In university I happened to read Silas Marner by George Eliot. The book examines adoption and other themes but it is not as in depth as the feelings about adoption I got from the book.
I grew up with a strong relationship to someone who was adopted as a baby …

Mark Levin has emerged as one of the most popular conservative talk show hosts in the United States. His program, The Mark Levin Show, draws in an audience upwards of 7 million regular listeners. In addition to hosting his radio program, he has authored three New York Times bestsellers. …

Robert K. Kiyosaki; the author of the best selling book ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ has added another book to his name. The new one is called ‘Conspiracy Of The Rich; the 8 new rules of money’ a book not on another conspiracy theory like that of ‘who killed J.F …

How would you feel if you were a normal teenage boy one day, and the next, you were a prince? That’s basically the plot behind Melissa Wyatt’s young adult novel, Raising the Griffin. The Varenhoff family used to be the rulers of a small (fictional) country called …

It’s not a Sherlock Holmes story (though I do think there is some reference to the famous detective in it) but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery, The Lost Special, is actually one of the better mysteries I’ve read.
The story is about a train that disappears while on its normal …

I have read other books by this author, Jenny Nimmo, and have enjoyed them. And Midnight for Charlie Bone is fairly easy to read - it flows well and seems friendly. The difficulty I have with this book, and the reason, I think, that a lot of people don’t …

Sandra Brown, the New York Times’ bestselling author of Honor bound, has done it again with her new novel Tomorrow’s Promise. From the mysterious streets of New Orleans and through the power-hungry corridors of D.C., to the gorgeous city lights of Paris, this author spins us into her web …

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story titled “The Yellow Wallpaper” is essentially the fictional diary of a woman. This woman, however, isn’t any ordinary one she has been confined in a room in order to cure her temporary “nervous condition”. This condition, according to her husband John, can only …

Wedding Season by Katie Fforde is a very sweet novel that I enjoyed reading very much so. It is a story about love and a sweet poignant tale and hence, a friendship between 3 women that are really awesome and becoming fast friends, due to their amazing job to …

Lamb is a best selling novel written by hilariously funny Christopher Moore, my favorite author. It details the early life of the Messiah as seen through the eyes of his best friend, Levi Who Is Called Biff. At 464 pages, it is not too terribly long of a read, …

The sixth novel in Michael McGarrity’s Kevin Kerney series is “Under the Color of Law.” Kerney has just become police chief in Santa Fe, the job he had held several years earlier when he was shot in the knee and forced to retire.
One of his first cases involved the …

I must say, this is way different than Twilight and in my opinion, a lot better. It targets a more mature reading audience and manages to keep your attention throughout the pages. You can’t really decide whose side you are on until the very end.
It deals with a little …

If you were to look at only one book on economics, I would suggest ‘Economics For Dummies’! I enjoyed it because it covers nearly every aspect of economics, extensively, and in basic terms. It’s simple, well-organized and easy to read. I like the …

The Absorbing Man, also known as Carl “Crusher” Creel is a top tier villian in the Marvel Comics universe. The Aborbing man has went toe to toe with the heavy hitters of the Marvel universe, including the Incredible Hulk and the Mighty Thor. The Absorbing Man was …

The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams is kind of unique among his novels in that it is a standalone - not part of a larger series. However, it is still a remarkable work of fantasy. Williams has a talent for creating new and fascinating worlds, …

Two years ago I wrote a Review Stream review on Essential Luke Cage Vol 1 and raved about it. Now, it is time to look at the release of Essential Luke Cage Vol 2 and I have to say that will the second collection does not reach the lofty …

The Dream Book: Symbols for Self Understanding - by Betty Bethards is a book that I found to be helpful. As this book points out, it is important to understand the significance of one’s dreams because dreams can sometimes serve as a warning sign for a real concern or …

Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead is the fifth book in the Vampire Academy series. The book starts off after Rose recently returned to St. Vladimir’s Academy, after a long journey to save the soul of Dimitri, which nearly resulted in her death. Unfortunately, Rose’s previous journey failed, meaning Dimitri …

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 …

Europeans have already worn out their tolerance! Soon they will be lying at the feet of any visiting stinking goat!
For me, the book reflects the thinking of modern European society. An essential characteristic of which is tolerance. From my perspective, this tolerance is being taken to the point …

“Maths on the CBM 64″ is what it says on the spine of this book, and so it is what I am using as the title here, but on the cover itself you get a much longer version: “Mathematics on the Commodore 64: Essential Routines for Programming”. That makes …

Wife No. 19 or The Story of A Life in Bondage by Ann Eliza Young was written in 1876 and takes you through one woman’s journey to escape Polygamy. I had watched a made for T.V. movie by the name of Wife No. 19 where the 19th wife is …

Good Grief by Lolly Winston is a smart, emotional story about a woman who is not even used to being married before she becomes a widow. Sophie Stanton is a dynamic, sympathetic character, and you feel sympathy for her as her life falls apart. And it does! In dramatic, …

This book was written by Morgan Menzie and is marketed as “based on a true story.” This does not mean that it is a memoir or an autobiography. The story is written in a journal type format and is about a girl who suffers from anorexia and yet later …

‘Understanding philosophy’ is a book written by James K. Feibleman. Feibleman writes in this book the explanation of philosophy and a history of its major figures and their ideas. He traces the theories of all the important philosophers from the beginnings of greek philosophers through the era of religious …

