I love books like this; The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women: by Naomi Wolf. This is a very powerful-voice type of book and if you are a woman, you have to make it a point to read books like this. It has such …

Charles Martin rightly stands out among U.S. writers, and his new books are eagerly awaited by many. Including me. That’s why the appearance in my library of THE WATER KEEPER was a damn joyous event. Only one thing bothered me: whether this novel will reach the author’s other works?
Not …

I don’t think I can read this series anymore. The last few books I read were such a disappointment. It wasn’t even the plot that killed it. It’s the lack of development for the characters. What was funny and intriguing about them at the beginning, is now annoying and …

Once again, with her Dragonriders of Pern novel The White Dragon, Anne McCaffrey takes us through a magical, mysterious world of dragons, noble heros, and memorable situations. With every single one of her stories, we remember the time the hero saved the day; the first single, wonderful moment of …

Babyville is a novel by Jane Green that focuses on the lives of three women. At the beginning of the novel, Julia is in a long-term relationship and is desperate to have a baby, Sam is married and expecting her first child, and Maeve is a commitment-phobic career …

I have used many Thesauruses to complete my work in my many years as a student. However, I think I could rightfully say that this one is one of the best I have used. It has many features which make it both user friendly, and at the same time …

I love books, especially obscure ones. Several years ago I was looking through a book bargain bin and I saw this title “Babbeltower” by A.S. Byatt. I had no clue who A.S. Byatt was or if she knew how to write a good …

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 …

In the 20th volume of Nodame Cantabile, we get to see the progress of the competition where Yun Long, Tanya and Kiyora take part. Yun Long doesn’t have much luck, and Tanya gets eliminated soon too. That means she’ll have to go back to her country. However, that’s the …

The Witcher saga consists of two short story collections and five novels, each dealing with tales of the witcher Geralt of Rivia and his companions. The Witchers, in Sapkowski’s written world, are genetically enhanced monster slayers who are hired for money to kill the beasts that horrify the peaceful …

My secret public vice is reading children’s books, especially if they have lots of pictures. I have to say that my all-time favorites are by Dr. Seuss, but I do love this little book by Wende and Harry Devlin. It’s 38 pages, and every page has a …

There is just something about old centuries’ love and it has a special feeling when we read it. Agree..? I think that is so. The story sees through a woman in love and making sure she follows her destiny right up till the end.
There are …

This book, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon is powerful and awesome! Maybe it has got something to do with 3 authors or that love topic is just so general and diverse that one can never stop talking or best, write about …

Ken Blanchard became famous for his runaway best seller The One Minute Manager way back in the 1980s. This book seems to have been written with the same gung ho spirit: turn your customers into raving fans. Yes, this is a cheerleading book, co-authored by Blanchard, the …

“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte is not a book I would have chosen to read; I mean, I had not even heard of it before, I was introduced to it when I had to read it for my university class.
I should start by saying that I’m a …

Space Medic is a book written by Harry Harrison and published by Puffin books in 1983 (first publishing was in 1970).
I acquired this book at a library sale, where they were selling off books for a song (well, twenty cents actually). I noticed this, and thought it was a …

Meaning of three cups of tea, made by Haji Ali Korphe, head of the village on Mount Korakoram, to Greg Mortenson, 51 years old. The man who came from Montana, United States, which has long been in the Himalayas. David Oliver Relin, author of the accompanying Mortenson, presenting …

The reason I picked this book up was because it seemed so interesting. The whole concept of ’slating’ criminals (erasing their memories) in order to give them a second chance in life was something I found really intriguing.
The book is about Kyla, a girl who was apparently previously …

I have read the book —˜coping with difficult people’ written by Robert M. Bramson. This book is a good read and also helpful. The author has laid emphasis on the ways to deal with difficult people or troublemakers at home and at the workplace. Upon reading this book, I …

When I was growing up, these books were never in the school library. Why? They were always checked out! I think that already says enough about the book’s popularity among children. There’s something special about a good scary story, and Stephen Gammell’s disturbing black and white illustrations had us …

The first thing most readers say about That Hideous Strength, Book 3 of the Space Trilogy by C.S.Lewis, is that it is very different from the first two. I agree, the book is, indeed, very different. First of all, it is not science fiction. Instead of taking us on …

Gerald Durrell has written many books, I have already written about his book “My Family and Other Animals.” If you want to learn about the African country Cameroon, not only that its national team is good at soccer, then the book “The Bafut Beagles” will help you a …

I enjoy getting into mini mysteries when the spring flowers start blooming. Sullivan’s Last Stand has a mystery to solve and an old romance is rekindled. What more can you ask for? I found that initially the book was hard to follow. That really disappointed me. …

The book Speak was adapted into a movie that really is better than the book. Both are a little confusing and slow, but the book really is worse. It is alright with the story, and the girl trying to get over being attacked and all, but it just kind …

The Last Battle is the last and seventh book of the Chronicles of Narnia series. Unlike most chronicles or series this does not end answering a lot of questions instead it brings a close to the world of Narnia in an epic battle that divides the total world.
I …

I read about Samuel Huntington only when he was no more. His obituary led me to explore more about him as I read that he was one of the best political and modern historians of the modern era. I started by his most famous book that is the Clash …

