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Book review No. 7 - How to get your finances in order

One of the first steps to improving your finances is getting organized. That’s one of the major steps we learn in the seventh of this series of 10 personal finance book reviews conducted by Atlanta Bargain Hunter readers. They [...]

Posted On : Apr, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Temple Of The Two Jaguars by Edward Curry

I recently had the good fortune to stumble across 2012: Maya End Date by Edward Curry. While this is a great book that stands on its own two feet, I noticed that he had an earlier work Temple Of The Two Jaguars that essentially laid the [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Men and Dogs

At thirty-five Hannah still has flashbacks of fishing trips with her father Buzz just before he mysteriously disappeared forever. Although officially ruled dead, Hannah cannot shake the feeling there must be more, that maybe her father w [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Book review - Ron Charles reviews 'Solar' by Ian McEwan

This has been a bad month for the penis. Two weeks ago, a character in Lionel Shriver's "So Much for That" castrated himself in a fit of deadly rage. And now comes Ian McEwan's "Solar," whose funniest scene in [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Nightlight A Parody by National Lampoon!

About three things I was absolutely certain. First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. Second, there was a vampire part of him–which I assumed was wildly out of his control–that wanted me dead. And third, I uncon [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - P is for Passover Children's Book

Passover is an important Jewish holiday. It is a holiday beginning on the 14th of Nisan and traditionally continuing for eight days, commemorating the exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt. Also called Pesach. And is celebrated every ye [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Monetary Regimes and Inflation

I did not ask for a copy of Peter Berenholz's Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic and Political Relationships, but I am glad the publisher sent it to me for free. There is a lot of concern over inflation in the present [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Comic Book Review - Kick-Ass

This is perhaps the last piece of my Kick-Ass puzzle, after reviews, previews, premieres and interviews this week HeyUGuys finally got a chance to pour over the source material for Matthew Vaughn’s incendiary film which opens in th [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - A Short Guide to a Happy Marriage by Sharon Gi...

If you ask anyone married more than 10 years, they will tell you that it’s not easy. Couples start to take advantage of each other, focus more of their attention on their children and forget to make time for each other. A Short [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Book review - Michael Dirda reviews "The Changeling," by Ken...

Most novels contain at least some autobiography. In Saul Bellow's "Humboldt's Gift" and "Ravelstein," for instance, we can recognize two of the author's old friends, the writer Delmore Schwartz and the Uni [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Cuckold

After Ravan and Eddie I was itching to read "Cuckold" as this is a book that Kiran Nagarkar himself considers his masterpiece. In the midst of packing and leaving, I did not have the time to buy or read the book. On subsequent [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Angelology by Daniella Trussoni

If you crossed The Davinci Code and with Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, you might get something like Angelology, the first novel by memoirist Daniella Trussoni that's got the book world buzzing. It debuted at #5 on [...]

Posted On : Mar, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Book review - What Price Liberty?

"There must be some public fools who sacrifice private to public interest at the certainty of ingratitude and obloquy." Never mind the irony: who among our present rulers and would-be rulers would understand what Alexander Hami [...]

Posted On : Mar, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Inside Out by Marilyn E. Randall

I like Marilyn Randall’s books, I had read her first two and they were delightful. Writing a book for a young child is actually much more difficult than one might imagine. For Faithful Friends was her first foray into the youn [...]