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 was first impressed with the title of this book at a local bookstore. I grabbed it and paid quickly without glancing through the contents. Well, let’s just say that I would have changed my mind if I had done so.
This book covers some good introductory elements …

Although this book is really just a compilation of activities from Martha Stewart Living, the magazine (and the book says this, right above the title: the best of martha stewart living), it is nice to leaf through it and look at the ideas for Christmas.
I like the activities I …

I have been a huge wrestling fan for nearly 25 years and along the way of course I’ve had my fair share of favorites - amongst them is the Canadian wrestling legend known as Bret Hart. Given his amazing accomplishments in the ring and the unfortunate tragedies in his …

Brad Hill’s Blogging for Dummies, 368 pp., ISBN 0-471-77084-1 is an excellent introduction to the art and craft of blogging, the phenomenon that is sweeping the world. Written with the typical Dummies Books humor, Hill takes the reader from being completely ignorant about how to blog to a well-trained …

The Usborne Big Book of Science Things to make and Do isn’t that big, but it is filled with things to make. This book looks really simple and colourful on the outside. There are many activities that kids can do, which are really just science based crafts. However, this …

Eight Million Ways to Die was written by Lawrence Block, and published by Avon Books in 1993.
Matt Scudder, an ex-policeman, had just been discharged from the hospital, for an alcoholic drying out. A hooker, Kim Dakkinen, who wanted to leave her pimp, Chance, had employed Matt to be the …

Andrew Carnegie is written by David Nasaw and though this book costs slightly expensive; around $30, I certainly love reading it so much. This is a good biography book that describes or tells the tale of one of the great business legends known as Andrew Carnegie. He is …

My brother is a brain cancer survivor. And, I always look for some authentic sources of information which can help me in planning alternative treatment for him. We have already exhausted conventional treatment including surgery, radiotherapy and oral chemotherapy. In this pursuit, I found Anti Cancer: A New Way …

Adrian is approaching his twenty four birthday. Entering into the hardest age in life of a man, and although apparently fully mature, mentally, still in the dark days of growing up, filling the pages of his journal, directory, fears and obsessions, decent full of complexes teenager. His mature works …

As for the memory whose John Nash is quickest blue field, waist Virginia, it was attached to playing at the house of that grandmother of the United States. That father was the very conservative person, he was not the happy young person. He was born in 1892 of plantation …

The Luxe is one of those series I just found in the bookstore and decided to pick up. It’s extremely interesting, but of course, like a lot of teen girl novels, catty beyond repair. I’m reviewing the second title in the series, Rumors: A Luxe Novel. Rumors picks up …

When you have reached the end of your favorite book series you know that it has completed a special stage of your life. Six years of anticipation and empathy with Eragon, Saphira, Arya, Murtagh and all the iconic characters of “Inheritance” passed like a single moment. With particular interest …

This book starts out with not a lot of description. Its a little bit confusing because you don’t really understand what’s going. Through out the next chapters you get a grasp on the situation and fall in love with the characters. The characters were so well …

‘Death of a Writer’ by Michael Collins is a shocking and riveting tale of a writer who just couldn’t catch a break. He is down on his luck, lonely and ready to give up- and in fact he tries to give up. An attempt at suicide leaves him in …

For confusing, the author how managed that, occasionally being bored to the point which those made in wonder, do to read excessively, but to offer the intelligent processing of incident, variety of the viewpoint where differs to the same incident which occasionally you can do. Just which there is …

‘Dare to prosper!’ is a book written by Catherine Ponder. In this book, the author writes that prosperity comes not by chance, but in accordance with natural law. The peace, health and abundance of prosperity must come through prosperous thinking. The author does not speak only about prosperity in …

I have read every book written by Judith Mc Naught and I have done so because her works are really amazing. Every Breath You Take is one of my favorites. I love Kate’s and Mitchell’s characters.
Their love story started which started in Anguilla is very romantic and poginant. …

“Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball” by Kathleen Brady is a book on Lucille Ball that I was unsatisfied with. The reason I was not satisfied with this book is that I felt it did not seem to have much order to it or a theme. It really is …

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, also known as The Yarn Harlot, is a knitting humourist. It seems like there wouldn’t be much material for her to write about, but her books are always fun and amusing to read.
This particular book, Knitting Rules!, is more of an explanatory book than knitting humour, although …

This was the first Harry Potter book that I read and at first I did not like the smart alec little boy. However as I got into the book, the charchter Harry Potter grew on you
I enjoyed how the relationship between Ron, Hermonine and Harry grew. I enjoyed …

Reading is one pastime that allows us to cultivate our personal tastes. Thinking back to all the books I had finished, I began to worry that my general way of seeing things had been shaped largely by male writers. Summed up, I picked up some crude philosophies …

The book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, written by Dave Eggers have received lots of compliments from most of my friends and even my siblings. So, since everyone sort of have read it, I want to have a feel of it too. I bought it. …

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 …

I love the book Diary of a C-list Celeb by Paul Hendy very much. Paul Hendy is a very awesome author and he had written concise, amazing and truly clear story and I felt like reading this again one of these days.
I was laughing so hard at …

The Spook’s Apprentice is based on folklore of the British nation in the past. Novel written by Joseph Delaney, is the first series in the legend Wardstone, a highest point in the County that holds a mystery. Plot of this novel centers on a boy aged 13 years old, …

