Books Reviews
The Highlander’s Touch by Karen Marie Moning
“The Highlander’s Touch” is the third book in Moning’s highlander series. Although each highlander book technically stands alone they have common elements that ties them all together. This book is the story of Circenn Brodie, a 14th century Scotsman and laird of Castle Brodie, and Lisa Stone a 21st …
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
This book has changed my mind set about money. The book tells a story of two dads. The first was an educated professor, while the other was a dropout. In their lives, these two dads had different opinions about money. The educated one tended to say that he can’t …
Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
I love books that have a reversed twist to it. What do I mean by that? For instance, in movies or in books whereby there’s a bad guy in the story, but when you look into it, actually the bad guy turns out to be a good …
Love Mercy by Earlene Fowler
Earlene Fowler has some serious guts. She was able to bring main characters from another series and place them into the supporting roles of this hopefully new one. The best part! I didn’t feel cheated since they weren’t the main focus as they are in the Harper series! …
The Empty Nesters by Nina Bell book
Family dramas are some of my favourite novels to read and when I first heard about Nina Bell’s latest novel The Empty Nesters, I just knew this would be the novel for me. I have to admit that I have not read any of Nina’s previous novels, although I …
Three little words a memoir Ashley Rhodes Courter
This is a fantastic book that will touch the hearts of many. If you are a foster mom/dad or work in the social services field - I recommend reading this book. It gives so much insight. I felt like I was writing passages of this book …
Stephenie Meyer - The host book
I must say, this is way different than Twilight and in my opinion, a lot better. It targets a more mature reading audience and manages to keep your attention throughout the pages. You can’t really decide whose side you are on until the very end.
It deals with a little …
Red Leaves : Tale of Murder and Suicides by Thomas H. Cook
Eric Moore’s life is perfect for many people. He has a business, have a wife who loved family, and the boy who was always obedient. However, when everything looks perfect, Eric Moore destruction of life began to happen. Everything begins with the disappearance of Amy Giordano, the son of …
The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill
Susan Hill, the author of “The Woman in Black,” has written this Gothic novella as a “ghost story.” As a chilling, Gothic tail, it works well. I read it in one sitting on a sunny spring day instead of a cold winter’s night, but I found it to be …
The Rangers Apprentice: Book 5 The Sorcerer of the North
The Ranger’s Apprentice: Book 5: The Sorcerer of the North has Will Treaty now a full-fledged Ranger five years after the Battle for Skandia. Will investigates the rumors of a sorcerer after the Lord of the Fief he is assigned to suddenly and mysteriously becomes ill.
This was a …
Lust for Life by Adele Parks
In Lust for Life by Adele Parks, I sometimes hate the main character, Bella. She is someone that is perhaps a bit selfish and too reckless. She and Stevie got married during her teenage years and I think that’s pretty rushing and while their young blood are raging …
Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew
Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew is book about a unique gardening concept pioneered by Mel in the early 80’s. The book starts off rather slow and gets into the history behind Mel’s concept. Essentially Mel describes a method that involves building a box with separate 12 foot …
Book Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight is a book written by Stephenie Meyer. A blockbuster movie was released recently as an adaptation of the book. While every gushed over how romantic the movie was, I skipped watching it- not until I read the book.
Now that I finished the book, I would like to share …
Children’s Book: Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman
“Trashy Town” is a children’s book written by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha, and illustrated by Dan Yaccarino. Although it is a perfectly cute little book, I am confused about why it took three different people to create it. I would like to think I could create …
Codex Alera: Furies of Calderon- Jim Butcher
A book that combines two concepts- Pokemon and Roman legions. Precisely how good can such a book get?
This was the question Jim Butcher, author of the series The Dresden Files, set out to answer, in his latest series, Codex Alera. Using the concept of Pokemon to create elemental …
Hitts & Mrs
The latest that I have finished reading would be the book title, Hitts & Mrs, written by the very amazing Black writer, Lori Bryant-Woolridge. She has received an Emmy before for her writing and I salute her.
