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Breaking Dawn

by Stephenie Meyer
- Rated 5 stars
“Great finish to the series. I like the character/voice switch in the middle section. The characters continued to be people I was interested to know their outcome, although I have no idea how the 4th book would be in movie form...”

Betsy Eubanks wrote this review 5 days ago. ( reply | permalink )
In the Courts of the Sun

by Brian D'Amato
- Rated 1 stars
“I finished this out of dogged detemination to know if the world ended or not. Overall, the main character Jed is self obsessed and vulgar. The amount of detail about Mayan stuff is really tiring. I switched eventually to scanning parts because I got bored with the Mayan dates, names, etc. etc. Not sure I would have even finished it if I knew it was the first of a trilogy. Not planning on reading the next book.”

Betsy Eubanks wrote this review 5 days ago. ( reply | permalink )
Eclipse

by Stephenie Meyer
- Rated 4 stars
“Engaging continuation of the series. I am going to read the 4th book, and at this point have no idea who it will end, which provides information about the book. It isn't a canned story, but the themes are classic, challenged romance struggling within imposed, impossible circumstances.”

Betsy Eubanks wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )
Broken Windows, Broken Business: How the Smallest Remedies Reap the Biggest Rewards

by Michael Levine
- Rated 2 stars
“Basic application to businesses of the broken window theory. Focus is often on front-line, visible aspects of business like customer service-- certainly appropriate use of the theory.”

Betsy Eubanks wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )
FREUD, THE MAN AND THE CAUSERonald William Clark
FREUD, THE MAN AND THE CAUSE

by Ronald William Clark
- Rated 3 stars
“I am not sure in the end what category to place Freud. Certainly, he was driven, and he was creative, but he was an egomaniac as well. You understand more his focus on personality when you consider how focused he was on being great himself. Glad I read it.”

Betsy Eubanks wrote this review Sunday, June 14 2009. ( reply | permalink )
A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens
- Rated 4 stars
“I remember reading this and I will have to reread it. Great book.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way -- in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorieis insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."”

Betsy Eubanks wrote this review Sunday, June 14 2009. ( reply | permalink )
The Shadow of the Torturer

by Gene Wolfe
- Rated 0 stars
“I read this book, but then don't remember much of it later. I enjoy it at the time though.

"It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future."”

Betsy Eubanks wrote this review Sunday, June 14 2009. ( reply | permalink )
The Portrait of a Lady (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

by Henry James
- Rated 3 stars
“I didn't make any notes at the time, but remember enjoying it.

"Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."”

Betsy Eubanks wrote this review Sunday, June 14 2009. ( reply | permalink )
The Lord of the Rings

by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Rated 5 stars
“The first book, The Hobbit, is still my favorite, but the Trilogy is next in line. My orignal copies are beat up, dogeared, with silver paint from when I was painting a shield in high school and reading the books yet again.”

Betsy Eubanks wrote this review Sunday, June 14 2009. ( reply | permalink )
The Hobbit

by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Rated 5 stars
“My absolutely favorite fantasy book. Bilbo, Gandalf, even Smaug, are characters that will live for generations.
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."”

Betsy Eubanks wrote this review Sunday, June 14 2009. ( reply | permalink )