Books Reviews
Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster
Bitter is the New Black : Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass,Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster is such a good book that I think I want to read it for the second time soon. I find the …
Lonely Planet: The World’s Best Street Food (paperback book)
I got this book as a present because I am planning on traveling this fall, and I have found it to be extremely helpful as both a travel guide and a cookbook. Accompanying each food’s description is a recipe for home cooks to give it a try for themselves …
Not Just Beans by Tawra Kellam
I’ve read a lot of books on money saving techniques, and I’m constantly doing research on ways to trim a little extra from my budget. I stumbled upon the Not Just Beans cookbook on a link from a blog and purchased it on a whim - and I’m …
Prince Caspian book
This book is probably the most action packed of all the books, it focuses on the new Prince of Narnia rising to his foretold throne. The story ends happily, even though the children have to return to their world as usual. The only really very sad part of the …
Blood Promise by Richelle Mead book
Blood Promise is the fourth book in the Vampire Academy series. Rose Hathaway’s world turned upside down during the last few pages of the previous book, Shadow Kiss. Ever since she found out that Dimitri had turned Strigoi, Rose has had her mind set on saving him. Saving him …
Scars: A Novel of Ironclaw
There’s no doubt that Dungeons and Dragons is the biggest and most popular role playing game of all time. However, I personally like the smaller, or less well known ones, such as Ironclaw, a furry-themed RPG where people play as anthropomorphic animals. This does have a pretty big following, …
Kensuke’s kingdom
Michael Morpurgo has written his text in the first person at first the main character was not introduced, then the main character was introduced through the first person narrator’s eye by using flash back of about ten years ago, on the day before the writer’s birthday which was …
Creation in Death
Creation in Death is about NYPD Lieutenant called Eve and who is haunted by those people that she could not save. The is a good officer but there was one particular case whereby she couldn’t capture the killers.
There appeared then to be a young brunette who …
Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary
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 …
Half Price books
Half Price books has been my go to place for good prices on used books of all sorts from the first time I visited one of their locations. Before that I would get my books from Amazon.com, and before I discovered Amazon I paid full price for all of …
The Learning Curve by Melissa Nathan
The Learning Curve by Melissa Nathan is something that I will put in my bag-list of most favorite novels. The story plot is very sweet and I love the colorful illustration pretty much.
It is about Nicky Hobbs and how much she loves and having a passion to teach. …
Terrible Tiger - Childrens Reading Book - Level Blue
Terrible Tiger is the reading book that my son recently brought home from school. He has just turned 6, his reading is progressing well and he is now on the colour scheme blue, which his teachers tells me is pretty advanced for his age.
Wrote by Julie Jarman and Priscilla …
I, Robot short story by author Eando Binder
I, Robot is a science-fiction short story by author Eando Binder. The short story was turned into a screenplay for the famous show the Outer limits. The episode of the outer limits based on the story was in the first season of the original television show …
Night Kites
Night Kites is a very sad yet great book. It was released in 1986 but I didn’t read it until about the year 2000. It’s a really good book that talks about love and life. I thought the story about Erick and Jack and Nikki was sad. I think …
The Swiss Account by Paul Erdman
I really liked Paul Erdman’s “The Swiss Account”. It was published in 1992 so it’s style is more in keeping with Erdman’s latter books than the former. Unlike Erdman’s other books however it not only contains lots of economic and financial information that are making more educated …
Give Me Liberty! History Book
Eric Foner’s Give Me Liberty is a U.S. History textbook. Volume 1 covers history up through the Civil War, and Volume 2 covers 1877 through 2000. Each volume is a novel-sized paperback and retails for less than $20 used.
I really appreciate the single-author voice that is prevalent …
Nourishing Traditions cookbook
Nourishing Traditions is an awesome book of recipes of traditional cultures. The author, Sally Fallon is involved with the Weston A. Price Foundation, an organization that is trying to educate people about a more healthy way to eat. Not only does the book give easy to follow recipes, but …
Tempting the Best Man, novel by J. Lynn (Gamble Brothers #1)
I read this book because I’m an unconditional fan of Jennifer L. Armentrout and I wanted to see how well she would developed in her facet as a romance/erotica writer. It wasn’t the best book ever, but I do see some potential in this. Obviously, I think it’s really …
Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 7 in 24 Hours by Carla Rose
I really like this book, like any other teach yourself book it’s not one hundred percent perfect but you can get a lot of information out of it and come out looking pretty much like a professional. This is not a difficult book to understand. The 24 hours does …
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
Since this is by far the best book that I have ever read, I don’t really know if I should give it at ten or a one. I say that only because I love reading and it is so hard to find a book that can even compare to …
My Life by Bill Cliton
A good book.
Personally,I can give a high score to the presidential memoirs.Some people joked about the thick and length of this book,some are just kindly enough to say,”It is a nice book.”
It took me a month to go through it and after I finished it,it struct to me that …
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 Complete Guide to Altered Imagery
This is a great book for inspiration more than anything else. Since I am a mixed media artist that relies heavily on the internet for learning techniques, it was really great having a physical book in my hands with art that I could really look at, even if …
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 …
The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen is a book about thrill, mystery and having an investigative nature. I was quite disturbed to read about the medical descriptions as well as some of the gruesome diggings and what perhaps went through.
