In the 22th volume of Nodame Cantabile, Nodame keeps rehearsing for her concert with Stresemann, while nobody else knows about her whereabouts, what makes Chiaki really worried while looking for her. Once they perform, everyone gets really impressed at her playing, making her known all over in the internet. …

This is what I call a business strategy book, and since I’m working in the advertising industry, I very much like to involve myself by reading this, and getting some useful information out of it. The No Asshole Rule written by Robert I. Sutton is a very straightforward …

Police. A private detective. A murder. A prison. And no, I have no intention at all to review a novel from the crime genre. This is a story of Charlotte Davidson and her story of how she found her loved one and discovered the culprit of the murder.
Unfortunately this …

This is a great book for all ages and will keep you up late turning the pages. Once you start reading it you will find it hard to set it down. It is a romance novel with vampire and werewolf twists that will keep you wondering what could happen …

Tim Green wrote the novel The Fourth Perimeter and I thought that it was going to be a very boring read. This book was borrowed to me by my colleague at work and we have this tendency to exchange books that we have read. In this political novel, …

Even if you are not fascinated by the Kennedy family, and by the power, wealth and prestige that is their legacy, Teddy Kennedy’s autobiography is an interesting read. I admit to being a Kennedy-phile, and I have read all of the books and memoirs that I can find about …

If you ask me, The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, is the Bible of good grammar. This explains why I have read the book numerous times. I first got wind of this book on the Web, of which an online version does …

I read ‘Les Miserables’ when I was a teenager and I can honestly say it was one of the books that changed my life. It made me understand the value and beauty of human kindness and how a good deed could change the world around. It was the first …

This book, The Photographer’s Website Manual by Philip Andrews is very interesting and definitely gorgeous and full of graphics. This book teaches how to create a photographer web site interestingly and attractively. There are lots of color combination, remapping of colors and I love the transparency designs as …

Boko no Watashi no Yusha Gaku or Our Hero Studies is a manga by Shuichi Aso. The manga series is composed of six volumes and there are just three chapters on the current scanlation which was stopped years ago. The story starts with the current Class 1-A homeroom teacher …

One of my favorite novels by the author V. C. Andrews is the book “Lightning Strikes.” It is one of the books in her “Hudson” series of novels.
The novel “Lightning Strikes” is about a young girl named Rain Arnold who is sent to live with her great-aunt Lenora of …

This is a book that tells the true story of “the West Memphis three”.Three teenage boys who were convicted of first degree murder based solely on a confession from a seventeen year old with an IQ of 70.It is written in this book and many other places that …

This is another great For Dummies book, which I have to credit for teaching me a lot about Microsoft Excel, and to gain some foothold on Microsoft Access as well. I recently had my Microsoft Skills tested independently through an online examination.
I aced Microsoft Word 2003, scoring 92% …

Strata is the first book of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. I was first turned onto Pratchett by a friend who had read book eight and was following them from there. She loved the characters and the quirky governments. And this was a friend who hated to read, so that …

In this novel from the Star Wars series The New Yedi Order, the New Republic and their enemies, the Yuuzhan Vong, are at a standstill. Han and Leia’s son Jacen turn up after every one thought him dead while his sister Jaina continues going on suicide missions against the …

Paule Marshall’s “Brown Girl Brown Stones” signifies cultural confusion in relation to community in a similar manner. Much like the protagonist of “Paper Fish”, Selina is forced into a tumultuous struggle over the concept of personal identity, which is both restricted as well as supported by her Bajan community …

Thoroughly modern milkshakes: 100 classics and contemporary recipes
By Adam Reid
“Thoroughly modern milkshakes: 100 classics and contemporary recipes” by Adam Reid is an unconventional and definitely modernized outlook on the idea of milkshakes. Milkshakes are usually thought of as ice-cream and milk blended together; however, Adam Reid opens up …

You have to give Laura Ingraham a lot of credit because her new book POWER TO THE PEOPLE provides more than just a whining, complaining monologue about the problems facing folks in society today. Instead, it provides an insight into the valuable course of action people should take to …

Why betterworld.com rocks: great book selection, informative reviews, international shipping, and it’s always a good cause! I visit this website regularly to check on a few books I want to know more about. They’re pretty updated on new releases and still have a few books that have gone out …

The Usborne Book of Weather Facts is a colourful paperback book for children of around middle school age, written by Anita Ganeri and illustrated by Tony Gibson. My copy was published a little time ago, in 1987 to be exact, but it hasn’t dated too badly and is still …

Rolling Away by Lynne Marie Smith
Unlike “Generation Ecstacy,” Smith’s autobiography truly gives one a feel for the subculture that gets caught up in the drug Ecstacy.
Sadly, such a treatise is delivered as we see her pain and alienation and descent into drug problems.
It’s hard to not like Smith. She …

OK what did I miss. I have read all the glowing reviews of The Mermaid Chair and I guess I was reading a different book. You have a woman who engages in a romance with a priest and visa versa and they couldn’t get enough conflict just …

This book by Debbie Stoller is, according to the cover, full of hip, funky patterns. There are extra segments too, where they interview/talk with different Stitch ‘n Bitch groups across the States. Since I’m not American, I didn’t really see the need. If there had been more Canadian groups, …

My 5-year-old daughter has been getting a bit bored with the kids’ books they force her to check out at school and expressed a desire to read some chapter books with me.
I wasn’t sure how much of a step she was willing to take, but I remembered I still …

