Dawn, Book 3. From the California Diaries collection. Author is Ann M. Martin.
These books are intended for the young pre-teen age level. I’m a 40 year old parent. So, my perception of the book may be a little different than a teenagers. The format of the …

This is a supernatural horror story that relies heavily on violence and disgusting gore to frighten readers. The plot involves a crazy undead farmer, Old Man Harrison, who comes back to threaten a group of four boys who accidentally wake him up from his long slumber. You may call …

Most engrossing, vast, and unique. I could stop there but won’t.
I am an avid Science Fiction fan due in no small part to this single book. Written by Frank Herbert, adored by many, spawned movies, video games, and a new standard of the Science Fiction genre.
Frank’s writing …

I read this book, Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips last summer. My senior year English teacher recommended it to my whole class. I was a bit weary at first because English teachers don’t always recommend the most interesting books, but I gave it a shot and found it …

‘State of Fear’ is the latest novel from writer Michael Crichton. I must admit to being excited about reading this book, having always been a fan of Crichtons. Did it live up to my expectations? Absolutely. ‘State of Fear’ is gripping from beginning to end.
Funded …

Essential Art History’s title is quite a claim for anyone to make for a single book, and one which in actual appearance is fairly unassuming, being no more than a medium-sized hardback of a little over 300 pages, albeit one with a rather startling bright blue front cover. This …

If you are looking for a good book to read during those rainy and cold days, read The Bride’s Baby by Liz Fielding and the two main characters are none other than Sylvie Smith and Tom McFarlane.
This is a fantastic love book but an accidental baby bump on …

Because I love sewing, I thought it would be both a perfect opportunity and beneficial to my sewing skills if I learned how to knit; therefore, I went to Joann.com and purchased a knitting kit by Lion Brand.
Even though the knitting kit came a week later, it felt like …

The following is a review of the Book: Baltimore Noir, Edited by Laura Lippman. (Akashic Books is the publisher.)
The book is full of terrific short stories. I can tell you I could be staying in the Caribbean on a sandy beach and the book is so …

Come to think of it, I rarely take the opportunity to review cook books which I’ve read countless times. I don’t know why. Maybe because I’m so cooped up and concentrating on fictional and non-fiction type of self-help books and novels that I tend to ‘neglect’ cook books.
But …

ESSENTIAL MOON KNIGHT
A bounty hunter? A mercenary? A reclusive millionaire? A TAXI CAB DRIVER?
Who was Moon Knight? Or, as he is sometimes referred to as The Moon Knight.
Moon Knight was and remains Marvel’s Batman rip-off character. And boy did they try to mask it by giving the hero THREE …

This children’s book by Roald Dahl is not quite as funny as some of his others, but still contains many of his zany ideas and funny words.
The story is of a boy, who Dahl does not give the name of, whose parents unfortunately die in a car accident. He …

Nicholas Nickleby is Charles Dickens third novel. It is the tale of Nicholas Nickleby and his sister, who are left penniless when their father dies. The main antagonist is their uncle Ralph, who is a mean old man and doesn’t try to make life easier for his niece and …

About fifteen years ago, the Batman line of comic books ran a storyline entitled the “Knight’s End” story arc. The subject of this story was Batman’s crippling defeat at the hands of a new archvillian named Bane. The inspiration for this story line was obviously the very successful …

“Water for Elephants”, a novel by Sara Gruen, has become my all time favorite novel that I have come across to date. The way the author captured my attention and really brought me into her story to the point of feeling like a spectator of the events that took …

It’s not a Sherlock Holmes story (though I do think there is some reference to the famous detective in it) but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery, The Lost Special, is actually one of the better mysteries I’ve read.
The story is about a train that disappears while on its normal …

Daredevil Issue 235 was written by Danny Fingeroth and published in 1986. Steve Ditko was the artist. This is a good old fashioned issue that focuses on the hero overcoming great odds in the form of one of Marvel’s most powerful super villians, Mister Hyde.
The issue shows …

Japanese author Miyuki Miyabe’s novel The Devil’s Whisper is a mystery featuring a young boy who tries to solve a series of bizarre happenings. He works in a book store that has recently purchased a closed-circuit TV system. Videos show in the store. After the screens go up, some …

The Immortal Highlander by Karen Marie Moning is the sixth book from her Highlander series. Technically all of her highlander series can stand alone but it’s a much better if they were all read in the order that they were released,
it’ll fill in any gaps and answer any questions …

This is book six in the Vampire Diaries series, which we all thought had ended at book four some fifteen years ago. The writing style changed dramatically from book four to book five and the subject matter was a little more adult to fit better into the market today. …

I was loaned this book by a friend but you can buy it from Amazon at the moment second hand or a penny plus postage and packing of course, or you could loan it from the library, good bookshops also stock this for around 6 pounds.
I am a coward …

If you’re planning on traveling to Peru then this book is the perfect guide book. It’s a little old, yet it’s chock full of important information. It has relevant pictures and maps, it covers the country and its inhabitants, certain main cities and regions including Lima, the north/south Pan-American …

Joy of Cooking—”a cook’s encyclopedia for cooking like a pro, is a book I was familiar with, but never had the opportunity to purchase for myself. My mom has one of the older versions with the purple cover, but I have never managed to borrow it from her. A …

This was a very interesting book. You really need to think outside the box when reading it or else it will seem really far fetched and unbelievable. The first couple of chapters are kind of long and drawn out, but after that, the book becomes a real …

