The Hunger Games was a book I was hesitant to pick up. I hadn’t read a young-adult book in years and they weren’t my thing. After a fair bit of hounding from my nephew I finally decided to give it a try, and I’m very glad I did.
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After passing the period in which Nostradamus scared me with his apocalyptic predictions, land of prophets not interested me at all. That is why, the name Edgar Cayce did not say a word to me nor I expected to find myself in this book a modern Nostradamus: perhaps just …

Risk Management and Insurance by US academics Scott Harrington and Gregory Niehaus is designed for use in introductory risk management and insurance courses. The book is generally aimed at the MBA level or second level risk management courses.
The second edition, published in 2003, is a significant improvement on the …

It’s easy to see why Artemis Fowl made it as a New York Times bestseller. This book was based on an interesting idea and had lots of clever explanations for how the world of fairies and the world of humans interact.
Artemis Fowl himself is occasionally a bit too convenient …

For ladies especially, I’ve read this book, Better than Beauty: A Guide to Charm and it is so charmingly lovely and amazing. I cannot put the book down at all. The color of the book enticed me totally that I took it just by the first glance and …

This is a really odd book that I never would have picked up for myself; however, I was pleasantly surprised when I began reading what was a gift to my dad from one of his friends. They are both outdoorsy people, and they often trade books as Christmas gifts. …

The sixth book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was not such a page-turner for me as I expected. This was the first time that I waited for the release of the book, and in fact, I reserved a copy from my favorite bookstore. …

The Icelandic Sagas are one of the most extensive bodies of Medieval prose that still exist, or for that matter were produced at the time. These tales of the Icelanders are written extremely well, and read just as fresh today as they did to the Icelanders who were …

This book was selling at 50% off - and it looked interesting so I grabbed it! It is about 2 kids, Chris and Emily who grew up together and eventually fell in love (as hoped for by their parents who were neighbours).
The story traced their lives from how …

Survivor tells the story of the last surviving member of a death cult. He is recording his life story into the flight recorder of a plane that he has taken over and is about to crash. He is telling the story of why he did not die with the …

Bhyrappa knits the story around that kind of principle of era of Mahabharata, an Indian Cult Clasic, helps the fact that you nod by any means and is not possible, - all qualities dual characteristic the problem which you think, and justify his/her behavior of thing and the raw on-target …

Saw an episode of Oprah where Geneen Roth was talking about her book. Actually my step-mother is a big Oprah watcher and she knows that I have issues with food and she thought it would be a good one for me to watch. So I let her show it …

I think that most people know their sign in the Eastern Zodiac. Whenever I talk to someone about astrology we usually come to the topic of Chinese astrology. I realized that we don’t know much about it except for our signs. It’s easy to figure it out since the …

Jane Eyre is a wonderful book written by the talented author Charlotte Bronte. This book is about a shy, homely looking girl who endures many hardships and heartbreaks throughout her life but seems to overcome each one with a tremendous amount of honesty, courage and hope. This book is …

Sometimes an author really shakes up his reader’s expectations. This is what happened to me when I started “The Sorcerer of the North,” book five in The Ranger’s Apprentice series by Australian novelist John Flanagan. Flanagan’s first four books in the series had Will training under Halt to become …

I think that this is the cheapest bargain book that I’ve ever bought and read for about $4.95. Perhaps, there are already lots of historical romances story in the market, including this one.
This is a love story between the characters, Miss Silver Meredith, and Adam, Marquess of Rockingham. …

From the thousand books I’ve read since my youth, this is the book that I held with utmost respect. I treat it as my personal Bible. It is because of this book that I am now enjoying the fruits of my labor, and that I am …

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was an undisputed literary genius. He produced several masterpieces (”The Brothers Karamazov”, “The Idiot”, “Crime and Punishment”, “Demons”) that are well known to most lovers of literature in this world. “The Insulted and Humiliated” is not even close to being one of these masterpieces.
I suspect the …

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” …

The man who Clown enlisted arrives at a club to meet a man named Claudio. While he’s initially let in, albeit reluctantly, a group of thugs insist that he leave. They drag him out to a back alley. When a bunch of rowdy drunks wander into …

I have recently read all three books in the ‘Dark Materials’ trilogy by Phillip Pullman. All three books were equally interesting, it wasn’t one of these series where the first book seems good and then the rest fall flat and the story line was well maintained through all …

Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine” was a tough book for me to read. This wasn’t because it was badly written. On the contrary, the writing was very clear and straightforward. It was tough to read because of the subject matter.
The book details an influential movement in the United States …

First published as “Northern Lights,” Pullman’s book came to the U.S. as “The Golden Compass” and was recently made into a major motion picture.
The Golden Compass has been my favorite book since I was in 6th grade. I had no idea at that time that there was any anti-religious …

Dr. Myss is an amazing pioneer and writer in the field of energy medicine, and I find her writing thought-provoking and enjoyable. In the Anatomy of Spirit (the Seven Stages of Power and Healing) she finds and explores parallels between the spiritual traditions of the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life, …

Tragic Wand was written by James Tucker and published by Onyx in 2000.
It took me two years to read this book. I started the first chapter, then put it aside; then tried to restart a number of times, until recently I managed to plod past the first third; …

David Kroenke is an amazing author of technical computer books, and this title is no exception. In “Database Processing: Fundamentals, Design, and Implementation”, he explains clearly and thoroughly everything any college student would need to know about databases and SQL. Starting with the basics, he introduces you to the …

