Epinions Recent Reviews for TerryBain

Let's Go to the Airport

Thu, 9 Nov 2000 20:36:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - In buses

For awhile now I've been trying to figure out just exactly what it is that makes a good children's book. Why? Because I want to write one. No, I want to write many. So I read them. I read a lot of them. And Airport by...

Hungry for a Big Ole Burrito

Wed, 3 May 2000 12:20:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - Here’s a quick memory:

I was maybe four years old, in the car with my father, in the drive-through at the Taco Time. We were out getting supper, and the drive-through glow was somehow comforting, the smell of tacos filling up a paper sack...

Room for Cream?

Wed, 3 May 2000 11:16:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - Say what you want about Starbucks . . .

. . . no, I take that back. Don’t say what you want about Starbucks, especially if you’re about to say: "Starbucks sucks." I’m really sick of people who live in the middle of nowhere and...

The Food is Hardly Worth the Headache of the Atmosphere

Tue, 2 May 2000 12:18:28 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - If you’re anything like me, you’re getting older, and the last thing you want to be reminded of when you go into an "eating establishment" is that you’re getting much, much older. Which is precisely what you’ll be reminded of when you go into a...

Openly Weeping

Fri, 14 Apr 2000 01:03:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - In the Gloaming: Stories

Alice Elliott Dark

Simon & Schuster

ISBN 0684865211

If there is a problem with In the Gloaming, it’s that the title story is placed too soon in the book. I suppose there is some benefit to...

Not by Bread Alone

Sun, 9 Apr 2000 03:09:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - About five years ago I was given (or, should I say we were given, as I'm sure it was a gift for both my wife and myself) Brother Juniper's Bread Book. Not long after it was out of its wrapping paper, I was deep inside its pages, devouring the holy...

Calves and Grass

Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:03:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - Spring is here.

Indeed it is, and we re-discovered this book just in time for the warm weather and now (today) the wind. (I'll grant you, I probably love this book more than my son, but there is indeed value in that. He doesn't ask for...

Look at the Sky! Is that a Clown?

Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:47:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - Anybody who’s had the following experience knows why I love this book.

This morning, my wife called me into the living room from my office. I went in, and we spied on our toddler who was standing at the coffee table, turning the pages of...

When Were Those Sweaters Last Laundered?

Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:09:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - When I finally turned on public television again, after at least ten, maybe twenty years, to sit with my son (with a cold) and watch a tv show, one of the first things we saw was Mr. Rogers. I couldn't believe it. There he was. And it was exactly the...

USB SCSI Adapter with Termpower: Ultimately It's Just a Cable

Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:04:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - When I decided that I absolutely had to buy a new computer (the decision didn't take long--my old computer was dead, and I had to work, for Pete's sake), I was pretty sure I was going to have to buy a Macintosh. Most of my work is on a Mac, and I...

That's All it Does?

Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:54:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - Please don't ask me how or why, but here's the situation: My family at Toys 'R' Us, a shopping cart full of toys that we think my son will find interesting, a price range from ten to sixty dollars, and we're saying to him: "Which one do you...

A Book Is To Look At

Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:55:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - Now I’m in trouble. It seems that it is physically impossible for me to return a library book on time. I’m sitting here with A Hole Is to Dig, and it’s already five days late back to the library. If you live in my town and you’re wondering where...

The Little Fireman: Once upon a time there was a great big tall fireman...

Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:29:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - ...and once upon a time there was a little fireman

Thus begins another in the vast accumulation of my favorite children's books, and this one, again, is written by Margaret Wise Brown.

How Does She Do It?

My...

You Know How Grandmas Are

Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:43:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - It was inevitable that my son eventually have the Little People school bus. His grandma drives a school bus, so, well, you know how grandma's are.

Little People in General

I love the little people. I really do. I've already...

Eastern Washington University: How do you learn to write? You write to learn to write.

Sat, 11 Mar 2000 01:38:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - Briefly, I'd like to say that an MFA in writing defies the epinions categorization here, but this was my degree, just so you know. It was sort of in the English department, but very seldom did the MFA program engage in activities with the English...

Holy Smokes!

Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:13:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - I just came inside from taking out the garbage, and as I do every week, I looked at my Weber charcoal grill and said to myself, "I really ought to take that thing inside in the winter." But then I said to myself, again as I always do,...

Barney's Purple? I Thought He Was Transparent

Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:59:30 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - I've been waiting a long time to write this review. I guess I'm afraid of what I'm going to say. But I might as well cave in and write my review, and be darned if I end up yammering on and on about what a ridiculous show this is.

Remember,...

The Wind-Up and the Pitch

Wed, 8 Mar 2000 05:31:46 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - When we first moved in to our new house, one of the major dilemmas we had was child-proofing our shades. Don't ask me why it was a major dilemma. Just take my word for it. (Everything seems kind of out of proportion with a new baby in the house, doesn't...

I Dare You

Sun, 5 Mar 2000 13:11:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - It's difficult for me to react any way but emotionally after just watching any movie, so usually when somebody asks me--as the credits are rolling--what I thought, I end up saying something like: "Uh, dunno yet. Gimme a sec." Then, three or...

Push 'n Go Airplane: Fly! Crash. Fly!

Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:07:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - This isn't going to be a long review. The toy is too simple. But it nevertheless going to be slightly glowing, because the toy still works.

Why is it glowing simply because the toy still works? If you have children, you probably already...

Reach!

Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:34:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - There are few of the baby toys we acquired after the birth of our first child that we used more than the Tiny Love Gymini Activity Gym. It's positively fun to put a baby under the swinging, attractive toys and watch him reach.

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The Toddler Movie

Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:12:31 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - What would you do? I have a toddler, see, and he loves Pooh. And he loves popcorn. So when the Tigger movie comes out, what do you do?

You take him to see the Tigger movie. You eat your popcorn. You sit there and you watch the movie and try...

Can you tell me how to get . . .

Tue, 15 Feb 2000 20:28:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - . . . if you really need me to finish that line, you've had your head buried in the dust for the last thirty years or so.

I love Sesame Street.

Since I'm going to say one or two rotten things about Sesame Street, I wanted to...

Don't Miss the Book Based on the Movie Based on the Book!

Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:37:30 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - Uh oh. I’m in trouble. I’m about to review a book that:

1. Was given to my son by his Uncle, Aunt and Cousins.

2. Has been one of his favorites.

3. I do not like.

4. At all.

So, if there are any...

Epinions.com: Update: Eroyalties have been set to zero while we upgrade...

Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:12:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TerryBain - Um, is there anybody else who goes into coronary arrest when they log into Epinions in the morning and find the big negative sign in front of their Eroyalties? I know, I know, there's a giant red explanation on your account page (which is currently...