Books Reviews
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight is captivating yet disenchanting at the same time.
It is only captivating because it consists for a love story between a vampire and a mortal being. Growing up as a Korean-American, I can relate to it: The hardship of dating outside the common expectation.
In a romantic way, it …
Brightly Woven,by Alexandra Bracken
Brightly woven is a fantasy novel for young adults,told from the point of view of seventeen-year-old Sydelle Mirabil. Sydellen has grown up in a remote desert village and dreams of escaping her dull life to travel and experience new sights and people,and have a few adventures. When the opportunity …
Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince By J K Rowling
Interesting the everything of that very harry potter, that cruel uncle and the aunt this you have lived is the orphan who has been troubled. He is not given well and, you must sleep with the china cabinet. Cousin Dudley of that fat quality suffocates him in all explanations. …
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
When I was growing up in the 1970s I adored The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton and used to read it over and over. This is the second book in a series, the first of which I used to read as well which is called The Enchanted …
Programming in ANSI C (By E Balaguruswamy)
This is a standard textbook for learning the C program. It is written by the world reknowned author, E Balaguruswamy. The book is written in a format that is very simple to understand. It begins for the very basics of programming. What is better is that you need not …
He’s Just Not That Into You (book)
I love reading about dating, relationships, the brain on love, etc., so I happily picked up this book and read it. No joke, it changed my life. Before reading this, I was always in the mindset that it was perfectly okay for me to yearn for a guy, hoping …
Fairy Tail manga volume 1 by Hiro Mashima (Graphic Novel)
Fairy Tail manga volume one by Hiro Mashima is a series about a young, cute wizard who seeks to get into a powerful wizard’s guild called the Fairy Tail Guild. She meets a handsome wizard known as Salamander but also befriends a strange boy named Natsu and his …
Thief, novel by Tarryn Fisher (Love Me With Lies #3)
Um, I don’t know where to start with the review for the third and final book in the series Love Me With Lies. From the moment I finished this book my heart seemed to beat at the speed of light. It’s like I’ve taken a drug or something, this whole …
Extreme Office Crafts book
Extreme Office Crafts, by Jimmy Knight and Tom Chalmers, on first glance looks like quite a bit of fun. I think it’s a really silly little book with funny ideas and a fun rating system for each of the many crafts listed.
It’s subtitled Creative and Devious Ways to Waste …
“Danger in the Shadows” Dee Henderson
“Danger in the Shadows” by Dee Henderson is a suspense/mystery novel telling the story of Sara Walsh, a woman living under the FBI witness protection program and in constant fear. What happened to her happened a long time ago, when she was only 6, but the terror lives on …
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground
Dostoevsky’s existentialist work Notes from Underground is effectively used to reveal startling and unconventional view of society. Even if it was written long before today, many of the themes and messages present in Notes from Underground can be applied just as accurately to modern society as well. The timeless …
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time book
This is an amazingly interesting book, evolving around the protagonist —˜Christopher Boone’, a 15 year old boy, suffering from Autism. This is a hugely important fact to consider about the book, not only is it from a child’s perspective, but an autistic child, making it all the while more …
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
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 …
How to feed a dictator, a book by Witold Szablowski
Dictators are people, too. So no matter how bloody a man may be, he needs to eat. And a cook who serves a tasty meal on time may well save someone’s life. Because delicious food, if only for a short while, makes even the worst dictators kinder.
Witold Szablowski …
A Killer’s Kiss by William Lashner - Book
There’s a bookcase in my apartment that is sadly not visited all that often. I don’t know about you, but most of the books I’ve thought of as page turners didn’t really involve any page turning, just screens from various reading devices. A Killer’s Kiss is special to me …
Comic Book Character: Arcade
Arcade is definitely one of the most generic villians in the history of the Marvel Universe. Arcade, whose real name has never been revealed to my knowledge, is a skinny little guy who wears a white suit and a top hat with a large bow tie. He has …
The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwatrz
I was introduced to this book after I listened to a talk by a lady at a businessseminar. I remembered her saying that such books are what inspired her to be what she is today. She is a successful businesswoman, managing a few companies. When I …
Memoirs of a Geisha (Book Version)
I think that book fans all over the world would most probably have read Memoirs of a Geisha ever before. I had before, and that was years back, when this book was just released and was really ‘hot on the market’.
My friend was like talking about it …
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
I’m not really a big fan of books. I’m more of a magazine browser type of person but this book really got me hooked. I have already read it three times in a period of six months since I bought it …
Runaway- Teen Fic. By Meg Cabot- 3rd in Series
One of my favorite books of all time has always been, and always will be, Meg Cabot’s Airhead series. It’s filled with drama, teen love, and something most books just don’t offer. Adventure. Meg Cabot always starts each book off with a grip, and this, is by far no …
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
“The Nancy Drew Mysteries” written by Carolyn Keene are timeless classics that I grew up enjoying. I admit at times if I can find nothing to read I still read them.
I began collecting the series in the mid seventies when I was 8 years old.
I …
Heretic book
Heretic is a novel that takes the background in 1584. This novel shows a lot more special things as a novel, with a clever story because of the presence of Elizabeth as a little girl that the multi talents. Elizabeth was also able overcome the historical problems around it …
Cecile: Gates of Gold
This is a story of Cecile Revel, a twelve-year-old peasent girl, who lives in France, who ends up living in the court of King Louis XIV of France.Known to history as the “Sun KIng”.
