I so want the story, Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler to be better. But it did not as the pages went by.
Being the less of an author, I thought I had the plots in my head but it is not easy being an author, that much I …

As far as vampires are concerned, Sir Francis Varney (the title character from Varney the Vampire) has to be one of the meekest I’ve ever read about.
Varney comes off as an evil villain early on in the book but, the more you read about him, the more you learn …

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana is the fifth novel by Umberto Eco, an Italian philosopher and writer. This book tells the story of an antique book, Giambattista Bodoni, commonly called Yambo based on cartoon characters, which lost his memory after suffering a stroke. although his cultural memories still …

I have always been a fan of the comic section of the paper. When I was a child I used to always pull out the comics in every Sunday’s paper and read my favorites. As the years have gone on my favorite cartoons have changed, recently I re-discovered the …

Nightrise is a novel by Anthony Horowitz, and is the third book in “The power of five” series, after “Evil Star” and “Raven’s Gate”.
Unlike the two books preceding it, this book follows Scott and Jamie Tyler, telepathic twins. I find this strange to have two of the five in …

Dictators are people, too. So no matter how bloody a man may be, he needs to eat. And a cook who serves a tasty meal on time may well save someone’s life. Because delicious food, if only for a short while, makes even the worst dictators kinder.
Witold Szablowski …

Reading this book is such a delight. It is funny, informative and very entertaining. The title itself is very suggestive. It is Why Don’t Penguins Feet Freeze? It is written by New Scientist. I am not sure who the heck this person is, but …

Vision in White is a new release by Nora Roberts - the first book in the Bride’s Quartet.
Roberts’ recent series were mostly trilogies and all related to the supernatural or involving some kind of danger element. This quartet comes as a refreshing change as it focuses on love and …

This book is the eighth book in the Hardy Boys series. It is a fun book for preteen boys, although it is a bit old-fashioned. It is still an enjoyable read though.
The Hardy Boys series is very consistent. In this book, as usual, the boys discover a mystery. Their …

I just can’t understand why is there so much fuss about this book ? I mean yea its probably the first attempt by an economist to write something which us mere mortals can understand, but still !
Its a crackpot. I mean the topics are unrelated and most of them …

‘How to win friends and influence people’ is a book written by Dale Carnegie. In this book, Carnegie tells us how we can attract people, the easy method to make a lot of friends and the art of impressing and influencing other people. He has given tips to influence …

If you want something different to read, I recommend reading The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster.
It has a very strong narrative voice and you will find yourself turning the pages pretty quicky. Auster is a good author and conveyed the bad experiences of the character David …

Hard News is written by Seth Mnookin, and I borrowed it from the library some time back. I have a knack for reading books that play with arguments, and opinionated views.
This book touches on the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a former New York Times reporter who had made …

In “Slow Kill,” the ninth of the Kevin Kearny series by Michael McGarrity, Kearny continues to balance his career with his personal life. The book begins when Kearny goes to California searching for some broodmares and finds himself accused of killing a murder. He isn’t a suspect for long, …

What to Expect When You’re Expecting, What to Expect the First Year, and What to Expect the Toddler Years are essential reference books to have when you are starting a family. I would think after being through pregnancy once, I wouldn’t have needed the book so much. …

Wimpy kid Diary —“ Rodrick Rules is the second book from “Wimpy Kid Diary” series, by Jeff Kinney. This series was starts as posts in a blog, and it became so famous that the story was changed in books. Jeff is the author and the illustrator of the blog …

I just picked up a copy of UFC star Forrest Griffin’s book and really enjoyed it. It’s called “Got Fight,” and was written by Forrest with some help from Erich Kruass. If you’re a fan of the man or just the UFC and mixed martial arts in general, then …

The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa is the second instalment in the Iron Fey series. For some odd reason, The Iron Daughter was my least favourite book in the series. It took me a lot longer to read this one, with the other three books in the series it …

I’m not too fond of dark, heavy books, works that emanate from hopelessness. Why, then, did my choice end up in Tommy Orange’s book - There We Become Different? It’s simple: curiosity overpowered. The cover abstract promised unambiguously to debunk the “romanticized image of the Indians” in the readers’ …

Speed Dating by Nancy Warren is a nice book for the fantasy love minds out there, including myself. Just one look at the illustration of this cover book, one will be swooned by how gorgeously handsome picture of a NASCAR hero. This is a nice fun book to …

Dim Sum Terakhir (The Last Dim Sum) was probably the best book by the female author Clara Ng. I had more books which were written by her, but nothing was as moving as this one. To be honest, this kind of book is kind of rare to be found …

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town (written by Lawrence Schiller and published by Harper Collins Publisher, 1998)
This is a very thick account of the murder of a six year old girl —“ it was a rather formidable task to wade through almost 700+ pages.
JonBenet Ramsey was a cute little girl who …

‘The man-eater of Malgudi’ is a book written by R.K. Narayan. This is the story of Nataraj, a man who is a printer in Malgudi. Nataraj and his close friends find themselves disturbed when a taxidermist named Vasu moves in. In this story, a man gets murdered and Nataraj …

Since I started watching Ironman competitions way back then in sports channel, I have been fascinated in the sport of Triathlon. I cannot imagine swimming for a mile, let alone alone 2.4 miles in open water! Then they come out and ride 56 miles and then run for 13 …

Cardington Crescent was written by Anne Perry and published by Ballantine Books in 1988 .
Anne Perry’s historical mysteries are really fascinating, as they not only blend the suspense of murder and detection, but set in olden times, it is an eye-opener into the culture and behavior of people then.
Handsome, …

