Books Reviews
American Psycho novel by Bret Easton Ellis
American Psycho is a graphic novel told through the eyes of a serial killer. Set in the 1980’s, American Psycho details the life of Wall Street Yuppie Patrick Bateman, who, in his free time, engages in extremely violent and sexual acts, oftening culminating in murder.
Bateman is the embodiment of …
Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez book
I was enthralled with this book and I couldn’t put it down. I visited Afghanistan in 1974, and followed its story from the comfort of my suburban couch, through all the wars and troubles since then, reading books about the plight of women, about the tragedy and loss of …
The Runaway Jury by John Grisham
This book (which has been made into a movie), is like most of Grisham’s novels in that once started, it is hard to put down. Good pacing and suspense keeps you wanting to read just one more page, until you realize that it is 4 in the morning …
More Than a Job by Paul Wehman and John Kregel
This book is quite good. It describes about society’s attitude towards disabled people and how we as normal people should be sensitive towards the employability options of disabled people and also regarding their concerns and issues.
A good instance would be like an organization such as Mc’Donalds who employ disabled …
In the Dark of the Night by John Saul
The content of this book is very disturbing and that makes it great horror. It basically is about abusing power and what makes it even more ghastly is the fact that it is priests that are doing it. The parents in this book were depending on the priests and …
The Ultimate Gift - a book by Jim Stovel
Although this is an older book that has even been made into a movie; I hadn’t heard of it until I stumbles across it in my church’s library last week. It’s a short book, well-written and every easy to read. it is also one of the most …
The Cure for Death by Lightning
This book is supposed to be a blend of myth and events in a small town in Canada. I didn’t quite find it that way. While I could clearly see how the myth was incorporated, I kind of felt like characters in the book were using the story of …
Love Mercy by Earlene Fowler
Earlene Fowler has some serious guts. She was able to bring main characters from another series and place them into the supporting roles of this hopefully new one. The best part! I didn’t feel cheated since they weren’t the main focus as they are in the Harper series! …
The Hogfather
This book is another book in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. This features Susan, the granddaughter of Death, who is trying to save the Hogfather but he can’t, so he manipulates Susan into doing something about it.
The Hogfather is kind of like DiscWorld’s version of Santa Claus. An assassin is …
Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
Written by Liane Moriarty, Three Wishes is about 3 triplets who are approaching their age of early thirties and they have their own set of problems in the separate lives that they lead.
The 3 ladies are Gemma Kettle (what a nice name), Cat and Lyn. They have divorced parents …
The Love Academy by Belinda Jones
The Love Academy by Belinda Jones is a very lovable story about a journalist named Kirsty Bailey and she is sent on a mission to check out this love school called ‘Love Academy’. Her boss/editor wants proofs that this so called love school is just a bogus and that …
Stephen King: On Writing
Stephen King’s On writing is a fantastic book that teaches writing in a whole different way compared to most books. I loved this book because it teaches you how to write in a manner that is almost instinctual. Instead of plotting and planning the ending, the plot, the beginning …
Silver Borne, Mercy Thompson Series, book five
I was introduced to the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs when a friend of mine let me borrow the first one in the series, and I’ve been hooked on them religiously ever since. Mercy Thompson is an unlikely hero who is a shape shifting mechanic with a mean …
Cash4Books.net
If you have books just sitting around collecting dust and are interested in making a few extra bucks, then I would highly recommend you visit cash4books.net. This website buys certain types of books that are in decent condition. All you have to do is enter the ISBN …
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Angela’s Ashes is a memoir of known author Frank McCourt. The story is about McCourt family amidst hardships and tragedy, the agony of having a good for nothing father depicts real life happenings even in present time. The story is set in America and Ireland particularly in Limerick in …
Penultimate Chance Saloon by Simon Brett
Simon Brett’s Penultimate Chance Saloon is a fun book. I smiled, I laughed, I read this one straight through. Shortly before his 60th birthday, Bill Stratton’s wife left him. As she went out the door, she told him that their entire marriage of 40 years had been a sham …
Desperation Stephen King
This novel was released along with The Regulators by Richard Bachman in 1996, putting the two covers side by side you get a complete picture that fits together. The novel follows a group of people who are pulled over and framed by a psychotic state patrolmen, who is gigantic …
Faster Smarter ,Network + certification
Faster Smarter ,Network + certification by Melissa craft , a very innovative and high energy guide for all those who need to appear for the network+ Exam. The book covers all the major networking relating topics with smart test tips thus helps in not only securing good marks …
One door away from Heaven by Dean Koontz
One door away from Heaven by Dean Koontz, published by “HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING”.
