Books Reviews
New Fashion Figure Templates: Over 250 Templates (Book)
New Fashion Figure Templates: Over 250 Templates
By Patrick Ireland
“New Fashion Figure Templates: Over 250 Templates” by Patrick Ireland is a figure drawing book which was recommended to me by a friend and fellow fashion design student. I had already purchased figure drawing books; however, every perspective to a subject …
Wedding Planning For Dummies
Wedding planning for dummies, written by Marcy Blum and Laura Fisher Kaiser, provides every possible information on how to plan a wedding. Both these authors are well-known - especially for their works on how to go get wed. They have authored this book as a perfect guide for organizing …
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Like a lot of people my favorite past time is reading. I would much rather do that then watch television or a movie. It just allows me to relax and put myself into another world. I think that one of my all time favorite books has got to be …
The Merchant’s Mark - Pat McIntosh
This is the third book in the series about Gil Cunningham, a young lawyer living in Glasgow around 1500. The story starts when Gil meets an old friend, the Glasgow merchant Augie Morison. When unloading one of Augie’s deliveries, they find a severed head instead of the delivery of books …
Keeping Moon by Sarah Dessen
Keeping The Moon is a very inspirational novel to me and to other young girls. At the first chapters, I though it was boring and doesn’t really have an interesting plot but after a few chapters, the story became more and more interesting.
It is about a 15-year-old girl named …
Gossip Girl Novels
I have read several of these novels, and while they are appropriate for college kids and adults, they are NOT appropriate for young kids. I was in a bookstore over the weekend and I overheard what looked like a 9 or 10 year old talking about how she had …
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing by Paul Erdman
“The Billion Dollar Sure Thing” is probably the best of Paul Erdman\’s early books. Published in 1973, the book deals with desire of the money to devalue the US dollar in relation to both foreign currencies and against gold. For those of us who don’t know a lot about …
The Big Book of More Sports Insults
At work a couple of years a go we did a secret Santa and I my present was a book called “The Big Book of More Sports Insults”. The book has a thousand and one quips and quotes in it. It is written by Jonathan L’Estrange and …
Being Elizabeth by Barbara Taylor Bradford
This story is boring at times, but quite a progressive story. Being Elizabeth by Barbara Taylor Bradford is for readers whom love historical romances type of story with a twist of modernity. Modern being the fact that Elizabeth, a woman being assigned the task of handling a business …
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The author J.R.R. Tolkien is very well known for books like The Hobbit or The Lord of the rings. I can understand the fame of this author, as the books that he has written are a completely different world.
About The Hobbit, this book was published in 1937, and relates …
Nodame Cantabile volume 17
In the volume number 17 of Nodame Cantabile we finally get to know Chiaki’s father. He’s forced to go to see his son’s concert, and when Chiaki notices in the middle of it, he gets so nervous that he fails at his conducting. That will make him behave in …
Harry Potter Book 7
Harry Potter has become like a magical as well as cultural phenomenon around the word with book fans. JK Rowling started these series and finished them long time ago, about like 17 years ago. At that time, she was poor and couldn’t even pay for canned foods but she …
The Sword and the Flame by Stephen Lawhead
“The Sword and the Flame” by Stephen Lawhead, Book 3 of the Dragon King Series, puts Quentin, the protagonist, through a real test. The story had started with Quentin as a young boy serving as an acolyte in a temple of Arin. Since then, Quentin has found the true …
The Autobiography of Special Agent Dale Cooper
The Autobiography of Special Agent Dale Cooper has the subtext —˜My Life, My Tapes’ and on the inside cover it says —˜As heard by Scott Frost’, so he wrote it. I think Dale Cooper is my all-time favourite television character so he is of course, a fictional person …
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
I have read The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and it is a moving story and a true one at that by Jeannette Walls herself. She works for MSNBC and is currently happily married and living in the US with her husband.
Her story since childhood wasn’t a happy journey …
Schooled by Gordon Korman
Schooled is a clever, funny book, a newer one by Gordon Korman. It lacks the lightness of his earlier MacDonald Hall series, but is, to be honest, much better than his Island or Falconers series.
While each of the characters seems fairly one dimensional, they all round each other …
Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy by Frances Mayes
This book titled, Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy, written by Frances Mayes is one of my most favorite books to read of all times. I bought it on ebay and that was when one of my friend recommended a link to it and I found the …
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
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 …
Supreme Pocket Master Computer Dictionary
Supreme Pocket Master Computer Dictionary is a nice book from Kalra Publications Pvt. Ltd. This book contains the explanation of all important keywords in Computer field from A-Z. It has the keywords like ASCII, Buffer, Data, Mainframe, Mail, Operating System, Process, Security, etc. All the keywords …
Red Sky In The Morning by Elizabeth Laird
I read this Novel back in the late 1990s, after chancing upon it during a garage sales of a bookshop.
