When I first came across this book, its title made me think that it was a about spiritual possession. However, upon reading a few pages of it I realized that it was completely different from what I thought. This book, titled Spirit Controlled Temperament, was authored by Tim LaHaye, …

In Lust for Life by Adele Parks, I sometimes hate the main character, Bella. She is someone that is perhaps a bit selfish and too reckless. She and Stevie got married during her teenage years and I think that’s pretty rushing and while their young blood are raging …

Myth Directions was my first true exposure to the world of Robert Asprin’s Myth books. I have heard of the series before, but had never sat down to actually read one of the books until recently. Although Myth Directions is technically the third book in the series …

I first learned about this book when I was a pet sitter. I have to say it is both an enjoyable read and extremely useful. The author combines a mixture of scientific research, stories from pet owners and professional experience to show you how to more effectively communicate with …

This book is a great read! It features a new kid named Brian Boyd who’s very popular at Sweet Valley Middle School as he’s really rich, cool, and mean! The kids love him and although he’s a bully, Jessica Wakefield’s boyfriend Aaron Dallas has cozied up to him as …

Of all the books I’ve read, this is probably the one that touched me the most. It tells of a story about a young Shepard who had a dream about a buried treasure in the pyramid desert. So he sells his sheep, travels to the place, meets an alchemist …

The Vile Village is the seventh book of the Series of Unfortunate Events series and is point blank the most exciting mainly because of the number of turning points in it. I can only describe it as finding a ton of answers only to be given a 100 more …

I love reading books, especially if there are special stories that wouldn’t make you put down the book you are reading because as the story unfolds, there is always new things to look forward to in the next chapter. Honestly, this is how I felt reading the “A knight …

Into Temptation is written by Jeanje London and I think that she is a very fascinating writer. I enjoy reading this love story pretty much about Lindy Gardner as well as Joshua Benedict.
Lindy is actually an agent and she is fast and slick and very clever. She thinks …

I am confident that most everyone is familiar with the classic tale of “The Wizard of Oz”. The story about a girl who gets hurled through a twister and lands herself in the technicolor universe of Oz. Here she befriends a scarecrow, tin man, and a lion to help …

I think Reader’s Digest will have no substitute - ever. The contents are so informative that even a kid can learn from it. They have different categories such as a love column (Ask Aunty), laughter columns, medical and health updates, business news, and of course, food! Personal stories from …

The Book of General Ignorance is an awesome coffee table book, party tool and boredom breaker. As a book that contains a lot of random facts presented in a comedic fashion, it doesn’t come off too serious or too silly. I found it to be a tough read as …

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins is the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy. I found this book just as epic as the first, perhaps even more action packed. The plot follows Katniss Everdeen, a young girl from a poor district, who defied the powerful Capitol. She survived …

I’m always hesitant to read books like this. I never read Marley and Me, a book that’s very similar in spirit to this one, because I ultimately know how it’s going to end. As an avid dog lover it seemed a bit masochistic to put myself through …

The title of this book - “Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?” - makes the work sound as though it is going to be a rather straightforward look at how the dinosaurs were wiped out - and, indeed, the painting of a snarling dino on the otherwise dramatically black …

This was another excellent paranormal story by Heather Graham. This one involved a ghost that looks almost exactly like a man the main character knows. I also thought this story was a bit more complex than the others, as there is a lot going on in this book: ghosts, …

Some cookbooks are useful; others are simply brilliant. “On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals” by Sarah R. Labensky and Alan M. Hause falls into the latter category. Far more than a collection of recipes, this book takes reader from raw beginner to culinary expert over the span of …

In this book, Emma Woodhouse learns first hand the pitfalls of meddling in her friends’ life, as well as the need to not jump to conclusions.
While I enjoy this book, I did prefer several of Jane Austen’s other books to it, because I found that several of the characters …

When I was still in third year High School, my English teacher required me to make a reaction paper about the book entitled “The Heavenly Man” that was written by Paul Hattaway. At first, it was a big mystery for me on what the book is all about, …

The book Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane is an autobiographical story of Mark’s childhood in South Africa under apartheid. Mark grew up in a very poor black family under an opressive government. He spent many days not knowing if he would eat, or if his parents would …

The Marriage Bed is a very delightful story, written by Laura Lee Guhrke. This is a very good author, and her powerful vocabulary takes the breath out of me. She really has some nice amazing words being used, and my English has been improved tremendously just by …

Nicholas Nickleby is Charles Dickens third novel. It is the tale of Nicholas Nickleby and his sister, who are left penniless when their father dies. The main antagonist is their uncle Ralph, who is a mean old man and doesn’t try to make life easier for his niece and …

Reading the sixth book in the series was really depressing. Just the knowledge that there is only one book after this coming made me want to take my time.
Harry is finally on the journey to discovering Voldemort. He and Dumbledore are working together to find the pieces of Voldemort’s …

I have read the book —˜The World of Peace’ by J. Krishnamurti. This is a very good book. It is interesting to read for anybody who wishes to think about the various problems, conflicts and disorder that is troubling the world. This book consists of six chapters. Four chapters …

The Princess Academy is an amazing book by Shannon Hale that received an Newberry Honer Award. It was well earned. This book was riveting, exciting, and fun! Once I started reading it I couldn’t put it down. The main character is a girl named Miri, after a tiny mountain …