Dan Koontz has sold over 200 million copies of his novels worldwide and more than thirty have appeared on national and international bestsellers lists.
“One door away from Heaven” is a 757 page paperback. Dean Kootnz has really …
Old Man and the Sea
I know this may not be a very popular opinion, but I didn’t care for this book. I had to read it for summer reading, and I just had a hard time getting through the book. I’d finished the first book pretty quickly, even though it was long, because …
Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian
Kiss of Midnight is written by Lara Adrian. I do not know what is up with the paperback novel fiction nowadays that keep writing about vampire and romance. Both of these are somewhat related, and has been around for ages. I see this style of writing …
Special Topics in Calmity Physics by Marisha Pessl
This exceptionally intelligent debut novel made quite a splash when book sales carried it briefly onto the New York Times bestseller list. A few sexist reviewers said the book was published with a healthy advance and a lot of PR simply because the author is an attractive young woman. …
Margo Lanagan’s Young Adult novel “Tender Morsels”
This is not a young adult novel for the truly young adults, nor for a reader who doesn’t really look for being particularly taxed in his or her reading choices. If I had picked the book up without warning about the contents, I certainly would have been very surprised, …
The art of the surrealists by Edmund Swinglehurst
The art of the surrealists by Edmund Swinglehurst
This is a nice little book that I picked up last and I went shopping in indigo. It nicely showcases the work of several surrealists. The print quality is very good. There are also a few paragraphs written …
Ishmael Book
When I first started reading Ishmael I expected it to be just another “Lets save the world” story with good intentions, but a lack of logic and reason. However, the further I read, the more I found that this was not the case. I have to say that the …
Valley of the Soul by Tamara Siler Jones
This is the third novel in the Dubric series and I found this one to be darker in tone than the original. Still, it was an excellent read and the murder-solving detective faces his most difficult case yet. In this story Dubric and his young pages set off to …
We’ll Meet Again by Mary Higgins Clark
Do you enjoy a good, well written murder mystery? Mary Higgins Clark never fails to entertain in this arena. She writes excellent books with well thought out plots and characters.
The story, We’ll Meet Again, starts out with the murder of a doctor and the arrest of his …
Witch novel by Marie Brennan
“Witch” is a fantasy novel written by Marie Brennan. I have to say it started off slow but built up nicely.
In this book the hunter who was originally Mirage as a Doppelganger and Miryo as a witch has merged and become Mirei. She has undertaken a mission to …
The Return Of The Naked Chef By Jamie Oliver
This book is just one of my collections of recipe books. Jamie Oliver is a very popular chef that loves experimenting with different flavours and blends of ingredients. I can say that being a fan of him for several years now I have enjoyed a lot of …
Organisational Behaviour by Fred Luthans
The book, “Organisational Behaviour“, by Fred Luthans, entails the area of organisational atmosphere describing in detail the emergence of the modern subject and the need to study and implement its ideologies pertaining to business and official environment.