A woman was gardening and found a skull lying …
Mammals of Britain & Europe book
Mammals of Britain &Â Europe is an entry in the generally excellent Collins Field Guide series, and I am very pleased to be able to say that David Macdonald and Priscilla Barrett have, with perhaps one exception, maintained the previous high standards of the series while adding some very useful …
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
This book has changed my mind set about money. The book tells a story of two dads. The first was an educated professor, while the other was a dropout. In their lives, these two dads had different opinions about money. The educated one tended to say that he can’t …
Batman Cacophony 1
Most of my knowledge of Kevin Smith comes from his movies. I knew he had worked on comics but until I read Daredevil: Guardian Devil, I had yet to read any of his work. Given how much I enjoyed that arc I looked forward to reading this.
In …
ANE’s Smart Kid Series Knowledge Book 1
ANE’s Smart Kid Series Knowledge Book 1 is a good general knowledge book for school goings. This book gives the idea of general things we see and general people we meet daily in the daily life. That means about the Family,Five senses,Body parts,our body,Feelings,Good Habits,Good manners,About school uniform,about dress …
Investing for Dummies by Eric Tyson
Investing for Dummies by Eric Tyson is an extremely good book! I had fun reading his writings so much which I found to be pretty amusing and most knowledgeable. This book that I’ve read was his 4th edition and the writings and instructions and also “key legends” are …
Stone Butterfly by James D. Doss, 2006
“Stone Butterfly” is the tenth official book in the Charlie Moon series. I saw official because one book that could and perhaps should be considered part of the series, “The Night Visitor” is not, at least not according to the online catalog at my local library. However man of …
The Candlestone by Bryan Davis
This is Book 2 of the Dragon in Our Midst series, a sequel to “Raising Dragons.” Billy, a teenager who had discovered that he is actually a dragon in a human form, continues to live on the run, hunted by dragon-slayers. Billy isn’t alone; he has his best friend …
In Country book by Bobbie Ann Mason
In Country is a book written by Bobbie Ann Mason. I found this book at a going out of business sale for $2. The summary caught my attention. I’m glad I got this for $2, because if I had paid any more for it, it would have been a …
Principle of Economics by A . Banerjee and D. Mazumdar
If you find economics very tough then here is a book which can simply solve and simplify it for you. It’s very simple and easy to understand.Deals with the most difficult of subject in a very simple and easy way which is good for students who find the subject …
High Society by Dave Sim
High Society is the second volume of Dave Sim’s Cerebus series. In some ways it is markedly different from the first, in that it is all a self-contained, single story (which stretches over 30 issues). It is also much more political than the first volume (although the …
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Godfather tells the story of the Mafia family headed by Don Vito Corleone. He is known as one of the leaders of the Mafia is respected in New York City United States. Although he was a leader of the mafia that controls illegal business activities and live …
Recipe for Disaster by Miriam Morrison
The first time that I looked at the cover for the book Recipe for Disaster by Miriam Morrison, I was already fascinated. I just gambled my thoughts that this book is going to be awesome when I first bought it at the ‘Popular’ bookstore in my vicinity. And …
The Putpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
The book “Purpose Driven Life” written by Pastor Rick Warren is one of the most popular religious book written in the modern generation. In fact millions of copies were sold and made Rick Warren truly a rich man.
Seemingly the book is a very good guide for spiritual walk that …
The Narrows by Michael Connelly
There are certain FBI novel books that I really dig and this one that I’ve read before: The Narrows, written by Michael Connelly is really a good novel enough to be made into a movie in my best opinion. It has a woman FBI agent, naming Rachel Walling, whom …
Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris book
“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 …
Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney book
I felt that this book was only ok and didn’t get sweet and cute until the last few pages. I kind of found it annoying because all the llama did was throw a fit until he got what he wanted. I know this is what a lot …
Auralia’s Colors by Jeffrey Overstreet book
I found this book with the regular fiction but it is really a wonderful fantasy novel. The world within these 333 pages is well realized and thought out —“ a completely original world that I enjoyed visiting. It seemed very real while I was reading it and I admit …
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
“A Long Way Gone” is one of the saddest, most tragic books I’ve read in some time. Subtitled “Memoirs of a Boy Soldier,” the book tells the story of Ishmael Beah a young boy from Sierra Leone caught in the middle of the revolution while only twelve years of …
Martin The Warrior by Brian Jacques
This was the first book I read in the series and it definitely would not be the last. I woke up Christmas morning and my mom handed me a present. I ripped apart the wrapping paper and pulled out this book. I was immediately impressed with the book cover …
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
Kim Harrison, author of Dead Witch Walking, starts the Rachel Morgan series with a bang. Immediately, the reader is drawn into the Hollows, a fictional area somewhere between Cincinnati and northern Kentucky, where vampires roam, witches brew, and weres hunt. Rachel is tired of her job with the I.S., …
Been Here, Done That
The book is an autobiographical noval, which is written an ethnic Chinese girl in her high school time in American. The auther grew up in a Chinese family and live in an different cultural environment. How does she get along with her school-mates? How does she regard with two …
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