While reading this compelling murder/mystery by Lisa Jackson, I was completely spellbound and could hardly put it down! The question of what could possibly come next was ever present in my mind, and I was kept on my toes throughout the whole book. The characters were …

Fullmetal Alchemist Manga Volume 2 begins with Ed reporting to Colonel Roy Mustang concerning the events in Liore. Mustang directs them to a bio alchemy expert named Shou Tucker, Ed hopes to find a way to get their bodies back. They go there and meet Shou and …

I can’t believe that there’s such a book as this, Affair: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It by H. Cameron. Barnes. I found myself intrigued by the title and I thought that the book is about how one should handle a situation when he/she is an affair …

Fruits Basket Manga Volume 5 takes place during Golden Week and Shigure takes Tohru. Kyo and Yuki to the Sohma summer house in the mountains.
This manga was very deep and meaningful because it explored Tohru Honda’s character more. It showed that she’s not perfect and that she has …

Ray Bradbury is a very talented and famous science fiction writer. He came out with an anthology called “A Medicine For Melancholy” a number of years ago. One story in it is “The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.” This story revolves around several Latino workers in the city who want …

After reading American Psycho, I came across Glamorama by accident and picked it up, not knowing what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised. The story was intriguing, although I would say slightly disjointed.
We begin with an introduction to Victor, the hero (or anti-hero) of the …

Pregnancy comes with lots of happiness, surprises and bunch of questions and confusions with what is right to do and what not. This book by Dr Laura is excellent guide and helps you through your entire course of Pregnancy. This book has many great features which makes this book …

I have to read many books for the English class that I am taking this year. I find that the reading can really pile up quickly. It helps me tremendously to have Sparknotes handy all the time.
The Sparknotes of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott …

‘Major Hindu Festivals’ is a book written by Subhash Anand. The author has written about the major festivals of Hindus, who consist of 80% of the population of India. The author writes about the ancient origins of the major feasts of the hindus. The author says that these feasts …

So you want to learn about music theory, hmm? Well, this is a good book just for that.
Calm down. The author doesn’t think you’re stupid. He just wants to teach you everything so he assumes you know nothing (hence “complete idiot”).
I got this book because I needed to …

Carla Neggers is a well known and popular author of romantic suspense novels. In Dark Sky she combines action, drama, suspense and romance to create an interesting plot. Deputy US Marshal Juliet Longstreet returns to her apartment to find her doorman dead, the victim of a …

If you’re old enough, you will remember Ruth Dickson from her early work, most notably the notorious bestseller “Married Men Make the Best Lovers”. After a thirty-year hiatus, she has come roaring back, at age 80, with the delightfully dishy “Life, Death and Other Trivia”.
Witty, clever, …

An English Psychic In Hollywood by Lucinda Clare is awesome and definitely enchanting. I do know that there are psychics around but I don’t really think that those readings are really accurate.
And in my most personal opinion, I don’t think I will want to consult a psychic …

Scott Lazenby used to be a city manager for a small city in real life. He wrote this book, “Playing with Fire”, as a fictional account of the goings on within city government. From the very beginning Lazenby grabs your attention with tles of the wild people city officials …

The Easy Step by Step Guide to Being Positive and Staying Positive is a book written by Pauline Rowson and this book is truly inspirational and it teaches me to think positive and look ahead for positive answers in life whenever there is a stumble block of difficulties and …

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 …

Patricia Briggs has proven herself to be a writer with which to be reckoned, because she has a mean way with words that will undoubtedly leave you feeling thrilled and begging for more.
In the first book of the Mercy Thomspon series, Moon Called, we get to meet our …

In Memoirs of a Geisha, Nitta Sayuri, the woman of the book, tells the story of her life as a geisha. As I read the book, I came into a place where a person’s facade is in dominance and of great importance. It is a world that looks …

Sura’s House Keeping and Beauty and Health Tips Book is a very useful book from Sura’s Publications. Authour Prithiviraj Verma compiles this book. This book contains so many tips on various topics like beauty, health, medicine, hygiene, baby care, kitchen care, jewellery care, bathroom care, footwear care, …

Making Toast is a wonderfully written touching book written by Roger Rosenblatt. This is a true story of how Roger and his wife Jinny lost their thirty eight year old daughter after she collasped and died on a treadmill in her home. It goes on to tell of how …

A Chance In Time by Ruth Ann Nordin made you just fall in love with the characters. In many parts of this novel you could really feel for them. This is a romance novel that is often over looked, but …

The “Life After Lucy: The True Story of “I Love Lucy’s Little Ricky” is a book that I think will be of interest to fans of the television series because it explores the life, the career, the hopes and the dreams of Keith Thobodeaux, the actor that portrayed Little …

I did the book Theban Plays in my first year of university, and even though I was not necessarily eager to study it, I still found that the plays inside were fairly easy to understand and learn. This was because the plays were translated into fairly simple English that …

Turnabout, a book for youths aged 10 - 15, is based on an interesting idea about extending your life. Or actually, people’s lives in general. This is one of those books that takes one scientific fact and expands upon it, as if it could happen in real life, of …

Briggs’ pronounced Texas twang and affinity for bolo ties makes it easy to dismiss him as a novelty or silly character. At his heart, however, Briggs is a journalist and a very accomplished essayist with an astounding breadth of movie knowledge.
He uses this knowledge very effectively in Profoundly …

