This book, Raising Hope by Katie Willard is to be applauded. It is a great-feel book that rises hope in me as well as a woman after I have finished reading. In fact, whilst reading, I could picture myself being in the situation of either Hope (the main …

This book is not a feminist one, but rather it ascertain the rights of women in Wall Street and other lines, or rather, the lack of it. I was surprised to read about the revelations of real life scenarios that portrayed the biased of different situations and the discriminations …

Well, this will be the first Stephen King book I’ve reviewed, but it certainly isn’t the first one I’ve read. Ever since I first read Carrie when I was ten (and wondered what the hell, really, was going on in that opening segment!) I was pretty much hooked on …

Rage is a novel written by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, published in 1977 this book is about a troubled high school senior who takes a gun to school. While negotiating with police Charlie starts a therapy session and forces his classmates to tell their deepest secrets, …

Christian Chick Lit is a relatively new genre that appears to be growing fast. Here is a treat for those of you who have already become its fans: “My Life as a Doormat (in Three Acts)” by Rene Gutteridge. The strength of a good chick lit book is in …

My daughter brought home another book from the library yesterday called Carl’s Masquerade. She was excited to read it at bedtime. But, after I took the time to read the book with her, we both managed to be very disappointed in it.
First of all, the book is nothing but …

The Healers was written by Ann Cleeves (published by Ballantine Publishing Group in 1995)
This book is actually quite a surprise I have read Ann Cleeve’s stories before and found them rather mundane, but this turned out to be highly enjoyable!
Ernie Bowles was strangled in his kitchen, after …

“The I Love Lucy” Book by Bart Andrews is a book that is primarily about the “I Love Lucy” series. Although there were some aspects of the book that I found to be unnecessary, like for example the episode descriptions, for the most part, I
enjoyed reading this book because …

Lisa See is one of my favorite fiction writing authors. Lisa See primarily writes fiction stories centered in Asian culture, and when I’m reading her work, I love that I’m learning about new things while unraveling an intense, imaginative storyline. Sometimes the plot of See’s novels are set …

The fear of clowns is very common. Many people become worried in their presence rather than have fun. This phenomenon is called coulrophobia. This has caused many media appearences of clowns stalking their victims. Perhaps the first one and one of the most popular among them is the Joker …

Drinking Problem by KD Wentworth is a clever story about a near future America’s solution to the problem of alcoholism. The United States government passes a law that proclaims that every person who drinks alcohol must have one container which will be refilled each time their alcohol is …

The cover of Becoming Strangers, by Louise Dean, suggested to me that it would be a light read. The summary on the back, which described it as being the story of two couples who meet on holiday in the Caribbean, also suggested something frothy, but this book is far …

Here recently I received a book through the mail called Rainbow’s End. Rainbow’s end is a love and inspirational story. In the beginning of the book it starts out with a man traveling. He was traveling to run away from his past. He quits traveling and lands on a …

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 …

Taschen books: Adolf Loos, by August Sarnitz copyright 2003, Taschen GmbH
The book is comprised by 93 pages, illustrated paper, hardcover, compiled by August Sarnitz and edited by Peter Gossel.
This particular series of books that Taschen has published on Architecture is a very useful resource for both students and professionals …

Once I started reading this book I couldn’t put it down and so I found myself reading into the wee hours of the morning. It’s considered a Young Adult book or possibly a children’s book, I suppose it depends on your library or bookstore. This is a fantasy novel, …

Girls in Love is a novel from the Summer Girls series by Hailey Abbott. It’s a light, fun, cute story about 3 cousins who are on a family vacation and the summer romances that inevitably occur - but not smoothly. I’d say that it’s aimed at young adult and …

This book is a good book for middle school girls. This is the 13th book in a series about a girl named Madison Finn, who likes orange, computers, and hanging out with her friends. This summer, however, she cannot hang out with her friends because she has taken a …

The Mario Kart 64 Nintendo Players Guide is a real handy guide to have because it provides racers with complete and detailed images of all the race tracks and all the battle maps. This means a racer can see every shortcut and be aware of every obstacle. Not only …

I consider myself to be a very seasoned reader. I can try to read anything and everything. When I stumbled across Suzanne Somers’ “365 Ways to Change Your Life” I thought that it would be an interesting read and I dove in.
I was right. This book …

The School for Heiresses Beware a Scot’s Revenge is a book of ironic love. A Scottish Scourge naming, Sir Lachlan Ross, wanted revenge on Lady Venetia Campbell’s father.
He then kidnapped her at pistol point. She learnt that he is not just her father’s sworn enemy, but he …

I absolutely love the stories of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. My husband started me reading them when were dating many many years ago. I just read one book after another. I had never read a series of books so fast. I know once my daughter …

I never knew this book existed until a friend of mine told me she was saving for it. I normally go for Romance or Mystery books, but I decided to try reading this one and so I went to National and got a copy of my own. I’m glad …

