Pennyworth Books

The latest installment of Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank ebook is NOTHING new. Yes.. you’ve heard me right and I’m not afraid to state that as my intention is to write an honest review about this product.

But this doesn’t mean that Blogging To The Bank 3.0 is totally useless and full of rehashed materials. In fact, it’s a well-written ebook that focuses mainly on teaching the NEWBIES how to make money blogging with WordPress.

If you’re not a newbie, and you understand/know how to do the following tasks…

1. Market/Niche Research

2. Products Research

3. Keywords Research

4. Register a domain name, set up hosting account and WordPress blog

5. Install and set up certain WP plug-ins for SEO purposes

6. Write informative content in your blog

7. Optimize your blog for both humans and search engines

8. Promote your blog using various link building, SEO and Web 2.0 techniques

9. Monetize your blog by promoting affiliate products and…

The Shintae

By Brian R. Hill

Publish America (2005)

Reviewed by Rebecka Vigus for Reader Views (2/06)

The Shintae takes the reader to a distant time where survival of the fittest is the law. Mr. Hill pits the evil mountain people, Cantaens, against the forest people, Maraens. The
quest is to find the Shintae, a stone of magic powers, and unharness the magic.

Kaer, a native of the forest lands of Marae? he was just short of six feet in height, he was tall for his race.?He had found the Shintae and was returning home when he was caught unawares by the evil Cantaen warrior, Sartae.

Sartae was a terrifying sight.?Sartaes reputation for torture in the name of fun has reached Kaer, who only angers the warrior by laughing in his face. Leaving Kaer for dead, Sartae and his troops return to their homeland to try and harness the magic of theShintae.

Meanwhile, Kaer recovers and is joined…

Nick Carraway, the narrator, makes much of Daisy’s beauty and her sultry voice. But it is through dialogue and action –through her own words and duplicitous behavior– that we can detect her mental flaws.

Lord Francis Bacon in his essay on Beauty said, “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” This quality of strangeness is the fact that she’s “slow.” As the story progresses it becomes clear that some things go over her head and as a result she tends to distrust and doubt what to others are acceptable events. In one instance Nick perceives this flaw when he says, “She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.” (GG, 107).

Understanding doesn’t come easy to Daisy, and when she offers an opinion, it is always an inane opinion that often verges on absurdity. Notice how she deals with one single idea by…