I am the Running Footman was written by Martha Grimes. (published by Dell Publishing in 1990)
Martha Grimes has an engaging style of writing that brings out the best in her characters, making them endearing, no matter how prepossessing they are, and her stories are really a delight to read! …

OK what did I miss. I have read all the glowing reviews of The Mermaid Chair and I guess I was reading a different book. You have a woman who engages in a romance with a priest and visa versa and they couldn’t get enough conflict just …

Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age By Martin Torgoff
Totally brilliant! Torgoff chronicles America’s obsession with drug culture from the end of World War Two to the modern age and does so in a way avoided by many interchangable books on drug abuse: he puts …

The book series The Mediator is a great set of books. I have read them all at least twice and wish there was more to it because they were so good. They pulled me right in with the plot and characters. I loved the …

Fascinating, absolutely fascinating - I don’t care how old the book is, it is simply one huge must have for anyone who is seeking more information on tactics to help them make the best investment choices for themselves.
Covering matters such as what you need to know before you invest …

I am collecting writing books. I have been a writer for the past twenty years of my life. I have notebooks full of stories. And I have found that one of the most difficult things when writing a story is the master plot. This book gives you twenty plots …

I was recommended by someone to read Alan Watts, and so I picked up a book, not entirely knowing what to expect. The first few pages of the book made me feel like it was written by a person who knew something about the universe I didn’t know–something deep …

I am not a huge fan of self-help books, but I am a huge fan of this one; Emotional Intellignece by Daniel Goleman. I have read this book several times, and although it is now 12 years old, it continues to fly off bookstore shelves at a rapid speed.
Emotional …

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is the second book in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. The Fellowship has been split up, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are searching for Merry and Pippen, who have been taken by Saruman’s Uruk-Hai. Meanwhile, Frodo …

I got this book on sale because I didn’t buy it when it first came out, and it’s actually one of the most useful books about sleeping I’ve ever read. Not only is it full of great tips that can help improve your sleep habits, it’s also full of …

This book by L. Frank Baum and J.T. Barbarese, titled: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Kansas Centennial Edition) is really awesome and I love the adventures as written inside this. You can call me childish or what, but I still love it so much. In fact, up …

I got this book hoping that we would find more ideas for our grandkids to earn more of their own spending money. We have found the lack of an index page or even a good table of contents page to be totally problematic. The ideas for what the kids …

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 …

This book which has beenreviewed five times is a very nicebook, Whiccomes with a practical CD-rom for interactivity witht the student. Itis mainly for beginners of chemistry especially for college studentsbut it still hassome shortcomings.
Even thouh the cover is attractive, it does not suit the rugged student life oncampus …

This textbook published by EMI Music is a three in one book that has total of 29 lessons in each section, which all together is a total of 87 lessons. Each lesson is about one page long that explains about the theory and then give some practical exercises. There …

Well Bink is at it again, this time his quest leads him to find the source of Magic itself! But, he is not alone, he travels with Chester Centaur, A centaur on search of his own talent, even though talents among Centaurs are obscene to other centaurs, Crombie,a woman …

In “I Stand Here Ironing”, a short story written by Tillie Olsen, the setting reveals much about the nature of the story. Although the author does not devote paragraphs to describing the setting, it is obvious based on the title and introductory sentences. The narrator is standing, while ironing …

Walter Gibson was a soldier back in the world war 2 period. Being a specialist, he had endured the warring period, having remarkable experiences from World War II.
In the book titled the Boat, Walter Gibson recalled the time where the ship he was on was sank by the Japanese …

Her Majesty’s Wizard is the first book in the Wizard in Rhyme series written by Christopher Stasheff. I find this first book to be very funny. The book takes place in Medieval times with magic and scorcery. I really love this series and feel this first novel introduces …

I’ve never been a huge Dark Romance fan, I’d only read a couple and they were very light in the darkness department, but Tarryn Fisher is a name that stands out a lot in this particular genre. I read a trilogy from her before, which I loved, but when I …

“A Clash of Kings” carries us into an amazing , forgotten land of dissipation and revenge, witchcraft and wars. A tale in which noble virgins feast with madmen, where a brother wiles against his own brother, and where the dead are raised, to go into the night. Here a …

If you have ever eaten at Los Barrios in San Antonio, Texas, then you know how good the food is! Now they have a cookbook with many of the restaurant recipes as well as many of their family recipes! The book also has an introduction by Emeril. The recipes …

‘The sea of adventure’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This is a very interesting book, as interesting as any of the other adventure series written by Enid Blyton.
The children decide to go on a good holiday. They decide to go with a certain Mr John, who …

I’ve always loved The Black Stallion novels by Walter Farley, but it’s been years since I read any of them so it was a true treat when I found this one in my local library. No one brings life with a horse alive better than he does. And no …

I borrowed this book called “Cranberry Thanksgiving” from the local library. I got to keep the book as long as I wanted as it is a discarded book that they have at the library for people to borrow as long as they want as the books aren’t in the …

