Epinions Recent Reviews for rosaphile

Great diapers if you want the best

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:17:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - When we first brought our twins home, we tried most of the major diaper brands. (Although we are now...

Jane Fonda's Stress Reduction Program: My favorite workout video

Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:22:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - If you're anything like me, this could be your favorite workout video, too. What am I like? Well, I'm overweight and out of shape, but I don't want to stay that way. I am filled with horror at the thought of spending a whole 45 minutes or (gasp!) hour on...

Home-Prepared Dog and Cat Diets : The Healthful Alternative: The Healthful Alternative to commercial pet food

Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:14:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - Have you ever wondered just what it is that goes into that kibble you're pouring into your dog's or cat's dish? or what makes up the pungent slurry you scoop out of a can for them? Perhaps you've read the label and seen such mystifying ingredients as...

A Wizard of Earthsea: A unique and gripping high fantasy

Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:21:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - A Wizard of Earthsea is the first volume in (what was originally) a trilogy by one of the genre's great writers, Ursula K. LeGuin. (A fourth book was added to the trilogy much later.) These books are a great read - both quick and absorbing. This...

Orson Scott Card - Hart's Hope: Library Edition: A dark tale of justice and mercy

Fri, 25 May 2001 12:30:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - I've read this book several times, and it always does the same thing to me - it sucks me in and doesn't let me go until I've finished it. And this in spite of the fact that it takes 50 pages to even get to the birth of the protagonist. This is the only...

Penelope Leach - Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five: The one book every parent should have

Fri, 18 May 2001 19:25:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - One week after borrowing this book from the public library, I purchased two copies - one for myself and my husband, and one for my brother and his wife, who are new parents. After several months of searching, I had found the parenting book I'd been...

Walter Farley - The Black Stallion: Galloping ahead of the herd

Wed, 9 May 2001 15:54:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - Walter Farley's Black Stallion series begins with this book, which he began writing while still in high school. It was several decades old when I first read it, and will be even older by the time I pass it on to my children, but it should always endure...

Big Book of 30-Minute Dinners: A fairy tale for the kitchen

Tue, 8 May 2001 16:55:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - Once upon a time, there was a newlywed couple who ate fast food almost every night. Their lifestyle simply did not allow them to expend the time and energy to cook a meal very often. On evenings that their meals did not consist of fast food, they were...

The Longest Journey: Adventure Game of the Year Edition for Windows: Footsore but satisfied

Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:33:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - I must make a confession up-front: I am not a hard-core adventure gamer. I played the Monkey Island demo and wished I liked it, but I got frustrated with the puzzles... *in the demo.* Myst just about gave me hives, or an ulcer, or both. I was stupid...

Darcie Sanders et al - Staying Home: From Full-Time Professional to Full-Time Parent: Make an informed decision about at-home parenting

Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:13:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - One of the first things I said, when the issue of kids came up between my husband and me, was that I did not want our children to be raised by daycare centers or babysitters. Fortunately, my husband supports that idea, and so from the start we both had...

Stephen R. Covey - Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Don't judge this book by its commercial success

Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:03:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - In spite of its popularity with business consultants, its megabucks seminars, personal planning accessories, and plethora of spin-offs, this book is well worth reading and applying. I believe it has applications that are at least as practical and...

Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn for Windows: My personal pick for RPG of the year

Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:48:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn is one of those games that makes me wish I were independently wealthy so that I could abandon all other interests for as long as it takes to fully explore it. Unfortunately, I can only give a few hours a week to it...

Anne McCaffrey - The Dragonriders of Pern: Dragonflight, Dragonquest, the White Dragon: Space opera - without the spaceships

Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:19:07 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - The Pern series of novels begins with this trilogy, and luckily this happens to be the first one I read. There are definitely both good and bad things to say about the series. But first:

Synopsis

The first chapter of the...

The foul, frustrating flea...

Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:15:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - I thought my cats were safe from the Foul Flea. They never go outside. Well.... almost never. You know, when the weather is sooo pretty, and you've got the door open, and the cats are pressing their wee little faces against the screen door, mewling...

DragonRealms: Lose yourself in a fantasy realm

Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:35:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - DragonRealms is a text-based fantasy role-playing game, a spin-off of the popular Simutronics game, GemStone.

Set in the huge mythical realm of Elanthia, the Realms are populated with creatures of ten different races. There are the familiar...

Ms. Evelyn Tribole - Healthy Homestyle Cooking: 200 Of Your Favorite Family-With a Fraction of the Fat: All you need to cook great, healthy meals

Sat, 1 Jul 2000 15:19:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - If you're like me, most "lean" cookbooks just don't do a whole lot for you. I've never been able to find a cookbook that gives me simple, familiar, healthy recipes; it seems there's always a trade-off.

This book changes all that. Do...

Dungeon Keeper 2 for Unix\Linux: Let the evil in you come out and play...

Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:44:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - Dungeon Keeper 2 is a fantastic game, in large part because it occupies its own little niche in the computer gaming world: the role of evil. Have you ever gotten a little fed up with the shining paragons that many game heroes tend to be? Does it...

Bill Watterson - Calvin and Hobbes: 10th Anniversary: Family Circus, eat your heart out

Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:37:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - Calvin and Hobbes is quite simply the best comic strip I've ever had the privilege of reading, for several reasons: it's philosophical without being obnoxiously preachy; Bill Watterson's artistic talents are amazing; and it's side-splittingly funny.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Life moves pretty fast...

Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:08:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - At a surface glance, you might think that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is just another teenage-rebellion movie of the 80’s. Silliness and high-school pranks abound. But there is a little more to this movie than just pratfalls and the thumbing of noses at...

Raise the Red Lantern: Exotic feast for the eyes, ears, and mind

Sun, 18 Jun 2000 09:54:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - Let me first say that I am not a foreign film buff; I rarely watch them and almost never seek them out. With that in mind, I was at first a bit hesitant to write a review of this film, but then I thought, this is a perfect opportunity to express myself...

Majesty: Build your own feudal kingdom

Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:04:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - Majesty is not quite a sim, not quite a traditional real-time strategy game, and not quite a god game, but it combines elements of all these, adds humor (all too rare in this genre), and gives its own unique twists, and the result is an appealing, fun...

Grafton Sue: O is for Outstanding

Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:00:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - Sue Grafton's series of mysteries are the epitome of enjoyment. I must say, in spite of how odd this may sound, that one of the main reasons I started reading them (when she was already along into 'G' or 'H') was the titles. How often have I come across...

Shakespeare in Love: "The very truth and nature of love"

Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:45:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - What is the nature of true love? Elusive as it may be, we get a glimpse of it in Shakespeare in Love. This film (fiction based very loosely in fact) treats us to the entire spectrum of love, from dreamy romance to solid reality. We see William...

Dune: If you never read another sci-fi title...

Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:46:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - ... read this one! Frank Herbert's Dune is undeniably a classic in its genre, and one of the first to really bring science fiction into the mainstream consciousness.

Dune is a tale with very strong religious themes (the protagonist is received...

Dune: Falls short of perfection

Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:34:08 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author rosaphile - Yes, I know - pretty much everything falls short of perfection - but a movie based on Frank Herbert's Dune should come a little closer.

The movie struck me as very surrealistic. There was a lot of interesting imagery, and the overall effect...