Fast Beauty: 1,000 Quick Fixes by Rona Berg has been considered one of my darling books most definitely because it is a truly must-have for ladies who love quick fixes. I know I love one especially when I’m rushing to get to somewhere and do not want too much …

As a professional writer and critic, I can honestly tell you that in terms of rhetorical style and quality Twilight holds no merit. Stephenie Meyer is the furthest thing from an accomplished writer. She throws a few “big words” around here and there and she thinks it …

I have always been a fan of her Vampire Chronicles and must say that once more she didn’t disappoint me. The book follows the life of one of the children of the millennia, the vampire Marius, born 400BC in Rome.
What I like about Anne Rice’s books is the way …

The Dear America Series has such a wonderful collection of books for young people and should not be passed up. It is written in diary form for children, but every adult should read these books for themselves or with their own child. It takes you through the daily life …

I didn’t know that the world is coming to a vain end. In fact, the most vainest that I could ever read about or heard about. The author of this book titled, Beauty Junkies, Alex Kuczynski, has written some very detailed and comprehensive writings on beauty and …

Problems of economic and political for a scientist is a field of knowledge and policies that have structural properties. Therefore, political economists and certainly has the academic background of the specialist thinking in terms of it. What happens, if the concept of political economy was initiated by a charismatic …

This is the first book that I read by Alan Dean Foster in a long time and I must say I really enjoyed this story. It starts out a tad slow (the first few pages) but the pace quickly picks up and I soon found myself very hooked. It …

The Lottery Winner is a book of short stories based on the characters of Alvirah and Willy. In the book that originally contained these characters, Mary Higgins Clark planned to kill Alvirah off. She was urged not too, and Alvirah and Willy have since shown up in …

Once again this is another stylized work of fiction from Conn Igulden. This book essentially deals with Julius Ceasar when he was growing up and how he got to discover Gaius Marius and his introduction to military life.
What really made this book appealing was that it was once …

The first book of this trilogy was one of the few young adult fiction books I actually enjoyed. For once, the girl wasn’t ridiculously indecisive and immature, and she didn’t do anything too stupid. So, I didn’t think twice before picking up the second book to the trilogy. …

I read this book because I’m an unconditional fan of Jennifer L. Armentrout and I wanted to see how well she would developed in her facet as a romance/erotica writer. It wasn’t the best book ever, but I do see some potential in this. Obviously, I think it’s really …

This is a really fun calendar that is unlike a lot of other calendars that I have come across. Every page is dedicated to a day and a certain location from across the globe. The location has a color picture as well as a brief paragraph describing something about …

Lucky is a weird book I decided to buy one day when I was at the local discount book store. I thought the title to be interesting so I had to give it a chance and read the book. Lucky is about this boy named Sam who did not …

“It Had To Be You” by Susan Elizabeth Phillips is the “prequel” to this “Heart Of Mine.” I actually read this book before I read “This Heart of Mine,” and while I do enjoy all of S.E. Phillips’ work I must say, if I were picking favorites, “It Had …

Sense of Evil written by Kay Hooper opens with quite a bang. Three women have been brutally murdered. Isabel Adams comes to the little town of Hastings to solve the murders.
Isabel is a special Investigator with Noah Bishops FBI team.
As a rule I enjoy these paranormal novels.
Isabel is …

I love reading this book, which my mom bought for me for about $6.99. She thinks that I really need to calm myself down.
The author of this book is Fred L. Miller, and he has done some great writings, exploring why people stressed out, and ways of calming …

I’ve always been curious about Seattle and yet I’ve visited the rainy city. I’v heard about the famous fish throwing and how they have the best, freshest seafood delivered to the city daily. It’s my dream place to visit since seafood is one of my top foods to eat. …

About two years ago I reviewed the first volume in the Essential Moon Knight collection and mentioned that it was an excellent series. This follow up volume collects a couple dozen issues from 1982 and 1983 and they are off the charts excellent. Moon Knight was always an odd …

I’d read some sample chapters of Christopher Reich’s “Rules of Deception” and was impressed by the exciting storytelling, and the authority with which Reich described a mountain climbing excursion gone awry. I felt that the author definitely had mastered the thriller genre.
Quick research on Reich revealed that he’d already …

Crispin, the Cross of Lead, by Avi is a great book for kids aged eleven and up, full of adventure with a bit of fighting and mystery. It’s also a bit educational, as the story is set in feudal England and so you can see a little of what …

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, …

To be honest, I didn’t like this book very much. The characters are appealing and the premise is a neat one, but there was a point in the book at which I found myself skimming more than I was reading.
Set in the 1960’s South, this is the story …

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a fantastic book which I guess every person on the planet should read because everyone wants to make money in today’s world. This book is written by Robert T. Kiyosaki along with Sharon L. Lecher. This book opens our eyes to the fact that …

This book was in the bargain bin at Barnes and Noble (for good reason). There are two things that I like; books and bargains. Since the criteria fit, my husband this book up for me. Biographies and memoirs are my favorite types of books to read. …

Wimpy kid Diary —“ the last straw is the third 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 …

