Maeve Binchy can be counted on for a new book just about every two years. Her first book, Light a Penny Candle came out in 1982, her latest, Whitethorn Woods, came out in 2006 and she has a new one coming out in 2008.
Her books are so consistent in …

Reading the book was like having a trip to India, like being fostered by a middle class Indian family and being immersed with its exotic culture. It gave me a glimpse of India’s countryside, its political issues before, Indian overseas workers, its caste system and thoughts of an Oxford-educated …

Borders Books is one of my favorite places to shop for books, movies, and music in Knoxville. I’ve gotten into something of a routine. I like to go in and get a tall coffee from their cafe, then walk around and pick out a few good books …

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 …

It’s been awhile since I read a book purely for fun so I approached Loren D. Estleman’s “Sudden Country” with eager anticipation. I was not disappointed.
“Sudden Country” is a short western (182 pages) set in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The main character is David Grayle. …

It’s my first time that I had read this author, and I am pleasantly suprised. It paints life in a colorfull, fragrant, full picture of positive feelings and thoughts. A good read, the fine ballance of morality in real world, no idealism, no ilusions, just life. Warm, fulfilling, funny …

Let me start off by saying that the cover art of this book is just stunning. “Mona Lisa Craving” by Sunny is the third book in her Monere: Children of the Moon series. This book continues to follow the story of Mona Lisa, the first mixed-blood queen of the …

24 Hours, written by Jo Leigh, costs about $9.95, and there are 3 stories in this story. The first one is Minute by Minute, whereby Meg Becker has met a man online, and has been having ‘cyber sex’ with him. She has yet to meet him, and …

The book Italian For Dummies is a book that I recommend to you if you are looking to learn to speak another language, it actually does help you actually learn Italian and Spanish also. The book comes with a cd and it does a good job of breaking the …

One summer afternoon, as I was clicking through book recommendations, I found this gem of a book entitled “North of Beautiful” by Justina Chen Headley. What struck me first was the title. It’s title was unique in comparison to the other young adult novels. I had a feeling, that …

A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 13 book series written for children by an author under the pen name of Lemony Snicket. The Austere Academy is Book $5 in the series.
The Baldelaire children are orphans, their parents having been killed in a fire caused by the evil …

Couch’s book, “Chosen Soldier” is another in a long line of books on the training of United States Army Special Forces Soldiers. In it, he follows several classes, starting with a group of 18 X-rays as they leave Ft. Benning Georgia and begin the long trek through their training, …

This book is a little hard to understand and heavy going for the casual reader by it will certainly improve your knowledge of the scientific concepts concerning dimensions. Throughout the book is a detailed and well explained history concerning the key developments of physics covering the era …

This book is a big disappointment for me, I was expecting the author to - as his book title suggests, literally dig inside Steve Job’s brain to reveal his brilliant perspectives about how he was successful at meeting/generating consumer market demands, his business and design philosophies, personal attitudes that …

In typical Jeff Long writing style Year Zero takes an interesting, one-of-a-kind plot and presents it in a philosophical fiction novel. The novel is written in such a way as to combine a lackluster writing style with a slow moving, almost uninteresting, plot and a strange desire for the …

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (Not to be confused with “The Tibetan Book of the Dead”) was written by Sogyal Rinpoche and provides what is, to my mind the most comprehensive and digestible expression of Tibetan Buddhism available. It’s written specifically for an audience that is totally …

This book, Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett is the first book with the City Watch of Ankh Morpork. It’s really fun to have read, because then you get to know how Carrot joined the Watch - which is pretty funny, being that he thinks he’s a dwarf. Ankh Morpork, …

This is a young adult novel about a young Amazon girl named Rain. The story is well written and it has some nice themes as well. It’s fast paced and not as thick as other novels, so I was able to read it in a few hours. It’s thinness, …

Have you ever heard of holistic herbal..? Well I have and this book, Holistic Herbal 4th Edition: A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies by David Hoffman is so full of useful stuffs that you can just read and read and get lots of information …

I read this book as my hubby recommended it.It was fantastic and each page has twists and turns which made me not to keep the book inspite of my busy work schedule.The story starts with the murder of two justices–Abe and Glenn Jensen.The FBI cannot even able …

The concept that we are not alone in the universe has been the common theme of most science fiction ever since the very first outer space novel. Equally rehashed is the idea that advanced alien races existed thousands of years before mankind learned to master fire. Jack McDevitt is …

The slippery slope is the tenth book of the series of unfortunate events series. The basic idea of this book was to one gain more information on VFD, to find out if their parents are in fact still alive and also for Violet and Klaus to get their sister …

Leave the Grave Green (written by Deborah Crombie and published by Berkley Publishing Group, 1996).
Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James were handled a case to investigate —“ carefully and discreetly.
Connor Swann, the son-in-law of Sir Gerald and Dame Caroline Asherton had been found strangled. Sir Gerald and …

Mammals of Britain & Europe is an entry in the generally excellent Collins Field Guide series, and I am very pleased to be able to say that David Macdonald and Priscilla Barrett have, with perhaps one exception, maintained the previous high standards of the series while adding some very useful …

