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 …

Engulfed by Bernard F. Dick
The subheading of this book ‘The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood’is intriguing.
In the old days when Paramount was purchased by Gulf and Western, there were many gasps that Adolf Zukor’s beloved studio was now in the hands of corporate accountants. …

Nora Robert’s book entitled “Red Lily” was a captivating book that I found myself not being able to put down and even thinking about as I went about my daily routines. I couldn’t help but be immersed with the characters, their pasts, their presents and what their futures would …

Ah, the days of my youth. How I loved in the old days to curl up on the floor with a pile of comic books lying in front of me. If you had asked me then what were my favorite comics, I would immediately tell you the …

The Remorseful Day was written by Colin Dexter and published by Ballantine Publishing Group, 2001.
Such a pity that the author had retired Inspector Morse forever, from the face of this earth. I really enjoyed reading the mysteries of his protagonist, the taciturn yet highly ingenious detective, who …

Marked by PC and Kristen Cast is the first volume in the House of Night Series about a vampire finishing school. This book is juvenile fiction. Although I am far from Juvenile, I enjoyed this book. I do not consider myself to be one of those …

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer is a book that once you pick up you cannot put it down. I read this book all the time and each time I read it, it gets better. The way Stephanie Meyer writes the words makes you feel like you are living the lives …

One of horror’s most compelling genres features exciting tales of children battling monsters. It is one of my personal favorites. Children are usually more apt to believe in the supernatural when compared to the cynical adults that surround them. They are also better suited to face their fears and …

I’m a longtime King fan. I started reading his work in elementary school and have been enjoying it ever since. I’m such a fan that I write soley about Stephen King related material for Examiner.com. As I discuss the books, I’ve been reading them so that …

Survival stories are funny creatures. They are becoming increasingly popular but the content of the stories doesn’t seem to differ much. Strangely this has absolutely no effect on my enjoyment of such books. If anything, the non-original parts are my favourite chapters.
This is book 2 in a survival …

Hello there! I want to share my thoughts on a book that has become very popular lately. I’ve been seeing it all around instagram, youtube, goodreads and all that good stuff fot the last year or so. Actually, it claims to be a collection of poetry and prose and I …

I do know for a fact that for less than a day’s drive from New York City, Philadelphia or Boston, you could reach the Catskills, which is a very popular weekend hangout and a summer hotspot for the city people.
I have read The Catskills Alive! and this book …

This is a true story about the men of Combat Team 28 whom, by all historical military accounts, fought the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history. Most all American military historical readers are familiar with the story of the battle of Iwo Jima during WWII that took place …

The master is back! Freddie Forsyth is the author of so many exciting, well-written novels that another should be no surprise. In this case, he takes the former Soviet Union as the setting for his tale.
A man is found floating on a skiff, far from land in the Black …

The story revolves around a teenager Tiana and her friends. They are studying in a boarding school but far from school life is fun for them. Tiana loves her friends and enjoys everything they do until one day she tries to discover her own self and makes her own …

Twilight tells the story of 17 year old Isabella Swan and how her life changes after moving to a small town named Forks.
I felt bad after seeing the movie. I’m a fan of the books but the movie was just unpleasant. It was dragging, had poor script and the …

City of Lost Souls is the fifth book in the Mortal Instruments series. At the end of the previous book (City of Fallen Angels), we find out that Jace and Jonathan/Sebastian have become mysteriously tied. Desperate to find Jace, Clary turns her group of friends into a search party. …

I found ‘Precious Bane’ abandoned and forgotten among other books in my father’s study. I asked him about it and his answer was ‘It’s no good.’ Later he admitted he hadn’t even read it, except for the first few pages. However, I was determined to see what it was …

Jessamy Harrison is the daughter of a father who came from England and the mother who came from Nigeria. Jessamy always felt different from other children. She always fears and when she feels angry, she would scream. Because it is, she does not have any friends. Jess invited her …

If you have children or grandchildren in your life, you will absolutely love “Rainy Day Magic” by Joey Green. This jam packed book offers 443 simple, fun projects using many products you may already have lying around the house, such as jello, pudding mixes, cornstarch, or flour.
The book …

“Dracula” is a novel I have a lot of respect for, but can’t say I’ve enjoyed reading. It’s definitely a classic of Gothic literature, and it deserves to be, but for the average modern reader, who knows the story quite well, it’s not that exciting.
The characters are one-dimensional, …

I’d already read the previous three books in ‘The Selection Series’, and I didn’t enjoy them. I didn’t particularly like the characters or the plot. So, when I heard that the trilogy was being stretched into a five-part series, I was not impressed. But I did read it, because …

I do not have much time for fiction, but I sometimes sit down to a good thriller. Recently, I kept hearing about an author named Lee Child and a group of his fans called ‘Reacher Creatures.’ This comes from the name, Jack Reacher, who is the hero of a …

This book is great for kids. It’s the endearing story of Ramona, Beezus’ younger sister. Beezus is Henry Higgins’ friend.
Ramona is always very excited and happy. Her main goal in life is to grow up and be a big girl, although she doesn’t always want to hang out with …

This is one of those horror books that have a twist ending. I admit I probably should have seen it coming, but I didn’t. I suppose it’s kind of clever, too, as long as you don’t figure it out before the end. Mainly this is a teen thriller about …

