Epinions Recent Reviews for wordwalker

They got out of a jam with THE GIANT JAM SANDWICH!

Mon, 19 May 2003 01:10:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - THE GIANT JAM SANDWICH is not the newest deli item available at Giant Foods....

This may be the only Weekly Reader Children's Book Club book that I have ever liked. It has an un-self-conscious sense of humor:

"One hot summer in...

Broaden a kid's perspective with CANYONS.

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 01:35:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - "The ancient ones are here, are always here in the medicine place..."

Past and present overlap in CANYONS, by Gary Paulsen, author of HATCHET and its sequels.

One word of warning: do NOT, I repeat, do NOT read the blurb...

Flighty Falcon: WINGS OF THE FALCON

Sun, 27 Apr 2003 00:52:28 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - I'm blaming it all on the library book sale.

Barbara Michaels is one of those authors on my 'buy when cheap' list, along with the late Lawrence Sanders and a few other very prolific writers of almost-always-reliably-good entertainments. If I...

Not-too-fluffy Buffy Stuff: BITE ME!

Fri, 18 Apr 2003 04:15:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - Tasty!

May contain some 'empty calories'!

But fortified with added fiber....

Nikki Stafford's BITE ME! : AN UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER has been updated to encompass six seasons of BtVS...

Quick, Watson, use your noodle! : THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

Sat, 12 Apr 2003 02:22:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - Where is 221B Baker Street?

In so-called Real Life it is a real London address, at which a real business firm very kindly provides desk space to a secretary hired by the Sherlock Holmes Society to deal with correspondence. People still write...

OOPS! Mog poops in MOG'S BAD THING.

Tue, 1 Apr 2003 21:05:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - As long as I've loved Mog -- which is to say, for many years as an adult -- I've never managed to stumble upon the fact that Judith Kerr wrote more than one book about this very nice but very 'forgetful' (which is to say, not too bright) tubby...

Almost frighteningly beautiful are THE CINDER-EYED CATS.

Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:57:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - "In faraway lands,

When twilight falls on fair and wind-swept days,

Cats like velvet shadows move,

Their coal-fire eyes ablaze."

A little boy journeys in a flying boat to an island where he and a giant fish he sculpted out of...

Still searching for a treasure in THE SECRET ROOM DOWNSTAIRS

Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:15:48 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - Mary has come to her aunt's house in Wintertal, Switzerland, with a hand-made lace cap four centuries old, a key perhaps even older, and a mission. Mary's beloved Grandma, who died in Boston in the previous year, wants the child to enter the abandoned...

BEYOND THE FAR SIDE of sanity....

Fri, 28 Feb 2003 04:36:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - Looking down the barrel of your rifle you see two fat grizzlies -- one of which, wearing a cheesy grin, is pointing out the other as an excellent target.

A giant clown as tall as the skyscrapers is terrorizing a city; as it turns a corner a...

Permit me to squeal on HOGULA: DREAD PIG OF NIGHT

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 05:50:46 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - (No other pig puns have been included in this review; I'm overdrawn at the Pun Fund as it is!)

When I noticed HOGULA: DREAD PIG OF NIGHT at my local library I of course had to pick it up. The vampiric-looking pig on the cover was so...

Seeking THE SEA-KING'S DAUGHTER

Sat, 22 Feb 2003 02:32:13 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - 'Ariadne' is one heck of an inappropriate name for an all-American girl interested only in athletics, young men and independence from her loving mother and equally loving stepfather. Named by the archeologist father who's done nothing for her since...

All the pigs you want, and more, in PIGS APLENTY, PIGS GALORE!

Sat, 15 Feb 2003 04:13:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - Once upon a

Midnight bookish,

Man hears noises

Greedy, crookish;

Enters kitchen,

Falls upon a

Pile of pigs

Upon the floor!

Pigs are snacking.

Pigs are nibbling.

Pigs are noshing.

There's no...

Earth, water, fire and Eyre: JANE EYRE

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:32:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - "If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."

JANE EYRE portrays the evolution of a consciousness and a conscience, within a...

COME LIKE SHADOWS, "that the name of Macbeth be not forgotten."

Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:29:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - As if!

One of Shakespeare's -- and history's -- great villains; namesake of that play the name of which theatrical people dare not speak for fear of ill luck befalling them; therefore familiarly known as the Thane, the Big M, Mac or even Big...

The Velveteen Rabbit: Shed a tear with THE VELVETEEN RABBIT.

Sun, 26 Jan 2003 04:50:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - "Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who...

Untitled X Files: Eve of Destruction: THE X-FILES: EVE

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 03:29:46 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - Has anybody recently seen four liters of blood? A suburban Connecticut father has been killed by exsanguination while sitting on a backyard swing. The only evidence consists of two puncture wounds in his jugular vein. The only witness is his only...

Innocent Sheep Fleeced! : SHEEP IN WOLVES' CLOTHING

Fri, 17 Jan 2003 06:42:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - Replace the 'g' in 'golf' with 'w' and what do you get? You get 'wolf' -- as in 'wicked wolf' or 'whacko wolf' or ''wool-bound wolf'.

Or, of course, 'wolf in sheep's clothing'.

I never did like golf, chiefly because it was...

Fifty ways to flee (flea?) your lover: CATS ARE BETTER THAN MEN

Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:54:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - I really don't want to be catty about men. I like them, especially the big, warm, fuzzy ones.

A moustache is almost essential; a beard is nice. (Whiskers, you know; whiskers!) A little extra padding can be cozy. I don't mind the...

Hankerin' fer scary? Set a spell, and read A DRY SPELL.

Wed, 8 Jan 2003 03:05:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - 'And our weather report consists of no snow whatsoever, but no rainfall, either."

Huh?

Scratch that approach! I'm trying to convey the fact that there is an enormous difference between Susie Moloney's first novel and her second, A...

Not-too-stuffy Buffy Stuff: READING THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:59:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - Nothing enlivens a winter holiday like a good slay ride! Today I've been watching the Buffy marathon, and reading READING THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, "An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel", edited by Roz Kaveney.

Think...

We have a runaway winner in THE RUNAWAY BUNNY.

Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:51:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - "'If you run away ... I will run after you. For you are my little bunny.'"

A little bunny tests his mother's love and exercises his imagination in Margaret Wise Brown's classic picture book for very young children.

"Once there was...

Ingenious Badger Child Foils Trickster!: A BARGAIN FOR FRANCES

Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:01:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky! Frances, a good-natured and extremely cute badger child, tells her mother one morning that she is going to go play with her friend Thelma. Her mother urges her to be careful, gently reminding her of certain occasions on which...

Travel with Brian down THE RIVER.

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:50:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - Brian Robeson really gets around.

In the award-winning novel HATCHET, he survived for fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness alone with just a hatchet and a preachy semi-omniscient narrator.

In BRIAN'S WINTER, he spent another...

A 'literary Cinderella' goes to the ball with THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL

Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:12:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - Cinderella had it rough, but might have had it rougher. What if her stepsisters had been her real sisters, and perfectly nice to her, but far more beautiful? What would her 'career' have been like then?

Ask Anne Bronte.

The...

A sheepish 'Bah!'? A humble 'Humbug!'?: HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS!

Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:56:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wordwalker - Please don't kill me. I like the Grinch; I really do. I love his little dog, Max, and the Whos of Whoville, and their weird little circular dust-speck of a world. I like the unsubtle anti-commercialism of the message the Who community sends us...