Feature: Reviews in Brief

On your way out the door to catch a movie? Surfing the 'net and wondering whether you should stop by your favorite online retailer to buy a DVD or CD? Wondering whether or not you should commit some of your precious free time to the latest bestseller?

We're all in a hurry these days. Time and money are in short supply, and most of us want to get the most bang for our hard-earned bucks without feeling like we're wasting our few spare minutes. That's where BC's Reviews in Brief comes in -- our writers see it, listen to it, read it, play it, use it -- and then let you know whether or not it's worth your time and money.

What could be better than that? Reviews in Brief will tell you what's good and what's not, and won't take up too much of your time to do it. So you can use more of your time doing what you like doing.

Columnists

Articles in this feature

Subscribe to feature RSS

• Book Review: Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters by Matt Kaplan

  A witty, clever and entertaining history that makes you believe in the monsters that go bump in the night.

  Review by Kathleen Riley-Daniels — on Mar 13, 2013

• Book Review: Selling to the 7 Emotional Buying Styles: Make Every Sales Call Pay by Selling to Emotional Needs by Greg Ferrett

  Make sales by applying the principles in this book.

  Review by Irenesroth — on Mar 12, 2013

• Book Review: The Winning Point: How to Master the Mindset of Champions by Loren Fogelman

  You can be your personal best after reading this book.

  Review by Irenesroth — on Mar 12, 2013

• Book Review: First Timer's Guide: How To Write Your First Business Plan by Boomy Tokan

  First Timer's Guide is an excellent resource for opening a new business.

  Review by Dr Joseph S Maresca — on Mar 07, 2013

• Book Review: Get Well and Stay Well: Optimal Health Through Transformational Medicine by Steve Amoils and Sandi Amoils, M.D.

  Patients can take control of their health and become preventative and proactive to ensure that they stay healthy.

  Review by Irenesroth — on Mar 07, 2013

• Book Review: Universe-ity:A Spiritual Education Using the Law of Attraction by Michael Samuels

  Universe-ity: A Spiritual Education Using the Law of Attraction is about making the most out of today.

  Review by Dr Joseph S Maresca — on Mar 05, 2013

• Gadget Review: Bassboomz Portable iOS Speaker

  It is small and cute but does it sound any good?

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 03, 2013

• Book Review: Document 512 by Thomas Lopinski

  While vacationing in South America with her father, young Renee Gorman realizes that her haunting learning disorder is not a curse.

  Review by Susan Vio — on Mar 02, 2013

• Book Review: The Alzheimer's Diet: A Step-by-Step Nutritional Approach for Memory Loss Prevention by Richard S. Isaacson MD and Christopher Ochner

  The Alzheimer's Diet is an excellent primer on the disease and strategies to manage it.

  Review by Dr Joseph S Maresca — on Mar 02, 2013

• Book Review: Take This Journey With Me: Poems from the Laboratory of John Turner by John Turner

  A collection of 100 poems that endeavors to take you through the journey of life

  Review by Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson — on Mar 02, 2013

• Book Review: The Golf Swing: It’s All in the Hands by James Lythgoe

  Written from the perspective that correct hand action is crucial to developing a well coordinated fault-free golf swing.

  Review by Richard R. Blake — on Feb 28, 2013

• Book Review: Quick Check Guide to Gluten Free Foods by Linda McDonald M.S., R.D.

  Quick Check to Guide Gluten Free Foods is an excellent resource on preparing and dining out gluten free.

  Review by Dr Joseph S Maresca — on Feb 27, 2013

• Book Review: The Full Moon Slayer by Michel Vamrell

  Alice Blake and her family moved to what seems to be a quiet little town, or is it?

  Review by Susan Vio — on Feb 24, 2013

• Book Review: The Journey to Pentecost: A Real Life Story of A Mother's Search For God Through The Eyes of Her Daughter by Dr. Carolyn Starling-Matthews

  Very thought-provoking and often asks readers to challenge their beliefs.

  Review by Carol Hoyer, PhD — on Feb 24, 2013

• Book Review: Searching For General Lee: A Civil War Novel by Barrett Dowell

  The Second Battle of Manassas from the point of view of a fictional Virginia youth.

  Review by Richard R. Blake — on Feb 24, 2013

• Book Review: The Gospel Train by G. Russell Dey

  After reading The Gospel Train, you will never again feel exactly the same way about your religion.

  Review by Richard R. Blake — on Feb 24, 2013

• Book Review: Unspent Time by Graham Parke

  A collection of 20 impossible tales.

  Review by Christine Watson — on Feb 23, 2013

• Book Review: The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies: Thousands of Tips and Techniques Anyone Can Use by the Editors of Prevention Magazine

  The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies is an excellent book which describes classic management techniques for pain and discomfort.

  Review by Dr Joseph S Maresca — on Feb 21, 2013

• Book Review: Over My Head: Journeys in Leaky Boats from the Strait of Magellan to Cape Horn and Beyond by Margaret Winslow

  Over My Head captures one woman's historic journeys into uncharted fjords.

  Review by Susan Vio — on Feb 20, 2013

• Book Review: Eighty Days Amber by Vina Jackson

  A review of the fourth book in the best-selling Eighty Days series by Vina Jackson.

  Review by Lucy Felthouse — on Feb 20, 2013