Rich Dad Poor Dad is a fantastic book which I guess every person on the planet should read because everyone wants to make money in today’s world. This book is written by Robert T. Kiyosaki along with Sharon L. Lecher. This book opens our eyes to the fact that …

What a beautiful, painfully honest and revealing memoir this is, by Judy Garland’s younger daughter and Liza Minnelli’s half sister, Lorna Luft. This is a fantastic read and it provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of two superstars and the addiction that tore them apart, as well …

In My Wildest Dreams is a wonderful combination of humor and romance set in England in the 1840’s. This novel introduces us to Celeste daughter of the Throckmorton gardener and hopelessly in love with the younger Throckmorton son. Celeste leaves the estate at seventeen to attend the …

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 …

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 …

Brightly woven is a fantasy novel for young adults,told from the point of view of seventeen-year-old Sydelle Mirabil. Sydellen has grown up in a remote desert village and dreams of escaping her dull life to travel and experience new sights and people,and have a few adventures. When the opportunity …

The Bone Collector was written by Jeffrey Deaver and published by Signet in 1998.
I love Lincoln Rhyme’s mysteries, though I wish I had read this before The Empty Chair. This story came out as a poor second to the Empty Chair, which really had me on edge throughout …

This is Scott Lynch’s first novel and a valiant effort that enjoyed a good deal of success. I was hooked by the title and the cover so I had to pick up this fantasy novel and check it out. The novel is all about the life and lies of …

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 …

Bitter Virgin is a manga by Kusunoki Kei. It is a four volume long manga with the genre of drama, mature, romance, school life, seinen, slice of life, and tragedy. The manga is about the relationship of high school student Daisuke Suwa and his classmate Hinako Aikawa. Daisuke is the …

What can I say? I love books, reading and writing, and Barnes and Noble has everything the reader in me can desire. The only thing I don’t like is that the prices of books are stupidly expensive, thus I sometimes find what I want to read at Barnes and …

I bought this book a few months ago and read it immediately because I heard so many god things about it. First of all, this book is not the usual Photoshop book which deals with the usual themes such as sharpening an image, cropping or opening up Photoshop. This …

Just seeing the front cover of this paperback novel, and reading the small summary at the back was enough to make me interested in this novel that I found in my aunt’s bookshelf some years ago. Although I thought the book was somewhat interesting, I thought the writing was …

In this genre there isn’t more of an adept storyteller than James Rollins. Another proof of his talent is the novel “The Last Oracle”, part of the series “Sigma Force “, but that could easily be read independently from this one. The story begins in the temple of the …

Every once in a while, I’ll come across a Sherlock Holmes adventure that has a case so realistic, I can’t help but wonder if it was really based off of some sort of top secret incident.
The Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans is just such a story. It revolves …

Law Of Attraction is book that is created by Michael J. Losier which tell us about our mind can make what we dream on can be true. Most of us have used our power of mind to control negative things come to us. We often say that we don’t …

Batman: R.I.P. is a graphic novel by Grant Morrison. It has Batman trying to take down an organization called the Black Glove. A man named Dr. Hurt knows everything about Batman and uses his knowledge to cause Bruce Wayne to have a mental breakdown.
Batman: R.I.P. …

This was one explosive book and I was very hooked on it, reading it while I should have been doing other things. As I flipped the pages the tension kept increasing, as things grew worst for the four teenage Rosewood girls Hanna, Aria, Emily and Spencer. I really sped …

I’d already read Fangirl by the same author, so I thought I may as well try out another one of Rainbow Rowell’s novels. I liked the fact that this is one single novel, and not a trilogy I’d have to struggle through. The blurb wasn’t too exciting, but I …

This is the third installment in the Gossip Girls series fro girls. This one takes place in New York during Christmas to New Years. Blair’s parents are taking a vacation and they are gonna have a baby! Yayyyy! Blair is angry but she doesnt care cause she has much …

This is a great book that has information on a great deal of medications. I found this book to be very complete with the information it lists about each medication. It lists the general use of each medication, the reasons the medication would be used, possible side effects, and …

This is one of the most famous novels by french 20th century author Albert Camus. It tells the story of a man who is slowly drawn into a hideous crime by losing his sympathy for common people the longer the story progresses. He is filled with hate for reasons …

“Dead to the World” is the fourth book in the Sookie Stackhouse novel series written by the popular author Charlaine Harris. I also think that it was even better than the first three novels, and even more interesting than all of them put together. This was mainly because of …

Now if this technology magazine actually cost anything, I would honestly say that it was true value for money, but the fact that it is completely free constitutes my acclaiming it as true value for time instead.
The Tech Smart technology magazine is something I look forward to picking up …

I recently finished reading the autobiography of Russel Brand. For anyone who does not know who he is, he is a British presentor and comedian. His persona is very similar to that of Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean and that of a cheek …

This book title, Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale gave a lot of insights on what perhaps goes in the minds of different artists at any given time. The time set is not in this modern era, but rather a time long before us.
An artist has …

