The 13th volume of Nodame Cantabile starts with Chiaki coming back from Holland. It’s Christmas and he was hoping to spend the night with Nodame, but she’s not at home, as she’s helping with a child’s play at a church. When they meet in the street they have a …

I have never been a huge fan of Chris Moyles (Uk’s Radio One Morning DJ) so when I picked up this book it was based purely on the fact that I thought it might change my general opinion on him. I do like Autobiographies I love reading about the …

After having acquired my set of the Webster’s Family Encyclopedia more than fifteen years ago, I still find this set of reference books very informative, relevant and very helpful.
I usually use the Encyclopedias to make reference to historical activities as well as to get a brief summary of an …

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. …

I have just finished reading this book, Carra: My Autobiography. And I find it a very refreshing read. Just in case you do not know at all about this autobiography, Carra is actually short form for football player named Jamie Carragher. He is English and a very …

A friend of mine recommended this book to me — not on the basis of it being a very good read, but because she said I could read it in a couple hours. She was wrong. It took me several days to read this book, because it was so …

Though one of her older novels, “In Love With Her Boss” still demonstrates Ridgway’s ability to craft a mildly entertaining and sweetly charming tale of two people overcoming the insecurities of past relationships to fight for each other. Lori is the vulnerable yet headstrong female protagonist attempting to …

Annie G. Freeman dies and that sets her grand finale into motion. A few weeks later her oldest friend receives a package. In it she finds Annie’s beloved red sneakers filled with Annie’s ashes and a note with a request. Katherine knows it will be to ‘do something hard. …

Prime Suspect was written by Lynda La Plante and published by Dell Publishing in 1993.
Why are ambitious women always depicted as hard and bitchy, when they are just trying to do a job and prove their worth? I’m indeed surprised that a female writer would portray her protagonist …

A Year in the World is a beautifully written book that makes you want to travel. It is written by Frances Mayes, who is the author of Under the Tuscan Sun (which is different from the movie, by the way), and A Year in the World is her story …

“The Volunteers” was another book I found some years ago in an old bookcase. I believe it was published originally in 1985, but I had neither heard of it nor its author. I had tried reading it a little before I entered high school even though I had never …

The Flat Belly Diet Book is a Big Help at Our House
A couple of months ago I decided to lose weight and started doing some research. I was very out of shape, to say the least. I’d already started an exercise routine of walking and was working my way …

It was a friend of mine who introduced me the book from Dr. Motha. Before I got this one I already bought a book also written by Dr. Gowri and that was during my pregnancy. After I had my baby this same friend of mine told me …

This is a must read for anyone who has enjoyed Ms Feehan’s work in the past.
Safe Harbour by Christine Feehan is the fifth book in her magical Drake sisters series. This is Hannah and Jonas’s story. The previous books have been building up for their story as in …

I disagree with the point of view that was presented by the Venetian aristocrat in this book. It seems that he does not completely understand the concept of democracy. A major part of the idea is that the government should represent what the people want, even if what they …

A Dark Adapted Eye was written by Ruth Rendell, under the pseudoymn of Barbara Vine, and published by Plume in 1993.
Human beings are terrible both Vera and Eden Hillyard were both self-serving and snobbish. Vera was not only neurotic, she was simply nasty, with outdated principles, …

The Dust Bowl by Donald Worster was a very interesting book in a way that it told the whole history of the plains and how it happened. I liked how it focused the link in the Great Depression and Dust Bowl hitting at the same time. The economic problems …

Wow! I have to say this was one amazing book. While I was already familiar with the concept of people having different needs in relationships, this book helped explain a lot of misunderstandings in relationships to me. There are five main ways people give and receive love, usually one …

In this fourth book in the Wizard in Rhyme series written by Christopher Stasheff, Matt Mantrell learns how to transport himself back to his original world to visit his parents.
In Merovence 3 years has passed, yet he learns he has actually been gone only 3 months.
In “My Son, …

Having watched Food Inc., then read “Omnivore’s Dilemma,” I was curious about the Joel Salatin guy that was so funny and interesting in the movie, and clearly ran a really interesting farm and was thoughtful and very outspoken in Pollan’s book as well. I considered buying his book …

A coworker and I were chatting not too long ago, and she was talking about an amazing little book she had just finished, Five People You Meet In Heaven. I said that I would have to read it, and she said that she would be happy to pass her …

‘The secret island’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This is a very interesting book. The story line is excellent and the style of writing is also very good.
The names of the children in this book are Mike, Peggy and Nora and a boy named Jack from …

“The curious incident of the dog in the night-time” was certainly a great book for me.
The narrator of this book is Christopher Boone, a fifteen old autistic child. His journey/adventure started when his neighbour’s dog died mysteriously in the garden. He decided to become his own detective, touring around …

Al Roker’s Big Bad Book of Barbecue is a compilation of recipes from Al, himself, with a lot of influence from his family and friends. My brother and I discovered this book several years ago when my husband decided he wanted to get into smoking meat. We …

The author of The Last Song is Nicholas Sparks and he has written many books before this one. Many of his books have been turned into major motion pictures. I picked up this book one day when I took a trip to Barnes & Nobles and thought I would …