“The Crimson Petal and the White” is a so-called neo-Victorian novel. Taking place in the Victorian England, the over eight hundred pages long book chronicles a relatively brief but very eventful period in the life of a young prostitute, called Sugar.
The protagonist is not overly pretty —“she suffers …

As we are very much considering moving to Spain we are doing everything we can to learn the Spanish language not only for us but also for our three and a half year old son.
So we have recently brought him a children’s book which is called Dora loves …

Guy Gavriel Kay is a rather prolific fantasy writer. His novels are best described as historical fiction - they exist in a romanticized and slightly disguised version of the past. His books are well-researched and detailed. A Song for Arbonne is based on the kingdoms that …

Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle has several short stories that are supposed to be thrillers. Some are hits others, like the Terror of Blue John Gap, are misses.
The one thing I like about this story is it’s told in the form of a diary so the reader really has no clue …

My daughter had library at school the other day and brought home a new book to read called So Hungry! This book was definitely meant for younger readers (and she was able to read it herself though she insisted I read it to her) but, at the same time, …

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 …

Millions of people have watched “The Secret” DVD and many more have read the book. I bought the book when it was on offer and has not regretted it since. The book is one of the most inspirational book of the century.
It identifies a law which governs the …

The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield quite a scary story altogether. There are simply too many mysteries to uncover that you will find yourself pretty scared. I was reading some pages at night and I got a bit creep out, really. And then, I had …

Sons And Lovers by D.H Lawrence is considered to be one of the greatest works of twentieth century literature. What is unique about this novel is its profound psychological insides into the complex relationships between sons and mother and between son and other women. I got this novel as …

Have you ever heard of holistic herbal..? Well I have and this book, Holistic Herbal 4th Edition: A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies by David Hoffman is so full of useful stuffs that you can just read and read and get lots of information …

Art Models 5: Life Nude Photos for the Visual Arts by Maureen Johnson and Douglas Johnson is a book which contains 1,200 poses from male and female human models. This is a resource for artists and students who would like to know more about the human anatomy and how …

Dean Koontz’s “Velocity” is a fast-pacing marvellously written thriller full of unexpected twists and surprising situations. Although the book is five hundred pages long, it’s possible to read it in no more than one or two days. The suspense is skillfully built from the very first pages, when Bill …

In this novel from the Star Wars series The New Yedi Order, the New Republic and their enemies, the Yuuzhan Vong, are at a standstill. Han and Leia’s son Jacen turn up after every one thought him dead while his sister Jaina continues going on suicide missions against the …

This book features superstar’s Todd Wilkins’ side. Todd Wilkins is the greatest basketball player in their varsity team, and everything is in perfect order —“ he has a nice girlfriend, reporter Elizabeth Wakefield, a nice group of friends, a great scholastic record, and an even greater soaring career playing …

As one of my all-time favorite authors, Karen Kingsbury has done it again.
‘Divine’ is a book of fiction whose main character, Mary Madison, is loosely made out to be a modern day Mary Magdalene.
Ms Kingsbury brings tears to your eyes as she recounts the years of physical, emotional and …

The novel which this vividly is produced is written on modulation and the non-linear format. With the slowly small dose quality makes clear, happens in advance in the novel to be possible thing is explained greatly afterwards. When the past of quality of elegant coefficient of fluidity differs, it …

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, as the name implies, is a retelling of well-known fairy tales with a modern twist. James Garner takes these old classics and rewrites them in modern style with politically correct language and wording. He is making fun of political correctness i.e. the overly …

When I had first read “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, I was surprised at two things: first, at the depth of the story, and second, at how badly distorted the story is in the movies. Instead of the traditional, beaten to death evil-monster-kills-everybody scenario, the novel deals with the complex …

Burmese Days was Orwell’s first novel. Less famous than the writer’s classic dystopias, 1984 and Animal Farm, and somewhat lacking their power and originality, this work is still high quality Orwell.
The novel deals with British colonialism in Burma in the 1930s. I found the main character, John Flory, to …

Maybe I’m just not a member of the “in crowd” when it comes to exercise, because I had never heard of plyometrics before picking up this book. However, I have to say that some of the techniques that Dr. Donald A. Chu describes in his book, “Jumping Into Plyometrics,” …

I used this book, Barron’s French, during the summer of 2009 when I went through a company-sponsored Basic French course in work premises. It’s only Canadian $18.75 and it sure is worth its price. It sure made learning the French language easy as well as enjoyable.
It works …

Another historical novel from Steve Berry and the story’s background is Russian Monarchy. He started from an illustration about the assassination of Tsar Russia Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra and His five children in Yekaterinburg, Russia. There was a mystery about his two elder children, Anastasia and Alexei. When …

Jennifer was born 25 years ago with down syndrome. Dire predictions of doctors with her, that she expected to be deaf, blind, and mentally retarded just before the age of two years. But Jennifer became one of the best graduates in high school and then go through her first …

Fruits Baskets Manga Volume 1 tells the story of Toru Honda, a high school student who is homeless and leving in a tent so she can have a place to stay until her grandpa finishes having his house renovated. One day on her way to school, she sees …

I am a big manga lover. Manga being Japanese comics. I started reading the comics when I was in college and have been reading them ever since. I normally follow the romance series and sometimes fantasy or adventure. With one of my current mangas I am reading, is a …