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Becoming a Top Amazon Reviewer
If You Love Reading, Consider Writing Reviews for Amazon
I've been an Amazon reviewer for seven years now and managed to work my way up to Top 100 Reviewer ranking. As a retired librarian, I have more time to read now and posting reviews on Amazon helps me keep track of what I've read and how I felt about it. Even as a child, I kept lists of what I read. I get nostalgic looking back through my notebook to see the titles scrawled in my childish handwriting and remember what I was reading in those days. Now with my reading list online, I have more t...
If You Love Reading, Consider Writing Reviews for Amazon
I've been an Amazon reviewer for seven years now and managed to work my way up to Top 100 Reviewer ranking. As a retired librarian, I have more time to read now and posting reviews on Amazon helps me keep track of what I've read and how I felt about it. Even as a child, I kept lists of what I read. I get nostalgic looking back through my notebook to see the titles scrawled in my childish handwriting and remember what I was reading in those days. Now with my reading list online, I have more t...
Joel Osteen Books
Joel Osteen Books - At First Glance
Joel Osteen Books - At First Glance Joel Osteens books are famous for helping millions of people live happy spiritual lives. However is his success as a author solely related to his fame or is he one of the most gifted authors of our time?' In this lens I am going to provide a general overview of three of the most popular Joel Osteen's books. After my general overview I am going to provide you with my opinion about which books are worth your time to read and which books are truly disappointi...
Joel Osteen Books - At First Glance
Joel Osteen Books - At First Glance Joel Osteens books are famous for helping millions of people live happy spiritual lives. However is his success as a author solely related to his fame or is he one of the most gifted authors of our time?' In this lens I am going to provide a general overview of three of the most popular Joel Osteen's books. After my general overview I am going to provide you with my opinion about which books are worth your time to read and which books are truly disappointi...
My Top 10 Robin Cook Books
Robin Cook Books Are My Favorite
I love Robin Cook's books because he writes about medicine and science fiction, both of which have always held a fascination for me. If you haven't discovered Robin Cook's books yet then let me tell you about my top ten favorite Robin Cook books. Medicine and science fiction has always been a fascination to me. I have an interest in the human body and how it works, especially the brain. The brain is the most complex organ in our body. It is the commander of how the rest of the organs functi...
Robin Cook Books Are My Favorite
I love Robin Cook's books because he writes about medicine and science fiction, both of which have always held a fascination for me. If you haven't discovered Robin Cook's books yet then let me tell you about my top ten favorite Robin Cook books. Medicine and science fiction has always been a fascination to me. I have an interest in the human body and how it works, especially the brain. The brain is the most complex organ in our body. It is the commander of how the rest of the organs functi...
Book Review of Scorpions for Breakfast by Jan Brewer
My Book Review of Scorpions for Breakfast by Jan Brewer
Review of Scorpions for Breakfast by Jan Brewer Its no secret that Arizona is famous for its stand on illegal immigrants and scorpions for Breakfast by Jan Brewer has indeed added more fuel to the fire. Scorpions for Breakfast was published on 11/01/11 and has quickly became one of the most purchased books according to Amazon.com. Regardless where one stands on illegal immigrants this book provides great insight into why Arizona has taken such drastic and often controversial steps to secure...
My Book Review of Scorpions for Breakfast by Jan Brewer
Review of Scorpions for Breakfast by Jan Brewer Its no secret that Arizona is famous for its stand on illegal immigrants and scorpions for Breakfast by Jan Brewer has indeed added more fuel to the fire. Scorpions for Breakfast was published on 11/01/11 and has quickly became one of the most purchased books according to Amazon.com. Regardless where one stands on illegal immigrants this book provides great insight into why Arizona has taken such drastic and often controversial steps to secure...
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Classic Book by Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values is my favorite book of all time. With the context of a father/son motorcycle trip, the author reflects on the attitude we bring to motorcycle maintenance as a metaphor for reconciling science, religion and humanism. It is not so much about Zen or motorcycles as it is about the ingrained habit of thinking dualistically - separating mind and matter, subject and object. It is a study of what is meant by the word "quality." When...
The Classic Book by Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values is my favorite book of all time. With the context of a father/son motorcycle trip, the author reflects on the attitude we bring to motorcycle maintenance as a metaphor for reconciling science, religion and humanism. It is not so much about Zen or motorcycles as it is about the ingrained habit of thinking dualistically - separating mind and matter, subject and object. It is a study of what is meant by the word "quality." When...
