Batman: A Death in The Family by Jim Starlin is a graphic novel that has one of the most memorable Batman stories in it, the death of the second Robin Jason Todd.
This is a great graphic novel, it was well written, had good characters, and a tragic ending …

Being a swimmer this is a very inspiring book, not only for swimmers but all athletes. Michael wrote this book himself. Its basically an autobiography about his life from when he was a youngin until now. What i love about this book is as he tells his story …

I do really appreciate the book “Spiritual Warfare” by Richard Ing.
It contains comprehensive and a great wealth of information on Spiritual Warfare. It exposed the secrets of the Kingdom of Darkness or Kingdom of Satan. It explained the important procedures in performing a deliverance session. It enumerates the …

Do you have a child in your life who is just a little more intense than the other children you know? A kid whose voice is always a little louder, who seems to be always in fast forward, whose moods (good or bad) are more intense than most kids’ …

My 9-year-old daughter absolutely loves High School Musical, so when I came across this High School Musical box set, I knew she would love it.
I bought the box set at a loal book store for the great sale price of £3.99 reduced from £11.97. Since I bought it …

Well, I’m addicted to makeup, the new brands, the gloss, shadows and eyelashes mascaras !!!!!
From this hobby my family and friends get benefited when they have a special event like a wedding, special dinner, etc., and so they all come to me and I, within my limitations of amateur-daily-and-happy-practitioner,never …

Call me a kid who never grew up, but I think this book is wonderful. It tells a heart-warming story of a toy bear, Corduroy, who wants a home, but there is a missing button on his shirt, so nobody buys him. There is one little girl who wanted …

My daughter is almost done with school so she won’t be bringing home any more library books. I guess I’m going to have to start taking her to the public library instead because she gets some pretty interesting ones.
The last one she brought home was Fancy Nancy’s Favorite Fancy …

Blogging To Drive Business; Create and Maintain Valuable Customer Connections is a Que Biztech book by Eric Butow and Rebecca Bollwitt. It uses successful blogs of different businesses to describe some of the hows and the whys. In the beginning of the book, it assumes that people know very …

This spooky book for children and youths, The Midnight Hand by Paul Stewart, is a great combination of scary ghost story and mystery. The main characters, Tom, Asa, and Eva must figure out what the hand, which only appears as the clock tolls midnight, wants and do it before …

“The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari” is a fable about fulfilling your dreams and reaching your destiny.
When I first heard of this book from a cousin, I sure was quite thrilled and a little intrigued, all because of its peculiar title. I still believe that “The monk who sold …

FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett and her team, are called to investigate on a murder committed in the middle of a flight from Texas to Virginia. The investigation develops within a religious background and it will force Smoky to face the ghosts that torment her and to reconsider her …

When I first started reading “Entombed” I was not sure what to expect. The author Linda Fairstein begins the story when a young girl is assaulted and almost raped SVS director Alexandra Cooper and Mercer Wallace realize that after a four year break a serial rapist has returned to …

Finance and Accounting for Business by Bob Ryan is a finance text book aimed at MBA students and students studying a higher degree in finance. Bob Ryan is himself an MBA lecturer and an advisor to industry.
The first edition of the book was published in 2004 and features a …

I recently read the book The Alchemist by Michael Scott. Although it was technically meant as a book for older teens, I found it a wonderful “beach read” book as an adult!
This book contains true people from the past, such as Nicholas Flamel …

When I discovered that there was a series called “Fall of Cthulu” I was intrigued. While I’m not what you call a Lovecraft fan, I am fascinated by the mythos that the man created.
While this is the fourth in a four issue arc, it’s one of …

About fifteen years ago, the Batman line of comic books ran a storyline entitled the “Knight’s End” story arc. The subject of this story was Batman’s crippling defeat at the hands of a new archvillian named Bane. The inspiration for this story line was obviously the very successful …

Canadian Living’s Best-Quick Suppers, is a great cookbook if you are looking for ideas for quick suppers. The two chapters I used the most so far are ‘Chicken-Yes Please!’ and ‘Pasta to the Rescue’. It is always helpful to get quick, easy and healthful supper ideas. I also tried …

Paperback swap is one of two book swapping websites I’m currently using, the other is the superior Bookmooch.com.
The idea behind the site is this: you make a list on the website of books you own and want to get rid of. Another user on the site decides that …

‘Smile across your heart’ is a book written by Laurie Martin. Martin gives you simple tools through which you can create new healthy healing patterns. This book will help you to improve your emotional health. Martin has explained beautifully the ways and methods through which we can heal ourselves. …

Free Fall by Robert Crais is more like a movie than a book. The style and events are more of cinematic nature. Free Fall can not be seen as the best work from Robert Crais but it has some good elements like the way the difficulties in life are …

This is a poorly written 377 page book. The main character Christina Hardy is supposed to be a jingle writer of Irish descent who finds herself in contact with a dead spirit and the target of a serial killer who kills redheads.
Let’s start with the character …

Martin Fido creates and interesting title and it begs to be read. Within the 231 pages of the book Fido looks at the victims and some of the suspects. He does not go into as much detail as the Donald Rumbelow book JTR The Complete Casebook. Keep in mind …

The plot of this book is just too bland. From the beginning I figured out the ending of the book. Brenda Jackson should’ve gotten this book proofread. There were several grammatical errors and she was using the same phrases too many times. I was also disturbed by all …

Wow—¦ what a cool book. This is an illustrated novel put together by Brian Selznick. In my opinion, there really aren’t enough of these. It might seem a bit childish, and it may be difficult for some to take seriously—¦ but the pictures are adorable, and …

