heart-to-heart

Advantages: easy to use and a comfort for parents to be!
Disadvantages: not always able to hear the heartbeat using the headphones provided

...I was given this prenatal listening system as a present a few months back and have used it almost every day. I love listening to the baby's heartbeat and the sound of her moving around! The system includes- heart beat sensor positioning belt 2 sets of headphones instructional audio DVD recording cable I recieved the summer prenatal listening system when I was around 19 weeks pregnant, which is just short of the recommended 21 weeks the company says the product is designed for. Still I thought I'd try it out to see if could hear anything. To my disapointment I couldn't detect a heartbeat. My younger brother suggested I try connecting the sensor to his Ipod speakers, which sounds odd but it worked! We shortly found a regular rapid drumming which there was no mistaking was my baby's heartbeat! We were all so excited and recorded...

kezziefaerie 16.06.2008 · Read review
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Heart to Heart

Advantages: A strong album with catchy tunes and a beautiful voice
Disadvantages: A few weak links on the album, no lyrics included

...'Some Hearts' is the multi-platinum, award winning debut album from the 4th series winner of American Idol, Carrie Underwood. The album comes under 'Rock and Pop' but I fell it is very 'Country' oriented with a 'Rocky' edge to it on some tracks. There are 13 tracks on the album, with 1 bonus track. Carrie hasn't written any of the tracks on this album, would like to see her writing skills go to work on the next one, be more personal. I am a sucker for American Idol, and was pleased when Carrie won as she stood out with her modest attitude and beautiful voice, singing just about anything! Carrie has a great story too-A young woman who loves to sing, coming from a humble background growing up on her family's farm in America. If you love music that incoporates thoughtful lyrics, acoustic guitar with a great voice, you will love this...

ChocolateChip 02.09.2007 (01.09.2007) · Read review
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Review of Some Hearts - Carrie Underwood

'Heart and Soul' a warm hearted novel.

Advantages: A very engaging novel with strong characters
Disadvantages: None in my view

...several characters from other books and it was rather pleasant to feel that you now knew what had happened to so and so in the end! The Plot As stated above, Heart and Soul does feature characters from previous Maeve Binchy novels, however, the story line of this book is not in anyway, dependant on having read a previous book. The novel is set in a Dublin hospital, but don't let that put you off, as it is not the usual 'Doctor and Nurse' hospital tale. The central character is Dr Clara Casey, a senior cardiac specialist at a new heart clinic at St. Brigid's Hospital. Clara has had to fight hospital protocol to set up her clinic and she is working separately to the hospital, whilst still attached to St Brigid's. Clara has a year to justify the need for a heart clinic in Dublin and she has a battle on her hands trying to obtain money...

brittle1906 17.12.2009 · Read review
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Review of Heart and Soul - Maeve Binchy

Staying awake with a heart

Advantages: free game
Disadvantages: tactical, requires thinking

...Hearts is a game you can find almost anywhere. It's more than likely on your PC as one of the pre installed games you find in applications. It's available on all the free gaming sites online, to be played against other people or computer generated opponents. -Idea of game- The idea of the game is to get rid of your stockpile of cards without gaining any of the heart cards as they mean big points, and this is a game where you try to collect the least amount of points possible. -How to play- The game is played with four players, and the deck of 52 cards is dealt equally between the four. Spend some time quickly sorting your cards into suits at this point. One thing to remember is that each heart card has a point value of one and if you are unlucky enough to have the Queen of spades at the end of the game, this is worth thirteen...

ang_2906 25.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Hearts

How to Win My Heart

Advantages: Easy to play, easy to play well, good when bored
Disadvantages: can get a tad boring after a while

...Hearts. When you are sad and lonely you start doing things that entertain you. (no comments thanks!) Hearts tries to do this. How it works is that, there are four players involved (must be four) and they are all dealt thirteen cards of the playing pack. There are four main rounds which are on a continuous repeated circle. In the first round you pass three of your thirteen cards to the left. The second round sees you passing three to the right. The third sees you passing them to the player opposite you. The fourth sees no passing, you keep all your cards. The fifth is a repeat of the first, the sixth a repeat of the second round etc. The game stops when a player reaches one-hundred points, more about this later. Basically, when you have your thirteen cards, the starting player of each round is defined by s/he who has the two...

danradders 05.05.2001 · Read review
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Review of Hearts

Do you have a heart?

