Books Reviews
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld book
Pretties is the second book in the four book Uglies series. At the end of the previous book, Tally became Pretty do that she could try out the cure for the brain lesions. All of that is long gone now because her life is full of parties, freedom …
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
If ever there was a book that made you want to get in touch with the family and friends you haven’t seen in years it is this one! Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom is a fantastic read. This is a true story, an autobiographical account of how the …
The Taste of Home Baking Book
In the month of December and January is the best season of picnic and parties also. My many friends said that I am a very good Cake Maker. To make a good testy cake there are many reasons behind it. Because I read many book related cake.
Recently …
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones’s Diary is a funny, sometimes laugh out loud funny, read. It is set in the form of a diary, and you see each day how much she weighs (which is also amusing, as she will often weigh herself multiple times in a day), as well as …
Summer of Storms by Judith Kelman book
This is a great book to read if you like reading about murder mysteries. I felt that this book started off pretty slow until the middle part of the book. That is where things really picked up and it suddenly became a page turner until the very …
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
I’ve been reading science fiction and fantasy since I was a yonker, and even though my school days are long gone I am still interested in many of the same genres I enjoyed then.
Fablehaven is a book that fits the fantasy genre and would be a good read for …
YOU AND I poetry book
Do you happen to know Mr. Leonard Nimoy? Yes! The Spock! The intensity, conviction and humanitarianism that have made Leonard Nimoy a distinguished actor have been transferred into a moving and arresting story told in poetry and photographs.
One of his poetry book that I love so much is YOU …
Sweet Valley Book Series by Francine Pascal
I recently found out that there is going to be a new Sweet Valley Series coming out next year and I was excited beyond belief! It’s called Sweet Valley Confidential, and it will show the main characters, twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, as yuppies.
I grew up with Sweet …
All the Queen’s Men by Linda Howard
This book is yet another suspense romance by Howard. I have to say, it was better than I had expected.
For the readers out there who have read other similar novels by Howard, you will that there is often a long and convoluted plot involved. However, in this book, the …
The Silver Chair (Book Five: Chronicles of Narnia) By C.S Lewis
The Silver Chair is the fifth book of the Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis. It is the first book that does not include Edmund, Lucy, Susan or Peter - who have been visiting Narnia throughout all the books (except the prequel - The Magician’s Nephew).
I liked …
Blogging for Dummies by Brad Hill
This book title, Blogging For Dummies is written by Brad Hill and I bought it for a bit of an expensive price. But actually, I didn’t really pay it with money though since I’ve gotten it through a book voucher my mom gave. So, it’s pretty alright …
Can’t Find My Way Home book
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 …
Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare book
Clockwork Prince is the sequel to the Clockwork Angel, which are part of the Infernal Devices series. The Infernal Devices is a prequel series to the Mortal Instruments series. The Clockwork Prince follows Tessa Gray, a Downworlder, as she lives in the Institute with the Shadow Hunters, during Victorian …
Ashes in the Wind by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Well, it happened. I read all of Jude Deveraux’s novels and was looking for an author that might be comparable to her, if not better. I found someone almost better! Kathleen E. Woodiwiss is awesome. I felt so many emotions reading this book and I loved it so much …
Bleach Manga Volume 2 (Graphic Novel)
Bleach Manga Volume 2 begins with begins with Rukia going after Chad after he tries to protect a bird with a human soul from a Hollow that he can’t see. Ichigo helps his sister get back home when she’s not feeling well and Ichigo learns something about the …
The Love Trainer by Julia Llewellyn
I really laugh a lot when I read this book title, The Love Trainer by Julia Llewellyn. I finish it in just 3 days and it’s such an amazing book about the character in question, Katie Wallace.
She is actually just a cleaner, and you will be amazed …
Alice 19th Manga Book
What a cute manga story about love, loss, betrayal, and good winning over evil. Alice 19th is a popular manga that was one of the first mangas I have ever read and it was just on a whim. I was passing the graphic novel section in Borders, when it …
Under the Dome, novel by Stephen King
I have read most of Stephen Kings work, and while I have often complained about his difficulties in ending stories there are only a few of his books that it has actually ruined for me. Under the Dome is one of those few.
