Epinions Recent Reviews for jc_hall

Delightfully Diabolical

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:17:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - After the edge-of-the-seat climax of the first season of Dexter, viewers could be forgiven for thinking that the writers on the series could not possibly pull any more genius out of their communal writing hat. Well, viewers would be very wrong...

A Serial Killer To Die For

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:58:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - THE PREMISE During the day, Dexter Morgan is a mild-mannered blood spatter analyst with the Miami Police Department. But come the night, he takes a walk on the sinister side, as he tracks down evil-doers who have somehow eluded the...

Docs Are Human Too

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:28:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - Torontonian Vincent Lam (part-time author, full-time emergency room physician) makes an astounding literary debut with this novel-length compilation of short stories that follow a small group of young medics from pre-med through medical school and onto...

New Series Goes From Strength To Strength

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:42:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - It has been a couple of months since Lady Georgiana proved her brother’s innocence in a murder case that baffled the inept police in 1930s London. Finances are still tight and with no allowance in sight, Georgie busies herself with the maid...

Devastating True Story Powerfully Told

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:43:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - The Rwandan genocide in 1993-4 was the horrific culmination of long-standing conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis. Perhaps even more horrific than the death of hundreds of thousands of innocents is the knowledge that the rest of the world...

"Cross Your Legs For Jesus"

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:50:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - LaVaughn is now fifteen and working harder than ever before at school. She goes to special grammar classes to improve her English, takes a more difficult Biology class, and studies hard for a Science Aptitude Test. She’s also working at...

Life Is What You Make Of It

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:11:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - 14-year-old LaVaughn is determined to go to college. Where she comes from—a crime-ridden neighbourhood of public housing where bad words are scrawled in the elevators that you don’t want to enter with a stranger—few people make it to...

The Children of Huang Shi: Not The Whole Truth

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:38:47 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - During the WWII Japanese occupation of China, many atrocities were committed by the Japanese army against Chinese civilians. Perhaps the most horrendous of all was the infamous Rape of Nanking. It is against this background that the movie, The...

Hi-Jinks of Minor British Royalty circa 1930s

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:57:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie—Georgie to her friends—may be the daughter to the late Duke of Glen Garry and Rannoch, but her brother Binky has cut off her allowance, finances being tight for everyone in the run up to WWII...

Sole Good

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:16:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - I have tiny feet. I don’t mean they’re wackily disproportional to the rest of me; at 5 foot 2 inches and seven stones, I’m petite enough to be propped up by my two dainty plates of meat. But while it’s precious to have...

Lust and Betrayal

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:12:56 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - Barely sixteen, the girl who plays go (a board game of tactics) in the Square of a Thousand Winds has long vanquished all comers. Until a stranger sits down at her table and the two become locked in a series of games that, unbeknownst to either of them,...

A Life-Saver for Dry, Frizzy, Flyaway Hair

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:57:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - My first experience with organic hair care products has, sadly, left my hair drier and more brittle than ever. Emergency measures were called for and, ever one for a quick and easy fix, I found a possibly instant cure in the form of Alberto VO5...

Calling All Vintage Car Enthusiasts...

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:56:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - Peewee helps out big brother Jake in the ramshackle garage that started life as a livery stable. With the hard road being built all the way from Indianapolis, surely they should be looking forward to more business coming their way. Uptown from where they...

A Girl and Her Music

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:17:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - 12-year-old Allegra Shapiro is looking forward to a long and leisurely summer vacation. She rsquo;s been short stop in the school softball team and they rsquo;d practised hard and done well for the season. But during her first music lesson of the...

A Boy and Two Girls--One Dead, The Other Very Lively

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:05:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - In which Alexander Armsworth discovers girls, one long dead, one very lively.< i> Alexander Armsworth may go to the same school as Blossom Culp, but he rsquo;s a rich man rsquo;s son living in a mansion with his pretentious, social-climbing,...

Organic is as Organic does

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:03:41 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - When my hair got really dry a few months back, I put it down to the extremely dry weather we were having as well as build-up from a life-time of using regular shampoos with laureth sulphate and lauryl sulphate as their main ingredients. Since...

Shine No More, T-Panel!

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:59:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - For those of us with combination skin (oily T-panel of forehead, nose and chin; dry cheeks), there is no dread so potent as the mid-face shine. When you have a shiny, glowing beacon slap dab in the middle of your face, you can rest assured that...

Lyrical and Transcendent--A Fairy Tale For All Time

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:10:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - When Keturah follows a hart into the forest near the peasant cottage she shares with her grandmother, she soon becomes lost, and in more sense than one. For none other than Lord Death appears before her as she weakens from three days rsquo; lack of...

Blossom's a Force to Reckon with

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:12:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - Blossom rsquo;s not one to get into mischief for no reason, oh no. But when she gets wind of some boys rsquo; plan to turn over the neighbourhood privies come Hallowe rsquo;en night, blowed if she rsquo;s not gonna stop them good. Her turn as a ghostly...

Can Skin Be Happy? L'Oreal has the answer

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:56:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - Of all the wild claims made by the cosmetic industry, the quirkiest yet may be the one from L’Oreal for their Happyderm Skin Exhilarating Moisturizer. Happyderm is not just an off-the-cuff name for their product; it is chosen to convey...

A Symphony from the Angel of Music

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:09:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - Her first studio album for five years since Harem, Symphony features all new songs and is recorded in Germany and produced by her long-time producer, Frank Peterson. For those of you familiar with Sarah Brightman, deserving superstar of...

Soothe your dry, red and itchy eyes

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:31:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - A few years ago, while I was still living in Vancouver, I started getting a lot of irritation in both eyes. They would go red and feel dry in the middle of a work day and I would rub them and make things worse. Since it started in the spring, I...

Good Selection of 400+years of English Verse

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:43:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - Prefaced by an introductory Note by editor Philip Smith, Dover Thrift Editions’ 100 Best-Loved Poems are arranged chronologically and chosen to ‘provide a concise overview of the development of verse writing in the British...

Good Introduction to a Master Detective Story-Teller

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:22:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the famed fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and his chronicler/occasional sidekick/faithful friend and foil, Dr Watson, and housed them at 221B Baker Street, London, England. Over a period of 40 years (between 1887 and...

An Outstanding Piano for Schools, Studios, Churches and Homes

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:00:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jc_hall - I began taking piano lessons at the age of 5 and have spent many hours over the years banging away at the ivories. I never really took special note of the various pianos we owned through the years. My mom made the buying decisions and while we’ve...