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The Thin Woman Review.......2006-09-09
Ellie Simmons really wants to be thinner. But with her love of food, it wasn't going to happen any time soon. Then she gets an invitation to go see her family and is not sure what she should do. All she knows is that if she goes she must have a date. Ellie decides to hire an escort from an escort service but after meeting her date, Bently T. Haskell, she is about to regret it. They show up at Merlin's Court, only to have her cousin making eyes at Ben and her Uncle Merlin show up in odd places. An unexpected death and puzzle to solve is enough to put Ellie over the edge. She almost loses her appetite for food but Ben's cooking while they solve the puzzle helps her out. Can Ellie she trust anyone around her?
My favorite character was Ellie. I could really relate to her struggles to lose weight and how society looked at her. She didn't let it get her down. Ellie had to persevere through everything in order to help solve the puzzle. She really had to work hard and make things work or she would not get an inheritance. Ellie was a true fighter and I loved how things worked out for her in the end. Now, now that she needed it but she really wanted it . My other favorite character was Dorcas. She was there to help solve the puzzle. She may have come towards the end of the book but her part was important. Dorcas filled in bits and pieces to things at the end that made everything seem right.
The storyline and the characters of The Thin Woman were real to me. Ellie had to learn to change her habits towards food and embrace who she was becoming in order to earn her inheritance. The struggle that Ellie had with her family was interesting. I never knew families could be so dysfunctional. I could see that the struggle in this book had a purpose. It showed that life is a struggle but you need to keep going, the answer could be just around the corner.
I really loved this book. Dorothy Cannell is a wonderful writer and she makes things so real to life. I had a difficult time putting it down. The twist and turns in the book were unpredictable and made the plot interesting. The surprise towards the end was worth the entire book. Cannell had me on the edge of my seat in one part and the next laughing my head off. This author is one amazing writer. I really enjoyed what she had written and I look forward to reading more books by her in the future. I recommend this book to anyone who loves a good mystery and not knowing who committed all the crimes.
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Nice to see how it all began.......2006-08-13
I read the Ellie Haskell series out of order so finally getting to read the first book was great! It was nice to see how it all began...how Ellie met Ben and how they all ended up at Merlin's Court. I'm a big fan of Dorothy Cannell. Her books have always kept my interest. I love the twists and turns of the mysteries. I can't wait to read more!
LOVED IT!.......2003-12-13
I hate to admit this, because it's nothing against the book at all. I absolutely love this book but for the life of me I can never remember the name. I know what it's about and about when I read it so I search my library for the name each time.
The story is so entertaining and fresh. What's funny is I have read other books in this series and for some reason never knew this was one of the first in it's series. Please don't think it's a bad part on the book because it's not it's my brain.
Ellie like many women in her same situation wants to impress her family because they kind of give that attitude of I'm better than you because she's plump and single. Ellie decides her best bet is to have someone attractive and male on her arm when she visits them this time around. So she calls on Eligibility Escorts and enter one Bentley Haskell. He's a bit abrasive, but he fits the bill as far as being nice to look at and perfect to play the single girls long time beau. Bentley is a trained chef, but has taken up writing an ADULT/Graphic novel.
Once cornered with her family though Ellie makes Bentley not just her Beau but her fiancée in a very humorous moment. So as the weekend ends Ellie goes home with confidence she's gotten away with her lie and can go about her business.
Then her uncle dies and he gets one over on the family by stipulating that he is leaving Ellie and Bentley his entire fortune and castle home if they both accomplish two things in the next 6 months. Ellie's supposed to lose weight and make herself over. Bentley is supposed to write a full length book, but it has to be free of blasphemy which is going to be difficult because the book he's been writing will not do at all.
The mystery begins as people disappear and Ellie and Bentley are being targeted by a mysterious person who wants them to fail and will do anything to make sure they do.
This story is funny and fresh. I love it.
