Top 5 Books for the Holidays
This holiday season, when your dysfunctional family is driving you crazy and you can’t stand to hear “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” one more time, tune out, turn off, excuse yourself and go find...
View Article5 Books for the Kinda Crafty
Back in the 9th grade at Springfield High School, I won 3rd place in a sewing contest of some kind or other. I had made some purple corduroy pants that were um… awful. As if the pattern and material...
View Article6 Can’t Miss Mother-Daughter Book Club Books
In today’s guest post author Cindy Hudson shares a list of great books for Mother-Daughter Book clubs. Cindy is the author of Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs...
View ArticleTop 5 Books for Black History Month
February is Black History Month so I thought a new book list was in order. Rather than focusing on the “big name” heroes in black history like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., I thought we could...
View ArticleAnd The Oscar Goes To…
This week it’s all about Oscar buzz. My friend Cindy is diligently working her way through all of the Oscar contenders while I am satisfied to get a chuckle from the the ridiculous TV commercials for...
View ArticleTop 5 Old School Sci-Fi Books
At this time of year – when Winter just seems to drag on and on – you might find yourself in need of a little escapism. And if you’re going to go – you might as well go far. How ’bout to the future?...
View ArticleNeed Something to Look Forward To?
Top 5 Pre-Orders for Spring 2011 I love having something to look forward to – a trip that’s planned with the tickets carefully tucked in a drawer, a concert or play coming up in the next few weeks, or...
View ArticleTop 5 New & Noteworthy Non-Fiction
Did you ever wonder why non fiction is described in the negative… not fiction? Why is that section of the store not just called “truth”. Or perhaps “truthiness” as Stephen Colbert would say? Who...
View ArticleTop 5 Kids Books for Earth Day
Happy Earth Day! Today I am doing my part to help Mother Earth by doing absolutely nothing. I figure if I sit perfectly still, I won’t be creating any trash or wasting any electricity. Okay, I had...
View ArticleTop 5 Books (and Tips) for Job Impaired College Grads
Okay – so you’ve graduated. Now what? You could get a job, right? That is the next obvious step. But perhaps the goal of toiling away in a cube, working for “the man” is something you want to put...
View ArticleTop 5 Reasons Books are Better than Doughnuts
Happy National Doughnut Day! Did you know it was National Doughnut Day today? Did you know there was a National Doughnut Day? Does the fact that there is a National Day for well… Doughnuts (and hot...
View Article5 Cool Books for These Hot Days
Yeah it’s hot out. In fact in some parts of the country, it’s hard to think about anything else but how freakin’ hot it is. But we at Midtown Review are here for you. Today’s list of cool reads have...
View ArticleBooks on the Big Screen: SEPTEMBER 2011
Ah books and movies, movies and books. Sometimes I have a hard time choosing which I like better. It’s like choosing between chocolate and vanilla. For some people there is no contest – they fall...
View ArticleTop 5 Gift Books for Him
Do you have a guy on your list that is just impossible to shop for? Well, not anymore. Here are Midtown Review’s top 5 gift books for the men on your list this season: Concerned about the obvious...
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