The title of this book, Fahrenheit 451, is a reference to the temperature that makes the paper in the books to burn. This is very related of the story that it talks about, as it speaks of a modern society where it’s not allowed to read books. The main …

This is an absolutely hilarious book. I almost peed my pants reading this book because of it’s hilarity. It has a tragic history, though, in that this is one of two books, (the other being titled Neon Bible) that John Kennedy Toole wrote before he committed suicide. Thus ensued …

I have read the book ‘The bungalow mystery’ written by Carolyn Keene. This is a book among the Nancy Drew series. As all other Nancy Drew books are, this book also is very interesting and captivating.
This mystery is a different sort of mystery. The mystery element differs from …

I have a son at 18 months who’s just starting to show all the usual toddler signs, tantrums, refusal to eat, fighting sleep and many more. I have found the book Toddler Taming by Dr.Christopher Green an absolute joy. The book is recommended as a Parents’ Guide for the …

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 …

The Death of Common Sense by Philip K. Howard
“How Law is Suffocating America”
It’s no surprise this book was a New York Times bestseller. Our chronicles a great deal of ridiculous situation in America where people’s obsession with lawsuits has led to a major decline in the way people conduct …

One of the best werewolf books I have read in a long time, 13 to Life has a little bit of everything. All of it is well written. Shannon Delany, a debut author, knows how to tell an amazing story.
The main character, Jess, is your average girl who …

I think it’s fair to say that the majority of the people who are familiar with S. Morgenstern and William Goldman’s “The Princess Bride” only are so because of the classic film adaptation made several years back. Few people realize (I myself didn’t even know this until a …

WAKE THE DEAD
Steve Niles remains arguably the best horror comic writers of the modern age.
His work in 30 Days of Night and The Nail are reflective of a genious that comics have not seen since the early days of EC’s Tales From The Crypt in the 1950’s and Warren …

A Man Lay Dead was written by Ngaio Marsh. (published by Little, Brown & Company in 1934)
This is surprisingly good for a debut; and not only that, Ngaio Marsh had introduced her protagonist exceedingly well the remarkably suave and unflappable Inspector Alleyn.
Nigel Bathgate was thrilled …

How little one needs to be happy! The sun would shine overhead, and the pockets warmed a bottle of wine and a fried chicken leg, and then the grass couldn’t grow, no matter what happens tomorrow. Maybe a vast meteorite will fall to Earth and destroy all life. So …

After reading Traveling Light and Cure for the Common Life, I was excited to get my hands on Max Lucado’s latest work: Fearless. The book detailed several common fears amongst society, including the fears of not mattering, disappointing God, failing children, no money, worst-case scenarios, the future, the apocalypse, …

Nowhere to Run is a romance mystery novel written by Jeanne Bannon. Ms Bannon has never been a new author to me as I have bought and read some of her other novels, so I was thrilled when I learnt that she had published another book called “Nowhere to …

I have read the book —˜The mystery of the tolling bell’ written by Carolyn Keene. This is a Nancy Drew book. This is a very interesting and fascinating book. I liked it very much. In this book, Nancy shows astounding courage in her investigations. The story becomes more and …

The Partner is another excellent novel by John Grisham. As usual, Grisham is highly involved in writing stories based on the legal environment, may I add, with a lot of twists and drama.
Patrick Lanigan is a former lawyer and an upcoming partner in a Mississippi Law firm. Lanigan was …

The title book, Pride & a Pregnancy Secret is a really good love story. The author of this book is none other than Tessa Radley and she has written very well that I enjoyed reading this love novel pretty much.
In Pride & a Pregnancy Secret, it starts off …

“Dracula” is a novel I have a lot of respect for, but can’t say I’ve enjoyed reading. It’s definitely a classic of Gothic literature, and it deserves to be, but for the average modern reader, who knows the story quite well, it’s not that exciting.
The characters are one-dimensional, …

Private Members by Leonie Fox is a super-delicious story about a fictitious St Benedict’s Country Club and Spa. I feel that my mind is of at a whirlwind reading and I’ve always wondered what is behind the close doors of this type of luxurious place, and I could glimpse …

If there is a book for those who wants to know the secrets of successful investing in the stock market, it is One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch. For those who are not familiar with Lynch, he is the fund manager Fidelity Fund and one of the …

Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, is the second book in the Gallagher Girls series. In this book, Cammie Morgan is still recovering from the blow of losing Josh. Then her mother (the headmistress of her school for spies) and covert operations teacher Joe Solomon, begin to act …

The Shaman Sings is the first in a mystery series by James D. Doss. The series takes place on the Southern Ute Reservation in Colorado. Daisy Perika is an elderly Ute shaman who sees visions and uses the information she gets from the vision to help the police discover …

This is one of the Sidney Sheldon novels which i read most recently. This is the most off beat novel written by Sheldon. It has nothing to do with the usual business and entrepreneurs that he writes about rather this novel is based on Aliens, global warming, military …

If you ever stepped on a snake, you definitely do not recommend, do not be surprised if the reptile suddenly turn into a woman who briefly declares that it is your mother and I live with you permanently. In any case, it happened to Hiwako, Hiromi Kawakami heroine of …