Divergent by Veronica Roth is book 1 in the Divergent series; It is also a World Best-seller soon to be released as a movie.
The story follows the lead protagonist (female) Beatrice Prior who lives in a society split up into 5 factions.- If you want more on what this …

That’s a wonderful book! It was written so long ago (first edition in 1944) and, yet, it is still so up-to-date. The author presents real life examples of how to deal with stress and other modern life problems. He makes you think about the purpose of life and teaches …

The second book from the Gossip Girls series is called “You Know You Love Me”. This one is also by Cicily von Zieggesar. This ones about a girl, named Blair, her mom is getting married to another man. She had divorced her newly-gayed husband who owns a vinyard. They …

I bought a book long time ago, the book is called “Think and Grow Rich”. It is a book by Napoleon Hill. The book mainly teaches people to think positive and think hard what we want in life.
I read the book and I learn a lot from the …

Sex, Love and Dharma by Arthur Jeon is an overrated book but at the same time, having some very good facts and knowledge and definitely insights for me reading it as an individual reader.
My friend loaned it to me, and she said that since the title is pretty subjective, it …

One of my friends had gifted me The Immortals of Mehua during the last summer holidays. This is the first book of now famous Shiva Triology by Amish Tripathy. I had heard a lot about this book and hence completed it in one week. My experience with this book …

“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte is a very unusual story, especially when you consider when this novel was written. It’s a love story, but both the hero and the heroine are of the kind you hate (at least I did). Catherine Earnshaw is a selfish brat; Heathcliff is a …

I really love this novel by Stieg Larsson.I dont know Larsson and he was not one of my favorite author prior to reading this novel.It hust so happened that I dont have to do thats why I decided to grab something to read from the bookstore.When I started reading …

I did not get this book by choice, trust me i would not spend 9.99 on a grammar book if i did not have too. I actually had to get it for a school honors English summer reading project. We are going to go in-depth in grammar and they …

Baby Love, written by Catherine Anderson, is a love story about Maggie Stanley and her baby. It started out with her, carrying her baby who is very little and she ran off into the cold and snowy night. I was curious in the beginning as to why she …

This time, Brown invites you to experience the spine-chilling adventures. He opens the door to imagination and tempts with Rachel Sexton, an agent of NRO and Michael Tolland, a scientist, go to the glacier and to verify an unusual discovery. Hard to deny the authenticity of the discovery. The …

“The Sands Of Time” is a 1988 novel by Sidney Sheldon, which encapsulates the lives of four nuns of a Cistercian convent in Spain who elope during a military attack on the convent by the GOE (a special group formed to pursue basque terrorists) headed by Colonel Acoca. These …

Jonathan Swift was the son of an Anglican preacher, born in Ireland, who later became a minister himself. Throughout his whole life, though, he wrote essays, pamphlets, poems and novels, some so controversial they had to be published under anonymous names so as not to annoy his superiors …

As my little 16 month old daughter gets more and more curious, I watch in wonder at the many different skills she is able to comprehend at such a young age. One of these, is being able to get into the books which are far out of her reach …

I have these 2 books, which I personally bought at the bookstore, because I love both of them so much. These 2 books get 2 thumbs up from me, each having their own concept of writing and genres.
The first book is The South Beach Diet, The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, …

When I read the book “The Schoolmaster” by the Caribbean author Earl Lovelace when I was in high school, I found that I wasn’t very interested in reading more of his books since at the time I found his works boring. Thus, I was not too excited to find …

I’m a big fan of Stephen King, he’s a real Master of his craft.I began to read his books so many years ago,but the time passed and i’m still with him.
We get used that the most part of Stephen King’s novels are horror,but there are some exceptions that …

This book was published in 1983 and follows Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, His wife, and their two children Emmie, and Gage who move to a small Maine town. They live in a location where there is a really busy highway with constant semi-trucks traveling, one day while …

This is an excellent book that you should read if you are interested to study about the concept of management. When I first read the book, management was a relatively new thing for me since my background is engineering. Fortunately, this book uses simple words that are easy to …

The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa is the second instalment in the Iron Fey series. For some odd reason, The Iron Daughter was my least favourite book in the series. It took me a lot longer to read this one, with the other three books in the series it …

Markus Zusak’s Book Thief (2005)
Set in Nazi Germany Zusak’s novel Book Thief is a wonderfully written piece of literature about life and death or should I rather say Death. You may wonder why is so. The answer is simple: the main narrator is Death itself. Who else would tell …

The Center of Everything is a coming of age novel by Laura Moriarty.
I found the story, while simple and to be completely honest, not that unusual - a bright girl whose parents did not marry and whose father left before she was born - to still be very absorbing. …

thousand splendid suns
I read this novel early this year which is authored by Khaled Hosseini who also wrote the other popular novel which is the Kite Runner. In my opinion, the novel is nicely written which I think is rhetorically done which tells about a poignant story about a …

‘The seat of the soul’ is a book written by Gary Zukav. In this book, the author covers many isues such as soul, reincarnation, law and effect, regarding souls of animals and birds, spirit guides and teachers, angels etc.. Now, this book is written in a manner of fantasy. …