This tongue-in-cheek book, written by Beth Kendrick is good for newly-weds especially and a definite good read for all and also for married couples. It is a very heartwarming novel that I really enjoy reading.
The characters are mainly Stella, Erin and Casey and they have had their fair …

Ah, Master and Margarita, my all time guilty pleasure. I make sure to re-read it at least once in two years. I have read it first when I was in high school. It was one of the required readings in my Russian class. Once I started I could barely …

The Catcher in the Rye is a modern classic by JD Salinger. It focuses on the journey of Holden Caulfield as he tries to understand his transition from childhood to adulthood. He is kicked out of school, but fearing the reaction of his parents, he embarks on a three …

Ruby isn’t my first VC Andrews’ book. This means I wasn’t shocked with some of the things that have happened. Her stories, Ruby included, are full of strange things that are the stuff of soap operas. Sure, these things may happen in real life once in a blue moon, …

The Wilderness Family part 1 is about a family who live in a big city and are not satisfied with the rat race of everyday life. They decide to move to the mountains of Alaska to a much simpler way of life. They build a new cabin and hunt …

In this book, Thomas L. Friedman, best-selling author and writer for the New York Times, carefully proposes ideas for a national strategy for the “greening” of the United States. He has done his research well and presents strategies that he believes will be the power sources for the …

I really Love Irshad Manji. How she brought her opinion to the world. How she’s not afraid to tell what she thinks. How she proudly reveals her sexual preferance without any fear that the fact she is a muslim woman. This woman is just amazing. Personally, I like her.
I …

House of night series is a series of fantasy based novels by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. The novels are based on Vampyres as their main theme. Vampyres is not spelling mistakes since the main creature in the saga are referred to as Vampyres and not Vampires!
Marked …

If you are interested in traveling to the Philippines for some adventure, this book, Action Asia Adventure Travel Guide to the Philippines is a fairly accurate representation of what this beautiful country composed of more than seven thousand islands can offer a traveler. It is actually a summary of …

When I picked up The View from Saturday by E.L. Konisburg, I half expected it to be the same as From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. The two books are similar, but E. L. Konisburg goes in a different direction and with a completely new …

“Behemoth” is the second book in the fantasy trilogy by Scott Westerfield that started with “Leviathan”. After reading the book I can say it is worth buying it. At the end of “Leviathan” prince Alec, the rightful heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, escapes with his men on board …

Lady and the Unicorn by by Tracy Chevalier is about a man and a woman and sort of a story on forbidden love due to that time of era. This story is poignant, and tend to be confusing at first. But I bucked up my reading and find …

This is the second book in the series about Anne Shirley, the first is Anne of Green Gables and covers Anne’s life from she’s 11 until she’s 16. This book covers to the next two years, in which Anne works as a school teacher in the Avonlea landscape. You’ll meet …

In The Presence of my Enemies is a truthdul and rather disturbing account of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham who were abducted from a resort island in the Philippines and held hostage by Fundamentalist Muslim terrorists called the Abu Sayyaf for more than a year.
The book is a …

‘Splinter of the Mind’s Eye’ was one of the first books based on the Star Wars characters written after the original release of ‘A New Hope’ and before ‘The Empire Strikes Back’. Published in 1978 and written by Alan Dean Foster, the book follows the adventures of …

Jeanette Winterson has come to be one of my favourite writers with a great deal of resistance on my part; some of her novels I’ve loved, others I found masturbatory and self-involved. I cannot agree with her ideologically, since her claims of beauty and art’s primacy in life appear …

This is a book review on Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill. I had reviewed before the other story with a pretty similar title by the same author, Fiona too. And that title is The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy.
However, this time round, I am reviewing the novel …

Growing up Wacky Wednesday was one of my favorite books. I would go to my school’s library every week and would check it out over and over again just so I could enjoy reading it. When I was informed about my son’s school having a backwards day I knew …

The Devil Wears Prada novel is about a recent college graduate, Andrea Sachs, who is seeking work as a writer. Her dream job is to work for The New Yorker. But she doesn’t have any connections or job experience. She reluctantly decides to accept an entry level job at …

The audiobook on CD “Host”, by Stephanie Meyer is a very good book. It is unabridged and on CD. The total playing time is twenty three and a half hours. This book was read by Kate Reading who is a reader of many …

Atkins for Life is a book that was put out by the Atkins diet people.
It tells you alot of the fundamentals of the Atkins diet and also gives you low carb menus for effectively controlling your weight. It gives varied low carb menus starting at 19,45 and going up …

I myself have never been to London or traveled into the far north, but Northern Lights makes you feel like you have been there all along. Philip Pullman imagined the genius that is Northern Lights, Pullman was born and raised in Norfolk in the United Kingdom. This is where …

The title of this book - “Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?” - makes the work sound as though it is going to be a rather straightforward look at how the dinosaurs were wiped out - and, indeed, the painting of a snarling dino on the otherwise dramatically black …

I consider myself to be a busy girl with a full plate of things to do, which is great but leaves me little time to read. Reading is a past time that I find pretty darn enjoyable, and I like tackling books that have a little meat to their …

I spent a good chunk of this issue confused. I got the gist of it, but at the same time I was a bit lost.
Two new heroes emerge named Nightwing and Flamebird. Now, I know that they were two characters tied to Kandor, so it makes sense …