I have read the book —˜The mystery at Lilac inn’ written by Carolyn Keene. This is a book among the Nancy Drew series and is very interesting. In the beginning of the story, the reader tends to feel that this is a book about a haunted place and is …

Tolkin spent over 20 years writing his epic tales of elves, wizards and the adventures of the Hobbits. He is said to be as much as a scholar as he is a literary writer. Tolkin extensively research when creating the background mythology of middle earth and the beings that …

Calling all preschool teachers! Here is a great book for your center- Mudpies to Magnets: A Preschool Science Curriculum.
The begining of the book starts with a sample letter you can copy and give to parents of your preschoolers, which I love. The letter asks parents to …

Until Dark by Mariah Stewart is a good psychological thriller. Once in awhile, I love books like this because it keeps my mind at a fast pace, trying to figure out who or what and stuff like that in a criminal setting.
It first starts out with the …

Where Serpents Lie was written by T. Jefferson Parker (Hyperion 1998)
This book would have been spectacular if the author had not written so many pages on snakes. The suspense was fine, the buildup of characters was alright, but the descriptions of snakes and their habits were downright boring …

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 …

i was asking this question for 8 years now!i am a very sporty person and out going.but recently i got interests in books,the harry potter books.this is the best.the person R.K Rowling has the most vivid imagination ever.the stuff she can come up with.this whole fantasy of harry and …

Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age By Martin Torgoff
Totally brilliant! Torgoff chronicles America’s obsession with drug culture from the end of World War Two to the modern age and does so in a way avoided by many interchangable books on drug abuse: he puts …

Nowhere Man by Miguel Mejoles is a bizarre story that appears in the anthology Havana Noir. Havana Noir is a collection of crime of stories set in the city of Havana and Cuba. The stories are all by Cuban writers. Most of the stories deal …

I have read the book —˜Emotional freedom: Liberate yourself from negative emotions and transform your life’ written by Judith Orloff. This is an interesting book, an excellent book. It is very helpful and can certainly transform a person’s life. I liked this book very much. The author has given …

The Author has a series of books involving a psychologist, Alan Gregory and his wife Lauren and good friend Sam Purdy ( a police detective. The books should be read in order as the subplots with these characters are a major part of what makes me continue to read …

When it comes to books, I love anything that can give me a new outlook on life. I love to have my viewpoint challenged or influenced by the minds of others. While I have been influenced very much by several different authors, I have to say that the book …

Tracking Bear is the ninth book in the Ella Clah series. I’ve been reading the series from the first one, Blackening Song. During the process I’ve gained insight into the Navaho worldview. This is a good thing for me, because I grew up in Northern Arizona and went to …

The Princess Academy is an amazing book by Shannon Hale that received an Newberry Honer Award. It was well earned. This book was riveting, exciting, and fun! Once I started reading it I couldn’t put it down. The main character is a girl named Miri, after a tiny mountain …

Once upon a time it is considered “un-cool” and nerdy to visit a bookstore. Circumstances had changed. Nowadays bookstores had become real cool places to hang out that some people visit bookstores to appear cool.
MPH Bookstores at Mid Valley is not just a haven …

I’d already read Fangirl by the same author, so I thought I may as well try out another one of Rainbow Rowell’s novels. I liked the fact that this is one single novel, and not a trilogy I’d have to struggle through. The blurb wasn’t too exciting, but I …

Do you have a favorite author? I sure do. His name is Richard Brautigan and I love him so much that if he came back to life and asked me to marry him, I would do it in a heartbeat.
Brautigan shot his head off in Bolinas California. He had …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Exiles is a novel that could have offered an exceptionally entertaining read that also offered solutions to problems that have and continue to plague humanity to this day, but instead, the novel ultimately offers up nothing more than grand yet empty messages and …

Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick in short is a fictional book written about a girl who at first found it hard to like any boy- then finds herself falling in love with a boy angel. Literally an angel who fell from heaven itself!
What can I say about this book? …

This book is written by Bernard Evslin. This book is about greek mythology, which is a very interesting mythology. The author has written this book in a style very simple. Anybody can understand it. He has written it like writing a story. The book is about the various greek …

I’m starting to get a little frustrated with James Patterson, and beginning to wonder if he even bothers to write anymore. Many of his recent books have been “co-authored” with another writer, and I recently learned how this works.
Basically Patterson comes up with an idea, and turns it …

This is the first book of a two-part miniseries and it’s titled Deadly Voyage. In here, the Wakefield twins and their friends are off to an island for a science trip, and when they’re expecting sun, swimming, and sand all the way, they get hijacked by two thugs who …

The Sunday Times Guide to Movies on Television may not be the newest film guide around - in fact it was first published in the 1970s - but I still really like it because (except, obviously, for new films) it is pretty comprehensive and gives a handy reference to …

Carpe Jugulum is a part of Terry Pratchett’s series about Witches of Lancre. It concentrates on Three witches and a Queen (who in theory is also a witch, but since there can only be three witches in one town/city/kingdom, Magrat is no longer officially a witch) and their fight …

In this volume of Nodame Cantabile the story focus mainly in the two main characters, Chiaki and Nodame. Chiaki performs a concert with Rui, and it’s exactly the song that Nodame was so excited and that really wonted to perform with Chiaki. Once Nodame listens to their performance she …

