My husband bought me The Mother of All Pregnancy Books when I first found out I was expecting. I know he did a significant amount of research and chose the top rated book on amazon, but man was this book a disappointment. I suppose it wasn’t necessarily …

I’ve read one of Jodi Picoult novels “Keeping Faith,” and I find her style of writing quite impressive, unique, emotional, and surprising. So, I didn’t hesitate to buy a copy of her latest novel “My sister’s keeper.”
My sister’s keeper is told in a very unique way, at present and …

This is the first book in the “Fear Street Nights” teen thriller trilogy and it is a fast page-turner. Everything you want in a teen horror story is in here: fear, anger, hatred, creepy weird happenings and people dying. This book is also about superstitions in a way and …

“Seven Wonders” is a new fantasy series aimed at a younger readers audience. The author, Peter Lerangis, is known for his novels of the series “39 keys”. I decided to trust Peter Lerangis and start reading his new series for no other reason than the fact that my favorite …

Bad Temper is a short inspiring story about rude behavior found on the site, indianchild.com. The story is about how a father managed to make his son understand about temper by a simple task. The little boy had a bad temper and his father gave him a bag of …

Tess Gerritsen is a multi-published author of thrillers. She’s most famous for the series of books centering on Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli and Medical Examiner Maura Isles.
The Surgeon is the first of the series. Maura Isles is absent in this one, but it’s a great novel to introduce Jane …

Eleven Minutes by Paolo Coelho is a truly good novel. The book is about the point of view of a prostitute named Maria in sex, life and love. I had purchased this book last week and finished it in less than one week. I always read it before I …

I had no idea what I was missing before I read this! I feel like these is one of my favorite series of all times! I finished all the books so quickly and and I just want more more more! I can’t wait for the next one to come …

Twilight For the Gods by Ernest Gann was one of the best sea adventure novels I read in a long time. I’ve always enjoyed sea adventures and was very glad when I found it on the shelf of my local library. The novel was almost sixty years old, though, …

This is one of the books that I really enjoy. They are such a page turner I could not put them down. They have great plot and the scheme of the story is so clever. The author is so good at enticing me letting me wanting to know more. I …

This is a story of a man seeking the truth and seeking the love of his life. Have you ever been blinded by love and searching for it in places that are almost notwithstanding..? This is what happens in the story of The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks …

This is one of several books on the subject of beading that I have received as gifts over the past year. I think the person who gave it to me must have been taken in by the helpful and unusual sounding title and the gorgeous pictures of the jewelry …

Several month’s ago I had the opportunity to read The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg. I enjoyed the book immensly and so when I saw her novel Open House at the library I knew that I just had to read it.
To be tyotally honest Open House was …

Going on a trip? You never know when you’ll get a vacation. Learn to snowboard? On the weekend, you’ll probably have to work. Read a book to the baby in the evening? Now, just answering a letter. This is the “squirrel wheel” mode most ordinary employees of ordinary companies …

The book “Living Dead in Dallas” by the author Charlaine Harris, is the second book in the series which the HBO original series True Blood is based off. I have just finished this book, and even though I still thought it was interesting and more unusual than the usual …

‘Awaken the giant within’ is a book written by Anthony Robbins. The author explains how to take charge of one’s life. He says that many people have not taken charge of their lives. They do not take responsibility for their actions and for the circumstances which occur in their …

Adopted Paws is a story by author Retz Reeves. Adopted Paws tells how Retz Reeves came to have so many animals in her life, and ultimately how she met her spouse, who is the animal lover in the family. Adopted Paws is a must read for any and all …

Goodbye Nobody by Jennifer Weiner is funny and insightful. It is a book that is easy to pick up and read, with characters who do mean things to each other. It’s kind of funny, not laugh out loud but amusing.
The main character is very real and really doesn’t …

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SONS is an astonishly beautiful book by Hkaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner. This new novel tells the story of life in Afghanistan and how it changed once the Taliban arrived. The author is from Kabul, Afghanistan so he …

This is my second short stories collection by Alice Munro; the previous one I’d read, “Runaway”, was actually more to my taste than this one. However, this collection is quite notable, also for having its final story, “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”, adapted into a critically-acclaimed movie starring …

I find the cover book of the title, Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs pretty strange. And at the same time, I enjoyed this story pretty much. Laura Childs is a good author and in this book, the settings are mainly in a particular tea shop owned by …

The Series of Unfortunate Events are a series of books by Lemony Snicket that are children’s books. They are a bit grim, and that grimness is probably what made me a fan of the series as well and caused me to purchase the entire series. this is …

“Writing Fiction For Dummies” by Randy Ingermanson and Peter Economy is an instructional how to guide that is ideal for any individual that has the desire to write a novel and sell it to the world as well as those that simply would like to write entertaining stories and …

I simply love unique books. And The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is one of the unique ones, which I personally felt. This book is about some mysteries, haunting tales and many more. This book is especially useful for those loving a bit of a scared feeling …

