I really love reading this book by Anne Tyler called Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. This book is a very heartwarming story, and it is especially a very useful read for children of broken families.
Though I am not one from a broken family, I really feel that I …

This book by Parthasarathy gives insight views of the ancient Hindu Philosophy called Vedanta. Vedanta means a culmination of knowledge. It is a set of eternal principles. If you have a spiritual or philosophical bent of mind, this is an excellent book which makes you understand the true …

I have a really good laugh when I read the book on The Modern Girl’s Guide to Life, written by Jane Buckingham. This book was bought by my boyfriend and given to me at a price of $19.95. Being a modern woman is not easy, and as …

My friends have been raving over The Hunger Games for quite a while now and I decided to see what the fuss was all about. I just finished reading the first book in the trilogy a few days ago and I have to say that it is indeed …

This book title, Loving Him Without Losing You by Beverly Engel (well actually part of it). The whole title is just so long. It goes something like empowering relationships or something. Loving Him Without Losing You is just the main heading title of the book. And …

“The Girl with Braided Hair,” by Margaret Coel, Berkley Prime Crime, 2007, 293 pp. ISBN-978-0-425-21712-2
“The Girl with Braided Hair” is the thirteenth book in the series featuring Catholic Priest Father John O’Malley and Arapaho lawyer Vickie Holden. The book takes place on and near the Arapaho-Shoshone Wind River Indian …

Pandora’s Box by Elizabeth Gage is one of those glamorous, racy suspense novels that I imagine my mother hiding under her pillow when I was a child because she didn’t want me to get my hands on it. Elizabeth Gage is one of my guilty pleasures. I save …

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates is by far Tom Robbins’ best work - his magnum opus. Anyone who has read anything by Robbins knows that he gives each word, each sentence, each metaphor, and each sarcastic allegory the attention it deserves. You truly …

The Wrong Places, written by John Ripley is a story that I consider to be purely fiction and sometimes made me bored and sometimes made me really enjoying it to the fullest. I guess there’s a cross-section in between and the main character in this story is Marcel Maki …

After reading the first two books of the Twilight Saga, I went on to read the third book, Eclipse. It really wasn’t a decision on my part so much as the book calling to me. Like many other Twilight fans, I couldn’t just read the first two …

The Super Mario 64 Nintendo Power Strategy Guide is one that I purchased not because I needed help beating the Nintendo 64 masterpiece, but because I loved and enjoyed the game so much, I wanted it to just read through and have. Although Super Mario 64 is typically a …

Browsing at a local books fair in a prestigeous school in Metro Manila, I came across this book. It was being sold by a second hand bookstore kiosk. I guess being somewhat of an ecologist, I immediately took interest of the title and speed read the contents of the …

‘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 …

This book, the first one in Karen Hancock’s “Legents of the Guardian King” series, is a masterpiece of Christian fiction, and a long awaited one, I might add. It’s about time the genre of Christian fantasy comes back to life and takes its rightful place on the bookstore shelves.
Abramm …

King Arthur and his Knights is part of the English Picture Readers series, published some time ago by Oxford University Press. Although the style used in Ronald Stober’s retelling of the legends is a little bit outdated nowadays, especially for a children’s book, it is still a good enough …

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay tells the story of three characters in a historical fantasy recreation of that period of Spanish history where Muslim rule was in decline and the Christian rule was moving down from the north. Kay has minimally masked the Muslim, Christian …

Slightly Wicked, written by Mary Balogh, is a very satisfying read for me, but minus the racy scenes. But as an avid reader like me who is really passionate about good story-lines and books, I find Slightly Wicked to be very interesting and a very good book at that. …

Cartoon Cool by Christopher Hart is a great cartooning book specializing in retro-style technique. It was a great addition to my cartooning and art library!
For those of you who do not know, retro-style cartooning refers to the cartoons of the 1950s that have been revitalized today. Shows …

I decided to read “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” by Barbara Robinson when I learned that some of my children might be trying out for the play version of the novel at our local community theater. What I discovered was an entertaining, funny, and thought-provoking tale that left me …

The book title, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love by Courtney Love; you will either love or hate it.
There can only be 1 option and as for what I feel after reading this book, is none other than average feel. It is not even a novel-like …

Once again, with her Dragonriders of Pern novel The White Dragon, Anne McCaffrey takes us through a magical, mysterious world of dragons, noble heros, and memorable situations. With every single one of her stories, we remember the time the hero saved the day; the first single, wonderful moment of …

I was stunned when I read My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. First because I had never heard of the book or its author. Secondly, because this was an outstanding book. So good that I’m tempted to put it in my personal list of bestbooks.
This book tells the story …

To be absolutely sure that you are right, and also to be sure that the whole world is wrong, is not easy at all. But just such characters can be found in the book “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” by the writer Michael Lewis. And they are …

The audiobook on CD “Host”, by Stephanie Meyer is a very good book. It is unabridged and on CD. The total playing time is twenty three and a half hours. This book was read by Kate Reading who is a reader of many …

There’s a Barnes and Noble just about everywhere around the United States and I use to think that they were all the same until I went in looking for a particular book. I remember going to at least three before finding the one Barnes and Noble within a five …

