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January 24, 2008

Need a Career In The Medical Sector

Filed under: Book Calendar — Tags: , , , — fantasybereal @ 7:04 am

Have you ever wanted to have a career in the medical sector. What is the best paying job other than being a plastic surgeon or a cordiology surgeon. Am not even sure if I got that right. The next best step is to be an ultrasound technician.

Finding the right ultrasound technician school may be a little difficult. Dont worry I have the solution here for you. Ultrasound Tech has always been the subject matter that intrigues peoples minds. Here the answer to your prayers. Ultrasound Tech School the place to look for your popular medical career.

This place helps you to find the rights schools according to your popular medical career. What do you want to be when you grow up. I want to be a Optometrist if not an expert in Coronary Vascular Surgery. Well you will be able to find out where you could get your education at this site so go ahead start your education today.

January 22, 2008

Deception Point

Filed under: Story Warehouse, Thoughts Of The Day — Tags: , , , — fantasybereal @ 3:03 pm

Deception Point by Dan Brown

Deception Point

by Dan Brown

Those of you who know Dan Brown only from the DaVinci Code, will not be disappointed. Like other Brown novels, this one takes a few chapters to get going. You need the set the scene and get to know the principal characters. It may seem a bit slow. In fact, I almost got bored enough to quit.
I’m glad I didn’t.
Like an avalanche, once it got started, the novel steadily picked up speed until I was hardly able to put it down to eat, sleep, or go to work. The last half would make a fine script for an intense action movie (if only the fans of action movies could stay awake through the first half so they know and care about why things are happening and the implications).
In the beginning of the novel, Mr. Brown notes that all of the technology mentioned therein really does exist. By the end of the book, this has become a bit frightening to accept. Especially if you realize that by the time the intelligence community admits something to the public – it is only because they have got something even better.
I think Dan Brown could make a conspiracy theorist out of anybody – LOL. But risk it - it’s worth it.

The Vanished Priestess

Filed under: My Own Review — Tags: , , , , , — fantasybereal @ 3:00 pm

The Vanished Priestess by Meredith Blevins

How crazy am I about this new author and her books? I just googled her, found her website here, saw the link to buy the first book of this series (The Hummingbird Wizard) and immediately clicked through and ordered it. When was the last time you heard of me doing anything like that?

I looked her up because this book, The Vanished Priestess, has a big $1 sale tag on it from the Dollar General store. I was paranoid that this phenomenal writer might have been discouraged and given up! Why she is not shouted from the rooftops, on the New York Bestseller List, talked about on Oprah (or at least the Witch’s Cauldron), and in general touted as one of the best new authors in years, I do not know. This woman can really, really write. She writes beautiful passages like this one:

I lost his voice and I was scared to death and I lost time completely, the most amazing thing, like losing time under a chair cushion, fretting about it, and finally forgetting about it, then finding it again one day. But once you lose time, you never want to wear a watch again. And once you lose gravity, you never want to feel its tug again. I was sure I had not made beauty, but it was as close to eternity as I’d ever get.

There’s more but I wouldn’t want to ruin anything for you. She can write about adult sex and sexual attraction without veering into porn or Harlequin range. Her characters are totally believable, lovable, and quite out of this world. Throw in the gypsy lore and spells and herbs and talismans and it just doesn’t get much better than this.
Meredith Blevins is simply one of the best. I hope the combined business powers that be don’t fuck her up as she continues the Annie Szabo series.

 

January 20, 2008

The Best Way To Travel

Filed under: My Own Review — Tags: , , , — fantasybereal @ 2:33 pm

Being a person that loves to trvel but does not hve much money to spend I believe that buying your tickets weeks before the departure and getting your hotel reservations online is always the cheapest and best way to travel.

Lately I found a new service that does all this in one place and their prices are the best so far. But first of all let me ask you a few questions.

1) Do you like to travel ?

2) Do you want to try and save some money ?

3) Do you want the best hotels but at a good rate ?

4) Do you want to have enough money to splurge on yourself ?

5) Do you want to have a holiday and not a headache?

If you have answered yes to all the questions above then read on .

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Try out their services for yourselves and then come back here and leave your comment. I let you be the judge. So far from my experiences I give this website and company a 9/10 in excellence. ( I have never found a 10/10 yet as I would only give it to companies that lets me travel for free :) .. )

Once Around The Track

Filed under: My Own Review — Tags: , , , , — fantasybereal @ 1:40 pm

Once Around the Track by Sharyn McCrumb

Once Around the Track

by Sharyn McCrumb

Once again, Ms. McCrumb has done a masterful job of making the fascination of NASCAR understandable for fans and non-fans alike. Her characters are likable, understandable folks that all of us can identify or identify with. The male driver for this all female team is a throwback to the “good old days” of NASCAR, before corporate sponsorship became God. He will make long time fans nostalgic, and maybe help new fans understand what they missed. Of course, my own personal favorite driver, Jeff Gordon, is the poster boy for the “new” driver – sleek and saleable – and Ms. McCrumb once again has a great time poking fun at him. I don’t mind – us Gordon fans are used to it ;) And as a long time fan, I do most definitely miss “the good ole days” and the “good ole boys” myself. But time goes on, and things change. Some for the better, and maybe some not so much so.


The story itself is hilarious, poignant, and deeper than you would think. Remember when novels were about how people had experiences that somehow changed them – hopefully for the better or wiser? Well, Sharyn McCrumb revitalizes my hope for the American novel. She can have great fun, make you laugh, make you cry, make you sigh with nostalgia – and still make you think. You will probably gulp this book down in a sitting (if you can) and enjoy every moment of it. After you finally put it down, you’ll find yourself thinking about it for days afterward. I suspect it may even be a book that you can reread a month or a year later, and see new things in it.
Deep issues tucked in under laugh out loud dialogue. Really excellent reading – and of course, excellent writing.
Perhaps the one point I truly walked away with on this reading was the old adage – “the more things change, the more they stay the same”.
The more I read of Sharyn McCrumb’s writing – the more impressed I am. I am coming to believe that even given our current glut of reading material – more new books per year than anyone could possibly read – some day fifty years from now, Sharyn McCrumb will be honored as a writer of enduring classics.

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