© 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-owling Recent reviews written by member owling en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_491174661764?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Review book (published 2009) provided by Chronicle Books.I find card deck-format cookbooks to be both a positive and a negative. It’s great to be able to pluck a single card from the deck and stand it on the kitchen counter to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~491174661764 Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:31:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_491174661764?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_491172105860?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Review book (uncorrected proof) provided by publisher.Mackensie, Laurel, Emma, and Parker have been friends since childhood. Now, they run a wedding planning company called “Vows.” Parker’s obsessive-compulsive nature... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~491172105860 Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:08:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_491172105860?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_491170139780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Review book provided by publisher.Ten years ago, Kylie McKay’s rising tennis career—and her knee—were shattered by a brutal attack. The culprits were never found, and she fled town and the people she loved. Now... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~491170139780 Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:59:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_491170139780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_491169746564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - If you ever thought that romance novels were just “chick porn,” Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan are here to set you straight. Their blog is wonderful, intelligent, hilarious, frank, and a joy to read, and their book Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~491169746564 Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:51:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_491169746564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490818080388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Review book provided by publisherJordan Sampson is ready for a change. Her daughter seems to be pulling away from her. Her best friend is a drama queen. Her job as a homicide detective isn’t exactly easy street. So she goes to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490818080388 Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:36:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490818080388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490817687172?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Review book (published 2009) provided courtesy of Chronicle BooksWhen I read a book title like Corinne Trang’s Noodles Every Day, I tend to picture quick, simple recipes intended for working families. I don’t think... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490817687172 Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:25:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490817687172?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490719317636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Review book provided by the publisher.In Jory Strong’s lovely Ghostland, we find ourselves “in a post-apocalyptic world where supernaturals have emerged from hiding, wealthy humans delight in decadence while the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490719317636 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:51:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490719317636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490719055492?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Intelligent Design, an anthology edited by Denise Little, tackles from a science fiction viewpoint the “complex mix of religion and science—intelligent design—a school of thought that believes that evolution occurred, but... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490719055492 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:41:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490719055492?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490712436356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Must Love Hellhounds includes four hellhound-themed stories by four wonderful authors: Charlaine Harris, Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, and Meljean Brook. Each story appears to take place in a world the author has already created, but you... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490712436356 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:10:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490712436356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489137802884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Keri Smith's Wreck This Journal was a lot of fun to play with and review, so I was looking forward to This Is Not A Book. Once again, Keri fills a bunch of pages with weird, wacky creativity-building exercises that’ll definitely have... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489137802884 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:53:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489137802884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489137344132?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Joan Elizabeth Lloyd’s The Spicy Bedtime Companion: Erotic Stories And More is an unusual collection of short erotic stories, bawdy limericks, and odd bits of sexual trivia. The stories range from the fantastical (an erotic experience inside... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489137344132 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:36:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489137344132?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489136623236?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - The Lost is an anthology of four stories in “a world where the rules of love, of time, and of place can be forever lost.” Or in other words, reality is just a little bit flexible and mysterious!The anthology starts off with an... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489136623236 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:20:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489136623236?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489136295556?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - I’ve always enjoyed pestos & tapenades, but I never went out of my way to have them. I never would have placed them among my favorite foods, that’s for certain. Now, after using Stacey Printz’s Pestos, Tapenades, and Spreads,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489136295556 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:12:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489136295556?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488804814468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - I love cake. I ADORE cupcakes, which are small, portable, easy-to-indulge-in tidbits of cake. They’re more fun if you decorate them a bit, make them a little snazzy, but it’s hard to find a good middle ground. There’s a ton of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488804814468 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:50:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488804814468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488804290180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - There’s a serial rapist loose in Savannah, and detective Ryne Robel is determined to catch him—but he’s going to need help to do it. Enter criminologist Abbie Philips, a member of a famous group of forensic experts nicknamed the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488804290180 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:38:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488804290180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488803831428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Ramsey Clark is a forensic investigator working with the infamous group dubbed the “mindhunters” by the media. She’s called in to help when a woman is found dead in Buffalo Springs, Tennessee. It seems the locals believe in a legend... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488803831428 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:28:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488803831428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488803372676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - The Cake Wrecks blog came about when Jen Yates decided to post, for the amusement of herself and a few friends, photos of professional cakes gone “hilariously wrong.” Of course, as occasionally happens on the internet, she’d hit on... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488803372676 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:08:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488803372676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488799768196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - In his “Princess Novels,” author Jim C. Hines explores the truth behind the fairy tale, and what comes after the “happily ever after.” The Stepsister Scheme followed Sleeping Beauty (Talia), Snow White (known simply as... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488799768196 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:57:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488799768196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488799571588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - I absolutely loved author CJ Lyons’s Warning Signs, and Urgent Care is nearly as wonderful. Nora Halloran is a charge nurse at Angels of Mercy Medical Center. One of her coworkers was just brutally attacked and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488799571588 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:51:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488799571588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_477559426692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Susannah is a humble country healer and midwife, happily married and very pregnant. Unfortunately, she’s been accused of witchcraft by one of her fellow villagers, and she’s sentenced to die by fire. Bitter at the loss of her husband, her... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~477559426692 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:22:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_477559426692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_477559033476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Humans and Selkies—genetically modified water-breathers—lived peacefully together on the planet Marseguro until religious zealots from Earth came to wipe out any modified humans. To save themselves, the Selkies developed a human-specific... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~477559033476 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:15:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_477559033476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_476911079044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - When I lived in Boston over my college years I was introduced to the concept of tapas at a local tapas restaurant, and instantly fell in love with them. In Joyce Goldstein’s book, Tapas: Sensational Small Plates from Spain, she explains the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476911079044 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:41:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476911079044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_476911013508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Unusual Suspects, edited by Dana Stabenow, contains a dozen short stories of murder, mystery, fantasy, and the paranormal, including a few by highly recognizable name authors. I’m ashamed to say I’ve never gotten around to reading... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476911013508 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:33:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476911013508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_476240580228?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Fifteen years ago, three girls in their senior year of high school in Madison had almost nothing in common—until they experienced a terrible tragedy that bound them together and sent them fleeing from their hometown. Renee was the icy-perfect... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476240580228 Sat, 4 Jul 2009 14:22:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476240580228?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_476236779140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author owling - Ahh, guacamole. Is there another food that is as decadent and yet healthful at the same time? Avocados have a rich taste and creamy texture. Sure they’re fatty, but they’re bursting with healthful nutrients. They’re buttery and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476236779140 Sat, 4 Jul 2009 14:11:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476236779140?linkin_id=8003929