Books Reviews

Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Chirst’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Lamb is a best selling novel written by hilariously funny Christopher Moore, my favorite author. It details the early life of the Messiah as seen through the eyes of his best friend, Levi Who Is Called Biff. At 464 pages, it is not too terribly long of a read, …

Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion

“Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion” is a book by Larry Nemecek that I found interesting to an extent, although really, this book had quite a bit of content that I just was not interested in. What I was not interested in was the summaries of all the episodes …

Spongezilla Attacks by Erica David

My son is a huge Spongebob fan, so when I saw this new book titled “Spongezilla Attacks” by Erica David, I knew I had to buy if for him. The pictures in this book are in 3D form which I thought was a nice added touch. The pictures seem …

Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

Searching for Dragons, book 2 of The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede is a delightful book which follows the same pattern as the first book in the series, Dealing with Dragons.
This book continues the adventures of the unconventional Princess Cimorene, who must find the missing dragon, Kazul. …

Allan and Barbara Pease - The Definitive Book of Body Language

The Definitive Book of Body Language is a great book that taught me how to make a positive impression on others, how to interview and negotiate successfully, how to bond quickly with others, how to know if someone is available, how to tell if someone is lying, how to …

The Devil Wears Prada Novel

The Devil Wears Prada novel is about a recent college graduate, Andrea Sachs, who is seeking work as a writer. Her dream job is to work for The New Yorker. But she doesn’t have any connections or job experience. She reluctantly decides to accept an entry level job at …

The Battle for Skandia: Book Four of The Ranger’s Apprentice Series by John Flanagan

Rarely do I find a series of books that appeals to more than one or two people in my household. John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice series has the honor of being enjoyed by so far three with the possibility soon of a fourth family member. While technically classified as juvenile …

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

Pilgrim’ Progress is one of history’s greatest works of literature; not to mention arguably the greatest in Christian literature. Except for the Bible, Pilgrim’s Progress has been read by more people than any other book in the English language. However, the confusing old English has kept many …

Favorite Foods by Jill Dupleix

Favorite Foods (new ways with the world’s best recipes) by Jill Dupleix was a book I found at the library, then immediately ordered a copy for myself from Chapters. I even got a deal on it, well worth having it delivered to my door!
Jill has simplified and uses fresh …

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

I don’t know why I picked up this book, but I sure am glad that I did. Maybe it?s because the copy I borrowed from my library was pretty beat-up looking, and I thought to myself, ‘this book’s seen better days.’ I was hooked on page one. I sacrificed …

Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke

This book is great for older readers who enjoy fantasy. The difficulty is that it is very involved, so for kids who are reluctant to read, or who only read a little bit at a time, put the book down, and come back to it the next day, it’s …

How to get control of your time and Your life, book by Alan Lakein

I have read the book —˜How to get control of your time and your life’ written by Alan Lakein. This is an excellent book. The author clearly tells us how to make good use of our time. When we make the best use of our time, we also make …

Lunch Money by Gordon Korman

Lunch Money, by Gordon Korman, is an excellent book. It has a continual thrill that keeps the reader dying to know what will happen next. It has all about a sixth grader who loves money, dreams of becoming rich, and then tries to make his dream actually …

“Excuse Me, But I Was Next…”: How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas by Peggy Post

Sometimes in life, we are faced with different kinds of situations that are going to make us feel awkward and feeling out of place.
If you read the book “Excuse Me, But I Was Next…”: How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas by Peggy Post, you will get …

Wendel’s Bookstore and Cafe Fort Langley BC

Recently, I was in Fort Langley, BC, shopping for antiques and generally just walking around the historic town and relaxing. We had worked up an appetite, and while we were looking around for somewhere to have a bowl of soup for lunch, a cute little café on the corner …

Criminal Minds: Finishing School by Max Allan Collins

This was the first book I read in Max Allan Collin’s series. There are three books that follow the television show Criminal Minds. The book was a lot of fun to read. As a big fan of the show, it was interesting to see a case through their eyes, …

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Manga Volume 1

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle is a Japanese Manga, or graphic novel that is red from right to left, instead of left to right, and tells the story of an archeologist named Syaoran and his childhood friend Sakura, princess of the country of Clow. He is busy working on an …

