. How to start. Perhaps with what made me unable to put this book down when I got it last evening. First paragraph-" First off, I've never told this story to anyone. Not the entire thing anyway, and not entirely truthfully. I'm only telling it now for one reason, and that's because an untold...

The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Raised by an imaginative father and launched on motherhood with the poetry of Wordsworth in her heart, Priscilla Gilman longed to create for her own children the romantic vision of childhood she felt herself to have inhabited. But, as the title of her book indicates, her dream was not to be--at least,...