I have just finished reading Ultra Maniac manga and well, I guess it was okay. It wasn’t something that really moved me with it’s story but I did enjoy reading it up till the end. Although I like fantasy stories when it comes to manga I found this story …

Book Review
The Diary of Jack the Ripper
Narrative by Shirley Harrison
This was an intriguing book. If you are familiar with the Jack the Ripper case then this book will be of great interest. If you are unfamiliar with the case then maybe you need to read up on it before …

This is a paperback book authored by Donna McCrohan and published by Workman Publishing Company in 1988. I found the book to be mildly interesting, being a fan of “All in the Family” and all, but the book kind of disappointed me for a couple of reasons. For one, …

Backpacking in the 90’s is a book that was written by Victoria Logue. This book gives some great tips and secret from experienced backpackers for the inexperienced as well as the experienced backpacker. After all you can always learn something new. It discusses possible locations and talks about different …

‘The Palace’ is the sequel to ‘The Journey’ by Laura Lond, a part of her ‘The Adventures of Jecosan Tarres’ trilogy. As I had said in my review of Book 1, it ends with a cliff-hanger: the protagonist, Jecosan, who is sent to the king’s palace with a very …

SEX DRUGS AND COCOA PUFF by Chuck Klosterman
Where to magazines like Spin and Rolling Stone find writers like this? Allegedly Chuck is a humorist and his book is about pop culture and his book is about pop culture and how it relates to the average male. What it never …

While this book promises to teach Economics in One Lesson, it is less a a book about basic economics and how the free market economy works than it is one about economic policy and how to examine its effectiveness. Henry Hazlitt wrote this little gem of a book …

‘Five on a hike together’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This is an interesting book and is one among the famous five adventure series. The four children, Julian, Dick, George and Anne go off to the hills for a whole week with their dog, Timmy. Timmy hurts …

Darkness tells the story of a group of people living in a small, ritzy community in Florida. A young woman living in the swamp discovers that a Dark Man is taking people’s children and turning them into zombies and wants to do whatever possible to stop them, even though …

I just finished reading Rewriting History by Dick Morris, a book dedicated to studying the personality of former first lady turned Senator turned Secretary of State of the United States of America, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The whole book is devoted to deconstructing the personality or the persona of the …

About the Book and the Author
Positive Discipline, the revised expanded edition is a 368 paperback published by Three Rivers Press in March 2007. The book is written in English. It was authored by Jane Nelsen, Ed.D, a distinguished psychologist, educator, and mother of seven and a grandmother of 20. Since …

This book has been written by Dale Carnegie, who is a world famous writer of self improvement books. Like the tile of the book says, this book is for those who find it hard to give impression to other people. In this book Dale Carnegie tells about what does t …

‘The Boyfriend’ is a book written by R.L. Stine. This is quite an interesting book. This is not scary to read, but is quite exciting. A girl named Joanna dates a guy named Dex. Dex is very much fond of Joanna. But Joanna loses interest in Dex. She wants …

Aranmanai Ragasiyam Book is a fantastic Tamil historical novel by Tamil Poet Pa.Vijay. Now a day it’s not easy to write historical novel. But Pa.Vijay tried that and done it superbly. “Aranmanai Ragasiyam” is a Tamil word means “The Secret of a Palace” in English. …

The Complete Book of Business Plans is the ideal book for business owners struggling to write their business plan. The book was written by two professional business plan writers, so when you follow through each chapter they are guiding you with their expertise to give you a winning business …

Unloveable is a children’s book written and illustrated by Dan Yaccarino. It is one of my daughter’s absolute favorite books in the whole world. It was published in 2001 and is an adorable story about a pug who does not have any friends.
Pros: This book is wonderful! …

This is a story of a man seeking the truth and seeking the love of his life. Have you ever been blinded by love and searching for it in places that are almost notwithstanding..? This is what happens in the story of The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks …

The WordPress 24-Hour Trainer book is the best introductory book that I have found on learning to use WordPress. I had read on the Internet that WordPress was easy to use and understand. That I should have just been able to jump on the forums and everything would become …

On a recent trip to the UK, I bought a book as a souvenir. It is called Scottish Ghost Stories, and is published in the UK by Lomond Books. (www.lomondbooks.com)
I love ghost stories and legends — especially those from Scotland, the home of my ancestors. I thought this book …

Whenever I read Bram Stoker’s The Lady in the Shroud, I end up with the same opinion; a good idea for a book but a little too long to be entertaining.
The book, which focuses on an English gentleman who inherits a great fortune from his uncle on the condition …

My brother loves reading books by James Patterson, and so does my boyfriend. Both of them have a copy of this book, The 6th Target, and I just don’t get what is so fun about this book. Hence, I’ve started reading and have had good reviews about …

The Ranger’s Apprentice: Book 5: The Sorcerer of the North has Will Treaty now a full-fledged Ranger five years after the Battle for Skandia. Will investigates the rumors of a sorcerer after the Lord of the Fief he is assigned to suddenly and mysteriously becomes ill.
This was a …

This book is just fun to read. The pace is quick and snappy, the dialogue is too, and the characters are hilarious. (Especially Cynthie, the competition).
Minerva Dobbs and Cal Morrissey have similar problems with their families. Other than that, they are polar opposites in personality and …

This cookbook is spiral bound, and hardcover. It’s divided into different categories of food, from appetizers to cakes. And, it’s all focused on foods that are fun for kids (like a pasta dish with an octopus made out of a hotdog, or a cake decorated to look …