This book, Love in the Driest Season written by Neely Tucker is truly a very bittersweet and heart-wrenching story. I cried for a bit while reading some chapters in this book and Neely related his story in this kind of auto-biography about his journey with his wife, Vita in …

Winter’s Passage is a book from the Iron Fey series by the author Julie Kagawa. I downloaded this book for free for my nook from Barnes and Noble website, and was a little disappointed to discover that it’s really just a short story. It doesn’t even qualify as a …

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton is one of the remaining greatest literature from Africa, one of those that concerned about the most exposed, critical and sensitive issue in the country; apartheid. Like many twentieth-century African novels, Cry, the Beloved Country is the story of a journey, both …

Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud by Goldie Hawn is a rather awesome book. If you guys do not know who Goldie Hawn is, she is actress Kate Hudson and we know Goldie being a funny woman and all that, but underneath it all, she has been through …

“Once Aboard The Lugger” written by Arthur Quiller-Couch is a story about how a couple came to meet and fall in love.
The begins with a reverend Samuel Bax who comes to Troy to preach full time. It’s apparent that he is single, and all the women–the single ones–have their …

The romantic family story Love The One You’re With written by Emily Giffin is more like television soap rather than a novel. But it is readable for its pleasant and relatable story line. The one line plot of the book is that an ex boyfriend unexpectedly comes into life …

Immediately following the epic conclusion to the Zero Year story line issue #34 has Batman compelled to stop a serial killer who is targeting homeless and the otherwise “invisible” people of Gotham. As is the case with many one-shot stories that fall between major story lines, readers may feel …

There are many books in the market on Indian Constitution by renowned authors. But, one book that stands out from the crowd is Our Constitution by Dr. Subhash Kashyap. One can find this book in the shelf of all students of the Indian Constitution. I am no exception. I …

I have read the book, The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller and I don’t think that the book is that great. It does have a great and mysterious start though about this woman marrying the man of her dreams or something but having the very rushed feeling of getting …

Jack Kerouac has written this rather unknown to the wide public book of poetry - if one has to categorize it to a section of literature - ten years before his death, on 1969.
Kerouac, never clear and concise in his writing style, yet mesmerizing and captivating as always, has …

When my daughter turned one year old she became interested in books, although she can’t read yet she loves to scheme through it. when she turned one year and six months somebody offered me an encyclopedia package but then again I can’t afford it One time we went to …

“People are only mean when they’re threatened.”
This is one of the wonderful lessons that I’ve learned with the book. ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ is truly a remarkable book. Unlike any other best-selling books, this one has a different kick on the audience. Some books may have challenged the intellect 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. …

This book was the sweetest and most lovely thing that I have ever seen and read. The book is quite expensive for $8.95 and you can only read it in less than a minute as it’s a child’s illustration book, but once you read it, you’ll want to memorize …

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 …

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 …

The fourth book in Stephen Coonts’ Deep Black series has the National Security Agency’s covert team going somewhere that the NSA’s Deep Black has never been before, at least through the stories we have seen already, South America. Despite the continuity issues(in the previous installment it was revealed that …

When looking at the cover of this novel which was published in 1980, the first thing which struck me was the title of the book which was written in old English text. What was so fascinating about it too was the fact that I found that I was unable …

I was very much entertained by Jane Austen’s Pre-Victorian world as introduced by Pride and Prejudice. I couldn’t leave too soon while enjoyment was palpably felt, and so I kept up with her next novel Emma. It is said to be her best novel, at least according …

I love this book title, Calico Canyon by Mary Connealy very much. The story is about Grace Calhoun and the 5 Reeves boy. Grace is forced to marry Daniel and he is the father of these 5 rascals.
The book is very funny and sometimes made me …

ULTIMATE SPIDERMAN #1 “Power and Responsibility”
Brian Micheal Bendis hit the ball out of the park with this one!
For those not familiar, the Ultimate line is Marvel’s remaking/updating their classic heroes’ original storylines and, while hit and miss occassionally, overall, they are very well done.
Ultimate Spiderman retells Spidey’s origina and …

Alright, this is an awesome book. Title is Literacy And Longing In L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack. These 2 authors combined and collaborating into authoring this book is really awesome and the story inside ain’t that bad.
The main heroine of this story is none …

Book one of the Gideon series was not too bad. There are four books in total. Eric Jerome Dickey is an African American author and the main character of this series is the same race. The story is about a hit-man named Gideon and his exploits in his job …

The Dirty Duck was written by Martha Grimes and published by Dell Publishing in 1988.
I am very delighted by this story to read about the slightly uncomfortable interaction between the so-formal, proper British and the direct, expressive Americans. The meeting of the two cultures is …

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 …

This easy reader for children has been around for a long time. Frog and Toad were popular characters when I was a kid.
This book is made up of several stories using simple vocabulary, and are intended for kids who are starting to read on their own, but might need …

M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link is the 7th book in Robert Asprin’s Myth series, although it was the third book in the series that I have read. It is also my favorite of the Myth books I have read.
M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link takes a very different course from its predecessors, something …