Even the cover of the novel STARGIRL by Jerry Spinelli is unique. It is turqoise blue with a star above a yellow stick figure of a girl. This novel is beloved by teenagers and adults.
STARGIRL tells the story of a young girl who frequently changes her name …

The Perfect Lover by Stephanie Laurens is a book from her Cynster series. This book was engaging and entertaining. The characters are interesting and draw you into the story. The story line is about Simon Cynster a well known rake who is attending a house …

I was excited seeing a new format of a well-loved book series, Nancy Drew. I bought the graphic novel out of curiosity.
I shouldn’t have held high expectation though. The art had 3D CG elements so the images wouldn’t appear flat like in typical comics. However, the pictures didn’t …

There’s a Barnes and Noble just about everywhere around the United States and I use to think that they were all the same until I went in looking for a particular book. I remember going to at least three before finding the one Barnes and Noble within a five …

‘The sea of adventure’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This is a very interesting book, as interesting as any of the other adventure series written by Enid Blyton.
The children decide to go on a good holiday. They decide to go with a certain Mr John, who …

This movie is the 42nd installment in the Sweet Valley University series and it features Jessica Wakefield eyeing a new hot guy on campus, and her boyfriend Nick Fox has to be careful or else Jessica can give in to temptation and leave him behind.
On Jessica’s twin Elizabeth Wakefield’s …

By this time, Charles Dickens’ tale of poor orphaned and outcast Oliver Twist is pretty well known. It has been adapted time and time again, in film, in musicals and even in a Disney film.
However, with many of the changes that these have placed on Dickens’ original story, …

If you are only going to read one book about Europe in your life, then I’d be tempted to recommend We Europeans by Richard Hill. However, as the book is much funnier if you know something about different Europeans nationalities, it might be better to make it the second …

Cactus Summer Surprise is a side story on the manga, Beast Master by Motomi Kyousuke. The side story has the same genre of Beast Master; comedy, romance, school life, and shoujo but with a little twist for supernatural. Would you still say something even if it isn’t cool? The …

India After Gandhi is a lucidly written book by eminent historian and sociologist Ramachandra Guha. Any one who wants to understand the evolving phases of India should go through this book. India is a country of vast linguistic, regional and political diversity. It intrigues scholar world over that why democracy …

Before The “Da Vinci Code” is written,”Angels And Demon” came first.I didn’t put down this book until the very end.I keep thinking of who really is the culprit,but still I can’t guess who he is.Dan Brown is great for writing Angels and Demons.I would surely recommend this to all …

I wrote for Review Stream recently where I wrote about what a great book “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini was. About halfway through the book I visited my local library and put in a hold request for Hosseini’s second book “A Thousand Splendid Suns.” I’m happy to say, …

Teaching English to high-school students is a challenge, no matter how you slice it. You learn very quickly that they are there against their will, and they will take every opportunity to demonstrate how bored they are and how boring you are. Thus, you are met with …

OK so I got to read a preview of the new HellBoy comic story call The Mole. This is a pretty good story, I think the drawings and the feel of the story is very dark and strange, which is perfect for HellBoy Comics. I was very happy with …

Roswell High was a series of books published in the last 1990’s. The popularity of the books led to a television show on the now defunct WB network that was later moved to UPN after fans protested its cancellation. The show itself took the basic characters of the book, …

Just recently the sixth book in one of my favorite techno-thriller series was released, Deep Black: Conspiracy by Stephen Coonts, and what a disappointment it was. Not that it was a bad book, not by far, but it was extremely lacking and flat as a part of the series …

Now You See Her
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I decided to join the Double Day book club out of whim. I mostly decided to join for the sake of earning some sort of virtual points to put toward earning money on a website. I was awarded the points. I received five …

Children love pop up books. They bring the stories to life. Even today I can remember enjoying them as a child, reading them over and over and over again and now one of the most popular stories of today, The Chronicles of Narnia, is now available in a …

The book “Living Dead in Dallas” by the author Charlaine Harris, is the second book in the series which the HBO original series True Blood is based off. I have just finished this book, and even though I still thought it was interesting and more unusual than the usual …

This is one of the novels in the New Yedi Order series. Han and Leias son Jacen Solo is captured by the enemy, the Yuuzhan Vong. They try to brainwash him to believe in their god and their philosophy. There is also a runaway Jedi there, Vergere, who joins …

Ghost Rider was a pretty schizo book when it debuted in the early 1970’s. In the 1990’s, when the book made its comeback, people laughed because they didn’t think GR was anything more than a dopey character. While the 1990’s books were cool, this 1970’s version is pretty dopey.
The …

Fruits Basket Manga Volume 6 begins with Kagura discussing with Yuki whether or not Tohru knows his secret about his true form while Kyo’s martial arts master returns.
This was a great manga to read because it shows the darker side of the story and just what it means to …

Because I love sewing, I thought it would be both a perfect opportunity and beneficial to my sewing skills if I learned how to knit; therefore, I went to Joann.com and purchased a knitting kit by Lion Brand.
Even though the knitting kit came a week later, it felt like …

The third book is the final chapter of the Millenium Trilogy of Stieg Larsson. In my copy, the inside cover has a picture of the author and a short piece on him. I was saddened to learn that he died before seeing how much of a big …

How many times have you heard your friends complain about their mother in laws? It seems to be an endless battle. Is it really possible to marry a man (or be with a man in a serious relationship) without marry his mother? If you have …

