Item: www.mymilktoof.blogspot.com
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Review: I found this website (www.mymilktoof.blogspot.com) because a friend of mine, knowing that I like cute things, recommended it to me. This blog really is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen; I wish I could be this creative. It’s my new favorite blog. It’s pretty popular too, each post seems to […]

Item: Belong To Me
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Review: Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos is a compelling tale. In the beginning, the story felt gossipy and like the typical tale of a group of women who are struggling for social dominance. It was actually fun to read but didn’t seem extraordinary.
After a while I […]

Item: Triond
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Review: I joined triond.com a while ago - I think over a year ago, put a few articles on, posted a couple of pictures, and then quickly forgot about it. I was really busy at the time, but the actual reason was that my per article rate was kind of low. […]

Item: The Center of Everything
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Review: The Center of Everything is a coming of age novel by Laura Moriarty.
I found the story, while simple and to be completely honest, not that unusual - a bright girl whose parents did not marry and whose father left before she was born - to still be […]

Item: The Truth about Forever
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Review: I’ve read several of Sarah Dessin’s books for youths and The Truth about Forever, like most of her other books, is excellent. (Although I was wondering for a while where the forever part came in but I did figure it out)
I really felt the frustration that each […]

Item: www.thisisbroken.com
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Review: Okay, this website is just funny. A quick note that typing in this url now redirects you to the goodexperience website, but you still get to read all of the thisisbroken archives.
I find the site itself a bit easier to read (in format at least) than similar websites. Other reader […]

Item: Bejeweled Blitz
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Review: I’ve played this game in several different formats - both the iPhone app which lets you play continuously with different levels and the Facebook app which is a speedy one minute game. In either form, this is a very addictive game. Actually, though, it is just a variation on […]

Item: Bin 941
Location: 941 Davie St., Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Review: A friend recommended this restaurant to me, and because I like tapas, I suggested to some other friends that we hit this place one Friday evening before a movie. And so we did.
I don’t know that I would recommend trying to go to this […]

Item: Beehive Wool Shop
Location: 1700 Douglas St, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Review: This is a great local yarn store (LYS). I stopped in while I was on vacation because I needed to pick up something for the project I was working on (I left my measuring tape at home) and I spent a good hour […]

Item: The Midnight Hand by Paul Stewart
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Review: This spooky book for children and youths, The Midnight Hand by Paul Stewart, is a great combination of scary ghost story and mystery. The main characters, Tom, Asa, and Eva must figure out what the hand, which only appears as the clock tolls midnight, wants […]

Item: Treu Confections
Location: #6-3701 Broadway, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Review: I’ve been going to this dessert restaurant with my friends for years. Years ago, it was a great place to get dessert - they had good, giant, cakes, cheesecakes, and pies. It still is pretty good, but strangely not quite as good. I think in […]

Item: A Year in the World
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Review: A Year in the World is a beautifully written book that makes you want to travel. It is written by Frances Mayes, who is the author of Under the Tuscan Sun (which is different from the movie, by the way), and A Year in the World […]

Item: Speed Knitting by Kris Percival
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Review: I enjoy knitting and am always looking for new patterns to try, in books and on the internet. This book, Speed Knitting by Kris Percival, is appealing because of its colors and the fact that the projects are supposed to be “quick and easy”.
Most of […]

Item: Dogs and Goddesses
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Review: This seems to be a really popular book, considering it got up to 24th on the New York Times list. But Dogs and Goddesses by Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart, and Lani Diane Rich, didn’t feel like a bestseller to me.
The story itself was good, with interesting events […]

Item: Browns Social House (Point Grey)
Location: 3651 West 10th, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Review: I’ve heard mixed things about this restaurant, which makes me think that the dining experience at Browns Social House depends on the location and perhaps the day that you go.
By a strange coincidence, I’ve now been to the Point Grey […]

Item: The Year of Pleasures
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Review: This is the first book by Elizabeth Berg that I have read; it was definitely worth reading. I really enjoyed reading this: the flow of the words was like sinking into a nice, cozy, world.
The only downside was that the ending felt a bit too obvious - […]

Item: The Model Wife by Julia Llewellyn
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Review: I’ve now read a couple of Julia LLewellyn’s books, The Model Wife being the second that I’ve read. While the storyline is different, the feel of the books is the same - in both the Love Trainer and The Model Wife a woman must reinvent […]

Item: One More Sushi
Location: #222-2155 Allison Rd., Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Review: There are a lot of sushi places in Vancouver, and especially in the west side of Vancouver. (Well, actually, there are a lot of them everywhere in Vancouver). One More Sushi, to be quite honest, is just one of the many.
I met some […]

Item: Stone Age
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Review: I enjoy board games, and the other night I tried Stone Age (a game by Rio Grande Games). It’s actually quite enjoyable - it feels a little more complicated than your standard board game because there are so many options each turn and it takes quite a while […]

Item: MarioKart for Wii
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Review: We have a few Wii games, and one of the ones we had been wanting was MarioKart. It seemed like so much fun!
Well, we finally were given it as a gift, and it is fun. A lot of the game itself will be very familiar to anyone who […]

Item: Knitting Rules!
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Review: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, also known as The Yarn Harlot, is a knitting humourist. It seems like there wouldn’t be much material for her to write about, but her books are always fun and amusing to read.
This particular book, Knitting Rules!, is more of an explanatory book than knitting humour, although […]

Item: Yes Man by Danny Wallace
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Review: I’ve recently been trying to read more inspirational books - travel, biography, that sort of thing to get a better idea of the things I could do with my life. I randomly chose to read Yes Man mostly because the trailers for the movie seemed funny, […]

Item: Alice and Kev
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Review: One of my friends plays The Sims 3, and she found this awesome blog, www.aliceandkev.wordpress.com. The basic premise is that the author of the blog took two people, gave them not very good traits such as bad luck or inappropriateness, and plunked them into a town. He also […]

Item: cakejournal.com
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Review: I haven’t spent a lot of time in baking blogs - usually I stick to craft blogs. But I’ve made a new discovery: baking pretty things isn’t actually difficult. (Time consuming, yes, difficult, no). I’ve usually stuck to your basic mix together ingredients and pour into pan kind of recipes. […]

Item: Up (2009)
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Review: I went and saw this with a friend (even though it’s a kids’ movie and we’re both adults) because we had heard a lot of good things about it. And Pixar usually puts out good movies, so it wasn’t like it was a risk or anything. The fact that […]