Book Reviews And Authors I Like
I've just seen a list of the top 100 selling authors of the last decade and not many of the writers I like were on it. I was surprised as I don't read weird stuff -- mainly crime fiction and thrillers -- so I decided to start blogging on the writers and authors that I do enjoy. Hopefully that'll help reach hands across the wilderness :) I also blog on books and authors at Book Reviews, Authors I Like. Blog includes my views on several book-related topics such as UK Public Libraries and TV co...
I've just seen a list of the top 100 selling authors of the last decade and not many of the writers I like were on it. I was surprised as I don't read weird stuff -- mainly crime fiction and thrillers -- so I decided to start blogging on the writers and authors that I do enjoy. Hopefully that'll help reach hands across the wilderness :) I also blog on books and authors at Book Reviews, Authors I Like. Blog includes my views on several book-related topics such as UK Public Libraries and TV co...
Ross Thomas: Crime Writer
Ross Thomas: Author And Books Reviewed
Ross Thomas was one of the great stylists of the thriller genre. He never wrote a bad book and I believe he never wrote a bad sentence. Out of print for a time after his death in 1995, his books are now enjoying a welcome resurgence. On this page I pay a brief tribute to Ross Thomas and review some of his books, I've enjoyed them, I hope you will too.
Ross Thomas: Author And Books Reviewed
Ross Thomas was one of the great stylists of the thriller genre. He never wrote a bad book and I believe he never wrote a bad sentence. Out of print for a time after his death in 1995, his books are now enjoying a welcome resurgence. On this page I pay a brief tribute to Ross Thomas and review some of his books, I've enjoyed them, I hope you will too.
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
A poetic exploration of the dreams Einstein may have had while writing his Theory of Relativity.
Einstein's Dreams is a 1992 novel by Alan Lightman which fictitiously portrays world-famous theoretical physicist Albert Einstein as a young scientist who is working as a modest patent clerk to make ends meet but is beset with strange dreams, leading him to come up with his theory of relativity in 1905. Each dream is told as a narrative in each chapter and in every dream, time operates differently. The book consists of 30 quick-to-digest chapters and the beauty of this format is that each...
A poetic exploration of the dreams Einstein may have had while writing his Theory of Relativity.
Einstein's Dreams is a 1992 novel by Alan Lightman which fictitiously portrays world-famous theoretical physicist Albert Einstein as a young scientist who is working as a modest patent clerk to make ends meet but is beset with strange dreams, leading him to come up with his theory of relativity in 1905. Each dream is told as a narrative in each chapter and in every dream, time operates differently. The book consists of 30 quick-to-digest chapters and the beauty of this format is that each...
Mindsight - A Book Summary
Mindsight, the book by Dr. Daniel Siegel
In the fall of 2009, I attended a workshop led by Dr. Daniel Siegel, a neuroscientist, on the topic of his newest book, Mindsight. Mindsight is the ability to observe your mind through meditation, creating neural connections that integrate different parts of the brain. Through the exercise of Mindsight, we can have a direct part in increasing our well-being and expanding our awareness. A summary of the Mindsight book and my thoughts on it follow on this page. Photo: Creative Commons from Q...
Mindsight, the book by Dr. Daniel Siegel
In the fall of 2009, I attended a workshop led by Dr. Daniel Siegel, a neuroscientist, on the topic of his newest book, Mindsight. Mindsight is the ability to observe your mind through meditation, creating neural connections that integrate different parts of the brain. Through the exercise of Mindsight, we can have a direct part in increasing our well-being and expanding our awareness. A summary of the Mindsight book and my thoughts on it follow on this page. Photo: Creative Commons from Q...
Unfurled Poetry Book Review
Ruthi's Review of Unfurled Poetry by author Susan Budig
Love, loss, and life are poetically portrayed by Susan Budig upon the pages of Unfurled Poetry. Budig unfolds her penned plumage much like a proud peacock unfurls his feathered fan, courting us with a panoptic parade of cascading emotives meant to lead us from one extraordinary rendition to another. Budig begins in lyrical lament, elegiac stanzas of her sisterly soul. From "Forecast" we learn the age of which her sister passed: She was forty-three. In "Measurements" Susan asks, How does one ...
Ruthi's Review of Unfurled Poetry by author Susan Budig
Love, loss, and life are poetically portrayed by Susan Budig upon the pages of Unfurled Poetry. Budig unfolds her penned plumage much like a proud peacock unfurls his feathered fan, courting us with a panoptic parade of cascading emotives meant to lead us from one extraordinary rendition to another. Budig begins in lyrical lament, elegiac stanzas of her sisterly soul. From "Forecast" we learn the age of which her sister passed: She was forty-three. In "Measurements" Susan asks, How does one ...
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