The Penguin has always been one of my favorite comic book villians. Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot is a villian you can understand. He was made fun of as a child. With a name like that, this comes as little surprise. He was short and chubby, and …

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink starts off as a very unassuming book, even if you just judge it by its understated covers.
I found the book very compelling. There isn’t really anything that makes you think, wow, but before you know it, you are drawn in. The writing is …

Eva just moved to a new city to start a new job in an advertising agency. She takes this opportunity to live her life without her mother watching every single step she takes, to find a little freedom and to take the reins of her own life. That …

The fifth book in the popular Madison Finn series (From teh Files of Madison Finn), this book is quite pleasant. It would be a good book for girls whose parents have been divorced, as in this book, Madison deals with one of the many minor/major problems of a split …

I recently read Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince. This is the sixth book in the series of Harry Potter books. Having read the other five and finding each book stimulating and entertaining and just about the best books I have ever read. I didnt …

Jamila Gavin’s novel —˜The Wheel of Surya’ is a mind blowing book. It was the runner up for the 1993 Guardian Newspaper Children’s Fiction Award. A big part of the novel is set in a village in Punjab. One can get a beautiful glimpse of rural India with …

It is a fact that can not be disproved, that more than two million people in the world, involved in the global sex trade every year, as a buyer or seller, which is business continuity, managed by the power of a business or criminal groups, which continue to move …

“Maths on the CBM 64″ is what it says on the spine of this book, and so it is what I am using as the title here, but on the cover itself you get a much longer version: “Mathematics on the Commodore 64: Essential Routines for Programming”. That makes …

“Calvin and Hobbes —“ Sunday Pages 1985-1995” is a book, only available in English language, with the stripes of theses characters created by Bill Waterson. My boyfriend gave this book in my last birthday because he knows that I used to read these stripes when I was a child …

A literal collision in a dark closet in someone else’s house leads Tilda Goodnight into Davy Dempsey’s arms. Both have broken into the house in order to rectify some wrongs.
Tilda is after a painting that is a key to the secret locked in the basement of her family’s art …

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, this is a book that was given to me by a very good friend of mine. I really loved and enyoyed reading because this book is full of words of wisdom. This is now the secret of my life.It encouraged me to work hard …

Generation Ecstacy by Simon Reynolds.
In the 1980’s, the rise of rave parties skyrocketed like a missile, hitting its peak in the 1990’s and then slowly heading into a decline.
This book is supposed to be the magnum opus that recounts the definitive look into rave culture and the rise of …

It’s hard for me to write a review for this story without giving spoilers to those who haven’t read it yet, because that would totally suck, it’s a story that’s very worth reading til the end. But I’ll do my best, at this point I didn’t even know what …

The WAG’s Diary by Alison Kervin is amazing but a lot of my friends do not like this story at all. They say it’s trashy, but I argued with them that we have to see from the contents’ point of view, rather than just discriminating the title. Perhaps …

This is a comic produced by Tokyo Pop, a pretty popular north American manga producing company. This comic is notable because it is not written by someone of Japanese heritage, as many seem to have the perception that manga writers have to be Japanese. This comic is popular for …

For those not in the know, Sergio Aragones is the famous cartoon artist best known for his work in Mad Magazine (he is the guy that does all of those funny little drawings in the margins). He is also well known for his popular comic book, Groo. …

John Grisham is prolific writer. He produces quality material regularly and is a valuable and entertaining writer. However, Grisham’s novel, The Broker, falls short. I believe this book suffers from what I call writer’s fatigue, where Grisham has fallen victim to too much writing.
The story is crisp and …

‘A new earth’ is a book written by Eckhart Tolle. In this book, Tolle says that all human beings have the power to make a difference on earth. We can create a new earth. Tolle provides the guidance and tips to move beyond ourselves in order to make this …

How I found out about the book and its author is through watching the movie from 2006, Peaceful Warrior. Ever since I watched the movie, it actually left me with a lot more questions than answers. But at the time I watched it I hadn’t noticed that it was …

The Da Vinci Code is a good read to be safely enjoyed as a sort of intellectual roller coaster pretty well programmed.
One of those historical who-dun-its or hybrid literatures looming out of misty and unlikely clues, this story, as superbly demonstrated by ‘Jurassic Park’, has successfully drawn a flimsy …

The story of Doc and Fluff is about a futuristic world with two heroines who do what they can to make life work for them. The book is labeled a dystopia, but in my opinion it is not so much a dystopia as a realistic and “raw” portrayal of …

I do not know how to deal with the internet world.I decided to enter it when i stop working.I ask my neighborhood, who is a professional blogger and article writer about this.He explained to me a lot of things about it and offer his help. He ask me …

According to the synopsis, this is a modern story of The Beauty and the Beast, but after reading it wasn’t quite as much to me. Making Faces is one of the most beautiful stories I have ever read in my life, and Amy has definitely turned into one of …

After reading Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire, my addiction to the series only grew. And why you ask? Again JK Rowling impresses all with her gift for tale-telling.
Harry and his friends are entering their fourth year, and as a surprise Hogwart’s plays host to the Tri-Wizard cup …

Gutsy Women: More travel tips & Wisdom for the road by Marybeth Bond has a long title to it but it is really a fun and interesting guide book, so to speak. If you look at the book cover, it is very colorful and nicely looking. There’s a …