The contents illustarted in the book are spread on a vast arena featuring …
The Man Who Walked Between The Towers Book
This book tells the true story of Philippe Petit, a young French aerialist, who in 1974, walked on a wire strung between the World Trade Center towers in New York City. As the towers were nearing completion, this young man devised a plan with the help of some friends, …
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Book
Elizabeth Gilbert has long been writing fiction but this is the first time she wrote her autobiography through Eat, Pray, Love. I must say the book was very well-crafted, far from the boring tone that the word biography usually connotes. Gilbert has the gift of writing very casually and …
Ciaphas Cain - Hero of the Imperium book
Any reader has encountered a character like Ciaphas Cain at least once, as long as they have been able to read a good story flavored with humor at some point. Ciaphas Cain is a Commissar in the world of Warhammer 40,000 (WH40K), a fictional universe of the future …
Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie, 2008 Book
I liked most of the Sophie McKenzie books I’ve read. The one’s I’ve read were all action-packed, fast-paced and very entertaining. After thoroughly enjoying the Medusa Project (another series by McKenzie), I decided to read more from the same author, and the first book I found was Blood Ties.
The …
Nick Jr. The Backyardigans “Rescue Patrol” by Catherine Lukas (book)
The Nick Jr. The Backyardigans “Rescue Patrol” by Catherine Lukas is a beginner reading book which is part of the read-to-read book series. This particular book is based on the children’s show “The Backyardigans”, and the characters will be familiar to both children and parents if they are familiar …
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
I used to be a fan of Nicholas Sparks. The Notebook is perhaps his greatest achievement as a writer to date. It was superbly written that grew popular to almost all hopeless romantics around the world. But sadly, I think Nicholas Sparks failed to follow through. I noticed that …
Ctrl-Z by Andrew Norriss book
Ctrl-Z is a kind of clever, almost funny book by Andrew Norriss. It seems aimed at children, maybe middle school aged kids?
At any rate, I felt that the idea was creative while still almost believable and it would definitely be fun to have a computer that would let you …
Skinny Bitch
The book Skinny Bitch, written by 2 female authors, it is a classic vegan type of diet for all women to follow. I’m not sure about men, so let’s follow this review of mine.
When I first got a hold of this book which my friend loaned it to me, …
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
The Book of Lost Things tells the story of a young boy, David, set in England during World War II. Central to the plot is his love for books, deeply ingrained by his mother who passed away following a long battle with cancer, presumably. He hears his beloved books …
Guess how much I love you by Sam McBratney
The other day, I saw the book title, Guess how much I love you by Sam McBratney and it caught my attention and my eyes to buy it. It is a children’s classic story and my niece love it very much! She is all gushing and all …
Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days #1) by Susan Ee
Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days #1) by Susan Ee was Published May 21st 2011 by Feral Dream.
In short its a book about Angels hell bent on destroying our modern world, street gangs rising up and ruling the day and an older sister given no choice but to …
The Two Income Trap by Warren and Tyagi
I purchased this book about a year ago and never got around to reading it until now. Although this book was written in 2003, it is still very applicable for 2008 and 2009. If more people had read this book in the last few years, I would like to …
That summer by Sarah Dessen
That summer by Sarah Dessen is a book I could not put down. In a lot of ways it reminds me of how me and my sister are so I can relate in that way. I picked the book up at Wal-Mart because it was by my favorite author …
He’s Just Not That Into You (book)
I love reading about dating, relationships, the brain on love, etc., so I happily picked up this book and read it. No joke, it changed my life. Before reading this, I was always in the mindset that it was perfectly okay for me to yearn for a guy, hoping …
Malgudi Days by R.K.Narayan
Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories, written by the highly acclaimed author, R.K.Narayan.
Malgudi is an imaginative town in Southern India. All the characters of this book,live in this imaginative town. All the characters of this book, are are common people. They go about their daily business …
Heavenly Man, Brother Yun book
Heavenly Man was my girlfriend’s Christmas gift for me. Being a Christian, she told me that it is a book that can definitely inspire the Christianity among us, myself included.
I was skeptic at first. I never liked reading stories on how devoted and passionate these people are in …
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