Archive for March, 2010

For the money, this is exactly what we needed. Rather than spending $400+ for a company to come out and clean our carpets, we looked into renting/buying a machine to do it on our own. After researching machines, my husband found the Hoover F5914-900 Steam Vac had plenty of satisfied customers, so we crossed our fingers and ordered one.

It was pretty easy to assemble. And it most certainly did the job! With 2 boys and 2 dogs, our carpets were pretty soiled and past due for a good cleaning, still this product seemed to do a really good job. We did go over a couple of areas twice, but again, only b/c our carpets were heavily soiled, not b/c the machine did not work. The wand attachment worked great on our stairs. We even used it to clean an upholstered chair. Super convenient, too!
We did go lighter on the soap for fear of leaving too much of a residue only to collect more dirt. Actually, you can use just steaming hot water and vinegar for in-between cleanings.
The only reason we did not give it a full 5 stars is b/c all of the parts are plastic (hence, delicate), and you do need to be very careful when handling so as not to break a piece.
We’re glad we bought this and would recommend it.
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Let me start by saying that I can see why a lot of people wouldn’t like this book, especially a lot of people who have to read it for school. To many people, it seems like the typical “teenage angst” kind of book, and it’s very easy to think that the whole way through the book. If you learn nothing from this book then you didn’t get the meaning behind it – it’s a blunt statement, either you agree or you don’t. And if you *do* get the meaning behind it, but found it to be boring or repetitive anyway, then that is your opinion. Some people just simply don’t like the same books.

I have to admit, when I first started reading Catcher in the Rye I was a bit struck at why it was considered a classic in literature. With me, I started seeing something deeper when I got to the middle of the book. It isn’t until you start seeing the same things being repeated that you start to notice. The title of my review is a great example. Holden Caulfield is a prime example of questioning youth. Most teenagers aren’t focused on morals, nor do many of them think deeply about what goes on in the world. And the few that do are like Holden; they’re confused, lonely, and scared as hell. So the more I read and the deeper I delved into the meanings behind Holden’s thoughts and ideas, the more I began to understand. Holden Caulfield isn’t just the average 16-year old. He is, yet he isn’t. He *thinks* deeper than the average teenager. He’s still immature in a lot of his thinking throughout the book but overall his character is just this mass of confusion. He seems confused at a lot of things, at why a lot of people are the way they are, yet he himself isn’t perfect. That is what shapes his character. He isn’t flawless, and the author, Salinger, clearly brings that out to the reader. Sometimes Holden contradicts himself – a flaw within himself that is telling the readers that he is human. By developing his character in this way, I saw it as a way to make you both like and dislike him. If you liked
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What can I say other than I love this book…and the rest of the saga. The characters felt so real to me I couldn’t stop thinking about them and their little world for weeks!! Great series for ALL ages!!
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WE received the product quickly (less than a week).. Instuction for installation was quick, easy, and without problems.
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I agree with the African American reviewer who was offended by this book because of the dialect choices by the author among other things. This book takes great potentially very interesting subject matter and turns it into a soap opera cartoon that eventually just falls flat and never gets up. No cliche is left unexplored, no stereotype unused. There is no subtlety in the character development at all. And having said that I could have accepted the work and enjoyed it for what it was if it hadn’t been for the “Minnie’s pie” plot point. I’ll not go into detail but I will say that as a food person I recognized a character in Minnie that liked to feed people and took a lot of pride in her cooking. At one point she even says that cooking is just about all she has to be really proud of. A person like that does not do what she did to Hilly with her pie. That device was just wrong, offensive and disgusting. I will look for other material on this subject, source material, because it is a good topic, too bad it was ruined in this book.
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SUMMARY:
Isabella Swan, a 17 year-old girl from Phoenix, AZ, moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father. While attending high school in Forks, she meets an extraordinarily beautiful (not merely cute or handsome) junior named Edward Cullen. Fate seems to constantly put Edward in the position of being Isabella’s, or Bella’s, protector. They fall in love under dangerous and frightening circumstances that puts many people’s lives in danger. But, they decide that they would rather die than be away from each other. It’s a story about star-crossed lovers with vampires.

I don’t expect fiction to teach me moral lessons, unless they’re religious books. I allow myself to become involved in the character’s world and I didn’t find anything “unbelievable” about Bella. In fact, I like Bella very much. In many ways, Bella is very empowered. She is allowed, by the author, to make unpopular choices for the 21st century and lead the life that she chooses, whether the reader agrees with it or not.

Edward Cullen is such a complex character. He’s dangerous in ways that he can’t really help. He didn’t choose to be a vampire. He’s been alone for almost a century. No matter how much time he’s been alive, he’s stuck in a 17 year-old body. He has never been in love before and he doesn’t want to be a monster. He feels selfish for wanting to be with her, but he CAN’T be without her.

This is first love for both of them and I find the story to be very touching. I don’t really know or care if that makes me sappy or seem illiterate. I really enjoyed the book and I loved the new twist on the vampire story.

POSSIBLE DRAWBACKS:

If you’re looking for a typical vampire story. This is not the series of books to read. These “vegetarian” vampires try to be as “human” as possible and live an alternative lifestyle because they have a “conscience” regarding humanity. Now, there are traditional vampires in the book and there are “evil” vampires in the book, but their point of
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What does it mean to be a “catcher in the rye”? For 16-year-old Holden Caulfield, it means catching kids who are running through a rye field before they fall over a cliff at the end of the field. But Holden himself needs to be caught. He swears a lot and smokes too much, while falling more deeply into isolation and depression after his brother’s death. Unable to stand the “phonies” in his prep school, he flunks out and leaves in the middle of the night. After two cold and lonely days in New York City, Holden allows himself to be caught by an unlikely person whose childish innocence gives him hope.

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It’s definitely NOT for everyone. I was raised Christian but somewhere along the way I started question and found that there was so much more that we didn’t know about. By the time I got to these books I was ready for them. Religions have put human emotions into an ALL LOVING God. God is only one thing and that is love. Where there is ONLY love there can be nothing else. Religions have put fear into us by having us believe that God is anything other than total LOVE. God does not judge nor does he condemn.

There are three books containing these conversations and I believe the author to be completely truthful in how these books came to be written. There are some who don’t and won’t believe the information in these books – which is fine as these conversations are not going to ring true for everyone. I’m only sharing my opinion here. The information in these books is definitely something I was ready for and happy to read.

I really hope there are many others who are also ready for the information contained in these conversations with God.
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