I adore this book. I’ll say it again - I adore this book. I hate the movie but the book I have read several times in my lifetime and I’m only 27 years old lol. It is a really thick book but it is so well worth it. The …

I will be the first person to tell you that I am a big fan of anything and everything self-help oriented. I think it stems from my love of psychology and the latter. But, this particular book provided nothing extraordinary or inspiring. It tells you the same thing that …

This is for me the worst of the James Patterson YA novels i have read. I finished the Maximum Ride series, which I immensely enjoyed. I thought that Daniel X would be similar, but I was wrong. The book started out on a very fuzzy note. …

Yoshi’s Story Nintendo Official Player’s Strategy Guide is a fun strategy guide to look through, and that is the reason I purchased it. I did not “need” any help beating this game as I suspect a majority of people did not, either, as this game has a notorious reputation …

House of Chains by Steven Erikson is the fourth novel in the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Here the action returns to the Seven Cities, where the second novel, Deadhouse Gates, was based. A new army, led by Tavore Paran, has been formed to quell the rebellion …

‘Nobody’s Baby But Mine’ is another favorite of mine from Susan Elizabeth Philips’ collection of the Chicago Stars stories. It is yet again a best seller love story of two adorable and lovable individuals that are unlikely to be a couple.
Cal Bonner is Chicago Stars’ handsome quarterback who’s also …

I like mystery books and have spent a great deal of time reading Conan Doyle�s Sherlock Holmes stories lately. One of those was his compilation The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Overall, I have to say I could tell from the beginning that Doyle didn’t really want to write this book. …

This book is about two girls, Lissa and Rose. They are both a type of vampire a morai and dhamphir. Lissa is considered royalty and Rose is her best friend. The morai which is what Lissa is have a strong bond to the earth and its …

I got this book after reading all the Maximum Ride novels, which I greatly enjoyed. I’m usually interested in all these young adult novels that deal with some science fiction or perhaps some supernatural element. The cover was interesting with the flames and the two faces on …

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 …

Oh man! I think my family would disown me if they found out I read and really liked this book. Jesus and the CIA? Just that concept makes me want to scream. Who would have thought it could work. It takes all the mystery behind the fall of Christianity …

Last Ditch (written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Berkley, 1981)
How many sons and daughters can successfully step into the shoes of their already famous parents? In this story, Chief Superintendent Alleyn and his wife tried to shield their son from the dangers and burdens of his job. …

The Amber Room is first novel from Steve Berry and started from concentration camp in Austria, 1945. In prolog, he described the condition of that camp and also introduced the key person that will link the novel to current situation, Karol Borya, a Russian. Then, the setting was moved …

Remy is very careful when it comes to relationships, all of that thanks to her mother, who is going to get married for the fifth time, and once again she’s the one in charge of all the planning. That’s how she meets Dexter, a guy that completely turns her …

I enjoyed the first book in this trilogy, but I was majorly disappointed by the second book. I was really hoping for the third book to resurrect the trilogy, and I was expecting a major turnaround and a fantastic, nail-biting finish to the trilogy.
Unfortunately, this book managed to be …

What really motivates us? Daniel Pink wrote this book around that basic principle. The first half of this book had some good insights on how people can be motivated. The last part read mostly like a self-help book. And that’s good if you want to take a step for …

I am an absolutly huge fan of the harry potter series. Ive beenr eading them since day one, and was at the bookstore at midnight to pick up this latest olume in the series. I think that this book, book 6 is one of the best in the entire …

I do not know much about Southern Living the magazine; however, I do know a lot about Southern Living and I was definitely interested when I read the title of the book which is based on Southern desserts. Southern cookbooks are ubiquitous, but only a handful of them actually …

“The Open Window” written by H.H Munro is about a man named Framton Nuttel who has ventured to a new town to endure nerve cure treatments. His sister does not want him going to the new town and closing himself off from the other town people; she sends him …

When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (written by Lawrence Block and published by Arbor House, 1990)
This book started with Matt Scudder’s description of his neighborhood pubs and eating places, his drinking cronies and acquaintances. At first it seemed dreary, but looking back, it was a nice way of introducing …

Mitch Album has done a phoenominal job once again! I recently finished reading, For One More Day, his newest novel to hit the book shelves! Not only did I just adore the relatively quick read, but I loved the uplifting feeling it left me with at the …

The House of Chains, the 4th novel in Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen, introduced the Malazan 7th Army, an untested force of recruits with a scattering of veterans, which formed to return to the Seven Cities and defeat the uprising of Shaik. That was done in …

Swapping Lives is a novel by Jane Green, the author of The Other Women and Jemina J.
Swapping Lives is a funny, heartfelt, book that will make you think. It centers on two very different women leading totally opposite lives. The women are both successful in their own way, have …

As a writer, proper grammar is one of the most important aspects within my field of work. Yet, although it is crucial to any well-written work, grammar has a reputation of being one of the less-glamorous portions of writing. Known for being elementary, simple, and dull, too often is …

I did not even finish reading the book, The Office of Desire by Martha Moody. The book has lots of potential, could have been better, but it just lurked at nothingness, really. I stopped at the 150 or so pages. The book has around 300 over pages. …

This book was written by Lewis Harrison with Laura Jones detailing a good and safe way to purify and cleanse your body. Just as you clean your body by taking a bath, your inner body also needs cleansing. The book claims that a clean inner body will promote good …