Diary Of A Wimpy Vampire is a hilarious book about a vampire called Nigel Mullet, who has not been blessed with vampire abilities. He was transformed into a vampire at the age of fifteen, so he will have to deal with bad acne and a breaking voice for eternity. …

I had my doubts before picking up this book actually. It was an equal mix of anticipation and thinking that i may be wasting my time again.
So far, I’ve had my ups and downs with Howard’s books. But this one apparently was a hit!
Death Angel, being the title, already …

Play With Us is the very first book (labelled as book 1a) in the classic Ladybird Key Words Reading Scheme, which for many years was extremely popular in both schools and homes in the United Kingdom. It was first published as long ago as 1964, but continued to be …

I have always enjoyed Jude Deveraux’s books but was a little disappointed in the second book of her Forever trilogy. My first issue is with the jacket, perhaps this was a problem that only appeared in my copy but the description talks about Darci Montgomery, a psychic and …

I have loved watching Fushigi Yuugi when I was still in high school. So when I stumbled upon the manga of Yuu Watase, I knew I just had to read it. If you love reading a manga full of action, adventure, romance, and mystery, and if you love Miaka’s …

After reading the final paragraph of Nietzsche’s, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense,” I felt somewhat lied to. Throughout this text the author attempts to take an all-knowing position as if he is an omniscient narrator of the world in front of him. We are urged to …

As I am a long time fan of the Lord of the Dance and Riverdance shows, I was given this biography as a gift. I was not sure what to expect. Before reading, my impression of Mr. Flatley was just what I had seen in media, and what was evident …

On a curserory inspection of this book you may discover that it was writen in the 1940’s. Do not let this fact deter you! There is nothing old or overdone about this book - a book that clearly surpasses your typical romance and is a work of art in …

As the Death God Dictates is a manga by Mimori Ao. The title is pretty strange and this caught my eye so I started reading this manga with the genre of romance, shoujo, school life, and supernatural. It should have been also labeled as tragedy because of the ending …

Tolkien wrote the lord of the rings over a period of 20 years. His first book about middle earth was called The Hobbit. The Hobbit laid the foundations to the epic adventures in the Lord of the Rings. This book was so huge that Tolkien made three books for …

This is the lifestory, kind of autobiography of T. Lobsang Rampa a Tibetan born into an aristocratic family but destined to become a priest. I liked the description of Tibet in that age and the trials and tribulations of the young Lobsang as he matures into a spiritual person. …

I enjoyed reading Legend by Jude Deveraux. It is one of her books with a time travel plot wherein the heroine travels from one time to another, meeting lovers and changing the history. Legend is so entertaining that like every other books written by Jude Deveraux, I also cannot …

Cooper Wilkes’s life had changed when his parents sent him for a vacation to his grandparents in Montana. Cooper who loved New York City found himself belonging in the serene life of his grandparents’ ranch. It was also here where he met his childhood best friend and later his …

I have been working for the past 10 years. And since I have the spending power, I often lavish myself with beautiful clothes and accessories, and take on expensive vacations across the globe. Then I wonder where does my hard-earned money go to? Why am I …

Interpretation according to traditional literary theory introduces the Glossary of the Night as the poetry collections reflecting the heaviness of possibility for human maturnity in the society. This is based on own author experience and society determination. Observations are carried out through formal temperance …

I read the first two books of the Meredith Gentry series quickly. My best friend sent them to me in a care package and I really enjoyed them. This book, number three took me forever to finish. Hamilton is an amazing writer. She has a very distinct voice and …

I’ve always been a fan of alternate history books. Usually, we get to see the point of divergence play out or the story will at least take place not long after it. Steve White presents for us a combination of alternate history and science fiction which sees the British …

This is a story of a woman, a love story in which she cannot obtain from her husband and you look at this book of some another normal love story concerning the woman who yearns the love which already can her thing you love to the alone person and has …

The ISBN # for this book is: 0-87596-243-2. The copyright is: 1995.
About two years ago one of my dogs, a miniature dachshund, began showing signs of a couple potential chronic health issues. I hadn’t received much help or information from our veternarian so I decided to search for information …

“The Volunteers” was another book I found some years ago in an old bookcase. I believe it was published originally in 1985, but I had neither heard of it nor its author. I had tried reading it a little before I entered high school even though I had never …

‘Mystery of the disappearing cat’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This book is the second among the ‘five find-outers and dog’ series. A prize cat of Lady Candling disappears. She is a neighbour of Pip and Bets. Not even the gardener knows anything about the disappearance of …

This book is the fourth book in the eight book series called Deltora Quest. Like the other books in this series, the main characters, Leif, Barda, Barda, and Jasmine must solve puzzles and defeat monsters in order to find one of the seven missing gems of the Belt of …

A Dark-adapted Eye by Barbara Vine is a dark novel, laced with mystery but wouldn’t be a real cup of tea for those not liking complicated plots, lots of secret plots and etc.
In short, this book is not suitable at all for an impatient reader, and unfortunately, I wasn’t patient …

How little one needs to be happy! The sun would shine overhead, and the pockets warmed a bottle of wine and a fried chicken leg, and then the grass couldn’t grow, no matter what happens tomorrow. Maybe a vast meteorite will fall to Earth and destroy all life. So …

This is a nice book for kids. The story moves slowly, and is not exactly full of action, but it is well-described and a smooth read.
Some kids might have trouble relating to the events in the book - a one room schoolroom and kids driving a model-T aren’t …

