I think it was around late 1999 or early 2000 that I first read the Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events books. The Bad Beginning is the first book in the 13 part series.
In the Bad Beginning, the Baudelaire children become orphans and are shuttled to …

This book was a very well written book that I found not only opened my mind about where my faith stood and how I felt about God, but it also changed my heart and I feel as though it helped strenthen my relationship with Christ.
This book managed to …

This may be the best young adult book that I have ever read. It’s a science fiction tale that has a wonderful theme: freedom. Even better, it has a very original plot. If you’ll take the time to read it I think you’ll find it’s time well spent.
The main …

Saw an episode of Oprah where Geneen Roth was talking about her book. Actually my step-mother is a big Oprah watcher and she knows that I have issues with food and she thought it would be a good one for me to watch. So I let her show it …

I just recently finished reading all the Sookie Stackhouse books they have out right now: Dead until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club dead, dead to the world, Dead as a doornail, definitely dead, All together dead, From dead to worse, dead and gone, and A touch of dead. …

This is the 7th book in the popular series for girls, From the Files of Madison Finn, about a typical girl who keeps a computer journal and files of everything she encounters.
In this story, Madison Finn is, as always, busy, but she is even busier than normal and many …

Uglies is the first book of a series written by Scott Westerfeld. It takes place in the possible far-future of our world. During this time, each individual must undergo serious cosmetic surgery once they reach the age 16. This surgery turns an average ugly into a carefree, beautiful pretty. …

This was a delightful collection of short fantasy stories involving frogs. The stories are very clever and fun to read. I found them humorous and light-hearted as well, even thought some of them teach lessons to the reader. Teaching lessons is always good, but it’s even better when those …

This children’s book by Eva Ibbotson is a clever, funny book about a wizard who wants to get married and how he chooses which witch to marry.
There is the usual cast of funny characters and strange creatures, as well as a few strange coincidences. The part I think was …

This is a story of Cecile Revel, a twelve-year-old peasent girl, who lives in France, who ends up living in the court of King Louis XIV of France.Known to history as the “Sun KIng”.
Cecile’s job is to care for Madame’s dogs,(who brought her to court after Cecile …

The only reason I even started to read this book was because it was free on the Amazon store for my Kindle. I hadn’t heard of it before, but I was looking for something completely new and different to read for a change. So I downloaded it for free …

If you haven’t heard about this book, The Jabez Prayer Experiment, you’ve got to run out and get it. There is so much depth to this book that I have picked it up a hundred times, read a portion, then put it down to think and pray on what …

This is a small paperback book with 175 pages of alien language from the Star Wars movies. The book covers Bocce, Huttese, Ewokese, Jawaese, Droidspeak, Gunganese, Neimoidian, Wookie-speak, Sullustan and Tuskan. The book includes individual words and phrases as well as a short history of each race.
As a humor …

In Updike’s humorous short story A & P, the narrator comments on a certain mentality: living in the moment. A worker at a store has a normal, typical day until three girls walk in the store “in nothing but bathing suits.” This brings a certain highlight to the narrator’s …

Cell by Stephen King is a book that takes place in New England as do most King novels. It tells the story of Clay Ridell an everyman writer
who witnesses the world go mad On Oct. 1.
He sees people on cellphones become murderous killers when they hear a pulse through …

The book 2012: The War For Souls is the latest installment in a series of fascinating stories by the renowned and famous writer Whitley Strieber. I am a huge fan of all Whitley’s work and have read and re-read his books many times. This book is certainly one that …

This book was in the bargain bin at Barnes and Noble (for good reason). There are two things that I like; books and bargains. Since the criteria fit, my husband this book up for me. Biographies and memoirs are my favorite types of books to read. …

This book, a kids’ book about a girl who has trouble dealing with her autistic younger brother, is actually quite nice. The story flows smoothly, and you can feel the main character’s frustration, both with the fact that she feels her brother gets everything and she “doesn’t matter” to …

“Goodnight, My Duckling” by Nancy Tafuri is an adorable children’s story that is perfect for a before bed time book, or for young readers who are trying to perfect their reading skills. If the easy to read text isn’t something that your children will love to read, then the …

This is a book that made me realize once again that it is easy to get whatever we want, as long as we appeal to the others in a certain way. The Art of Seduction is an excellent book and I enjoyed reading it from cover to cover. What …

Mobiles - They Drive Us Crazy is billed as being “a Helen Exley Gigglebook”, whatever that might be, but is in fact an attractively packaged, small, square hardback book of comic drawings by the British cartoonist Bill Stott. My copy cost me £4.50, which I think is perhaps a …

Another manga I have loved reading and still constantly waiting for an update is the Kaichou wa Maid-Sama manga by Fujiwara Hiro and it’s really a great piece of shoujo manga because it has all the romance, the maid costume, the comedy, the conflict and everything just fits so …

Anthem, an outstanding book by Ayn Rand is probably one of the most debated books ever(as is the case with most her books) and plenty has been written about it.Yet,in this review,I hope I convey a different opinion,being just 15 and lacking any formal training in literature beyond school.
We …

Scott McCloud brings us a sequel to his brilliant book UNDERSTANDING COMICS.
What the first book did was create a textbook that, in an entertaining, illustrated way, described what exactly a comic is (sequential art with a plot) and how it is properly crafted by all those involved in creating …