Dracula is often associated with the figure always bloodthirsty. History records, Dracula was a prince who came from Wallachia (Romania) and named Vlad Tapes. This vampire legend was adopted by Bram Stroker for his novel titled Dracula (1897). Although the novel does not mention the name of Vlad Tepes, …

Tatted Snowflakes by Vida Sunderman is a tatting pattern book filled with, you’ll never guess, patterns for tatting a variety of snowflakes.
Even though I was not a beginning tatter when I purchased the Tatted Snowflakes book it does have a small section on how to tat on the introduction …

I think it is the duty of anyone living in the western world post-9/11 to read this book. With all the intense discrimination going on towards any person who even LOOKS like they may be from the eastern part of the world (the countries where these terrorists came …

‘For One More Day’ is one of the best sellers written by Mitch Albom. I came across it after work, loitering around bookshops in shopping centre. I couldn’t stop without taking a look.
It revolves around a baseball player who�s past his glory day. He was having marital problems, and …

I read “the Dog of the South” by Charles Portis on the recommendation of a friend. This is a good book and I recommend it to others.
The dog of the south was written and is set in the American South in the 1970’s. This novel …

Cynthia Richmond is the author for the book called Dream Power. This book has some useful methods on how to churn out those dreams into making it a real success for all of us. I think the basic underlining to this book isn’t about whether the dream …

Dean Koontz has been one of my favourite authors for a long time. He has kept up his writing standard in this book too, making it a VERY GOOD read. I won’t mention the storyline here because i would then spoil the suspense, the book being by Koontz, the …

The Real Bettie Page by Richard Foster
This biography of the legendary pin up queen is revealing in more ways than one.
Page had fallen off the face of the earth shortly after her glory days as a 1950’s pin up queen and biographic data was quite sketchy. In the late …

James Bassil wrote this book title, The Guy’s Guide to Romance: The 11 Rules for Finding a Woman & Making Her Happy. This is a book from the site AskMen.com and though I’m not a guy, I’m more than happy to be reading this book and find out the …

This was the first Harry Potter book that I read and at first I did not like the smart alec little boy. However as I got into the book, the charchter Harry Potter grew on you
I enjoyed how the relationship between Ron, Hermonine and Harry grew. I enjoyed …

John Steinbeck’s second novel, “To a God Unknown,” is religious in nature, garnering elements from the Bible, but placed in a contemporary and American setting–the 1800’s–and is the story of Joseph Wayne.
Joseph is rooted in Vermont, but longs to travel to California and build a life for himself; however, …

In this volume Nodame, Chiaki, Tanya and Kuroki go to the castle where Nodame’s recital will be hold. Although the owner of the castle seems to be a Mozart maniac, Nodame’s recital ends up being a success.
I think this volume is one of the funniest that I have read …

The book (as well as the movie) is publicized to be about how a woman who had everything but decided to live the simple life. But all I could think of when I’m reading the book, is that she really didn’t leave behind everything and she didn’t particularly lived …

By the early 70’s, The Amazing Spiderman’s popularity far exceeded Marvel Comics expectations an was on track to becoming of the most endearing figures in pop culture. Yet, during the character’s first decade in print never branched out into having various monthly periodicals dedicated to him. The only notable …

Nightmare In Pink , written by John MacDonald, was published by Ballantine Books in 1995.
Travis McGee was requested by his war buddy to help his sister, Nina. Her fiancé had been killed in a mugging. He had worked for Armister-Hawes, an investment company handling the …

This is the second book in the “Pretty Little Liars” series by Sara Shepard. I really loved the first book and while this one was not as exciting, it was still very good. The mystery from the first book continues here and I was still trying to guess who …

This book written by Dr. Suzanne Gudanskunst is one of the best fitness books I read because of the following reasons: One, it deals with weight loss inside out, discussing all aspects of weight loss which you need to know, and probably which doctors fail or don’t want to …

I read this book, The Best Damn Google AdSense Book: How to make dollars instead of cents with Adsense by Harry J. Misner and I was so amazed at how some people could make as much money as $500 and more. $100 already sounds good enough to be earned …

Final Curtain was written by Ngaio Marsh, and published by Berkley Publishing Group in 1980.
A common story about a rich domineering patriarch with a dysfunctional family the mix of greedy, parasitic family members plus a young gold-digger fiancée from the lower classes.
Troy, the wife …

Tiny but concise, this book is a great travel companion for anyone who’s on the way to Seoul. This book has it all - shopping, hotels, transportation, restaurants. In true Lonely Planet fashion, the book begins with a section on history and culture, great reading for anyone who is …

Natural First Aid by Brigitte Mars is the best book I have ever read on first aid and the only book I’ve ever found on the subject of natural first aid. Included in the book are herbal treatments for ailments and injuries, emergency preparedness and wilderness safety. …

This teenage fantasy novel reads like a bad version of Harry Potter, except it has a conspiracy of evil librarians instead of bad wizards. Both have main characters that are orphans (with missing or dead parents), magic in the plot and a secret magical world that is hidden from …

I am a big fan of the writings of George R.R. Martin, particularly his Song of Ice and Fire series. I have been reading the series ever since A Game of Thrones came out years ago. That being said, I have never read his short story, “The …

This was actually my brother’s atlas when he was still doing Geography in his first period of high school, but these days I find myself referring to it from time to time when I can’t find my atlas for mostly minor referrences.
The Macmillan Caribbean Certificate Atlas 3rd Edition …