Books Reviews
Carter’s Advanced Accounts: Seventh Edition
This university term would be my first time doing Financial Accounts, or any other business subject. Therefore, at the beginning of the term I found myself very anxious about doing the subject, since I was unsure if I would need a background in the subject to be able to …
The Field Mouse Goes to Church by Elnora Watters
The Field Mouse Goes to Church is a short story by Elnora Watters. The story starts out by Field Mouse and Church Mouse meeting. Field Mouse was looking for food and he was accidentally locked on the shed. He only got to go out after someone opened the box …
Ladies of the Night and other stories
The title book, Ladies of the Night and other stories really entices me. The author being Prince Althea, it some more intrigues me, because the name is really exotic. And when I read this book, it is indeed true. This book is awesome in the elements of …
Wish by Melina Gerosa Bellows book
The acknowledgements section of this book starts off with, “I would like to acknowledge all of my boyfriends, from the jerks to the saints, who loved me, dumped me, and left me no choice but to embark on a joyride of self-discovery.” This is what this books is about, …
Keely (Hero Of Lesser Causes)
Keely Hero Of Lesser Causes, describes the struggle and loyalty among family members. Keely struggle in the novel is successful literary award in Canada. This is natural, this book has a different story from the other teen books. With the background of the world war II, this book opens …
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett is another tale is his very popular and extensive Discworld collection. Feet of Clay is another book about Vimes and the Ankh Morpork City Watch. The Watch is expanding, with new officers of all descriptions, including humans, dwarves, trolls and a …
Eat This Not That 2010 edition-nonfiction book
Like most ladies I’ve dieted many, many times. I’ve tried everything from Atkin’s to diets that came directly from hospitals for heart patients. I have made the switch lately to try not dieting. I just want to change the way I eat daily.
I try not …
Children’s Book: Carry Me! by Rosemary Wells
“Carry Me!” by Rosemary Wells is a charming little book full of bunnies, although they are not Max & Ruby, which confused and disappointed my daughter quite a bit. Still, the book features prose about bunny families carrying their babies, talking to their toddlers and singing with their children. …
“Mr Mercedes” by Stephen King, novel
I’m a big fan of Stephen King, he’s a real Master of his craft.I began to read his books so many years ago,but the time passed and i’m still with him.
We get used that the most part of Stephen King’s novels are horror,but there are some exceptions that …
Whats reading?
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 …
Comic Book: Savage Dragon Issue 1
The Savage Dragon Issue 1 was published in 1993 and was one of Image Comics’ first big hits. Erik Larsen wrote and illustrated the issue, which he did for quite a while in the series. For some reason, I absolutely loved this issue of Savage Dragon.
The art …
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
This book, written for teens, is about a boy who moves into town and becomes aware of several different situations. One is, unfortunately, the school bully, who has targeted him. Another is a girl and her brother, who are having familial difficulties. And the last and central problem is …
Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She was Extinct book
My daughter got to go to the school library for the first time yesterday and check out a book. Since she loves stories about dinosaurs, she picked out the book Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She was Extinct.
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book before reading …
Love is Letting Go of Fear by Gerald G. Jampolsky
This book, Love is Letting Go of Fear by Gerald G. Jampolsky is very meaningful and have provided more or less the solution for me to move on in life when I feel that love is lacking in my life department. There are people that have been not so …
The God Delusion, Book by Richard Dawkins
Attention! Remove the lids from your eyes! Open your minds and close your merciful hearts. The religious people should arm themselves, many people know how they would react when the one “true faith” has been criticized. Let’s get started…
Dawkins is great ! Yes, I really think …
Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
This book is a little hard to understand and heavy going for the casual reader by it will certainly improve your knowledge of the scientific concepts concerning dimensions. Throughout the book is a detailed and well explained history concerning the key developments of physics covering the era …
Me vs. Me by Sarah Mlynowski
Gabby, the heroine of this book, gets a unique chance to live two lives at once. When she is offered a job of her dreams in another state and a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, she finds making the choice very hard, and wishes on a shooting star that …
Stacey’s book by Ann m. martin
The baby sitters club portrait collection, Stacey’s book by Ann m. martin is all about Stacey McGill. Stacey is a thirteen year old girl who belongs to a club named the baby sitters club. Stacey is from New York city and is a diabetic, so she can not have …
Border’s Books Huntington Mall
One of my favorite places to hang out is in a bookstore. I could spend hours just walking through the aisles. It’s a great way to find interesting books. I keep hoping that one day they will put a Barnes & Noble in my area but until that happens …
Rolling Away Book
Rolling Away by Lynne Marie Smith
Unlike “Generation Ecstacy,” Smith’s autobiography truly gives one a feel for the subculture that gets caught up in the drug Ecstacy.
