Epinions Recent Reviews for abhaille

Myth and Legend Told Well

Fri, 4 Jul 2008 01:13:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - This is another random book that I picked up off the "pile" next to the bed. I'm a bookseller and this one caught my interest enough to keep it rather than donate it. Again, I flipped through to decide how high it should be on the pile (that means how...

Robert Silverberg - The Longest Way Home: Class Struggle, Moral Dilemma

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 01:30:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - I've been reading Robert Silverberg for more than 30 years. As always, his writing is engaging. He creates vivid characters and then proceeds to flesh them out, not only with regard to their physical description, but also an analysis of their interior...

Fluorescent Quality Provides Lighter Color

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:16:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - As a teacher, I've had an opportunity to use a lot of highlighter products. I'm continually drawn to the Avery line of products because of their quality and consistency. I've popped new highlighters of other brands right out of the blister pack to...

Takes a Licking but Keeps on Ticking

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:46:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - I cannot tell you how many of these highlighters I've used over the years. I am a full believer in the use of highlighters. I do like the variety of colors, but one has to admit that the yellow is the standard, BIG DOG, workhorse of highlighters...

Nicholas Scrady - Tilt: A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa: Should Be Good for 300 More Years

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:17:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - The story of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is wrapped in political intrigue, cultural pride and popular myth. Romanesque churches throughout Italia pride themselves on their campanile, or bell towers. Some are very well known, from the tower at Piazza San...

Jeff Lindsay - Darkly Dreaming Dexter: A Novel: Devastatingly Dexter

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:15:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - I spent some of my birthday money to pick up a couple of Dexter books. I've enjoyed the series on Showtime and ordered this book without reading very much about it. Now I'm glad that I didn't read much about it. I probably wouldn't have ordered it and...

Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette: She Gets to Play God

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:27:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - I've rarely found an album that had such a strong body of work. Listening to any album, we are lucky if 1/3 the content blows us away. Steve Miller's Fly Like an Eagle was pretty awesome the summer I turned 17. Jagged Little Pill is filled with...

Cat Fancy Magazine: Big Cats, Small Cats, Designer Breeds

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:21:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - I have leftover frequent flier miles. I get these offers all the time to cash in some of them for magazine subscriptions. I sign up for them because I'll never have enough miles to upgrade my travel and sometimes I actually get the magazines. I signed...

Art History Detectives - Finding Caravaggio's Lost Painting

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:04:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - Vive Italia! I picked up The Lost Painting not long after I'd finished Murder of a Medici Princess. It was on the stack to read, but I wasn't sure I was up for more Italian history. I opened it up, thinking I would look at a few pages and place it in...

Caroline P. Murphy - Murder of a Medici Princess: Renaissance Woman

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:34:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - We hear folks use the term "princess" with regard to a well-beloved daughter. This is literally and figuratively the case for Isabella de Medici Orsini. The Medici in Florence are a seminal force of the Renaissance with their patronage and dedication to...

IonizAir (AR3397) Air Purifier: Dust Collector

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:06:32 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - We originally bought this item to help dispel some of my cigarette smoke in our bedroom. My hubby bought it out of a catalog for about forty dollars. It seems to be a pretty popular low end item. This machine is easy to use. You plug it in. It's...

Just Add Water!

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:37:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - I'm a sucker for point of purchase displays on the day after payday. We went to Lowe's today to get grass seed and light bulbs and I saw the Package of Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. It was $3.98 for a four pack and I figured it was worth a try. I have...

Mike Daisey - 21 Dog Years: A Cube Dweller's Tale: Slackmeister Extraordinaire!

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:16:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - We've all known folks that underperformed. I see this constantly as a school teacher. There are folks that are somehow on such a level of merely existing that it takes on epic proportions. Mike Daisey is a hardcore, grand master of doing almost...

Dexter -The First Season: Dexter Marathon, Waiting for Season Two on DVD

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:51:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - My daughter started telling me about Dexter during the first season. We were all fans of Michael C. Hall because of Six Feet Under. I was a little startled that my daughter told me that he was a serial killer that I'd LIKE. I appreciate acting. I...

We're Takin' Care of Business

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:53:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - I have rarely had the music from a movie transport me on so many levels. If I hated this movie (I don't) I'd watch it to hear the music. Holy cow, this has Queen, Bachman Turner Overdrive, David Bowie, Heart and more. The track list goes like...

Tanith Lee - Black Unicorn: Wistful, Wonder-filled, Startling Imagery

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 18:05:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - As a bookseller, I've come across Tanith Lee books for years. She seems to have a fierce following and many of her books have been good sellers. Talking to my friends who share a love of sci-fi and fantasy, her name has come up any number of times. I...

20 Million Miles to Earth: Horrible but Fascinating

Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:52:09 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - I've previously expounded on "gronk" movies in my review of T
he
Angry Red Planet. 20 Million Miles to Earth is a really choice example of the genre. Released in 1957 it's got the handsome star, Col. Robert Calder...

Very Nice Drawing, Not So Funny

Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:53:07 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - Many of you may be familiar with the work of Dan Piraro. He's an odd quirky fellow who has entertained newspaper readers for many years with his single window comics that are certainly often bizarre, hence the name of the strip--Bizarro. I've been...

Frances Mayes - Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy: The Golden Air, The Scented Breeze

Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:40:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - This book is another from the accumulated pile next to the bed. It's been there long enough to get dusty, but finally I pick it up. Frances Mayes, poet, travel writer, lover of food makes the decision to buy an old farmhouse near Cortona, Italia. She...

What's happening Hot Stuff

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:34:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - I have two favorite flavors. Chocolate and Cinnamon. They don't go together so I have to segregate them. I have loved cinnamon ever since I can remember. There was a trend when I was about 11 to buy cinnamon oil from the pharmacy and dip toothpicks...

Mineko Iwasaki et al - Geisha, a Life: A Life: Moving Real Story Behind Memoirs

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:53:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - It would be impossible to evaluate this book without comparison to the hugely popular Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. However, where "Memoirs" is fiction, Geisha, A Life is autobiography. In fact Mineko Iwasaki is credited by Golden as a source...

Sushi and Curry - Pan Asian Cuisine

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 01:39:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - I was asked where I wanted to go for my birthday dinner tonight and I considered all my grown children and their tastes and then I decided that since we were celebrating MY birthday that I should go where I darn well please. It was an easy choice. I...

Dark and Murky, Eerie Bedtime Story

Sun, 1 Jun 2008 20:28:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - M. Night Shyamalan returns again with another dark twisted tale that makes us question some of our basic beliefs. Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) is a simple and sad maintenance man with a painful secret. His confidence in the world has been shaken,...

Rome - The Complete First Season: History Was NEVER So Much Fun

Sun, 1 Jun 2008 02:57:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - I'm a natural sucker for a show like this. I'm an art history nerd who was HBO lonely after Carnivale ended. I was engaged from the opening credits as antique images come to life with animation and interact with strains of music that evoke a sense of...

Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya - Gardner's Art Through the Ages: Study Guide: Extensive Study Guide for AP Art History

Sat, 31 May 2008 21:45:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author abhaille - It certainly follows that the largest textbook at my school also has the largest workbook. Each chapter review section starts off with a series of short answer questions that basically goes along with the order the information is arranged in the text...