Youngblood 2.0 is a book which compiles the best Youngblood articles ever contributed in the years 1997 and 1998. In case you don’t know, Youngblood is a column where young people from all walks of life can submit an essay or article on any topic that concerns them. This is …

This book is written by Walter Isaacson, and it is all about the ever famous, Einstein. I have a very interesting time reading the whole of this book. And if you have questions like what made him a genius? And how did his mind work? If so, …

The Last Valentine was written by James Michael Pratt. It is a love story that is dated back to World War II yet the story line continues into the present.
I first read this book about 10 years ago when I was in high school. I was more into …

I purchased the Cliffs AP US History book in order to better prepare myself for the Advanced Placement test in history. CliffsNotes are basically the way I survive reading books because, I am not going to lie, and I really do not have the patience to read a …

I don’t understand what is up with this whole vampire obsession. And sadly, I have bought into it. I guess the allure of a vampire is that in the fictional world they are so much like us. They are mysterious and what not. I guess Anne Rice’s books had …

This book, Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan, is the fourth book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. The events in this books were much foreshadowed in previous books, and it is becoming a bit obvious as each book seems to be a lead in to …

In this book, Landon Snow, a twelve year old who had visited the fantastic world of Wonderwood in the previous books of this series, finds himself on a ship that sails through endless ocean. This time, his two sisters, Holly and Bridget, follow him in the adventure. The children …

For a short story five chapters long, there were too many characters involved and all of them had their own stories to tell but were only given a few spaces to do so. There was nothing more than a sentence to …

Susan Wright is the writer for this title book, Be Your Own Therapist (Recipes for Emotional Health). My friend loaned this to me and this book has a lot of self-remedy treatment that I find to be very valuable and I definitely enjoyed reading. The treatment answers …

I’ve been reading Archie comics ever since I was little. I never got to buy them because it was expensive; $5 CAD for a thin comic book? My parents didn’t want to spend that kind of money so I borrowed them off a friend. They’re humorous but sometimes rather …

If you want to fully understand the concept of freedom then you simply have to read How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World - A Handbook for Personal Liberty.
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World has to be the most inspirational book that I have ever read …

I know this may not be a very popular opinion, but I didn’t care for this book. I had to read it for summer reading, and I just had a hard time getting through the book. I’d finished the first book pretty quickly, even though it was long, because …

What happens when we are reading a book, a character in the book, suddenly appeared in front of us? Cornelia Funke, author of stories of teenagers who came from Germany, seemed to have an imagination like that. He set his imagination in a book titled Inkheart. Inkheart is the …

Leave the Grave Green (written by Deborah Crombie and published by Berkley Publishing Group, 1996).
Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James were handled a case to investigate —“ carefully and discreetly.
Connor Swann, the son-in-law of Sir Gerald and Dame Caroline Asherton had been found strangled. Sir Gerald and …

This book is one of Terry Pratchett’s earlier Discworld books. It is one of the books which features Rincewind, an incompetent, cowardly, clever wizard who can’t actually do any magic. Rincewind has a strange life where despite the fact that he always runs away, he ends up in a …

This movie features Elizabeth winning a summer fellowship in New York to direct her own play and she is convinced this is her calling and must of course go to New York for the entire summer to produce and direct her own play! Her boyfriend (again) Tom Watts already …

Inkheart is the first book in a trilogy of novels (Inkspell and Inkdeath) by Cornelia Funke. It is young reader’s fantasy novel about a young girl (Meggie) who has the power to read characters out of a book. This story was recently made into a movie starring …

Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson is the second book in his Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It introduces the Seven Cities, a subject land of the Malazan empire poised on the edge of revolt. Into this mess comes two several characters from the first novel - …

Wow! Simply wow. I loved this book. I am an avid reader and enjoy everything from romance to horror to sci-fiction to fantasy. I have recently stumbled into the knowledge that I’m a fanatic for anything that’s apocalyptic in nature. I want to read …

The fifth and probably the penultimate book in the saga of “The Mortal Instruments” has the threatening title “City of Lost Souls” and takes Clary Fray and her friends to the ultimate tests, which they must overcome in the name, of course, of love, but also of the survival …

Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz is a book that in some ways is very touching and in other ways, it is quite heartbreaking. Either way, this book never fails to have an emotional impact on me. This book looks at the lives of Lucille Ball …

In the case of Rosa Cassettari, she was forced into a life of imprisonment and a life controlled by others when she was abandoned at birth. She was passed along from mother to mother until she was finally taken in by Mamma Lena. This proves that from a very …

Pour Your Heart Into It by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang, Hyperion, New York, 1997, 351 pages.
This is a biography of Schultz, the founder of Starbucks, and the Starbucks Coffee Company itself. If you want to know how Starbucks invaded every known street corner in almost every …

For Father’s Day that day, I bought for my dad the book of Many Ways to Say I Love You, written by Fred Rogers. He was so touched that he cried a bit. This book is very sweet actually. I’ve read it too, after my father …

Set in the future time of back to the future sort of story, Death’s Head is really lost on me. In fact, totally. And in actual fact, I did not read the book until finish, because I’m really lost for words on this book. I really don’t …