The book has an interesting and …
Emotional Discipline: The Power To Choose How You Feel book
One of the best ways to improve your mentality is to recognize your own feelings. You have the right to choose what you feel. You may also already bored if asked to manage your feelings and use them in times of right, but do you know if it’s a …
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 …
“Anansi Boys” by Neil Gaiman book
I’ve been a fan of Gaiman’s since reading “Stardust” in my youth. He has never failed to surprise and delight me. His worlds are vivid and his tone upbeat. He has a natural power to create a fairytale in a modern time. Following in the footsteps of “American Gods,” …
Wherever you go, there you are
I have read the book ‘Wherever you go, there you are’ by Jon Kabat-zinn. The author is a meditation teacher and this book is a very helpful and good book for all those who have taken interest to walk on the spiritual path.
The author tells us about non-doing. …
Programming in Objective-C
Programming in Objective-C Is a book that is aimed at people who intend purely to learn the language. Objective-C is normally 99% linked with Cocoa development in Mac OS X, this book offers no information on how to implement this language with Cocoa.
If you are already good with Cocoa …
2 States (Book)
The novel Two States is the fourth novel written by Chetan Bhagat. I got this novel from the library a week ago. It was just for past time and I was just thinking of reading something light.
Two states is a story which describes the way Love marriages happen in …
The art of loving by Erich Fromm
‘The art of loving’ is a book written by Erich Fromm. The author writes about his opinion of love.
The book is divided into four chapters. In the first chapter, Fromm says that many people are starving for love, but they are not getting it. He says that most want …
The Power by Rhonda Byrne Book
The Power is the second installment in The Secret series. The Power follows the same subject of the law of attraction, except this book doesn’t solely focus on positive thinking, but how the power is love and love and the law of attraction is the same thing.
Love is something …
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson
This is for me the worst of the James Patterson YA novels i have read. I finished the Maximum Ride series, which I immensely enjoyed. I thought that Daniel X would be similar, but I was wrong. The book started out on a very fuzzy note. …
Basic Electronics by Malcolm Plant
This book is at the core of me and my father’s knowledge on electronics. It has become, for me at least, an electronics Bible of sorts. Basic Electronics really taught me the basics of electronics.
This book is written in …
Goosebumps; Why I’m Afraid of Bees by R. L. Stine
this book is another one of R. L. Stine’s great works. It is also one that has a happy ending rather than one that is twisted and unexpected. I remember reading this book with my grandmother, and we enjoyed it together. The plot was so interesting and great that …
Inkheart (book) by Cornelia Funke
Despite this being a children’s book, I decided to give it a try just because it was big enough to have promise as quite a story and honestly looked utterly charming. And having read it, I can say that I am so glad I did! Never have …
Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter book
Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover, is the third book in the Gallagher Girls series. Cammie Morgan is a spy who goes to a spy school. When Cammie’s friend Macey has to attend all kinds of political conventions and campaigns, this puts Macey in all kinds of danger. …
Book James Dobson “When God Doesn’t Make Sense”
When life gets difficult from tragedy or illness, we are almost always led to the question, “why?”. Dr. James Dobson points out what the Bible has to say about these inexplicable events with his book “When God Doesn’t Make Sense”.
Surprisingly to me, Dr. Dobson admitted very …
Charmed: Leo Rising
The Charmed Ones have been kidnapped and are in the Underworld. It is up to Leo to mount a rescue for his wife and her sisters. Leo, with no powers at his disposal and no witch with enough demon-hunting experience, he soon seeks help elsewhere —“ The Future. Casting …
Only the Good Spy Young by Ally Carter book
Only the Good Spy Young is the fourth book in the Gallagher Girls series. In this book, Cammie finds herself in trouble and constantly under protection from the Circle of Cavan, who are after her. However, Cammie soon meets Joe Solomon who is now on the run after being …
Fugitives and Refugees, a book by Chuck Palahniuk
The book is more like a kind of informal guidebook to informal Portland; informality, in this case, is defined by those urban places where anyone and everyone can do almost anything they want with themselves.
