In my country, CXC examinations or CSEC as they are now called is one of the most basic external examinations done in most high schools. It is actually a Caribbean exam, similar to O-levels in Britain and the UK, except it has more of a Caribbean basis. When I …

The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge is about a hardworking career determined woman who thinks she had the perfect life. Her husband and her children were happy and there was no hint that
anything was wrong. She was wrong. While she was out one day, she spotted …

Autumn of 1945. Otto Frank, a Jewish businessman and a Holocaust survivor, went to a building in Amsterdam in Netherlands to visit his secretary. But it wasn’t just a building for Otto: this where he and his family went to hiding from the Nazis for almost two years before …

Cited by King as the favorite book of his fans, if not necessarily himself, The Stand is a large book, even larger in its uncut release during the early nineties, that deals with disease, death, rebirth, redemption, love and finally God. It is my favorite book by King and …

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 …

Isaac Asimov is one of the most prolific writers the world has ever seen. He is also one of my favorite authors. One of my favorite collections of his work is Magic, which came out shortly after his death. Although not known for his work in …

“Star Trek 101″ by Terry J. Erdmann may or may not be worth a fan’s time and money. I borrowed the book from the library and I enjoyed it, but I doubt I would spend money on it. The reason I would not purchase this book is because a …

This was a book that started out very well but did not entirely live up to its promise.
The main character is David, a young man in training to be an Olympic bicyclist. his parents have died (we never find out too much about them) and he has …

I have recently finished reading Madame’s Deception, and this is a love story that I really enjoyed reading. This story is about Jocelyn, a virginal bookworm, who basically transforms herself and is soon known as the reclusive Madame DeBourcier.
There is also Lord Colwick who is determined to win …

The Joker is Batman’s oldest archvillian, with a history dating back to World War II. His name has never been disclosed, and his history has been written and rewritten over and over, adding to the mystique of the character.
Like most of Batman’s rogues gallery, the Joker has …

This book for kids, The Teacher’s Funeral, doesn’t actually seem appropriately titled, as most of the book has nothing whatsoever to do with a teacher’s funeral, unless it is a metaphor that I missed. However, there is a funeral in the book, so I guess it works.
The characters in …

If such creatures, the body, a dog, a tree, a hint of red color, the devil and a horse could talk, and then communicate like humans in general. What will happen? All that became one of the many unique that we can see from the style of Orhan Pamuk …

‘Think and grow rich’ is a book written by Napoleon Hill. The author has written this book after much research. The author had set out to interview certain successful men in his life. He spoke with them and found out the secret behind their success. He understood from them …

Star Trek: Nemesis Novelization is superior to the film in my eyes because the novelization is able to dedicate more time to the things that could have made the movie a better one: character development for Shinzon and character moments between the crew. Shinzon’s motives are a little more …

Clockwork Angel is the first book in the Infernal Devices series, which is a prequel series to the Mortal Instruments series. Tessa Gray arrives in England during the reign of Queen Victoria, leaving her home in America behind. Soon after arriving, Tessa is kidnapped by the Dark Sisters who …

This book is by far my favorite in the series. I have read tons of this series books but none of them compares to this one. When I graduated this year my mom felt like buying me another book because she knows Li love to read. She bought this …

Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer.. :-
I heard about this from many of my friends. But I was reluctant as I thought it won’t be of my type as it is a romantic theme and I like fantasies, magical things like Harry Potter. I was free and one of my …

‘Five go to smuggler’s top’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This book is the fourth among the famous five series. The three children, Julian, Dick and Anne go and stay at Kirrin cottage with George, their cousin. Then they go to smuggler’s top and stay with a …

Vampire Knight Manga Volume 2 has Yuki being saved by a pair of vampires from the school after she is attacked by a vampire while out in the town. She must also try to decide what to do about Zero, who is actually a vampire despite being a …

The Harry Potter only becomes better and better with each book that J.K. Rowling releases. The fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, is where, like Harry Potter, I first think about an international community of wizards and witches. In the first three books, I was content …

The second installment of C.S. Lewis’ series is even better than the first. The new characters are just like ordinary children, and their path through Narnia is so epic, that they change the course of history there forever, as well as alter their lives in our own world. All …

This was a first book I’ve read from the “Smart Pop” series. It’s a set of 16 essays concentrating on the CSI franchise and the CSI effect.
Each essay is written by a different author. From writers and editors to actual police officers and real life CSIs. As with every …

Extraordinary Popular Delusions & The Madness of Crowds was on a recommended reading list given to me a few years ago at a course that I attended on trading the financial markets. As I wanted to learn as much as I could on the topic I worked my through …

“For The Love of Letters: A 21st-Century Guide to The Art of Letter Writing”
Samara O’ Shea
Non-Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-06-121530-8
Frankly speaking, I like to write, and I’m not sure if I’m any good at it; however, I like it just the same. I was looking for a how-to book on letter writing …