Are you surrounded by stress or tension or anxiety and need help? - Read “How to Remain Ever Happy” by MK Gupta. This book was suggested to me by my friend at a time when my life seemed to me a burden. Surrounded by some never ending problems coupled …

“The Ethics of Star Trek” by Judith Barad and Ed Robertson is a book that takes a look at pretty much each and every episode of four of the five Star Trek series that features some sort of moral or ethical theme or issue and then attempts to build …

If you currently work from home or plan on working from home anytime soon then this is a must have book. It covers many, many important topics related to working from home including: the pros and cons of working from home, equipment needed to work from home, work from …

Reader’s Digest Great Big Book of Children’s games is a nice book for children ages 3-14. The games in the book will surely keep children entertained for quite awhile, and I can verify this is true. I love the games in this book for my preschoolers.
The Great …

The title of this book - “Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?” - makes the work sound as though it is going to be a rather straightforward look at how the dinosaurs were wiped out - and, indeed, the painting of a snarling dino on the otherwise dramatically black …

I am a lover of books, mostly novels. I feel novels are good for passing the time as well as for improving English.
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This is the third in a series. This book covers the END of Dave’s journey through foster care. It then covers his life in the Air force, his marriage, the birth of his son Steven and his struggles as an adult that is overcoming childhood abuse (at …

This book is the second book in the Deltora Shadowlands trilogy. These are great books for kids. Each book is full of little puzzles and tricks, so you really have to pay attention to what is going on.
In this book, Lief, Barda, and Jasmine are looking for the second …

Ken Blanchard became famous for his runaway best seller The One Minute Manager way back in the 1980s. This book seems to have been written with the same gung ho spirit: turn your customers into raving fans. Yes, this is a cheerleading book, co-authored by Blanchard, the …

In their book, “WIRED FOR A LIFE OF WORSHIP”, Louie Giglio and Stuart Hall takes young people into the depths of God’s plan for us. He uses real life examples to put into layman terms what it means to “worship”.
The authors accomplished the focus of worship …

This second book of the Landon Snow fantasy series is even better than the first, although the title still suffers from the same “Harry Potter Ripoff” syndrome, as you can see. Landon goes to visit his grandparents again, and he looks forward to maybe getting into the fantasy world …

This book totally made up for the disappointment I felt with New Moon. The Cullen family is back and much to my delight I got to read about other members of the family’s background. In the first book we hear about Carlisle and Alice and briefly about Esme and …

You can actually tell apart a piece of timeless classic from a timely fad by how long it takes to actually get out of style. the book eclipse for example is a timely fad that enthralled the hearts and minds of teenagers, (most of them women) from almost every …

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 …

Pandora’s Box by Elizabeth Gage is one of those glamorous, racy suspense novels that I imagine my mother hiding under her pillow when I was a child because she didn’t want me to get my hands on it. Elizabeth Gage is one of my guilty pleasures. I save …

Cowboy in My Pocket is a truly delightful novel. Written by Kate Douglas, it tells the story of a sweet romance for the young as well as the old.
Michelle Garrison is a novelist of a romance genre and suddenly, her books aren’t selling like hot cakes …

I am reviewing the book, Angel’s Unaware, written by Elizabeth Storm. This book was written in 1997 and runs 327 pages long. Anyone familiar with Quantum Leap is familiar with Dr. Sam Beckett and Admiral Al Calavicci, not to mention Gooshie, Ziggie, and all the others along …

Acts of Murder was written by L R Wright and published by DoubleDay Canada in 1997.
It is amazing that even small towns have their own spate of homicides. This story is rather simple; however it provides a certain amount of mild suspense.
Mrs O’Hara was trying to dispense …

Reaper’s Gale by Steven Erikson is the most recent novel in his Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Unlike certain other authors whose epic series have degenerated into a series of meaningless stories, Erikson has kept the pace of both the individual novels and the overall plot moving …

The Very First installment in the Harry Potter book series is the Harry Potter: Philosopher’s stone. I have to admit that when this first book came out, i was one of those few people who very pessimistic about it. I doubted whether the book will be popular to the …

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 …

“Its My Birthday” is a children’s book written and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. It was published in 1993 by Candlewick Press. This is a story about a little girl who visits all of her friends seeking help to gather ingredients to make a cake. Yes, that is …

“Writing Fiction For Dummies” by Randy Ingermanson and Peter Economy is an instructional how to guide that is ideal for any individual that has the desire to write a novel and sell it to the world as well as those that simply would like to write entertaining stories and …

One heck of a book,I must say,I was at it and couldn’t put it down till it got over.I’d never really read the book or watched the movie,all i knew was what the newspapers had to talk about and frankly speaking i was put off by all the controversies …

Do you aspire to be a millionaire? If yes, then this book is a must-read for you. I simply love this book. I was given this book at a business course I took a few years ago. It was a best book I’ve ever read.
The One-Minute Millionaire reveal …

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 was a very interesting book. It was full of murder suspense with a little romance thrown in to mix things up a bit. I don’t really know what my take on it is because I have never read or believed in legends and this book is …