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” …

Black House is the long awaited and unexpected sequel to the 1984 classic The Talisman. Nearly 20 years later, the story picks up like it never left off with Jack Sawyer now a retired homicide detective in his 30’s living in a small Wisconsin town called French Landing. The …

Since my son is a huge fan of SpongeBob, we have a lot of SpongeBob books. Vote for SpongeBob was the latest addition we added to out collection. I really liked the illustrations in this book because they look exactly like the characters in the TV series.
The …

I never thought this book “My Experiments with the Truth” would change me life entirely.In the year 2004, I went to a Book Fair to purcase some self motivation books.suddenly I saw this book that is “Auto Biography of Mahatma Gandhi” in one stall.I just went there and …

The Mario Kart 64 Nintendo Players Guide is a real handy guide to have because it provides racers with complete and detailed images of all the race tracks and all the battle maps. This means a racer can see every shortcut and be aware of every obstacle. Not only …

Messages From Your Angels, by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.is an inspiring, uplifting book for anyone who is spiritual, or anyone who is looking for a new approach to dealing with the hardships that life throws at us.
Doreen Virtue is a kind, inspiring and talented woman who has the ability to …

Rolling Away by Lynne Marie Smith
Unlike “Generation Ecstacy,” Smith’s autobiography truly gives one a feel for the subculture that gets caught up in the drug Ecstacy.
Sadly, such a treatise is delivered as we see her pain and alienation and descent into drug problems.
It’s hard to not like Smith. She …

Little Nell, a kind and beautiful 14 year old girl who has lost both of her parents, lives with her grandfather. Their life is surrounded in mystery. Every evening the grandfather leaves and spends the night somewhere else, returning early in the morning. Nell does not know where he …

I just randomly picked up this book, although I have read Amanda Blake Soule’s Soulemama blog, so I was expecting something pretty good and down to earth. Handmade Home doesn’t disappoint. Even if you’ve read the blog, Handmade Home, while in the same spirit, is quite different so it’s …

The little girl who lives down the lane has a nasty little secret in her cellar. She doesn’t go to school or hang around with any of the other children. Though she may be lonely, mysterious and a little bit odd Rynn Jacobs is a well-equipped 13 year old …

I heard about Mother Teresa’s deep and strong devotion to Jesus Christ and her great love to the poor. As her congregation Missionary of Charity is widely known all throughout the world. She’s called to be the “Living Saint.” So when a friend of mine told me about a …

Although I disliked the first and second books in the Eden trilogy, I did pick up the final book. Because, what’s the point in reading two awful books if you don’t read the last one? I also somehow had a little glimmer of hope. Maybe Bryn would mature just …

Tolkien wrote the lord of the rings over a period of 20 years. His first book about middle earth was called The Hobbit. The Hobbit laid the foundations to the epic adventures in the Lord of the Rings. This book was so huge that Tolkien made three books for …

When I was doing Literatures in English in sixth form, at one point we found ourselves using the book “William Wordsworth: Selected Poetry”. This was because our syllabus said that we should do at least one classical British poet. Of course, before that I had never heard of the …

I picked up this small hardback book as a funny stocking stuffer for my dad, and it’s one of my favorite things to pick up and browse through in the bathroom. Although it’s not big, it’s the perfect book for something entertaining while in the bathroom.
I got this book …

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories is awesome. My boyfriend is a huge Sherlock Holmes fan so I bought this for him just a few months ago. It has all the short stories in there along with annotations on the side and historical information as well …

I used the book “A World of Prose for CXC” in my last few years of high school. We were supposed to study a few of the short stories inside so that we could choose some and use them for analysis in our Literature exam. I actually liked reading …

“The Fountainhead” was written long before the book “Atlas Shrugged ” and practically appears to be some sort of a prelude to it, but a prelude , stretched out on the wonderful scale of 800 pages.
I can now make comparisons in the works of Rand. She definitely likes the …

I have lived in the Philippines all my life, going out to travel once in a while. I make it a point to travel in my country, as I would like to visit most, if not all of its nooks and crannies. Since I only travel when time permits …

Last In, First Out is a story by Irwin Allan Sealy, which appeared in Delhi Noir, a short story collection which contains stories by Indian writers. All of the stories are set in the city of Delhi. I had never heard of Sealy until reading Delhi Noir, but after …

In this new tale by the author Patrick Rothfuss, the sometimes ambiguous lines between poetry and prose begin to blur. Indeed, often, the reader wonders if The Name of the Wind is poetry or prose, because the language used by Rothfuss is singularly, and poetically elegant and beautiful.
He creates …

Thought provoking is what this book Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media by John Stossel is.
The author looks good with his bushy mustache and all that and one look at him, I already know …

In the fourth and final story of Keladry of Mindelan, Kel faces all out war, and the also faces the fact that she wont see the gloriously bloody battles she trained for as a Knight. Instead, Kel is assigned to run a refugee camp in the northern part of …

When comic readers try to justify their hobby (which if you think about it is patently ridiculous) and tell people that comics are literature, they will usually point to a handful of examples. The primary one is Watchmen, others will cite Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. …

Computer Networks is a book by Prentice Hall of India Private Limited. Andrew S.Tanenbaum wrote this book and he is from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is a fantastic book to learn about Computer Networks. This book was my textbook when I was doing my Post …

Slightly Wicked, written by Mary Balogh, is a very satisfying read for me, but minus the racy scenes. But as an avid reader like me who is really passionate about good story-lines and books, I find Slightly Wicked to be very interesting and a very good book at that. …

