This is the first installment of Sweet Valley’s The Frightening Four series and it’s very creepy and a nice read for teens. The story is all about an abandoned Victorian mansion which becomes sold to a very large family, and Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are hired as babysitters for …

Robin Year One: Book 2 of 4 is about Robin’s first year fighting crime with Batman; in this book they take on the klutzy Killer Moth and then Two-Face, who sees Robin as Batman’s weakness. Robin’s rash decision to stay away from Two-Face might cost him his life.
This …

It’s hard to follow up a work that has been so well-received with another smash hit. That, however, was exactly what Douglas Adams did when he wrote The Restaurant at the End of the Universe—”the sequel to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe.
In the sequel, more randomness ensues as …

I read this book because I read Inkheart, also by Cornelia Funke, and loved it —“ and the Thief Lord actually looked like more my style than Inkheart did. It looked a little bit dark (but coming from Cornelia Funke I knew it would also be charming), intriguing, …

This is a wonderful book written by Robin Sharma. It is a fable about fulfilling your dreams and reaching your destiny. The message in the book is very powerful and inspiring and gives you an step by step approach to living with greater courage, balance, and joy. It …

Anne Bishop is an extremely talented fantasy author who paints an amazingly detailed world when it comes to her writing, her storytelling skills are incredibly indepth with out of this world characters, places, and plots. You’ll instantly fall in love with each of the main characters in this book …

The first edition of this book was just impressive that I decided to buy the second edition. I am using the books as my handy refence inside and outside my office.
At first glance and reading the first few pages of the …

Super Mario RPG Game Secrets: Unauthorized by Prima is a very disappointing strategy guide. Not only does it fail to entertain, but it also fails to reveal much of the world that is laid out in Super Mario RPG. There is missing information all over the place, not just …

If you have ever eaten at Los Barrios in San Antonio, Texas, then you know how good the food is! Now they have a cookbook with many of the restaurant recipes as well as many of their family recipes! The book also has an introduction by Emeril. The recipes …

The Colour of Magic is the very first in the hugely successful Discworld series of fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett. As such, it is the book that many new fans read first, which in some ways is a shame because it is by no means the best novel in …

Star Gazing by Linda Gillard is a romantic story filled with uncertainty and about being blind. Marianne Fraser has been blind since she was a baby and her plight is very pitiful, that my heart truly went out to her character.
The story is set when Marianne ages into …

This is a good book to read to your kids at bedtime. The theme does center around Christmas, but it can be read throughout the year because it isn’t saturated with Santa Clause or getting presents.
This book is about a little boy and what I assume is his …

The Merriam Webster’s 11th Edition (collegiate) dictionary is designed to help students and professors to easily find words, look up their meaning (s) and origin (s). I have owned my dictionary for 2 years and I find it easy to look up any word because of the tabs on …

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 …

This book is called Loveseekers, which my boyfriend bought for me about $4.99. It was months before, and he knows that I love reading about classic romances on top of historical romances. This book is special actually. There are 2 stories in this, and they are …

Momo is a book about a special child living in an old roman theatre somewhere in Italy. She makes friends with the local guide, an old street-sweeper and all the local children. After a while though her friends start disappearing, and she finds out that it because someone’s stealing …

I’ve never read a story about infidelity as crystal clear as this kind of story, The Infidelity Chain by Tess Stimson before. There are 5 characters that are all linked by the word infidelity and they are all in one way or another having this problem as well as …

I waited a long time to read The Opportunist. I read too many reviews where people talked about the piercing ending, so I forced my masochist side to wait til this series was completed, but then it just slipped out of my mind. When I finally read it, not …

The Book Tuesdays with Morrie is a book written by Mitch Albom, all from his personal experience with his college professor, Morrie whose view in life have changed his life, and many others - and this happened in the middle of a crisis he is faced with - sickness. …

This comic was a nice idea in theory. Devoting an issue to the two sidekicks of the world’s finest is a nice thought, but ultimately it doesn’t work as well as it should. Tim and Kara get together for lunch and chew the breeze and shoot the …

This is a good book for those who wish to check whether their lifestyle or way of thinking runs as according to their faith. Christ Fabry, the author, wrote well.
The author, through the book, was effective in using sarcastic and reversed-psych approach to communicate his thoughts and the things he …

“A Clash of Kings” carries us into an amazing , forgotten land of dissipation and revenge, witchcraft and wars. A tale in which noble virgins feast with madmen, where a brother wiles against his own brother, and where the dead are raised, to go into the night. Here a …

A Season’s Fame is a slim paperback book dealing with the Clifton College schoolboy A. E. J. Collins, who in 1899 scored 628 not out in a house match, the highest individual score ever recorded in the sport of cricket. The book is written by Derek Winterbottom for the …

“Motown” is the second entry into what was to be Estleman’s Detroit crime trilogy. The book takes place in 1966 on the eve of the 1967 Detroit riots that were to change downtown Detroit forever. The mid-1960s were the height of Detroit’s influence on the car world. Muscle cars …

Recently I had the pleasure of reading “Kundalini Rising” by Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Andrew Newburg, Sivananda Radha, Ken Wilber and John Selby. I would highly recommend this book to anybody looking to explore into the mysterious and powerful energy known as Kundalini or for those currently struggling with Kundalini …

I was looking for a daily devotional book for a long time. The ones I found were so cheesy they made my brain hurt when I read them. It’s like, can’t we be realistic? Life isn’t all flowers and candy! I needed something that was going to make me …

