I am not a book worm but I love reading books just to kill time. Perhaps reading is my own therapeutic way of curing insomnia at nights when I find it hard to doze off.
I apparently enjoyed reading this bizarre book entitled After Dark by a now popular japanese …

This book, Masterpieces in Miniature by Agatha Christie, is a collection of short stories. Many of them are mysteries featuring her main detectives - Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, Harley Quin, and Miss Marple. Some of them are not really mysteries so much as interesting things the characters do - …

Linda Howard is another new author to me that I discovered through the only email club I belong to.
I generally don’t like science fiction or anything close to it, by “Killing Time ” is different. I’m not sure exactly why I wasn’t put off by the time travel, but …

I was reading this book, You Can Do It! the other night for my babysitting moments. Yes, it seems that is my becoming my 2nd nature job. These kids were so fascinated by the storyline and not only them; but including me as well. There are lots …

I found The Father and the Son by Matt Murray to be an interesting and different memoir of the relationship between a son and his father. Although written by the son, in many ways it is written as the spiritual journey of a man …

Blood Bound is the second book in Patricia Briggs’ Mercedes Thompson series. It’s not what I typically read but I was given the first book by a friend and got hooked on the series. The books I normally read are paranormal romance,
historical and books on dreams. Briggs’ Mercy Thompson …

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 …

Child of Time by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
ISBN: 0330322702
Genre: Sci-fi
This is an extended version of a short story called “The Ugly Little Boy”, written by Isaac Asimov and initially published in 1956. It is the second collaboration between Asimov and Silverberg, the first being “Nightfall”, also an extended …

Brandon Sanderson is one of the most popular writers of epic fantasies today, but few people know that he also writes books for children and teenagers. As a fan of this type of literature with great interest I went through the different pages of the novel ” Alcatraz versus …

Grave Imports is the second book in a series about an ex-journalist who’s inquisitive nature gets him over involved in a variety of adventures in South East Asia and China. The descriptions of the local are excellent and easy to read. I particularly enjoyed the descriptions of …

The Giver is Lois Lowry’s crowning glory in my opinion. I also loved her World War II novel Number the Stars, but The Giver is a different story that fills a different niche, and most importantly, serves a different purpose. This novel tells of a world that …

This book is a Calvin and Hobbes collection by Bill Watterson. It’s a very fun read, not too deep, obviously, but with lots of funny jokes about life and the universe.
The two characters are named after philosophers, and they loosely seem based on the two philosophers’ philosophies. But it’s …

I have always loved Ray Bradbury. His stories are so unique, and rich with symbolism that they make a person think. A Medicine for Melancholy is from the short story collection of the same name. It is one of Bradbury’s humorous stories.
The short story takes place in England …

How to Say It; Marketing With New Media (2008 Prentice Hall Press) by Lena Claxon and Alison Woo is a guide to promoting your small business using websites, ezines, blogs, and podcasts. After two brief introductory chapters the book breaks down each subject into to chapters. One of the …

I remember a younger version of me sitting in the dark livingroom with my best friend Chad. I was watching him play the first Resident Evil Director’s Cut video game, intrigued, a little scared and in suspense the whole time. Not knowing what was going to happen as …

I just finished reading a book called Chester’s Way with my six year old and my one year old. I really enjoyed this book and it captured the attention of both of my children through the pictures and through the magnificent story line. The book is about a little …

Imagine if you had access to a magical doorway that would allow you to time travel into the past. What would you do? This is exactly the problem that Ted Chiang gives his main character. The story is set in medieval Baghdad and in many ways it’s a fable …

This was my first time to use an audiobook. In thinking it was a fresh change to use an audiobook for Dan Brown’s much awaited installation of the Robert Langdon novel series , I decided it might be an interesting experience instead of the usual things …

I don’t understand what is up with this whole vampire obsession. And sadly, I have bought into it. I guess the allure of a vampire is that in the fictional world they are so much like us. They are mysterious and what not. I guess Anne Rice’s books had …

I’m not sure what should be said about the novel, “Romantic Fiction” by Melanie La Brooy. It was sexy, provocative, and comedic, those were the qualities I found appealing about the novel. One quality that worked against the novel was that it began to drag on and on. The …

I had often seen Nicci French books in the book shop, but the book description was never anything that jumped up and grabbed me.
I was given Catch Me When I Fall as a gift a while ago. It took a few weeks before I actually picked it up …

Scent of Shadows is the first book in the Signs of the Zodiac series by Vicki Pettersson. Usually, superhero books are not my cup of tea, but there was something mystical about the story line that I found immediately captivating. The book starts out with Joanna Archer on a …

I think this would’ve worked better as a novella rather than a full-fledged novel. It’s not that there’s a whole lot of padding, but there isn’t much of a story here either. Like with Godfather Part II, I found the flashback sequences to be much better than …

This book is a sequel to the children’s book, the Frog Princess. In this book, the Princess Emma is now the Green Witch, and must find a way to remove or cure the family curse before she turns 16 and becomes susceptible to it, for her aunt has fallen …

I hope that you have not yet fallen into slavery to robots and at least sometimes look up from the screen of your smartphone?
Isaac Asimov is my favorite writerscience fiction writer, popularizer of science, and biochemist. He is the author of about 500 works, mainly fiction, primarily in the …

