© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-imagine_stars Recent reviews written by member imagine_stars en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_476075953796?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Assignment day! For twelve-year-old Lina Mayfleet, this day could mean the beginning of something beautiful. Or it could be total drudgery. Everything comes down to a slip of paper.Lina's hopes are tied to pulling out the piece that reads... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476075953796 Fri, 3 Jul 2009 03:08:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476075953796?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_476039646852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Question #1: Have you heard of Donald Miller?If the answer is no, please skip to the first full paragraph.If the answer is yes, please skip to the first full paragraph (hey, I already wrote it, so I might as well get some use out of it,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476039646852 Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:25:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476039646852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475706003076?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Juliet Ashton lives in London, doted on by her reading public, the local booksellers, and her editor (who happens to also be her best friend's brother). An intellectual young woman, Juliet is best known for her collection of columns written during World... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475706003076 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:58:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475706003076?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_460869045892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Though World War II is raging somewhere across the ocean, the young men who attend Devon School are experiencing a more peaceful existence. Yes, at this prep school, war is the most common topic of conversation, but it doesn't seem quite real when you're... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~460869045892 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:23:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_460869045892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_459776036484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Jim Palmer was a "professional Christian": leader of a booming megachurch, founder of a program for inner-city kids. After a divorce, he found himself leaving his church position to work at a cash register, ringing up sales and refolding hand towels that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~459776036484 Tue, 3 Feb 2009 04:17:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_459776036484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_459323575940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - When I read Markus Zusak's The Book Thief last year, I found it to be one of the best prose pieces I'd ever come across. So, several weeks ago, when I saw his I Am the Messenger on the "Recommended Reads" table at Barnes and Noble, I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~459323575940 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:50:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_459323575940?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_459106586244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Prior to Breaking Dawn, human Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen have fallen in love. Ever attempting to convince Edward that she'll be happier as a vampire, Bella still rejects the idea of marriage. After all, her parents' failed marriage is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~459106586244 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:17:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_459106586244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_458581249668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Looking back on pictures from sophomore year of high school gives me little twinges of pity for that poor girl who had no idea what she was doing. Not only had I bleached my normally dark hair to a buttery blond (using peroxide, no less!), I had darker,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~458581249668 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:53:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_458581249668?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_457842265732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Twilight saga, book one: Bella the human and Edward the vampire meet and fall in love.Book two: Edward takes off in order to ensure Bella's safety, and Bella spends 500 pages moping around.Book three: Things really start to get... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~457842265732 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:03:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_457842265732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_457619771012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Back in the drizzly little town of Forks, Washington, Bella Swan and Edward Cullen are caught up in an interesting high school relationship, if one could call it simply that. She's human, he's vampire; she's freshly 18, he's 104. So, other than that,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~457619771012 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:24:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_457619771012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_456388087428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - The Cullens are a mysterious family residing in the little town of Forks, Washington. When Bella Swan moves there to live with her father, she misses the heat and friendships of Phoenix--and definitely can't get used to all her new male classmates, who... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~456388087428 Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:01:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_456388087428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_456395558532?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - While camping with three of his children on the western coast, Mack's greatest fear comes true: his daughter Missy has gone missing. No amount of searching, no helpful police officers can find her, and nothing can console Mack in his desperation. Though... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~456395558532 Thu, 1 Jan 2009 23:03:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_456395558532?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_455699304068?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Growing up, Jennifer Traig had to feed her stuffed animals a certain amount of "food" in a very certain manner. She washed her clothes and hands to remove the "contamination" of pork fumes, and during meals, she was compelled to leave her seat, slap a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~455699304068 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:02:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_455699304068?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_451644919428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - "Never leave your partner." These are the words firefighter Caleb Holt knows by heart. He has earned his rank as Captain and his coworkers' respect, but he feels absolutely no admiration from his own wife. Catherine always thought she wanted a hero, but... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~451644919428 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:05:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_451644919428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435273240196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Lauren Winner slept with a lot of guys. Then she fell in love with Jesus. Then she decided to write a book about chastity. Then, while writing the chastity book, she fell in love with Griff and married him. (Of course, there was a little time between... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435273240196 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:42:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435273240196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435055005316?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - In rural Minnesota in the 1960's, Davy Land shoots two antagonizing boys and escapes on horseback. First lauded as a hero for protecting his family, Davy soon gains notoriety and negative fame--yet Davy is not even the most compelling character in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435055005316 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:13:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435055005316?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435039538820?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Sometimes little girls (or teenage girls...or college girls...) imagine that life is one big fairy tale, and the culminating point will be when we swath ourselves in white gossamer and float down the aisle to some perfect man, thus introducing "happily... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435039538820 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:04:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435039538820?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434924916356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Rafe Esquith teaches fifth grade in downtown Los Angeles. Most of his students are not native English speakers. Most come from backgrounds of poverty and crime. All of them, by the end of the school year, participate in a Shakespeare play, punctuated... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434924916356 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:24:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434924916356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434920525444?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Okay, I'm going to open this review with a book excerpt. If you are of the more conservative persuasion, disturbed by anything slightly irreverent, stop now. You will not like this book, and definitely not this excerpt. And if you're curious (or just... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434920525444 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:26:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434920525444?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431403011716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - "I love your curly hair. I wish mine would curl like that!" "No, you really don't." "Yes, I do. It'd be so easy to take care of!" *Punch to the face* Ever screamed at your curly hair because it refuses to cooperate, no... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431403011716 Sun, 25 May 2008 18:18:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431403011716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431318339204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Lars (Ryan Gosling) is 27, works in an office, has an unusually large supply of sweaters, and lives in a garage. He also suffers from a major delusion: that the life-size doll he ordered online is real. Quiet, awkward Lars always rejects dinner... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431318339204 Sat, 24 May 2008 23:20:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431318339204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427514760836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - What if marriage were not designed to make two people happy? What if it were not about fun and romance and babies and best friendship? What if God actually created marriage to make us holy...more than to make us happy? That's the question Gary Thomas... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427514760836 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:47:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427514760836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_420237643396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - You might know her as the original Elphaba in Stephen Schwartz's Broadway musical Wicked, or perhaps you saw her playing the part of Maureen in the film version of Rent. No matter how you know Idina, you're bound to be impressed by her big... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~420237643396 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:58:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_420237643396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427486645892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Interviewer: "What do you fear the most?" Dave Barnes: "Definitely fear itself. And then mostly bears, animals, things underwater that can kill me, helicopters that flipped over and coming toward the ground this way, and then I'd say every now and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427486645892 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:08:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427486645892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_426573270660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author imagine_stars - Not a fan of Barack and Hillary's constant put-downs? Not sure you want to vote for a rather liberal McCain running under a conservative platform? Wish there were other options, maybe someone more like Martin Luther King, Jr. on the ballot, or even good... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~426573270660 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:17:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_426573270660?linkin_id=8003929