Ultimate Spider-Man #9 “Ultimate 6″
This volume in the Marvel remake series is quite interesting as it recreates Amazing Spiderman Annual 1, a magazine that was written forty years ago. That annual, to put it bluntly, was awful.
In it, readers were introduced to the Sinister Six, a group consisting of …

If you are a fan of Arthurian legends, check out the Pendragon Cycle Series by Stephen Lawhead. Book 1 of the series is titled “Taliesin.” Elphin, a Celtic prince, is considered terribly unlucky, so much so that his people make a sign against evil when they meet him. His …

This is the biggest book shop in Visakhapatnam. It is literally a book lover’s paradise. It has style with neatly arranged books in various titled shelves. Friendly staff is at the door step to greet you. There are always some schemes and prizes open. “World Book Day” and “Pages …

Field Guide to Candy: How to identify and make every candy imaginable
By Anita Chu
“Field Guide to Candy: How to indentify and make every candy imaginable” by Anita Chu is a book part of the “Field Guide to” series which is all about identifying candy, and how to make it. …

Automatic Wealth for Grads by Michael Masterson is a comprehensive book on what to do with your money if you are just starting out. What I appreciated about this book was it covers several topics about money in a clear, straight-forward manner. Topics include investing in mutual …

As a fan of Eleanor Herman’s novels, I couldn’t get past her book, THE ROYAL ART OF POISON, even though the subject matter was somewhat different from what I was used to seeing from the author. Wildly since scholarly writings on the subject often differ in opinion.
And what …

Today I am reviewing a book by Japanes manga artist Osamu Tezuka. The book is called MW. The book is about two life long friends who first met on a remote island in Japan. On that first meeting, they were the lone survivors of a US military poison gas …

Shortly after hearing the news of Harvey Pekar, the author of American Splendor’s death, I decided to go through every comic book of his I could get my hands on. I did so in chronological order, starting with the American Splendor anthology before going on to one-shots like ‘Our …

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 …

Mr. Murder is one of Dean Koontz’s earlier novels that has recently been re-released by Berkley books. It was originally released in October of 1993 by G.P.Putnam’s Sons.
Like mmost of Koontz’s books, I enjoyed it. It was a fast paced story and I didn’t put it down until I …

Furies of Calderon is the first book in the first fantasy series by Jim Butcher, who has also written the Harry Dresden series. The series is called the Codex Alera after the fantasy world Alera where it all happens. Butcher is a huge Tolkien fan, but luckily the series …

Are your kids crazy about dragons? If so, here is a book for them: “How to Train Your Dragon” by Cressida Cowell. This book has it all: great adventures, lots of humor, whacky names like Snotface Snotlout - and, of course, dragons.
The book is a “memoir” written by Hiccup …

Megatokyo has about 4 volumes released thus far. This comic can also be found online at megatokyo.com created by Fred Gallagher. Up to now, this anime has over 800 comic strips.
The protagonist is an american otaku (anime fan) named Piro who is stranded in Japan with his friend Largo, …

Laura Ingraham’s Shut up and Sing is a decent book covering traditional conservative philosophy that examines conservative
contentions with traditional leftist environments and, for someone who is new to political theory and science, this may be an interesting book to read.
However, if you have a background in political history, the …

Estleman continues his quirky view of the American West with “Black Powder, White Smoke.” Three main plot threads weave together to form the book. First is Honey Boutrille a black man who owns a “saloon” in New Orleans when the story begins. Honey’s parents had been slaves. Early in …

Death in Precinct Puerto Rico is the first in a series of novels written by Steven Torres. Torres writes about police in the small town of Angustias in Puerto Rico. A blurb on the book says “In five or ten years, Steven Torres may have done for Puerto Rico …

Lolita is a tragic love story. This novel tells of a professor and writer named Humbert. Because the memories of his past romance with a girl, Annabel, he is obsessed with a teenage girl named Dolores Haze. To be close to Dolores, Humbert eventually marrying the girl’s mother, Charlotte …

The first thing that is unexpected about this book is the author, Roald Dahl. Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl is not at all like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Witches, or James and the Giant Peach, children’s books for which he is famous. These tales are …

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 …

“The Girl with Braided Hair,” by Margaret Coel, Berkley Prime Crime, 2007, 293 pp. ISBN-978-0-425-21712-2
“The Girl with Braided Hair” is the thirteenth book in the series featuring Catholic Priest Father John O’Malley and Arapaho lawyer Vickie Holden. The book takes place on and near the Arapaho-Shoshone Wind River Indian …

I have never read a book by Joyce Carol Oates before in my life, but now I am a sit-on-the-fence fan. I could take her or leave her. Some of her books I finish-some I rip through. Thank god for the library, because if I paid …

This story features the new Elizabeth and Jessica, and I honestly don’t like their new set of friends and buddies that they’re hanging around with. Jessica is now friends with gay Neil, and together they just bicker and argue but love each other like a couple, and when a …

Poetry, A Longman Pocket Anthology, is a poetry anthology that was edited by R.S.Gwynn.
What I like about anthology is that it includes well-known poems from all time periods, and not just from Elizabethan times, for example.If you are looking for a famous poem by William Blake,for instance, chances are …

The Road Less Travelled is a psychology book, or rather is psychotherapy, which consists of 4 chapters. In the first chapter, M Scott Peck as a writer, using the instruments of discipline as the primary tool to solve all the problems that occur, so to solve all the problems, …