The audio version is abridged but very well read by Amanda Donohoe. I'm glad I discovered this book was part of the series I had already come to love because it's a great beginning for it.
ending saves the book.......2003-11-07
I wasn't particularly impressed with this book. It was good enough to keep reading, but it wasn't until the ending (don't worry I won't say what happens) that I really started to like it in spite of myself, hense the 3 stars. The characters are generally likeable. Ellie is a little too obsessive about her weight and too self-depreciating. It starts to get annoying. The plot also seems a little thin (no pun intended).
The Best of the Best.......2003-10-17
This book is so witty and well written that you will never want to put it down! The ending is also different from what you would expect! I Loved it very much and recammend it ro all. Now, don't be decieved by the cover because, you should never judge a book by it's cover. Besides the muder it also shows that if you put your mind to it you can do anything and that is what I liked about this book.
The descripitions are so well written too I found myself imaginig the rooms Ellie was designing. Now, I won't tell you everything, you must read it and tell me how you liked it!
Book Description
Robin Heatherton is a spy for the Confederacy. Disguised as a young boy, she infiltrates Yankee forces during the Battle of the Wilderness, but when her cover is compromised, she must crawl back to her own lines with vital intelligence. Meanwhile, Union Army Major Thomas Corley, obsessed with Robin ever since her espionage work led to the death of his brother, has vowed to track her down, and to kill her. Her husband dead at the hands of the Yankees, Robin flees with their five-year-old son into the untamed reaches of the Colorado Territory, where she'll try to work a gold-mining claim-helped only by gruff, handsome Garrison Parker, a Union veteran with no respect for women. She'll teach him some....unless Corley finds her first.
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needs something.......2007-10-10
I think this book is a little overrated. The historical facts are awesome, and the period detail engaging, vivid and illuminating.
However, I felt no sympathy for this character in the end, and found it hard to be compelled by her situation. Too many men falling in love with her, no time to build something between she & Garry. I never felt we really got to know the hearts of these weird people. She was a spy, one side or the other, she played a deceitful albeit necessary role, but one never truly understands WHY she did it, HOW she became involved, WHO she really loves, WHERE her heart lies, or WHEN - the timing is awful. And the oxymorons and irony is everywhere. There she is feeling SO safe with the yankee negro camp, they're welcoming her with open arms, yet she is fighting against everything they believe in and taking advantage of their kind-hearted generosity. She takes advantage of everyone and everything she can. Macey, Jeremy & Garrison were more interesting and we hardly got to know them. If Robin broke that rib one more time I was going to throw the book against the wall.
Where can I get more of the "Women of The West" Series?.......2000-10-18
I really enjoyed this but I can't seem to find the rest of the Women of the West "Series". Please let me know how to get them. Mariann98@aol.com
More great work by Gear.......2000-02-29
If you've read and loved Gear's other works (like People of the Lakes, etc.) or even if you haven't. you're sure to fall in love with gear's writing all over again. Gear has a gift for blending historical fact into believable fiction. This novel made me re-think the way I imagined the Civil War and held me entranced until it was finished/
Five stars! Ten stars!! Twenty!!! I would if I could!!.......1998-09-27
I walked around the house like a zombie, my eyes glued to the page. Not the inconvenience of cooking nor the movie playing on T.V. succeeded of dragging my eyes from between the pages. The characters are so REAL. Garry is such a sympathetic character, not at all macho like many romance novels, but deffinatly a man. Jeremy, Robin's son is an adorable scared little boy and his affection for his toy horse, Traveller, that he made with his own hands just makes you want to cry. Robin is one of the strongest women I have ever read about. Every character portraid in the novel seemed very real and human to me. Even Major Corley. I found myself feeling sorry for him, even though he was the next thing to evil. This is a keeper for sure, I'd recommend it to ANYONE!!
Bob Wiseman - Author/Reviewer.......1996-08-11
I'm always hearing from New York publishers and editors that there's
nothing new being written about the Old West. Look again, pardners,
Gear has found a new slant by taking a serious look at the women
who won the West. I think the western genre just got a welcome
nudge. The western women slant will prove profitable and entertaining reading. As stated, "New York,
take another look."
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- A MUST READ!!!
- Serious Fluff
- Insightful and hilarious!
