Books Reviews

I Love Lucy (Hardcover Edition)

I purchased the hardcover edition of the book simply titled “I Love Lucy” by Elisabeth Edwards because I find that hardcover books hold up better over time even if they do take up more space and bulkier. As for the book, I was somewhat disappointed with what this book …

The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay

The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay is the second book in the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy. Jennifer gives birth to the child of Rakoth, which resulted from her captivity in Stardock. Her child may prove to be the hope or the doom of the world. Kim …

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey novel

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey is the sequel to the delightful and popular children’s novel, the Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart. In this sequel, the characters gather for the second time, each a bit older and a bit more aware of themself. The characters …

Nightwing: Year One Graphic Novel

Nightwing: Year One is a graphic novel by Chuck Dixon and Scot Beatty and illustrated by Scott McDaniel. It tells the story of how Robin, also known as Dick Grayson, leaves behind the old persona and becomes Nightwing after being “fired” by Batman after he botches a mission. …

Sweet Valley’s The Unicorn Club: Kimberly Rides Again

This is the eight installment of Sweet Valley’s The Unicorn Club series, and it features Kimberly Haver’s story. Kimberly is a skilled horsewoman ever since she was s child, and this time she’s taking the Unicorns for some fun at a weekend ranch to have some fun and some …

The Shining Stephen King

This was Stephen King’s third novel, released in 1977. The story is about a writer named Jack Torrance, who works as a hotel caretaker in a Colorado resort. It is understood that after he and his family moves in they will be snowed in, and they are fine with …

The Snowball Effect by Holly Nicole Hoxter Book

I recently finished reading The Snowball Effect. I loved this book for a number of reasons. By the time you’re finished with this review, you will want to read this book too!
Lainey Pike is an ordinary high school graduate until her mother suddenly commits suicide. Things gradually get worse …

Guide to Peru by G. de Reparaz Ruiz

If you’re planning on traveling to Peru then this book is the perfect guide book. It’s a little old, yet it’s chock full of important information. It has relevant pictures and maps, it covers the country and its inhabitants, certain main cities and regions including Lima, the north/south Pan-American …

Wrapagami: The Art of Fabric Gift Wraps book

Have you ever heard about wrapagami? This precious book contains simple, clear and easy to understand instructions, along with intelligible, easy to follow diagrams. An illustrator and graphic (award-winning) designer Jennifer Playford enrich her line of fabric gift wraps with dynamic, fanciful illustrations that take your breath away. But …

Stephen King the Dark Tower Series

The Dark tower series is arguably the best story ever woven together by the horror legend that is Stephen king, yet it is far from a horror story.
The dark tower tells the story of Roland and his hunt for the ever elusive Dark tower. It consists of seven volumes …

Where’s my Mummy book

Usually, I review books that my daughter brings home from the library. But, last night, she attended a book fair and bought the book Where’s My Mummy.
It’s actually not a bad book.
Basically, you have a baby mummy playing hide and seek with his mom. In the process, he ends …

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

This book is the story of Catherine Morland, who, while not my favourite Jane Austen heroine, is a fun, happy girl. She is one of Jane Austen’s younger heroines, which means that many of her problems are of her own invention and due to her own naivete. Miss …

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks novel

I’ve read a few novels by Nicholas Sparks, and while I find them to be a bit predictable - you always know how the book is going to end - and they’re often sad endings, it’s still always an enjoyable read. The characters, setting, and story always mesh well, …

Forgotten Marriage by Paula Roe

Forgotten Marriage is a nice book about this billionaire called Finn Sorensen, whom had lost his memory due to a freak accident. Ironically, he totally forgot about this marriage to his wife and his wife in general.
But then, her conniving wife is also not a great …

Book: The Demon Apostle

The Demon Apostle is the third book in the Demon Wars Saga Trilogy. I had high hopes for this book but was sorely let down. We again join Pony, Elbryan and the others. However, Pony is not herself. She has been through great tragedy, obviously, and so begins to …

What Horses Say: How To Hear, Help And Heal Them

What Horses Say: How To Hear, Help And Heal Them is a how to book geared for every horse owner. What Horses Say: How To Hear, Help And Heal Them is written by M. And J. Dicker. The cover of What Horses Say: How To Hear, Help And Heal …