This book is the first book of the H.I.V.E series, one that I’ve just read and already one of my favorite series. The main character’s name is Otto Malpense.
Otto is a 13 year old teenager who is drugged, kidnapped and taken to a secret school on an unknown island. …

“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 …

This book will lift your spirits! It will give you the strength to tackle the problems that come your way with a fresh new perspective. It is also an uplifting book.It was originally written in Arabic but has been translated into English by Faisal ibn Muhammad Shafeeq.It has also …

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 …

My question upon and after reading this book title, The Keeper’s Promise by Penelope Marzec is ‘would you doubt the one you love? It could be proven yes in this novel. A true sweeping and moving including high-adrenaline pumping type of story as written amazingly by this author. …

Number the Stars is a Newbery Medal winning children’s book about the rescue of Jews in Denmark during the Holocaust. It focuses on two ten year friends.
I love this book. I’ve always been fascinated by the subject matter. I also love stories about best friends, and …

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, also known as The Yarn Harlot, is a knitting humourist. It seems like there wouldn’t be much material for her to write about, but her books are always fun and amusing to read.
This particular book, Knitting Rules!, is more of an explanatory book than knitting humour, although …

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (Not to be confused with “The Tibetan Book of the Dead”) was written by Sogyal Rinpoche and provides what is, to my mind the most comprehensive and digestible expression of Tibetan Buddhism available. It’s written specifically for an audience that is totally …

The only reason I picked up this book is because I simply can’t leave a series midway. I need to finish it, however bad the first instalment was. So, although ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ was absolutely terrible, I did actually go and pick up the second book in …

This is my favorite of Dave Barry’s books. It is screamingly, hilariously funny. It is a nice, thick book with medium sized print, so you are getting a good amount of material in one book. In his typical style, Barry takes his every day life and …

Bod in the Park is a small paperback book for young children written and illustrated by Michael and Joanne Cole and first published by Methuen in 1975. If, as I was, you were a big fan of the Bod cartoon series on TV, then you are likely to have …

Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage, written by Mark Gungor is a good self-help book for couples in marriages or just basically for couples waiting to embark on that journey called marriage.
Mark Gungor is also a man who is known for his good seminars and in this book, …

I Love Lucy: The Complete Picture History of the Most Popular TV Show Ever is a whopping three hundred and twenty page book that is something that all fans of the show will want to own! One thing that I really love about this book is that a great …

This book, Exploring the Darker Side of America: Strange Highways: A guidebook to American mysteries & The Unexplained by Jerry D.Coleman could actually be better. The pictures are quite in handy, and in depicting the story, I sort of understand what the author was trying to talk about. …

This book is more like a peek into the life of a geisha.
The book is about Sayuri, a village born girl, with splendid beauty, who becomes a highly successful geisha. Its her story, her struggle and her success.
The language that the author uses is highly ornate. Flowery and very …

This is the first book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni that I have read; I randomly selected it in the bookstore for the kids to try. It was definitely a good choice, this book is very enjoyable and strangely compelling. It’s definitely a great read for kids 8 and up, …

The minute my wife found out she was pregnant she made it her mission to go and buy me a book about how to be a dad. Ok I’m with it. She came home with a nice little book called “Quarterback Dad” by Bobby Mercer and Alison …

For me, R.S Grey’s books are always really fun and entertaining to read. It never seems to be a boring moment in her books and they always leave me very satisfied when I finished them. They’re the type of books that keeps you laughing like crazy with the funny …

I am always looking to read a good book that is interesting, educational, and has to do with self help. I came across a book years ago and have read it numerous times over the years. It is called Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain. This is a work of …

The Wide Window is the third book in the Series of Unfortunate Events books series by Lemony Snicket. It is probably one of my favorites in the series because it marks the beginning of the change in the Baudelaire children. In the past two books I always felt as …

Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning is a book about a girl playing in a band and having a big ambition to strike it big. She has this particular band formed and her best buddies are all in the band.
And suddenly the band receives a record deal and that means …

Development of friendship between the writers whose New York 1947 of narrator Stingo and Sophie Zawistowska it is young between the people of the local Judean person of the World War II and her boyfriend and Nathan fights to detail the extent private drama which breath between the hollow coast …

Interpretation according to traditional literary theory introduces the Glossary of the Night as the poetry collections reflecting the heaviness of possibility for human maturnity in the society. This is based on own author experience and society determination. Observations are carried out through formal temperance …

E.A.R.L. is the autobiography of Rap star DMX which is written by Smokey Fontaine who manages to write this book from the perspective of Earl Simmons (DMX) for the entire duration of the book. In the book, DMX speaks about everything important in life and does so in …

The Trouble with Marriage by Debby Holt is an engaging story. I just finished reading this last night, and spent my 3 AM finishing this. I love to read stories of a marriage life and stuff like that; although this has a non too serious voice of the …

This is without doubt the best book in the Priscilla Hutchins series by author Jack McDevitt. I love it because it is has a very original plot plus lots of excitement and suspense. This book just keeps moving and doesn’t let up until the very end.
The story is …