Epinions Recent Reviews for millinocket

Judy Blume's Blubber - Should we ban the fat kids or the mean kids?

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:47:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - When I was in elementary and middle school there were all sorts of kids. Tall and short, fat and skinny, outgoing and shy, nice and mean and more others than can be counted. But when you're in those years there are traits and attributes that...

Bless Me, Ultima - for Rudolfo Anaya has sinned against the holy censor

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:35:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - Swearing. Sex. Violence. I see these words a lot when reading about why a book is being challenged by an individual or group. The word challenge itself is but a euphemism - it means someone wants to ban a book so that others may...

Sandra Brown's Chill Factor - A cheesy, sexy, trashy thriller. Love it!

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:22:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - A long distance car trip requires careful planning. Routes and gas and food and rest stops to stave off plankass, of course. But the more important planning is in what the passengers are going to do to occupy the long, long hours on the...

Theresa Schwegel's Last Known Address - Perhaps that should be "return to sender"

Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:21:11 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I do love a good mystery. Lots of blood along with it is always nice, but certainly not fundamental to my enjoyment. A well plotted crime procedural can knock my socks off. Sometimes, though, things just plain miss the mark, and that's...

Sony Bravia 37" LCD HDTV - Out with the old, in with the new!

Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:24:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - Not long before last Christmas, our old Sony CRT TV had to be put out of our misery (yes, our misery - the thing was driving us crazy). Diagnosed with a terminal (and terminally annoying) condition, it was time for something new. It...

Schooled by Gordon Korman - Banned in my house!

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:24:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - Well this is a first. I am willfully, unrepentantly withholding a book from my child. Not just hiding it, but actively telling her she may not read it. Fortunately she has a short attention span at the moment, but I wouldn't give in no...

Stephen King's Cell - Still think you need that Smartphone? How about the Zombiephone instead?

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:21:53 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - It's been quite some time since I communed with Stephen King. As the author who originally showed me the way of the Bloody Knife novel as a teenager I used to eagerly devour everything he wrote. But, well, I grew up and got busy and he grew...

Taken: Taken - Liam Neeson brings it on

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:24:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - Sometimes I have a hankering for some good, bloody action. The kind where the violence is gratuitous, the situations ridiculous and the hero impenetrable. Buckle your seat belt, leave your brain on the shelf and go along for the loud,...

Curses, Inc. by Vivian Vande Velde - A mother and child review-nion, part XVI

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:29:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - From the time I was a wee lassie, I thought it would be marvelous to be a witch. I wanted to be Samantha Stevens, dump that stodgy Darren and live in witchly splendor. The idea of going places and doing things with the blink of an eye or the...

Blow Dry - Alan Rickman and Natasha Richardson play with scissors

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 20:48:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - Netflix Recommendations has a habit of serving me up odd little movies that I've never heard of starring actors I really like. Sometimes they're older movies, other times they were simply overlooked for one reason or another. In the case of...

The Thing About Georgie - A mother and child review-nion, part XV

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:14:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - What defines a person? Such an unanswerable question. But for children, the answer can often be as simple as hair color or being able to make a free throw. Those surface characteristics are the currency of the playground, serving to...

Deadly Decisions - Kathy Reichs gets clinical with the Hell's Angels

Fri, 29 May 2009 12:43:25 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - What is this book doing in my house? It must have been on deep, deep discount somewhere or I never would have bought it. You see, I am neurotically careful about reading series books in order. Even those that aren't particularly serial...

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - Sequelitis comes to life

Sun, 24 May 2009 13:40:01 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I have now been in a movie theater two times in one week. This may be unprecedented. Either I'm changing my DVD existence or.......it's summer blockbuster season! I love these Big Movies on the Big Screen - popcorn flicks deserve real...

Star Trek 2009 - Reboot THIS, baby!

Tue, 19 May 2009 12:48:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I began watching Star Trek as a wee lassie when the original series aired on summer afternoons. Back then the monsters were scary, the dilemmas terribly deep and the whole thing very exciting. I went on to become something of a middle...

Greg Iles' True Evil - There's evil in there somewhere...

Thu, 14 May 2009 12:36:18 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I don't have a typical love/hate relationship with the books of Greg Iles. It's more of a really-like/like/dislike/this-
annoys-me
relationship. When he's "on", I thoroughly enjoy his work. When he missteps, I still don't hate it, but...

Doubt - Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep. Martyrs, Monsters or Mortals?

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:56:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I could never be a Roman Catholic priest. You're probably thinking that the whole married, non-Catholic woman thing is the biggest pitfall, but no. It's the public speaking. What a nightmare! And imagine if not only did one have...

The VillaWare UNO Belgian Waffler - Yes, I will leggo your Eggo. Permanently.

Tue, 5 May 2009 19:53:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - About a year ago, I began to step lightly out of character. A little at first, then in larger steps until my family began to question my sanity. You see, I began to cook and bake. From scratch. Oh, it was no new found love for...

Weeds - Season 1 - Light me up!

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:13:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - What is this? A gardening show?Readers, meet Nancy Botwin. Nancy lives in the upscale California community of Agrestic, filled with McMansions and money. She has two sons, a housekeeper, a pool and a fairly extensive...

The Lightning Thief - Me? Meh. Kids? Love it!

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:38:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I wonder if, over the course of the next hundred years or so, we will ever see a Young Adult fantasy fiction novel that bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to the Harry Potter novels. At times such as these, I despair that we will not, that...

Penelope - Piggishly Perfect

Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:22:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - It's hard to be an eleven-year-old girl. It's hard to parent an eleven-year-old girl. But harder still is finding a movie appropriate for an eleven-year old girl. Hollywood seems hell bent on churning out "romantic comedies" for little...

Changeling - We've Come a Long Way, Angelina Baby

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:07:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - One of the first things you learn as a new parent is that your children really are a part of you. You know their smell and their cry and as they get older their every movement and very essence become ingrained in your heart and your mind. You...

Notre Dame - at the center of the City of Light

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:50:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - What a pretty picture...My first glimpse of the cathedral at Notre Dame was probably the same as that of most American kids - the towering church set against a cloudless, cerulean sky, Rose Window aflame as the sunshine hit the...

Harlan Coben's Tell No One - Forget it! I'm telling everyone!

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:45:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - I habitually stay up far later than is strictly advisable. Or necessary. Or healthy. Yet, as a congenital Night Owl, I feel I owe it to my body to listen to those screwed up biorhythms and fritter the late night (and early morning)...

Michael Crichton's Next - how about Never instead?

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:18:16 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - Like most of the rest of the world, I don't understand the intricacies of high level genetic research. With Michael Crichton at the helm, however, I'm usually able to go with the flow. Even if the subject is completely foreign to me (I'm...

The Happening - Absolutely Craptacular

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:34:00 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author millinocket - Who keeps giving M. Night Shyamalan money? Whoever it is, they should stop - he just makes movies with it and I can't take any more. He's a one hit wonder with the tenacity of the Energizer bunny, trying in vain to replicate the success of...