© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-Redlass Recent reviews written by member Redlass en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_468614483588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - Juchitan is one of those books that I have struggled with how to expresss exactly why I like it.I've tried approaching the book the way I do a play that I'm going to review or judge. I go in prepared with information and knowledge, but then I set... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468614483588 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:03:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468614483588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468608323204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - My son and I have been gleefully reading the Percy Jackson demigod series by Rick Riordan. What does that have to do with Peter Lerangis' The 39 Clues: The Sword Thief? Only that Rick Riordan wrote the first book in The 39 Clues series,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468608323204 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:21:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468608323204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468603801220?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - Joe Zammit-Lucia demonstrates in First Steps: Conserving Our Environment how art and photojournalism still have a role to play in changing our world. First Steps is a photography book with a purpose, an artistic endeavor in which... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468603801220 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:18:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468603801220?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432423145092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - Parents of young children quickly learn that it is impossible to cover all the possible "thou shalt nots" when it comes to children. Sure, we'll remember the big ones: "Don’t play in traffic" or “Don’t touch the hot stove.” We’ll probably even remember... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432423145092 Tue, 3 Jun 2008 00:22:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432423145092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427270835844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - Most of the food-themed computer games currently on the market fall firmly into the casual arcade-style gaming category. Games such as Diner Dash, Burger Island, Cake Mania, Hot Dish, and even Chocolatier have food as a theme merely to add flavor to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427270835844 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:43:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427270835844?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427260350084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - It's not much of a revelation to point out that much of the misery in the lives of teenagers stem from the messed-up lives of their parents. Despite it not being the biggest news flash of the year, it does still make for a good young adult novel. Kim... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427260350084 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:50:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427260350084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427044933252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - Given how much I have enjoyed the work of William X. Kienzle throughout the years, it seems almost curmudgeonly of me to complain so thoroughly about his final novel, The Gathering, published posthumously a year after his death from a heart... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427044933252 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:51:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427044933252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_426542403204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - What's the difference between a screensaver and a computer game? If you've got Fish Tycoon loaded onto your computer, that might not be an easy answer. Fish Tycoon is part of that genre now dubbed "casual games." It's a non-violent game that is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~426542403204 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:14:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_426542403204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_426448752260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - I know it isn't fair to judge a book by the profession of its author, but I'm increasingly growing skeptical of any book written by someone whose primary career has been that of marketing. Yes, one needs to be skilled in writing in order to be good at... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~426448752260 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:26:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_426448752260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_426448293508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - There are many children's books on divorce, perhaps because divorce is so individual and affects children in so many different ways. Nor is it possible in a single book to address all of the many different things that children will have to deal with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~426448293508 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:20:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_426448293508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_426443116164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - When I first started writing for Epinions, I wrote a rash of reviews for the Kids and Family section, in no small part because my son would turn two years old a few weeks after I posted my first review and our home was filled with baby stuff. In... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~426443116164 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:34:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_426443116164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_425385234052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - I'll confess that I got in a little bit of trouble with my husband over the game Cute Knight. Not because I enjoyed the game, though he often rolls his eyes at my addiction to the silly, fluffy, casual-style games that I enjoy so much. He much... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~425385234052 Tue, 8 Apr 2008 17:38:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_425385234052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_425379860100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - Ever since my fourth-grade teacher introduced them, I've always been a fan of logic puzzles. I still use the method she taught us, ignoring the methodology suggested in every single logic puzzle book. They've often been on my bedside stand as a way of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~425379860100 Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:51:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_425379860100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_425020526212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - Creating travel books for children can be a bit of a challenge. At young ages, they're far more interested in people than in all the historical sites that so mesmerize their parents. Books that load on too many facts and details are often dismissed as... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~425020526212 Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:24:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_425020526212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_425020264068?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - The Sisters Grimm never fails to amuse because of the way it takes famous fairy-related literature and puts a modern twist on them. Far more than the overall plot or even the themes, it is the little moments in these books that make them worthy reads... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~425020264068 Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:20:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_425020264068?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_425019739780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - With my son completing his first decade of life, we've now entered the stage where he is as likely to introduce books to me as I am to him. Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry's Peter and the Starcatchers is one of those books that I'd planned to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~425019739780 Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:12:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_425019739780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_425016594052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - Sometimes books suffer from comparisons. I have to wonder whether I would have liked Carolyn Ahern's Tino Turtle Travels to London, England a little more if I hadn't just read The Elephants Visit London. It isn't that the latter book... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~425016594052 Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:07:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_425016594052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_425016331908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - It doesn't matter how sentimental the book is, most parents are suckers for the "I love you" books. It seems they are almost a subgenre to themselves filled with a parent (usually a mom)-child patter about how they love each other. Sometimes the child... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~425016331908 Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:03:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_425016331908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_425014890116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - While it remains a truism that you can't judge a book by its cover, you can get a few clues from it to inform an eventual verdict. Amber T. Kingston's Laura and the Leprechauns is a book whose very cover warns that the inside story might not be... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~425014890116 Sat, 5 Apr 2008 19:45:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_425014890116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_424936705668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - Build-a-lot is a game that is far more fun than it should be. After all, you play a building contractor who is hired by various city administrators to plan communities, buy lots, and build houses. This sounds more like a dry business simulation than... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~424936705668 Sat, 5 Apr 2008 03:10:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_424936705668?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_424926875268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - Our young heroine Jill comes home from college to find her grandmother is giving up on her bakery. She decides to pitch in and help save the day so that the family tradition can continue. Thus begins the story of Sandlot Game's Cake Mania in a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~424926875268 Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:31:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_424926875268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_424884473476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - I tend to haunt my local library in sections. For months I'll hang out in the young adult fiction section, then I'll move over to science fiction, or dally in their women's special collection. Of late, I've been scouring the non-fiction arts section... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~424884473476 Fri, 4 Apr 2008 18:38:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_424884473476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_424744881796?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - In Titan’s Curse, Rick Riordan finally throws off the mantle of Harry Potter and creates a book that stands alone with its characters and style. His first two books, while engaging and entertaining, were so much a rip-off of Harry Potter that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~424744881796 Thu, 3 Apr 2008 18:12:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_424744881796?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_424715390596?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - Upon reading The Da Vinci Code recently, I found myself wondering what all the fuss was about. Yes, it was a good read. Yes, it had some interesting religious speculation. Yes, it was well-plotted and decently written. However, I wouldn’t have... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~424715390596 Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:11:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_424715390596?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_424329776772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Redlass - In mid-February, I joined a Young Adult Literature Challenge. Each participant was challenged to read at least one book in the following categories: contemporary/realistic fiction; poetry, drama, or humor; sports, mystery, supernatural/paranormal;... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~424329776772 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:54:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_424329776772?linkin_id=8003929