Epinions Recent Reviews for elliejo

Take a Chance on This Curious Couple

Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:25:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - A two or three-year old drama with undying, universal themes and poetic translation of a whimsical yet passionate story (a novel by Peter Carey) is my perfect recipe for a rainy summer evening. That’s exactly how I enjoyed Oscar and Lucinda, a...

Burns to Be Read

Fri, 8 Dec 2000 12:40:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - The explosive world of love and demolition

The Burning Point, Mary Jo Putney’s first contemporary novel after a string of highly successful historical romances, is, to make an obvious pun, an explosive success. Set against the world of...

I'd Toss you Out--In a Snap

Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:51:48 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - When traveling to Italy three years ago I decided to buy my first inexpensive point-and-shoot camera in order to have a camera ready and loaded with black-and-white film for pictures that would accompany some travel articles I was working on. That way my...

Up There With the Big Boys!

Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:20:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - Since there is no separate category listed herein for the HP DeskJet 930 Series, and because the color printing capabilities are identical to the 970 series, I'm writing my review here. Besides, my new printer deserves to be rated with the big boys!
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A technological wiz for a techie failure like me

Wed, 8 Nov 2000 22:08:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - My Panasonic Palmcorder Palmsight PV-L779 is a dream-come true. I allowed my magical camcorder-digital still camera combination to age for almost a year so that I could thoroughly analyze the features and functioning throughout a long test period. Now...

AlphaSmart 3000: Right Writing, and Fun, Too

Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:55:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - At Christmas in 1998 my husband gave me the top item on my wish list, an Alpha Smart 2000, produced by Intelligent Peripheral Devices, Inc. Alpha Smart is a feather weight (2 lb.) but amazingly sturdy word processing device with a four-line LCD screen...

Not Just Sentimental Noise

Sun, 15 Oct 2000 12:52:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - Music of the Heart might have turned out simply a sentimentalistic noise-of-the-heart melodrama. Director Wes Craven, however, reigns in the emotions and trims them when they threatens to get out of hand, and Meryl Streep’s apt and taut portrayal...

Unexpected Pleasures a Fun Discovery

Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:59:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo -
Review Topic: Sights & Attractions

Review Topic: Sights & Attractions

Hartford bashing is a favorite pasttime in some corners of Connecticut, and I’ll be the first to agree that stodgy and...

Personal Power Over Cultural Differences

Sat, 30 Sep 2000 09:17:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - Outside of the dominating musical context of its predecessors, Anna and the King makes a powerful statement in a sensitive, believable story, thanks to brilliant script and direction, and the two magnificent performances of Jodie Foster as Anna...

Healing for Horse and Man

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:48:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - The Horsemaster’s Daughter by Susan Wiggs is the kind of romance that sells copies. It’s the romance readers’ great love—a novel wholly focused on the attraction of, the searing conflict between, and the happy-ever-after-marriage ending of a...

My love affair with Texas--Austin's, in Boston!

Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:47:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo -
Review Topic: Restaurants

Austin's (Tex-Mex) Restaurant

350 Massachusetts Avenue,

Cambridge, MA

If you head into Austin’s just off Central Square on the Camridge side of the Charles River...

Chelsea Market--New York does it up BIG

Tue, 12 Sep 2000 00:54:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - On a recent trip to the City I had the pleasure of researching wholesale food markets, such as Manhattan Fruit on the lower West Side. This destination brought me to the intersection where Chelsea Market, a conglomeration of 28 or 30 retail food markets,...

Sandringham House--look but don't touch

Mon, 11 Sep 2000 00:48:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - Sandringham House, the country retreat of the Royal Family of Great Britain, is not typically a big tourist attraction in the sense that Windsor Castle, Warwick and others are. Yet there is plenty to recommend Sandringham in northern Norfolk.

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The mystique is marred by bitter facts

Sun, 3 Sep 2000 03:18:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - We bought Gavan Daws' Shoal of Time:A History of the Hawaiian Islands last winter, while on our first trip to the Islands. Much of what we were hearing from our tour guide came as a surprise to us, regarding Captain Cook's early discovery of the...

A Poet Moves to Italy

Sat, 2 Sep 2000 11:41:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - Would you expect anything less than flowing, poetic, vivid prose from creative writing teacher and poet Frances Mayes, as she journals her move to Italy several years ago? When I first listened to the audiobook, Under the Tuscan Sun:At Home in...

I'll take even a week!

Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:05:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - Peter Mayle's first Provencal adventure made a big stir when it first came out in '93, and being a bit green with envy that I as a writer hadn't done what he did, and operating under the misconception that he was a snob, I totally avoided the book...

Love's not quite enough!

Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:03:55 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo -

Because the Superromance series is Harlequin's longest books, with books around 300 or more pages, they usually feature more complex characters and more serious themes, which is why this is the one series I look for and hope to emulate in my...

Glamis Castle--A Haunting Experience

Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:34:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - Because we had our teen-aged grandson along, and because we're inveterate history buffs with a taste for romantic adventure, we hit several outstanding castles on our recent trip to the UK. Future reviews will look at Blair Castle and...

Are you in there? Bet you are!

Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:03:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - As a fiction writer, and an avid student of personality type, I am thrilled to add the new volume, The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines:Sixteen Master Archetypes to my reference library. Creating great characters in fictional work,...

Sensual Simplicity, and More!

Mon, 14 Aug 2000 22:28:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - Simple Living Guide Review

The subtitle of Simple Living tells it all: it is a “Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living, and in it, Ms. Luhrs, editor of the nicely done journal “Simple Living:The Journal of Voluntary...

Our Own Castle in Scotland—by the Night

Fri, 4 Aug 2000 00:00:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - Blair, Glamis, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdour and Dumferlime—every castle we visited in bonnie Scotland said Welcome in its own unique way—until the particular tour was over and it was time to hit the road. But when we drove up to the Leny Estate in...

"I rag nobody."

Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:46:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - Bang the Drum Slowly has all the right ingredients for a big American movie success--baseball, good guys, bad guys, terminal illness and a young Robert DeNiro. Unfortunately, this 1974 film doesn't quite make the "Big" status, , but Mark...

Edinburgh:"warm" city in a cool climate!

Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:12:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - Geographic, historic and climactic features combine to make Edinburgh, capital and largest city in Scotland, an absorbing mix of experiences. Although on the rainy June day we confronted the mass of stones and rocky precipices that is Edinburgh the city...

In Another Life I Think I Lived Here

Sat, 22 Jul 2000 00:49:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - Part of the allure of European travel for me is uncovering layers of history and culture wherever you visit. When a certain deja vu comes over me in a foreign land, I suspect I've been there in a previous incarnation, so drawn am I to uncovering these...

Scotland in Miniature

Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:47:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author elliejo - Are there sheep? Granite peaks and rolling moors dotted with heather? Lots of green in every view? Rugged coastline and awesome golf courses? Pleasant, smiling folk with burry accents?

It must be Scotland!

No, just The Isle of...