‘Stop Self Sabotage!’ by Pat Pearson

I am recommending “STOP Self-Sabotage! Get Out of your Own Way to Earn More Money, Improve Your Relationships and Find the Success You Deserve by Pat Pearson” to you.
This version is actually a rewrite from the first. A new publisher as well. I think Pearson has done a …

Food Lovers Guide to Brooklyn by Sherri Einsenberg Book

Food Lover’s Guide to Brooklyn is the perfect traveler’s book for both foodies and people traveling hoping to find some of the best restaurants to dine to blend in with the locals. There is something for everyone for all likes, and there are lists of food markets and food …

Isla and the Happily Ever After, novel by Stephanie Perkins

At the beginnings of 2011, a dear friend of mine recommended me to read Anna and The French Kiss, and once I finished reading it, I fell completely and irrevocably in love with Etienne and Anna. A year later, Lola and Cricket arrived, and I really enjoyed that story …

Five get into trouble by Enid Blyton

‘Five get into trouble’ is a book written by Enid Blyton and is one among the famous five adventure series. This is one among the most interesting adventure series. This book is very exciting and full of mystery and adventure. The four children, Julian, Dick, George and Anne join …

The Boyfriend by R.L. Stine

‘The Boyfriend’ is a book written by R.L. Stine. This is quite an interesting book. This is not scary to read, but is quite exciting. A girl named Joanna dates a guy named Dex. Dex is very much fond of Joanna. But Joanna loses interest in Dex. She wants …

A Royal Duty by Paul Burrell

I am not particularly a royalist but I do have an inquisitive interest in life behind palace doors and I enjoyed this book immensely. This is written by Paul Burrell who started life in a coal mining village, became footman to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and ended …

Brothers Karamazov book

Recently I picked up the Brothers Karamazov by the great Fyodor Dostoevsky. His body of work is most clearly defined by the five amazing novels, Crime and Punishment, Demons, Notes from Underground, The Idiot, and Brothers Karamazov, which is his last great work. Having read all the others …

The Girl with Braided Hair by Margaret Coel

“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 …

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

This was a best-selling novel written by UK author Paula Hawkins in 2015. Something of a publishing sensation for a first novel, it was top of the New York Times fiction best-selling list for 13 weeks and has since been made into a film starring Emily Blunt. …

The Siren by John Everson, novel

Siren by John Everson is a horror tale with a unique “monster.” The mysterious and beautiful Ligeia haunts the shoreline of the small port town of Delilah, California. The main character in the story is a man named Evan. Suffering from aquaphobia, an intense fear of …

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

This is a YA novel, but I have just recently read it, and ot be perfectly honest, I read it twice in a row. It was very strangely good.
The writing is compelling because the author clearly makes her main character consistent throughout the book. Her main character is a …

Jostein Gaarder : Maya

In the theory of evolution who was created by Darwin, there is no place for God in the creation of human life on planet Earth. Life on planet Earth, created billions of years ago from the ancient single-celled bacteria to evolve by chance without the intervention of the creator. …

Fateful by Claudia Gray book

Fateful follows a maid named Tess Davies who is a passenger on the Titanic. She works for the nasty Lady Regina, who is a first class passenger aboard the Titanic. Desperate to escape her life as a maid, Tess plans to run away when the Titanic arrives in New …

Emperor The gates of Rome a novel of Julius Ceasar book

Once again this is another stylized work of fiction from Conn Igulden. This book essentially deals with Julius Ceasar when he was growing up and how he got to discover Gaius Marius and his introduction to military life.
What really made this book appealing was that it was once …

A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT, by MARK TWAIN

The first-time traveler! That’s the first hitman in the history of world literature. A certain Yankee who got hit on the head with a crowbar in a fight woke up in 6th century Britain during the reign of King Arthur.
That is, he went thirteen centuries back from the …

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, 2006 Book

I picked up this book because I’d enjoyed a few books by the same author. The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska were both books I enjoyed, so I thought I should try this book out too. The plot didn’t interest me much at all, but I …

Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo

I can normally find something I enjoy in just about any book I read, but this was one of the few books I’ve read in the past few years that I’ve really disliked. My problem boils down to it being too much of a Harry Potter clone. …

