Bill Bryson’s humorous travel books have become extremely popular, and A Walk in the Woods fits very nicely into his body of work. It deals with Bryson’s attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail together with his friend (occasionally enemy!) Stephen Katz, who also featured in the earlier Bryson book …

I have only read two romance novels written by male authors so far, and I was a bit surprised because I never thought that men could write good romance novels too.
This series of three books tells about the experiences of Vince that began in his college years. …

This is not a page turning thriller, neither is it a heart lifting drama romance. Rather, it’s like a savoury piece of steak that needs to be chewed on patiently, and the flavour would soon infuse into your palette.
Tash Aw is a Malaysian born lawyer trained in UK. So, …

Most of the books that you have to read in high school are just stupid. They say that it will heighten your intellect and help you learn all about the important things in life, but only a few have really meant anything to me. One of them was “Speak”. …

I was introduced to Linda Howard when I read the book that she wrote with Linda Jones titled, “Warrior Rising”. It was a pretty good book and though I was unfamiliar with Linda Howard’s work I figured I’d give her a shot. My leap of faith was rewarded. …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Contamination offers up a story that involves mystery and murder. In this story, one of the Federation’s most respected and renowned scientists is found dead - murdered to be precise - in one of the Enterprise’s science labs. An investigation is then launched, …

Digital Fortress is a computer program that creates unbreakable codes, the supreme counter-intelligence weapon; and it is offered for sale to the highest bidder. The author furnishes the reader with details on the National Security Agency’s TRANSLTR, and NSA’s Crypto Development Division; how they have thwarted terrorist attacks, …

This is quite the tome. It weighs in at over 600 pages, but within those pages is the single most comprehensive look at sea serpent from Antiquity to about 1965. Bernard Heuvelmans, the author, holds nothing back in this book and crams in as many sightings as he …

A Christmas Carol is one of Dickens most famous works. It has been made into films, TV series, shows and cartoons. It tells the story of an old business man called Scrooge. His business partner has been dead for seven years, so Scrooge runs his own business as he …

“Heaven, Texas” was the first book by Susan Elizabeth Phillips that I read. I literally read the entire book standing in the aisle of the bookstore where I first saw it and laughed out loud every once in a while which, I believe, caused people to look at me …

I read this book, Talking in Bed by Antonya Nelson and if you like to read books about affairs and how the people in the affair deal with things, then this book is a must read for you.
I find the storyline a bit boring and a bit too …

Brain Wash is written by Michelle Schoffro Cook and I really find this book to be really insightful and full of great amazing tips for my brain-health.
This is a very good and powerful book with lots of strengths. The author talks about how easy within this era of …

Like most ladies I’ve dieted many, many times. I’ve tried everything from Atkin’s to diets that came directly from hospitals for heart patients. I have made the switch lately to try not dieting. I just want to change the way I eat daily.
I try not …

“The Hide and Horn Saloon” is written by JT. Edson, the fabulous author of the Floating Outfit books. A writer of the western Genre.
It is hard to find good westerns these days.
Charlotte Canary, also known as Madam Bulldog come to Tennyson, Texas to take ownership of the Hide and …

The New Indigo bookstore finally arrived in Milton! It was large and bright and I couldn’t wait to start shopping. It was quick and easy to find someone to help me use their touch-screen system, and equally efficient to find what I was looking to purchase. I was thrilled …

I actually borrowed this book from my local library and ended up enjoying it very much. This story is about a young woman (Susannah) whose main goal for her life is to work her way up the corporate ladder. She has no desire for marriage or kids and …

Back when I was a teenager.I had to deal with a lot of things such as peer pressure, academics and parents expectation. I don’t know how to manage it since it was so much to take and one day a friend of mine shared with me a book entitled …

I’m currently a college student majoring in the business field and I want to say that this book was very informative. I would recommend it to anybody that’s in a field relating to business. This book was first published by Warren Buffett in 1998. It really …

Paddington’s Cartoon Book, although dating back to the far-off days of 1979, can still easily raise a smile or two if you are in the right mood, and it certainly does so for me! I can’t actually remember where I got my copy, but it is actually quite possible …

The complete idiots guide to smoothies
By Ellen Brown
“The complete idiot’s guide to smoothies” by Ellen Brown is one of many books that are part of the “complete Idiot’s guide”, but this particular book focuses mainly on smoothies: how to make them, what ingredients to use, the various types of …

“Two for the Lions” is the tenth book in the Falco series of humorous detective novels by Lindsey Davis. These follow the adventures of Roman private eye Marcus Didius Falco, his usually unreliable family and the love of his life, senator’s daughter Helena Justina.
In “Two for the Lions”, Falco …

New Fashion Figure Templates: Over 250 Templates
By Patrick Ireland
“New Fashion Figure Templates: Over 250 Templates” by Patrick Ireland is a figure drawing book which was recommended to me by a friend and fellow fashion design student. I had already purchased figure drawing books; however, every perspective to a subject …

Because I graduated from high school, one of the exams I was going to do was the Technical Proficiency for the Information Technology CXC Exam. Therefore, my parents up buying the CXC Information Technology General and Technical Past Papers (1997-2000) in book form for me.
Of course several things in …

The book title, After the Kiss: The Notorious Gentlemen by Suzanne Enoch has a raunchy cover. But don’t underestimate the quality contents of this book, because it is not about racy scenes only. In fact, there are elements of romance inside that I truly enjoyed reading. I …