Cecile’s job is to care for Madame’s dogs,(who brought her to court after Cecile …
Sweet Valley High: Jessica’s Secret Diary (Book)
This book is one of the bests in the Sweet Valley High series. It’s one of Jessica’s secret diaries, and it features her deepest darkest secrets, the ones I never knew she had feelings for, and I was surprised that this side of Jessica had been opened up, it …
The PMS Murder by Laura Levine Book
This was the third book I read by this author and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Once again there are the zany situations, often embarrassing to the main character. Jaine Austen is a freelance writer in Los Angeles but she loves solving murder cases on the side (free of charge …
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
This book messed me up for like three straight days. But coming from my favorite author, I expected that. The book had such a horrible ending though, but when I tried to throw it across the room, I couldn’t bring myself to do so because of the situation. This …
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
This book from the well-known series by JK Rowling was a good read, and enjoyable for any age. It begins and ends, of course, with the school year at Hogwart’s. This year is supposed to be especially exciting due to the triwizard tournament, which, despite being too young, Harry …
Batman: Year Three: 2 of 4 (Comic Issue)
Batman: Year Three 2 of 4 has Dick Grayson also known as Nightwing, searching for Bruce as he continues to search for the man killing off all the powerful gangsters. Dick reflects on his childhood with Bruce and becoming Robin.
This is a great comic issue and it’s …
The Hand of the Devil by Dean Vincent Carter book
Normally I enjoy creature stories, but I found this book about a giant man-killing mosquito to be disappointing. For one, the main killer in this novel is another human and not the mosquito. The front cover has a drawing of the mosquito on it and the little blurb on …
THE NORTH WATER, by IAN MCGUIRE
If you make the top of the most stinking books, THE NORTH WATER will be one of the leaders on this list. I have not felt such a stench for a long time - from time to time, it seemed to me that I would vomit now. I even …
A Clean Slate
A Clean Slate is a book from the now defunct Red Dress Ink books devoted to women and written by women. This book tells the story of Kelly, a woman who walks into the dry cleaners and learns that her entire life has changed. The last thing she remembers …
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, book by Ben Shapiro
The previous year marked a parade of broken monuments and cultural iconoclasm. It is an iconic phenomenon that expresses the destruction of European history. The rejection of Western culture and fundamental political structures. In his book, Ben Shapiro diagnoses the major destructive phenomena and phenomena of American society.
The book …
Literacy And Longing In L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
Alright, this is an awesome book. Title is Literacy And Longing In L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack. These 2 authors combined and collaborating into authoring this book is really awesome and the story inside ain’t that bad.
The main heroine of this story is none …
6502 Software Design book
6502 Software Design is a very well known book in the classic computer area, which was written by Leo J. Scanlon and first published as long ago as 1980 - though it went through a lot of printings, which is testament to its popularity. Although, if I am to …
Gregor The Overlander, Book By Suzanne Collins
You might look at me as some kind of a strange creature that crawled out of the cave, in which I might have spent the last few years, but ” Gregor The Overlander” Part One of the ” Underland Chronicles” is the first book of Suzanne Collins that I …
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Joy Luck club novel was written in the late 80’s by Amy Tan. It’s about 4 women who form a club and call it the Joy Luck Club. Like most friends, they get together every so often to play a nice game and then share several …
Sue Cowley’s Teaching Clinic book
Teaching clinic book is for classroom teachers who have problems or questions about their teaching profession and Sue Cowley provides some answers to teacher’s most vital questions. I bought this book back in 2007 when I was busy entertaining the idea of whether I should pursue my childhood …
H.R.H by Danielle Steel
This novel titled, “HRH” by Danielle Steel is quite a good read for me. But I really recommend all who wants to read it to borrow it from friends or the library, but if you must buy, wait for it to be auctioned on ebay or your local …
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner book
The Scorch Trials is the second book in the Maze Runner series. Even though Thomas and some other Gladers managed to solve the maze, they are still not finished. Escaping the maze showed the real world, which had been changed into a harsh environment. A new disease now spreads …
Until Dark by Mariah Stewart
Until Dark by Mariah Stewart is a good psychological thriller. Once in awhile, I love books like this because it keeps my mind at a fast pace, trying to figure out who or what and stuff like that in a criminal setting.
It first starts out with the …
“Jennie Gerhardt” by Theodore Dreiser or how to love everyone but yourself
I love, love, and will continue to love reading. No Internet or e-books can replace a tattered volume with exciting content. Recently I reread something by Dreiser, namely “Jennie Gerhardt.”
The novel is extraordinary. Although there’s nothing in the story itself that would make me completely enthralled. No sharp twists, …
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
I read this book as my hubby recommended it.It was fantastic and each page has twists and turns which made me not to keep the book inspite of my busy work schedule.The story starts with the murder of two justices–Abe and Glenn Jensen.The FBI cannot even able …
The Shaman Sings by James D. Doss
The Shaman Sings is the first in a mystery series by James D. Doss. The series takes place on the Southern Ute Reservation in Colorado. Daisy Perika is an elderly Ute shaman who sees visions and uses the information she gets from the vision to help the police discover …
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury is undoubtly one important book of our time. The novel, written almost 50 years ago, predicts some events that seems to have already started to happen in our society nowadays. The book show us some facts that can ocur in a near future.
Te main …
L.J. Smith Night World Series
Always a fan of young adult novels, I ran across the wonderful talents of L.J. Smith at the embarassingly old age (to be reading young adult novels) of nineteen years. The Night World series is a, currently, nine book series about a group of young people who either belong …
Berry’s Book of How it Works by Roland Berry
I have always been curious how various things work so I found this book rather interesting. And while it may have been published in 1976 in London, most if not all of the items in this book are still in use today. For example, I rode an escalator at …
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