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I Feel Thin Today: And other musings of a thirty-something single woman
Victoria McIrvin
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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I FEEL THIN TODAY:
And Other Musings of a Thirty-Something Single Woman
Get ready to read a candid, refreshing collection of essays about one woman's thirty-something single hood. Victoria reveals her appetites, heartaches, and advice from Brilliant Therapist in a witty and shamelessly honest voice.
Questioning the roots of her own self esteem:
"Perhaps you base your self-esteem on how many men you can attract," my friend said. 'Don't be ridiculous,' I countered. 'I only count the good looking ones.'"
Thinking she knows how to find the right man:
"What is your purpose in life?" Not a question typically asked on first dates and yet I ask it anyway. This type of questioning started after I attended a three day spiritual growth seminar and suddenly felt sure I knew what my purpose was. Now it was up to me to find a man who was equally clear about his purpose, and it's not as if any purpose would do. It had to be something selfless, involving a third world country or at least hungry children that he himself had not fathered."
I Feel Thin Today shows us that thirty-something and single...isn't always easy, but it can always be entertaining.
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Customer Reviews:
A MUST READ!!!.......2004-09-26
I loved this book even more than I loved "He's Just Not That Into You." It's like the soulmate to that book ... a group of essays all about the lessons learned by a woman who couldn't admit to herself that "he's just not that into me" until she started building up her own self-esteem/sense of self. "I Feel Thin Today" validates the struggles of doing so with wit, character, and a gentleness that encourages her readers to do the same while laughing at themselves along the way.
Serious Fluff.......2004-09-17
Ms. McIrvin takes what might be perceived as the fluff of thirty-something life and anchors it in wise-beyond-her-years perceptions of what's going on. She turns meeting Mr. Wrong and Mr. Very Wrong (again and again) into opportunities for self-realization and emotional growth; delightfully so.
Her writing voice is authentic, compelling, and hiliarous; often poignant. This is a new writer who deserves to be picked up by a publisher, rather than yet another man.
Insightful and hilarious! .......2004-09-17
This writing is so authentic it made me laugh out loud (while other times just laughing ruefully to myself thinking -"so, I'm not the only one!") It was a quick read that left me wanting more.
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Into thin air
Warren Beck
Manufacturer: Knopf
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The indispensable companion of every well-bred lady at the close of the nineteenth century. In chapters on each part of the female form copious details guide the reader through such imperfections as wrinkles, sunburn, warts and even baldness for which a concoction of rum and onion is prescribed without ever venturing upon too much scientific explanation. Such simple and politely euphemistic terminology as small black spots and redness, combined with the occasional piece of hearsay or high society gossip, gives the impression of a casual yet authoritative chat among nineteenth century aristocratic gentlewomen. Ever fearful of old age or indeed the illusion thereof, The Lady s Dressing Room strikes a graceful balance between hopeless self-indulgence - chocolate is offered as a cure for bad breath - and an heroic call for spartan frugality - where there is even the slightest tendency to grow stout. As well as being highly informative on its intended subject, this book also divulges a great deal about the writer s contemporary society. Numerous pages of advertisements for everything from a carpet sweeper the greatest labour saving invention of the century Invention hath no nobler aim than to lighten woman s labour and the permanent removal of superfluous vein-marks, moles or warts through the administering of electricity by a lady electrician demonstrate a burgeoning consumerism (not to mention Victorian eccentricity). Nothing was more important to a lady than to be seen to be a lady. This is the book that showed them how.
