Books Reviews
Created to be his Helpmeet by Debi Pearl
This is a book that I recently picked up at someone’s suggestion. I have been feeling like I should become a better wife to my husband and am finally becoming familiar with the term Helpmeet. I wanted to learn how to become a better complement and helper to my …
The Nicholas Feast - Pat McIntosh
This is the second book in the series about Gil Cunningham. The year is 1492, the place Glasgow, and Gil, a young lawyer, is present when a dead body is found at is old college. With the help of Alys, his betrothed, and her French master-mason father, Gil has …
Predators by Daina Graziunas and Jim Starlin
Predators was written by Daina Graziunas and Jim Starlin (published by Warner Books in 1997)
Originally published as Thinning the Predators, this is one of the numerous books about vigilants dispensing justice where the courts failed. It is a wonder that the police or the FBI wasted so much …
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
I read Red Dragon by Thomas Harris recently. I’m sure you’ve seen the movie starring Edward Norton and Anthony Hopkins. Well usually the movie is a much less detailed description of events than the book, however in this case, I would give both the film and novel an A+.
The …
Prepare For War By Rebecca Brown
I do really appreciate the book “Prepare For War” writen by REbecca Brown.The book is very much rich in revelations. The book is highly informative on “Spiritual Warfare”. This book serves as as spiritual warfare manual from people who exprienced these applications themselves. This book is from people who …
The Great Airport Mystery
In this book, the ninth book in the Hardy Boys series for preteen boys by Franklin W. Dixon, Frank and Joe Hardy are yet again involved in a mystery. They have been hired to find out what is happening to plane shipments - shipments are appearing at their destinations …
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
The book The last song was written by the famous author Nicholas Sparks who also wrote The notebook and a walk to remember. The book was written to fit Miley Cyrus in as the lead role in the movie also titled The last song which was released in April …
The Runaway Juryby John Grisham
The Runaway Jury is another Grisham’s novel mostly based in a court environment. An old lady is suing a large tobacco firm after the death of her husband. Grisham gives us information about what happens in a courtroom, the juries daily life and how the jury team is selected …
Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
Simply put, this is not a great work of fiction. It’s meant to be a filler book and that is what it is. We want to laugh and be entertained and that is what it does. You shouldn’t expect to have an enlightening experience with this. The Plum books …
Dune Novel
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 …
Ursula’s Story by Sandra Howard
Ursula’s Story by Sandra Howard is a good story again about marriage women and their woes. There is something that I truly love about marriage and women in general and that is something devastating about being married to someone for years and years and after having their children, then …
The Historian book
Elizabeth Kostova brings us an exotic and elaborate tale surrounding the Dracula legend, following the adventures of its central, unnamed character trying to uncover the mystery of her missing father, his secretive work and the long standing mystery of her long vanished mother.
The book’s very much a slow …
Ishmael Book
When I first started reading Ishmael I expected it to be just another “Lets save the world” story with good intentions, but a lack of logic and reason. However, the further I read, the more I found that this was not the case. I have to say that the …
AP World History by Barron’s
This book was a great help to me when I was in high school. Our actually world history book was around 800 pages, and quite a pain in the neck to read, but this book summarized it into around half the pages. (I still thought that the 400 pages …
The Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
This is the story of teenager Alexander Cold and his journey into the Amazons with his grandmother Kate Cold who is a reporter for International Geographic. Them along with his best friend Nadia and some photographers go in the deepest parts of the Amazons looking for a forbidden city …
Kingdome Hearts Manga Volume 2 by Shiro Amano (Graphic Novel)
Kingdom Hearts Manga Volume 2 by Shiro Amano continues Sora, Donald, and Goofy’s travels to different worlds in search of Kairi and Riku. They travel to Agrabah and meet Aladdin and try to rescue Princess Jasmine from Jafar.
The manga is pretty good, the story does move a little too …
Talion: Revenant by Michael Stackpole novel
“Talion: Revenant” written by Michael Stackpole, is a fantasy fiction novel that tells the story of how a young boy named Nolan overcomes tremendous odds (the death of his family and the annexation of his nation) to become a “Justice” (the highest order of the Talions who keep peace …
Haunted a Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
I heard about the writer Chuck Palahniuk a long time ago. Still, I only recently took the time to get acquainted with his work. I picked up the book at random, which was probably a mistake. I should have read the reviews first.
That’s how I ended up with …
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
This is the first book in the popular kids’ series, The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes. Abby is a happy, friendly girl who in the beginning of this book is starting 5th grade. She has the usual anxieties about making and keeping friends, and generally wants this year to …
Merriam Webster’s Dictionary 11th Edition
The Merriam Webster’s 11th Edition (collegiate) dictionary is designed to help students and professors to easily find words, look up their meaning (s) and origin (s). I have owned my dictionary for 2 years and I find it easy to look up any word because of the tabs on …
Sweet Valley Twins: The Gossip War (Book)
This book features the Unicorns and it is all about revenge and traitorous people. The Unicorns are of course, the main cast, and if features feuding Ellen Riteman and Jessica Wakefield to gain Unicorn President Janet Howell’s trust. Ellen has just gotten a new phone which offers three-way …
Stay Mad for Life
This book title, Stay Mad for Life has really a long link to it. And on the front page itself, the continuation title is: Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer). Can you imagine the title? Very long indeed and makes me wonder can …
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert book
I began reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert after having it handed to me as a loan by someone who truly cared about my well being. She just happened to be my counselor. At the time I myself was on the bathroom floor, crying out to God, …
Star by Danielle Steel
If you are looking for a real tear jerker, I highly suggest reading “Star” by Danielle Steel. It is a great book that is a fast read that you will have trouble putting down.
