Books Reviews
Good House Cheap House
Good House Cheap House is a book written by Kira Oblensky. It illustrates tweenty seven different designs for homes that are inovative and creative. They demonstrate how to recycle different products and incorporate them into unique features that can make a plain house stand out at a reasonable price. …
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Ah, Dumas. How could I not adore you? After finishing The Count of Monte Cristo, I figured that nothing in the world could possibly get better. I was wrong. I’ve recently finished The Three Musketeers and found it to be the most fantastic story I’ve ever read. Set in …
Sweet Valley High: Elizabeth’s Secret Diary (Book)
This is Elizabeth’s Secret Diary, and it’s all about her deepest and darkest secrets that we wouldn’t have thought she has! Everybody thinks she is Miss Perfect —“she is smart, nice, caring, beautiful, athletic, and loved by everyone. You might think her diary is boring, but it’s just as …
Don’t Shoot The Dog by Karen Pryor
Prepare to be surprised - this book has hidden depths! I had to read it more than once before the full power of this book hit me.
I may have purchased it whilst studying canine behaviour but the real force of the books message is that the technique described can …
Master Of The Game
This was the first ever novel that I had read of Sidney Sheldon. Ever since I read this novel i have been hooked to his work. He writes in a flawless was that is very entertaining. He covers all the aspects in his novel ranging from thrill to romance …
Knitting Rules! book
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 …
Flight into Danger Book
Flight into Danger is a page turning thriller of a book. The story describes a chartered flight full of football fans going to Vancouver to catch a big game. On a stopover at Winnipeg, a truck salesman named George Spencer boards the flight, and is seated next to a …
Last Ditch by Ngaio Marsh
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 Complete Poems of Anne Sexton book
I almost wanted to put this review under ‘religion’ for that is how deeply affected I am by this incredible woman’s poetry.
I first discovered Anne Sexton when I became a member of allpoetry.com (see review of this site in my collection), and after reading a piece entitled “Buying the Whore” …
Self Incrimination by Randy Singer
I read this wonder book called Self Incrimination written by critically acclaimed author Randy Singer. Randy Singer is a trial lawyer who has a wife and two children living in Georgia. All of his books are Christian Suspense novels.
This particular book is about a young inexperienced Lawyer named Leslie …
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma novel
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart is a fun book for kids. Similar to the Mysterious Benedict Society, there are fun puzzles - which I found easy but they still add a nice element to the book for children - and lots of …
Reckless by Cecily Von Ziegesar
I kind of like this IT GIRL series, and Reckless by Cecily Von Ziegesar is one of it. I have read the other series, which is Gossip Girl also by the same author and now, it’s Reckless. This story is mainly about college drama or something and I …
The Manny by Holly Peterson
I very much enjoyed reading this book, The Manny by Holly Peterson very much. I think this story is filled with lots of good elements certainly and there are good plots in this book certainly entertaining for me personally.
Suddenly, the character in the story, Jamie tries her very best …
Eight Days a Week, novel by Amber L. Jhonson
Eight Days a Week has left me with a HUGE smile con my face. I loved this book from beginning to end. What’s not to love, really? There’s no other way to describe it. I just loved it. I loved every feeling and sensation that I felt when …
Death’s Door by Meryl Sawyer book
This is a book filled with suspense, drama, and like a lot of other books, romance. I felt the author did a great job at disguising the identity of the killer. She led you in the direction of many suspects, so it made it kind of hard …
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins book
“The biggest best seller after the release of Harry Potter”
The raves about this book series is unbelievable, everyone who reads the first book just must read the other two immediately. When I read The Hunger Games, I fell in love with it after the first chapter.
Katniss is the main …
Prior Bad Acts by Tami Hoag
The book Prior Bad Acts is written by Tami Hoag. This is a New York Times bestselling author and this story is actually a thriller that begins with a shocking crime scene.