Reese Duncan wanted a wife, so he set out with a plan to place a personal ad to seek worthy candidates. He wanted a woman who would stand by his side while he rebuilt his ranch and gave him children. He wanted an uncomplicated and simple woman, …

I do know for a fact that for less than a day’s drive from New York City, Philadelphia or Boston, you could reach the Catskills, which is a very popular weekend hangout and a summer hotspot for the city people.
I have read The Catskills Alive! and this book …

Happy are the Clean of Heart, written by Andrew M Greeley, was published by Warner Books in 1986.
Father Blackie Ryan looked forward to a Christmas reunion with his childhood friends, George Quinn and Lisa Malone, the famed movie star. Blackie had nursed an infatuation for Lisa all …

This is a horror or thriller novel about a killer tiger that gets loose in Los Angeles and the caring zoo veterinarian who is willing to risk her life to save the big cat. I really enjoyed reading this book, mainly because the tiger was not portrayed as a …

Beautiful Creatures is the first book in the four book Beautiful Creatures series. Ethan Wate begins to have strange dreams about a girl who he has never met. Things get even stranger when the girl from his dreams shows up in his town. Ethan is drawn towards the girl …

This book The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory, is sort of the sequel to the book title, ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’, which is also by Philippa Gregory.
In this Boleyn Inheritance, the story goes by several characters and the old and really disgusting King Henry. I am not …

I took a Spanish Class this year at college and I hated it. I have had other Spanish classes before but I feel like I learned nothing at all in this class. I think it was a waste of my time because the teacher was using the worst Spanish …

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild is a very good book. It was first published in 1937, and keeps being reprinted so more generations of kids can enjoy it. This copy of the book has 281 pages.
Ballet Shoes is the story of three orphan girls who …

What Every BODY is Saying has lots of good ‘catch’ in it. Written by Marvin Karlins and Joe Navarro, it has lots of good elements that could be useful for readers like you and me out there to ‘detect’ honesty and looking through more than the body language …

Baby Love, written by Catherine Anderson, is a love story about Maggie Stanley and her baby. It started out with her, carrying her baby who is very little and she ran off into the cold and snowy night. I was curious in the beginning as to why she …

I’ve seen several movie versions of the classic book The Three Musketeers. But, it was only recently that I found the time to sit down and actually read it.
I’m not sure if I liked it better than the movies, but I will say it does give quite a …

I personally find that this is a good book, and I have read it over twice. It certainly is an enjoyable book to read, and it tells about the character Earl of Devonshire, who is aging, and felt that he do not have long to live. He …

This is a truly excellent Young Adult novel. It’s a well-written mix of historical fiction and mystery. I read this entire novel in one afternoon, as I wanted to find out what the secret in this book was, so yes, it is a real page-turner. I should add the …

Wow—¦ what a cool book. This is an illustrated novel put together by Brian Selznick. In my opinion, there really aren’t enough of these. It might seem a bit childish, and it may be difficult for some to take seriously—¦ but the pictures are adorable, and …

A Spell of Winter weaves a tale of romance, incest, hardship, horror and the darker side of humanity. Set in England, ages past, the novel is narrated in the first person by a young woman named Cathy (yes yet another Cathy in a tale of incest) who suffers a …

I was loaned a novel called “The Shack” by WM. Paul Young and immediately put it under some of the papers on my bookshelf to soon forget it existed. A time later, while fishing for other books to read, I lifted the papers and found the novel I …

This book, No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog by Margaret Mason gives no indication that it’s going to be a technical one for me. When I first took a look at the title, I already sense that this is going to be …

Backup is a novelette set in Butchers Dresden files universe. In this book it isn’t Harry Dresden who’s the main actor, but his vampire half-brother and side-kick Thomas Raith. He is off on an investigation on his own, which becomes entangled with an investigation of Harrys.
The novelette is written …

George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel “1984″ is not only a great book, it is also a startling look at a possible future if we don’t heed Orwell’s advice.
The novel takes place in the year 1984 in a futuristic London that doesn’t seem like London at all. In this …

The Fifth Angel is written by Tim Green and I find this book a bit confusing in the beginning. But as I read on, I started to have a better understanding of the characters and find the story pretty engaging and good for me. Jack Ruskin is truly …

Kafka represents the gradual disintegration and decay of a living organism in the midst of his family’s complacent well being.The symbolism found in Kafka’s novella the metamorphosis helps to clarify Gregor’s inner life better and illuminates the conflicts he experiences after his metamorphosis. In this novella Gregor represents Kafka’s …

Published in 1980, “Indian in the cupboard” is a charming children’s book written for the fourth through six grade reader. The story takes place in England beginning on Omri’s, the main character, tenth birthday. Besides gift parents and his oldest brother, Omri is given a cabinet from his youngest …

The story in this book, a genre of adventure that can be said that special story. Beginning with the ambition that involve very complex issues. Many told the strategy to defeat the enemy with the ability of a very remarkable individual. Not only illustration to survive, but also demonstrate …

Bunny Party by Rosemary Wells is another book about Max and Ruby, two young bunnies who apparently do not have any parents but seem to do pretty well running a household by themselves.
In this story, Ruby is planning a Birthday party for Grandma. As usual, Ruby is super …

I-SPY London is part of a series of books which can be used to make journeys and trips out more interesting, as in each book, there are hundreds of different locations for you to visit. Once you visit a location, you can put a tick in the tickbox. Once …