There is no doubt that Indian people can write. After a brilliant Jhumpa Lahiri with her Pulitzer Book, “Interpreter of Maladies”, I found another Brilliant writer with her brilliant chicklit about the wedding culture in India.
It is about Anju, a 33 years old Indian girl who has not married …

In the ruins of the former North America is the country of Panem. Its bright capital is surrounded by twelve districts , each of which provides for any of the needs of the country - one is for fishing , the other for supplying wood. Once there …

Adrian is approaching his twenty four birthday. Entering into the hardest age in life of a man, and although apparently fully mature, mentally, still in the dark days of growing up, filling the pages of his journal, directory, fears and obsessions, decent full of complexes teenager. His mature works …

This book is the 6th book in the Hardy Boys series, although it does not really matter in which order you read the books. This book has a fun amount of mystery for preteen boys, even though it was written in the 60s and so has a very different …

Song Of Solomon is a novel by Toni Morrison which focuses on a family known as The Dead family, primarily the youngest son, Milkman Dead. To be extremely brief with the plot of this novel, Milkman goes on a hunt for gold from his father and aunt’s childhood after …

“Motown” is the second entry into what was to be Estleman’s Detroit crime trilogy. The book takes place in 1966 on the eve of the 1967 Detroit riots that were to change downtown Detroit forever. The mid-1960s were the height of Detroit’s influence on the car world. Muscle cars …

As many of you probably know Stephen King is like the most popular writer of today. He’s known for writing great thrillers. But my favorite story of his was the Langoilers. It all starts when this pilot lands his plan and is ready to go home for the night. …

If you have a desire to run your own freelance writing business, the book “Start and Run a Copywriting Business” by Steve Slaunwhite is a good place to start. One problem many have with starting a business is that fear of failure prevents them from ever beginning in the …

Amy Harmon never fails me. I first met David Taggert (leading character of Song of David), also known as Tag, in The Law of Moses, one of the most amazing novels from this author. Harmon has decided to write these two stories as standalones but I have to say that …

I haven’t been reading many mysteries lately. I’ve caught up on most of the mystery series I’ve started reading over the years and haven’t found a new series to be interested in. Therefore I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I had missed the fifteenth Ella Clah novel, “Never-Ending …

This is a paperback book authored by Donna McCrohan and published by Workman Publishing Company in 1988. I found the book to be mildly interesting, being a fan of “All in the Family” and all, but the book kind of disappointed me for a couple of reasons. For one, …

Evil goblins who live underground are plotting to kidnap the king’s daughter, Princess Irene, and force her to marry a goblin prince. Fortunately, the princess has a friend, a young miner named Curdie who overhears the plan while working in the mines and decides to thwart it.
Like all other …

It took me almost 40 days to read the Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, not because it’s bad, but because it’s slow and very dense and personally, I’m a slow reader. Let’s start off with the plot summary. I would say we have two central characters, Don …

Normally people believe when they actually see it. In this book, Dr. Wayne Dyer propounded a theory that when you a start believing it, you actually see it. This is one of those brilliant books written by Dr. Dyer meant for your personal transformation.
The principle in this book starts …

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a very nice story actually. I thought initially that this is a true story, but I was wrong. The settings and the country this author wrote make me believe that it is indeed like a true story.
The backdrop country is …

This book, written as if it were a preteen girl’s diary, is a somewhat good book for girls. The main character, whose diary is being read, is a curious girl who wants a certain boy to like her.
Particularly funny ideas occur in the books, such as Zone-Shampooing. Also, these …

I often stumble on the books section at nytimes.com every weekend. Featured in the —˜books of the times’ lately was Gypsy Boy, a memoir written by Mikey Walsh. I was sold when the writer quoted gypsy boy asking, “Oh my God, have you met Madonna?” The …

To understand Public Administration one needs to have full grasp on the writings of some of famous administrative thinkers. This is the unique book in the sense that this contains only the writing about thinkers.
For me this is a God gifted book. I have benefited a lot from this …

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 …

I just read this book, published 2002 by Ignatius Press of San Francisco on the way home from my annual vacation, during a 5-hour plane ride. I couldn’t put it down, and since it’s only 148 pages in all, I was able to read it twice. It …

Digital Fortress is a computer program that creates unbreakable codes, the supreme counter-intelligence weapon; and it is offered for sale to the highest bidder. The author furnishes the reader with details on the National Security Agency’s TRANSLTR, and NSA’s Crypto Development Division; how they have thwarted terrorist attacks, …

Each is a phenomenal work that appears, always followed by a variety of responses. Whether it be a compliment, or otherwise provides a sharp critique. Before the book was published, The Secret, written by Rhonda Byrne stomping reason to think a lot of people. With full confidence, Rhonda demonstrate …

The “I Love Lucy: The Classic Moments: 12 Hilarious Magnetic Postcards to Send or Save” is a book that features postcards that I most definitely saved! I did not want to part with the post cards in this book because I just like them too much! The book does …

“Animal Navigation” is a classic 1967 work on this specific aspect of animal behaviour by R. M. Lockley, who would go on to become best known for his work “The Private Life of the Rabbit” which gave Richard Adams information about that animal for use in “Watership Down”. This …

Sins Of The Wolf is a William Monk mystery, written by Anne Perry.
Once again Ms. Perry does not disappoint and writes a wonderful story.
Sins of the Wolf, the book opens with Hester Latterly accepting a position as a nurse/ companion. She is introduced to her patient and the …