By the Scruff of the Soul appears in the short story collection Sisters in Crime 3. The story is about a love triangle between three residents of a small rural town. The narrator tells the story of two sisters, Clara and Maudie. Maudie, the
older sister, wants Clara to marry …

This book is the first book featured in The Unicorn Club Sweet Valley Middle School Series and it features a very different Unicorn Club as they had moved from the mean phase to being the nice girls phase here. The club still consists of rich and snobby Lila Fowler, …

Heath Ledger - His Beautiful Life and Mysterious Death by John McShane couldn’t have come at the right time. It’s not too late and the death of the late Heath Ledger is still fresh on most of fans’ minds around the world. His untimely death and the …

In my country, CXC examinations or CSEC as they are now called is one of the most basic external examinations done in most high schools. It is actually a Caribbean exam, similar to O-levels in Britain and the UK, except it has more of a Caribbean basis. When I …

Nagging for Beginners, written by Wendy Harmer, is a very fun book to read, from my point of view. The graphics are simply nice and it has this picture of a caricature woman of some sort and looking like she’s doing nothing but just nagging. Nice, funny image, …

I have to say that I am continually impressed with the storytelling of John Flanagan. Flanagan, an Australian author who has become famous in America for his Ranger’s Apprentice series, seems to get better with each book he writes. The third book in his fantasy epic, “The Icebound Land,” …

In the 12th volume of Nodame Cantabile, Chiaki comes back to France after the world tour. He comes to conduct an orchestra too there, and, although it was clearly visible that he was little by little falling by Nodame too, in this volume we finally see proven that Nodame’s …

I am an avid reader, I read daily to keep my brain working as much as I possibly can. Among books that I have read and enjoyed immensely I include Into the Wild, which has been made into a motion picture.
Into the wild is a story of a young man …

I have just finished reading the final installment(up to now anyway) of the fantastic ‘Shopaholic’ series.
‘Shopaholic and Baby’ by the talented Sophie Kinsella is just as good as it’s predecessors and is highly recommended!
We catch up with Becky as she is preparing to become a mother for the first …

I really like reading the book You Must Be My Best Friend Because I Hate You! This book is written by Emily Dubberley, and has truly inspired me. This book writes about how you should behave around your best friend and whether you should dump her or …

I read this book for my school book review and was under the impression that it will be very boring but to my amazement I really enjoyed it!!! It is a story about a young boy named pet named Pi whose father is a zoo owner. He spends his …

Bleach Manga Volume 6 has Ichigo confronting Uryū about his contest between Quincies and Soul Reapers. A giant Hollow called a Menos attacks and Uryū and Ichigo have to fight it.
This volume is very well written and entertaining and I enjoyed reading it a lot. Tite Kubo …

This book was not what I was expecting. When I started reading it, I was hoping to find something very light and of the impossible love, good girl meets bad boy type. But this story was very different and I really liked it.
Jude is the last of four …

Reese Duncan wanted a wife, so he set out with a plan to place a personal ad to seek worthy candidates. He wanted a woman who would stand by his side while he rebuilt his ranch and gave him children. He wanted an uncomplicated and simple woman, …

Blood Oath was written by Willaim W. Johnstone, and published by Pinnacle Books in 1999.
This was my first book by William Johnstone; it was an unexpectedly gripping story, complete with baffling and gruesome murders. I finished the book in one night that was how carried away …

The Icelandic Sagas are one of the most extensive bodies of Medieval prose that still exist, or for that matter were produced at the time. These tales of the Icelanders are written extremely well, and read just as fresh today as they did to the Icelanders who were …

Now it seems that all and sundry now write detective stories. We have to focus on the annotations for the book, which, as we know, does not always correspond to the quality of the product.
And since recently there are not so many good books, despite the seeming abundance, I …

I am a commerce student and found commercial law very difficult to understand and grasp it. So many laws and section to be remembered made me puzzled and I always use to flung in my semester exams. I tried many times to mug it up but at the examination …

I haven’t read book for more than three months now, since I finished the Twilight Saga. And I hadn’t plan on reading one soon, but yesterday, my flatmate handed me a book which she just read and she thought might interest me. I really had no intention of reading …

“The Big Wide-Mouthed Frog” is a children’s book written and illustrated by Ana Martin Larranaga, and published in 1999 by Walker Books, Ltd. It is a fairly cute story about an annoying frog who almost ends up on a crocodile’s dinner plate.
Pros: The pictures are …

When I decided to get my PMP certification, I was looking for a book which can be used as a stand alone study material. My friend recommended me this book by Rita Mulcahy. I purchased it from Amazon and started my first pass through the book. Initial reading was …

The world is preparing to fight alien invaders and six year old Ender Wiggin may be just the boy to command the armies of children who will fight them!
From the moment I began reading Orson Scott card’s Ender’s Game I was hooked. The story follows the life of a …

It is often, although by no means always, the case, that when a book has the most straightforward and perhaps even boring of titles, inside there may lurk a fascinating wealth of information and interest. I certainly think that this is the case with The Longcase Clock, Eric Bruton’s …

My 9-year-old daughter absolutely loves High School Musical, so when I came across this High School Musical box set, I knew she would love it.
I bought the box set at a loal book store for the great sale price of £3.99 reduced from £11.97. Since I bought it …

My friend recently bought me the book Crazy for You, by Jennifer Crusie. It is a romance book, and it has a cute dog on the front cover. The main character, Quinn McKenzie goes through a lot of interesting changes during the book. Some of the supporting …