© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-chiliqueen Recent reviews written by member chiliqueen en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_441910529668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - May Bird has always been an outsider in the small West Virginia town of Briery Swamp. She's small and knobby-kneed and prefers to live in a world of her own making, along with her hairless Rex cat Somber Kitty. The two live out adventures where May is a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441910529668 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:24:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441910529668?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441825005188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - Christmas Songs by Sinatra is a compilation of Christmas songs recorded by Frankie during the '40s and released as a series of 78s. With lush arrangements by Frankie's Columbia mainstay Axel Stordahl, these fifteen songs capture a Sinatra slowly evolving... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441825005188 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:11:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441825005188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441664441988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - The self-proclaimed "Ultimate Ice Cream Book" is stated to contain over 500 recipes for ice cream, sherbert, sorbet, granita, drinks and more, but this number is extremely misleading; there are really several basic bases (chocolate, vanilla, various... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441664441988 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:24:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441664441988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440497573508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - “Beauty and the Beast” was one of the earliest TV shows I remember watching as a child (next to “the Cosby Show”). At the time, I was too young to appreciate any of the show’s deeper musings on love and attraction and the ills of modern society; I was... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440497573508 Sat, 9 Aug 2008 08:17:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440497573508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440327966340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - In Stephenie Meyer&#146s Twilight Saga, Isabella (Bella) Swan is caught in a supernatural love triangle between the dazzling vampire Edward Cullen and Quileute werewolf Jacob Black. In Twilight, Bella met and fell in love with Edward, and throughout the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440327966340 Thu, 7 Aug 2008 22:05:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440327966340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439659040388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - Ever had that amazing sense of deja vu? As I was in my local Texas Barnes and Noble, I heard an in-store CD that shocked me for its obscurity; I was sure that the voice belonged to one of the members of Kashtin, a First Nations Innu band from... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439659040388 Sat, 2 Aug 2008 21:33:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439659040388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_438786887300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - Penelope is a modern-day fairytale involving a family curse: as revenge for an unjust death, a witch curses the Wilherns so that their first daughter will be born with the face of a pig. For several generations, only males are born, but when Penelope... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~438786887300 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:05:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_438786887300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_438344060548?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - Rebecca Rather is the owner of Fredericksburg, TX iconic bakery Rather Sweet, which regularly appears among the country's top bakeries. Her first cookbook The Pastry Queen included many of her signature recipes from her Rather Sweet bakery and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~438344060548 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:26:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_438344060548?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_438266859140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - Faye Quick's second case is a doozie in Too Darn Hot; while searching for a client's missing boyfriend, she stumbles across a male body in his hotel room. Things quickly grow complicated when it turns out that the body might not be that of PVT... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~438266859140 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:41:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_438266859140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_438209646212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - In This Dame for Hire, Faye Quick becomes an ersatz private eye when all able-bodied men have been drafted by Uncle Sam. 1943 New York can be a rough place: Claudette West, a student at NYU, is brutally murdered on a cold, snowy night, and Faye is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~438209646212 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:23:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_438209646212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_438204599940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - In Linda L. Richards' Death Was the Other Woman, Kitty Pangborn had no intention of becoming a shamus (private eye), but when she landed a job as secretary to hard-drinking, haunted Great War vet Dexter J. Theroux, she's on the case. Kitty and Dex... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~438204599940 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:06:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_438204599940?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435644829316?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - Agnes Desarthe's Chez Moi is a classic novel in the style of Like Water for Chocolate and Chocolat that revels in the sensual and emotional power of truly great food. Its narrator, Myriam, is a talented cook with a forged resume and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435644829316 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:23:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435644829316?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435640635012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - Enzo, a philosopher-dog with terrier/lab origins, has one wish: to be reincarnated as a human. Enzo's owner, Denny, is a semi-professional race car driver who talks to him like he's his equal, so Enzo is well-versed in the art of racing, particularly in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435640635012 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:56:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435640635012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435058019972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - Much like her charming debut novel Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen's Sugar Queen is a blend of food and magic. Josey Cirrini is fast approaching thirty. She's a plump, painfully shy recluse who hides in her closet stuffing herself with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435058019972 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:04:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435058019972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435057692292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - This was one of the first "grownup" TV shows I remember taking an interest in back when it came out (I was seven). At the time, I was entranced by the visuals, but the more adult elements (romance, intimacy, and urban problems of poverty and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435057692292 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:43:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435057692292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434824253060?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - Christopher Grey's Leonardo's Shadow is the story of Giacomo, the servant of genius Leonardo da Vinci. However, this life is not as glamorous as it might seem; Leonardo is desperately poor, being two years behind on his largest commission, the Sistine... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434824253060 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:42:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434824253060?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434701110916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - In her second book, Emily Windsnap, half mermaid, half human, has done the unthinkable: she's woken the kraken, King Neptune's personal pet. Emily and her family have just relocated from Brightport to Allpoints Island near the Bermuda Triangle, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434701110916 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:30:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434701110916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434482941572?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - The Thief Lord is an enjoyable tale of a group of runaway children in Venice. Brothers Prosper and Boniface (Bo) have run away from their strict aunt in Hamburg and came to Venice, the magical city that their recently deceased mother had told them about... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434482941572 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:34:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434482941572?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434482679428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - I first became interested in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy after seeing the film based on it. I found the screenplay to be disjointed and lacking, so I decided to read the original novel in order to have a better idea of important missing... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434482679428 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:18:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434482679428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433995222660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - The third book to feature half-mermaid Emily Windsnap (following The Tail of Emily Windsnap and Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep) finds her wrapped up in another underseas mystery. Emily's worried about her parents; her... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433995222660 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:28:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433995222660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433224912516?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - Growing up with Somewhere in Time, I was intrigued by Hallmark Hall of Fame's Love Letter, based on a haunting 1959 short story by Jack Finney. Scott Corrigan is a Civil War buff who designs Civil War simulation games (check out the 1998... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433224912516 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:35:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433224912516?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433171500676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - From the famed author of Bridge to Terabithia comes this heartbreakingly realistic tale of two siblings trapped in a nightmare of neglect. Angel and her little brother Bernie live with their mom, a high school dropout, in a ratty apartment. Their dad is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433171500676 Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:36:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433171500676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432927903364?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - I haven't read any of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Triology (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass), so I'm judging The Golden Compass on its own merits. In the tradition of Tolkien or Rowling, Pullman has created an... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432927903364 Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:19:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432927903364?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432849129092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - Lunch Lessons is an in-depth expose of how our unhealthy American diet is literally killing us, particularly its impact on our kids who participate in the USDA school lunch program. Nearly 80% of American schools don't meet the USDA's nutritional... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432849129092 Fri, 6 Jun 2008 20:46:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432849129092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432395882116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author chiliqueen - Matthew Robbins's *Batteries Not Included is a charming little science-fiction heartwarmer produced by Steven Spielberg. Penned by Mick Garris and with help from Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille), it's the tale of a small... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432395882116 Mon, 2 Jun 2008 19:26:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432395882116?linkin_id=8003929