The Infidelity Chain by Tess Stimson

I’ve never read a story about infidelity as crystal clear as this kind of story, The Infidelity Chain by Tess Stimson before. There are 5 characters that are all linked by the word infidelity and they are all in one way or another having this problem as well as …

Laugh ‘n’ Learn Spanish, For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston and Brenda Wegman

Laugh ‘n’ Learn Spanish by Lynn Johnston and Brenda Wegman is not just another Spanish learning book. With the help of the famous comic strip For Better or For Worse, Laugh ‘n’ Learn Spanish is exactly as the title says. If you are not familiar with the comic strip …

Skullduggery Pleasant

I got this book to read when I was looking for a book to read in the libary. I wanted something new from what I normally read, and the cover was also very exciting. I only got the first book to see if I liked the story line and …

The Giver, by Lois Lowry book

I recommend The Giver because this book is a big “WOW!!!”. It talks about a teenage boy who lives in a Utopian world. I’m sure that every single human being want to be in that sort of world. I thought it was the perfect place to be, but I …

The Last Valentine book

The Last Valentine was written by James Michael Pratt. It is a love story that is dated back to World War II yet the story line continues into the present.
I first read this book about 10 years ago when I was in high school. I was more into …

The Diary Of Anne Frank

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 …

“Shark and Lobster’s Amazing Undersea Adventure” by Viviane Schwarz

“Shark and Lobster’s Amazing Undersea Adventure” by Viviane Schwarz is an entertaining children’s book that not only helps young readers become stronger readers, but also helps them to enjoy reading with a book that keeps their attention with the use of a compelling undersea adventure of two unlikely friends.
Shark …

THE GENIUS, a novel by Theodore Dreiser or what can compare to the happiness that love brings

THE GENIUS by Theodore Dreiser tells the story of the development of Eugene Vitla, an artist of great talent and personality. He, a connoisseur and admirer of beauty, remained hostage to it all his life.
The story of the artist is outlined in the traditional Dreiser reporter-biographical style, with …

101 First Words - By Jane Horne

My daughter is now 2 years old but I started her on picture books when she was only a week old. She used to love the colorful pictures and enjoyed the times that I used to spend with her teaching her the names of the different objects. …

First, Break all the Rules

Before there was “Good to Great,” there was “First Break all the Rules.” This book, produced by two authors with the renowned Gallup polling organization, makes most of the same arguments that Jim Collins makes in his seminal book.
Having read both now, I find that Collins found a great …

101 Things to do with Meatballs

101 Things to do with Meatballs is a handy book to keep around for the meatball lovers of the world, of which I am one.
Compiled by Stephanie Ashcroft, 101 Things to do with Meatballs is about five by seven inches and is a half-inch thick. It contains 128 …

A Game Of Thrones Book by George R.R. Martin

The world that Martin creates is not like most fantasy books. In the storyline of his books there are no orcs, no elves and other kinds of creatures. His saga is closer to reality while not shunning the genre.
His first book is called “A Game of Thrones.” A dark …

Michael Jackson King of Pop by Emily Herbert

This book is one of the many that were rushed out on the death of the great superstar, Michael Jackson. I already know quite a lot about the man and I did not really have any faith that there would be anything new in this book and I …

Organizing From The Inside Out by Julie Morgenstein book

Julie Morgenstein is a remarkable organizing professional and is known in her industry as such based on her system of successful organizing. I, personally, had no idea who this woman was until I was in need of help with getting organized to control the chaos in my life which …

Revenge Of The Sith Scrapbook By Ryder Windham

“Revenge of the Sith Scrapbook” is an album written by the writer Ryder Windham (The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader). A Book , which is lavishly illustrated and in large format , is devoted to perhaps the most awaited movie of 2005, “Episode III - Revenge of the …

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

I read everything that Nicholas Sparks writes. I started with his first one, The Notebook, back in 1996. His latest entry will make new fans, who will want to go and pick up everything they have missed out on. Like all of his stories, it involves a man and …

Woody Allen Beyond Words by Robert Benayoun

I have been a Woody Allen fan since I was a little girl and many years ago I bought myself a great book called ‘Woody Allen Beyond Words’ by Robert Benayoun. This is a large hardback book that I enjoy flicking through frequently, with that classic picture of …

 
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