Books Reviews

Ageless Mind Timeless Body by Dr.Deepak Chopra

Dr Chopra is an allopathic physician by profession. But his wide exposure to Eastern Philosophy and Ayurveda made him apply the principles of modern science to Philosophy to propound a theory for finding the man’s eternal search for an elixir. His research is basically based on the belief that …

My Second Book

I don’t know who is the writer of this children book. But on the back of the book, it said that the book was an imprint of New Dawn Press, UK. So I guess, it’s from UK.
But I should say that this is a good book for the children. …

Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh

Slave to Sensation, the first book in Nalini Singh’s Psy/Changeling series, was a delightful surprise. This Fiji-born writer has created an amazing world of the future where three races co-exist: Humans, Psy (humans with powerful psychic abilities) and Changelings (shapeshifters). The story follows the relationship between Psy …

Richard Cory poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Appearances are really deceiving, that is what was proven in the poem Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson. The poem is about Richard Cory, a rich gentleman and his impression to the poor people that adored him. He was admirable in every way that most people wished to be …

Phantom by Susan Kay novel

Thanks to Andrew Lloyd Weber, Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera has gained a huge following throughout the years. However, extensive detail about the elusive Erik, also known as the Phantom or the Opera Ghost is relatively unknown - That was until Susan Kay’s groundbreaking novel Phantom arrived!
Phantom begins …

Cell by Stephen King

After coming off Constance Garnett’s slow and dry take on The Brothers Karamasov, this was an utter joy to read. The prose is smooth and engaging.
There’s little exposition, “the Pulse” strikes almost immediately. King does a great job painting a picture of the initial chaos that occurs …

Comic Book: Daredevil Issue 242

Daredevil Issue 242 is a great study in socio-economic issues, and avoids the typical comic book supervillian. Instead, writer Ann Nocenti tells a tale of a factory worker named Joe who snaps when he is confronted with the gross excesses in his boss’s lifestyle during a negotiation session …

Quidditch Through The Ages

I am reviewing the paperback book Quidditch Through The Ages, by ‘Kennilworthy Whisp’. The book is actually by J.K. Rowling, and was illustrated by her as well. The book was copyrighted in 2001, and publised by Bloomsbury.
The book starts of with a brief introduction by the fictional Albus Dumbledore …

Compact Oxford Thesaurus book

This Thesaurus has become a permanent fixture on my desk. Having a Thesaurus in addition to a dictionary is very practical as it allows me to write better while searching for words which I don’t want to repeat but has the same meaning. It is a hard bound book …

The old man and the sea

The old man and the sea, A magnificent short story by Earnest Hemingway. Earnest Hemingway has his own style of writing and I must say he one of the best writers in English literature. My third language while graduating was alternative English and we had to study this book …

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Street Car Named Desire, although a play but written and published, is a wonderful book/play to read. As soon as I picked it up I couldn’t put it down. The imagery was so vivid and the language was so rich and true to the way some …

I shall not hear the nightingale By Kushwant Singh

Because I do not like the fact that really I normally give the story development of the book with the story, you do not explain here in detail. In order to be the report, the book] year 1942 during independence struggle of great war and our [Indian people - is …

First Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton

‘First Term at Malory Towers’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. Enid Blyton has written about a girl, Darrell, who has gone to study at a boarding school. It is the first time that she studies in a boarding school. The entire book is about the life in …

Fiction Online Book Club

The Bellingham Public has recently added a new resource and it is fantastic. I am a big reader and am always getting further behind as more books are published and as I discover interesting authors and subjects.
The fiction online book club is a great tool to help me sort …

Perfect Phrases for Customer Service by Robert Bacal

Perfect Phrases for Customer Service is written by Robert Bacal and this purplish book is a real favorite of mine actually. I used to work in the service industry and I always wonder why some customers related well to some of my colleagues and not to me or …

Dragon’s Nest by Emily Rodda

This book is the first of four books in the Dragons of Deltora series by Emily Rodda. This series is the final series about Lief, Jasmine, and Barda, and follows the Deltora Shadowlands series, which followed the Deltora Quest series. Obviously, you kind of have to have enjoyed the …