Like most of others I read Angels and Demons after reading later works of Dan Brown. As a thriller I feel Angels and Demons will be the best work so far from Dan Brown. But in other aspects like symbology and intrinsic suspense Angels and Demons is not a …

Hugs to Wrap Around Your Heart is actually a pretty heartwarming story that gets to my soul. It feels like drinking a warm and nice cup of cocoa or something, really. This is actually the 10th Anniversary Edition and it was given to me by someone as …

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is an amazing person, and for a student of Buddhism, his summation of that religion when asked as “My religion is kindness” is a great inspiration. I would really recommend that you look into Buddhism if you haven’t already done so - I …

Pet Semetary was just about the scariest book I have ever read. Stephen King is a master at making sure you stay awake for the next two weeks. The book starts off really slow, in my opinion, with nothing really happening except Louis Creed’s(the main character)family going on a …

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara is a bestseller book that captures the great Battle of Gettysburg. I highly recommend it for both readers young and old. The book captures the magnificent adventures of both sides and is a fast read.
Format, 10/10: The book is formatted so that each …

I think everyone needs self-help books at times, and I have this book that I would like to recommend to everyone out there. It�s called Getting Things Done, written by David Allen.
On the front cover page of this book, you have the mantra �The Art of Stress-Free Productivity� …

This book features Jessica Wakefield in a totally different spotlight. She gets humiliated and embarrassed when she gets accepted in to a prestigious program at school called SOAR for gifted math and science students —“ she gets a lot of encouragement from twin sister Elizabeth Wakefield and from the …

This is absolutely one of my favourite books in the world. I think the first time I read it was when I was 15 years old And I have been reading it a few times a year since that’s. There is something very unusual and captivating about the story …

‘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 …

“Thr3e” by Ted Dekker is a thriller that will keep you turning the pages and guessing what’s going on. It tells the story of Kevin Parson, a 28 year old seminary student who finds himself stalked and threatened by a ruthless terrorist. The man first shows up when Kevin …

The Chaos Gate trilogy are fantasy novels written by Louise Cooper,
The Deciever,
The Pretender,
The Avenger.
Are the titles of each book in this trilogy.
In the Deciever, Ygorla who is the half human half demon daughter of a minor Chaos demon is poised to try to take over the world.
Tirand the High Initiate …

Test your IQ is a wonderful book written by Alfred W. Munzert. I bought the 4th edition of this book for a purpose of finding out my IQ level by taking the test provided in the book.
I was amazed with the content of this book because for so long …

The new half price bookstore is a definite hit. I love the traditional bookstores but this place is ten time better. What makes this store unique from any Borders or Barnes and Noble is that they get their stock from their customers. Half Price Books purchases your …

Parking is a story by Ruchir Joshi. He is a writer who lives in India. The story appeared in Delhi Noir, a book of stories by Indian authors. All of the stories are set in Delhi. Parking is set in a place called Nizamuddin West. I am not familiar …

This Stitch ‘n’ Bitch book was a bit of a pleasant surprise for me when I found it, as I had assumed that the Stitch and Bitch books were only available for knitters. But yay! here is one full of fun crocheting tips and patterns.
The best part of this …

This book is titled The Face, and it’s another story featuring an ordinary girl named Martha living in Fear Street who is a great artist but she subconsciously draws a face of a young teenage guy and she can’t seem to stop drawing the face. She gets really scared …

Tonya Reiman had written this self-help book that is one of my favorite. The title is Power of Body Language. This is one of the signs that reflects one’s emotions, mind and thoughts and I love this book very much because it highlights certain important issue like …

My first thought on reading this book was quite simply “odd”! Probably because it didn’t turn out to be what I was expecting.
How to be Rich opens with Getty’s own story of how he made his first money, as a reader in the UK I found this particularly interesting …

Snowbound Heart is written by Jennifer Blake and this is a nice, heartwarming story that I really love reading. Clare Thornton wants a very pure relaxation in the form of mountain vacation and she badly wants to learn how to ski.
Then, an unfortunate event happens, and …

For a long time i’ve been waiting to come across a writer and book like this. This book by Boris Akunin,as well as his other books from the same series,all connected chronologically following the life of the main character Fandorin,is a complete suprise to me- in the most positive …

The Dragon King fantasy series by Stephen Lawhead seems to be lesser known than his other works, perhaps overshadowed by them. In Book 1, titled In the Hall of the Dragon King, we are introduced to a fifteen year old boy named Quentin who is an acolyte in the …

“The Gift” is by far my favorite Danielle Steel novel. It is short but the 270 pages of which it consists really touched my heart and quickly secured it’s place as my favorite. This story is about life in 1952 for two families who are 250 miles apart. …

The sequel to “My Enemy, My Ally” follows Deep-cover Federation Agent Terise LoBrutto AKA Arrhae t’llhweiir who has her assignment on Romulus disrupted by the unexpected arrival of a high profile federation prisoner, one Dr McCoy.
The plot is split into two independent sections which are a fantastic idea …

What can I say? I love books, reading and writing, and Barnes and Noble has everything the reader in me can desire. The only thing I don’t like is that the prices of books are stupidly expensive, thus I sometimes find what I want to read at Barnes and …

A few months ago, I’ve decided to go around looking for sketch books since I really want to start sketching again. I know there are a lot of the usual kinds like Corona, but I was looking for something different. Who would want to keep on staring at a …

About 2 years ago, when I was in the U.S getting married, I visited a Costco and was browsing through the book section. Now, before I got married, about all I could do was boil water. I couldnt cook if my life depended on it. (Anyways, back to the …