I guess the best way to describe this book would be “murder mystery chick lit.” Yes, that’s right. While murder mystery is supposed to be suspenseful and chick lit is supposed to be funny, this novel nicely combines both. Even some gory episodes are made fun to read, and …

I checked out this book along with my four-year-old niece, who happens to be the big sister of an 11-month-old! Of all the books we checked out that day… all on the topic of families… this one was my niece’s favorite! I think she liked it because she’s so …

Daredevil Issue 223 presents the ultimate question for Daredevil, namely what price would he pay to regain his sight? Denny O’Neil and Jim Shooter wrote this issue, with David Mazzucchelli as the artist. It was published by Marvel Comics in 1985.
In this issue, Daredevil, in his secret …

This is the best book for first time moms-to-be. Your Pregnancy Week By Week was the first pregnancy book I bought when I got pregnant with my first. This is a very helpful book which provides informations about the happenings as well as the growth, health, nutrition …

Black House is the long awaited and unexpected sequel to the 1984 classic The Talisman. Nearly 20 years later, the story picks up like it never left off with Jack Sawyer now a retired homicide detective in his 30’s living in a small Wisconsin town called French Landing. The …

.NET Interview Question Book is a wonderful book for the .NET learners, .NET working people, etc. Mr.Nagaraju. B, edits this book. He organized the questions for each and every concepts like .NET architecture, web forms, web services, security, database, debugging, deploying the application, Server controls, etc. …

“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 …

Judith McNaught is one of my most treasured historical romance authors, and she does not disappoint in Almost Heaven. This romance introduces you to Ian Thornton and Elizabeth Cameron, two individuals who have had a very brief, but strongly impacting, past encounter with one another that leaves a …

Okay so I read the book “The Step Child” by Donna Ford, and i have to say I was a bit dissapointed with the layout of the book. It definitely made it hard to read and it took me longer to finish the book. With that being said, I …

Well my friend David let me borrow this book when we went traveling out East because I had nothing to read and was getting bored. He said he had read it and like it a lot and thought that I should give it a try. I was excited at …

Vampire Knight Manga Volume 1 tells the story of a high school girl named Yuki Cross and how she is part of the Disciplinary Committee who separates the human Day Class from the vampire Night Class.
Vampire Knight Manga Volume 1 by Matsuri Hano tells the story of a …

Angela’s Ashes is a memoir of known author Frank McCourt. The story is about McCourt family amidst hardships and tragedy, the agony of having a good for nothing father depicts real life happenings even in present time. The story is set in America and Ireland particularly in Limerick in …

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 …

The Autobiography of Special Agent Dale Cooper has the subtext —˜My Life, My Tapes’ and on the inside cover it says —˜As heard by Scott Frost’, so he wrote it. I think Dale Cooper is my all-time favourite television character so he is of course, a fictional person …

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 …

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a book about Harry Potter finding that he can speak in parsletongue(snake language). In this book he finds out that there is a chamber full of secrets related to his arch enemy-Voldemort. In the process, many of his friends turn to …

The world is preparing to fight alien invaders and six year old Ender Wiggin may be just the boy to command the armies of children who will fight them!
From the moment I began reading Orson Scott card’s Ender’s Game I was hooked. The story follows the life of a …

Jeanette Winterson has come to be one of my favourite writers with a great deal of resistance on my part; some of her novels I’ve loved, others I found masturbatory and self-involved. I cannot agree with her ideologically, since her claims of beauty and art’s primacy in life appear …

Some cookbooks are useful; others are simply brilliant. “On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals” by Sarah R. Labensky and Alan M. Hause falls into the latter category. Far more than a collection of recipes, this book takes reader from raw beginner to culinary expert over the span of …

Let me start by saying that Jayne is an excellent writer. This book starts off fast with the heroine, Cady Briggs fantasizing about her client Mack Easton. Cady is an expert in the museum arts field while Mack is a retired officer who runs an art recovery …

Linda Howard’s novel, Drop Dead Gorgeous is the second novel in her Blair Mallory series. The heroine, Blair Mallory is not only sexy and gorgeous but also hilariously funny. This is one of the top Linda Mallory books to read. It’s not only a romantic book but also a …

This is supposed to be a guide for inner transformation and if you like the physic this is an interesting book, if not forget it. Going Within is supposed to be a roadmap for achieving inner transformation. In this book Shirley Maclain covers many aspects of the physic …

A Guilty Thing Surprised was written byRuth Rendell, published by Ballantine Books in 1975.
There is always a cache of hidden secrets in Ruth Rendell’s stories - unsavory and ugly, even among the rich and beautiful. The ugliness here involved a seemingly naïve but vain, pampered woman, who …

My comic reading has been beyond sporadic lately and I’m still trying to play catch up.
This issue kind of came off as filler to me. Not a whole lot happens. Thara recovers at Lois’ after her assault. She really looks like Supergirl and it …

Apparently readers in the U.S. have adopted the first “autobiographical” book of the aristocratic vampire Strahd von Zarovich also as good as I did, because Patricia Elrod was tasked to write a sequel as well. This to some extent is a repetition in the series “Ravenloft”, since the very …

