Books Reviews
Robin: Year One Book 4 of 4
Robin: Year One Book 4 of 4 concludes the Robin: Year One miniseries written by Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty. Dick Grayson has infiltrated a group called the “Vengeance Academy”, lead by a man named Shrike. It’s a school for young assassins and their target is Two-Face. …
A Survival Guide for Working with Humans
I had become a supervisor of people that I had worked with as line staff for many years, and found out that a lot of people don’t necessarily like that kind of thing. While I thought going into supervision was going to be kind of like being a first …
Star Trek: The Art of the Film
“Star Trek: The Art of the Film” by Mark Cotta Vaz is a book that I enjoyed looking through and reading quite a lot. Packed within the front and back covers of this book is a whole lot of interesting and detailed concept art. What is concept art? Well, …
Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series By Laurell K. Hamilton
Let me preface this by saying, I read a LOT and LOVE books, but have found few who can compare to Laurell K. Hamilton when it comes to the vamps and weres. Her main character in the books, Anita Blake, is ballsy beyond words and ever so very …
Wishes by Jude Deveraux book
Jude Deveraux has once again created a masterpiece in this book. With a touch of romance, comedy, fantasy and magic, Wishes is a story of a modern-day Cinderella that will surely captivate each reader’s heart.
Set in Chandler, Colorado in 1896, Wishes is the story of Nellie Grayson, a fat …
Invasive Procedures by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
Okay, now I’m really annoyed at Orson Scott Card.
Orson Scott Card is an extremely well-known and *good* science fiction writer. He did not write this book.
Invasive Procedures is a novel based on a screenplay by Aaron Johnston which was based on a short story that Card wrote in 1977. …
Moon Called, Mercy Thomspon Series, Book One
Patricia Briggs has proven herself to be a writer with which to be reckoned, because she has a mean way with words that will undoubtedly leave you feeling thrilled and begging for more.
In the first book of the Mercy Thomspon series, Moon Called, we get to meet our …
Imagining Karma
The author of this book talks about Karma and how across the world Karma is seen as a very important thing. She analyzed the idea of rebirth which was started in India and has spread since.
However, I could not agree with the nature of this book. I …
Night Rise by Anthony Horowitz
Nightrise is a novel by Anthony Horowitz, and is the third book in “The power of five” series, after “Evil Star” and “Raven’s Gate”.
Unlike the two books preceding it, this book follows Scott and Jamie Tyler, telepathic twins. I find this strange to have two of the five in …
Sebastian by Anne Bishop
This is a dark fantasy novel about an Incubus (a male sex demon) named Sebastian who has fallen in love with an innocent human woman. I don’t think I ever read a story about an Incubus before and I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it turned out to …
The Dallas Woman’s Guide To Gold Digging With Pride
The novel The Dallas Women’s Guide To Gold Digging With Pride written by J.C. Conklin is not the typical type of book I grab. I was at the library and decided that I needed a couple of books that were “light reading” and this was one that I …
Amazon Kindle 2 Leather Cover
I bought ‘Amazon kindle 2 leather cover’ because it is designed as official leather book cover for Kindle 2 and is stylish as well as protective and comfortable at the same time. The black leather is genuine and well built and offers best cover for my Kindle. You only …
Ultimate Spiderman 10: Hollywood
Ultimate Spiderman 10: Hollywood
This is another great trade paperback in the Ultimate Spiderman line as Spidey has to once again face off with the menace of Dr. octopus.
Spiderman heads west to put a stop to an “unauthorized” movie about his life and who doeshe happen to cross paths with? …
An Echo In The Darkness by Francine Rivers
‘An Echo in the Darkness’ is the second book of Francine Rivers’ trilogy ‘Mark of the Lion’. Hadassah is miraculously saved from the lions by a young Greek doctor, but her face is left badly scarred and she walks with a limp. On the other hand, Marcus, who doesn’t …
The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets
“The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets - Shambhala Centaur Editions” by Sam Hamill is a lovely poetry book that is decorated with beautiful haiku that capture simple moments in nature and enrich those moments with vivid details and expressions. If you have relatively …
Multimedia and Web design by Vikas Gupta
Multimedia and Web design by Vikas Gupta is a wonderful book for all the web creators. The authour have enough experience in the animation field to write about Multimedia. It’s definitely fantastic to see if your website contains Graphics and animation to attract the users. So …
Don’t Stop me Now by Jeremy Clarkson
Don’t stop me now is a hilarious compilation of reviews Jeremy Clarkson has written about cars. Each review has a charming hook that sometimes has you wondering how he is going to segue into cars, but he always manages it comfortably. Once in a while it can be a …
Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds Miniseries
If there was one complaint that I had about DC Comics’ “Final Crisis” event last year, it was the delays. Just about every book had a serious delay in the printing that led to the story coming out months late; mostly, from what I understand, the delay was …
Start Your Own Blogging Business
Start Your Own Blogging Business by J.S.McDougall is one of Entrepreneur Press’ Start-Up series of small business books. I’ve always read Entrepreneur Press books with a measure of reserve, given their propensity for jumping into the latest small-business cattle drive - whatever it is!
However, Start Your own Blogging …
The Secret of the Growing Gold by Bram Stoker
The first time I read Bram Stoker’s short story The Secret of the Growing Gold, I stopped halfway through because it was confusing me. I had expected a tale of horror and I was instead getting a tale of scandal.
However, once I did read it throughout, I found it …
Windows Vista Tips & Tricks by Stuart Yarnold
I updated to Windows Vista around 18 months ago, but even after that amount of time, I was still having problems with certain areas such as screensavers, wallpapers and other bizaar Vista issues.