Crystal longs to make it big and become a singer. She has the talent …
Start Your Own Blogging Business
Start Your Own Blogging Business
Entrepreneur Press and J.S. MacDougall
I only just started blogging. I heard about blogs initially from students I taught at school. My initial impression was that it’s merely a fad, just like the fashion statements they make to impress their friends, and that the …
Movie Business Book by Jason E. Squire
Even if you are not in the movie industry business, I find reading Movie Business Book by Jason E. Squire a good knowledge on movies in general and how the business of it goes about. You will be amazed at how these people in the movie industry have the …
Paging Aphrodite novel
I found this book, Paging Aphrodite, in my sister’s car so I picked it up because I was bored. This book is by Kim Green, who is also the author of Is That a Moose in Your Pocket?
I found each of the character’s stories interesting but it was a …
The Blooding,book
The book “The Blooding” was a beautiful heart filled book. It isn’ta bok for the squeamish. It is a bloody tale about shape shifting. I loved the book I must admit that it is one of my my favorite books now. Its the kind of book that you could …
Pillsbury Halloween Fun Cookbook
The Pillsbury Halloween Fun Book may look small on the outside, and something that anyone might think would not be useful in finding delicious and spooky looking foods for the Halloween season. But that is definitely not the case with this book. It small that’s true, but the book …
True Betrayals by Nora Roberts
True Betrayals is one of my all-time favourites by Roberts.
Gabe Slater and Kelsey Monroe are our characters in this story. Kelsey visits her mother, whom she thought was dead all along, at her farm, Three Willows. Gabe is a neighbour and owns Longshot, the farm next to Three …
Nelson NKJV Personal Size Giant Print Reference Bible
Choosing the right Bible can be a difficult decision to make. There are so many different English translations these days. There are also a number of different publishers that each have different qualities of paper and bindings. You want to get a Bible that will last you for a …
The Killing Doll by Ruth Rendell
The Killing Doll was written by Ruth Rendell, and first published by Arrow Books in 1985.
Before he was sixteen, Pup had sold his soul to the devil. His first wish was to grow taller, and he did. He had aspired to be a magician, or rather, a …
Slash: The Autobiography
As a huge fan of Slash and Guns N’ Roses, I was very excited to read his autobiography, which was published in October 2007. The book offers readers a detailed insight into the guitar legends life, and tells of his childhood memories, his wild and sometimes crazy …
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
I think this is one of the unique books around that adults and teenagers would really love. Making Money by Terry Pratchett is a book about Moist von Lipwig and with a name like that, it’s a wonder really. But really suits the book. He is running, …
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Small Gods is another Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. It tells the tale of Brutha, a young novice in the Omnian religion, after he befriend the great god Om, who has appeared as a turtle.
Like all of Pratchett’s novels, Small Gods is great fun. His talent is …
The Crimson Tide book
In spite of its title, this book has absolutely nothing to do with the fairly recent film, so do not be misled! Instead it is another entry in Puffin’s original range of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. This was number 47, coming out in 1992, and by this time there was …
Wereworld - Rise Of The Wolf Book by Curtis Jobling
I can not remember anymore how long I waited for there on the market to show up a book like “Rise of the Wolf”. After I grew up with the novels of JRR Tolkien, Terry Brooks and David Eddings, I became a certified fan of epic fantasy adventure. But …
The PMS Murder by Laura Levine Book
This was the third book I read by this author and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Once again there are the zany situations, often embarrassing to the main character. Jaine Austen is a freelance writer in Los Angeles but she loves solving murder cases on the side (free of charge …
A Brilliant Solution by Carol Berkin
A brilliant solution is a popular history about the transition of the United States from a loose confederation to a country with a strong central government. It tells of the efforts of Washington, Madison, Hamilton and approximately fifty other men who attended the Constitutional …
The Doomsday Conspiracy, Sidney Sheldon novel
This is one of the Sidney Sheldon novels which i read most recently. This is the most off beat novel written by Sheldon. It has nothing to do with the usual business and entrepreneurs that he writes about rather this novel is based on Aliens, global warming, military …
Effective C++ Third Edition by Scott Meyers
I heard about this book when I was at my first C++ developer interview. I miserably failed that interview and the interviewer advised me to read “Effective C++” by Scott Meyers in order to understand all the ins and outs of the language. That was one of the greatest …
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell book
Everyone wants to know why some people are successful and others are not. What universal energy accumulates around these successful people? That’s the basis of this book. He goes into the specific details of certain people like Bill Gates and the Beatles. And what I found interesting was that …
Chocolate for a Teen’s Heart by Kay Allenbaugh
Chocolate for a Teen’s Heart, written by Kay Allenbaugh, has a very unique light lavender, sort of purplish color and I find it very pleasing to the eyes. This book is very gentle-looking and wherever I bring this book, my friends would surely love to have a look …
The Road Less Travelled
The Road Less Travelled is a psychology book, or rather is psychotherapy, which consists of 4 chapters. In the first chapter, M Scott Peck as a writer, using the instruments of discipline as the primary tool to solve all the problems that occur, so to solve all the problems, …
Mars and Venus on a Date
I think there are just lots of books in the market nowadays that truly specialize in relationships, and the problems that men and women have in general. Mars and Venus on a Date is a very informative and practical book that describes the journey that single men and …
White Rabbit Used Books
Down on University street, in the Village, just south of Ball State University, and across from Ball State Federal Credit Union, is a tiny used bookstore called White Rabbit Used Books.
Despite being small, the store packs a huge amount of bookage into the tiny space, with floor-to-ceiling shelves of …
The Funny Book of Cricket
The Funny Book of Cricket is a nicely produced little hardback book containing a number of cartoons, quotations and humorous comments relating to the sport of cricket. I thought it was well put together and although not particularly original in its content was well worth the couple of pounds …
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