I was so fascinated with the sport of triathlon that I started reading up on it. I decided to try training for this event and picked up a triathlon book (see my review of Swim, Bike, Run by Glenn Town and Todd Kearney). After training for a while, I …

Amongst the books promoting vegetarianism I have ever read, I think “Food for Thought” by Avaduthika Anandamitra Acarya is one of the bests and the most complete. It explain vegetarianism and why we should follow it based on the concepts of yoga.
According to yoga philosophy, there are three …

In case you are wondering, about this book spelling, sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling. Yes it is spelled that way and I truly think it is such a unique idea.
I have longed trained myself never to 100% believe whatever the tabloids are saying. And in this …

The Spiderwick Chronicles - Book 1 The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black is a fun and well set up book. The main character is well written and there is an especially good scene in which he is telling the truth but not believed.
The book itself …

I avoided watching the movie Precious until I read that book that the movie was based on, Push by Sapphire, because I generally enjoy books more than the movies. As well, having heard about, read about and seen information about the content of the movie, I did not think …

‘Empowering women’ is a book written by Louise L. Hay. This book is basically for women, though it can be read by men. The book is a message that all should experience self-love, self-worth, self-esteem, and a powerful place in society. The author offers insights into how women of …

In this volume of Nodame Cantabile Chiaki decides to move to another apartment, as he can’t concentrate with so many musicians surrounding him -ironic for someone who works as a conductor-. Also Son Rui makes her appeareance, having an important paper this time. She will deal with her insecurities …

This book, about a boy who lives in a society at a time when anyone the slightest bit outside what is considered normal is outcast, can be a bit disturbing. Especially when you discover what the leaders do to some of the children who are discovered to be different.
A …

Have you guys ever read First Aid for the Betrayed by Richard Alan before? Well, if you haven’t, then it’s time to start reading this book. It is a very good self-help book filled with lots of tidbits and healing process for those whom have been betrayed before.
And …

Paris Sweeney’s life began to change the year before; she would answer Jeopardy questions correctly, plants bloomed almost before her eyes, traffics light automatically turn green, and she started to see dead people. Even her talent as an artist began to metamorphose. She begins painting in her …

‘Smile across your heart’ is a book written by Laurie Martin. Martin gives you simple tools through which you can create new healthy healing patterns. This book will help you to improve your emotional health. Martin has explained beautifully the ways and methods through which we can heal ourselves. …

Probably the two best things about Steeple Hill’s Love Inspired books are the fact that they are incredibly easy to read and that they usually contain a few spiritual insights that can enrich or challenge your walk with God. Unfortunately, many of the offerings in the imprint are rather …

Jesus and Muhammed - Profound differences and surprising simularities by Mark A. Gabriel P.H.D.
While doing a report for school, I read this awesome book by Mark Gabriel. It has this very thought provoking differences between Jesus Christ, the Christian Messiah, and Muhammed the Islamic self proclaimed last prophet.
The author …

I like quite a few of Neil Gaiman’s books - Coraline was great, for example, and The Sandman is classic. So I figured I would enjoy these short stories in M is for Magic, which is a collection actually written for kids. I think kids aged 10 - 13 …

This is a critical review of the book Holy Blood , Holy Grail. While this book had created a lot of publicity and hype at the time of its first publication , in my opinion the very controversial topic of Jesus Christ’s bloodline has in many ways diverted the …

Computer Networks is a book by Prentice Hall of India Private Limited. Andrew S.Tanenbaum wrote this book and he is from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is a fantastic book to learn about Computer Networks. This book was my textbook when I was doing my Post …

Philip Pullman, I never read his books earlier before the book set His Dark Materials, his stories have a female lead and it’s just not His Dark Materials but the other books he had written too.
Well getting back to the book it is absolutely wonderful book one can call it …

It’s safe to say, that I do not have an excited premonition of marriage. Most everyone in my family is married. I have a fiancé, going on two years now. I am reluctant to actually get married. But I read —˜Committed’ hoping for something inspiring to change my mind. …

I could not put this book down from the moment I picked it up. Black Ice by Anne Stuart labels itself Romantic Suspense and is published by Mira Books. I’m not normally a Romanitc Suspense reader prefering straight thrillers, but this book met the grade.
The storyline revolves around privileged …

After seeing the huge improvement from the first to the second book, I was rather excited about what would happen in the third instalment of the Gallagher Girls series. So I picked up the third instalment and got reading as soon as I finished the second one.
This part of …

I’ve bought this Mother Goose nursery rhymes book by Axel Scheffler last year in one of the children’s bookstore in London for an affordable price of 15 British pound. What I like about it is that it has a little bit of stories in between the nursery rhymes …

I have read the book ‘Zen and the art of happiness’ written by Chris Prentiss. The author tries to explain how is it possible to live happily through Zen. Zen is a way of life and through Zen, it is possible to experience happiness. The book is a guide …

The book is an autobiographical noval, which is written an ethnic Chinese girl in her high school time in American. The auther grew up in a Chinese family and live in an different cultural environment. How does she get along with her school-mates? How does she regard with two …