I’m a huge fan of young adult novels, despite the fact that I’m in my thirties, and when I ran across this one on sale for the nook, I went ahead and picked it up. And right off the bat I knew this was not your typical vampire story, …

Fiddlehead is my first experience with Cherie Priest’s Clockwork Century series. The novel is set in the United States during the height of Civil War. In traditional steampunk style, history within the Clockwork Century has taken a few strange turns with the advent of new and often dangerous technologies. …

As for this book J.R.R which is given to us of the lords of ring and Hobbit. Concept of vision and it reaches unlimited as LOTR which is not depended on Tolkien and operates primitively and the way in order still to be read because of everything, it is …

Originally intended as a teen read, Kristen D. Randle’s “The Only Alien on the Planet” is a moving, powerful, and insightful look into the long term effects of child abuse.
Ginny Christiansen is new in town, having recently moved from the warm, western United States to the eastern half of …

This book is an amazing book and a must read for any hacker who wants to learn about hacking app’s and finding exploits to make app’s do what you want. The book gives examples such as how to make a simple bingo game app give you root access to …

I have to admit that until couple of days ago I had never really considered Pilates as an exercise for men. To me the term Pilates conjured up images of Woman in the gym following the latest exercise fad. How wrong I was.
After reading about Pilates online …

The storyline of Memoirs of a Geisha follows a girl who is pushed from place to place. The girl is seen as different because of her unusual eye color; a watery blue. This was obviously a story about how beauty can come in an unusual form as it follows …

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs is the first book in her Mercy Thompson series. I was originally given this book by a friend. I’ve never heard of the series or the author until this book. It wasn’t a paranormal romance like I thought it was, in fact it was …

Star Trek: Klingon Novelization is a novelization of the CD-ROM game by the same name. There is, as the name suggests, an intense focus on the Klingon culture in this novelization, however, characters from other species do appear, from both the Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: …

The first thing most readers say about That Hideous Strength, Book 3 of the Space Trilogy by C.S.Lewis, is that it is very different from the first two. I agree, the book is, indeed, very different. First of all, it is not science fiction. Instead of taking us on …

Barnes and Noble in Huntington Beach has tons of fun books but also lots of rude employees. They’re the rudest people here. I even reported one employee one time. They almost hit me. It’s horrible. They’re discriminatory here. They don’t want you in there for a long time either. …

Titles can really be misleading, Jiro Matsumoto proves that on probably one of the deepest manga I read, Keep on Vibrating. The title seems to be a sex-hungry type of manga but it isn’t just senseless sex and violence. The manga contains extreme amounts of sex, violence, incense, blood, …

This is a beautiful story about ostracism and prejudice. The main setting is the small seaside town of Torcurra and brings together three colorful characters: Marnie, a brazen 16 year old girl, Raven the village ‘madman’ and Father Brannan a kind priest.
Newly wed, Marnie moves to Torcurra with …

This relatively short read is available in hardback. Mitch Album won all kinds of praise for this creative and witty novel about what could possibly happen when we get to heaven. Although the book is based on a real man’s acutal life and death circumstances, the novel …

This Marya Hornbacher novel is a memoir about her journey through a life of anorexia and bulimia and back again. This memoir is said to be a favorite among the eating disorder population of today’s youth. The author likens eating disorders to Alice going down the rabbit hole and …

After three books about Darth Bane , the master of space adventures Drew Karpyshyn returned to the galaxy of “Star Wars” with a book for one of the most beloved characters from the Expanded universe - the jedi Revan from the game “Knights of the Old Republic”, a hero …

This comic book is the beginning of the Luann adventures. Luann is younger in this book, not like now when she is getting a car, friends with Mrs. Horner, and her brother is a firefighter with a crush on Toni. Back in this book, she is suffering from the …

Ruby Holler, a book by Sharon Creech, who was the winner of the Newberry Medal for her one of her other books, Walk Two Moons was a great story that was very, very beautifully written, and it makes you feel like your really there, I loved it when I …

Multivariable Calculus by James Stewart is a brillantly written approach to calculus that anyone could understand. Every theorem is proven using mathematics and then is followed by an explanation of the proof in english. I find the geometric illustrations to be particularly helpful in understanding the general proofs. I …

As I am a long time fan of the Lord of the Dance and Riverdance shows, I was given this biography as a gift. I was not sure what to expect. Before reading, my impression of Mr. Flatley was just what I had seen in media, and what was evident …

Pet Semetary was just about the scariest book I have ever read. Stephen King is a master at making sure you stay awake for the next two weeks. The book starts off really slow, in my opinion, with nothing really happening except Louis Creed’s(the main character)family going on a …

“Rainbow Six” might seem like a book that brings special operations over the top, but in a post September 11th world, and as a former Infantry man myself, I couldn’t help but feel sympathy and wonderment at the story that Clancy put together. As over the top as it …

I have always enjoyed Jude Deveraux’s books but was a little disappointed in the second book of her Forever trilogy. My first issue is with the jacket, perhaps this was a problem that only appeared in my copy but the description talks about Darci Montgomery, a psychic and …

If you have ever seen the Martha Stewart show, then you will know how generous she is with sharing her expertise in any given subject. In Martha Stewart’s Cooking School, she doesn’t hold out on any information for the home cook when it comes to mastering the art of …

The Magus was the first novel John Fowles ever attempted to write. By the time he finally finished it, he had written and published two more. Since then, he has gone back to revise the novel and this new edition is probably the one you will read. I am …