http://reviews.zoundry.com Product Reviews by Zoundry Users. Search - Read - Buy Wed, 03 May 2006 02:36:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (From BTW, originally published 10.27.04) Here’s a great CD for any Ray Charles fan or any fan of jazz/blues vocals for that matter - Genius Loves Company. This was his last album before he passed away, and it’s a great compilation of duets with a wide range of vocalists – from ... http://reviews.zoundry.com/2005/07/26/5/ (From BTW, originally published 3.31.05) I’ve been looking for a portable scanner that I can use with my laptop as a substitute for a fax machine both at home and on the road. After reading the reviews, I’ve settled on the Canon CanoScan LiDE 35 scanner. It has a ... http://reviews.zoundry.com/2005/05/12/9/ (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 ... http://reviews.zoundry.com/2005/05/12/8/ (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 ... http://reviews.zoundry.com/2005/05/12/7/ (From BTW, originally published 2.17.05) Here’s a gift idea that I can recommend from my own personal experience - a Sonicare Elite 7300 power toothbrush. After doing a lot of research, this seemed to do the best job of cleaning tooth surfaces and gums gently. It uses an advanced ... http://reviews.zoundry.com/2005/05/08/6/ (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 ... http://reviews.zoundry.com/2005/04/05/19/ (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 ... http://reviews.zoundry.com/2005/04/05/18/ (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 ... http://reviews.zoundry.com/2005/04/05/17/ (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 ... http://reviews.zoundry.com/2005/03/31/16/ (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 ... http://reviews.zoundry.com/2005/03/31/14/