Calliope Stephanides is the product of three generations of the Stephanides family. Her grandparents escape Smyrma Greece during the burning of the city by the Turks. They make their way to Detroit Michigan where they marry and begin their family. What they haven’t told anyone in …

I cried my heart out the first time that I read the book, Daddy’s Little Girl. This is a very sad story based on true events and related by the very beautiful Julia and I could not bear to imagine how as a child she must have felt.
Julia is a …

The Second Reel West by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg Eds.
I confess to liking westerns. It’s a bit of a guilty pleasure, but I like them. I like reading western books and watching western movies, at times I even think about writing one. The Second Reel West is …

Queen of Spades was written by Oakley Hall.(published by Penguin Group in 2000)
Tom Redmond, working in the Hornet as assistant to the famous Ambrose Bierce, was tracking down the Morton Street Slasher, who had killed women by slashing them open and leaving behind spade playing cards on their bodies. …

Jack Canfield was the co-creator of the bestseller series, Chicken Soup for the Soul and so when I saw ‘Key to Living the Law of Attraction’ I could not resist reading it. It is perhaps the only book of its kind and is written in simple and understandable manner. …

This book is the first in the “Teddy Bear” series, a group of “cozy mysteries” that feature Bradley Lyon and his wife, Ashleigh Lyon. The “cozy mystery” is one that is not very graphic or violent in nature and is usually in a series highlighting some profession such …

Like many toddlers, my three year old daughter tends to like some types of food and avoids some and I always try to explain to her how important it is to eat different types of food to be full of energy, to grow, and for goodI health.
But at this …

Robert Langdon must hurry to find the antimatter in a magnet suspended canister. The plot has very vivid and persuasive arguments as to why the antimatter exists as well as references to biblical texts as the counterpart to matter, as there is good, evil counters good. These …

“On Octopus Followed Me Home” is a children’s book by Dan Yaccarino published by The Penguin Group in 1997. The book is designed for children ages three to eight years old.
The book introduces us to a little girl (never introduced by name) who meets an octopus on …

“Ivan’s Great Fall: Poetry for Summer and Autumn from Great Poets and Writers of the Past” by Vanita Oelschlager is a poetry book that I feel is terrific if you have kids and are looking to introduce kids to the world of poetry. Then again, I am no longer …

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 …

I bought the Total Immersion (Ti) Extra Ordinary swimming for everybody in June 2009 from the TI website. Amazingly, this is the most influential material, I identify, I have ever had with me.
I bought it after; I had a sample material on it from TI website. It is copyright …

This Goosebump book was one of my many favorites written by R.L. Stine. I liked this book because it always kept you wondering what was to happen next. It was written in a way that when the haracter was freaking ou, you fel like doing the same. When …

“Gardening Essentials” written by Barbara Pleasant, published bt the National Home Gardening Club, is a handy book for beginning gardeners. It has 188 pages of fabulous information. The book is broken into chapters, which makes it easy to find information fast.
I like that the book explains how …

On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn is a romantic love story, and I think it is pretty similar to the movie, ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’. A bit different here and there, but the concept is the same.
Gregory is a man that thinks that his options are …

So, I’d already finished the first and second book of ‘The Selection’ series. Although I was already certain as to what the ending would be, I knew I had to finish it. I couldn’t have just left it in the middle like that. In spite of the low …

I really enjoy Christian fiction. I like mystery and suspense as well. Recently I finished reading Death Watch by Jack Cavanaugh and Jerry Kuiper. Death Watch is a Christian fiction novel. It is about a woman reporter who is covering a story on death watch …

Three Nights of Sin is a romance novel set in a historical setting. The heroine is Marietta Winters and the hero is Gabriel Noble. Both are gorgeous and handsome respectively.
Marietta’s brother has been arrested and charged for murder leaving Marietta shun out of society and being the past …

I was checking on my cousin’s blog site and I came across this article by Paulo Coelho. It is entitled “Closing Cycles”. While imparting his thoughts on “closing cycles” you will come up with a realization that in one way or another, each one of us experienced closing cycles. …

I’ve read several of Sarah Dessin’s books for youths and The Truth about Forever, like most of her other books, is excellent. (Although I was wondering for a while where the forever part came in but I did figure it out)
I really felt the frustration that each character was …

I was so thrilled when my friend introduced me to this book. I hadn’t heard of it, and I was a huge dragon fan (and overall fantasy fan). The cover art was unique and I loved the blue theme, which just made me more exciting to get …

I recently watched an episode of Monk when he is on vacation and is drawn into a murder investigation. That episode reminded me a bit of the Sherlock Holmes mystery The Adventures of the Devil’s Foot; which, coincidentally, takes place while Holmes is supposed to be taking a vacation.
I …

When comic readers try to justify their hobby (which if you think about it is patently ridiculous) and tell people that comics are literature, they will usually point to a handful of examples. The primary one is Watchmen, others will cite Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. …

According to Barry Hannah, Heart of Darkness involves Modernist themes which was typical for Conrad’s writing style. The characters in Modernist stories are so “shocked” that they are paralyzed from being able to describe the “grief” of modern realities.
I agree with this idea. In many ways, Heart of Darkness …