© 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-heidifromoz Recent reviews written by member heidifromoz en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_361117814404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - The Fabulist. S Glass Fiction. Hardback. 339 pages. 2003. Simon & Schuster. New York. ISBN: 0 7432-2712-3 "Fabulist" - as defined by The Concise Oxford Dictionary: n. composer of fables; liar. Preamble I came... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~361117814404 Sun, 13 May 2007 00:45:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_361117814404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_317491809924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro These days, you can find almost anything online, tangible and intangible, including love and romance. Dating sites decorated with hearts and flowers have popped up all over the Web, offering a gamut of choices from lifetime partner to a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~317491809924 Thu, 8 Feb 2007 23:42:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_317491809924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_282524880516?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro I bought Nancy Huston's The Mark of an Angel at a booksale along with a whole pile of others for $10 AUS. Bit by bit I'm working my way through them and have recycled many of them (often unread) to the secondhand bookshop. But this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~282524880516 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:24:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_282524880516?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_272348515972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro A few months ago, I had the pleasure of reading an exciting new Indian author, and subsequently requested that the Category Leads add it to this website. Tarun J Tejpal&#146s The Alchemy of Desire was published in 2005,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~272348515972 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:03:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_272348515972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_273805905540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro Euthanasia is an emotive and deeply divisive issue, with no middle ground likely to satisfy the polarised groups. Derek Humphry&#146s Final Exit, which first appeared in 1991, received a mixed reaction from the public because of its... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~273805905540 Tue, 7 Nov 2006 03:29:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_273805905540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_268275256964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro I have always wanted to have a go at the sharemarket but was ignorant about the way it worked, afraid of losing my precious hard earned $$ if/when the market fell, reluctant to pay exorbitant brokers' fees and last but not least, had no... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~268275256964 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:31:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_268275256964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_248109567620?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro A few weeks ago, I picked this book off the library shelves and was about one-third of the way into it when I realized I&#146d read it before. My conclusion was that it couldn&#146t have made much of an impression the first time round, but... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~248109567620 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:02:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_248109567620?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_256747277956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro The &#147Beauty and the Beast&#148 fairytale is well-known to all of us, with its moral of external appearance not necessarily reflecting a person&#146s true soul or character. In Beauty, Susan Wilson transposes this notion into a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~256747277956 Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:08:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_256747277956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_253150269060?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro I don&#146t read many thrillers these days but every so often I come across one that has all the ingredients: good writing and plot, believable characters with human failings, authenticity of setting, and obviously well-researched... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~253150269060 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:24:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_253150269060?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_248328326788?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro I first heard of Donald Westlake&#146s The Axe in connection with a movie that was based on it but can&#146t for the life of me remember which one (I think it&#146s pretty recent though). A film reviewer mentioned the book in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~248328326788 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:07:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_248328326788?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_252725726852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro For just over a year, I&#146ve been struggling with my golf game, alternating between delight at the occasional long, straight shot and frustration at the many lousy hits where the ball ends up in the rough, the bunker, or the pond. Or... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~252725726852 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:44:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_252725726852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_230971248260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro Many books have been written about life under Mao&#146s despotic rule, all with similar tales of famine, indoctrination, deprivation, injustice and worse. Perhaps the best-known (from the average reader&#146s point of view) is Jung... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~230971248260 Mon, 4 Sep 2006 22:01:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_230971248260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_250457591428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro They say that fact is stranger than fiction and perhaps one of the best illustrations of this is Corinne Hofmann&#146s The White Masai, a story of impossible love, of endurance and a Western woman&#146s attempt to survive in a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~250457591428 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:52:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_250457591428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_239126220420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro I recently came across this book, written by a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, while browsing the shelves of the local library. As usual, the back cover was full of accolades, the opening chapter looked promising, so I thought I&#146d... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~239126220420 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:12:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_239126220420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_243214487172?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro It's not often that we get a look inside the workings of a country's secret service, particularly when that country is Cuba. In this book Jorge Masetti, an Argentine-born secret service agent for Cuba, describes experiences and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~243214487172 Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:26:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_243214487172?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_242990222980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro Normally I&#146m a great fan of Joanne Harris, having read several of her novels and been delighted by all of them, so I was pleased to find Coastliners lurking on a shelf at the local second-hand bookshop. The cover proclaimed... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~242990222980 Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:35:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_242990222980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_226996883076?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro I had just read Jasper Becker&#146s take on North Korea and its redoubtable leader, Kim Jong Il, when I discovered this book, written some ten years earlier. In his capacity as correspondent for various British newspapers, he has in-depth... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~226996883076 Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:54:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_226996883076?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_240085536388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro Blackberry Wine is the third book I have read by Joanne Harris (haven&#146t yet got round to reading the award-winning Chocolat but it will happen!) As with the other two, Five Quarters of the Orange and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~240085536388 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:13:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_240085536388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_230162271876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - There was recently a flurry of interest recently with the film release of Memoirs of a Geisha, based on Arthur Golden&#146s book of the same name. Women of the Pleasure Quarters is also about geisha, written from a contemporary viewpoint,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~230162271876 Wed, 5 Jul 2006 23:23:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_230162271876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_232373194372?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro Some time ago, I wrote a review on Paul Eddy&#146s Flint (about a British undercover agent working with the Miami Federal Crimes Joint Task Force) and enjoyed it so much that when I came across the next Flint thriller at the local... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~232373194372 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:45:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_232373194372?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_230518132356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro The Mother, a BBC production was nominated for BAFTA Film Award 2004 and the leading actress won the London Film Critics Award. Awards are often a good indication of movie&#146s &#145level&#146 so I borrowed this one from the local... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~230518132356 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:23:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_230518132356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_236532960900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro A couple of months ago I decided to buy a few shares and while browsing E-Trade (Australia) and the ASX website, came across references to Warren Buffett and his investment strategy. I also discovered this book, over 400 pages of highly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~236532960900 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:53:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_236532960900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_233669496452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro Numerous books have been written about the repressive North Korean regime and its infamous system of slave labour camps, and this one, like The Aquariums of Pyongyang is a survivor&#146s personal account. Content Twenty... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~233669496452 Fri, 9 Jun 2006 05:17:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_233669496452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_232924089988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Preamble This film is an adaptation of Balzac&#146s Le Colonel Chabert, (pronounced &#147sha-bear&#148) about a man who returns from the Napoleonic wars to find himself destitute, his wife remarried and no lawyer prepared to take his case... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~232924089988 Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:41:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_232924089988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_231209340548?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author heidifromoz - Intro During my reading on the North Korean regime, I came across some references, one of which is this book, written by &#147the first survivor of a [&#133] concentration camp to escape the &#145hermit kingdom&#146 and tell his story to the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~231209340548 Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:49:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_231209340548?linkin_id=8003929