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 | Book Reviews: Summer Sisters (1998)- Judy Blume |
  The quest to read one book per week is, if anything, educational. This is my 27th book and I’m still waiting for it to stop feeling like homework. I assumed the regularity would fuel a passion for reading but the experience is more like running the half marathon. 4km later and I’m already panting where the hell’s that finish line?
Don’t get me wrong, I do like to read but I’d rather play tennis.
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Posted by riley on Monday, July 12 @ 10:11:52 EDT
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| Last Orders at Harrods (2005)- Michael Holman |
 Anyone nostalgic for Africa, Last Orders at Harrods provides an astute collection of almost forgettable but distinct features of life there. Like the difficultly Africans have distinguishing the letter ‘l’ from ‘r’. Many erections were held across the country.
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Posted by riley on Monday, July 05 @ 08:05:38 EDT
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| Book Reviews: The Liar (1991)- Stephen Fry |
Bizarre yet clever. Like the time I got stuck playing tennis with an 80-year-old hooker who serves a mean forehand while smoking in the other. It’s John le Carré meets Gordon Korman…. and a whole lot of buggering.
Laden with British wit and argot, The Liar is, at times, hard to follow but remains one of the most beguiling books I’ve read this year.
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Posted by riley on Monday, June 28 @ 04:45:03 EDT
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| The Stone Diaries (1993)- Carol Shields |
 This book is a fictional autobiography. It chronicles the life of Daisy Goodwill-Flett from 1905 to 1985 and includes family photos. Interesting story but for me the best part of the book happens in the second half when the author explores intimate aspects of human nature. A particularly notable moment is when the protagonist falls into a deep depression and Shield’s allows each character to explain why.
Good book!
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Posted by riley on Monday, June 21 @ 12:37:53 EDT
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| Book Reviews: Raven (2004)- Michael Murray |
 I found this book at a second-hand book sale and because Raven is unlike most books we have on our shelves, I bought it…. for my husband. Two years of sitting on the shelf, I thought I’d give it a go.
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Posted by riley on Monday, June 14 @ 08:36:02 EDT
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| Book Reviews: The God of Small Things (1997)- Arundhati Roy |
 Lay-Ter.
Like the deep-sounding bell in a mossy well. Shivery, and furred. Like moth’s feet.
The inside of this book is swarming with flowery adjectives, metaphors, alliteration and forced imagery that would make any of the 50-year-old women in my writing workshop swoon. The outside of the book is covered with accolades, eighteen in total.
Me, I just don’t get it.
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Posted by riley on Monday, June 07 @ 04:15:16 EDT
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| I'm Not Doing Steriods |
 For the next two months, Agent Riley is engaging in the LIVESTRONG challenge. LIVESTRONG.com is an interactive web program, created in collaboration with the Lance Armstrong Foundation. It’s a free online tool designed to help people get fit. With programs like ‘my plate’ you can track how many calories per day you consume and expend to help you reach your goals. In my case, it’s loosing 2lbs/week.
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Posted by riley on Wednesday, June 02 @ 11:59:10 EDT
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| Book Reviews: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004)- John Perkins |
 "We must commit ourselves absolutely and unequivocally to shaking ourselves and everyone around us awake."
Excellent book! Not just the content, which is riveting, but also the way Mr. Perkin’s relates his story makes this book an invaluable asset to the art of non-fiction story telling. Short chapters, meaningful paragraphs, action and adventure mixed with reflective hindsight that avoids being preachy, this book should be required reading.
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Posted by riley on Monday, May 31 @ 09:36:44 EDT
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| New Products: Ovomaltine: Choco Crunch |
 Recently, while making my way through Cornavin station on my way to the British Isles, I was accosted by several young people dressed in orange. Nay, they were not cultists, at least in the traditional sense, but were rather paid employees of some corporation or another. In fact, they were saturating the travelers with sample packs of a new malt-based beverage named Ovalmatine: Choco Crunch so I eagerly grabbed a few of them but, alas, testing them would have to wait until my return...
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Posted by cscott on Monday, May 24 @ 16:35:38 EDT
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| Book Reviews: Tara Road (1998)- Maeve Binchy |
 The story centers on a genuine Pollyanna who spends all day baking, cleaning, and entertaining. Sounds about as tasteful as pound cake. Throw in a cheating husband, a deceitful best friend, a wife-beater and a drug addict and the story comes to life.
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Posted by riley on Monday, May 24 @ 05:02:01 EDT
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