Let me start by saying that Jayne is an excellent writer. This book starts off fast with the heroine, Cady Briggs fantasizing about her client Mack Easton. Cady is an expert in the museum arts field while Mack is a retired officer who runs an art recovery …

Most people have heard about Lance Armstrong and his amazing story. This renowned cyclist had not only recovered from a dangerous and advanced form of cancer but also returned to his cycling career and actually won the Tour de France race after his recovery. As you can tell from …

I read the wonderful book “The Forever War” by the American fiction writer Joe Haldeman all in one breath. A great read, often compared to “Catch 22″ by Joseph Heller , but far more subtle and readable.
The main protagonist Mandela also has serious problems with …

Minnie And Her Baby Brother is a children’s book written and illustrated by Melanie Walsh. This is a very cute little book aimed at big sisters that shows how she interacts with her baby brother through the use of flaps on each page.
The illustrations are very …

The fifth book in the series of The Murder Club opens with the new member of the club, Yuki Castellano, the replacement to the member who died in the third book, in a crisis because her mother collapses and is rushed to the hospital. Her mother eventually dies in …

Daredevil issue 276 is definitely one of the worst issues I have read. Ann Nocenti has written herself in a corner with a ridiculous plot line featuring a beautiful robot who looks like a real woman, an environmentalist whacko, the Inhumans from the moon, and Ultron, the most …

Leslie Marmon Silko’s Native American 1977 classic entitled “Ceremony” is truly a masterpiece. Her novel, which follows a World War II vet as he returns to the reservations and struggles with what we would now term Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), brilliantly weaves together description, emotion, and narrative.
One of …

Never had I expected to be entertained by Rex Stout in this collection of three short stories, featuring Nero Wolfe and his long-suffering assistant, Archie Goodwin. No doubt Nero Wolfe was endowed with exceptional mental powers, however he seemed a most unpleasant man with …

I consider myself something of a foodie, but I have been known to make like Mac Gyver, and create some surprisingly decent things with very little on hand.
While it’s not quite as impressive as diffusing a bomb using a rubber band, a stick of gum …

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 …

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 …

Dating For Dummies by Dr. Joy Browne is an inexpensive, but great gift for anyone with single friends this holiday season. Because my husband and I obtain virtually all single friends, I have already picked up several copies of this humorous and light-hearted book. To be quite …

This is a horror novel about a deadly snake that’s loose in Central Park in New York City. The snake is a black mamba and its powerful poison can kill a person in twenty minutes. This book is pretty good and mostly it kept my attention, but I felt …

So I was crazy on getting this famous book Stupid is Forever by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago and so when I had the chance (and money) to buy it, I grabbed it like a hungry lion. I bought the book in National Bookstore and it cost me 175 pesos. …

Dan Brown is one of my favorite authors. I just recently finished reading Angels and Demons. I should have read this before I read The Di Vinci Code, also written by Dan Brown. In Angels and Devils is where Rabert Langdon was first introduced. He is a Harvard Sybololigist, …

recommended ages: 7 and up
Kirsten Larson starts school in America with excitement and nervousness.The new teacher is new and very strict and says Kirsten needs to learn to speak English better because she needs to recite a poem in front of the class. One day Kirsten meets an indian …

One very distinctive fact that I noticed while reading this book called Diane Johnson - Persian Nights: A Novel would be the fact that it has a very nice and interesting cover animated image of a woman, supposedly the one in the character, and the words ‘Persian Night’ being …

I’m not a vegetarian by any means; however, I do like to maintain a healthy diet while still being able to eat the things I want. I’m currently cooking my way through all of Martha Stewart’s cookbooks, and this meatless cookbook is a recent one I found.
For a meat …

Grave Secrets is the fifth book from Kathy Reichs. She is also the producer of the hit television series Bones, the stories of which are based on her books and the charaters therein.
The first few books of Kathy Reichs were not so interesting, even though I read that …

This is an intriguing novel set in a remote region of the Appalachian Mountains in the mid 1850’s. This novel explores the custom of the sin eater, a person shunned in the community and called down from the hills only at the time of death to receive payment …

If you are into magic and adverture this is the book for you.
Sabriel, a girl of 18, has been given the bells of the Abhorsen and must find her father who has been trapped in Death. She must make her way through the unforgiving terrain and creatures of the …

The winner of The Man Booker Prize 2008, The White Tiger is a novel that keeps the reader addicted to it from the moment he reads the first page. I bought this book recently and found it to be an above par book. The attractive hard cover as the …

Titles can really be misleading, Jiro Matsumoto proves that on probably one of the deepest manga I read, Keep on Vibrating. The title seems to be a sex-hungry type of manga but it isn’t just senseless sex and violence. The manga contains extreme amounts of sex, violence, incense, blood, …

The latest entry in the Sookie Stackhouse series, From Dead to Worse, takes place a few months after the explosion in the previous novel. This book is quite a bit slower than the previous books in the series, even though it is longer. Much of the first part of …

One thing I learned while in High School and College is the teachers seem to want their students to read the same books in their classes. I was amazed when my English college teacher asked us to read All Quiet on the Western Front. I had read that …