That is, alcohol of all kinds and types, all sorts of drugs and types, …
1984 by George Orwell
This is a book that is talked about a bit too much, but it is worthy of the majority of the praise it receives. I would say it is one of the most important books of the 20th century, and continues to give great insight into the workings …
My big fat supernatural wedding, edited by P.N.Elrod
This book is a collection of short stories about wizards, vampires and werewolves. I bought it because I wanted the read the story “Something borrowed” by Jim Butcher, as it is about Harry Dresden from the Dresden files series. It works quite well on its own too, you can …
Tularosa by Michael McGarrity
Tularosa is the first in a series of mysteries featuring the American Southwest. Kevin Kearney, former chief of detectives was forced to retire from the force due to gun shot injuries to his leg and abdomen. Kearney is something of a man’s man, strong silent and tough as nails.
When …
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Book
This is a powerful science fiction story set in the far future that looks at our society (as any good science fiction should do). Truthfully, this is without doubt one of the best and most intriguing books I have read in a long time (and I’m extremely grateful I …
Dude, Where’s My Country by M. Moore
Micheal Moore is one of our most entertaining political writers. I always laugh aloud when I read his books.
The chapters titles give you a sense of the sarcastic tone of Moore’s writing:
Questions for George of Arabia, Oil’s Well that Ends Well, Woo Hoo, I Got Me a Tax …
The Rug Merchant book
The Rug Merchant is a book which tells story about a man who is broken hearted since his wife runs away with another man. The author of the book is Meg Mullins. The book consists of 300 pages. Ushman Khan, a rug merchant from Iran, wants to pursue his …
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body is a book of poetry disguised as prose, Winterson’s style of writing adding all the more confusion to the sex of her protagonist. It seems at times, in its careful and loving descriptions to feminine and to be masculine as the protagonist talks of its …
Is He Depressed or What? by David B. Wexler
I love this book. It is totally useful in times of my need when I just don’t know what the heck is going on with my boyfriend. My boyfriend is the real silent type and I just can’t figure out whether he is sometimes angry or depressed or …
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I thought this story was very confusing. In order to understand everything that happened in it I read it twice, looked it up on Wikipedia, read it a third time, then discussed it in my Literature class. After that I found it a bit better to understand, and then …
1st to Die by James Patterson
1st to Die, another book that I’ve read by James Patterson, is a truly fantastic and engaging story. This novel starts off with 4 women, and friends, each with a different occupation, related to the force, including a medical examiner, vowed to hunt down the serial killer that …
Killing Her Softly by Beverly Barton book
This novel has written by Beverly Barton with the title Killing Her Softly. In his book, Barton told a Barbie figure in Quinn Cortez. Cortez was a famous lawyer who came from Houston. Cassanova habit of frequently changing partners and experts in conquering the women, were represented in the …
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Al Capone Does my Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko is a book for older children or youth, but it can be enjoyed by adults as well. It’s a smooth read, and has an enjoyable, moving plot. The book is a Newberry Honor book.
Each of the characters feels real and you …
M is for Magic book
I like quite a few of Neil Gaiman’s books - Coraline was great, for example, and The Sandman is classic. So I figured I would enjoy these short stories in M is for Magic, which is a collection actually written for kids. I think kids aged 10 - 13 …
Better Off Friends, novel by Elizabeth Eulberg
I never read anything from this author before Better Off Friends, so I didn’t know if I was gonna like it. It caught my attention because I love this best-friends-who-fall-in-love type of stories, so I was excited for it. I ended up really enjoying it; it was a very …
Robin McGraw Inside My Heart Live with Passion and Purpose
High Recommend, especially for moms!
Robin McGraw, Inside My Heart, Choosing to Live with Passion and Purpose. Robin is the wife of Dr. Phil McGraw (from TV). This is her first book.
So far, this is already my BEST Summer read. Robin begins by giving a basic introduction …
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