Stay It's Not Worth Trying - Something For Someone

A Book For Someone Who Likes Good Books

Advantages: beautiful, atmospheric children's book
Disadvantages: some parents will complain it's too dark - shame on them

has heard a peculiar sound: a sound like someone trying not to make a sound. This evocative description intrigues his father and together they pick through all the imaginative and frightening explanations the boy's mind provides whilst looking for the real source of the noise. Illustrated by Tatjana Hauptmann, the atmospheric deep blue cover, with it's rumpled boyish figure and almost supernaturally attentive teddy bear, gives way to more of the same. The images are soft, muted coloured pencil sketches. Each picture made me think of Where's Waldo without the clutter: each gentle scene seems ordinary at first until you realise there's something odd - the bulge in the blank wall, the bunched, lifelike cushion, unusual shadow, or Ted(dy) peeking curiously into Tim's cot. It's spooky, but in a familiar way. The illustrations echo ...

ruth_cole 29.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of A Sound Like Someone Trying Not To Make A Sound - John Irving

Does It Mean Something?

Advantages: Some purely amazing piano based tracks, an incredible voice in many places
Disadvantages: Some rubbish pop songs that cheapen the album considerably, her voice in places

. Track #10: Miss. April Back to writing with her life partner, 'Miss April's' initial tune starts off in a similar way to some of the music on Final Fantasy VIII! After that, it takes advantage of an electric guitar which unfortunately doesn't stay put throughout 'Miss April', a tale about a Hollywood starlet who lost her 'Playboy body' and celebrity status. It's very much a tongue in cheek story about how scandal can ruin someone in the public eye and how their perception of real life and fame and fortune becomes so distorted and misunderstood. It shows a different kind of flare than any of the other tracks on 'What If It All Means Something?' has dared to do and it pays off after multiple disappointments. Marks out of 10: 8 - the tune is a bit generic but the lyrics are sung so innocently that it may take the driest sense of humour to ...

MizzMolko 27.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of What If It All Means Something - Chantal Kreviazuk

Try it! if it's not for you.. EBAY!!!!

Advantages: Soothing, healing, gentle, multifunctional
Disadvantages: Greasy perhaps, but thats bearable.

'It does what it says on the tin' I have uber sensitive skin, and get hives from looking at something too long - never have worked out what that something is though(probably lots of different things)??! It doesn't exacerbate an irritation, it genuinely does soothe.. yes it is greasy, and it smells 'natural'. I was concerned that used once a week as an intensive treatment all over my face post night cleanse, that it might give me more blackheads than I already have - but it didn't. Yeah, yeah it's expensive, but it really IS worth it.. it does so much stuff.. none of which I can be bothered to list (so dutifully) as all the other reviewers have done before me. I have been faithful to Vaseline as a lip salve since forever, no more. And hey, if you don't like it, sell it on E bay as 'only used once'.. you will get most if not ...

StarsAndSea 21.06.2007 · Read full review
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