The real title of this book is Heidi’s Years of Wandering and Learning, but it is usually abbreviated Heidi. It tells the story of the life of a 5 year old girl as her aunt leaves her with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. At first, the grandfather doesn’t …

I read Angels and Demons after having watched the movie. I am very glad that I watched the movie first because I would have been very dissapointed if I had read the book first. The book is very different from the movie. I don’t know …

First of all, I am not a huge Dean Koontz fan. I enjoy the genre and I like similar authors such as Stephen King, but I’ve never been able to really get into Koontz. His ideas are usually quite good but his writing style has never fully …

Pour Your Heart Into It by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang, Hyperion, New York, 1997, 351 pages.
This is a biography of Schultz, the founder of Starbucks, and the Starbucks Coffee Company itself. If you want to know how Starbucks invaded every known street corner in almost every …

Simon R. Green is one of the authors that I really like and one of the few that I follow regularly in the sense that I read almost everything published. I first started reading his works in 2001 when I read ” Hawk and Fisher ” then I liked …

Written by Tom Peters, this is one excellent book for managers. In fact, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies was required reading when I was trying to become a manager at San Miguel Corporation, the Philippines’ biggest and most influential corporation. As such, I …

Traveling is one vice that I simply refuse to quit. I like to explore every nook and cranny of the places I travel and experience everything I could there. Before I travel, I carefully select a travel book that I will bring with me. It was with this in …

Dreamcatcher was a novel King wrote while recovering from a car accident (where a drunk ran him over) the book reflects his dark feelings, the novel takes place in the woods, where some friends get together to go camping in the woods, they discover a sick disoriented man …

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 …

There are countless students who have taken the course for becoming a Medical Assistant, and need to take their State Boards test to become MA’s. I do not believe that most know that there is a complete book that will certainly be of great help in studying for the …

I had heard good things about Margaret Atwood’s works and decided to read The Blind Assassin, which was the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize. I thought the novel was a brilliant demonstration of Atwood’s enormous talent as a writer, and the Booker Prize was well-deserved. The Blind Assassin …

I had picked up the fifth instalment of the series in the library when I’d picked up the fourth. So, the day after I finished the fourth part, I moved onto the fifth one. I don’t generally like speeding through a series like this, but there were so many …

I had this book of Medical and Surgical for 5 years. I am using in since I was in College, now that I’m already graduated a year ago I still kept and read this book as my references. This book is the Sixth Edition of Lippincott. It has 1,526 …

I am a big fan of Dawn French so eagerly downloaded her new novel ‘A Tiny Bit Marvelous’ onto my Kindle. Well I am afraid to say it was just ‘A Tiny Bit Tedious’.
The book is written from the point of view of three characters, Mo, …

In high school I had to do this book for Literature one year and I hated it. I had read it about six or seven times that summer because I was to be using it, and had to read it over near to exam time to expand my options …

The Lone Ranger has been a pop cultural icon for decades. First debuting in radio, he moved onto motion picture serials and the excellent Clayton Moore television series I enjoyed as a young lad. Now, The Lone Ranger is back in an excellent Dynamite Entertainment comic series. Writer Brett …

I found this book to be laugh out loud funny. The pliable Richard Novak finds himself in all sorts of precarious situations in the course of what seams like just a few weeks. To quickly summarize: Richard would have been perfectly happy living his unconscious life …

Batman: Year Three 4 of 4 has Dick confronting Bruce about if he knew that Tony Zucco was going to be murdered. Dick tries to find Zucco’s book that has all the notes he wrote over the years about the mafia.
This is a great comic issue and brings …

The full name of this book is “The Perfectionist’s Handbook: Take Risks, Invite Criticism, and Make the Most of Your Mistakes.” There probably isn’t anything in it you haven’t read before. I know there was nothing in it *I* hadn’t read before. The main difference between this books and others …

Here! Here! Let’s all hear it for for RJ Reynolds and Randy Baer for their compilation of horrible wrestle angles (storylines) and characters who stunk up TV airwaves!
All that is lame in pro wrestling is referenced for your reading pleasure. You can now relive The Gobbledygooker, Papa Shango, and …

In My Wildest Dreams is a wonderful combination of humor and romance set in England in the 1840’s. This novel introduces us to Celeste daughter of the Throckmorton gardener and hopelessly in love with the younger Throckmorton son. Celeste leaves the estate at seventeen to attend the …

Odd One Out by Lissa Evans is a very funny book filled with fun-filled, annoying and definitely weird characters. Odd one out is actually referring to a particular character in the story and you have to read on to figure out who she or he is. Not easy …

Romeo was written by Elise Title, and published by Bantam Books, 1998.
My first reaction when I read about the vicious killing of the smug psychologist, Dr Melanie Rosen, was that she deserved it. She had capitalized on the wave of terror created by Romeo, the killer who took …

Screenwriters know that the term development hell is not the term of endearment. Instead it for the lengthy process where a screenplay loads in limbo waiting to go into production. Many famous films spent a great deal of time in development. This book covers some of those famous ones. …

I decided to read “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” by Barbara Robinson when I learned that some of my children might be trying out for the play version of the novel at our local community theater. What I discovered was an entertaining, funny, and thought-provoking tale that left me …