May 17, 2012

Adult book Review: Low Maintenance Garden

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Low Maintenance Garden is a lovely little book full of sage gardening advice, plus a wealth of tips and tricks. This is a a perfect guide for the beginner gardener, or a great refresher for someone like me who simply forgets. I do. I forget my soil basics, I forget what I should be amending [...]

Adult Book Review: Brain Training

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If you are not only a lover of brain teasers and puzzles, but have a keen interest in learning how your gray matter actually works, this is the book for you. While full of the requisite teasers that I swear, really do actually make your brain hurt with the effort to solve them, the book [...]

Children’s Book Review: The Greatest Intergalactic Guide to Space Ever

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In this humorous book, you are shown the wonders of the galaxy by the Brainwaves, devilishly cute little mischief makers who make your journey an entertaining adventure. Your guided tour through space begins with the Brainwaves explaining the basics of the universe, from planetary moons to galaxy types. Not only is there of course, the [...]

Teen Book Review: Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer’s Edition

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The third edition of this popular gaming version of Guinness World Records is packed full of stats, facts and pictures of the best games out there.  It covers everything from the tops games of the year in role-playing to puzzle games genres and if it holds a record, your old favorites might even be included. [...]

Children’s Book Review: Earth Matters

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The book Earth Matters practices what it preaches; the paper was sourced from responsibly managed forests, their printer generates 100% of it’s own electricity and it is printed using vegetable inks instead of petroleum based. Subtitled “an encyclopedia of ecology” it is exactly that, a wonderful volume full of amazing photos, facts and information about [...]

Adult Book Review: Prehistoric Life

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If you ever dreamed of being a Paleontologist (and who hasn’t) when you were a child, then this is definitely the book for you. Heck, add a dash of anthropology plus some earth science and we might just have the book covered. The main focus of Prehistoric Life is, of course, the actual life in [...]

Children’s Book Review: Voyage : Ocean

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Right from the beginning this book captures your attention and draws you in; it’s round. Round like the porthole of a submarine and in fact it is just that, a rusty porthole with a view into the wonder that Earth’s oceans are. And it’s not just a round outer cover, all the pages inside are [...]

Children’s Book Review: Children Just Like Me

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This amazing book is the culmination of two years of travel to over 30 countries, recording the stories of the lives of children all over the globe. Children love reading about other kids, it gives them something to relate to, a person their own size, someone that likes the same things and puts up with [...]