Lady Lollipop by Dick King Smith

This is a book for early chapter book readers, cute and easy to read. The author has written many other classic kids books.
The story involves a spoiled young princess, who insists upon getting her own way in everything. Her mother doesn’t really spoil her, but goes along with her …

I Hunt Killers, novel by Barry Lyga (Jasper Dent #1)

I Hunt Killers focuses on Jaser “Jazz” Dent, son of the most famous serial killer. Billy Dent (Jazz’s father) has killed more than 120 people, and despite being safe and sound behind bars, he still stalks Jazz. Jasper tries to be a normal boy, he has a girlfriend, a …

Andy at Yale: or the Great Quadrangle Mystery

When I started reading the book Andy at Yale: Or the Great Quadrangle Mystery I had absolutely no clue what the book was going to be about. In fact, several chapters into it, I still really wasn’t sure whether I was reading a mystery or a narrative of someone’s …

Dora Big Sister book

Few years ago, when I was pregnant my second child, I bought this book for my first daughter. She was almost two at that time, and I need to tell her about the baby that will come very soon.
We already spoke about it but then when I saw Dora …

Letters to A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

I first encountered this book when I enrolled in a creative writing class in college. I wanted to learn as much about being a writer and Letters to A Young Poet fast became one of my favorites.
What I love about this book is that it cuts across the …

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh

It’s funny how some books find their way to you. I love it when people say- “Come and help yourself to my book collection.” Now that’s what I call having your day made for you. Well, my neighbor did just that. So that’s what I have been doing this …

The Best Damn Google AdSense Book: How to make dollars instead of cents with Adsense by Harry J. Misner

I read this book, The Best Damn Google AdSense Book: How to make dollars instead of cents with Adsense by Harry J. Misner and I was so amazed at how some people could make as much money as $500 and more. $100 already sounds good enough to be earned …

The Glades book

I just downloaded this free script of the first episode of The Glades, written by Clifton Campbell, through Barnes and Noble for my nook e-reader. I wasn’t sure what to expect, and had no idea what the show was about or what the storyline entailed, but I have to …

Fame Game by Claudia Pattison

Here is a hilarious book that you shouldn’t put down. And I enjoyed reading this book very much. The title is, Fame Game by Claudia Pattison, and the illustration is very funny if you take a look at it. Story is about Thea and she is the …

Deep Black: Biowar by Steven Coonts and Jim DeFelice

Charlie Dean and Lia DeFrancesca are back with the National Security Agency’s Deep Black covert operations team, but this time the threat is much closer to home, and that makes this novel all the more thrilling for American readers, if it is even possible for the Deep Black series …

The Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

This is the story of teenager Alexander Cold and his journey into the Amazons with his grandmother Kate Cold who is a reporter for International Geographic. Them along with his best friend Nadia and some photographers go in the deepest parts of the Amazons looking for a forbidden city …

Digital Fortress

I read Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress shortly after it was published. It was my first encounter with the author and, if it weren’t for all the hype around the Da Vinci Code, I probably would never have read another.
Overall, the plot of the book was OK. Basically, the heros …

I Didn’t Know That by Karlen Evins

I have always wondered where the words ‘nincompoop’, ‘dressed to the nines’ are always derived from, and this book, I Didn’t Know That, written by Karlen Evins, is actually depicting the favorite phrase you and me always use and like.
This book is a favorite of mine, and has some …

The Sculptress by Minette Walters

The Sculptress was written by Minette Walters (published by St Martins’ Press 1994)
Rosalind Leigh, an author, was assigned by her publisher to research into the life and crimes of Olive Martin, a convicted murderess who had confessed to the brutal murders of her mother and sister. Initially reluctant, …

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns is set against the backdrop of Afghanistan and the many changes that the country has undertaken over the last half-century. It follows the lives of two women brought up in very different circles but somehow end up in the same situation.
The recurring theme throughout the …

After the Kiss: The Notorious Gentlemen by Suzanne Enoch

The book title, After the Kiss: The Notorious Gentlemen by Suzanne Enoch has a raunchy cover. But don’t underestimate the quality contents of this book, because it is not about racy scenes only. In fact, there are elements of romance inside that I truly enjoyed reading. I …

