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Simon Barrett

Simon Barrett is an adult educator in Calgary, Alberta. With the 11 months a year of winter, he reads a lot of books! He is also a contributing editor for Blogger News and maintains a personal blog at Simon B.
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Book Review: Tsunami by Gordon Gumpertz

Could a tsunami hit Southern California The answer to that question is a resounding yes
Take my advice, you don’t need to read this review, you just need to read the book Just go to Amazon and buy it
Up until a couple of years ago I was pretty green about being green Green was just a color, one that you wear on Saint Patrick’s Day
I flicked through the first few pages of this book, and decided to run a very unscientific poll I asked several people that I know “Do you believe in ghosts”
I have to admit that while science fiction was a genre that I greatly enjoyed as a teenager, it is a genre that I read only on rare occasions these days Conspiracy theories on the other hand is a world I can not resist
Books with terrorism as a plot line seem to be the favored genre of the 00's Certainly much has been made by the press of the concept that terrorists could attempt to detonate a dirty bomb in some densely populated place like New York

Book Review: 3 Aces by Richard Ide

One of the great joys of being a book reviewer is that you never know what is going to turn up in your mail box There are so many great new writers out there
There are as many genres of books as there are readers Life To The Max is hardly a children's book, yet there are aspects of it that I thought might appeal to the younger reader
I have lived in many places over the years, and there is no question in my mind that San Diego is my favorite city It offers perfect weather, friendly people, and more tourist attractions than you can shake a fist at
As a book reviewer I love to categorize books, but try as I might I cannot seem to find the right pigeonhole to put this book in It has some aspects of Sci-Fi, some aspects of Science Fantasy, and even a little mythology, but it truly does not fit into any of those genres
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