I’m a big believer in both the “Complete Idiot’s” and the “Dummies” books. They provide a very good introduction to almost everything. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to The Civil War, by Alan Axelrod (ISBN 0-02-862122-0) is no exception.
Most of us learned some things about it while going to high …

Now, this complete Calvin and Hobbes set is about $90.00, and it’s quite worth it for die hard fans.
The author of this story is Bill Watterson, and he has conjured a good writing on the musings and antics of both Calvin and Hobbes. I managed to read the …

Prophet by Frank Peretti tells a story of a modern-day prophet and explores, among other things, what it is like to have a prophetic ministry.
John Barrett, a well-known TV anchor, is annoyed and embarrassed by his father’s irrational behavior. The overly religious old man won’t stop talking about God …

Stephen Coonts has many successful books, most of them based on war, and the Vietnam War in particular. While these books are good the whole ‘war novel’, especially Vietnam, has been done and redone ad infinitum, so it was refreshing to see a new kind of novel from an …

Room on the Broom is a children’s book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler.
I picked it up on a whim while browsing through the local bookstore with my then-2.3 year old boy. The cover was extremely appealing, especially in the hardbound board book format. It depicts …

A Guilty Thing Surprised was written byRuth Rendell, published by Ballantine Books in 1975.
There is always a cache of hidden secrets in Ruth Rendell’s stories - unsavory and ugly, even among the rich and beautiful. The ugliness here involved a seemingly naïve but vain, pampered woman, who …

‘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 …

A Thousand Splendid Suns is set against the backdrop of Afghanistan and the many changes that the country has undertaken over the last half-century. It follows the lives of two women brought up in very different circles but somehow end up in the same situation.
The recurring theme throughout the …

The Bone Collector was written by Jeffrey Deaver and published by Signet in 1998.
I love Lincoln Rhyme’s mysteries, though I wish I had read this before The Empty Chair. This story came out as a poor second to the Empty Chair, which really had me on edge throughout …

The story has been set in Cricton. This time around Crichton the amount scattered system, the software agency, it introduces into the possible centralized characteristic of nano- technology and genetic engineering. You do not have to worry, each one of those words including the persuasive power of the book, …

I got this book as a present in one of my birthdays, and I decided to read it immediately after the party, as I hadn’t read anything from Stanislaw Lem before and I was feeling curious.
If we need a gender to classify it, it would be science fiction, but …

Although I disliked the first and second books in the Eden trilogy, I did pick up the final book. Because, what’s the point in reading two awful books if you don’t read the last one? I also somehow had a little glimmer of hope. Maybe Bryn would mature just …

One of my favorite books of all time is Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. Amazingly enough, this well-written, entertaining novel was a debut from Curtis Sittenfeld. It can be found in the adult fiction section of the bookstore or some libraries. The story is about a 14 …

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 …

This is one of my favourite books. Actually, I really enjoy this author. I found the pace of the book very fast, and read the entire book in one sitting.
The main characters, Min and Cal, are cute and funny, and I especially liked their best friends, Liza and Tony. …

My dad and I picked up this book before we traveled to Iceland, and we probably should have read it more to get more out of our trip! It’s a really good guidebook with plenty of color photographs to inspire you for your trip. Every time I look at …

When I started reading the book Andy at Yale: Or the Great Quadrangle Mystery I had absolutely no clue what the book was going to be about. In fact, several chapters into it, I still really wasn’t sure whether I was reading a mystery or a narrative of someone’s …

If you are anything of a horror fan (especially erotic horror) you will love the short story “Untamed Sex” by James Crawford. Found in the Fear the Fever short story collection, this tale is about a couple who still loves one another, but is having some trouble keeping …

Web of Love is written by Mary Balogh and this book is light-bluish in color for its cover and certainly nice looking enough for me to bring everywhere at all. Mary Balogh is a New York Times author and she is a bestselling author. I love her …

I have read the book —˜The power of positive thinking’ written by Norman Vincent Peale. This is a very good and interesting book. The author lays very great emphasis on positive thinking. The content in this book certainly helped me a lot. This book is capable of giving the …

A friend recommended this book to me after having read it herself, saying that the plot was quite different to many others she had read before. So I went to the library and picked it up, had a read of the blurb, and decided to give it a go. …

I found East Tower on Amazon. Basically, it is an adventure story for 9-12 year olds (and my nephews and niece loved it!) but I started reading it and couldn’t put it down!
It’s set in the 1950’s and it left me wishing that I had lived then. The main …

This is Elizabeth’s Secret Diary, and it’s all about her deepest and darkest secrets that we wouldn’t have thought she has! Everybody thinks she is Miss Perfect —“she is smart, nice, caring, beautiful, athletic, and loved by everyone. You might think her diary is boring, but it’s just as …

Pets Pray for Truth is a story by Elnora Watters. The story is about Bobby and Mike, their dogs, and their lies. Bobby and Mike walked their dogs at the park but Bobby asked Mike to play on the swings. The two tied their dogs on the bench while …

I bought this toy for my 10 month old son because he absoluetely loved it when he saw it in the store. This toy is so cute. It is a story book with interactive features on each page. It reads the story to you and talks …