Zoundry Reviews

(From BTW, originally published 2.21.05)

If you secretly harbor an urge to write a mystery novel (like I do), then here’s a book you should read, How to Write a Damn Good Mystery by James N. Frey. It’s a practical how-to book that guides you through the process of brainstorming and developing a compelling plot […]

(From BTW, originally published 2.19.05)

Here’s a good book to buy for yourself or as a gift, The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do, by Samantha Ettus. She asks 100 experts for their advice on how to do a variety of things like tie a bowtie (by Tucker Carlson from […]

(From Paalin’s Fantasy Book Blog, originally published 2.02.05)

It turns out that Magiere and her half-elf partner Leesil are a pair of con-men. The con is simple: Leesil pretends to be a vampire, and Magiere makes a show of slaying him in a tremendous display of pointy wooden stakes and fake blood. The […]

(From Paalin’s Fantasy Book Blog, originally published 2.01.05)

Our favorite “simpleton” hero is back in Dragon Blood, the sequel to Patricia Briggs’ Dragon Bones. This time, Ward must save his love Tisala (oh, and the realm too) from the mad king Jakoven.

This book is a worthy sequel to the first, although it is […]

(From Paalin’s Fantasy Book Blog, originally published 2.01.05)

The main character in Dragon Bones, Ward of Hurog, is not your typical fantasy hero. He is large of stature, but sadly lacking in intelligence (or so it seems). It turns out that his father, an overly cruel man, saw him as a rival and beat him […]

(From NurseAmore, originally published 1.13.05)

Richard Paul Evans’ The Looking Glass was definitely a quick and easy read. I finished it in a few hours. It is a heart-warming love story, which teaches us to love ourselves the way we are. The looking glass is a way to look at ourselves and see the beauty that […]

(From NurseAmore, originally published 1.12.05)

Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and when you read it, you can understand why. The novel is about a hermaphrodite, who tells the history of his generations, in order to understand who he/she is and how he/she became. The story covers three generations, starting with […]

(From NurseAmore, originally published 11.30.04)

Summer Sisters
By Judy Blume

Summer Sisters was a very easy and interesting read. Much of the story is very unpredictable. It is based on two girls who spend the summer together on an island with one of the girl’s dad. Each summer you see them grow in their experiences with life and […]

(From NurseAmore, originally published 10.22.04)

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, is a Pullitzer prize winner, and is a great and easy read. It is a book of short stories about love, based between India and America. In each story, the love situation changes dramatically. One story is about a couple who loves each other, another […]

(From NurseAmore, originally published 8.27.04)

Richard Paul Evans’s The Letter is a great love story that occurs in the 1930s. It is the third book in a series, but I did not realize it until later. It is written so well that you are not missing any pieces in the story even if you have not […]