Of all the Sherlock Holmes stories I’ve read, the Speckled Band is one I feel is the creepiest.
How else would you describe a young woman dying in her locked bedroom in the middle of the night with no explanation and her sister suddenly worrying she might fall victim …

I am a great fan of autobiographies and politics, so I have finally got around to reading a (huge, long) book that I received a few years ago. My husband purchased My Life, Bill Clinton’s autobiography, for me because he is well aware of my admiration for what this …

I read Dan Brown’s controversial book The Da Vinci Code in just two days considering how busy I was. It was so suspenseful and really a page turner that’s why I couldn’t put it down. That’s why when I heard that it was going to be made into a …

Boko no Watashi no Yusha Gaku or Our Hero Studies is a manga by Shuichi Aso. The manga series is composed of six volumes and there are just three chapters on the current scanlation which was stopped years ago. The story starts with the current Class 1-A homeroom teacher …

After reading Holly black’s debut novel, “Tithe,” I wrote a review saying that despite the flaws in her first book I would probably read her sophomore work. That work is called “Valiant,” and while it has many of the same objectionable notes as her last book it also shows …

I didn’t know about this manga until I’ve watched a Taiwanese TV show about it. I really enjoyed the Taiwanese TV show about it so much that I started reading and researching about it online. I then read that it was actually based on a Japanese manga called Hanazakari …

Barnaby Rudge appears to be one of Charles Dickens’s lesser known novels. The story centers around the anti-Catholic riots of 1780, known as Gordon riots. The deluded Lord George Gordon who wants to revoke certain rights from the Catholics forms a large Protestant Association, over forty thousand members strong, …

Miriam the Medium by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro is brilliant. I’ve always wanted to find out the perspectives of a psychic and how they go about doing their business. Although I think that no one in this world could really predict anything, much less the future of someone, this …

I have always had a bit of a fascination with the Japanese phenomenon known as Manga and Anime. I don’t know why, but maybe all of those years watching Astro Boy cartoons on Global Tv during those precious few minutes before we had to solemnly go to that dreaded …

I started reading this book of two hundred and eighty nine pages with much enthusiasm because the name was very catchy for me. But after reading first few pages, I did not feel much good about the book. The story is very sluggish paced and I found it hard …

“Belgrave Square” is a mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt.
Pitt is asked by his superior Micah Drummond to look into a case of a blackmailer who was killed.
Pitt is disturbed by the case anyway because he is unsure why he was called into the case in such a manner.
There …

I recently read the book “City of Oranges” by Adam Lebor and believe it is an important book to read given the state of politics in the Middle East. LeBor subtitled the book “An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa.”
The book begins in Jaffa (part of today’s …

I found this book on Goodreads in my recommended section. I have read a lot of novels similar this one, and although none of them were good, I was hoping this one may be different. At least for once, the girl was not going to innocently fall in love …

Albert Jack has made a name for himself writing books that provide the background to the stories, phrases, urban legends and even pub names that we are all so familiar with but never really know where they originate and I just love stuff like that and find it quite …

This book (which has been made into a movie), is like most of Grisham’s novels in that once started, it is hard to put down. Good pacing and suspense keeps you wanting to read just one more page, until you realize that it is 4 in the morning …

To this day, Pippa Middleton is probably still best known for being the younger sister of Kate Middleton (Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge). Pippa is also the author of “Celebrate: A Year of British Festivities for Families and Friends”.
Now, even Pippa admits in her introduction that due to who she is …

Few months ago I found a problem: how to put my voice into my site to be more credible for my visitors. It’s not a mystere anymore that in order to get more credibility on the web you need to put your face (a picture) and your voice. In …

The Devil Wears Prada novel is about a recent college graduate, Andrea Sachs, who is seeking work as a writer. Her dream job is to work for The New Yorker. But she doesn’t have any connections or job experience. She reluctantly decides to accept an entry level job at …

This book, Exploring the Darker Side of America: Strange Highways: A guidebook to American mysteries & The Unexplained by Jerry D.Coleman could actually be better. The pictures are quite in handy, and in depicting the story, I sort of understand what the author was trying to talk about. …

Persuasion’s main theme is also the title of the book. The idea is that Anne Elliot was long ago persuaded by friends and family not to marry a man, and thus, her life is less happy.
Anne at 27 is one of Jane Austen’s older heroines, 7 years older …

More than 2 years ago, in the Internet appeared the trailer called “Deceived”, advertising the upcoming video game “Star Wars - The Old Republic”. In it we saw the grim similar to Darth Vader Sith Lord who ravaged the Jedi Temple on Coruscant , as we’ve never seen before. …

One very distinctive fact that I noticed while reading this book called Diane Johnson - Persian Nights: A Novel would be the fact that it has a very nice and interesting cover animated image of a woman, supposedly the one in the character, and the words ‘Persian Night’ being …

I’ve always been interested in makeup for as long as remember, and I’ve only started using it a couple of years ago because I was so lost on how to use it. My mom found a book for me called Pro Makeup: Salon Secrets of the Professionals by Kit …

The book series The Mediator is a great set of books. I have read them all at least twice and wish there was more to it because they were so good. They pulled me right in with the plot and characters. I loved the …

When people think of Bram Stoker, they naturally think of him as the guy who wrote Dracula. And, most probably don’t realize he had other books as well.
One of these, The Jewel of the Seven Stars, is actually more entertaining than Dracula was.
Based in London, the book starts out …

Soon to be a major motion picture, John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars tells the doomed love story of Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters. Hazel and Gus’s love is doomed because Hazel has cancer, her death is inevitable and in this is where Green’s talent truly lies. …