This novel is a romantic one at that, but not really laced …
Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning
Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning is a book about a girl playing in a band and having a big ambition to strike it big. She has this particular band formed and her best buddies are all in the band.
And suddenly the band receives a record deal and that means …
Pillsbury Halloween Fun Cookbook
The Pillsbury Halloween Fun Book may look small on the outside, and something that anyone might think would not be useful in finding delicious and spooky looking foods for the Halloween season. But that is definitely not the case with this book. It small that’s true, but the book …
Self Incrimination by Randy Singer
I read this wonder book called Self Incrimination written by critically acclaimed author Randy Singer. Randy Singer is a trial lawyer who has a wife and two children living in Georgia. All of his books are Christian Suspense novels.
This particular book is about a young inexperienced Lawyer named Leslie …
Web of Love by Mary Balogh
Web of Love is written by Mary Balogh and this book is light-bluish in color for its cover and certainly nice looking enough for me to bring everywhere at all. Mary Balogh is a New York Times author and she is a bestselling author. I love her …
Sweet Valley High: Jessica’s Secret Diary (Book)
This book is one of the bests in the Sweet Valley High series. It’s one of Jessica’s secret diaries, and it features her deepest darkest secrets, the ones I never knew she had feelings for, and I was surprised that this side of Jessica had been opened up, it …
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale Book by Holly Black
Do you ever wonder why the best fictional adventures seem to happen to the same class of people over and over again? Most fairy tales involve the fey folk interacting with poor, honest families. The child protagonist is usually highly moral yet misunderstood. Well, author Holly Black stuck to …
A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer
This is the third in a series. This book covers the END of Dave’s journey through foster care. It then covers his life in the Air force, his marriage, the birth of his son Steven and his struggles as an adult that is overcoming childhood abuse (at …
Arora’s Pictorial Dictionary of Science
My husband purchased this book for his niece, who is a student of 9th std. I gone through this book.It is informative and educative .That’s why I suggest this book.It is an ideal reference book that can be used at home or school.This is a useful dictionary for …
Princeton SAT Physics Subject Test Preparation Guide
I utilized the SAT Princeton Physics Subject Test Preparation Guide to get ready for the SAT Physics Subject Test earlier this year, in November. I spent approximately 100 hours reading the text (enough to get through it once and finish a practice exam), and I was quite satisfied with …
Choke by Chuck Phalaniuk
Victor Mancini is a medical school dropout who has found a way to pay for his mother’s expensive health care; he chokes. In this story, the main character named Victor goes to a variety of restaurants such as Chinese, Greek, Spanish, and more. He proceeds to order a plate …
The Kind Diet By Alicia Silverstone
If you want to learn more about the vegan diet in a simple and easy to understand way then this is the perfect book for you to read. Alicia Silverstone is by far one of my favorite actresses and I …
The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini
If some one asks me which is the nostalgic story I have read recently, my answer would be The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini. The book looks at childhood friendship in a fresh evergreen way. The way of writing of the author is very emotional style and keeps …
Superman/Doomsday
Where were you when Superman and Doomsday fought to the finish in the legendary ‘Death of Superman’ storyline that appeared in DC Comics 15 years ago? What about the subsequent Return of Doomsday storylines? How about the one shots that dealt with the origin of Doomsday? What about the …
Secrets of Dreams
We all know that we all dream. What we do not know is why we dream, or what the dreams that we have mean. “Secrets of Dreams” is a book that was written by Caro Ness, and published by Natural Health Magazine.