Alpha Flight was the first superhero team created in Marvel Comics that took place outside the United States, specifically Canada. I only read a few Alpha Flight comics when I was younger and only appreciated them after realizing the storylines were more mature and realistic than most other …

I especially loved reading this book because it turns out to be something that was totally unexpected. The ending came to me as one, big surprise.
the book begins with a girl named Hannah having a bad dream about her room being in flames. In her dream, she awakes …

“The Best American Mystery Stories: 2006″ ed. Scott Turow, Houghton Mifflin Company 2006, 358 pp. ISBN-10: 0-618-51746-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-618-51746-6
“The Best American Mystery Stories” 2006″ is the current latest book in the Houghton Mifflin Series devoted to American Mystery stories. The editor for 2006 was Scott Turow, author of at …

This book, the first one in Karen Hancock’s “Legents of the Guardian King” series, is a masterpiece of Christian fiction, and a long awaited one, I might add. It’s about time the genre of Christian fantasy comes back to life and takes its rightful place on the bookstore shelves.
Abramm …

This evening I read The Proving Trail written by western writing legend, Louis Lamour.
I liked the way the book was written in first person. Kearney McRaven, is a seventeen year old boy trying to solve the murder of his father.
He finds that the killers …

Writing the Action Adventure Film by Neill D. Hicks
Could a book with the words “action” and “adventure” in the title possibly be more “boring?”
This is another in a seemingly endless line of “How to write a screenplay” books. What separates this title from other screewriting books is that it …

As a Freemason, I’m always on the lookout for another good book on the subject. Naudon’s work brought many of the ideas that I am familiar with back to the forefront of a controversial claim: Freemasonry is a descendant of the Knights Templar. I thought that I would be …

I wouldn’t ordinarily buy a book like this because a lot of the content is available for free on the internet, but having received it as a gift I did enjoy it. Wrapped-Up Foxtrot by Bill Amend contains the final daily strips because Amend is no longer doing daily …

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 …

I have read the ‘Lord of The Rings’ series by J.R.R.Tolkien some few years ago before it was released in the big screen. I was more impressed with the book. Every inch and details was entailed in the book wherein in the movies made, a lot of editing had …

Death Walker is the second book in the Ella Clah series that takes place in NW New Mexico on the Navaho Reservation. I started reading this series several months ago and have read many of the books.
I really enjoy the SW landscape and the bits of Navaho Culture I …

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (sometimes translated to Thus Spake Zarathustra), subtitled A Book For All And None is written by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the “eternal recurrence of the same”, the parable on …

‘The Dice Man’ is quite an original book, although people have been tempted by the power of the dice for ages. The main character decides to let the dice take every decision for him. Thus he absolves himself of any responsability of decision and lives his life having no …

Steven Reiss documents “The Sixteen Basic Desires That Motivate Our Action and Define Our Perspectives.” (The subheading of the book)
It is hard to argue that Reiss doesn’t know his stuff as his theory on what motivates people and shapes their personalities is dead on.
Some may argue just to have …

My experience with astrology and numerology was limited to occasionally reading the daily horoscope and calculating my Life Path number. I was more interested in it all than I lead on though. So, a while back I delved a little deeper into my astrological profile and that led me …

I’ve already said it before, and I say it again, I love Kelly Oram’s books. I find them incredibly relaxing and perfect to just have a good time, and definitely, V for Virgin wasn’t the exception.
Valerie Jensen turns into Virgin Val from day to night. Everything starts when …

“That Costly Ride” by Guy de Maupassant is about a man who ends up being taken to the cleaners–financially wise–because of an accident.
First, the story introduces us to, Hector de Gribelin, who is a husband and father of two, and is going through financial hardship because of the decline …

For anyone who is curious about what it is like to grow up in a large family, The Color of Water beautifully describes the life of a huge family struggling to make ends meet. James McBride tells the tale of his bi-racial family growing up in New York …

James Michener has made a specialty of writing long epic novels which focus on a particular location and tells a series of tales throughout history. The Caribbean is no exception. The novel tells the tale of the many islands and lands that surround the Caribbean Sea. …

This is a diary of Esme Raji Codell’s first year of teaching. In the book, she’s a brash, creative, outspoken woman in her early 20’s, who is hired to teach fifth grade in Chicago. In the book she deals with an unsympathetic principal, kids with poor reading …

Last month, I read the book written by Erik Larson called The Devil in the White City. In this book, Erik wrote about two men, each handsome and an expertise in their line of work, and represents the element that proved America’s rush towards the twentieth century.
One is …

I am not a huge fan of self-help books, but I am a huge fan of this one; Emotional Intellignece by Daniel Goleman. I have read this book several times, and although it is now 12 years old, it continues to fly off bookstore shelves at a rapid speed.
Emotional …

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 …

The Periodic Table - Elements with Style, was created by Basher and written by Adrian Dingle. I thought this book was a great idea. It makes it simple for kids to get a good basic knowledge of the Periodic table, which would make it easier for them to learn …

This is the first book written by the author Harry Crews. I have only read this and another of his novels but he seems to write mostly about the American South. This book takes place in a small town in the South during the 1960’s. …