I love post-apocalyptic stories, where people band together and figure out ways to survive. The relationship dynamics and rawness of the plots of those books always excite and interest me, so I was happy to delve into Alas, Babylon, a story about the United States after a nuclear apocalypse.
The …

I never actually bought this book, but instead received it as a gift from a friend of mine when I was about seven years old. When I got it though, I was a little turned off by the illustration on the front even though I had already developed an …

The League of Extraordinary Gentleman Vol 2
The big screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s controversial comic series was nothing more than a third rate X-Men clone and avoided the subversive nature the books epitomized.
This second collection of the comic stories retells the HG Wells classic, WAR OF THE WORLDS and …

Cell by Stephen King is a book that takes place in New England as do most King novels. It tells the story of Clay Ridell an everyman writer
who witnesses the world go mad On Oct. 1.
He sees people on cellphones become murderous killers when they hear a pulse through …

I am reviewing the book, Dearly Devoted Dexter, written by author Jeff Lindsay. This book has recently been transformed into the hit Showtime series, Dexter, starring Michael C. Hall.
In this book, readers are introduced to sociopath Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter expert for the police department. As a …

I just finished this book recently and felt that it wasn’t quite over yet. I’m a fan of Maeve Binchy’s work, and am very familiar with her style of writing, which I love. This book, did meet all my expectations, except for the fact that I think …

‘St. Francis Xavier and his shrine’ is a book written by Fr. P. Rayanna, who belongs to the society of Jesus. This book is nothing but the biography of St. Francis Xavier. The book deals with the life of St Francis. In the last chapter, the author writes how …

I took a Spanish Class this year at college and I hated it. I have had other Spanish classes before but I feel like I learned nothing at all in this class. I think it was a waste of my time because the teacher was using the worst Spanish …

This is a paperback book authored by Donna McCrohan and published by Workman Publishing Company in 1988. I found the book to be mildly interesting, being a fan of “All in the Family” and all, but the book kind of disappointed me for a couple of reasons. For one, …

Last issue Tony Stark and Peter Parker went to Washington for a hearing about the Super Hero Registration Act. As they were leaving, Tony Stark was attacked by Titanium Man. This issue picks up with the battle between Spiderman and Titanium Man. Afterwards, Stark returns for …

This book, Raising Hope by Katie Willard is to be applauded. It is a great-feel book that rises hope in me as well as a woman after I have finished reading. In fact, whilst reading, I could picture myself being in the situation of either Hope (the main …

This Italy Lonely Planet Country Guide was written by by Damien Simonis, Duncan Garwood, Paula Hardy, and Alex Leviton.
To be quite honest, this book is a great book. I borrowed this book from the library in this town when we had our trip to Italy for ten days. And …

This issue wasn’t bad, but it had potential to be more. It was good to see a writer remember that Harvey is still in there somewhere. Most writers just have Two-Face and the coin flip is nothing more than a formality. Here we actually do see …

The Choice by Nicholas Sparks is a pretty good story. I think that author Nicholas Sparks is pretty good looking and he writes damn well too. He uses good language, dialgos and sentences that made my heart go flutter.
In The Choice, it is about this particular …

This installment is probably one of my most favorite out of all the Harry Potter books because it has a decent amount of humor, plot and real life problems as well as a good dose of drama and darkness.
The book wasn’t as thick as the next few so …

This book was written during the period of realism. It is about a father Goriot who has 2 daughters. He livies in misery, in a small rented room and gives all his money to her daughter to pay the debts of their lovers. The father wants them to be …

This is a fun, light-hearted book and one I really enjoyed reading. The story moves very quickly and there is never a dull moment. Something is always going on in the plot and that’s one of the reasons I liked it so much. The plot revolves around a bunch …

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a wonderfully crafted novel filled with light hearted humour and powerful characters. It’s a great novel for Book Clubs, for teaching and for women of all ages. However, I’m sure there are a few men out there that will admit to …

The Way Through The Woods was written by Colin Dexter and published by First Ballantine Books in 1994.
Colin Dexter’s famous protagonist, Inspector Morse, has always been an enigma to me —“ his deductive skills are exceptional. Even his superior at work, Superintendent Strange has to accede to that, …

This book, Loser, by Jerry Spinelli, is a kids book, aimed at 8 - 12 year olds, although I think you need to be a bit older to actually understand it.
It’s a very different book - there almost doesn’t seem to be a plot. There isn’t one direct problem …

One of my favorite books of all time is Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. Amazingly enough, this well-written, entertaining novel was a debut from Curtis Sittenfeld. It can be found in the adult fiction section of the bookstore or some libraries. The story is about a 14 …

I bought and read this book a long time ago, and since I like to read about Greek mythology, I like to give this book my high recommendation. Greek mythology is a vast subject, and sometimes it is quite boring to read a lot of these literary pieces because …

I hate the fact that there is a Phantoms movie out there. Honestly, it irritates me to the very bone when Hollywood goes and destroys something as ingenious and original as Phantoms the BOOK is with their poorly revised scripts, lackluster actors and just incredibly cheesy portrayal of what should …

The Funny Book of Cricket is a nicely produced little hardback book containing a number of cartoons, quotations and humorous comments relating to the sport of cricket. I thought it was well put together and although not particularly original in its content was well worth the couple of pounds …

This is a cook book teaching you how to make all things chocolate! It was a perfect present for my chocoholic husband, and we’re planning on working our way through the recipes.
The book begins with instructions on how to make chocolate decorations and then some tips of cooking …