This is a cute novel for children. Kids now might find it a bit slow moving, as their aren’t really any bad guys, although the Bobsey twins do have to solve the mystery of a missing sailboat and deal with a boy who bullies the younger set of twins.
The …

“Belgrave Square” is a mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt.
Pitt is asked by his superior Micah Drummond to look into a case of a blackmailer who was killed.
Pitt is disturbed by the case anyway because he is unsure why he was called into the case in such a manner.
There …

I think that most people know their sign in the Eastern Zodiac. Whenever I talk to someone about astrology we usually come to the topic of Chinese astrology. I realized that we don’t know much about it except for our signs. It’s easy to figure it out since the …

Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary is another great reference material for writers and even ordinary users of the English language. The thing I like the most about this dictionary is the Concise Guide to Style, Usage, and Diction portion where I managed to brush up on all …

When I was younger, I read the book Matilda by Roald Dahl and fell in love with the story. Matilda is the typical underdog hero- in this case, the child prodigy born to an ignorant, unloving family who refuses to nurture her. She makes a friend in Miss Honey, …

‘Royal Wedding’ by the well-known ITN newscaster (well, he was well known at the time), Gordon Honeycombe is a commemoratative book to celebrate the wedding of Lady Diana, as she was then, and Prince Charles in 1981. It is a large, hardback book with a lot of good …

Once again here is another book that tricked me by its cover. I admit when I checked it out from the library I had absolutely no idea what this novel was about - I only knew I had picked it up from the Fantasy/Science Fiction section. The front cover …

Moving away is a difficult prospect for young kids, especially those with a group of best friends. The first book P.S. We’ll Miss You, in the Friends 4-Ever series, addresses this issue for 10 year old Molly. Her family is moving to Kansas for a year, but …

This was the first time I’d read anything by the novelist Ken Follett. I was encouraged to read “The Pillars of The Earth”, by a family member who knew I was interested in historical movies and books. Even though I don’t usually review books I found this one …

Habits and Love, written by Rod Schumacher is a nice book. I mean it. I take pride in my book reviews and rarely do I read books that have no meanings to it. I try my best, though sometimes I do come across books that are really …

Margaret Atwood is probably one of the most universally acclaimed contemporary writers, and I’ve had the pleasure to read a number of her novels and collections of short stories. Nevertheless, I have to confess I haven’t enjoyed all of them. In fact, one or two have managed to both …

Whether or not a “drinking culture” actually exists, its absence is bound to become noticeable. There is a particular type of excellent alcoholic among people who drink regularly, whose simplicity and carefree nature give no reason for disgust and anger to those around them.
A striking representative of dirty realism, …

I have read the book ‘Hindu Goddesses’ by David R Kinsley. As the title suggests, this book is about the hindu goddesses. In this book, the author has not written anything devotional about the goddesses. He has not written anything based on the religious point of view. He has …

I only know of David Hicks through his textile designs that appeared in movies like The Shining. I was really interested to know what was going on design wise in the sixties and seventies, that made him so influential.
From the bold red cover and thickness and size of this …

This book written by Dr. Suzanne Gudanskunst is one of the best fitness books I read because of the following reasons: One, it deals with weight loss inside out, discussing all aspects of weight loss which you need to know, and probably which doctors fail or don’t want to …

A good friend of mine from high school gave me a copy of this book Passion and Purity and my first reaction while reading this book was that it is too religious and too conservative in all each views. But I was grateful though to have read this …

I kind of like this IT GIRL series, and Reckless by Cecily Von Ziegesar is one of it. I have read the other series, which is Gossip Girl also by the same author and now, it’s Reckless. This story is mainly about college drama or something and I …

This book is the sequel to another Brian Keene book “The Rising”. I have read The Rising before this and if you haven’t read that book before you read this, you will still enjoy this book as much as I do.
The City of The Dead is the continuation of …

I was so excited to read this book. The beautiful cover and the good reviews drew me in, as well as the interesting blurb on the cover, and so I began with high expectations. I was also excited about my reading debut in the ’steampunk’ genre, and …

I have already reviewed the book before this one, Blood Ties. I really enjoyed the first book, as it had good characters, a gripping plot and it was written quite well. So I immediately picked up the second book of the series to see what Rachel and Theo would …

After being nagged by my girlfriends that I was spending too much time watching TV and less time reading, I decided to purchase a few books. I went online and ordered one book I was longing to read for a while: “Girls of Riyadh” by Rajaa Alsanea.
“Girls of Riyadh” …

This is an interesting but disturbing book containing three pamphlets written by Ida B. Wells. Wells wrote these pamphlets between 1892 and 1900 to publicize the use of lynching by whites against blacks during the last decade of the nineteenth century. In her work Wells describes …

I’ve now read a couple of Julia LLewellyn’s books, The Model Wife being the second that I’ve read. While the storyline is different, the feel of the books is the same - in both the Love Trainer and The Model Wife a woman must reinvent herself despite not having …

Entirely by chance, I saw the novel AIRPORT standing lonely on a bookstore shelf and decided to read it. And as soon as I read a couple of pages, the book settled firmly into the first position of my desires, goals, and objectives for a few days.
A very worthy …

This children’s book by Roald Dahl is not quite as funny as some of his others, but still contains many of his zany ideas and funny words.
The story is of a boy, who Dahl does not give the name of, whose parents unfortunately die in a car accident. He …