I may be new to this website but one thing i am not new to are the books in “A Serious of Unfortunate Events” by Lemony Snicket. The books are my favorite serious of all time, Lemony Snicket may name the title “A Serious of Unfortunate Events” but actually …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chains of Command is a novel that is appealing in some ways, yet disappointing in many others. It is appealing, in part, because of the aliens that are created just for this story: they are a race of intelligent avian, or bird-like, creatures. …

Fateful follows a maid named Tess Davies who is a passenger on the Titanic. She works for the nasty Lady Regina, who is a first class passenger aboard the Titanic. Desperate to escape her life as a maid, Tess plans to run away when the Titanic arrives in New …

From Sex To Super consciousness : Book Review - FSTS is a book by Osho, which presents a different analysis of human sex energy. Osho says that sex energy is the most vital form of energy, and it can be used in a much larger perceptive than the …

I love to read book, especially a thriller but romantic drama book. After heard some chit chat talk about the twilight tetralogy, i finally decide myself to read them. Twilight is one from four books of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn).
I try to …

After many years of starwars the trilogy was finaly finished. Most people only had their eyes on the movie. But i had my hands on the book several months before the movie came out. The book is written on a special way. Everything is described into the smallest detail. …

When it comes to reading and learning, sometimes, children are simply not interested in the text. This problem creates a larger problem where students are then drifting off during class readings and not fully grasping the lesson. However, when researching a book that would be fun and interesting for …

The book is a book of zeal, makes us deform in many day of company of the Indian east. It has made the extent where the story moves to that times. Ghosh cultivation, processing and trade and its at that time of the public who does the lot of …

I have to wonder to myself, why don’t people learn? It’s been well established since the early days of the 20th century that just because something is popular, or works, in one medium, that doesn’t automatically mean that it will work in another. Yet we still have dozens of …

I finished reading “Great House” just yesterday, having found the novel so compelling and beautifully written that I read it within three days. I have always been a fan of Nicole Krauss, and if possible I think this novel is an even greater achievement than her previous books.
In this …

Blood Bound is the second book in Patricia Briggs’ Mercedes Thompson series. It’s not what I typically read but I was given the first book by a friend and got hooked on the series. The books I normally read are paranormal romance,
historical and books on dreams. Briggs’ Mercy Thompson …

Every one of my friends was dying about this book and when I first read the synopsis it seemed kinda of normal to me, which is the reason why I couldn’t understand why everyone was loving it so much. I finally gave it a chance, and oh, my god, …

The book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, written by Dave Eggers have received lots of compliments from most of my friends and even my siblings. So, since everyone sort of have read it, I want to have a feel of it too. I bought it. …

Uglies is the first book of a series written by Scott Westerfeld. It takes place in the possible far-future of our world. During this time, each individual must undergo serious cosmetic surgery once they reach the age 16. This surgery turns an average ugly into a carefree, beautiful pretty. …

I am often quite partial to books about anthropomorphic animals, which is to say those which have at least some human characteristics, such as speech or reasoning, or even wearing clothes. So when I found Aeron Clement’s 1987 novel about the lives of a group of badgers, “The Cold …

“Fantasy and Your Family” by Richard Abanes analyses popular fantasy novels like “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Chronicles of Narnia” from a Christian perspective. I have met some Christians who are wary of these books and even fantasy as a genre, thinking that it is for some …

Alexi Stanislaski meets Bess McNee in this very interesting story in the Stanislaski series.
Bess is a soap-opera writer and Alex is a cop. The duo met because, well, because Alex arrested Bess. It is actually quite funny how they meet and how they end up with each other …

The Impatient Gardener by Jerry Baker has been in our home library for several years. It has become an indispensable reference book for us when we start our gardening each spring. Jerry Baker is a real character who used to have a gardening show on television and …

Carina Maria DiGrata, a young Italian woman, leaves her home in California after catching her fiancé Flavio with her sister. She goes to Colorado, to the small mining town of Crystal where she has purchased a house and hopes to start a new life and forget her sorrows. However, …

I would definitely consider buying this book for any young girl in my life who was about to face the transition from elementary school to middle school. Middle School: How to Deal was written by five girls for a middle school class, so when it comes to giving …

Summer storms are known to everyone as something quite fierce, but what passes fairly quickly and is quickly replaced with a bright sun and the typical for the warmest season of the year heat. But in the chilling novel, written by Stephen King, “The Mist” the storm is just …

Bonjour Tristesse was the first novel by Françoise Sagan (1935-2004), a writer who came from France, which was published when he was eighteen years old. Because of this novel, Sagan had skyrocketed as a leading figure in French literature. Lara told using first person perspective. The narrator was a …

Another of my favorite book written by Stephen King would be The Stand. This book that I’ve read is actually from the Uncut Version and if you want a clue, the cover page of this book is something of a blue bird or something. A weird blue-like …

Naptime Is the New Happy Hour, written by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, is a book that I bought for my cousin who has just given birth. Her child is around 10 months now, and I feel a bit pitiful for her because she isn’t coping with motherhood that well. …

I have read the book —˜The haunted bridge’ written by Carolyn Keene. This book is one among the Nancy Drew series. As are all other Nancy Drew books, this book is also an interesting one and a typical mystery story.
The title for the book suits it well. Nancy …