I’ve been a fan for James Dean since before I was even a teenager. No one knows exactly how I discovered an actor who died nearly thirty years before I was born, including my parents. I can remember buying my first James Dean collectible when I was about 12. …

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone is a series of books about a Wizard named Harry Potter. He is in High School in the Wizarding World named Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry. Harry Potter finds out that he’s a wizard and has to go to this school. On …

Recently I had read online that many people have pet hedgehogs, so I decided to read a bit about these prickly animals. While this book is not about keeping hedgehogs as pets (the author strongly disapproves of such behavior towards a wild animal), it was very informative and sweet. …

It is unavoidable not to come across unfamiliar words, whether I am watching movies, reading books or conversing with friends; I always learn new words. Consulting Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus has been included in my routine. I’ve acquired Collins for only Php 100 and yet it has given me …

Don’t Be That Girl is a book that when I read, I feel like it has got something to do with me. Because, I won’t say which, but I fall into 1 kind of category as described by the author in this book; naming Travis. L Stork. …

I recently read Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince. This is the sixth book in the series of Harry Potter books. Having read the other five and finding each book stimulating and entertaining and just about the best books I have ever read. I didnt …

Tracking Bear is the ninth book in the Ella Clah series. I’ve been reading the series from the first one, Blackening Song. During the process I’ve gained insight into the Navaho worldview. This is a good thing for me, because I grew up in Northern Arizona and went to …

The author of The Last Song is Nicholas Sparks and he has written many books before this one. Many of his books have been turned into major motion pictures. I picked up this book one day when I took a trip to Barnes & Nobles and thought I would …

“Astonish Yourself” is a self-help philosophy book, something rather unique in my experience. Don’t let yourself be frightened away by the word ‘philosophy’, it’s really a very accessible read. The book is made up of a series of experiments meant to makes us think of our place in …

This book is a continuation of the novel Cloud of Sparrows, with a page that is thicker and more complex story. In this book the various problems that a mystery in the first book will revealed. For example, where the descendants of Okumichi have clairvoyance, the reason for the …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Survivors is a great novel for those fans of the show that liked what they saw of the Tasha Yar character and wanted to learn more about her. This is a story that is primarily about her as well as her difficult and …

I have read the book —˜The haunted bridge’ written by Carolyn Keene. This book is one among the Nancy Drew series. As are all other Nancy Drew books, this book is also an interesting one and a typical mystery story.
The title for the book suits it well. Nancy …

Risk Management and Insurance by US academics Scott Harrington and Gregory Niehaus is designed for use in introductory risk management and insurance courses. The book is generally aimed at the MBA level or second level risk management courses.
The second edition, published in 2003, is a significant improvement on the …

One of DC Comics’ most underrated series of the 1980’s was the shortlived (50 issue) series VIGILANTE, which dealt with Adrian Chase, DC’s resident Punisher rip-off. Well, rip-off in the sense that he was a similar character, but the quality of the stories was SIGNIFICANTLY better than the lame …

Growing up as one of four very active children and home schooled by our mother, there was never a dull moment. We also all loved reading and a good adventure story! That is, if we were ever able to sit still long enough to hear one read …

Nefertiti by Michelle Moran is a good book, but I would rather take it as a fiction in that sense, because I wonder the truthfulness of it all. However, I respect on account that the story was related by Nefertiti younger sister named Mutnodjmet. So perhaps the story …

I avoided watching the movie Precious until I read that book that the movie was based on, Push by Sapphire, because I generally enjoy books more than the movies. As well, having heard about, read about and seen information about the content of the movie, I did not think …

If you are looking for a real tear jerker, I highly suggest reading “Star” by Danielle Steel. It is a great book that is a fast read that you will have trouble putting down.
Crystal longs to make it big and become a singer. She has the talent …

How many times have you heard your friends complain about their mother in laws? It seems to be an endless battle. Is it really possible to marry a man (or be with a man in a serious relationship) without marry his mother? If you have …

Where Serpents Lie was written by T. Jefferson Parker (Hyperion 1998)
This book would have been spectacular if the author had not written so many pages on snakes. The suspense was fine, the buildup of characters was alright, but the descriptions of snakes and their habits were downright boring …

ULTIMATE X-MEN: Hard Lessons
The downward spiral of the series continues as we get a fairly uneventful collection of recent issues.
What makes this issue even more annoying is the fact that it features the ‘Ultimate’ debut of Lady Deathstrike and the return of Ultimate Juggernaut neither of which are used …

Summer storms are known to everyone as something quite fierce, but what passes fairly quickly and is quickly replaced with a bright sun and the typical for the warmest season of the year heat. But in the chilling novel, written by Stephen King, “The Mist” the storm is just …

Recently, I came to the very last page of “The Choice” a novel by Nicholas Sparks. And while I found the romance behind this novel heartwarming and beautiful, I did not find this story to have as much depth to it as some of his other novels.
The story …

Ken Follett is an amazing historical writer which brings meaning to our history, to the world’s history.
The First book from a trilogy is The Fall of The Giants published in 2010 and in 16 countries. It is the story of World War 1 and how five families from five …

This is quite the tome. It weighs in at over 600 pages, but within those pages is the single most comprehensive look at sea serpent from Antiquity to about 1965. Bernard Heuvelmans, the author, holds nothing back in this book and crams in as many sightings as he …

As one of my all-time favorite authors, Karen Kingsbury has done it again.
‘Divine’ is a book of fiction whose main character, Mary Madison, is loosely made out to be a modern day Mary Magdalene.
Ms Kingsbury brings tears to your eyes as she recounts the years of physical, emotional and …