Expiration Date by Eric Wilson

“Expiration Date” by Eric Wilson is a supernatural thriller that tells the story of Clay Ryker, a 29 year old man who has been keeping a dark secret for the last 12 years of his life. Back in his high school days, Clay was involved in an accident that …

Where Serpents Lie by T. Jefferson Parker

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 …

Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar

Written by Cecily Von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl is a good book for adolescent and certainly adults like you and me. It is full of the life of the rich and famous and certainly “privileged” kids that we came across in boarding schools and trendy schools. Up came …

A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett

This book is the second book about Tiffany Aching. It is a continuation of the Wee Free Men, and a prequel to Wintersmith, although it is possible to read and enjoy any one of the three on its own. This book is one of the books that the publisher …

Changes by Jim Butcher novel

Changes is the latest in the critically acclaimed Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, first published in 2010. Fans of the series are already familiar with Butcher’s character, the modern-day wizard Harry Dresden. Walking a fine line between the magical and the mortal worlds, Dresden always manages to …

Spontaneous Combustion by Bobby Hutchinson book

Spontaneous Combustion is a book that is well written and an easy read. I do, however, feel it lacked the action you think the book will contain based on the description on the back cover.
It takes place in a town called Courage Bay where the main character named …

How To Earn Passive Income With eHow Book

This is a book written by Maria Shriver AND COST $20. It is basically a book that teaches you how to make money from writing for eHow. eHow.com is a website filled with short how-to articles on almost everything. There are hundreds of articles on this website, which come …

For One More Day novel

This is the first novel of Mitch Albom, I read. It was my older sister who pleads me to read this as it did make her cry for whole night! well that’s what she said. And I was thinking what’s in the story? and if I will end up …

The Vampire Marius , by Anne Rice book

I have always been a fan of her Vampire Chronicles and must say that once more she didn’t disappoint me. The book follows the life of one of the children of the millennia, the vampire Marius, born 400BC in Rome.
What I like about Anne Rice’s books is the way …

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol is one of Dickens most famous works. It has been made into films, TV series, shows and cartoons. It tells the story of an old business man called Scrooge. His business partner has been dead for seven years, so Scrooge runs his own business as he …

From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth book

This book is written by Ramon Magsaysay Award winner, Vikram Seth. Although the book was written about 25 years ago when he was a student in Nanjing University it is still topical. This is a travelogue. The author described his experiences traveling by road through Sikiang, Tibet and Nepal before …

Vijay Tendulkar’s book ‘A stubborn gir ‘

Vijay Tendulkar book “a stubborn girl,” is an adapted version of his play, while passing through the same thing most realize that the ideal, ethics, truth and honesty such terms mean only when you have all the tools to live life existed. Perhaps these cases will be referred to …

Clinical Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy

Getting tired of books that are in paragraph forms that is so long and really making you bored to read each and every single word.Most of students are really lazy to read such books that are not summarized and have a long explanations.It was really difficult to understand.I have …

Vampire Diaries: Nightfall

I have been waiting almost fifteen years for L.J. Smith to release another book in the Vampire Diaries young adult series. I thought it had ended for good after book four, until I saw the Nightfall book, which is a direct continuation of the other four books, on the …

Children’s Book: Max’s Bunny Business by Rosemary Wells

“Max’s Bunny Business” by Rosemary Wells is a brand new Max & Ruby book published in 2008. It is big and bright and has a cute story, although it is not as funny and charming as some of the other stories. However, my daughter loves all that is …

Mr. Icy Cold and Other Stories

“Mr. Icy Cold and Other Stories” is a book of Enid Blyton’s children stories. There are thirteen short stories contained in the entire book, and all of them focus on enchanting plots which appeal to young children’s imaginations. I think it would make for a great Christmas gift for …

Be Your Own Therapist (Recipes for Emotional Health)

Susan Wright is the writer for this title book, Be Your Own Therapist (Recipes for Emotional Health). My friend loaned this to me and this book has a lot of self-remedy treatment that I find to be very valuable and I definitely enjoyed reading. The treatment answers …

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Book

I noticed recently that in the plan of one of our major publishshing companies
is to publish the science fiction novel “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson. What I enjoyed very much.
There are at least two reasons for this:
- Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson is an exceptional, having an extraordinary inventiveness, …

 
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