I’m fairly certain anyone who is not a techno geek, will have had problems with the Vista …
Catching Fire-Hunger Games 2-Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire is the second book in the series The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. And boy is it amazing! Catching Fire starts off where The Hunger Games left off, Katniss is back to normal life after she partook in the Hunger Games, at least as normal as someone …
Amazing Grace by Danielle Steel
Amazing Grace is a fine example of another one of Danielle Steel’ sgreatest books. I could not put this book down. It truly shows the spirit of kindness in strangers when put in a tragic situation. It had me crying and laughing and brought out the …
The Naked Face
For fans of Sidney Sheldon, This novel may have a very long time you ever read. Base memoir owned by Sheldon, The Naked Face is a novel first published. Indeed, this long novel, but I love it with the story. I seem to prefer the Naked Face than Windmill …
Handbook of Play Therapy with Aggressive Children
Handbook of Play Therapy with Aggressive Children
by Dr. David Crenshaw and Dr. John Mordock
As a child therapist one of the most difficult cases that I have to work with is the aggressive child.. As therapists, we are seeing more and more children where these dynamics exist. This book is …
The epic of Gilgamesh
—˜The epic of Gilgamesh’ is a translation by N K Sandars. The author has written this book in a style very interesting to read. The epic of Gilgamesh is one of the most interesting. This book is a very good one and it is worthy to be read for …
Stories We Could Tell by Tony Parsons
This book Stories We Could Tell by Tony Parsons is awesome. It is during the rock and roll era sort of and I find the writer amazingly writing this story. Again by Tony Parsons and this time, it’s about Terry, Ray and other colorful characters in the story.
The …
The Melted Coins - The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon
In this book for boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, teenage sons of the famous detective Hardy, help their father on many of his cases, and also often get their own cases. Sometimes the cases they get are related to the cases that their father is working on.
In The Melted …
Martha Stewart : Homekeeping Handbook
In a bookstore I saw this big book by Martha Stewart titled Homekeeping Handbook - The Essential Guide to Caring Everything in Your Home. The glossy pages and the simple photos attracted me to buy it. It’s a 700pages plus book so it’s really heavy. Imagine how comprehensive it …
Stay, novel by Deb Caletti
I’d never read anything by Deb Caletti before. Stay was the first and it really surpassed my expectations!
When Clara and Christian meet each other, the attraction is immediate. From the very first time their eyes meet, they know they HAVE to be together. Clara used to be shy, …
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
‘The Joy Luck Club’ by Amy Tan is a truly mesmorizing novel about the relationship between mother and daughter. With sixteen- that’s right, sixteen!- tales spanning three generations, ‘The Joy Luck Club’ will entertain and captivate from beginning to end!
The book is broken up into sections based on the …
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, a book by Steig Larrson
This book was very hard for me to enjoy and oddly enough I really wanted to enjoy it. I had heard such good things about it from others that when I finally picked it up and started reading I was underwhelmed.
It started off talking about a whole lot …
Rora by James Byron Huggins
My husband gave me a book that he was really excited about. I think it is one of his favorites. It is now on my favorites list too. The book is Rora by James Byron Huggins. Rora is around 480 pages and was published in …
Powerbooks
I’ve always loved books and I read every chance I get. When I visit the shopping malls, I make it a point to visit bookstores and watch out for sales. The problem is some books can be really expensive.
But when I had my first job as a Sales …
Essential Experiments for Chemistry by Morrison and Scodellaro book
Essential Experiments for Chemistry by Morrison and Scodellaro is a book that contains many excellent experiments that are critical to the Chemistry 12 course in the British Columbia education system (or a pre-university equivalent). It contains many laboratories from testing the boiling point of water and the formation of …
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Sciezska
I recently bought “The Stinky Cheese Man” for a children’s literature class, but I first read it in elementary school. The book is full of wackily illustrated fractured fairy tales, which give a new and strange perspective to the classics. The book is illustrated by Lane Smith and won …
Peterson Field Guides
As long as I can remember, I have had at least one or two books in the Peterson Field Guides series, all edited by Roger Tory Peterson. At the moment, although I am not a rabid bird watcher, I have a copy of “Western Birds” which I take everywhere …
Red Sky In The Morning by Elizabeth Laird
I read this Novel back in the late 1990s, after chancing upon it during a garage sales of a bookshop.
I bought it as I thought it was cheap and I needed a book to pass my free time. Well, I must say that the title was the only unique …
Marked - House of Night Series
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 …
Raymond And Nelda by Barbara Bottner
If you’re looking for a children’s book about friendship, you might want to check this one out. This is a story about Raymond and Nelda, two best friends who are never apart… until one day they get into a fight over some silly thing. They part ways, and start …
Also sprach Zarahustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche book
obsessions with literary writing that captivates the reader and does not let go.
The german philosopher has often been accused of far-right ideas and the promotion of racial discrimination, but many forget that he did nothing but write philosophical fiction and try to push the man on the path to …
Principle of Economics by A . Banerjee and D. Mazumdar
If you find economics very tough then here is a book which can simply solve and simplify it for you. It’s very simple and easy to understand.Deals with the most difficult of subject in a very simple and easy way which is good for students who find the subject …
Dead Souls by Ian Rankin
Dead Souls was written by Ian Rankin and first published by St Martin’s Paperbacks in 2000.
Inspector John Rebus was indeed worried his colleague, Jim Margolis had committed suicide; a released pedophile, Darren Rough, was staying in a community with children, and the son of his ex-flame was …
The Drifters by James Michener
The Drifters by James Michener tells the story of six young adults during the 1960’s. It is told from the perspective of a middle-aged man who befriends the group and serves as a bridge between their world and that of their parents. The Drifters was published in …
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