This book features the Unicorns and it is all about revenge and traitorous people. The Unicorns are of course, the main cast, and if features feuding Ellen Riteman and Jessica Wakefield to gain Unicorn President Janet Howell’s trust. Ellen has just gotten a new phone which offers three-way …

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 …

Okay, now I’m really annoyed at Orson Scott Card.
Orson Scott Card is an extremely well-known and *good* science fiction writer. He did not write this book.
Invasive Procedures is a novel based on a screenplay by Aaron Johnston which was based on a short story that Card wrote in 1977. …

I got this book because I was new to the craft and wanted something to help me figure out what oils and brews would go good with what I want to cast. I was truly amazed to find out all the great information this book has on what kinds …

This story that I have read have a genre of fantasy, and to be honest, I think this story is a dumb and dubious story.
Fantasy genre is pretty fine by me, but this story makes the plot to the brink of insanity and nonsense. That is my truthful …

I found this book with the regular fiction but it is really a wonderful fantasy novel. The world within these 333 pages is well realized and thought out —“ a completely original world that I enjoyed visiting. It seemed very real while I was reading it and I admit …

Better Than Chocolate by Susan Waggoner is about food writer Annie Wilkins and her mad scientist of a husband, Tom. This story is very funny and has its ups and downs. The author had cleverly concocted the plots in such a way that they piled up above one …

At times, Gretchen Rubin comes across as whiney. She has had so many amazing opportunities and is very privileged and yet here she is complaining about not being happy. Some of her epiphanies are over used and common in all self help books. However, as much as it pained …

I’ve now read a couple of Julia LLewellyn’s books, The Model Wife being the second that I’ve read. While the storyline is different, the feel of the books is the same - in both the Love Trainer and The Model Wife a woman must reinvent herself despite not having …

I read this book on and off at first, and it’s called Marshall’s Guard. This book is about Lieutenant Leia Ballore, as an officer, was sent to a scene to collect some stolen cargo.
With love working in mysterious ways, she then met the man of her dreams in …

I have a son at 18 months who’s just starting to show all the usual toddler signs, tantrums, refusal to eat, fighting sleep and many more. I have found the book Toddler Taming by Dr.Christopher Green an absolute joy. The book is recommended as a Parents’ Guide for the …

How Not to Look Old by Charla Krupp is basically about not looking old basically. It lists off tips and steps that are simple and very easy to follow through. The author is very forthright in her advices here and you will be happy to follow through everything.
Though …

“Change of Heart,” is, in my opinion, an incredibly inspiring novel and one of Picoult’s best. It has been at least a year since I first read this novel, but I still have vivid memories of its beautifully described characters.
This book’s central message in relation to the capacity we …

Nowhere to Run is a romance mystery novel written by Jeanne Bannon. Ms Bannon has never been a new author to me as I have bought and read some of her other novels, so I was thrilled when I learnt that she had published another book called “Nowhere to …

The book title, I Hate Conflict! is something that I will always have to read out aloud on days that I have a bit of a problem dealing with the people in my life. There are just a lot of people that I consider being out to destroy me, …

After so many recommendations from my colleague at work I finally bought this copy. When she had recommended this book to me she also warned me that I might not like the end of the book and that’s exactly what happened. The book has been left with a cliff …

This book is told by Zana Muhsen and written by Andrew Croft. It is the most interesting story I ever read and disturbing it many ways.
Zana and her sister lived in Birmingham, but their father sold them to the Yemen to be married to young boys. Their …

I read the book The Wrinkle Cleanse by Cherie Calbom, and thought it was interesting, engaging and a very informative book about aging and beauty in general. While the concept of the book is not at all original, I think this is one of the few books which really …

The Nick Jr. The Backyardigans “Rescue Patrol” by Catherine Lukas is a beginner reading book which is part of the read-to-read book series. This particular book is based on the children’s show “The Backyardigans”, and the characters will be familiar to both children and parents if they are familiar …

Heat is Bill Buford’s story of his late in life transition from a well paid food writer to a restaurant chef. He begins as a kitchen slave in Mario Batali’s New York restaurant Babbo and journeys throughout the world of food, at a small town Italian restaurant and …

The Descent was the first book that I read by Jeff Long. A very long book, but interesting, I am still glad that I bought it at a used book sale instead of paying full price. It is not that the book was bad, quite the contrary it was …

When people think of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, they naturally think of his most famous character, Sherlock Holmes. But, he actually had another character that could match up to the famous detective.
In reading the book The Adventures of Gerard, I was introduced to a French soldier who served during …

Lance Armstrong’s –it’s not about the bike is one of the best sports books ever published. the book is unique because the magic that we see in books like harry potter and other fictions actually is real in this book.
the book very well potrays how lance armstrong is always …

This is the second book written by Frederick Forsyth that I read. My previous book, The Fist Of God was a stunner so I decided to sample more of his works. Turns out, this book is equally, if not more colourful than my previous …

A useful resource for any knitter is a stitch dictionary. These can be used when making up your own patterns or changing a pattern to suit your own vision.
Knitting Stitches, by Mary Webb, is a reasonably good stitch dictionary. It is nicely illustrated, so you can see each stitch …