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Sing a Song of Sixpence

Advantages: Classic vintage crime.
Disadvantages: Rather old-fashioned.

...Businessman Rex Fortescue was sipping a quite cup of tea in his office when he collapses in pain, claiming he has been poisoned. Rushed to hospital, he suffers a painful death. On later inspection, his pockets were found to contain traces of cereal (rye). The local police in the form of Detective Inspector Neele, suspects that his young wife Adele, whom he believes is having an affair, has poisoned Rex for his money. But when two more deaths occur ...
...Miss Marple series. A previous version with June Whitfield (2005) is also available from BBC Books (via their website) or it may be worth enquiring at your local library. Price: £11.95, it runs for 1 hour 30 mins, over 2 CDs. A DVD version of Pocketful of Rye is also available, starring Joan Hickson as Miss Jane Marple, as seen on television. The original novel was published in 1953. It emerges that Max Fortescue was a bit of tyrant and the family ...

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Review of A Pocket Full of Rye: Complete & Unabridged (Audio CD) - Agatha Christie

THe Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

Advantages: Great story, interesting
Disadvantages: Is it true??

The Da Vinci Code is probably one of the most controversial books of the modern day. When it was released it caused a storm. The Da Vinci code was released in 2003.It was written by Dan Brown and was an international bestseller.The book has sold 80 million copies as of 2009 and has been translated into 44 language. Most people, I know me included always thought this was his first novel. However, his first novel was actually Angels and Demons which ...
...to put down. Of course, the subject matter is very controversial and although it is meant to be somewhat fictional I can see elements of truth in it. The basic story features Robert Langdon, a professor of Symbology. He is the main character of the book as it's up to him to solve the riddles and ultimately save himself. He is called to the Louvre to examine a body that has died in mysterious circumstances with strange symbols around him. Robert tries ...

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Review of The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

The Hunt for Red October

Advantages: (+) kept in suspense for majority of novel (+) good enough for me to read sequel
Disadvantages: (-) not sure how good this book would be WITHOUT all the suspense...

THE AUTHOR Tom Leo Clancy Jr. was born on 12th April, 1947 in Maryland, United States. He is famous for his espionage and military science writings, not solely that, but the technical details he uses throughout his works. The majority - if not all - of Clancy's work is set during the Cold War and its aftermath. Interestingly, he co-owns Baltimore Orioles, a major US Baseball team! He studied English Literature though his chief ambition was ...
...above, his keen interest in the military can be seen in all of his novels. His name may sound familiar to you: the video game "Rainbow Six/6" was actually a novel by Clancy. In 2008, Ubisoft bought the right to use his name in video games, and so on. BRIEF INTRODUCTION The Hunt for Red October is a Tom Clancy novel that follows the missions of Marko Ramius - a Soviet submarine captain - and CIA agent and analyst, Jack Patrick Ryan. It is ...

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Review of The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy

A Slow Burner.

Advantages: Vivid writing, well read, Jack Reacher.
Disadvantages: Slower than the other Reacher books.

...action hero is back! Echo Burning is the fifth book in the Reacher series and sees the ex-military cop drawn into the life of a Texan ranch owner's wife. On the road, as always, Reacher accepts a lift from a women who is looking for a man just like Reaacher. Her violent husband is about to be released from prison and she wants him dead. As Reacher becomes more involved, and corpses start to turn up, is all as it seems with the soft spoken woman? ...
...bleached and harsh colour of Echo County (the fictional setting for the book) and its dusty, deserted roads. In some ways, it's possibly the most techincally accomplished of the Reacher books. He manges to conjure the images of hazy barns and sweltering bunk houses amazingly well and you can almost feel the heat s you read his vivid and well written descriptions of scorched landscapes. The story builds to a satisfying, if not spectacular, climax ...

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Review of Echo Burning (A Jack Reacher Novel) - Lee Child

"Hop, Skip and Sing Spanish" - learn Spanish with your baby!

Advantages: A good help for parents with poor Spanish to start teaching their children Spanish from young age.
Disadvantages: The book is a black and white, soft cover script of the CD - no use for children.

I always wanted to teach my children Spanish from a very young age (even from birth). But my own Spanish leaves much to be desired. That is why I could never start in the right direction until I came across Ana Lomba's books. My older son was 2 years old when I purchased "Hop, Skip, and Sing Spanish." The first excercise from the book was the game when the child has to "walk... walk fast... walk slowly... run... jump... jump very high" all in Spanish ...
...(I was doing the exercise with him and it was very fun). After that we were eager to learn some other action songs and finger games in the book. Ana Lomba selected some rhymes and songs from the Spanish folklore, translated some of the English ones and also wrote some of her own and organised them in the order to build up children's vocabulary and practice over and over the words in different situations. The CD is brilliant even for babies. There ...

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Review of Hop, Skip, and Sing Spanish (Hop Skip & Sing) - Ana Lomba