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Plant This in Your Ear: Plantronics Discovery 610

Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:56:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - After my disastrous experience with the Jabra BT2040, I swore off Bluetooth devices. I went back to the old tried and true corded earpiece. It didn’t take long before the limitations of being corded started to outweigh my antipathy towards...

Add some Passion to your life

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:31:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - In this day and age, we more or less take it for granted that every 2-bit actor/actress, singer, athlete, model or tabloid headliner is going to introduce a perfume line. The fad for celebrity scents actually had its heydey in the 1980s. Both Joan...

Jabra BT2040 Bluetooth equals 1 sore ear!

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:56:41 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - If the new California hands free law were not going in to effect, I would never have purchased any kind of headset or hands free device. I am not a cell phone fanatic. I use my phone sparingly and rarely while driving. Hands free usage has never been an...

Costume Jewelry: Baubles, Bangles and Bucks

Tue, 1 Jun 2004 01:04:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - I am told frequently that I am just like my grandmother. Besides her love of books, I have also inherited her love of jewelry. But not just any jewelry. Only the "good stuff", if you please! Costume jewelry was something you gave the kids to play...

Is it trash or treasure?

Fri, 6 Jul 2001 01:20:45 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - If you are a lover of the old, the rare or the odd, then no doubt you have seen at least one PBS broadcast of Antiques Roadshow . Hosted in a different city each week, Antiques Roadshow is where the average joe takes that old painting from...

Indoor Furniture: Sauder® : The no. 1 Name in Ready-to Assemble Furniture

Sat, 20 Jan 2001 02:38:47 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - I have been an avid reader since the age of 4. I have been a packrat my entire life. I also cannot pass by a bookstore, thrift store or library sale. Add these traits together and they equal one house full of books. My three existing bookcases are...

Archived Web Services Reviews: GotFruit.com: When a Card is NOT Enough

Sat, 16 Dec 2000 22:51:16 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - I recently found myself having to say a very special "Thank you". It was one of those times when a card was just not going to do the job, not even a Hallmark™. I searched epinions for ideas, but unfortunately wasn't able to find...

Survival of the Fittest: Who is playing God?

Thu, 19 Oct 2000 04:43:04 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - A young cop bites the bullet. A retarded boy is missing. A Consul's deaf daughter is murdered. The body of a young black, slow-witted teenage prostitute is found hanging in a schoolyard. A research chemist takes a painful way out. A blind man is...

Viva Elvis!

Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:47:36 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - Today is the twenty-third anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. I join with the following epinionators in offering tribute to the greatest entertainer the world has ever known:

Gr8dane

caravan70

fm_hunter

janesbit1
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"G" is for Gumshoe: A female PI worthy of Spade or Marlowe

Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:20:48 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - For tonight’s Write-off,I join fellow epionionators erik_kosberg, grouch, kcfoxy, mshawpyle and redlass in reviews of private investigator novels. You can read their contributions by following this link:

Plainly Speaking, Just Plain Boring!

Mon, 31 Jul 2000 02:48:45 GMT
rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - It is not often that I switch my reading habits from the mystery/suspense genre I love. When I do, I am all too often disappointed. Such is the case with Belva Plain's Fortune's Hand .

This book was boring from beginning to end...

Shields Up: Shields Up!: The entire Western Hemisphere depends on my PC

Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:48:57 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - Okay, so maybe I exaggerated just a tad. The whole Western Hemisphere is not reliant on my PC for it's survival. I don't have any top-secret government documents, but I do have Granny's secret family recipe for melt in your mouth shortbread. She...

Heidi- I still cry!

Wed, 31 May 2000 22:07:08 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - This Children’s' Book write-off was organized by Forkids in commemoration of her 400th review. I am honored to be included with the following writers who have joined together to help celebrate Forkids achievement:

Bonies7, Fdknight ,
...

Perfect is as perfect does

Tue, 30 May 2000 01:28:06 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - Shown here as written by Marion Chesney Death of a Perfect Wife was actually penned and published under her pseudonym, M.C. Beaton.

Death of a Perfect Wife is another in the Hamish MacBeth mystery series. Hamish, a...

Stillwatch: Sex, Scandal, Politics and Murder

Thu, 18 May 2000 23:52:03 GMT
rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - Mary Higgins Clark certainly covers all bases in Stillwatch. Sex, scandal, politics, murder and even a touch of the occult. In fact, there is almost too much story to absorb.

Pat Traymore is an attractive...

PoFolks: My tummy loves me

Sun, 7 May 2000 23:29:57 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - Located in Buena Park, Ca, one block north of Knott’s Berry Farm on the same lot as Hollywood Wax Museum, PoFolks is in a prime location for the tourist trade. Locals know to avoid a long wait, get there early.

The decor is one of casual...

Not a Cousin You Would Want to Kiss

Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:26:29 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono -

Written by Daphne du Maurier 23 years after her more famous Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, is a timeless tale of shattered innocence, suspense and revenge. It runs the complete gamut of emotions: love, hate, jealousy,...

Baking Stones: Get stoned!

Wed, 29 Mar 2000 04:58:46 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono -

About 2 years ago, I was given a 15-inch round baking stone. I had never heard of baking stones before and didn’t have a clue what one was used for. I put it above my fridge and promptly forgot about it. Until now.

While preparing for a...

Sunbeam Electric Blanket With a Brain IQ2: I sleep with a Brain!

Sat, 25 Mar 2000 06:22:45 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - It took a long time, but finally I am sleeping with a brain. I am, of course, talking about my Sunbeam electric Blanket with a Brain IQ2.

If you have read any of my other reviews, you know I am loathe to give up any of my...

More like a sigh in the night

Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:34:50 GMT
rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - A Cry in the Night by Mary Higgins Clark was a big disappointment. Labeled as “a harrowing tale by the master of horror”, I was prepared for a truly suspenseful book. Instead, I was treated to a very predictable plot with poorly defined...

Twain inspires murder????

Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:41:31 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - Written by Edith Skom and published in 1990, this book was nominated for three Best First Mystery Awards, an Agatha, , a Macavity and an Anthony.

The setting is the fictional Midwestern University of Chicago. What begins...

"Come into my parlor," says the spider

Thu, 9 Mar 2000 06:17:20 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - Along Came A Spider is the first of James Patterson's "nursery rhyme" suspense thrillers featuring Alex Cross.

Alex Cross is a black homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. When the son of a prominent politician and...

The Fourth Estate

Tue, 29 Feb 2000 04:17:10 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - Once again, author Jeffrey Archer creates two rival characters, whose life stories parallel and intertwine. The story switches back and forth between the two men as each struggles to out distance the other.

Richard Armstrong, nee Lubji Hoch,...

Just ask a bartender!

Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:13:33 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - Margaritas!!! Strawberry Margaritas!!! My neighbor got me hooked on these as a favorite summertime evening drink. There was only one problem.

I did not own a blender. I had never owned a blender. None of my closest friends or relatives owned...

Mr Coffee Iced Tea Maker: Iced tea in three easy steps

Sat, 19 Feb 2000 05:29:30 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author auntnono - Nothing quenches my thirst faster than a tall glass of iced tea, but I hate to make it.

I love sun tea (when made by someone else). I invariably leave it in the sun too long and it is too strong to drink. Adding more water only seems to make...