Dan Brown’s book Digitial Fortress is a really good book! This story is about a code-breaking machine at the NSA that comes across a code it cannot break which results in lots of problems for all the people involved. The NSA uses a cryptographer, Susan Fletchers, to help figure …

I got my first book on technical analysis a while back. It was called “All About Technical Analysis” by Constance Brown. I actually wrote a review on it a while back, but I overall didn’t like the book. There was a heavy emphasis on the use of the relative …

L. Bostock & S. Chandler have really outdone theirselves in writing this maths text for A-Level students. I used this textbook write CAPE (Caribbean advanced proficiency examination) and I successful got a grade 2 in Pure Mathematics.
It’s a really good book with most of the content required by the …

Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier is one of my favorite books. This is actually one of the few young adult books I actually enjoy. It is actually an interpretation and retelling of the old tale “The Twelve Dancing Princesses.” I loved that story as a child, it was one …

With this novel, Dean Koontz has shown himself to be a definitely humanist author. This feature could be sensed in some of his earlier works such as Hideaway (1992) or Winter Moon (1994) although it wasn’t so clear like in the present book.
By the Light of the Moon begins …

Chopra opened this novel, with scenes of King Suddhodana (Siddhartha’s father), who are fighting against the enemy. At the same time, Queen Maya, the empress of Suddhodana, through the woods Lumbini. She was pregnant with a baby and plans to give birth at home parents. Not yet reached the …

Bill Bryson’s latest book, the Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, is an entertaining account of his early years growing up in fifties America. An era that first saw the popularisation of television, the teenager and the element that tied the whole lot together in a …

I needed a book to read for a flight home with a wait in the airport. I like mysteries, the supernatural, and an occasional romance. This book had it all.
The cover with the vampire floating and holding the female caught my eye and made me pick it …

Where were you when Superman and Doomsday fought to the finish in the legendary ‘Death of Superman’ storyline that appeared in DC Comics 15 years ago? What about the subsequent Return of Doomsday storylines? How about the one shots that dealt with the origin of Doomsday? What about the …

Somebody help me calm down my heart! I had Archer’s Voice in my Kindle for a long time before I finally read it, I always said I was gonna read it, but I ended up reading something else. And you know what? I now regret that! I wish I …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Power Hungry would be a rather bland novel had it not been for the inclusion of the Ferengi - Ferengi that just happen to be far more powerful and menacing then later portrayed in Star Trek! These Ferengi are very much a threat …

This book features Elizabeth Wakefield surprisingly falling in love with another new guy, Devon Whitelaw, and it’s very shocking as loyal and predictable Elizabeth is really so sweet and faithful, but Devon Whitelaw has gotten his charms on her and a sad and heartbroken Todd Wilkins just has no …

Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead is the fifth book in the Vampire Academy series. The book starts off after Rose recently returned to St. Vladimir’s Academy, after a long journey to save the soul of Dimitri, which nearly resulted in her death. Unfortunately, Rose’s previous journey failed, meaning Dimitri …

Translated from Portuguese by Geovanni Pontiero, Blindness is now a full length movie starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo.
The Blindness novel starts straight in the story with the origin of the plot within the first pages of the novel. Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass disease of …

I have read this book during a travel by rail. However, during the course of reading I thought that this book require a serious reading as the content is in depth and capable of changing life in a positive way.
This is one of my favorite books on self improvement. …

I read this book because I’m an unconditional fan of Jennifer L. Armentrout and I wanted to see how well she would developed in her facet as a romance/erotica writer. It wasn’t the best book ever, but I do see some potential in this. Obviously, I think it’s really …

Amazing Grace is a fine example of another one of Danielle Steel’ sgreatest books. I could not put this book down. It truly shows the spirit of kindness in strangers when put in a tragic situation. It had me crying and laughing and brought out the …

The Twilight series (composed of four books namely Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn) was really an is still a worldwide block buster phenomena nowadays. The story of the forbidden vampire - human love affair has really touched a lot of fiction lovers all over the world.
Having read …

If you are someone who loves wearing fashion or wants to join the ranks of the most respected in the industry, then investing in The St. James Fashion Encyclopedia is definitely a must-have if you are serious about fashion.
Before I found this book in the library, I had been …

Recently, I got Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey as a Christmas gift. Having heard good things about it, I sat down to read. The novel has a rather hard-to-get-used-to writing style at first, but you get the hang of it soon enough.
The novel concerns Phedre no Delaunay, an anguisette …

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, also known as The Yarn Harlot, is a knitting humourist. It seems like there wouldn’t be much material for her to write about, but her books are always fun and amusing to read.
This particular book, Knitting Rules!, is more of an explanatory book than knitting humour, although …

The Younger Thinner You Diet talks about using food as medicine. I was looking for a book that talked about how food affects your hormones and brain chemicals. Frankly, I picked it up for a light read and then found tons of information that I needed.
I found this …

Make no mistake, the United Nations is a total disaster. The once great bastion of international law has fallen apart mainly due to mismanagement and political infighting.
Eric Shawn, a Fox news contributor, has written a book chronicling all the problems that the United Nations faces. Mainly, that the security …

Jimi Hendrix is one of the world’s most known guitarists. When I chose to learn more about Hendrix I bought this biography “Room Full of Mirrors” to learn more about him. What I read in this book was nothing close to what I was expecting. This book was beautifully …