I was prepared to hate this book by Amy Chua which is an account of her parenting life with her two daughters. A mother who demands her child practice her musical instrument 6 hours a day. Every day. A mother who demands her children get straight As in school. …

This is an interesting but disturbing book containing three pamphlets written by Ida B. Wells. Wells wrote these pamphlets between 1892 and 1900 to publicize the use of lynching by whites against blacks during the last decade of the nineteenth century. In her work Wells describes …

I have read plenty of cake decorating books that promise step-by-step instruction, only to give the first two set of instructions while leaving me lost and mystified to figure out the rest. The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating is nothing like that, and the author makes sure every step …

Fruits Basket Manga Volume 5 takes place during Golden Week and Shigure takes Tohru. Kyo and Yuki to the Sohma summer house in the mountains.
This manga was very deep and meaningful because it explored Tohru Honda’s character more. It showed that she’s not perfect and that she has …

I picked up a copy of this book at a used books store, an older copy (dating back to the 60’s, just a couple of years after it was originally published). The front cover promises that this is the most originial science-fiction novel I’ll ever read. The …

The book “In the Forests of the Night,” by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is a great fantasy book for teens. I read this when it came out when I was young, but since there has been a lot more interest from teens in the vampire genre it would be relevant. …

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 …

The name of the writer Jack London is firmly associated with adventure literature in readers. Well, who hasn’t read books about the Wild West, Alaska, gold prospectors, pirates, sailors, and cowboys cutting across the prairies? But, the skill of the author is not limited to the adventure genre. Some …

I could not put the book ALL THAT MATTERS down. Jan Goldstein is a masterful writer. He has created a novel that plumbs the depths of depression, and shows the reader that hope is the most important aspect of life.
The young protagonist of this novel …

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 …

This book is a big disappointment for me, I was expecting the author to - as his book title suggests, literally dig inside Steve Job’s brain to reveal his brilliant perspectives about how he was successful at meeting/generating consumer market demands, his business and design philosophies, personal attitudes that …

Jeremy, a 17 year old boy, is left quite alone in the world when his mother dies of cancer. In a touching letter his mother has left for him, she urges Jeremy to find his uncle Aiden, a man who had disappeared when Jeremy was 7 and had no …

In typical Jeff Long writing style Year Zero takes an interesting, one-of-a-kind plot and presents it in a philosophical fiction novel. The novel is written in such a way as to combine a lackluster writing style with a slow moving, almost uninteresting, plot and a strange desire for the …

When I first saw this book on my aunt’s bookshelf amongst the rest of the novels, I never really paid it much attention since the artist’s depiction on the cover didn’t make it seem very interesting. Nevertheless, I decided to read it and a few of the other books …

The comic opens on Oa, where even the guardians take notice of the appearance of New Krytpon. They fear that they may have to send in a brigade of Green Lanterns but hold off for now.
We then see Kal adapting to his new life quite well. He proves …

Easy Tatting by Rozella F. Linden is a beginning tatting book. It contains a brief introduction to tatting, a basic supplies list, tatting pattern short-hand abbreviations and basic double stitch tatting instructions. It also includes patterns.
I think this is a nice book for the beginning tatter. The instructions are …

I hope that you have not yet fallen into slavery to robots and at least sometimes look up from the screen of your smartphone?
Isaac Asimov is my favorite writerscience fiction writer, popularizer of science, and biochemist. He is the author of about 500 works, mainly fiction, primarily in the …

Despite its few failings, this novel is in my opinion a good read for every suspense fan. Dean Koontz once more proves his mastery and delivers a truly gripping tale of mystery and horror. The protagonist, Susan Thornton, a young woman of about thirty, wakes up in hospital to …

This children’s novel is a heartwarming tale of a girl who lacks confidence in herself and must live with her mild but loving mother and stern grandmother. Her grandmother rules the roost, so to speak, and Jane feels inferior compared to many of the other girls at her private …

This book, Exploring the Darker Side of America: Strange Highways: A guidebook to American mysteries & The Unexplained by Jerry D.Coleman could actually be better. The pictures are quite in handy, and in depicting the story, I sort of understand what the author was trying to talk about. …

This diet was developed by Tessa Cooper and Glenn Cooper and anchored on an assumption that anyone can stay on a diet for two days. I tried the diet for several months and it was a great success! I lost more than fifty pounds in six months. I think …

The best place to buy books in bargain! Say goodbye to ebay for book bargain; half price for secondhand book? Not anymore, browse in the Book depository and buy a NEW book for less than in-store RRP! I have no idea how would they cover their cost but book …

The Truce at Bakura is a science fiction novel, set in the Star Wars universe straight after the end of Return of the Jedi. The Rebel Alliance catches an Imperial probe, and as the Empire can’t answer the distress call it is sending, Luke Skywalker and other members of …

‘The castle of adventure’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. It is a very interesting and exciting book. This is a book that is worthy to be read and I have read it twice.
Dinah and Lucy-Ann are staying at Spring cottage on castle hill with a certain …

Children love pop up books. They bring the stories to life. Even today I can remember enjoying them as a child, reading them over and over and over again and now one of the most popular stories of today, The Chronicles of Narnia, is now available in a …