Returning to her late father’s farm after a failed marriage, Michelle Cabot inherits a pile of debt. Regardless, she resolves to return the ranch to its once former glory. Unfortunately, she discovers that a huge chunk of debt is owed to John Rafferty, her nemesis and the …

I just finished The King Imperiled by Deborah Chester which continues the story of King Faldain and his family. As usual, it was strongly written and quite enjoyable. However, be warned, the publisher may or may not continue to publish any more stories about King Faldain. Chester has stated …

I felt that this was a very cute book to read to a child between the ages of two to five years old. It was very short, so your kids shouldn’t loose interest in hearing the story.
The story is about five little monkeys whose mother has …

The World’s Religions is a book by Huston Smith where he goes into detail about seven wisdom traditions from around the world: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. There is also a short section about what Smith deems “primal religions”. Huston Smith has been regarded as one …

In William Faulkner’s short story entitled “A Rose for Emily”, the point of view that was presented is one of the elements that make the story extremely unique. With the point of view of an anonymous and ponderous townsperson, who resides around the same area that Emily does, the …

I love this book, Don’t Stop Me Now by Jeremy Clarkson so much. You don’t have to be a car enthusiast to appreciate the writings of this book. Jeremy Clarkson is a very humorous and good author and if you have yet to read any of his books, …

I am compelled to review the second book in this series by James Patterson because I read the first in the series. In the first book, the heroine homicide detective Lindsay Boxer solves the bride and groom killer and was granted a hiatus by the department. She comes back …

It was not until I saw the movie, “The Client” that I became interested in reading books by John Grisham. The first one I read was his bestseller “A Time To Kill,” which was also adapted into a movie. Since that time, I have read this book at least …

“People are only mean when they’re threatened.”
This is one of the wonderful lessons that I’ve learned with the book. ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ is truly a remarkable book. Unlike any other best-selling books, this one has a different kick on the audience. Some books may have challenged the intellect of …

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the story of a girl who grew up in less than ideal circumstances. Jeannette and her brother and sisters were born to a genius father and eccentric artist mother. In between constantly “skedaddling” from place to place, the Walls lived …

The word Nike is on everyone’s lips today; it is a successful, large company whose history began in 1964, and over half a century has reflected many economic processes. It is a story of how passion and love for one’s passion help build a successful business despite serious competitors …

I love to read and I read many kinds of books. The novel that I just finished last week is “Beneath a marble sky: A novel of Taj Mahal” by John Shors. At beginning I was not expecting to much from the novel because I thought that will be …

Superstitious is by R.L. Stine. This book is in the horror/supernatural genre. I had never read any of R.L. Stine’s work before so didn’t know what to expect. I liked the way the book was written even if horror isn’t one of my favorite story types.
The book is about …

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 …

A classic in the fantasy genre and a veteran in the writing of bestsellers, Terry Brooks brings joy to his fans for nearly three decades with exciting fantasy novels, among which I can mostly point out the novels from the series “Shannara”. They are the most known and most …

Between Good and Evil is a book from an expert criminal profiler’s view. I bought this book as research for a murder mystery I’m writing. An avid reading yielded what I needed - a working knowlegde of a sociopath’s mind. But it was more than just a …

Into the Night, written by Suzanne Brockmann is a suspense romance and Joan Da Costa, a White House staff is assigned to solve a mystery case known as SEAL. She comes face to face with Mike Muldoon and Mike is a very strong and very stubborn man, filled with …

I didn’t know that this book title, Obsession which is written by Jonathan Kellerman, is so popular only after I have finished reading it. The book has been translated to about 2 dozen languages, mind you! And I only knew about that when another great friend of …

The Four Agreements was given to me by a friend; I put off reading it for the longest because it just did not entice me. Then after I heard about 4 more people rave about the book, I gave in. It is a short quick read so most people …

After spending much of his early career exploring the Jewish experience in America by lampooning it, Philip Roth decided to stretch his legs a bit and move on to lampooning the plain old American experience and he fulfills his every ambition and moreso.
Ostensibly about the Rupert Mundys, a fictitious …

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 have read the book —˜The power of positive thinking’ written by Norman Vincent Peale. This is a very good and interesting book. The author lays very great emphasis on positive thinking. The content in this book certainly helped me a lot. This book is capable of giving the …

Author - Morris Gleitzman
Title - Then
Publisher - Puffin Books
This book is all about a Jewish boy and Nazi girl in wartime Poland. They find themselves running away from Nazi soldiers who are partaking in the horrible holocaust. Felix (the jewish boy) aged ten is caring for his nazi friend Zelda, …

Extraordinary Popular Delusions & The Madness of Crowds was on a recommended reading list given to me a few years ago at a course that I attended on trading the financial markets. As I wanted to learn as much as I could on the topic I worked my through …

‘North and South’ is, above everything else, a novel about social and cultural differences and the way to overcome them. It illustrates a theme very common in the writer’s age - the conflicts between the old aristocracy (symbolized by the south) and the newly risen bourgeousy (symbolized by the …