Did you know that we spend an …
Life And Times Of Michael K By J M Coetzee
Michael K, is a 30 years something of harelip of the intelligence which makes short as a landscape gardener, around that daily life walking. He does not expect many from life or society and, does not understand the very basic thing of life. However, that center free life …
Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 book
It is quite safe to say that Haruki Murakami is the most famous Japenese writer nowadays, with the sales of his books going into millions and millions. Although he is often criticised for being “Paulo Coelho of Japanese literature”, but to my mind he’s a really talented writer, capable …
This Isn’t The Life I Signed Up For by Donna Partow
This is a life changing book! I don’t know any woman who would not benefit from reading this book; it addresses things we all face. The outcome is to take a good look at your life and your reaction to it. This is a resource to …
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights is a classic book written by nineteenth century Victorian writer Emily Bronte. In fact, as far as I know this book is the only novel book written by her although she have wrote some well known poems during her time. In my own personal opinion, …
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets on audicassette
This is a review on the book Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. This book is on audiocassettes. There are 6 cassettes with a reading time of 9 hrs, 18 mins. It can be purchased for $35.00 at Borders.
This books is written by …
Sherlock Holmes Stories
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories is awesome. My boyfriend is a huge Sherlock Holmes fan so I bought this for him just a few months ago. It has all the short stories in there along with annotations on the side and historical information as well …
Entrepreneur Magazine’s Start Your Own Blogging Business
If you are interested in starting a blog to make money, I suggest you read, Entrepreneur Magazine’s Start Your Own Blogging Business. This book is a great resource for beginners. It is a step-by-step guide that will help you from the start your blog to how to …
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, book
It took me almost 40 days to read the Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, not because it’s bad, but because it’s slow and very dense and personally, I’m a slow reader. Let’s start off with the plot summary. I would say we have two central characters, Don …
Twilight By Stephenie Meyer
Newly World Famous author, Stephenie Meyer, Captured the hearts of many with her tall tales of a deep and passionate, yet forbidden love between predator and it’s prey. When Fearless, Clumsy Isabella Swan moved from Sunny Arizona to live with her Father in Forks, Washington a whole new chapter …
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Book
I was utterly surprised at how short and simple this global phenomenon was. I thought I would have to squeeze my brains out to understand the message so much so that when I got to the end of it, I couldn’t believe that the message was staring straight at …
The Fools of God and the Art of Simple Living book
I had never heard of this book, but when I finally did, the book was praised for its informative perspective social and psychological constructs that have dictated much of societal ideologies. The fact that the book addressed suppression of religion fascinated me a bit as I am one open …
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
As much as I prefer adult fiction romance and romantic comedy over teenage fiction, I do have to admit that Just Listen by Sarah Dessen is pretty awesome and it got me hooked. No kidding. The storyline is very good and I won’t look down on teen fiction …
“Got Fight?” by Forrest Griffin and Erich Kruass book
I just picked up a copy of UFC star Forrest Griffin’s book and really enjoyed it. It’s called “Got Fight,” and was written by Forrest with some help from Erich Kruass. If you’re a fan of the man or just the UFC and mixed martial arts in general, then …
Myth-ing Persons by Robert Asprin
Myth-ing Persons was my second foray into the wonderful world of Robert Asprin’s Myth series. My first was Myth Directions, the third book of the series. Keeping with my tradition of never reading a series in perfect chronological order I skipped ahead to the 5th book in …
Mars and Venus on a Date
Okay, seems that Mars and Venus on a Date (A Guide for Navigating the 5 Stages of Dating to Create a Loving and Lasting Relationship)is a really long and massive title. But this self-help book really scores points with me and I mean a lot of points at …
City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare book
Minor spoilers in this review:
City of Fallen Angels is the fourth book in the Mortal Instruments series. This book picks up where City of Glass left off after the war against Valentine, who was defeated. Clary has begun to train as a Shadowhunter and she is finally dating Jace. …
Dolores Claiborne (Book)
This classic from Stephen King seems as overlooked as the film it would later inspire. That’s a crying shame, because King does not only deliver us an interesting heroine with Dolores, but practices with an engaging style.
The book reads as a continuous narrative, as Dolores recounts her …
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is one of my favorite novels. Although the second part of it is a bit rushed (I couldn’t help feeling that Dumas had gotten a little tired of the story and was in a hurry to finish it), it is a …
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