This is the tenth book in Robert Asprin’s very fine Myth series. It also happens to be a very good one (although to be honest they are all pretty good). This one gives us a chance to see Skeeve back in his home dimension of Klah, once …

Many comic events suffer from the problem of being “too big” —“ “Secret Invasion” and “Civil War” had key events and plot points in other books answering the questions raised in the main series, as did “Infinite Crisis.” While having multiple tie-ins expands the readership potential, they run …

My Woman, His Wife by Anna J. is strictly for entertainment purposes only. This book was seriously crazy. It starts with this couple.
The man and the wife agree to have a threesome, after the husband begs and begs. Then after their erotic encounter, the woman requests a one …

Has anyone here heard that the next Warriors series by Erin Hunter after the New Prophecy is going to be called The Power of Three, a three volume set. They will deal with what happened with Firestar after the battle with Bloodclan in Firestar’s Quest, as well as another …

This is a very useful type of receit book. Instead of having to write out the information on the side as well as on the actual receipt, it makes a yellow copy of each white receipt you write. There is a flap that you place behind the yellow copy …

Even as a child, you would never catch me reading so-called “kiddie comics”. My choice of reading fare ran mainly toward superhero adventures, like the X-Men, Superman, and Batman. Yes, I was strange for a little girl.
But a couple of months ago, while visiting my local comics shop, I …

Cloud Atlas is unlike any other book that I have ever read. It is truly an exercise in plot building and writing style. The book is structured with five separate stories, taking place in different time periods, shaping around a sixth and central narrative. Each of the five breaks …

The Silmarillion , a book mostly written by J.R.R Tolkien and put together by his son does a great job of filling the gaps in the LOTR Mythology, it reaches the level of real myths and the attention to detail is incredible.
It’s a big book, and it contains very …

“Scuba Bunnies” is a children’s book authored by Christine Loomis and illustrated by Ora Eitan. It was published in 2004. As one may deduce from the title, it is a story about little bunnies who decide to go diving in the ocean.
Pros: The language is quite …

“Red Harvest” is the second book by the author Joe Schreiber for “Star Wars” and similar to the first, “Death Troopers”, tells a horror story from the distant galaxy created by George Lucas. This time, however, the author takes us to ancient times, when the Old Republic was trapped …

James Rollins is my new favorite author. His books are awesome. He has written Sandstorm, Deep Fathom, Amazonia, Excavation, Subterranean, Map of Bones, Ice Hunt and Black Order. I have read all of them except Sandstorm and I am about to start that one. His books are wonderful and …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Generations Novelization is slightly superior to the film, although not by much. Interestingly, there are actually two versions of the novelization: one in which is based on a slightly earlier version of the final script that features Kirk’s original death and one that …

I consider myself an avid reader, and one of the newest books that I have just recently completed is Jennifer Donnelly’s novel “The Tea Rose”. Not only did this book supply me with weeks of captivating plot and characters that I considered as old friends, but a heartwarming tale …

This novel is very interesting and smart because the author telling two stories which at the end will be connected because of a criminal case, homicide. The story started from a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut where two women born their babies. But, the twin from Cartwright family has to …

I read this book over and over and over. It gives me so much pleasure to read the favorite poems of Jacqueline Kennedy many of which are also my favorites. The First Lady loved Shakespeare, Robert Frost, EE Cummings, …

This mystery novel for boys features the Hardy Boys, the teenage sons of a famous detective. The boys must figure out a very strange and puzzling mystery, wherein actually they do not figure out themystery until the very end, because they don’t actually discover how the messages are sent …

This review is based on the first chapter of the famous book “Multiple Streams of Income” by Robert G Allen. I really appreciate the comment that ‘prosperous people never finds money as just a colored piece of paper, but as “Money seeds”. Really great approach. His concept of money …

After doing a bit of light summer reading and watching I decided it was time to once again dip into some more serious writing. “The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future” by Vali Nasr certainly qualifies.
In this book Nasr rehearses the history of the …

Fairy Tail Manga Volume 2 by Hiro Mashima has Lucy, Happy and Natsu taking a job trying to recover a book from a millionaire, but unbeknownst to them, the man’s killed any wizard who has ever come to his house.
This was a great manga volume. The story was …

I got this Latest Luzon Road Guide in one gasoline store a few years back when I found it in the back of their store. I was always driving around the biggest island in the Philippines, and I wanted, no needed a map that was accurate. This was published …

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 …

Painting Fairies in Watercolour by Paul Bryn Davies is a basic book on painting fairies with watercolor paints, including supplies and tips on drawing fairies.
I bought Painting Fairies in Watercolour by Paul Bryn Davies after being given a wonderful easel and paint set. I purchased the book at …

I had a chance to go through this book written by John Wright –The former Coach of Indian Cricket Team.There was much hype for this book.But i don’t think this has the content as expected.May be the media is the reason for the artificial hype.John Wright in his …

When I read the book “The Schoolmaster” by the Caribbean author Earl Lovelace when I was in high school, I found that I wasn’t very interested in reading more of his books since at the time I found his works boring. Thus, I was not too excited to find …