Sadly, such a treatise is delivered as we see her pain and alienation and descent into drug problems.
It’s hard to not like Smith. She …
Theater Shoes by Noel Streatfeild book
I was given this book as a gift from my cousin when I was in elementary school and it became a longtime favorite. I loved acting and theater at the time, and this book is about three children in World War II era England who were born into …
Love Mercy by Earlene Fowler
Earlene Fowler has some serious guts. She was able to bring main characters from another series and place them into the supporting roles of this hopefully new one. The best part! I didn’t feel cheated since they weren’t the main focus as they are in the Harper series! …
High Country by Nevada Barr
“High Country” is a fast paced mystery featuring National Park Ranger, Anna Pigeon.
This book is written by Nevada Barr. Who herself has a background in the National park service.
Anna goes undercover in Yosemite National Park as a waitress in order to find out what happened to four …
Paladins of Shannara by Terry Brooks
“Paladins of Shannara” is a series of stories dedicated to some of the most famous characters from the world of the Four Lands, the scene of action in the eternal saga ” Shannara” of the best-selling author of “New York Times” Terry Brooks.
Allanon’s Quest is the first story of …
The Lord Of The Rings books
I’ve read the novels by J.R.R Tolkien I swear it be hundreds of times by now. And each and every time, I find myself delved so deep into the story of Middle Earth, it’s hard to retrieve my mind from fantasy back to reality. These novels were written in …
Financial Peace by Dave Ramsey
This book changed my life. I have been struggling with debt, and I really had a hard time making payments to a million credit cards every month. Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace was a breath of fresh air with simple baby steps and sound, common sense advice for people just …
(Book) The Art of Make-Up by Kevin Aucoin
Well, I’m addicted to makeup, the new brands, the gloss, shadows and eyelashes mascaras !!!!!
From this hobby my family and friends get benefited when they have a special event like a wedding, special dinner, etc., and so they all come to me and I, within my limitations of amateur-daily-and-happy-practitioner,never …
Donna Tartt The Secret History
“The Secret History” by Donna Tartt is a true masterpiece, a modern classic. The novel is a twisted tale about a group of young bizarre and nonconformist college students who, influenced by their charismatic classics teacher, resolves to stage dionysean ancient rituals - bacchanalia. During one of those rituals, …
Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
Little men is the second book about the three surviving March sisters. Little Women saw them all married and happy, in Little Men we mainly follow Jo and her boys as she runs a boarding school in the house she inherited from aunt March. The old house is filled …
Tatted Snowflakes by Vida Sunderman Tatting Pattern Book
Tatted Snowflakes by Vida Sunderman is a tatting pattern book filled with, you’ll never guess, patterns for tatting a variety of snowflakes.
Even though I was not a beginning tatter when I purchased the Tatted Snowflakes book it does have a small section on how to tat on the introduction …
Just Juice By Karen Hesse book
It is a very well written book for the ages of 9 - 12 years old. My daughter read it and loved. So I ended up reading the book and it was really good. It is about the Faulstich family that is struggling to live. …
The 18 rules of happiness, book by Karl Moore
I have read the book —˜The 18 rules of happiness’ written by Karl Moore. This book is a good and helpful book. It does not have much to say. However, whatever little is said in this book is certainly of great benefit. In my case, it helped me a …
Fight Club,Chuck Palahniuk
Yes, this is the book that the movie was based on. If you liked the movie at all, then you will love the even more perverse book.