This book if the seventh Hardy Boys book written by Franklin W. Dixon in the 50s and 60s. While many of the ideas are old fashioned, and it is especially amusing to read about the “high tech” stuff the boys have or discover, they are, in general, good books …

This is one of several books on the subject of beading that I have received as gifts over the past year. I think the person who gave it to me must have been taken in by the helpful and unusual sounding title and the gorgeous pictures of the jewelry …

My daughter brought home another book from the library yesterday called Carl’s Masquerade. She was excited to read it at bedtime. But, after I took the time to read the book with her, we both managed to be very disappointed in it.
First of all, the book is nothing but …

Brad Meltzer’s graphic novel, Identity Crisis, is a true masterpiece. This story, published by DC, features a heartbreaking murder mystery and features slews of favorite Justice League characters. Rags Morales pencils the graphic novel, and his work is divine. I would recommend this story to any …

I’m sure lots of you out there would find the title of this book, Death by Bikini by Linda Gerber truly enticing. As for me, when I first bought this book, I was very curious for how the storyline would be like. And later part did I find …

Sylvester Duncan is a small donkey who likes to find nice-looking pebbles. He collects pebbles that have unusual shape or color. When he finds a bright red, smooth round pebble, Sylvester immediately picks it up. The pebble turns out to be a magic one: it can make any wish …

After spending much of his early career exploring the Jewish experience in America by lampooning it, Philip Roth decided to stretch his legs a bit and move on to lampooning the plain old American experience and he fulfills his every ambition and moreso.
Ostensibly about the Rupert Mundys, a fictitious …

A young American is killed in a brutal manner in Bosnia during the ethnic cleansing by Serbian paramilitaries. His billionaire grandfather seeks to have the killer, a notorious Serbian gangster, brought to justice, but fails as the man has vanished into thin air and all the agencies of the …

Da Capo is a manga by a Japanese visual novel studio, Circus and illustrated by Tanihara Natsuki. It has the genres; comedy, harem, romance, school life, seinen, and supernatural and is composed of twelve volumes. The manga is about Asakura Junichi and his life at Kazami Academy. Things get …

‘Azumaga Daioh’ is a very humorous manga by Kiyohiko Azuma. It chronicles the hilarious tales of six high school girls. When I discovered the first book in this series, I knew that I had to have them all. I love the humor. The high school events repeat each year, …

The Last Battle is the last and seventh book of the Chronicles of Narnia series. Unlike most chronicles or series this does not end answering a lot of questions instead it brings a close to the world of Narnia in an epic battle that divides the total world.
I …

Synopsis: Children’s book about a chameleon that wishes he wasn’t so small and slow so he decides to take on the traits of other animals at the zoo.
What I liked about this book: I read this to my daughter last night and thought it was a cute story. I …

Once in a while we get to read or see a best work which we will remember for the rest of our lives. The Ring by Danielle Steel is one such work and this book is so touching and so excellently written that one can’t get out of the …

I read this book because I read Inkheart, also by Cornelia Funke, and loved it —“ and the Thief Lord actually looked like more my style than Inkheart did. It looked a little bit dark (but coming from Cornelia Funke I knew it would also be charming), intriguing, …

This book is not the Lottery. It is not the Haunting of Hill House. This is a day to day telling of a normal mother/wife’s daily processes and we can all relate. Shirley Jackson remains one of the most genuine writers of all time. Even …

Oh M had to go out of her way to get her hands on the newly released book by American Idol finalist David Archuleta. She has been a big fan of his ever since and I was only too happy to accompany her to the bookstore. While out having …

When I was doing the course “Data Communication and Networking,” I wanted to find all the books I thought could help me understand everything that was one the course outline. That is why when I took a look in a family members bookshelf and saw the book “Using the …

666 (by Jay Anson)
So many negative meanings have been attached to the numerics of 666 —“death, murders, evil and primarily the devil. In this book, 666 referred to a house which had survived through the years. It had a history of unhappy events, and after …

The Boys from Brazil (by Ira Levin, published by Random House, 1976)
This is a rather complicated, yet absorbing story —“ you have to read almost halfway to get the essence of the mystery.
Yakov Liebermann’s mission in life was to hunt for Nazis, especially those who had participated in the …

Parallel Lies is by Ridley Pearson. I absolutely love his books! He is one of my favorite writers of all time. I like the way he writes, the characters he employees, and the meaning behind his plot lines.
Parallel Lies is about a large company that caused an accident that …

Ella Enchanted is a delightful story. It is technically more a ‘children’s’ or preteen book, I guess, but it really appealed to me as a young adult. It is a retelling or different take on the story of Cinderella, done very well. It is different enough …

There are a lot of books on the market about good health. I’m happy to see that and I bet you are too. Nothing is more important than our health. However, finding information about how to shop my local grocery store for the right foods that will build a strong …

In this fourth book in the Wizard in Rhyme series written by Christopher Stasheff, Matt Mantrell learns how to transport himself back to his original world to visit his parents.
In Merovence 3 years has passed, yet he learns he has actually been gone only 3 months.
In “My Son, …

On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn is a romantic love story, and I think it is pretty similar to the movie, ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’. A bit different here and there, but the concept is the same.
Gregory is a man that thinks that his options are …

Even if you are not fascinated by the Kennedy family, and by the power, wealth and prestige that is their legacy, Teddy Kennedy’s autobiography is an interesting read. I admit to being a Kennedy-phile, and I have read all of the books and memoirs that I can find about …