This is the best parenting book that I have ever read. Firstly, the best thing is that it doesn’t make you feel like a total failure. It doesn’t make you think that everything that you have done up to this point was wrong. I love the …

The fact that my deceased grandmother loved The Proposal by Lori Wick made it very hard for me to review it, but I have to say that I wasn’t all that impressed. The book really could have used a little more originality (reminded me a lot of Jane Austem/Charlotte …

Ben Hogan is widely remembered for being a man with an icy-cold personality and the ability to control the golf ball like nobody had before. He is given credit for being perhaps the best shot-maker of all time, this being due to his machine-like ball striking and labourious …

I received this book as a bonus with my copy of the special edition DVD of At World’s End (the highly anticipated epic conclusion to the Pirates film series, starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and others). The book is really a great little gem for the true …

This was a book that started out very well but did not entirely live up to its promise.
The main character is David, a young man in training to be an Olympic bicyclist. his parents have died (we never find out too much about them) and he has …

This book is the beginning of a four part series. Not a general sci-fi book, this book falls under the category of space opera. This means that there are many characters and intertwined story lines with the setting and timeline being very large scale. This book …

This issue goes back and covers the origins of this incarnation of Nightwing and Flamebird. I’m not too familiar with the characters, I just know that they were guardians of Kandor. Here, Flamebird is shown to be a mystical entity, sort of like the Phoenix. There’s …

“A Baffled Ambuscade” by Ambrose Bierce is a short story about an ambush gone wrong.
The story begins with two divisions of military–the Federal army and the Confederate army–who are at odds with each other after a huge battle that has previously taken place. During one night, the Major of …

The Da Vinci Code is a good read to be safely enjoyed as a sort of intellectual roller coaster pretty well programmed.
One of those historical who-dun-its or hybrid literatures looming out of misty and unlikely clues, this story, as superbly demonstrated by ‘Jurassic Park’, has successfully drawn a flimsy …

“Definitely Dead” is the sixth book in the Sookie Stackhouse novel series. I just finished reading it just last night and I think that it was the best book so far, even though I thought that the book started out as slightly drawn out, complicated and boring. This is …

‘Five go to Billycock Hill’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This book is an adventure of four children and their pet dog. The children are Julian, Dick, George and Anne. These four children, along with their dog, share a risky adventure. This book is basically meant for …

Last week I had the opportunity of choosing which book my book club would be reading, and because it is still the beginning of the New Year and people are either implementing life changes or still trying to figure out what specific actions steps to take, I decided How …

The ancient Chinese novel “Romance of Three Kingdoms” written by Luo Guan Zhong has been one of the greatest works in Chinese literature. It was set on the 2nd century and was published around 14th century. Somehow the popularity of the novel has been spread worldwide that it inspires …

The Gift by Cecelia Ahern is awesome. I would say that this is such a magical book with lots of nice plots here and there. It appears to have a very nice plot and yet again, Cecelia the awesome writer has done it again this time. First …

The book is a compilation of cartoons from the Peanuts series of comics, by Charles M. Schulz.
The book is about the comedy dog Snoopy, and his owner Charlie Brown. Other characters include: Peppermint Patty, Lucy and Woodstock the canary.
The book is set out as a series of tiny comics, sometimes …

Batman Issue 500 is a landmark issue in the “Knightfall” story arc featuring Bane’s famous defeat of Batman, breaking his back in the process. Bruce Wayne is forced to choose a replacement Batman, the former assassin known as Azreal.
Issue 500 features a fantastic extended fight between the new …

Are You My Mother by P.D. Eastman is a beginner reading book which is part of the Dr. Seuss Beginner Books. The cover has that same green metallic color with the baby bird on top of the lazy dog. It’s exactly the same as I remembered when I was …

Title of Book: Have You Seen Me?
Author: Laura Denham
Written in an honest repository, Denham explores the basic human desire to belong, and to be loved. Have You Seen Me? offers a fresh perspective on occupations most of us would think of as lowly, and pathetic - dance hostesses and prostitutes. …

This book is really funny. The title speaks for itself and it features Jessica Wakefield wanting to practice voodoo and she tests it out on her brother Steven. She makes a doll that looks just like her brother, chants some spells, does some poking on the doll using a …

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 …

Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency? That is the name of the miniseries from Radical Publishing, a comic book company that I trust more than the big two right now. For the most part I have enjoyed everything Radical has put out and FVZA is just like the rest. A …

Database Systems is by far one of the worst books ever. Database Systems is a book intended to explain relation databases, instead by chapter 2 you forgot what you were reading. I think the author just assumes anyone reading this book is a genius. If you …

“The I Love Lucy Book of Trivia: Official Authorized Edition” is great fun - especially if you have friends and family members that are Lucy fans, too! If you do, you can do what I do: set an evening aside and ask one another trivia questions out of 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 …

If you are like most people on this planet, you will have some kind of bucket list. I have already written and re-written mine, with thousands of changes made on my very own list. I love to travel and look for adventure, feel life at its best. This book …

I read this novel last week which was recommended by my uncle.This novel was written by Thomas Hardy and it has added one more feather to his cap.The story revovles round a hay-trusser Michael Henchard who has been rightly called as a Man Of Character by the author. …

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 …