“Digital Fortress” by Dan Brown is the third Dan Brown book I have read. Although “Digital Fortress” has a much different plot compared to reader favorites “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels and Demons”, it is still a fast-paced action/adventure book that keeps you hooked in until the end. …

Yishun Community Library is one of the most hangout places that I will always be at without fail. This is the place where I loan my library books and get my healthy dosage of reading.
Can you believe it that one time, I spent my hour there just …

Into the Dark is a compilation of three stories by Gena Showalter plus some extra tidbits about her Lords of the Underworld series, like interviews and descriptions of the Lords by William the immortal warrior and honorary Lord. Into the Dark contains one of Showalter’s Atlantis stories and two …

Super Mario RPG: Legend of The Seven Stars Nintendo Player’s Strategy Guide is quite possibly my favorite strategy guide I have ever purchased. Part of the reason I think I enjoy reading through this comical yet thoroughly detailed guide is because I really love the classic Super Nintendo video …

This was the first novel that I read by Heather Graham and it has made me a fan of her books. It is expertly plotted with enough of suspicious characters to make you question just which one is the criminal. The main plot is simple enough: a young woman …

If you love Stephen King books, then you’ll absolutely love the chilling tale of House of Leaves. It is arguably the greatest contemporary horror book of our generation. It will leave you shifting your eyes to the shadows in the corners of your room nervously and flinching at ever …

Keely Hero Of Lesser Causes, describes the struggle and loyalty among family members. Keely struggle in the novel is successful literary award in Canada. This is natural, this book has a different story from the other teen books. With the background of the world war II, this book opens …

The best book I’ve ever read on Axl Rose and Guns n’ Roses. As a lifelong Guns’ N’ Roses fan stupid enough to still be waiting patiently for Chinese Democracy to come out, this was quite a treat for me to read as it brought back fond memories of …

As many people on this planet, I am a big fan of Stephen King and I was following his works from year to year. However, I was really surprised when I found out he wrote another book in 2008 and I haven’t heard anything about it! Well, I guess …

I hated this book. I hated the fact that the cover was so much better than the rest of the book. I initially borrowed this book from my dorm mate because my cousin told me that it’s a nice book. Well it’s not. Let me tell …

The Dear America series is a collection of books for the child and their family learning together. It is a great collection of historical books written by various authors. They have come together to teach the truth about different parts of history from the point of view of a …

New Moon tells the life of Isabella Swan after abandoned by Edward Cullen. Day after day passed with depression and emptiness. Charlie almost sends Bella back to Phoenix because it did not bear to see her daughter like a zombie. Bella still continues to live and do the usual …

Fruits Basket Manga Volume 7 begins with Tohru spending time with Kisa Sohma, who has become attached to her. Hiro Sohma becomes jealous because Kisa doesn’t spend time with him and confronts Tohru about it.
It’s an interesting volume because it follows the pattern of Tohru meeting another member …

About two years ago I reviewed the first volume in the Essential Moon Knight collection and mentioned that it was an excellent series. This follow up volume collects a couple dozen issues from 1982 and 1983 and they are off the charts excellent. Moon Knight was always an odd …

C.s Lewis is one of my favorite authors. He always finds a way to inspire us.. his readers. I just finished reading his book “The Screwtape Letters” It’s all about Screwtape’s (The Demon) letter to his apprentice Wormwood. Screwtape was giving advices to Wormwood on how lure us to …

Predators was written by Daina Graziunas and Jim Starlin (published by Warner Books in 1997)
Originally published as Thinning the Predators, this is one of the numerous books about vigilants dispensing justice where the courts failed. It is a wonder that the police or the FBI wasted so much …

“DragonQuest” by Donita K. Paul is Book 2 in the DragonKeeper fantasy chronicles. In Book 1, titled “DragonSpell,” we were introduced to the main character, Kale, a fourteen-year-old girl who is a village slave - an orphan raised and provided for by the village in return for work. Kale, …

This book is the fourth book in this series by Hilary McKay. It is again about the members of the Casson family, and while the title implies it’s mostly about Caddy, it does seem to be about Caddy but mostly from the point of view of and focusing on …

The Silent Bride was one of Leslie Glass’ creations, featuring the lover-detective duo April Woo and Mike Sanchez. It was first published by Onyx in 2002.
Two brides were killed on the days of their respective weddings, one in a synagogue and the other outside a cathedral. …

Trying to encourage a teenager to read outside of school seems to be a universal struggle with both parents and teachers. But a couple of weeks ago my teen brother did it! He could not stop talking about the novel “House of Dark Shadows”. So, while …

I really liked this book! The thing I liked the most about it was the conversations that the main character, Christina, was having with the ghost that decided to haunt her thanks to her playing with an Ouija board. At first she was really scared, freaking out about it, …

‘Five go to smuggler’s top’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This book is the fourth among the famous five series. The three children, Julian, Dick and Anne go and stay at Kirrin cottage with George, their cousin. Then they go to smuggler’s top and stay with a …

“Red, White, and Blue Good-bye” by Sarah Wones Tomp is a heartwarming story for children that tells of not only our country, but how a child might feel if their parent or family member was to be part of the army.
This story is from a little girl’s point …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Wake is a story that features Scotty, McCoy and Spock, but takes place in the 24th century. Both Scotty and Spock visit McCoy at his home and discuss the events that occurred in Star Trek: Generations, including Kirk’s first supposed death, then …

I have read a book that I really enjoyed. The title of the book was Tweak and was written by Nic Sheff. Sheff wrote a book detailing his yeers of drug addiction primarily to methamphetamine. He talks about the progression of his use and dependency starting with …