Slightly Wicked, written by Mary Balogh, is a very satisfying read for me, but minus the racy scenes. But as an avid reader like me who is really passionate about good story-lines and books, I find Slightly Wicked to be very interesting and a very good book at that. …

Wow! I loved this street book. I have a hard time finding books that are meant to take place on the street and that make in realistic. The characters were so flawed, but I had to like them anyway. I liked their street smarts, their broken dialog and just …

Dead Wrong by Mariah Stewart. This is book of a series. This series has been a great series to read these last few weeks.
In this book we are introduced to Archer Lowell, Curtis Alan Channing, and Vince Giordano. These are bad guys. They …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Captains’ Honor is a novel that centers around Picard, although it is certainly not merely a story for Picard fans. In this story, the Enterprise and other Federation ship arrive to provide aid to a planet that has been devastated by the …

Normally I love reading classic Star Trek novels with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, but this one was just horrible. It was vastly different from the other books in the series and I just could not get interested in the tale no matter how many pages I read.
I think …

This is a horror novel about a deadly snake that’s loose in Central Park in New York City. The snake is a black mamba and its powerful poison can kill a person in twenty minutes. This book is pretty good and mostly it kept my attention, but I felt …

The West End Horror (A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D.) is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by Nicholas Meyer, published in 1976.
This story is different from the Sherlock Holmes’ genre I am used to - those written by Sir Conan Arthur Doyle. It is however, …

When I read just the narration and summary of this story at the back of the cover, I told myself I needed to read this book, actually I think almost everyone will be curious to read this as the plot is all about going into the past and changing …

Like so many people my wife, my self and our two young boys have decided that we are fed up with English weather and have decided to move to sunny Spain. Of course we are not just going to up and move we are doing our home work first, …

I just had to read a book for school that really got my attention, It is called “Who Moved My Cheese” by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Foreword by Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D.
This book is short and it is basically just a story of two mice and two little people and how their …

This installment is a Super Chiller series and it’s titled Goodnight Kiss. It’s a very nice book because it’s not weird and eerie but it only involved plain vampires and a normal teenage guy. The story is all about two guys who vacations on the beach, Matt and Todd …

An international best-seller and famous personal development book for general public. It analyses the deep psychological origins from where our behavior flows. It clearly distinguishes. between the superficial self-development practices which aim only at the attitude change (but does not help in understanding from where the behavior & attitude flow …

I have just begun to really get into reading Christian fiction, especially since I aspire to write a Christian novel myself and like to see how it’s structured.
I had seen several book titles by Jacqueline Thomas and discovered that she has quite a following, in terms of readers. …

“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 …

This book is rich in insights pertaining to relationships. This book deals on mistakes singles make in dealing with their relationships with the opposite sex, in their attitudes towards marriage, in …

One of my favorite books of all time has always been, and always will be, Meg Cabot’s Airhead series. It’s filled with drama, teen love, and something most books just don’t offer. Adventure. Meg Cabot always starts each book off with a grip, and this, is by far no …

I really enjoy Nicolas Evans’ work as he manages to capture a real sense of the magic and beauty of Montana. As the novel that the Hollywood film was based on, it holds so much more of the story and detail than could be crammed into the movie. I …

Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult is a top notch book, personally for me. The writings are great and awesome and Jodi Picoult is a big-voiced writer, always having great and wonderful, awesome ideas. She always has this commanding voice at heart tugging at big issues and that is …

If you like books full of statistics, The Tipping Point is definitely for you. Malcolm Gladwell’s book goes into areas of human behavior patterns, a subject that seriously excites me. This book kept the excitement alive for me because it read like a novel, even though it had a …

Where The Wild Things Are is a delightful children’s book about a little boy named Max who, alone in his bedroom, conjures up a jungle and many wild things, or beasts, as we would call them. I loved reading this book to my children when they were young, and …

Pillow Talk by Freya North is charming, sweet and funny. This book is good for insomniacs like me, because the character in the story, Petra Flint is suffering from it. And she has this ‘teenage love’ sweetheart before with Arlo Savidge (a very nice name) but their love …

I have read the book, A Promising Man, and About Time too. If you are a fan of chick lit, it is more than likely you will like this book. Being a fan of chick lit myself, I really liked it.
The basic plot is a woman who meets a …

Most people know Dan Brown through his ultra successful and more than just controversial novel The Da Vinci Code. But Angels and Demons was written and published first. It first introduces the main character of the next book Robert Langdon. It is a mystery detective story dealing …

This book lists all of the weird stuff that can be found in the state of Maryland, from legends, ancient mysteries, famous people, UFO sightings and weird things to see. On occasion I enjoy reading about weird stuff so this book was right up my alley. Besides, I have …

As a woman, I could totally relate to this book; the insecurities of being married and then getting pregnant and feeling suspicious that my husband is perhaps having an affair.
That’s a bit of the summarization for this book Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella. Becky and her husband are …

ROPE was written by Michael Newton, and published by Pocket Books in 1998.
A very disquieting story of a killer at a time when serial killers and mass murderers were uncommon. Harvey Glatman was not a born killer; in fact his parents were both normal people, an indulgent …