Recently, I came to the very last page of “The Choice” a novel by Nicholas Sparks. And while I found the romance behind this novel heartwarming and beautiful, I did not find this story to have as much depth to it as some of his other novels.
The story …

The title of the book is taken from one of Newton’s letter to Robert Hooke in 1676. Newton had written, “If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”. The book is about five scientists whose works have influenced the development of modern science …

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 …

It is the most devastating book I’ve read in a few years. It analyzes the phenomenon of camorra, one of several kinds of Italian mafia, relatively little known before the publishing of that book, yet probably the most dangerous one.
Saviano, a journalist who comes from Calabria, the region dominated …

The Railway Auntie is a story found in the anthology Delhi Noir. This book contains stories written by Indian authors. All of the stories in the collection take place in Delhi.
The Railway Auntie is narrated by a young Indian man. He lives with his grandmother and is very poor. …

Tower of Destruction, by Keith Martin, is a fairly late entry in the long-running Fighting Fantasy series of solo gamebooks, having first been published in 1991 and coming in at number 46 in the original Puffin sequence. It is not one I would consider a classic, and nor does …

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 …

Odd as it may sound, there was a time when the Justice League of America was not made up of DC’s biggest heroes. On the contrary, it was populated with lesser known characters and even took on a more comedic tone.
Now, those comics are great and I highly recommend …

This is probably one of the more frustrating reads for me in awhile. Russians have a bad reputation for writing long boring books. On the other hand, most great writers are drunks and Russians are infamous for their …

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 …

The greatest delight in reading this children’s book was it’s upbeat rhythm. The sentence structure has such a lively tempo, you find yourself bouncing your children on your knee as you read. My children have even gotten out their toy drum to keep beat with the story! …

I have this book entitled Jerry Baker’s Living Well Supermarket Super Products Book. I bought in from Amazon.com, and I really liked it.
This book contains a whole array of common household products that can be used for different means other than what you would think. …

Hide got me really scared reading it. I don’t mean literally, but more like making me really wanting to tell the characters in it that the danger lurking them are just this and that. This is possibly one of the best thrillers that I’ve ever read and …

This book is a great look at American History from a Italian mans experience in the political game that shapes our great country. It shows how he grew up in an Irish Catholic community and how his religion and his family shaped the direction of his life.
The well …

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 …

The Cold Moon is a chilling thriller with a serial killer on the loose. The killer masterly and brutally murder his victims, and carving a moon-faced clock on his victims. A psycho is on the loose, and the lives of Amelia Sachs and her long time boyfriend, …

After doing a bit of light summer reading and watching I decided it was time to once again dip into some more serious writing. “The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future” by Vali Nasr certainly qualifies.
In this book Nasr rehearses the history of the …

Malcolm Gladwell wrote this book to show how people make split second judgments about things and how much of these judgments are correct. Gladwell is an excellent writer, he always uses lots of examples and has a way of explaining scientific information in an easily understood way. That being …

Religions , mysteries , encrypted messages , ruthless killings and persecution… These are the main themes in the novel by Michel Benoit, who will keep you under tremendous pressure from the beginning of his book to the last chapter. It is questioned not only the sustainability of the Catholic …

The first time I read a Harlan Coben book I was preparing for a long bus ride from New York City and needed something to read really quickly. I saw a book with a bright orange cover that caught my eye and I figured I’d give it a shot. …

Written by Fred Van Lente & Dean Koontz
Illustrations by Queenie Chan

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this graphic novel after picking it up at the book thrift shop. I’m not too familiar with Odd Thomas book series saved only for the first book, my friend recommended, which I didn’t get to finish …

Obernewtyn Chronicles Book1 - “Obernewtyn” - By Isobelle Carmody
Genre - Fantasy/Science Fiction
To quickly sum the book up, the main protagonist (Elspeth Gordie) is a young orphan girl who has ESP (called ‘Misfits’ in the series) who lives in a post apocalyptic dystopian world reminiscent of medieval times (complete with …

“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 …

‘Five on a hike together’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This is an interesting book and is one among the famous five adventure series. The four children, Julian, Dick, George and Anne go off to the hills for a whole week with their dog, Timmy. Timmy hurts …

Lick (Stage Dive #1) by Kylie Scott it’s a book that I didn’t hate but I also didn’t love. It’s one of those that get stuck in the middle, great to just spend time when we want to read something light but with the right touch of angst and …

In Why Government Doesn’t Work, Harry Browne talks specifically about the United States of America, but I think that most of us in the UK realise by now that later - if not sooner - what is happening in the US finds its way across The Pond and happens …

‘A gift of fire’ is a great book that makes you reconsider technology. For starters I am not one that likes to read, and considering this is a book on computer technical subjects I was very hesitant to read it. I like the way the other flows …