Erdman’s “The Crash of ‘79″ is a very interesting book. I don’t rate it as one of his best such as “Set-up” or “Zero Coupon” but it’s pretty good. The book was publish in 1976 about an economic/nuclear crisis that occurs in 1979.
The book is told largely in the …

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 …

I received two books as a gift from a friend, and one of them was The Undomestic Goddess, by Sophie Kinsella. The book only took me two days to read because I enjoyed it so much, I couldn’t put it down. This book and the other book …

Ouran High School Host Club Manga Volume 2 has the host club trying to figure out how to keep Haruhi’s true gender a secret when the high school has the physical exams.
This was a fun manga, the characters are interesting and the story is a lot of fun. …

‘Breaking Dawn’ is a satisfying close to the amazing Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer.
As usual, this book presents a roller coaster of emotion. You’re happy then you’re sad, worried then relieved. The twists and turns of the book are in some cases predictable, depending on what experiences you have …

John Grisham takes us in the offices of one of the richest men in United States, Troy Phelan. It seems that Phelan’s family was not a family but a group of weird and crazy people. Troy is an eccentric man, never loved by any, but everyone loved his money. …

It is unavoidable not to come across unfamiliar words, whether I am watching movies, reading books or conversing with friends; I always learn new words. Consulting Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus has been included in my routine. I’ve acquired Collins for only Php 100 and yet it has given me …

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer is one of the most popular books for teens. It is a romance novel that includes vampires and werewolves; sounds pretty exciting, huh? When I first read Twilight, I thought the beginning was extremely dull. Nothing seemed to happen for the first half of the …

This book, by Tamora Pierce, is both a social stance and a fantasy adventure, combined in a Young Adult book that kids will both understand and love. This well written, exciting tale begins with four young children, Lady Sandriline fa Toren, the duke’s niece; (10), Trisana Chandler, a merchant’s …

I had read reviews of Mary Higgins Clark’s latest book, I’ll Walk Alone. None of them were very good. But I thought this is Mary Higgins Clark, I love all of her books. So I bought it anyway and sat down to read it as soon …

This was one of the “Fear the Fever” stories that I liked only somewhat. The gist is pretty simple, a man fantasizes about an imaginary woman that he sees in his mind. The story begins, however with the reader getting a glimpse into how the narrator has …

In some ways, I dislike the book, Wifey by Judy Blume. That’s because it proves what marriage could be done in ‘cheating’ ways when it’s not working and I think it might prove to give a bad example to married women out there. However, if someone wants to …

This is definitely a memorable story that I have read, and it is called The Days of Summer, written by Jill Barnett. This story consist of 3 generations of families, which are intertwined by fate and linked automatically. It tells about an oil magnate, Victor Banning, who …

The Dragon Scroll is a detective story with a setting in Japan in the 11th century, when the Japanese government in the Heian period (794-1185). Japan is controlled directly from the capital of Heian Kyo (Kyoto) by an emperor with a complex bureaucracy. In this era, Japan was divided …

Just Me by Sheila Hancock makes me cry buckets of tears. It is a writing of how Sheila related to her widowhood and celebrate her own life; in a lonely but happy way nevertheless. That makes me reminded of my own non-marriage life yet. Would I be …

I came upon Kathy Reichs after I learned that the TV series Bones that I enjoy so much is based on her novels and characters. Cross Bones is one of her later works in the series following the life and cases of her heroine Dr. Temperance Brennan as she …

This book, one of the few books Jane Austen published, is a classic. A story of two very different sisters, and basically, their journey to getting married.
The characters that are actually interesting in this book are actually the comic characters and the more annoying characters. I find the main …

Well this book is amazing no doubt about that. But it is very different from the show on the CW, in the book Tyler who is a werewolf is a rapist and a killer who obviously rapes Caroline who is blonde in the show but brunette in the book …

Easier than you Think because life doesn’t have to be so hard (The Small Changes that Add up to a World of Difference) by Richard Carlson, Ph.D, was a book that I found at my library that turned out to be just as I expected, a nice little motivational/inspirational …

“The Warlords of Nin” by Stephen Lawhead is Book 2 of the Dragon King Series. It continues the story of Quentin, no longer a boy but a young man in service to the king of Mensandor. The book begins with the king being very ill, and the doctors unable …

Scott Lazenby used to be a city manager for a small city in real life. He wrote this book, “Playing with Fire”, as a fictional account of the goings on within city government. From the very beginning Lazenby grabs your attention with tles of the wild people city officials …

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 …

Tom Clancy’s Patriot Games is the story of John Patrick Ryan, an American ex - Marine and a history teacher who is on holiday in London with his wife and daughter when he foils a terrorist ambush and is wounded in the process. On waking up in hospital, he …

When I was a kid I never was interested in reading books because at that time I was too busy playing the Sega console or the Playstation 1. But these series of books were an exception though for me.
I was first introduced to these books by my brother. He …