Epinions Recent Reviews for pooswife

My 2-year-old and I fight over this book....

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:01:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - It's THAT good! My youngest received this book from her G-dmother on her first birthday. A month after her 2nd birthday, it hasn't lost its charm, and in fact, Little One (LO) finds new things to get excited about every time we read it together...

An Unlikely Run for the Presidency - Clean, Upstanding, & Moral

Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:28:02 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - This is the 3rd book I've read by Stuart Woods. While I've like all that I've read by Mr. Woods, I haven't liked The Run or the second book I read, The Short Forever, were as good as the first that I read: Chiefs. It's unfortunate...

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Doesn't Do the Job

Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:40:33 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - In my daughter’s search for herself, she has picked up a variety of books that have to do with the Holocaust. I feel for the authors of these so-called children’s books. They have to strike a balance between teaching the child about a heinous time in...

Views On Tipping Food servers: TIP? I got yer TIP right here - on Tipping, that is.

Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:38:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - As far as I can tell, this is a fairly new category here at Ol’ Epinions. I’ve read several opinions thus far on the matter, and I’m heartened to know that it is generally agreed that servers who do what they are supposed to do should indeed get tipped...

Happy Birthday to You - and Oh, It's a Doozy!

Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:13:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - My ten-year-old daughter and I were having a conversation about the first book we remember. She has the family affliction of book-addiction (passed down through the females), and my memory started to wander.

I was a wee tot of about...

In Celebration of Rabbi Patrick Greenman’s Day

Sat, 17 Mar 2001 23:09:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - Most people believe that March 17th is the celebration of the life of a saint named Patrick. They believe that some guy came into Ireland to convert the heathens to Christianity and then he somehow rid the Emerald Isle of snakes. They are only part...

Redbook Magazine: Soft Porn for Working Moms

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 16:11:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - If my own title didn't grab you, try one of REDBOOK's title page "grabbers"; SEX: 5 steamy moves to try tonight. Imagine what a ten year old's imagination can do with that while standing in a grocery store's checkout aisle!
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Snow Falling on Cedars - A Complex Story, Simply Told

Mon, 16 Oct 2000 00:51:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - Have you ever had a story told to you by a master storyteller? Have you ever sat for hours to listen to somebody tell you a story so intriguing that you hardly felt the passage of time and all that accompanies it? Have you ever heard a turn of phrase...

With my Apologies...

Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:36:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - My Dear Friends at Epinions,

I'm afraid I have a problem. It's a writer's block of sorts, but not a total one. I have been crippled in my attempts to review one book in particular; Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card...

Lessons of the Dust Bowl Years from the Voice of a Child

Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:21:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - Beginning: August 1920

As summer wheat came ripe,

so did I,

born at home, on the kitchen floor.

Ma crouched,

barefoot, bare bottomed

over the swept boards,

because that's where Daddy said it'd be...

The Brethren is Grisham's Box Breaker

Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:46:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - If there's one thing I've learned in the months since I joined Epinions, it's that people are vastly different in their tastes. For instance, I find it hard to believe that ANYBODY could find fault with The Giving Tree by Shell...

It Bites Something Else, Too

Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:03:24 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - As I state in my profile, I'm an avid reader. It's my one true hobby. In all the thousands (I'm guessing here) of books that I have read, there are only two books that I have purposely put down unfinished, with no will to return to them. One is Henry...

McBride, James: A Beautiful Journey of Self-Awareness

Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:14:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - As most of you who have read any of my reviews know, I am the paler half of an interracial marriage. I am not the first in my family, either. Some twenty years ago, my Uncle Bradley married a lovely "Woman of Color" named Pat. And of course,...

Who knew that Hoople, Indiana was so Culturally Advanced?

Wed, 5 Jul 2000 14:53:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - Disclaimer: This review is not of the mentioned CD, but of P.D.Q. Bach On The Air. It will be moved when Epinions sees fit to honor my request for said product. Thank you.

Many people don't know this about Johann...

Morrison, Van: MOONDANCE - The Definitive Van Morrison

Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:42:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - I have a wood-press painting on the wall in my living room. It's fairly small, perhaps 4 inches along the top and 7 or 8 inches top to bottom. Along the bottom, in the artist's hand, is penciled the title of the painting: Marvelous Night for a...

It's a Black THANG, baby.

Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:13:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - IT'S A BLACK THANG

I'm not black. My husband is. I've had to get used to things being different in my house. You think they are stereotypes, you out there who don't live with black folks, but honey, lemme tell you something; stereotypes...

Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Stephen King

Wed, 24 May 2000 10:50:13 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - I didn't like Stephen King for a very long time. In fact, in the horror genre, I was a Dean Koontz fan exclusively. And for one simple reason: Koontz kills the bad stuff and King doesn't. Stephen King scares the living daylights out of you and makes...

Marie Callender's: Death by Peanut Butter Pie

Fri, 19 May 2000 17:41:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - It was so nice of Epinions to alert me to their placement of Marie Callender's onto the Chain Restaurant category. NOT. I did request the place, after all.

That being said, I have to tell you that I have not eaten at a Marie Callender's...

Church's Chicken: It's CHICKEN, whaddayawant?

Thu, 4 May 2000 13:27:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - I had never had Church's Chicken until I met my husband. I don't really know what it is, but he's addicted to the stuff. It's actually worked into our budget that on paydays, we make a Church's run. Now, granted, it IS good chicken, especially...

OmniAmerican Federal Credit Union: So far, so good

Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:34:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - I'm in DAY ONE of active accounting with OmniAmerican Federal Credit Union, so I don't have too much to say, but there will be updates.

My company just hooked up with this credit union a couple of months ago. They had their little...

Canon BJC 1000 InkJet Printer: OH MY GEEZ, what a PIECE!

Wed, 5 Apr 2000 13:47:41 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - I bought this printer about 6 months ago. I have hated it ever since. If not for fear of ending up on several readers' WODs, I truly hate it enough to type "I HATE THIS LOUSY PIECE OF CR*P" repeatedly until cramps set in.

1) For...

A Child's First Step to Understanding the Holocaust

Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:44:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - I thought that I had made a mistake. I had taken my daughter, aged 9, to the movies and we saw Jakob the Liar. The previews didn't seems to have anything in it that would suggest it was anything but some guy making the worst of a crappy...

A fun dose of fiscal reality.

Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:47:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - I was about 14 years old when my parents bought PAYDAY for my then five year old brother and me. It never occurred to me that the game was years above my brother intellectually, therefore it was geared for me. I guess my parents knew that if they had...

Lessons for us all.

Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:20:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - We have read this book before. We have heard these lessons taught and we have seen what happens when we refuse to learn them. We heard the voice of innocence lost in To Kill a Mockingbird when Scout realized that racism for the sake of tradition...

If you're a cyber unit and you know it clap your hands.

Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:11:44 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author pooswife - Mr. Douglas Hall is in big trouble. See, he's the primary suspect in the murder of his boss, software genius, Hannon Fuller. Problem is, even though his clothes from the previous night are bloodied up and there's blood in his bathroom, he doesn't...