Epinions Recent Reviews for IrishMa4

Wedding Bell Blues - Can A Love Gone Wrong Be Turned Around?

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:56:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - Your dad calls you into his office to ask you to help your Mother with your sisters wedding. Fine. Oh and the best man is your ex husband. Fine. Oh and I bough the house you shared with your ex husband – can you fix it up so I can give it to your...

Norah’s Ark – A Doggone Good Tail

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:05:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - I went to the library yesterday with the kids after the pool closed when it started thundering out. This was the original plan; go to the library and then the pool. I pick my battles, so we went to the pool first. Gotta love Minnesota weather! I...

Bamboo & Friends The Rainbow - A Science Lesson In Magic

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:21:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - Bamboo & Friends The Rainbow by Felicia Law Illustrated by Claire Philpott & Karen Radford My 15 year old daughter loves rainbows and pandas a great deal. When she found a book about a panda bear with ”rainbow” in the title she grabbed it to...

A Pocket Full of Kisses - Gives Me a Warm Heart and a Big Smile

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:29:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - Having 5 children, a lot of books come into my home. Every week we go to the local thrift store to buy a book or two each. We also bring books to donate, because if we didn’t pass books along after reading we’d have no room for us in this...

Tomie De Paola - My First Thanksgiving: My First Thanksgiving - It Won't Be Re-read

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:35:39 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - My First Thanksgiving by Tomie dePaola My First Thanksgiving by Tomie dePaola is a small paperback book with waxy pages, like glossy cardstock only thicker and duller feeling. I don’t know if they are coated with anything but...

Bear's First Bible - the Bible Story Book for Children

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:41:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - Bear’s First Bible by Alan & Linda Parry is a large board book. I would guess that this book was written for toddlers, but it’s quite large and so it would be hard for them to hold it on their own. I bought this book for my bonus...

America's Cheapest Family - Frugal Living the Economide's Way!

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:28:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - America’s Cheapest Family by Steve and Annette Economides With a name like Economides, how can you not be thrifty?? I belong to a yahoo group called The Compact, which is a group of people who commit to not buying new items. Food,...

Live on the Kansas Prarie in the 1894's

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:24:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - Waiting for Summer’s Return by Kim Vogel Sawyer I went with my boyfriend to his last Paintball event. I stayed out in the parking lot, lounging in a lawn chair with a cold drink, the umbrella to keep the sun off me, and Waiting for Summer’s...

Pregnant Protector - Brings You Along on a Mystery

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:20:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - Pregnant Protector by Anne Marie Duquette Pregnant Protector by Anne Marie Duquette is the Harlequin SuperRomance I just finished reading this morning. Most Harlequin books I read just for enjoyment – they really aren’t all that likely...

Irene Hannon - Rainbow's End: You Never Know What You Will Find at the Rainbow's End

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:20:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - Rainbow’s End by Irene Hannon Close your eyes and picture a lovely old Victorian out in the middle of nowhere. Beautiful fields surrounded by a forest of trees. This spot is located in the beautiful San Juan Islands. The place you pictured is...

Susan Wiggs - The Winter Lodge: From the Ashes of a Fire Come Secrets and Love

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:08:55 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - The Winter Lodge by Susan Wiggs Winter is my favorite season. Recently at a garage sale I found a book that had winter in the title. Read the back and it looked ok so I bought it. It was good. Not spellbinding but good. I could put it down to do...

A Gentle Giving by Dorothy Garlock

Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:32:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - A Gentle Giving by Dorothy Garlock I've become quite the fan of Dorothy Garlock. She writes wonderful Historical Romance, and those are my favorite reads. So whenever I see one of her books at the thrift store or a garage sale I grab it and smile!...

Sins of Summer by Dorothy Garlock

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:57:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - People can be horrible. When someone is horrible to their own kin it’s even worse, in my opinion. Such is the tale told in Sins of Summer by Dorothy Garlock. Last night I finished the tale of Dory Callahan; a “Cinderella” of the frontier. Dory...

Is There Such A Thing As A Safe Harbour?

Thu, 8 May 2008 12:30:23 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - “Everybody reads Danielle Steel” is the motto on all of her books. It’s true. Did you know that grief counselors recommend her books to their clients? Many of her books deal with death and moving on. She has written so many books that if you are a...

A Parisian Hobo's Adventure

Wed, 7 May 2008 13:31:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - The Family Under the Bridge is a Newbery Honor Book by Natalie Savage Carlson. I bought this book from the Scholastic book fair at my daughters school. It looked like a book she would enjoy. She hasn't read it yet so I grabbed it the other day in the...

Double Dose of Christmas With A Side of Romance!

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:16:23 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - I was at the thrift store perusing the books when I found a romance book that was really thick. When it comes to books the thicker the better in my opinion! You see I always have a book with me but if they are thinner I could end up finishing it...

Ellen Foster receives no recommendation from this reader!

Fri, 4 May 2007 10:27:30 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - I was scanning the bookshelf at the local thrift store when I came across the book “Ellen Foster”. I have a daughter named Ellen so I put the book into my basket. I wish I hadn’t. As far as I can remember I have never not finished a book...

The Right Dream the Wrong Man

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:51:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - France September 1818 Sometimes a woman has a dream in regards to the man she will fall in love with and marry. The problem with dreams is they happen when you are sleeping and when you wake a detail or two may be wrong. In Anne Gracie’s The...

A Dry Confusing Fairy Tale

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:43:34 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - I picked up Love Inspired “A Hero For Dry Creek” by Janet Tronstad on my last trip to the library. In the small town I moved to the library provides a great deal of religious based books and I’ve become quite fond of them. They call them...

The Endearment by LaVyrle Spencer: Love On the Minnesota Frontier

Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:49:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - For the majority of the time there are only 3 characters in LaVyrle Spencer's The Endearment. They aren't deep, moving characters, but they are endearing ones.

The story is set in the frontier wilderness of Minnesota in the time...

Years, by LaVyrle Spencer: Sometimes Love Transcends All Constraints of Time

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 03:02:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - In 1918 in a small town in North Dakota called Alamo, 18 year old Linnea Brandonberg began her first job as a teacher. She was just out of Normal School, which is where teachers earned their Teaching Certificate.

She's a small wisp of a girl,...

You Can't Go Home Again...or Can You?

Mon, 4 Mar 2002 19:35:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - Going home again is never easy. No one knows that more than Tess McPhail of Wintergreen, Missouri. Tess is the lead character in LaVyrle Spencer's Small Town Girl.

Tess McPhail is a small town girl done good. She has it all: a...

White Picket Fences (Shelter Valley Stories): Pets & People Provide Peace

Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:41:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - You know it's funny I didn't even realize I had this stereotype in my mind when it came to women athletes, until I read White Picket Fences by Tara Taylor Quinn. This book is about a retired professional woman golfer who has hidden away...

Intrigue and Love Swing in the Same Saddle

Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:36:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - Occasionally I like to have a bit of mystery and suspense mixed in with my romance. When that mood strikes me I reach for a Harlequin Intrigue. The last one I grabbed was one in a series, from the "Sons of Silver Springs".

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Birthright: A book review

Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:35:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author IrishMa4 - Riverbend, Indiana is home to a group of thirty-something men and women who formed a tight friendship in their youths. This group of people is known around the town as the "River Rats".

The River Rats have all grown up and have lives that...