Advantages: Easy to learn, good fun, and competitive.
Disadvantages: none

...3 cards to pass to another player, the rotation of the pass changes each hand and are as follows: Cards are passed to the right at the first deal. To the left with the second. Across with the third. At the fourth deal, players keep their own cards. The first person to start the game off, will always be the person who has the 2 of clubs in their hand. You must follow suit on each hand where ever you can. On the first down if you can't follow suit, you can play any other card, except for the queen of spades or a heart. After the first deal you can play any suit except hearts, until hearts has been broken. This means a heart has been played into someones hand. Ok before I continue here are how each card scores that has been put into the trick, a trick is the person who has the highest card takes the four cards. That is...

kineticspade 19.06.2007 · Read review
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The Heart and Soul of the Irish health service.

Advantages: Characters are well explored.
Disadvantages: All a bit sugar coated.

...As readers to my page know, I have had a bit of a Marian Keyes spell of reading, so I thought I would have a change. Not much of a change, to be fair, as I returned to a previous favourite for easy reading, in Maeve Binchy. Again, another Irish female author, and one who I trust to give me a good yarn at the end of a busy day. I was given several hard back copies of her novels by my sister, one of which was ?Heart and Soul?. I have read this as a stand alone novel, but just read another review which has told me that it was a sequel to Whitethorn Woods. I have Whitethorn Woods to read, also, so I feel a bit let down that I wasn?t made aware of this by the author when I was choosing which book to start with. That said, I may not have enjoyed the book as much as I have done, if I was referring back to the first novel as I read Heart...

orlando 22.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Heart and Soul - Maeve Binchy

* Broken Hearted Girl *

Advantages: Voice , Lyrics
Disadvantages: None!

...I was never a fan of Beyonce , not even when she was in Destiny's Child , although I will admit that I used to absolutely love some of their songs such as Survivor , Emotion and Lose My Breath. It was only since 'If I Were A Boy' came out that I really took notice of Beyonce. Soon after came Halo and I soon became a fan of Beyonce , even going to the effort of buying her album , "I Am...Sasha Fierce!". I absolutely love the album , and I loved the fourth track on the album , "Broken Hearted" , long before it was released as a single. Broken Hearted is the 17th solo single from Beyonce and is taken off her latest album "I Am Sasha Fierce!". The single was released on August 28th 2009 and is currently at number 33 in the British Single Charts. Broken Hearted is obviously about a girl who is Broken Hearted so it has quite...

xdonzx 23.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Broken-Hearted Girl - Beyonce

Heart of Class

Advantages: Superbly written, absorbing, great story, developed characters
Disadvantages: Nothing at all

...It's not very often that I get excited about a book release, as I just don't like to pay the prices of newly released hardback books. But I do make an exception for Jodi Picoult's novels, and when I heard a few months ago that Change of Heart was to be released this month, I saved up one of my Waterstones vouchers especially for it! I eagerly picked up my copy on Thursday and took it to the counter and started reading it as soon as I got home, and managed to finish it at 1am on Sunday morning..it was that good that I just couldn't put it down. Like all of Picoult's book, this one has a controversial main storyline and a court case, so nothing new there. Even though they all follow the same format, they make for wonderful reading and every page absorbs me, I just have to keep reading to find out more. This particular book tackles...

mummy2harry 21.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult

My Dear Heart - Please Look After You

Advantages: see review
Disadvantages: see review

...My beloved husband had a heart attack last week. It was the scariest afternoon of my life from the moment he called me at work to say he?d had severe chest pains for over 3 hours and did I think he had swine flu, me telling him to put down the phone immediately and call an ambulance with his exact location to me getting through to the hospital over 2 hours later to find out he?d indeed had a heart attack but had been treated and was stable and in recovery. MY THOUGHTS ON ALL THIS? My dear heart Please always look after you. You are so important to me, like you would not believe. The thought of you not being around forever scares me more than you can ever imagine, like dying 1000 deaths at the same time. You might have quit smoking 5 years ago but the damage was already done. You might have changed your diet...

anonymili 23.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Written from the Heart