I read this book after seeing and loving the movie, and I continued to read all of Chuck Palahniuk’s books. He is a …
Spider-man: One More Day
What’s the stupidest decision a person could ever make? What has never had a good outcome for anyone who has tried it? What did Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada decide to have Spider-man do? The answer to all three questions is “Make a deal with the …
Devil’s Gate, Book by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
Although for years I have been a really true fan of the fantasy genre, I can not deny that it’s difficult to find more entertaining and engaging books than those of the adventure thrillers. They don’t get the reader emotionally involved with the fate of their characters or put …
Malgudi Days by R.K.Narayan
Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories, written by the highly acclaimed author, R.K.Narayan.
Malgudi is an imaginative town in Southern India. All the characters of this book,live in this imaginative town. All the characters of this book, are are common people. They go about their daily business …
Balthasar’s Odyssey
In 1665, the people, especially Christians, hit by worries about the coming year, which is connected with the number of Satan. Embriaco Balthasar, a merchant of books, the descendants of Genoa, who came from Gibelet, long journey, almost around half of the world, to find a book of magical …
King of the Corner by Loren D. Estleman
“King of the Corner” by Loren D. Estleman is one of his Detroit books that started out as a trilogy and ended up as a series of seven books. “King of the Corner” was originally supposed to be the third book in the trilogy.
In 1990 Doc Miller, …
The Third Eye book by T. Lobsang Rampa
This is the lifestory, kind of autobiography of T. Lobsang Rampa a Tibetan born into an aristocratic family but destined to become a priest. I liked the description of Tibet in that age and the trials and tribulations of the young Lobsang as he matures into a spiritual person. …
Arabian Nights Book (Novel)
I bought this book for only $5 even though the price printed on the side stated $6.95, and although I was familiar with this Arabian Nights book as a child, I honestly couldn’t recall or remember exact and precise stories from it, there were only vague memories so I …
The Da Vinci Code
I read Dan Brown’s controversial book The Da Vinci Code in just two days considering how busy I was. It was so suspenseful and really a page turner that’s why I couldn’t put it down. That’s why when I heard that it was going to be made into a …
Ice Cream Treats Cook Book By: Charity Ferreira
I love desserts! Sometimes I revert back to my childhood days and wish that I could have dessert before dinner. A favorite treat of mine is ice cream, and when I read this quote from the cover of Ice Cream Treats cookbook by Charity Farreira stating, “Easy ways to …
Animal Farm by George Orwell
I have never come across a book this short and so fairytale-ish that made my jaw drop. Animal Farm is an unbelievable story. I have seen so many copies of the new version with the pink pig on the cover and I thought, “Well, isn’t that a cute little …
How to Simplify Your Life book
How to Simplify Your Life is a book written by Tiki Kustenmacher and Lothar J.Seiwert. This book is a great self help book for people who think they are easily exhausted by daily activities, have a messy relationship around you, have many burdens to carry or lost your way …
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
This book is the first of three books in the Wayside School series by Louis Sachar. (There are other books as well that are sort of spinoffs, but they don’t really have stories in them). These books are now the basis of a TV show called Wayside.
This book, Sideways …
More Games for your ZX81 book
There are a large number of books of games listings and programming tips for Sinclair ZX81 enthusiasts, and as such they are mostly fairly easy to get hold of even for those who are part of the computing hobby scene today. However, many ZX81 books in particular do suffer …
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the story of a girl who grew up in less than ideal circumstances. Jeannette and her brother and sisters were born to a genius father and eccentric artist mother. In between constantly “skedaddling” from place to place, the Walls lived …
The Selection by Kiera Cass, 2012, Book
This was a book which I saw in the library a few days ago, and the cover immediately grabbed my attention. I mean, look at it, it’s so pretty. I had a read of the blurb and then decided that I could definitely spare some time to give it …
The Sunday Times Guide to Movies on Television
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 …
Redemption by Jacqueline Thomas book
I became a fan of Christian novelist Jacqueline Thomas after reading her book “Jezebel.”
The main character of “Redemption” is the beautiful Marin, a well known actress, who meets, falls in love with and marries Warner, a well known preacher and evangelist. Despite his sister’s disapproval, he believes that God …
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