Superstar India is a very different book from famous columnist Shobhaa De. There is no big story in the book. It is more like her feelings about India. Frankly this some times make the book dragging as chapters look alike. But I did complete reading the book in around …

Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary is another great reference material for writers and even ordinary users of the English language. The thing I like the most about this dictionary is the Concise Guide to Style, Usage, and Diction portion where I managed to brush up on all …

First of all, I am not a huge Dean Koontz fan. I enjoy the genre and I like similar authors such as Stephen King, but I’ve never been able to really get into Koontz. His ideas are usually quite good but his writing style has never fully …

Grammar Smart, written and published by The Princeton Review,is an excellent and straightforward guide both for students who are baffled by grammar, and for teachers who are frustrated because their students just don’t get grammar, no matter how it is taught.
What I really like about this book, as a …

This book is quite a bit of fun for kids, but can be a bit complicated for less experienced readers, as is it is in the form of a bunch of letters. You pick up the events of the story from the letters and notes that the children and …

Dolores Cannon is a regressionist, which is a hypnotist that specializes in past life therapy, reincarnation and the research and investigation of this phenomenon. She has regressed many people and discovered many incredibly interesting things about past lives and reincarnation. In The Legend of Starcrash she claims …

John Taylor is a private detective who seems as one who has come out of an old detective story - not very nice looking, deep in debt and persistently seeking the truth , whether his customers really want it or not. That’s why John never gets rich, he lives …

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 …

Lisa Kleypas follows her Texan Travis family in her latest book “Smooth Talking Stranger”. In this story I fell in love with Jack Travis, the second brother of the Travis family. Jack Travis is wealthy, self-made and a ladies man. When Elle Varner got a telephone call from her …

In comparison with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who created the Sherlock Holmes, I’d rather choose the Hercule Poirot character which was created by Agatha Christie. They both actually are my favorite authors for Detective’s novels. But no matter how I read all the novels, I always amazed by the …

This is probably one of the more frustrating reads for me in awhile. Russians have a bad reputation for writing long boring books. On the other hand, most great writers are drunks and Russians are infamous for their …

Who didn’t love this book? Marley and Me is seriously one of the best books on the market today. Funny at times, sad at others, this book will literally make you laugh and cry. Marley and Me takes readers into the life of the Grogan family as they bring …

Given the current clamor for reality television it would seem that this best selling author on the subject of leadership, Mr. John C. Maxwell is right on cue. In his book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership 1st published in 1998, he vividly illustrates each of the 21 Laws …

The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis is an amazing book for readers aged 9 and up. Its depiction of life under the Taliban in Afghanistan, while primarily written for girls age 10 - 14, is a good read for anybody. The writing and the plot combine to make a story …

If you feel like you’re having insomnia lately, or easily to get angry, you may want to examine what you are eating today. Emotions in some ways may effect from your food. And I’m sure you know that brain controls all your activities. Sometimes we have some distractions that …

This is my favorite book of all time . It is passionate and a little twisted . A very good read .
After the death of their father ,Corrine , is forced to take her four children : Cathy , Chris , Carrie , and Cory to live with her …

Lightning (written by Dean Koontz and published by Headline Book Publishing, 1989)
This is a surprisingly compelling tale. It took me a few tries to venture beyond the first few chapters; it was quite a dreary start. After that, I did not want to put the book …

I am convinced that feng shui works. But, I’ve always hoped for a scientific and more practical explanation of just how feng shui works. Finally, I found this little book that confirmed for me that feng shui is more than just the superstitious use of coins and crystals.
The authors …

I love this book by Martina Cole. This is one of her No.1 Bestsellers and is a really powerful story. It is about a woman called Sue Dalston who has been part of danger and violence during her East End upbringing. She was unloved by her …

Dictionary is very important for me. I love to write and that is why I always want to use new words. I also love to read and there are times wherein I can encounter words which are not yet in my own vocabulary.
Last summer, there was a moving ship …

Mario Party 4 Official Strategy Guide is a guide that I liked reading through as it featured some quite nice artwork of the boards and the characters. I also like it when a strategy guide “gets into the spirit” of a game and is written with humor, in-character remarks …

I am reviewing the book, The Last of the Mohicans, written by James Fenimore Cooper. Coming in at 448 pages, this book is Cooper’s literary masterpiece. In this novel, the reader is introduced to several key characters, a few of whom were actual historical figures. Cooper …

I can’t believe that there’s such a book as this, Affair: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It by H. Cameron. Barnes. I found myself intrigued by the title and I thought that the book is about how one should handle a situation when he/she is an affair …

This is a story of a girl named Patty Bergen a jewish girl in Akransas, who lives near one of the U.S. P.O.W. camps for german soldiers of World War II.The summer that Patty Bergen is twelve is one she nor no one else in America will forget. It …

The Host, written by Stephenie Meyer, is a very unique book that my friend had given to me for loan recently. This is a unique book, I say because of the amazing plots that surround it.
It is as though the author cleverly plays a very futuristic, modern era …

What caught my eye the most about this book was its title. As I started reading through the first couple of pages, I was caught in a trance. I wasn’t able to put the book down even when it’s 2 am in the morning. It’s written creatively and uses …