The initial is there are 2 relentless detectives on a manhunt which ends in a chilling confrontation …
The Left Behind Series by Tim F. LaHaye,Jerry B. Jenkins
When the first two books of the Left Behind series had come out, I thought they were very good. I still think they are. A novel showing the end time Biblical prophesies come true, the Rapture of the Church with millions of people vanishing. The book begins with an …
Nobody’s Angel by Jack Clark: the book
The book Nobody’s Angel was a release from the publishing company Hard Case Crime, a subsidiary of Leisure Books publishing company. It was author Jack Clark’s first book. Shortly after being published, the book received very good reviews and high critical acclaim. The novel tells the …
Woman as force in history by Mary R. Beard
‘Woman as force in history’ is a book written by Mary R. Beard. This book discusses the varied contributions of women since the beginning of recorded history. It also explains the women’s rights movement. It also analyses the effects of laws upon the status of women.
Mary R. Beard …
I’m A Believer
This is another story from my favorite author, Jessica Adams. The title is I’m A Believer, and it tells of a very good novel about life after death. This story is about Mark Buckle, an ordinary person and a teacher in South London. He teaches Science …
If You’ll Be My Valentine by Cynthia Rylant
“If You’ll Be My Valentine” is a children’s book written by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Fumi Kosaka. It was published in 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers. It is a cute Valentine’s Day story about a little boy that manages to be sweet without being too sappy. My little …
Sloppy Firsts by Megan Mccafferty
This is one of my absolute favorite books. I am a teenager and I love to read. I probably started because of Harry Potter, then I moved on to romance, more specifically, I learned to love Princess Diaries. I loved it! I thought it was one of the cleverest …
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
I’m not sure which one, but I remember reading about Sherlock Holmes solving a mystery surrounding the disappearance of Lady Carfax. So, when I came across the actual story about it, I had to read it.
I wasn’t disappointed. Of all the Sherlock Holmes stories I read, this is definitely …
“The Shack” by WM Paul Young novel
I was loaned a novel called “The Shack” by WM. Paul Young and immediately put it under some of the papers on my bookshelf to soon forget it existed. A time later, while fishing for other books to read, I lifted the papers and found the novel I …
Microsoft Office 2003 for Dummies by Wallace Wang
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% …
Hidden window mystery book
I have read the book —˜Hidden window mystery’ written by Carolyn Keene. I did not find this book to be very interesting, but it is not bad either. Some of the content in the book is certainly exciting and thrilling to read. As usual, Nancy shows her determination and …
Mystery of Banshee towers by Enid Blyton
‘Mystery of the Banshee towers’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This book is interesting in between pages, but overall, it is quite dull to read. There are few funny or comical incidents. It is a very poor mystery. The mystery itself starts late in the book and …
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years book
Adrian is approaching his twenty four birthday. Entering into the hardest age in life of a man, and although apparently fully mature, mentally, still in the dark days of growing up, filling the pages of his journal, directory, fears and obsessions, decent full of complexes teenager. His mature works …
The Rookie Club (Signet)
I love to read books, of fiction and non-fiction. Recently, I was reading a series novel, and it was the first series, called the Rookie Club (Signet). This story made me read it on and off, and after about 2 weeks, I have finished reading it.
This story …
This Whole Vampire Obsession
I don’t understand what is up with this whole vampire obsession. And sadly, I have bought into it. I guess the allure of a vampire is that in the fictional world they are so much like us. They are mysterious and what not. I guess Anne Rice’s books had …
How to Roar Pet Loss Grief Recovery by Robin Jean Brown
Sadly, I lost my cat Hobbes very suddenly after having him for 17 years. He unexpectedly took ill and within a couple months he had seriously deteriorated to not being able to walk. A few days later, he passed away minutes after I arrived home.