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- Great chemistry by Marilyn Horowitz
- Bold, Daring, Innovative
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Screen Couple Chemistry: The Power of 2
Martha P. Nochimson
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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ASIN: 0292755791 |
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Astaire and Rogers, Tracy and Hepburn. Just the mention of their names evokes the powerful chemistry between these screen couples, which utterly transcended the often formulaic films in which they appeared together. Indeed, watching the synergistic flow of energy between charismatic screen partners is one of the great pleasures of cinema and television, as well as an important vehicle for thinking through issues of intimacy and gender relations. In this book, Martha P. Nochimson engages in a groundbreaking study of screen couple chemistry. She begins by classifying various types of couples to define what sets the synergistic couple apart from other onscreen pairings. Then she moves into extended discussions of four enduring screen couples--Maureen O'Sullivan/Johnny Weissmuller, Myrna Loy/William Powell, Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers, and Katharine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy. Using theories of neuroscience, she demonstrates that their onscreen chemistry is a very real phenomenon, powerful enough to subvert conventional formulations of male/female relations. Material she has uncovered in the infamous Production Code Administration files illuminates the historical context of her contentions. Finally, Nochimson traces the screen couple to its present-day incarnation in such pairs as Woody Allen/Diane Keaton, Scully/Mulder of The X-Files, and Cliff/Claire Huxtable of The Cosby Show.
Customer Reviews:
Great chemistry by Marilyn Horowitz.......2004-08-23
Screen Couple Chemistry was a fascinating read that provided me with new insights into the underlying structure of romantic relationships in the Hollywood pantheon. This was particularly helpful in my work as a writer and teacher of screenwriting at NYU. I recommend this book to anyone interested in movies or about to write a screenplay with a romance in it. Nochimson's view of Hollywood hypocrisy is an eye opener and a doorway for any writer who wants to find something new and original to write.
Bold, Daring, Innovative.......2004-07-26
Interested in the phenomenon of couples onscreen? No one has written about this subject with such insight and specificity previously. I never thought about how many different kinds of couples there are before this read. Or how the way popular culture uses couples has changed with time. Take a look!!
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The Thin Woman
Dorothy Cannell
Manufacturer: Bantam
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ASIN: 0553400584 |
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- A Breathe of Fresh Air for Anorexia in the Social Sciences.
- read it (with a dictionary)
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The Thin Woman (Women and Psychology)
Helen Malson
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415163323 |
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Why are so many women and girls distressed about their bodies, about food and about being a woman?
The Thin Woman offers new feminist and post-structuralist insights into the problems of anorexia nervosa.
Helen Malson draws on historical and contemporary literature to complement the findings of her own original research, based on the findings from a series of interviews with women diagnosed as anorexic. What does the medical profession "know" about anorexia? This volume questions the diagnosis of this eating disorder as a medical pathology, and asks the best way to understand this problem. In reviewing the history of diagnosis concerning anorexia along with her interviews, we can begin to see the problem as one socially situated in the conceptions of gender, subjectivity and control.
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A Breathe of Fresh Air for Anorexia in the Social Sciences........2005-06-30
A bible for any academic working on eating disorders within a poststructurlist framework. Foucault is synthesized particularly well, while poststructuralism as a broader approach Malson employs perfectly to frame conceptually and navigate thoroughly the topic of anorexia. Malson investigates the topic of anorexia employing a 'feminist-poststructuralist-social-psychological' toolbox. The result is impressive; she delivers a collection of innovative and highly developed analyses and conclusions that shed new light on the old and offer a host of varied and original interpretations on the subject at hand.
A bible also, for any clinician working with this population, especially those who practice from a feminist perspective. A invaluable reference for the social sciences, this text breathes a heavy dose of fresh air over current research on anorexia. Importantly, Malson fills a niche, long awaited by some in academia, as she covers not only a specific corner of women's psychological health but also approaches it with theoretical specificity. The topic of anorexia specifically benefits from a postmodern perspective as analyses are performed with adament consideration of multiplicity, that embrace contradiction as a window of information, rather than neglecting or negating its existence as to secure the strength and validity of their conclusions.
Thank you, Helen
read it (with a dictionary).......2001-04-02
The book is good, but be warned: the language is not intended for the lay person. This is even more unfortunate, because the author has really great, well built arguments. They sometimes get lost in the jargon of academia. Still, I have gone back to it many times as a reference. The historical research is unparalleled, and fascinating to find examples of aesceticism and self-stavation in the middle ages, for example. It's brave to take the unapologetic step into examining thinness as an aesthetic. Definitely worth it.