Where’s My Hero? is a very delightful book that I love reading because it laces with the theme of romance, which is my real favorite of all time. The authors are bestselling romance Julia Quinn, Kinley MacGregor and also Lisa Kleypas. It is not a novel just …

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 …

This story that I have read have a genre of fantasy, and to be honest, I think this story is a dumb and dubious story.
Fantasy genre is pretty fine by me, but this story makes the plot to the brink of insanity and nonsense. That is my truthful …

Love Begins at 40: A Guide to Starting Over by Cherry Gilchrist and Lara Owen rocks. I have a real respect for books like this because it gives a new light on things. A lot of things, actually and it is good for people in their 40s …

The Mystic Rose by Stephen Lawhead concludes the Celtic Crusades trilogy telling about the recovery of three Christian relics. Murdo, a Celtic lord and the main character of Book 1, had found “The Iron Lance” - the spear that had pierced Jesus’s side on the cross. In Book 2, …

Margaret Peterson Haddix has a knack for bringing history to life for the teen aged readers. By putting young people into historical situations, she makes history less stuffy and more personal. Her latest work, Uprising, tells the story of one of the worse disasters in American history, …

I recently joined Oprah’s Book Club because I was starting to run out of books to read. One novel caught my attention, Black & Blue by Anne Quindlen. It depicts the life of Fran, a battered wife who lived in fear everyday. She felt she couldn’t go to the …

For a very long time now, “Car” is a magazine that has been a regular feature in my life in that it offers great practical solutions in the form of useful information, concerning the everyday challenges faced with motorists. Furthermore, I also get access to all the latest information …

This is the second book in the series about Gil Cunningham. The year is 1492, the place Glasgow, and Gil, a young lawyer, is present when a dead body is found at is old college. With the help of Alys, his betrothed, and her French master-mason father, Gil has …

This book is about a pair of friends who have been friends since they were very young. One friend seems to greatly overshadow the other friend, which is how the author justifies the overshadowed friend having an affair.
I don’t describe it very well, basically because it’s hard to describe …

A Sight for Sore Eyes (written by Ruth Rendell and published by Arrow Books, 1999)
This is a story of two people with different backgrounds, growing up amidst unhappiness and trauma. Anyway, they met and were attracted to each other. It was supposed to be a fairytale of …

“That Costly Ride” by Guy de Maupassant is about a man who ends up being taken to the cleaners–financially wise–because of an accident.
First, the story introduces us to, Hector de Gribelin, who is a husband and father of two, and is going through financial hardship because of the decline …

This book is a Sweet Valley High Deception Thriller series and it’s very exciting. It has a very matured side and unlikely of the Wakefield twins to encounter on their everyday lives as it features clumsy yet innocently-in-love Jessica Wakefield falling into the deceptive hands of handsome Jeremy Randall …

The Father Christmas Letters are a collection of letters that Tolkien wrote to his children when they were young, they are either from Father Christmas or one of his helpers and tell about the preparations for Christmas and everyday life on the North Pole. They are filled with Tolkien …

This well-made Christian movie tells a story of two twin brothers, a criminal and an Episcopalian priest, who accidentally trade places. ?Oh, that beaten-to-death switched twins trick,? you might say? Well, yes, the idea is not very original ? but the rest of the movie is, and that?s the …

The book title, After the Kiss: The Notorious Gentlemen by Suzanne Enoch has a raunchy cover. But don’t underestimate the quality contents of this book, because it is not about racy scenes only. In fact, there are elements of romance inside that I truly enjoyed reading. I …

Twilight For the Gods by Ernest Gann was one of the best sea adventure novels I read in a long time. I’ve always enjoyed sea adventures and was very glad when I found it on the shelf of my local library. The novel was almost sixty years old, though, …

The Dark tower series is arguably the best story ever woven together by the horror legend that is Stephen king, yet it is far from a horror story.
The dark tower tells the story of Roland and his hunt for the ever elusive Dark tower. It consists of seven volumes …

As one of my all-time favorite authors, Karen Kingsbury has done it again.
‘Divine’ is a book of fiction whose main character, Mary Madison, is loosely made out to be a modern day Mary Magdalene.
Ms Kingsbury brings tears to your eyes as she recounts the years of physical, emotional and …

The Secret is actually a book that I have read and enjoyed so far. It costs about $15.29, and the cover is very interesting. It has a wooden color cover, with the word Secret written in the middle of the book. The word S is highlighted …

“T is for Trespass” is, I think the twentieth book in Sue Grafton’s alphabet series. I say I think because I’ve had trouble with the alphabet ever since I studied Classical Greek in college and had to learn a new alphabet that was similar, but different from the one …

Another book by Lynne Graham that I have read and love would be Second-Time Bride. In this nice memorable novel, Daisy had been married to Alessio Leopardi before, and her marriage had gone all wrong, when Alessio dumped her within months of their wedding. What Alessio doesn’t …

I am a Nicholas Sparks fan, but I think “The Last Song” left a lot to be desired. Most of Sparks’ books put me under a spell that makes me feel as if I am part of every word written. However, this one left me in the …

I love Christmas and it is a time of year I really wish lasted a lot longer. I find the best way to keep Christmas alive all year round is to read books with Christmas as a theme. One book that I particularly enjoy is Debbie Macomber’s …

“Once Aboard The Lugger” written by Arthur Quiller-Couch is a story about how a couple came to meet and fall in love.
The begins with a reverend Samuel Bax who comes to Troy to preach full time. It’s apparent that he is single, and all the women–the single ones–have their …