“Turquoise Girl” is the thirteenth book in the Ella Clah series written by Aimee & David Thurlo. For those who haven’t read any of the preceding twelve books, Elah Clah is a special investigator for the Navaho Indian Tribe near Shiprock, New Mexico. In “Turquoise Girl” Valerie Tso, a …

Robert Silverberg is one of the masters of science fiction, and his novel At Winter’s End is no exception. At Winter’s End tells the tale of Hresh, a young member of Koshmar’s tribe, and the emergence of the tribe from the caves where they have lived for thousands …

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, …

Iceland’s Bell is a historical novel by the Icelandic writer Halldor Killjan Laxness. It has been translated to several languages, so finding a copy in a language you can read shouldn’t be a problem. The first part is about the farmer Jón Hreggviðsson and his battle with the Icelandic authorities. …

Where You Are is Between The Lines’ sequel, and what a sequel! It a common saying that the second book it’s never going to be as good as the first, but I actually think this was equally if not better. In this book, love triangles become even bigger geometrical …

The third installment in the Night Series is about two witch cousins who are as different as night and day, one evil and one good. There is a lot here to sink your teeth into and I really enjoyed reading this one, as it was intriguing. Basically it …

I had high hopes for this book. After all, Brennan Manning’s “The Ragamuffin Gospel” may not have been the best written book out there, but it still had a lot going for it in the realms of depth and insight. Manning’s “Journey of the Prodigal,” however, quite frankly struck …

Okay, first of all this book really made me mad at first. While I thought the concept of Edward trying to protect his virtue and Bella being the sex crazed lunatic was comical, I still threw the book against the wall when the other stuff, namely pregnancy occurred. …

This is the third book in the trilogy and I must say the most surprising of the three. There were things in here that really shocked me. And I also feel that now the story has come full circle, with the Smoke movement growing stronger as the people move …

I took up the Bachelor of Science in Accountancy. And I must admit that I had a hard time while taking this study. I always have my ups and downs in this course. In our country, Accountancy students are prepared for different specializations in the field of Accounting. …

Some time of your life after the book-reading which comes across to the book to lower the eyebrow simply, ” You think in doubt; Cripes ! Did I how make my week of rear of this one wasteful? ” Or ” Was the point of this story what? ” Or …

“Raising Dragons” is the first book of a Christian fantasy series that introduces a rather unusual concept of people who are actually… dragons. That is, dragons living in a human form. And some of them do not even know it. For Billy Banister, a school kid, the amazing discovery …

In Michael Bentley’s Modern Historiography: an Introduction, 182 pages, ISBN 0-415-20267-1, Bentley provides a relatively short introduction of western historiography. The writing is much more readable that many similar attempts and is refreshingly short. At 182 pages, this book is several hundred pages shorter than other historiography books …

Police. A private detective. A murder. A prison. And no, I have no intention at all to review a novel from the crime genre. This is a story of Charlotte Davidson and her story of how she found her loved one and discovered the culprit of the murder.
Unfortunately this …

I have taken to reading the entire series written by James Patterson about The Women’s Murder Club. I first became intrigued by it when I watched the TV series based on this book, which had a very short run, and to date, I have not heard if it will …

To be frank, there are numerous issues that Glenn Beck and I disagree about. Those are from economic perspective, religious and political views. But this book presents one thing that I simply cannot disagree with him about. That is the values and principles he preaches about in this book. …

Triple Your Reading Speed, By Wade Cutler,is a book that shows you how to read faster. It contains useful eye exercises to expand your vision and increase your reading speed.It also contains many drills for practicing block reading. It includes many comprehension passages followed by multiple choice questions that …

Recently I picked up the Brothers Karamazov by the great Fyodor Dostoevsky. His body of work is most clearly defined by the five amazing novels, Crime and Punishment, Demons, Notes from Underground, The Idiot, and Brothers Karamazov, which is his last great work. Having read all the others …

Rob Zombie and Steve Niles team up once again in a follow up to their previous teaming for the excellent “The Nail.”
This time, they bring a new mini series (four issues) dealing with a man’s revenge againt (you guessed it) BIGFOOT! Bigfoot murdered his dad and raped and murdered …

I was hugely disappointed when I read this novel. I have read several of Banks’ other works and had been impressed, so I came to this book expecting a good read. Nothing could have been further from the truth.
The plot centres around an aristocratic couple, dispossessed of …

We went to a book store on the boardwalk at tour beach vacation recently and I told my toddler he could pick out a new book. He went over to the shelf and immediately, without hesitation, went straight for this book. He is a major dinosaur enthusiast …

As a huge fan of the first book in the King-Killer Chronicles (The Name of the Wind), I was so excited to finally read the sequel, The Wise Man’s Fear.
In this installment, Patrick Rothfuss does not disappoint. He tells just as good a story as the first, and …

I purchased the Cliffs AP US History book in order to better prepare myself for the Advanced Placement test in history. CliffsNotes are basically the way I survive reading books because, I am not going to lie, and I really do not have the patience to read a …

“Aha! The Most Interest Book You’ll Ever Read About Intelligence” by Trudee Romanek is a children’s book about how the brain work and what exactly is intelligence and where does it come from. I would categorize this book in the age range of six and above because there is …

I’ve been a fan of Tom Clancy since a teenager. He never fails to bring forth a great read through action and a technical understanding of security and military protocol, but his book, “Without Remorse” breaks his normal mold and was a pleasant surprise that brought a breath of …

The book Prior Bad Acts is written by Tami Hoag. This is a New York Times bestselling author and this story is actually a thriller that begins with a shocking crime scene.
The initial is there are 2 relentless detectives on a manhunt which ends in a chilling confrontation …