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Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism (Working Class in American History)
James D. Rose
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Not all workers' needs were served by the union. Focusing on the steel works at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, a linchpin of the old Carnegie Steel Company empire and then of U.S. Steel, James D. Rose demonstrates the pivotal role played by a nonunion form of employee representation usually dismissed as a flimsy front for management interests.
The early New Deal set in motion two versions of workplace representation that battled for supremacy: company-sponsored employee representation plans (ERPs) and independent trade unionism. At Duquesne, the cause of the unskilled, hourly workers, mostly eastern and southern Europeans as well as blacks, was taken up by the union--the Fort Dukane Lodge of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers. For skilled tonnage workers and skilled tradesmen, mainly U.S.-born and of northern and western European extraction, ERPs offered a better solution.
Initially little more than a crude antiunion device, ERPs matured from tools of the company into semi-independent, worker-led organizations. Isolated from the union movement through the mid-1930s, ERP representatives and management nonetheless created a sophisticated bargaining structure that represented the shop-floor interests of the mill's skilled workforce. Meanwhile, the Amalgamated gave way to the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a professionalized and tightly organized affiliate of John L. Lewis's CIO, that expended huge resources trying to gain companywide unionization. Even when the SWOC secured a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel in 1937, however, the union was still unable to sign up a majority of the workforce at Duquesne.
A sophisticated study of the forces that shaped and responded to workers' interests, Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism confirms that what people did on the shop floor was as critical to the course of steel unionism as were corporate decision making and shifts in government policy.
Customer Reviews:
A great book.......2002-04-09
Rose has written an important book that should be read by all people interested in work and justice. By carefully examining shop floor activism at the mill and life in the Duquesne community, Rose reveals the challenges of forming a union in a key industry beset by a working class divided by skill, ethnicity, and race. Based on the most impressive archival research I have ever encountered, this books stands as a signal achievement in the profession. It is an important story well told! Buy this book!
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An Extremely Well-Written Mystery.......1999-07-02
The first thing I look for in a mystery is a well-crafted character; I find this in the works of the greats: Raymond Chandler, James Lee Burke and Walter Mosley. The second is a believable and absorbing atmosphere; again, one finds these in abundance in the works of these writers.
Karen Rose Cercone is now another author I can add to the list. "Steel Ashes" is a wonderful book, and its sequel is even better. As a professional social worker who works with the poor, it is very gratifying for me to see a heroine who is also a social worker (something she denies in the book's sequel, but is nonetheless) at the very dawn of the social work profession. In the character of Helen Sorby, Cercone has crafted a heroine who is admirable and very real; not a few readers will, I suspect, fall head over heals for her.
The book's context illustrates the injustices of industrialism at the beginning of the twentieth century, reminding us that economic change (with which we are always contending) always brings with it human suffering. By placing the action in a time when few people believed that such suffering should be alleviated by the government (much like our own time), Cercone is able demonstrate the misery that occurs when such inaction is tolerated. These are the kind of injustices that brave reformers like Helen will not tolerate.
Helen's idealism is tempered by the worldly-wise Milo, a policeman who has had to conceal his Armenian heritage in order to become a cop. Milo is, like Helen, a victim of the prejudice of society; but like her, he refuses to be content with whining about it as an excuse for inaction. Even so, the differing responses of the two protagonists -- and their irresistable attraction to each other -- are what give the series its dramatic tension. The fact that then, as now, the book highlights very real and very current social problems is what makes it, like the work of Burke and Mosley and Chandler, more than just another mystery.
Highly recommended.......1999-05-13
A delightful first mystery by Cercone on the Steel City and some of its less than wealthy residents at the turn of the century. The mystery was suspenseful but more to my liking, the sparks really flew between Helen Sorby and Milo the police officer. Definitely awaiting the sequel.
Fantastic.......1998-08-27
This was a fantastic book. It was different and fascinating because of the year it took place and what you learned about early Pittsburgh. It was great because of the wonderful characters, and it was fantastic because it was a mystery that kept you guessing until the very end. I would highly recommend this book.