L.A. Candy is the first book/novel by reality star Lauren Conrad. At first, I was just interested to read the book because I was really interested to Lauren Conrad. I am a fan of her and I like to support her. I was also curious if she can write …

Australia is an attractive island which is a continent and a country as well. It is located between the south Pacific ocean and the Indian ocean. I have learned various kinds of exciting material from reading Walkabout such as the Aboriginals were one of the oldest tribes of Australia. …

Antonio Scarletti has risen from a low-ranking position in Fortune Productions to being the boss’s, Conrad Fortune, right-hand man. However his boss drops on him a bomb: the security of his job in exchange for marrying his rebellious daughter, Paige. Conrad tells him that if he doesn’t marry his …

I recently finished reading Wormwood. Wormwood is a book written by G.P. Taylor. I really like Christian fiction novels. However, Wormwood left me feeling uneasy.
Wormwood is about people living in London in 1756. It is a battle between good and evil. The …

Strong Medicine was written by Arthur Hailey. It’s about the pharmaceutical business, specifically one woman who works her way up the ranks of a pharmaceutical corporation during a time when women in power was unheard of.
Celia Jordan started with the pharmaceutical corporation as a saleswoman. During her time as …

This is the second girls novel form the Clique series. This one is called Best Friends fro Never. It is in Westchester duing the times of Hallowen. Massie is planning a boys girls party. Thats when the bega of the Pretty Committee finds a new friend and starts her …

There are many writers who try to take advantage of the fame name Sherlock Holmes for his own glory and not to remember Sherlock Holmes. Sherlockian, fans of Sherlock Holmes, The detective wanted to act again, then they will make a detective story that remains based on the character …

A great play that presents the woman role in the society, the New south through the analysis of a number of characters:
Elysian field is between the river and railroad in a poor quarter of New Orleans, desire.
Represented by Stella, Stanley, Eunice, and Steve.
Blanche, is the opposition. …

The Hardy Boys is a classic series of mystery novels for preteen boys, and even though I was never a preteen boys, I still read and enjoyed them along with Nancy Drew books. In The Mystery of the Flying Express, book 20 of the series, the boys must track …

Vertical Run is the first book I’ve read by Joseph R Garber and it was a decent thriller. The story starts right away and it grabbed my attention, hanging on securely, until the very end. I also liked its fast pace. This book also made me think about a …

I really didn’t care for this book very much. I just read it a few days ago and I can barely remember what had happened in it and I think that clearly says something about the plot. I remember the beginning, where they found a murder victim buried in …

The Editors of Writer’s Digest Books (also the publishers of the fantastic Writer’s Digest Magazine) put this hardcover out for those of you newbie freelance writers interested in getting that first sale.
Honestly, if it wasn’t for this book, I would have been totally lost as how to go about …

Grammar Smart, written and published by The Princeton Review,is an excellent and straightforward guide both for students who are baffled by grammar, and for teachers who are frustrated because their students just don’t get grammar, no matter how it is taught.
What I really like about this book, as a …

The Diary Of Anne Frank was written by young Anne Frank during World War II and the Jewish Holocaust. Anne Frank and her family were Jewish and all went well until they realized that they must go into hiding or they would be sent to the concentration camps and …

Written by Eisenberg, Murkoff and Hathaway, this book has been around forever and most pregnant women have at least heard of it, if not read it.
The main thing I like about this book is that each month of pregnancy is described in separate chapters. That way, you don’t …

This book is written by Dolf de Roos and Gene Burns. It is basically a book which teaches how anyone can acquire real estate fortune. It is written when the two authors acquired 52 homes in 52 weeks and made money from them, just as the book’s title implies. …

In the first chapter of “The Scarlet Letter” titled “The Prison Door”, Hawthorne addresses the prospect of utopia by pointing out the blatant realization that all societies, regardless of their intentions must face the harsh realities of life. Therefore, Hawthorne suggests that the prospect of utopia is in fact …

“The Last Song” by Nicholas Sparks is one of the many that I have read by this author. My boyfriend picked up this book for me and although it took me a while to get around to reading it, I finally did. I finished it cover to cover in …

Avalanche is a pretty cool character in the Marvel comics universe. he is a mutant with the power to create vibrations that cause earthquakes. He can knock over cars, create pillars of earth and even flip over small buildings. His coolness factor is slightly reduced …

If you have young children, nieces/nephews, or grandchildren who enjoy bedtime stories before bed (or any part of the day, really), this collection of stories is perfect! Instead of having your kids watch the movies for all the fairytale stories you grew up with yourself, why not read it …

The Real Bettie Page by Richard Foster
This biography of the legendary pin up queen is revealing in more ways than one.
Page had fallen off the face of the earth shortly after her glory days as a 1950’s pin up queen and biographic data was quite sketchy. In the late …

“Star Trek: The Art of the Film” by Mark Cotta Vaz is a book that I enjoyed looking through and reading quite a lot. Packed within the front and back covers of this book is a whole lot of interesting and detailed concept art. What is concept art? Well, …

I’ve been a fan of Karen Miller’s work since I read Innocent Mage and Awakened Mage. When I heard that she had a new book out under the pen name K.E. Mills, I was ecstatic.
The Accidental Sorcerer is the first book in Miller’s new Rogue Agent trilogy. …

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (mark twain the taste of the human it belonged to kind. He was born in Florida whose subordinate and secession-related violence especially is cruel before the civil war, and the village where Monroe is not almost visible is lifted and the Gun, Missouri, as …