Faith by Colin Urquhart, a book that stir your internal soul and gives rise to new hope. I am very much into book reading and love reading just about anything. I started with the detective stories by Nancy drew but with time I have matured and these days I …

This book is sort of a continuation of Welcome to Temptation, only focussing more on Davy Dempsey. The main characters of Welcome to Temptation get a brief mention, this book is mostly about new characters and Davy.
This is actually a really fun book. I liked the setting, the idea …

I bought this book because I read a recommendation on someone else’s blog. Okay, actually, they knitted a cute hat and I wanted to knit it too. Knit One, Embellish Too by Cosette Cornelius-Bates is mainly basic patterns that I think I could probably find elsewhere. The key is …

Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, wrote The Inheritance when she was seventeen. It was her first novel, but she never submitted it for publication. It wasn’t published until 1997.
I was pretty excited to read this, since I’ve read her books from the time …

The shabby looking girl in the cover of the book entitled Dovey Coe, written by Frances O’ Roark Dowell, gives inkling to the story. Dovey Coe is the youngest among the Coes; Caroline, the eldest and reckoned as the most beautiful in town and Amos, is the deaf and …

I was waiting in line for my daughter to purchase her manga books and I saw the cover of this book by Susan Mallery. Honestly, that is what attracted me to the book. It wasn’t the picture but the title. Even in current news stories you …

Ultimate Spiderman #3 “Double Trouble”
Here he is, the Ultimate universe’s Doctor Octopus!
The problem with Doctor Octopus in the ‘regular’ books was that he played the role of a powermad, meglomaniacal scientist looking to dominate the world…and rob banks.
In other words, any way the wind blows. He became an unfocused …

Why men love bitches? At first the title may seem startling, even controversial. Yet if given a closer look, this book can and will change your life. This book allows every girl and women to transform themselves from a doormat to a dreamgirl. Filled with over 100 “Attraction Principles” …

Painting Fairies in Watercolour by Paul Bryn Davies is a basic book on painting fairies with watercolor paints, including supplies and tips on drawing fairies.
I bought Painting Fairies in Watercolour by Paul Bryn Davies after being given a wonderful easel and paint set. I purchased the book at …

“Stone Butterfly” is the tenth official book in the Charlie Moon series. I saw official because one book that could and perhaps should be considered part of the series, “The Night Visitor” is not, at least not according to the online catalog at my local library. However man of …

I recently read this book, Being Kendra: Cribs, Cocktails, and Getting My Sexy Back, and I was honestly disappointed. I’m a big fan of Kendra and her first book was amazing, but this book was just wrong. I was looking forward to her usual quirky self while raising her …

I have read the book ‘True Love: A practice for awakening the heart’ written by Thich Nhat Hanh. This book as the name says, is about love. The author speaks the truth about love. He says that love is not something that has to be sought elsewhere, but love …

“The Little Big Book of Christmas” by Lena Tabori is a book that can be purchased for nineteen dollars and ninety-nine cents. While that may sound like a lot for a book, there’s a great deal of content waiting to be enjoyed within the book, spread out across a …

I used the book “Harriet’s Daughter” when I was about twelve or thirteen as a literature book in high school. One of the things I can definitely remember about it too is that at the time, I thought the book was one of the most boring books I had …

This is a book that is talked about a bit too much, but it is worthy of the majority of the praise it receives. I would say it is one of the most important books of the 20th century, and continues to give great insight into the workings …

The vast majority of this issue is a slugfest between Ursa and Flamebird. Nightwing is down for the count and Flamebird kinda gets her clock cleaned. By kinda gets her clock cleaned, I mean she really gets her clock cleaned. It aint pretty.
Ursa proves …

Since this book came out, everybody was talking about how wonderful it was, how good author Rainbow Rowell is and how painful the ending is. I finally decided to give it a chance, and I found a beautiful and real love story, but it’s a story that lacked a little …

The author of The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow, Kristin Breitweiser, was a Republican before the attacks of 9/11. She describes how she lived in the “bubble” of the upper class life of a Wall Street wife before the attacks. Then she tells what it was …

I was so thrilled when my friend introduced me to this book. I hadn’t heard of it, and I was a huge dragon fan (and overall fantasy fan). The cover art was unique and I loved the blue theme, which just made me more exciting to get …

Weddings nowadays are so unlike last time. The modern thimes, which is now, is filled with lots of up to date stuffs that one can never possibly imagine. And with the help of this book, The Modern Bride Survival Guide by Antonia Van Der Meer, I manage to …

Child of Time by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
ISBN: 0330322702
Genre: Sci-fi
This is an extended version of a short story called “The Ugly Little Boy”, written by Isaac Asimov and initially published in 1956. It is the second collaboration between Asimov and Silverberg, the first being “Nightfall”, also an extended …

I admire O. Henry’s creativity as a short story writer and I’ve read a number of his works. But The Ransom of Red Chief is by far the funniest I have ever read.
Bill and Sam had planned a fraudulent lot scheme and only had six hundred dollars between …

Start Your Own Blogging Business by J.S.McDougall is one of Entrepreneur Press’ Start-Up series of small business books. I’ve always read Entrepreneur Press books with a measure of reserve, given their propensity for jumping into the latest small-business cattle drive - whatever it is!
However, Start Your own Blogging …

Finger Lickin’ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich was in the Top 10 of the New York Times Bestsellers list when I purchased in July 2009. A beginning writer myself, I was eager to study contemporary fiction paperback bestsellers in order to establish just what kind of fiction is currently being …