Epinions Recent Reviews for WendyD3520

How the Irish Saved Civilization - One More Reason to Love the Irish

Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:44:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - Before I take a trip, I am Amazon.com’s best customer, compulsively buying every guidebook, map, and book of the history of wherever we’re going that I can get my hands on. Of all the books I bought to prepare my family for our trip to Ireland, the one...

Ada, The Ambassador of the Dead - Whether She Likes It Or Not

Tue, 19 Jun 2001 16:08:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - I come from people that have lived in the same American farm community since well before the Revolutionary War – my husband is second generation Italian – American from a small and yet more urban mill town. Getting to know his family and community was,...

War Crimes of the Young - Five Quarters of the Orange

Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:04:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - Every time I want to romanticize the past – to imagine that there were “good old days” in which life was less complicated and people were better people, I am put in my place by a movie or a book like Five Quarters of the Orange, by Joanne...

Free the Saint – Free the Monster

Fri, 18 May 2001 14:56:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - The majority of my book discussion group has hated (not disliked – hated, as in despised) every book we’ve ever chosen to read; I’m not even sure why we keep the group together. Books that I loved every minute of, like To the Lighthouse, by...

Suffering for Love/ the Sizzle vs. the Fizzle

Mon, 14 May 2001 19:31:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - (Look familiar? I published the following movie review last week and it vanished without a trace. Since Epinions will not acknowledge my questions, all conspiracy theories concerning this disappearance should be submitted, in writing, to me,...

A Little Help With Your Search for the Perfect College

Thu, 3 May 2001 11:56:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - We were afraid to even begin looking at colleges for my daughter – the process seemed intimidating and we don’t want her to leave us. But finding The Princeton Review’s The Best 331 Colleges was a step in the right direction.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Ahmad Jamal

Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:07:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - I have a tendency to sound very goofy when I talk about my music heroes, so forgive me if resort to using a big cliché here. And I don’t want to sound hysterical or maudlin, but seeing Ahmad Jamal live at Cleveland’s Night Town in January...

A Movie From the "Ones You May Have Missed" File

Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:26:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - For those of you hate period pieces: read no further.

For those of you who loved Howard’s End, The Wings of the Dove, and Room with a View, be advised: this is no Howard’s End, Wings of the Dove, or Room with a...

The VIVA! Series - Almost Too Cool for Cleveland

Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:54:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - Friends that have lived all their lives in Northeast Ohio hate it when I say something like this. I’ve been here 12 years and have been happy; there are many wonderful things about Cleveland. Its people are warm and friendly (love that Little Italy). It...

Where Route 56 Meets 56A

Fri, 6 Apr 2001 09:06:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - Back in the 70’s when I was in junior high (TV’s The Wonder Years were my wonder years) I had reading class in addition to English class. No, I wasn’t in the slow track – every seventh grader took it, and the most colorful teacher in our school...

Amalfi's Beautiful Hotel Santa Caterina

Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:48:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - If you are a woman you probably remember reading those novels in which the heroine escapes some problem or another (an unhappy love affair; a dreary, colorless life; the tragic death of a loved one etc.) by going off by herself to a picturesque,...

A Look at "In the Beginning" - Bill Moyers's Genesis: A Living Conversation

Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:14:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - Growing up in a Protestant church, I learned all they could teach me about the Bible’s Old Testament from a very early age. I memorized and rarely questioned the curiously harsh dramas involving God’s banishment of His hand-made people for eating some...

Flat as a Pancake and Making the Best of It

Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:56:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - As my friend, Brian, and his wife prepare for the birth of their first child, I’m deciding about which book to give them as a baby gift. When a friend or family member’s baby is born, I like to commemorate the birth with a book. I always decide on one...

You're a Poet and You Know It; Now, What?

Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:12:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - You write poetry? So do I.

Unless you want to be remembered as one of those insane hermit poets with brilliant poetry discovered only after your death, you’ll need help with the practical matters of being a poet. Unfortunately, if your goal...

Something To Do With Living - My Dinner With Andre

Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:44:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - The first time I saw My Dinner With Andre I was with my husband and another couple, Terry and Tracy. Tracy was asleep within the first half-hour; the rest of us were left completely speechless as we exited the theater. If you knew us, you’d know...

Beyond Brown Rice and Bean Curd - The Moosewood Cookbook

Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:13:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - When my family moved from Philadelphia to Cleveland I decided it was time for a lifestyle change. Moving is good for that kind of thing; if you’ve been looking to reinvent yourself in some way, you’ve got that nice fresh start to help your cause.
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In This World, You're Lucky If You Can Count On Anybody

Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:20:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - Maybe I've written enough Epinions to become predictable by now. (I loved Chocolat, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Beloved...you get it; I'm not exactly a Steven Seagal fan.) I mean, lately, my husband and I have seen a truckload of non-descript movies...

A Mother's Beloved

Thu, 22 Feb 2001 03:15:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - So many Epinions writers are making lists (favorite albums, favorite movies, gifts they'd like to receive) and I've enjoyed reading them. Lists are fun to make, and of course, it made me think about the ones I'd make, like of my favorite books (if that...

A Completely Incomplete Mystery

Thu, 8 Feb 2001 01:40:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - Type A personalities beware: Picnic at Hanging Rock is a movie that presents a problem with no solution. It is a riddle with no answer. Set and filmed in Australia by Peter Weir (Witness, The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society) in 1975,...

Walt Disney World Explorer: Take a Virtual Vacation to Walt Disney World

Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:16:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - It all started from a Daddy with two daughters wondering where he could take them where he could have a little fun with them...

I felt that it should be something big...where parents and children could have fun together...

Believe me, it's...

Not Your Normal Suicide Songs

Sun, 28 Jan 2001 17:13:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - I won't go out on a limb and say that Strangeways, Here We Come is the best cd/album ever by the Smiths or their singer, Morrissey, but I will call it my favorite. Made in 1987 right before the breakup of The Smiths, Morrissey has certainly...

A Good Place to Start On the Road to Utopia

Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:22:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - I probably should disqualify myself from writing opinions about Todd Rundgren albums (yeah, when I started, they were albums). I'm not sure if I can be objective considering the fact that I'm in love with him and everything -- Oh, it's OK. My husband...

Share a Past Life Experience With Hedningarna

Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:59:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - Are you into ancient Nordic music? (I know! Who isn't?) You might be if you've ever heard a group called Hedningarna (means "the heathens" in English) from Finland and Sweden. On their 1999 CD called Karelia Visa, Hedningarna delivers a...

A Vegetarian Learns How to Roast a Cider Basted Turkey

Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:26:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - I don't eat meat; I probably love Bon Appetit, "America's Food and Entertaining Magazine" more than I should. I've had subscriptions to the vegetarian monthlys, like Vegetarian Times, and I own just about every vegetarian cookbook you can imagine...

They're Your Children; What Lessons Do You Want Them to Learn?

Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:12:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WendyD3520 - Parents are funny. In one breath they whine about the terrible influences their children are exposed to, and in the next they are giving them money to rent Scream 2.

They lament the evil ways of the world as their kids are in the next room...