I bought it as I thought it was cheap and I needed a book to pass my free time. Well, I must say that the title was the only unique …
Creation in Death by J D Robb AKA Nora Roberts
I have just finished the 25th book in the Death Series by J D Robb AKA Nora Roberts, Creation in Death. I love this series first of all because it takes place in New York City, a place that I live in for almost 60 years. I love it …
On Writing (Stephen King)
This part memoir, part how to guide by Stephen King is a great read. Even if you’ve no aspiration to write yourself, the opening stretch where King recalls his childhood, his difficult years spent working night shifts and the beginnings of his alcoholism whilst waiting for his break and …
The New 8-Week Cholesterol Cure by Robert Kowalski
Just for $7.99, and by reading this book written by Robert Kowalski, a heart patient before, I have learnt a great deal, especially in how to jump start my cholesterol reduction. I do not have any heart ailing, and I hope so not for the future, but this …
Every Good Woman Deserves A Lover
This book was borrowed to me by my mom, and it is a very nice story about family crisis, middle-age crisis and love troubles in a marriage stuck in a rut. It tells about Sasha, who is bored with her domestic life. She felt like life no …
Bite Me If You Can by Lynsay Sands
This is another great paranormal romance book that I had a hard time putting down before I finished it. Great read! Bite Me If You Can is another great read from Lynsay Sands that continues the story of the Argeneau family who are all vampires. This story …
The Narrows by Michael Connelly
There are certain FBI novel books that I really dig and this one that I’ve read before: The Narrows, written by Michael Connelly is really a good novel enough to be made into a movie in my best opinion. It has a woman FBI agent, naming Rachel Walling, whom …
The Anime Trivia Quizbook: Episode 1
I have no problem admitting that I’m an Otaku, and I pride myself on having a nearly bottomless well of seemingly random information. Every time I see a show that I love, particularly one that happens to come from Japan, I watch it, and soak up as much background …
Fire and Ice by Erin Hunter
Fire and Ice is a great book that can exite you no matter what you think about books. Erin Hunter is the best of the best when you come down to authors. Hunter can inspire kids to start reading and will help them in their time alone. This book …
Autumn Bridge book
This book is a continuation of the novel Cloud of Sparrows, with a page that is thicker and more complex story. In this book the various problems that a mystery in the first book will revealed. For example, where the descendants of Okumichi have clairvoyance, the reason for the …
House of Dark Shadows written by Robert Liparulo
Trying to encourage a teenager to read outside of school seems to be a universal struggle with both parents and teachers. But a couple of weeks ago my teen brother did it! He could not stop talking about the novel “House of Dark Shadows”. So, while …
Free Money to Change Your Life by Matthew Lesko
Free Money to Change Your Life is a book by Matthew Lesko, if you do not know his name I would bet that you know him as the man from television who runs around with the question mark suit. He claims that he can get you free money from …
24 Hours by Jo Leigh
24 Hours, written by Jo Leigh, costs about $9.95, and there are 3 stories in this story. The first one is Minute by Minute, whereby Meg Becker has met a man online, and has been having ‘cyber sex’ with him. She has yet to meet him, and …
Makeup Your Mind by Francois Nars
I love this book, Makeup Your Mind by Francois Nars. Reading this, I have a very great insight on the before and after of a make-up and this is especially handy because I’m always looking forward to having a perfect made-up face. I love experimenting with make-up and …
Anodea Judith - Wheels Of Life
Wheels Of Life, a book focused around the primary chakra by Anodea Judith, is a wonderful guide of explanations and exercises involving the seven primary chakras in the human body: root, sacra, solar plexus, heart, throat, third eye, and crown. For those of you …
Dan Brown Origin book
Dan Brown’s books are now read and praised all over the world and all of that is because of his bestseller “The Da Vinci Code”. Because of that every new book that famous American writer releases automatically gets a crazy amount of attention, as well as the pressure to …
The Number Power Series Math Books
The Number Power Series math books are among the best I have ever used for teaching developmental mathematics. The books are produced by Contemporary; a Chicago based educational book publishing company. The series is numbered one through seven and covers mathematics from the most basic operations to Algebra …
The Reader by Bernard Schlink
The Reader by Bernard Schlink in such a darn good novel I couldn�t put it down. I devoured the entire 218 pages in one sitting. It was that good. It is about a 15 year old young man, named Michael, who gets sick on his way …
Medalon by Jennifer Fallon
Medalon is the first book in Jennifer Fallon’s Hythrun Chronicles. Medalon is the name of a secular country surrounded by religous neighbours. It is ruled by the Sisters of the Blade, an Aetheist cult, that takes prosecuting the pagan followers of the many gods to fervent extremes.
The …
The Brazilian Cat
I’m not a huge fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s so-called horror stories. But, I will admit, I liked his story, The Brazilian Cat.
The story, told in first person, is about a man who visits his wealthy cousin in an effort to find some relief from his financial difficulties. …
Circle of Magic:Sandry’s Book by Tamora Pierce
This is the first book in the Circle of Magic quartet. The story revolves around 4 young children who have magic and their adventures together.
This particular book focus mainly on Sandry (or Sandrilene fa Toren), a noble child with thread magic. Together with her other 3 friends - Tris, …
Drop Dead Gorgeous by Linda Howard
Linda Howard’s novel, Drop Dead Gorgeous is the second novel in her Blair Mallory series. The heroine, Blair Mallory is not only sexy and gorgeous but also hilariously funny. This is one of the top Linda Mallory books to read. It’s not only a romantic book but also a …
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
I appreciate fiction since it elevates imagination. I personally feel imagination stimulates your mind. I wanted to read this award winning book during the first two months of its release,but never had the chance until recently.
As a reader I was captivated by Pi’s (the protagonist)survival saga stranded on a …
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