© 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-jl1978 Recent reviews written by member jl1978 en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_189008481924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - I bet there's a template out there somewhere that's readily accessible to every Southern belle writer itching to write a book. Tell me if you haven't heard this one before: Southern lass leaves home, refusing to ever return, settles up in a big ol'... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~189008481924 Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:10:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_189008481924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_188840906372?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - If you're a kid and a big fan of Harry Potter, then you're probably going to dig David Colbert's The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter --- but I can see why this and other fan books aren't endorsed by J.K. Rowling...the fawning praise heaped upon the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~188840906372 Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:03:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_188840906372?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_188434648708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - When I was in high school, I used to be a big fan of Sidney Sheldon --- I actually used to worry the guy would die before putting out a few more bestsellers. It was only recently that I stumbled across Are You Afraid of the Dark? and started... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~188434648708 Sat, 2 Jul 2005 18:02:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_188434648708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_187125763716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - Jeannette Walls sees a homeless lady rooting through a dumpster in New York City and is horrified to realize that it's her mother. And so begins Walls' memoir, The Glass Castle --- a look back on a childhood and life that she used to be ashamed... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~187125763716 Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:46:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_187125763716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_186945277572?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - I really don't know if you can document the history of love. The problem with calling a book a history of something is that I start to expect at least a bit of a scientific slant thrown into the mix --- no matter what the subject is. Tell me you're... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~186945277572 Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:07:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_186945277572?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_186841927300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - If I had my way, I'd arm every young girl with Susan Jane Gilman's Kiss My Tiara --- because maybe then, most of us wouldn't grow up relating to characters like Bridget Jones or reading "self-help" books like The Rules. If every young girl... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~186841927300 Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:43:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_186841927300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_186837601924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - I was disappointed. I expected so much more from Melissa Bank's The Girls' Guide To Hunting and Fishing, but reached the last page puzzled an confused about just what makes this debut novel worthy of much praise. This collection of short... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~186837601924 Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:21:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_186837601924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_186399952516?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - Despite what the back flap says, Mary Higgins Clark's The Second Time Around doesn't reaffirm her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense." If anything, it shows that age and time is beginning to take its toll on someone I've always... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~186399952516 Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:22:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_186399952516?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_186343263876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - Hollywood sure has a love affair with turning books into movies --- but the translation onto the silver screen isn't always a successful one. Having read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares, I think there is a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~186343263876 Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:39:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_186343263876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_186255117956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - "Everything touches everything," Argentinean author, Jorge Luis Borges, once said. And that pretty much sums up Albert-Laszlo Barabasi's Linked: The New Science of Networks, an interesting look into how everything from a cocktail party to a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~186255117956 Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:36:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_186255117956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_185884970628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - Just from the trailers for Mr. and Mrs. Smith, you could tell that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had amazing on-screen chemistry. What may or may not being going on between them off-screen is another matter --- and it's hard to believe that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~185884970628 Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:33:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_185884970628?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_185755602564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - In the liner notes for the soundtrack, Alan Ball, the executive producer for Six Feet Under says that he often compiles soundtracks when he's writing. And when you listen to the songs selected for this album, you really get a sense that they... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~185755602564 Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:36:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_185755602564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_185672568452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - I have a fairly strong sense of smell, so I can kind of relate to Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the bizzarely scentless anti-hero with an incomparable sense of smell in Patrick Suskind's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. And you have to give... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~185672568452 Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:25:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_185672568452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_185586716292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - In a customer review on Amazon, someone wrote that, before she read Diane Ackerman's A Natural History of the Senses, she was sleep-walking through life --- which intrigued me. Imagine a book that would have such an impact on somebody's life!... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~185586716292 Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:57:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_185586716292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_148961660548?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - Oh my God. If I had a daughter like Janet, I'd seriously want to kill myself --- either that or maybe have a nervous breakdown and wonder where the hell I went wrong. Dyan Sheldon's teeny-bopper book, Planet Janet is written in the form of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~148961660548 Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:34:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_148961660548?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_148960284292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - I thought I’d be bored when I picked up Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress. I’d heard good things about Brown’s Da Vinci Code and I was pleasantly surprised by Angels and Demons, but I wasn’t completely sold on the guy yet. I opted to pick up... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~148960284292 Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:17:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_148960284292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_148959628932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - Maybe it’s easy to get lulled into believing this is a guide to being the consummate elegant woman, but Kathleen Tessaro’s Elegance is anything but that. Apart from the excerpts Tessaro lifts from an actual self-help guide also called... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~148959628932 Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:13:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_148959628932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_147707301508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - This kind of book is the literary equivalent to a chick flick. It's not quite romance, but it's still the kind of thing that would appeal to a woman. Tessa Hadley's Everything Will Be All Right focuses on four generations of women who don't... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~147707301508 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:27:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_147707301508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_145928523396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - Caren Lissner's Carrie Pilby isn't your typical chick-lit heroine; for one thing, she's a 19-year-old genius recently graduated from Harvard whose sole goal in life isn't to find Mr. Right. Actually, she thinks everyone she meets is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~145928523396 Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:28:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_145928523396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_145793650308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - It's a sad thing when it takes you 30 years to realize you should have never married the person you've built a life with. In Anne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage , the mismatched Pauline Barclay and Michael Anton seemed like the perfect couple... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~145793650308 Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:14:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_145793650308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_145051717252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - Sarah Baartman, the Hottentot Venus, was a real-life freak-show attraction in the 1800s --- partly because she was black and partly because her body was deemed "unusual." As part of her Khosian culture, parts of her body were stretched and swollen to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~145051717252 Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:18:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_145051717252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_144648146564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - I'm probably one of the few people who haven't read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code yet. I wanted to check out the writer before I checked out the book, so I decided to pick up Angels and Demons, which is the first novel featuring... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~144648146564 Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:33:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_144648146564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_143940882052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - Okay --- if you're a die-hard fan of HBO's Six Feet Under, how is it possible that you don't own the companion book, Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death? This isn't your typical fan guide --- there are no episode recaps and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~143940882052 Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:57:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_143940882052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_141350506116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - It's says a lot when John Mayer thinks your album is "...unbelievable...the best record I've heard in a long time." And Mayer might be onto something. Poetry & Aeroplanes by Teitur is a lyrically beautiful and haunting album... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~141350506116 Tue, 25 May 2004 14:39:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_141350506116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_140892671620?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jl1978 - I was a little surprised to learn the lead singer of Frou Frou is a woman. There's just something about vocalist Imogen Heap's voice that has a slightly androgynous feel to it --- which isn't entirely out of keeping with the digital/electronic... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~140892671620 Fri, 21 May 2004 17:44:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_140892671620?linkin_id=8003929