This Marvel series was an expansion on “Team Up” books like Marvel Two In One and Marvel Team Up to where the series centered on a trio: Hulk, Namor: Submariner and Dr. Strange. Eventually it would grow adding various misfit heroes until it became a parody version of the …

This is the first book by Dan Simmons that I read. I was browsing through the horror section of the library one day and saw the picture of an old-fashioned sailing ship on the dust jacket’s spine. Since I enjoy historical fiction about the British Royal Navy, I picked …

Here is yet another good picture book by William Steig: “The Amazing Bone.” This one, however, I introduce to you with a mild warning: there are some scary scenes in it that might frighten younger children. The story is about Pearl, a happy young pig who finds a talking …

My mom is a real fan of cookbooks and she will always find that extra saving money to purchase her most favorite cookbooks or she would just borrow stuff from the library and photocopied them. However, for her previous birthday, I bought for her a cookbook and it was …

Coming home from Christmas vacation on a 10 hour trip is no fun if you don’t have some source of entertainment. Thankfully me and my family stopped at a small plaza in town and I visited a second hand book store. Here I found this book for a very …

I never knew this book existed until a friend of mine told me she was saving for it. I normally go for Romance or Mystery books, but I decided to try reading this one and so I went to National and got a copy of my own. I’m glad …

This is a horror novel about a deadly snake that’s loose in Central Park in New York City. The snake is a black mamba and its powerful poison can kill a person in twenty minutes. This book is pretty good and mostly it kept my attention, but I felt …

“The Client” is one of the best novels by John Grisham. It is a setup on a fast track and the story makes you eager to read every detail, waiting for the unpredicted. It is full of suspense and makes you smile, as an eleven year old boy Mark, …

King’s “Pet Semetary” is one of his bests, and I found the book to be my personal favorite. It was dark from the very beginning and rivals several of his other books for the creepiness of its setting. Familiar to me and other readers is the setting of the …

Everyone is guilty of aging they become older and older as years pass by, but it doesn’t necessarily means that we should also look old. Some people tend to delay the effects of aging trough different methods. Some used to go in dermatologists, other may prefer to apply some anti …

Heavenly Man was my girlfriend’s Christmas gift for me. Being a Christian, she told me that it is a book that can definitely inspire the Christianity among us, myself included.
I was skeptic at first. I never liked reading stories on how devoted and passionate these people are in …

I’m not ashamed to admit that the only reason I originally ordered the book Navigating Your Health Benefits for Dummies was the fact I was able to find it free online and I like freebies. After all, the health insurance company Aetna provides the book, and I just figured …

Law Of Attraction is book that is created by Michael J. Losier which tell us about our mind can make what we dream on can be true. Most of us have used our power of mind to control negative things come to us. We often say that we don’t …

Story summary:
Nathaniel career in government increasing so fast. But the Resistance rebel groups continues to do devastation in London. Nathaniel lives and work were threatened, not only because to the action of Kitty and friends, but also because of the unknown and confusing strength. Nathaniel is forced to do …

ESSENTIAL PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDERMAN Vol 1
In the 1970’s, Marvel decided to give Spiderman, who was appearing regularly in Amazing Spider Man and Marvel Team Up, a second solo book. This effectively cashed in on his popularity and gave fans another monthly book to read and also infused …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Masks is an intriguing novel that offers a storyline that is pretty unique. This is one of the few instances in Star Trek where we see an example of Starfleet going undercover. In the case of this novel, the characters go undercover by …

Another story by Linda Howard, this novel revolves around a woman and her estranged husband meeting after many years apart. Sallie Jerome has been an independent woman for many years, working as a reporter for a prestigious news outlet while trying to leave behind the memory of her …

Romeo was written by Elise Title, and published by Bantam Books, 1998.
My first reaction when I read about the vicious killing of the smug psychologist, Dr Melanie Rosen, was that she deserved it. She had capitalized on the wave of terror created by Romeo, the killer who took …

The Rainmaker is one of the best books I have read from John Grisham. According to me Grisham has taken some risks by writing the whole book in the first person. Anyway, it is well written, remarkable and very entertaining.
The book features Rudy Baylor, a law student at …

This book is the sixth book in this kids book series. Jasmine, Barda, and Lief continue to search for the missing gems of the Belt of Deltora, and this time, the evil monster guarding the gem they are seeking is the creepy and slimy Glus.
The three come across the …

Tom Clancy’s Debt Of Honour tells the story of a cabal of Japanese businessmen who put up a nonentity as their Prime
Minister and launch a war and economic attack on the United States. The US initially reels back, but rallies again to utterly defeat the Japanese. In this …

The Secret is a book I had chosen to wait to read once the hype died down because I didn’t want my opinion of the book to be influenced by its popularity and by those who have nothing but good things to say. Don’t get me wrong the word-of-mouth …

It’s safe to say, that I do not have an excited premonition of marriage. Most everyone in my family is married. I have a fiancé, going on two years now. I am reluctant to actually get married. But I read —˜Committed’ hoping for something inspiring to change my mind. …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Peacekeepers is a novel that I did not really enjoy too much. The reason I did not care too much for the novel is because the story did not strike me as being very interesting, although I would have to say that …

This review is for the Audio book version of Scott Sigler’s book, titled Infection. I just listened to this the other day, and thought I’d review it while it was still fresh in my mind. First off, while I understand Scott’s desire to read this book himself for his …