The Regulators was released at the same time as Desperation, both written by Stephen King and published in 1996, the books have much in common, the book covers, when you put them side by side they complete a picture, and the demon in Desperation Tak, is featured in this …

Lacey Armstrong is living a very ordinary life: single mom, great friends, difficult mother, and a business owner. Her day to day life is mundane with no excitement or change. However, all those things come to a standstill when Hurricane Damien levels Lacey’s home, which actually turns out to …

I have always been an avid gamer, so when I discovered that a book on the creation and history of the popular Legend of Zelda video game series had been published, I was ecstatic. I was so eager to purchase The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia that I …

Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim and Pete Sanders is good. It has such a long title, but the title is very much necessary to me.
When a book has 2 writers, usually the writings are really cool. And …

I think that Dean Koontz was ahead of his time in writing this book. It was originally printed in 1987 under his pseudonym ‘Leigh Nichols’. I think that a lot of writers use pseudonyms at first until they have established their’ work.
The story is set in California, as quite …

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton is one of the remaining greatest literature from Africa, one of those that concerned about the most exposed, critical and sensitive issue in the country; apartheid. Like many twentieth-century African novels, Cry, the Beloved Country is the story of a journey, both …

Well, this will be the first Stephen King book I’ve reviewed, but it certainly isn’t the first one I’ve read. Ever since I first read Carrie when I was ten (and wondered what the hell, really, was going on in that opening segment!) I was pretty much hooked on …

I do really appreciate reading the book “Come, Lord Jesus” written by Thomas Kempis. This selection contains devotional readings from the spiritual classic “The Immitation of Christ”. If you are looking for deeper spiritual experience and longs for serenity in your spiritual life, I do recommend reading the …

Now here’s a book with a loaded title. Honestly though, that title was the reason why I picked it out of the sea of all other books on astrology. I did check out what others were saying about it and the consensus is that it’s actually well worth the …

I had heard about the short novel Animal Farm but never really knew what it was. But, since I had finished reading another book by George Orwell (1984) I figured it wouldn’t hurt to read that one as well.
I can say I really liked it.
Animal Farm isn’t very …

Yell Oh Girls by Vickie Nam
This is a brilliant collection of essays by Asian-American female teenagers that should be on anyone’s bookshelf if they have even a passing interest in material written by Asian Americans or teens. What makes this book so special is the raw emotion that it …

This book was at the top of my summer reading list, as it had been pushed back and pushed back during the school year. As a summer reading book, it performs its function well; however, it is a little more lacking in plot and substance than I would …

The Next Accident is a novel by Lisa Gardner. I had not read too much by her in the past, but picked up The Next Accident at a library book sale. It was a great find. The novel is very entertaining and definitely MUCH better than most romantic thrillers.
Romantic …

I bought this book because I’m always on the lookout for books reminiscent to Tamora Pierce’s work, and this looked like it was right on the mark. The storyline sounded like it was right down my alley, I loved the cover art, and it was a nice length, …

Bridget Jones’s Diary is a funny, sometimes laugh out loud funny, read. It is set in the form of a diary, and you see each day how much she weighs (which is also amusing, as she will often weigh herself multiple times in a day), as well as …

The book Malice is by Danielle Steele and deals with abuse. If you can not handle reading about abuse, this book is not for you.
We meet Grace Adams who is abused when she turns 13 years old. Her mother is diagnosed with cancer and so she is …

This is the last and second book of the two-part miniseries in the Deadly Voyage book, and it’s titled Escape from Terror Island. Here we can see the group survives the horrible storm and they are on an island alone and they are all just relieved to see each …

This book is the sequel to Confesssions of a Shopaholic, and while it is not quite as good, merely because the main character repeats the exact same behaviours which caused her to get into trouble the first time, the strange situations she gets into are different and in the …

Seth Godin subtitle’s his “The Big Red Fez” as “How to Make Any Web Site Better.” Too bad he didn’t read a book about how to make any book better, because his suffers from many faults.
With only 111 pages and a retail price tag of $11 “The Big …

The story begins with John Bodman discussing the chances of people meeting their soul mates and he’s pondering whether or not he would have found a better wife if her personality was the opposite of his. As a result of John’s choice in a companion, him and his wife …

The last time I saw you by Elizabeth Berg must be the 5th of her novels that I have read, although she has quite a few more. Because I have enjoyed other things she has written, especially The Year of Pleasures, I picked up the last time I saw …

I have always loved visiting book stores, even if I don’t end up nuying anything. This is because they cam alwsys make me happy and serene in this crazy, stressful world.
Chapters at Bayview Village Shopping Centre is one of the many large bookstores in this chain(the bookstores that belong …

This is the first novel by V.C. Andrews that I read and it was truly superb. The suspense in the story was so good that I actually read the entire book, all 423 pages, in a single afternoon. While I have read many great books in the past few …