Tag: reviews
group name: brilliantminds
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February 28, 2007 04:44 PM EST --
Every piece of art affects people differently. I am going to talk about how the piece by Romare Bearden ( one of my favorite artist) affects me. First a little background on Romare Bearden Romare Bearden, . . . more
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June 30, 2008 06:17 PM EDT --
In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. So begins the childhood mnemonic that helps us remember the date of that historic voyage. What the rhyme fails to mention was that he . . . more
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May 29, 2007 12:09 PM EDT --
This life is not enough
to understand a woman.
What a thing she is!
No dictionary has enough words
to say about a woman
whatever she is.
Sometimes we think
the woman is just like the summer.
Both may . . . more
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February 17, 2008 08:29 PM EST --
Do you want to read 50 books in 2008? Join my friend Rick's group at read50books.gather.com and tell everyone about the books you're reading!
These are the first six books I've . . . more
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July 21, 2008 10:49 PM EDT --
Anytime a politician writes a book and they haven't run for president yet, you know they will be. Well that's just what happened with Senator Barack Obama. This book was published in . . . more
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October 16, 2007 03:18 AM EDT --
Kyle mills published his first book in 1995, "Rising Phoenix" and has gone on to write about one book per year since. His latest book "Darkness Falls" hits the stores October 23rd . . . more
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January 11, 2008 09:11 PM EST --
This is the 3rd and final book in the series written by Elie Wiesel. The first book being the Nobel Prize winning, "Night," which was the author's account of the holocaust. The second was . . . more
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September 04, 2007 06:29 PM EDT --
A young Italian-American girl named ChiChi Maggiordino narrates this first-person viewpoint tale of an Italian immigrant family shortly following World War II. ChiChi is often refered to as crazy . . . more
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February 28, 2008 01:50 AM EST --
Aus and I have a real thing for Hidden Object games. There's just something fun about sitting together and looking for an artichoke (every hidden objects game features an artichoke at one time or . . . more
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October 10, 2007 11:35 AM EDT --
Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which picks up where 1998’s Elizabeth left off, brings us the expected stellar performances, astounding costumes and a refinement of director Shekhar Kapur’s tantalizing . . . more
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April 17, 2007 08:07 PM EDT --
When Frank Herbert wrote "Dune" in 1965, it was something different. Although Dune was accepted and read by the same circles who read Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, "Dune" . . . more
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May 28, 2007 08:23 PM EDT --
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy is not the feel good book of the century. But then again it could be. It seems like the continuous desolation, and destruction created in this book will . . . more
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July 19, 2007 11:48 PM EDT --
Much of mankind's history is fraught with tragedy so severe that it is almost unbelievable. Some simple yet severe examples have happened in only the last 2 centuries. The destruction of the race of . . . more
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March 10, 2007 02:01 PM EST --
your favorite author??
I can't say that I have a favorite yet. I do enjoy Bret Easton Ellis if I am thinking about contemporary authors. If I think about authors of classic literature I may pick Jack . . . more
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January 04, 2008 08:52 PM EST --
"Dawn" is the second book in the "Night" trilogy that covers the philosophical gamut of humanity. In "Night," Wiesel's Nobel Prize winning novel, the reader relives Wiesel's . . . more
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May 11, 2007 12:13 PM EDT --
It is a long night of winter.
I’m watching the sky.
The rays of The moon is presenting
Their pleasing dance on the glittering stage of water.
The crystal clear water is mirroring the moon . . . more
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August 12, 2008 09:23 PM EDT --
When I took Philosophy in college I had had an interest in making it my major. But I looked to the future and asked around about why one would do such a thing. The biggest answer I received was: "to . . . more
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July 22, 2007 01:37 PM EDT --
The seventh and presumably final book in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series provides us with both a fitting end to the journey we’ve all . . . more
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November 12, 2007 09:58 PM EST --
Get your Tassimo Brewer warmed up and get out your Espresso t-discs, you are going to spend a long night discussing & arguing religion with this book.
This is the first of PKD's three final . . . more
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December 09, 2007 04:26 PM EST --
Break out the Tassimo brewer and have yourself some Green Tea and learn the traditions of the oriental teas.
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide . . . more
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