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The Golden Tarot

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:50:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - The Golden Tarot deck by Kat Black is one of those rare decks that possess not only beauty and artistic quality, but is also very easy to read. The illustrations are gorgeously rendered digital collages of Renaissance artwork, and there is a...

I Love a Good Apocalypse. This Ain't It.

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:52:04 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - I love a good apocalypse. Some people like their literature with a nice code, but give me an apocalyptic novel anyday. .And the apocalypse doesn’t have to be Christian in nature, though the Book of Revelations is an exciting tale with...

The Tarot of Prague - A Magical City and a Magical Deck

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:39:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - I can't say I'm too fond of the idea of city-themed tarots, but of course, as soon as I make that proclamation, a tarot deck comes out that, although city-themed, blows me away. The Tarot of Prague by Karen Mahoney and Alex Ukolov is a sumptuous...

The Book of Trouble by Ann Marlowe

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:02:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - What do you think of when I say “Western woman gets romantically involved with Middle-Eastern Muslim man”? A LifeTime movie of the week, maybe, featuring all the usual cliches? Tyrranical, sexist and abusive male whisks unsuspecting...

In the Shadow of Cliches, Something Surprising

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:31:00 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - Take every cliche from every war movie you've ever seen. The blood-covered wounded guy who screams, "Kill me!" The stony faced sergeant who looks out over the battlefield and says, "War is Hell." The men who find the corpse of an enemy and gasp, "He...

Where are all the brown-eyed tubbies named Bob?

Thu, 18 May 2006 08:16:22 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - Katherine Neville was writing historical and/or religious conspiracy fiction before Dan Brown was even a twinkle in his publisher’s eye. Neville’s gigantic work of historical conspiracy fiction, The Eight has achieved cult status. The...

Loving any book with my name in the title

Sun, 2 Apr 2006 13:15:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - Let me state right up front that I’m not a romantic person, I don’t like love stories, and I tend to avoid any books or films that might contain too much “mushy stuff”. And if a book has the word love in the title, you can bet...

Revenge of the Tibetans

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:14:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - I am firmly convinced that The Five Tibetans: Five Dynamic Exercises for Health, Energy and Personal Power is revenge for that review I wrote on T
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Secret Art of Seamm Jasani. I think there is only one Five...

Sex and drugs and rock’n’roll and porn and love and death

Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:28:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - What has the sensual brutality of a Brett Easton Ellis novel, the body count of a Shakespearian tragedy and the self-referential cleverness of.. of.. of something cleverly self-referential? Well if you’ve guessed that I’ve just read another...

The Crystal World: A Gentle Apocalypse

Mon, 6 Mar 2006 15:55:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - J G Ballard is another of these writers I’ve been meaning to get around to for a long time. I chose The Crystal World as my first JG Ballard read because in reviews I’d seen it hailed as a sort of science fiction The Heart of...

Try: The Stuttering Voice of Silence

Sat, 4 Mar 2006 18:20:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - This is the third book I’ve read from Dennis Cooper’s George Miles Cycle a series of five books that explores themes of love and death, the destructive and self-destructive nature of desire, passion or need taken to extremes, and the...

Pray to know the things you know as if they were written in lightenings

Wed, 1 Mar 2006 14:43:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - “Read anything good lately?” “Right now I’m reading A Handbook of American Prayer” “You’re reading what?” “A Handbook of American Prayer.” “What on earth for?!” That was the reaction...

Seamm Jasani: An Oldie but a Goodie?

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:43:17 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - I picked up this book some months ago, while staying with my family, because I wanted some form of exercise I could do in a small space that didn’t necessitate travelling to a gymn (since my transportation was limited at the time) and didn’t...

What do you get when you peel back the layers of an onion? More onion.

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:24:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - When you peel back the layers of an onion, what do you get? ...More onion. After reading Dennis Cooper’s Closer, I just had to find more. I sought him out at book-stores to no avail. When asking for him by name I was mostly met with blank...

Lies Inc: Because the Truth Might be too Costly

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:19:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - Phillip K Dick has been on my ‘must read’ list for probably around two decades now, maybe longer. Sometimes I just don’t know how I let these things slip by me, but time passes, my ‘must read’ list grows. And grows. And grows. And I...

Prime: Absolutely Delicious

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:26:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - Food has been on my mind a lot lately. I’ve recently moved into a new home after staying with family since Katrina. I always believed the first meal I would prepare for myself in my new kitchen would be gumbo or some other New Orleans staple, but...

Closer: the Surface and What Lies Beneath

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:00:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - It has been a long time since I’ve been so impressed with a book, so moved, so completely unnerved. When I first picked up Closer I had plenty of expectations. A little light reading, I thought. Some titillating gay erotica, probably a bit...

Five of Cups: Fear and Loathing in Atlanta

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:29:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - I didn't become familiar with Caitlin R Kiernan's work until I had moved back from England to the US, and re-established my status as southern gal. I picked up her books, Low Red Moon and Threshold during my early travels in the states and...

Not exactly 'homey' but adequate for an extended stay.

Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:35:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - Homestead Atlanta I did a lot of hotel-hopping after moving from England to the US in the early months of 2003. One of the first places I stayed was the Homestead in Atlanta, on the perimeter. The Homestead is one of these extended-stay...

Heavensent during the worst time of my life.

Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:14:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - Super 8 Motel: Malvern Arkansas I sat on my sofa, eyes glued to the television, tossing back shots of rum as I watched the monster hurricane named Katrina gain strength and inch closer and closer to landfall.Closer and closer to me, my home, my cat,...

Mortal Companion: A waste of a portion of my own mortality

Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:05:44 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - I liked Patrick Califia’s work back when he was a she, and she was a lesbian. Back in those days, Pat/rick did not limit hirself exclusively to lesbian erotica, but the stories seemed to be rawer, and packed more of a punch. Or perhaps its just...

November Mourns: Beautiful prose barely conceals the lack of good ideas

Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:05:04 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - November Mourns The first book I read by Tom Piccirilli was A Choir of Ill Children, and I was captivated by the beautiful prose, the soggy and oppressive atmosphere, the quirky but believable characters, and the engrossing plot. This novel I...

Claustrophobia in the air, chaos on the ground, and not recommended for pets.

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 07:18:21 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - When choosing an airline for my move to the US from the UK, my primary consideration was for my cat, and I was all to happy to pay a little extra for an airline that promised superior care of pets. Virgin's policy toward pets sounded compassionate and...

Flavourless but otherwise very pleasant

Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:39:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - After my six-week stint in a middle-Georgia Econo-Lodge (reviewed earlier)I left for my permanent destination, New Orleans, where I was to be yet again interred for some weeks in a hotel until my house was ready. My main consideration was finding a hotel...

A putrescent indulgence for tasteless bourgeoisie

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:59:33 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author cheva - I committed a cardinal sin yesterday morning. I did something I would normally never, ever, under any circumstances do. I went to Starbucks. I usually avoid all the big, multinational consumerist-culture chains, but I was desperate. I arrived at the post...