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...refresh fast enough to show video, and even scrolling or zooming is a complicated business, but that's not the purpose of the Reader. Even without a backlight, you can read every page of any e-book in all of the same settings that you'd read a tome made out of old fashioned ink, paper and glue...
...usually reserve this section for classics or recently-released gems that might have gone unnoticed, but this book fits neither of those categories. Nevertheless, attention must be paid to this upsetting tome...
CASTLE WAITINGLINDA MEDLEYA giant tome of some 457 pages, with more chapters being printed as a regular comic series, Castle Waiting creates a vibrant fantasy world not unlike The Lord of the Rings' Middle-earth but with a focus on the lives of women. Gorgeously illustrated in black and white, the book combines Christian and mythological imagery, including a bearded female saint, Rumpelstiltskin and various animal-headed characters. One of several intertwined plots follows a woman as she travels toward the titular castle so that she can safely deliver the baby of her dead lover, who may be an ogre...
...Directed by Steven Zaillian 2 stars I will now blaspheme the gods of American literature: I do not like Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men.” An unscientific facebook.com search tells me that the 700-page political tome is the favorite book of 123 of my peers. Preceptor Tom “Your Biggest Fan” Underwood of “Southern Writers Reconsidered” fame begged me to consider this a masterpiece of Southern literature. I think I fell asleep that day in Expos...
...Cowboys. Things started fine there, but Owens missed most of the preseason with a hamstring injury, then broke a finger in the one game he has played in. He was capitalizing fine on his celebrity, putting out a second book T.O. in July to update his first tome, Catch This! Going Deep with the NFL's Sharpest Weapon...