I have another cat that …
Eyewitness Travel Guides
When I first began traveling the world, I was clueless as to how to know the country I would be visiting, and how to get around once I got there, without missing important sites. A friend of mine lent me my first Eyewitness Travel Guide before I went to …
“Poems that Live Forever” book with a selection by Hazel Felleman
The “Poems that Live Forever” book, with the combined poems from America’s favorite poets, is a real inspiration even to someone like myself who does not enjoy poetry on any given day. Through high school I had trouble with poetry, and it wasn’t until college that I began to …
Killer Cruise by Laura Levine Book
This was the first mystery novel I read by author Laura Levine and I fell in love with her books right away. The story was just so humorous and entertaining that reading one of them just wasn’t enough. So far of the three that I read, this one is …
Borders Bookstore
Having security protection on my laptop is like a catch-22: There are some sites that require me to have cookies in order to go on them and others that don’t. I need cookies for Barnes and Noble website and my computer simply don’t trust Books-A-Million website; therefore, my only …
Dead Sea by Brian Keene book
I discovered about this book because its author is Brian Keene and just recently, I became a big fan of him because of the other books he wrote that I really liked.
Well, Dead Sea is about a world overran by zombies. It’s also like the other Keene’s book but …
The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis
C.s Lewis is one of my favorite authors. He always finds a way to inspire us.. his readers. I just finished reading his book “The Screwtape Letters” It’s all about Screwtape’s (The Demon) letter to his apprentice Wormwood. Screwtape was giving advices to Wormwood on how lure us to …
Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
Story summary:
This book is about a boy who lived in the era of government dominated by the English witch who thirst of power. The smart boy named Nathaniel who was sold by her parents to the government to be a witch government agents, and sent in under the guidance …
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
Since this is by far the best book that I have ever read, I don’t really know if I should give it at ten or a one. I say that only because I love reading and it is so hard to find a book that can even compare to …
Super Memory Super Student by Harry Lorayne
I know that there are many students out there who wish that they could rememeber study material more easily.
Harry Lorayne’s book Super Memory Super Student teaches many valuable tricks that can help many student remember a great deal more information more quickly and more easily.He teaches students how …
Lost Population: Status Offenders in America by Robert Hartmann McNamara
The Lost Population examines status offenders and the issues surrounding them legally, ethically, and logically. The book gives an overview of various status offenses as well as the legal punishments for offenders. The ideas presented in the book are supported by many academic sources cited within.
I really enjoyed …
North and South a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell
‘North and South’ is, above everything else, a novel about social and cultural differences and the way to overcome them. It illustrates a theme very common in the writer’s age - the conflicts between the old aristocracy (symbolized by the south) and the newly risen bourgeousy (symbolized by the …
Baby You are a Rich Girl manga
Baby You are a Rich Girl is the third chapter of the manga, The World God Only Knows; written and illustrated by Tamiki Wakaki
The next chapter introduces a new character and their new target for runaway spirits, Mio Aoyama. Keima and Elsee spend time at their classroom pretty funny. …
Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion
“Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion” is a book by Larry Nemecek that I found interesting to an extent, although really, this book had quite a bit of content that I just was not interested in. What I was not interested in was the summaries of all the episodes …
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 …
Small Business Management book
As a part of my required purchases in the department of text books at my college, I purchased a copy of Small Business Management an entrepreneurial emphasis. I have been lucky enough to use this text book for two quarters, and I have greatly enjoyed my class Small Business Management. …
An Investors Guide To How The Stock Market Really Works
Fascinating, absolutely fascinating - I don’t care how old the book is, it is simply one huge must have for anyone who is seeking more information on tactics to help them make the best investment choices for themselves.
Covering matters such as what you need to know before you invest …
The Wine Bible by Karen MacNeil book
For some time now I have wanted to learn about wine because when I was in college I had a bad experience with red wine, and that experience alone made me turn away from wine.
Lately, however, I have been thinking maybe the reason my experience with wine was so …
On Writing (Stephen King)
This part memoir, part how to guide by Stephen King is a great read. Even if you’ve no aspiration to write yourself, the opening stretch where King recalls his childhood, his difficult years spent working night shifts and the beginnings of his alcoholism whilst waiting for his break and …
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