Calliope Stephanides is the product of three generations of the Stephanides family. Her grandparents escape Smyrma Greece during the burning of the city by the Turks. They make their way to Detroit Michigan where they marry and begin their family. What they haven’t told anyone in …

Although in the previous volume of Nodame Cantabile the story had concentrated too much in Chiaki, leaving Nodame a little behind, in this volume she’s the center of attention.
She got sick so couldn’t memorize one of the 3 songs she had to play, reason why she didn’t win the …

Number the Stars is a Newbery Medal winning children’s book about the rescue of Jews in Denmark during the Holocaust. It focuses on two ten year friends.
I love this book. I’ve always been fascinated by the subject matter. I also love stories about best friends, and …

“Carry Me!” by Rosemary Wells is a charming little book full of bunnies, although they are not Max & Ruby, which confused and disappointed my daughter quite a bit. Still, the book features prose about bunny families carrying their babies, talking to their toddlers and singing with their children. …

Grave Peril is the third book in the Dresden files, Jim Butcher’s series about the Wizard Harry Dresden. In Grave Peril Harry has to face down some tormented ghosts while trying to find out who’s torturing them.
Some important characters are introduced in this book. First time I read …

This book is really sweet and romantic. It features the Sweet Valley Middle School trying out a personal’s ad and Elizabeth Wakefield is ecstatic that the school is finally getting some spirit in becoming involved with the school newspaper —“ but she notices things get out of control when …

“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 …

A Bouquet of Roses: Glorious Arrangements for All Occasions by Christina Wressell is a glorious book instead. I love decorative ideas books and this leaves me in awe because there are just lots of ideas that allows me to experiment.
I have always thought flowers to be bland …

Broken Flower by V.C. Andrews is a powerful book about a young girl experiencing adolescence way before her time. She had to cope with
the sudden changes in her body and the conflicts within her family.
While the grandmother first started off like an evil witch, she later shows …

Darkness Falls by Margaret Murphy is a suspenseful novel about a prominent lawyer and prosecutor named Clara Pascal who is kidnapped by a mysterious man and held captive in a dark basement. The novel alternates back and forth between the police who are trying to find her and …

The story revolves around a teenager Tiana and her friends. They are studying in a boarding school but far from school life is fun for them. Tiana loves her friends and enjoys everything they do until one day she tries to discover her own self and makes her own …

The book Pain Free 1-2-3 by Jacob Teitelbaum just make me confused. I think that I have mistakenly bought this book thinking it was great. I bought it for a price of $16.95, and this book talks about correcting hormonal levels, eliminating factors that put stress on …

Out of Boneville is a cartoon by Jeff Smith. The series has received several prices, among them 10 Eisner awards. Fone Bone and his cousins Phoncible P. “Phoney” Bone and Smiley Bone are thrown out of Boneville. They are all white, bald caricatures whose main characteristic is their big …

What would’ve happened if Romeo and Juliette’s story would’ve been different? What if their families were so close that they planed their wedding since before they were born? What if it was them who hated each other? Well, Kristi Cook had those exact questions, so she decided to write …

I purchased this AP prep guide as a supplement to my teacher who has never taught an AP class before. In Borders bookstore, I checked how many practice exams each book contained, and this one happened to have the most at 6 exams. I paid about 20 dollars for …

“The jungle book” is one of my all times favorite books, which I really love to read. The character “Mowgli” was invented by Rudyard Kipling, and the book contains a story of a boy, who lost into jungles of India, and found by a forest ranger called Gisborne. Mowgli …

This book for girls is the eighth book in the From the Files of Madison Finn series. In this particular book, Madison and her friends deal with the fact that they want to look perfect. Or at least fashionable. While I found this a bit funny, because I of …

The Reader’s Digest Complete Guide to Needlework is one of my favorite books and one that I actually purchased for my home use instead of just checking it out from the library. I do not do a lot of needlework but when I do I sometimes need some …

Drop Dead Beautiful by Jackie Collins is a book that I’ve read recently. However, the character in question is Lucky Santangelo, and Jackie loves featuring Lucky in her novels. I think that this is definitely a good selling point and I have read another of her novel featuring …

I am doing grade four piano theory at the moment and ‘Master Your Theory’ by Dulcie Holland is the book I’m currently using. I have used other theory books before but this version gets straight to the point and teaches you what you need to learn right away. The …

I love this book very much. It is an adaptation of the game show itself, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? I thought that I was smarter, but apparently at times, I think a fifth grader is more clever than me. If you think the games …

It started out interesting, with an awesome opening action scene. But, unfortunately it didn’t last and I ended up reading a book that transforms into a cliché. The characters are so ordinary. Disgruntled main character, doomed side kick, child in distress. I don’t get it! Marcus Sakey had a …

“Dead as a Doornail” is the fifth book in the Sookie Stackhouse novel series written by the popular author Charlaine Harris. I didn’t think that this one gave me as much of an adrenaline rush as “Dead to the World” though, but it still was packed with suspense and …

The Fifth Angel is written by Tim Green and I find this book a bit confusing in the beginning. But as I read on, I started to have a better understanding of the characters and find the story pretty engaging and good for me. Jack Ruskin is truly …