Other People’s Husbands by Judy Astley

The book, Other People’s Husbands by Judy Astley is a perfect summer read. I have always wondered what it would be like to be married and having feelings for another wife’s husband? That would be really dramatic and over the top sinful kind of feeling. But it …

Roswell High Book #1 The Outsider

The Outsider is the first book in the popular Roswell High. This miniseries only lasted for ten books, but gave the readers a solid beginning, middle, and end. This first book set up several of the storylines that would later appear, as well as introducing us to the major …

Whisper Beach by Shelley Noble

Vanessa “Van” Moran disappeared from her hometown Whispering Beach, only to return twelves years later to the funeral of her cousin’s husband. During her absence, the town has speculated over the years about what happened to Van, but the people of Whispering Beach are unprepared for the secrets Van …

A Confession of an Impatient Bride book

A month ago, I bought this amazing and fantastic book authored by Rissa Singson-Kawpeng, since I am into the verge of spinsterhood, I got inspired with the richness of the message of this book. This is a beautiful and inspiring self-developmental books for women whose age are entering a …

A Midsummer Night’s Dream from the play by William Shakespeare

We found this delightful book in the children’s section of our local library. It is the Usborne edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, beautifully illustrated by Serena Riglietti. The story of the mischief caused by fairies on Midsummer Night in the forest is enchantingly encapsulated in this small hardcover …

Revealing Genesis Secret novel by Tom Knox

ISBN 978-0007284146, 530 pages, cover price £7.99.
Brief synopsis
Main character, Rob Luttrell is a journalist based in London. He is an American by birth and is successful in his career. His personal life is not quite as successful, he is divorced and has a young daughter who lives with …

The sea of adventure

‘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 …

Strategy by BH Liddel Hart

‘Strategy’ is a book that surprisingly, is about military strategy. Imagine that. Anyways, it looks at various whole time periods, as in the medieval era, Roman era, Greek, etc. and then breaks down a famous battle strategy, or a famous commander to the reader. I like this book because …

Tron Betrayal Graphic Novel by Jai Nitz & Andie Tong

In my youth, I will be honest to admit that I LOVED the movie “Tron” when it was shown in cinemas in the Philippines. While the movie does pale in comparison to the current crop of CGI fare, back then, I was completely blown away by the neon computer …

The Wide Window book

The Series of Unfortunate Events are a series of children’s books that are a bit dark in nature, and are written by Lemony Snicket (pen name). This book is the third in the series.
The Baudelaire children are orphans because their parents were killed. They were once in …

Dave Ramsey The Total Money Makeover

Dave Ramsey’s book “The Total Money Makeover” has changed the way I think about my financial situation. The book is so motivating and smart. My husband and I have been trying to get out of debt for a while now but can’t seem to even make a dent …

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

‘Brave New World’ is a classic masterpiece of dystopian literature. It’s the book for everybody who wants to understand more about the world we live in. Written in the 1930’s as a kind of prophesy and warning, it contained many predictions which actually turned out to be true or …

Harry Potter Book 1

I absolutely adore Harry Potter and am one of his biggest fans! Those people you see on the news who go to the midnight release party, yep I am one of them. However, it has not always been that way. I only recently got into Harry Potter, after the …

The Beetle Hunter

While not as good as some of his other mysteries, Arthur Conan Doyle’s story, The Beetle-Hunter is still good enough to get a good review from me; in part because you are left in wonder about the mystery itself.
The story is about a medical man with an interest in …

Mystery of the spiteful letters by Enid Blyton

‘The mystey of the spiteful letters’ is a book written by Enid Blyton and is one among the series of the five find-outer books. In this story, Frederick, nicknamed Fatty, has fun disguising himself. In this story, he disguises mostly as a red-haired boy. Now there is a person …

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Another book in my collection of human behavior research. This is more of a sociological reference though. Why do drug dealers still live at home? Why are crime rates down? Are some of the issues covered in this book. The title makes it sound like a humor book. It …

The Scary States of America by Michael Teitelbaum

This is one of the most interesting books I read in a long time. That may sound a bit weird as these stories are mostly about ghosts, UFOs and other paranormal events, but they are truly well-written. These are not the old, boring ghost stories that have been passed …