Sharp new mystery in a realistic historic setting.......1998-01-14
As a Pittsburgher, I really appreciated the accuracy and love of the city portrayed throughout the book. Cercone really captures the spirit of the immigrant populations, as well as the day-by-day details of Pittsburgh's industrial past. Delightful characters and a clever mystery just make the read more pleasant. A must-have for historical mystery fans AND for Steel City dwellers who love this place and its past.
Interesting, engrossing and well done........1997-10-24
I read this book more than once and continually look for a sequel. The characters are likeable, the dialogue is smart and funny, and a potential romance is suggested between two of the main characters. Violence is minimal but suspense lurks around every corner, steadily builds throughout the story, and drops you into the ending where you are unable to put the book down until you know for sure how everything and everyone turns out. Highly recommended.
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The rose in the steel dust;: An examination of the Cantos of Ezra Pound
Walter Baumann
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Steel Ashes
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A more contemporary remake of War for the Oaks.......2001-02-21
From what I understand, Kara Dalkey is a friend of Emma Bull's...and so I understand, having read War for the Oaks, where Dalkey got many of her ideas for this novel...namely her friend's earlier novel. (Which by the way is being reprinted in Summer 2001).
The setting is Pittsburgh rather than Minneapolis...the heroine is a Performance Artist, not the singer in a band, and she deals primarily with Unseelie rather than the Sidhe Court. But many of the concepts and 'vocabulary' are the same, or subtly different.
Thus it loses a star for basic originality, but it is well done for what it sets out to do. I do recommend those who are interested in reading both read the Bull book and then this...it makes more sense to see the evolution of the concept that way.
A magical story of triumph.......2000-09-05
This book starts in a light hearted ritual to summon a spirit. Constructed on a whim from our heroine of the book, she is much surprised when it actually works and she ends up with two new friends who lead her into all sorts of situations and new friends.
This beat-of-the-city fantacy is intense, involving an array of beings from the spectrum of spiritual creatures. The powers of light and dark are head to head in a battle which could destroy, or forever change the city. And this quirky performance artist holds the key to ending it.
Why did the author have to change her style?.......1998-12-28
I dreaded the contemporary fantasy setting, the supposed now-days teenage antics were so unrealistic, and too wild to believe it happened at all. This is the fiction of fiction, the characters were unbelieveabley fake.
Kara Dalkey is one of my favorite fantasy authors, but this book just totally turned me off, this is the worst book she's ever written. Hard core fantasy lovers, this is not your book.
Excellent contemporary fantasy; Great read!.......1998-10-27
My favorite way to pick out a book to buy at the bookstore is to peruse the SF/Fantasy writers, and pick out a random book written by a female writer. _Steel Rose_ was one of those picks, and I must say I was more than pleasantly surprised.
TJ is not a traditional weak-kneed heroine, or a bodybuilding monolith Amazon (heh heh), just an average, everyday performing artist (who happens to have inherited latent magical powers) struggling to get her break. As a sometime- actress msyelf, I was able to sympathize with TJ's problems more than a little. As a character, I felt she was extremely well-rounded and thought out-- she had this reserve of almost invisible strength within her.
I must admit I was a bit put off by Dalkey's writing style at first, but I soon warmed up to the idea--it was so refreshing to read a fantasy novel that is written like ordinary conversation--not written in "high language". I also loved the miniature tour of Pittsburgh.
All in all, I am very happy that fate led me to _Steel Rose_ -- and I am looking forward to reading Dalkey's other works as well.
I loved this book-very origional.......1998-03-24
This book has a highly origional senario and plot, it is written very well, and aside from the magic and immortals involved, it is very REALISTIC! Also, in this book, there are no 'good guys' and no 'bad guys' there are just 2 different kinds of immortals that are at war with eachother at the cost of human existance (no, I'm not giving anything away, this is a variation of the blyrb). I couldn't put this book down, it was a real treat.
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Title: 1st Armor training brigade: growing effective soldiers.(Soldiers of Steel)
Author: Anthony M. Rose
Publication:
Armor (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 115
Issue: 6
Page: 53(1)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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