Epinions Recent Reviews for JulieQ

The PDA's baby brother

Mon, 14 May 2001 17:15:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - I have been using my Xircom REX 6000 pretty heavily for about 3 months now. The reason I decided to go with this very small PDA is that I tend to abandon planners and organizers with alarming frequency. Three months may be the longest I’ve ever used...

Suspenseful but not without its weakness

Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:21:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - I enjoyed this book to a certain degree. I was intrigued by the premise: three single women living together in a British manor house after one of the women was accused of doing away with her husband ten years previous. The plot is very twisty in this...

Highest-quality suitcase I've seen

Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:17:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - I purchased this delightful piece of luggage for a recent trip to Washington, D. C. It served me extremely well on this trip and came back looking like new, but that’s just one trip, so I can’t tell you a whole lot about the suitcase’s durability.
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InStyle's got it all

Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:51:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - The first time I read an InStyle magazine, I knew it was the fashion magazine for me. For one thing, I’ve grown pretty tired of what I perceive as the snooty attitude of magazines like Vogue and Harper’s. I live in Iowa, for God’s sake. A lot of the...

Good li'l' phone

Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:52:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - I picked up this little Nokia after I dropped my Nokia 5100 (or 5120, can't remember which) in a puddle and it summarily ceased to function. Fortunately, my old contract was 80% done with, so this new phone was only $50 or something.

I had no...

Lots of suspense

Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:13:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - I just finished reading The Scold’s Bridle by Minette Walters. It was a pretty good mystery. Walters is not Ruth Rendell, but I will be interested to read more of Walters’ books. The Scold’s Bridle was definitely worth reading.

The story...

Mean justice? Or something else?

Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:49:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - I just finished reading this particular book this morning. It took me about a month to read (not a lot of free time). I became interested in reading it after hearing a number of snippets of it read by Dick Estell on NPR.

Mean Justice was...

Can't think of a single bad thing about it

Fri, 6 Oct 2000 18:51:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - This is my favorite piece of exercise equipment at my local rec center; I use it at least twice a week. Everyone else at the rec center seems to love it, too, men and women. The sign-up list is sometimes pretty long.

There are several nice...

A little harsh, but it does what it says it will

Fri, 6 Oct 2000 15:56:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - I first bought this product after hearing that it was sort of a next step after a person had been using the Clinique 3-step system for a while. The salesgirl told me that I should start using it a couple of times a week and eventually move to using it...

Always a treat to use

Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:38:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - I've been using this product for about three years now. The product was suggested to me by a Clinique representative in Wales. I had never used any kind of eye product before, but after putting this stuff on, I fell in love. It just feels great and...

Kim visits happy Africa

Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:00:48 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - Yep, I watched this winner of a movie this weekend. I was tempted to turn off the DVD player about half an hour into the movie, but I didn’t. The temptation stemmed from the fact that the beginning of the movie is just a seemingly-random collection of...

Half and half

Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:16:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - For those of you looking for a quick review, here it is: I loved the first half of this book and didn’t care much for the second half.

To go into more detail, I love mysteries, but I don’t have a lot of time to read. When my mother recommended...

Like sap from a pine tree

Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:20:31 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - I bought this book for my father, an archives librarian, for his birthday. Recently, he lent it to me to read, along with the other book I bought for his birthday, Caught in the Web of Words, by K. M. Elizabeth Murray. My father recommended I read the...

Bishop Hill--don't plan to stay too long

Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:31:02 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - My mother recently decided that she and my sister, my husband and I were all going to take a delightful trip to Illinois to celebrate the first birthday of my first cousin once removed. Every hotel in Galesburg, IL was booked solid, for some reason...

Pretty confusing

Wed, 24 May 2000 19:16:45 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - I just finished reading The Unburied last night. I have to say that it was one of the most confusing mysteries I’ve ever read. You can tell a book has too many indistinguishable characters when the author feels the need to include an annotated list of...

Excellent steaks, for a chain

Thu, 18 May 2000 12:54:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - I won’t be shy. I think Lone Star is the best chain steakhouse I’ve ever graced with my presence. I’ve probably been there 25 or 30 times in the past 4-5 years, and I’ve only had two or three not-particularly-good meals.

The steaks at Lone Star...

Wendy's has the right idea

Thu, 4 May 2000 18:34:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - Wendy’s has been doing for years what McDonald’s should have been doing all along. Fixing the food as the customer asks for it, and with fresh ingredients. I have never had a wilted piece of lettuce on a burger at Wendy’s, simply because they slap it...

Edible; occasionally fuels a craving

Tue, 2 May 2000 11:04:20 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - Panda Express has to be putting something in their food that makes me crave it about once a month. My absolute favorite dish there is the orange chicken. Sometimes I think of it and my mouth just waters. The sick thing about this is that every time I...

Best bagels on earth?

Mon, 1 May 2000 13:06:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - Bruegger's bagels cannot be matched. These are truly the best bagels I have ever had the opportunity to eat. The main advantage they have over other bagels is their consistency. They aren't just bread in the shape of a donut. They have a definite...

Lots of plot twists

Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:40:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - I finished reading this book about a week ago. It was the first Elizabeth George mystery I’ve read. And it was the first book I’ve read in a while that really kept me coming back. I looked forward to reading it at every possible opportunity. George’s...

GetPaid4: GetPaid4 dealing with all kinds of bugs

Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:22:10 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - I started using GetPaid4 about a month ago. I have their adbar running right now. I decided to try it out because they pay for 35 hours a month, a lot more than AllAdvantage. Their rates right now are not that great--48 cents/hour. Only it's...

Mind extension

Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:57:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - What can I say about this book? It is extremely dense; it took me six months of reading it off and on before I realized I had to really concentrate on what the Edward Wilson was saying. It's not a book you can read a page of here and a page of there...

Julia Roberts IS Erin Brockovich

Sat, 18 Mar 2000 02:08:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - "Erin Brockovich" is definitely worth seeing at matinee prices. It's a good story; I was definitely interested in what was going to happen next. Julia Roberts' acting is frighteningly good. When I say she IS Erin Brockovich, I mean it...

It's a FUNNY gangster movie--isn't that great?

Sat, 4 Mar 2000 03:33:38 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - Some people got together and decided to make a movie. A light-hearted romp about--maybe you guessed--the mob.

This movie was extremely bland. I left the theater hardly believing I'd seen anything at all. There is very little on screen to...

Quite a workout

Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:05:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JulieQ - Billy Blanks is not kidding. This is definitely the most strenuous workout video I own, and I own quite a few. It is absolutely imperative that you make use of the instructional and basic Tae Bo videos before you jump into this advanced workout.
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