The Firewalkers by Erwin Castillo book

For a short story five chapters long, there were too many characters involved and all of them had their own stories to tell but were only given a few spaces to do so. There was nothing more than a sentence to …

Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, book

This book was a little slow but once I got about a quater into it I couldn’t put it down. In a nutshell, Louisa Clark has no idea that when she loses her cushy little job in town that her life is going to be turned upside down. …

The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts

The Pagan Stone picks up where “The Hollow” left off. For those who have already read the first two books the last book of the series is rather predictable.
I am a great fan of Nora Roberts and have every book she has written in the last …

Handyman Magazine

I look for the Handyman magazine to come in the mail each month. I love it! As soon as I get it, I look at it before any other mail. I go right then and look to see what new projects are highlighted for the new month.
My daughter and …

Amy Tan’s novel “The Bonesetter’s Daughter”

Amy Tan is a novel well-recommended to me by several friends who’ve read her in the past. Since she specializes in the family saga, a genre I particularly enjoy, where stories of generations combine into a larger narrative of self-discovery, and since her protagonists are predominantly women, which I …

The Boy With The Stripes Pajamas novel

The Boy with The Striped Pajamas is a novel by John Boyne. I have never heard about John Boyne’s other books, but even so I have to admit that he is indeed a great author.
The story took place in Germany, when Hitler governed the country. Our main character is …

Solar Heating and Sun Heating

The book Solar Heating and Sun Heating was written by George Daniels. It is a book for everyone who is concerned about the high cost of heating a home today and might be considering alternative options. This book is written in a very simple format that the average person …

The Affectionate Adversary by Catherine Palmer

Charles Locke and Sarah Carlyle meet in the sea. The ship Charles is on has been attacked by pirates, Charles is wounded and left for dead. Sarah’s ship rescues the young man. As she nurses him back to health, Charles falls in love with the beautiful young woman. What …

Writer’s Guide to Crafting Stories for Children

So you think you could write a great children’s book? Believe your words will delight millions of youngsters, but you just don’t know how to get the job done?
As author of The Writer’s Guide to Crafting Stories for Children, Nancy Lamb says, “The fact is, we all have great …

Harriet’s Daughter by Marlene Nourbese Philip

I used the book “Harriet’s Daughter” when I was about twelve or thirteen as a literature book in high school. One of the things I can definitely remember about it too is that at the time, I thought the book was one of the most boring books I had …

A MAN CALLED OVE, a novel by FREDRIK BACKMAN

Europeans have already worn out their tolerance! Soon they will be lying at the feet of any visiting stinking goat!
For me, the book reflects the thinking of modern European society. An essential characteristic of which is tolerance. From my perspective, this tolerance is being taken to the point …

More Than a Job by Paul Wehman and John Kregel

This book is quite good. It describes about society’s attitude towards disabled people and how we as normal people should be sensitive towards the employability options of disabled people and also regarding their concerns and issues.
A good instance would be like an organization such as Mc’Donalds who employ disabled …

Silver Stallion:A Novel of Korea

Ahn Junghyo’s contemporary novel “Silver Stallion” paints a vivid and powerful image of Korea (to be exact, South Korea) in a small village during the Korean War. Junghyo does not hold back any details, so younger or more squeamish readers may want to avoid this read.
No, I’m not …

Crossed by Ally Condie, 2013 Book (Matched #2)

I had already been majorly disappointed by the first instalment to this trilogy, but I did pick up the second book. I think I just had a tiny sliver of hope for this typical and unoriginal trilogy. I was hoping that maybe Cassia would finally mature a little and …

Faster Smarter ,Network + certification

Faster Smarter ,Network + certification by Melissa craft , a very innovative and high energy guide for all those who need to appear for the network+ Exam. The book covers all the major networking relating topics with smart test tips thus helps in not only securing good marks …

Love Busters: Overcoming Habits That Destroy Romantic Love by Willard F.Jr. Harley

Love Busters: Overcoming Habits That Destroy Romantic Love by Willard F.Jr. Harley is a good book. For a married couple going through a long-term relationship, there will surely be a bit of boredom along the way. That is expected.
That’s where this book comes in handy. …

 
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