Sometimes, I do wonder how successful people become more successful after a certain period of time. I read this book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter and I have a better view on the …

The 2007 Writer’s Market Deluxe Edition has proved to be a priceless tool for me. I am in the creative writing field (freelance), and this book has completely erased the need for me to track down freelance leads on the Internet. The most useful part for me was actually …

I have relatives living in UK, and occasionally when my family and I go there, we live to visit London in the process. We would always bring this guide-book which is called England For Dummies, written by Donald Olson. This guide-book is very helpful. There are …

I have loved reading books since I was a small child. I also want my children to be interested in reading books as well. I took my six year old son to the library that I have been going to for the entirety of my life. It is just …

Author: Kim Kang Won
Korean (Manga-style) Novel
Genre: Romance, slice of life
I.N.V.U, pronounced like the phrase ‘I envy you,’ is a Korean manga-styled novel by author Kim Kang Won. I say manga-styled merely due to fans of manga out there that are insulted that Korean authors are allotted the …

Warren Worthington, III, was one of the original X-Men created in the mid 1960s. He has survived a number of different problems and physical changes over the past forty-five years but has survived in a universe constantly hostile to mutants like himself, although his mutant powers are rather …

I’ve bought this Mother Goose nursery rhymes book by Axel Scheffler last year in one of the children’s bookstore in London for an affordable price of 15 British pound. What I like about it is that it has a little bit of stories in between the nursery rhymes …

“Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois and the Struggle for Racial Uplift” is a very interesting little book (185 pages including attached documents, letters, etc.) about the lives of Washington and Du Bois, two of the most famous civil rights advocates of the late 1800s and early to mid …

Published in 1963, “V.” is Thomas Pynchon’s first novel. He was in his early twenties when he wrote it, which probably sounds disheartening for many wannabe novelists who require years and maybe decades to find their voice.
“V.” is a very complex novel, which one can read in …

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares sounds mostly like your typical novel aimed at the preteen to teenage girls market. You have a group of girls, summer vacation, and boys. The connection between the girls, besides their lifelong friendship, is a pair of pants.
This book …

This book very quickly earned a place on my picky shelf of favorite books. It was originally published as the two separate books ‘Crown Duel’ and ‘Court Duel’, but I bought it as the re-published, combined version. And I’m glad I did —“ if I hadn’t, I’m …

Joanne Harris is also the author of the bestseller Chocolate. She dedicates Coastliners to her mother: Janet Short.
The book starts with the interesting motto: “No man is an island”. The setting of the story is island Le Doven in Bretan, where it seems that time has stopped and nothing …

Recently I have bought a book from an online store. The book is about herbal treatment of overall body. It seemed nice to me and I decided to give it a try.
At the outset, I must say that Glow Herbal is a very nice book from the Times Group. …

The book Skinny Bitch, written by 2 female authors, it is a classic vegan type of diet for all women to follow. I’m not sure about men, so let’s follow this review of mine.
When I first got a hold of this book which my friend loaned it to me, …

This is the third installment in the Gossip Girls series fro girls. This one takes place in New York during Christmas to New Years. Blair’s parents are taking a vacation and they are gonna have a baby! Yayyyy! Blair is angry but she doesnt care cause she has much …

“The Terror” by Guy de Maupassant is a story about a man who is getting married because he’s afraid to be alone.
First, the story begins with a man who talking about is upcoming nuptials to a woman he barely knows. The guy (nameless) has only met his future wife …

The Outsider is the first book in the popular Roswell High. This miniseries only lasted for ten books, but gave the readers a solid beginning, middle, and end. This first book set up several of the storylines that would later appear, as well as introducing us to the major …

10,000 Dreams and Their Traditional Meanings - by Gustavus Hindman Miller is a dream book that I was disappointed in. The reason I was disappointed in the book is because it did not seem to offer as much flexibility in interpretation of images and symbols as other dream books …

Teen Idol is about a girl named Jen Greenley. Everybody likes Jen Greenley and she’s everybody’s best friend. She can keep a secret and is a very good listener. In fact, Jen’s so good at keeping a secret that she is asked to look after the famous movie …

If I was afraid of zombies as a somewhat legitimate monster after “Resident Evil,” I’m absolutely horrified of them after reading Jonathan Maberry’s “Patient Zero.” George A. Romero doesn’t have much on what I really feel is the up-and-coming Godfather of the Hard Science Fiction Zombie. Romero’s claim to …

Skelter (by Michael R Perry)
Manson and fiends like him continue to attract believers and admirers long after they are dead or locked away from society. As it is, the story exploited on the probability of Manson’s supporters perpetuating his name and fame through acts of comparable, …

Prime Suspect was written by Lynda La Plante and published by Dell Publishing in 1993.
Why are ambitious women always depicted as hard and bitchy, when they are just trying to do a job and prove their worth? I’m indeed surprised that a female writer would portray her protagonist …

When I first saw the author to this book, I was sure I was seeing things. The author is Max Brooks, Mel Brooks’ son. I had been looking for the book because I had heard people talking about what a great book it was. I was just surprised it …

Tess Gerritsen has done it again! The Sinner is gripping and entertaining! The story recalls characters from other books and brings in some new faces. Tess Gerritsen’s writing is has a quality that few can attest to. This is a thrilling novel that you will …

“The Magician’s Nephew” by C.S.Lewis is the first book of the Chronicles of Narnia series. Digory, a British schoolboy, goes to stay with his aunt and uncle because his mother is very ill. His uncle Andrew appears to be a rather strange, eccentric old man. Whenever he attempts to …