“Edwina The Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct” by Mo Willems is an enchanting tale that not only entertains but teaching children about friendship. The cartoons images are adorable and child-like and will make for a great story for your children to read.
This story is about a local …

Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs is the fourth installment of her Mercy Thompson series. For those that are new to the series or have never read it, Mercedes Thompson is a VW mechanic working in the Tri-cities in Washington. She’s
also a shape shifter, turning into a coyote at will, …

Memory and Dreams is a modern-day fantasy about an artist who is able to bring the subjects of her paintings to life.
Isn’t this what a lot of us with physical creativity (writing, painting, etc.) long to be able to do? As a writer myself, I have often dreamed of …

I simply love the book title, What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self by Ellyn Spragins, simply said. This book features a lot of authors that I really love reading their individual books. The authors range from Nora Roberts right up to Madeline Albright and many …

Frost Dancers is a fantasy adventure book by Garry Kilworth, who these days is probably rather better known for his science fiction writing but who I generally think is better at this type of story. As the subtitle, “A Story of Hares”, indicates, it is an animal fantasy, which …

‘Miracles through Pranic healing’ is a book written by Master Choa Kok Sui, a writer of Philippines. Master Choa is also a businessman. He is also a master pranic healer. Master Choa is an international lecturer and author.
This book deals with paranormal healing. This book is written in simple …

I love reading this book, which my mom bought for me for about $6.99. She thinks that I really need to calm myself down.
The author of this book is Fred L. Miller, and he has done some great writings, exploring why people stressed out, and ways of calming …

A friend of mine recommended this book to me — not on the basis of it being a very good read, but because she said I could read it in a couple hours. She was wrong. It took me several days to read this book, because it was so …

Authored by Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” is a magical fable about following your dream. It is an international best-seller having sold more than 65 million copies and has been translated into 56 languages so far.
The protagonist of the story is a young shepherd boy called Santiago who lives in …

My friends have been raving over The Hunger Games for quite a while now and I decided to see what the fuss was all about. I just finished reading the first book in the trilogy a few days ago and I have to say that it is indeed …

This review is for Come Back, a novel by Mia and Claire Fontaine. The memoir is nothing short of extraordinary. The book is a memoir, although I am not sure if anything was embellished, a la James Frey. It seems frank and honest, painfully so.
The book starts in the …

‘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 …

We went to a book store on the boardwalk at tour beach vacation recently and I told my toddler he could pick out a new book. He went over to the shelf and immediately, without hesitation, went straight for this book. He is a major dinosaur enthusiast …

In this book, the ninth book in the Hardy Boys series for preteen boys by Franklin W. Dixon, Frank and Joe Hardy are yet again involved in a mystery. They have been hired to find out what is happening to plane shipments - shipments are appearing at their destinations …

I didn’t know that this book title, Obsession which is written by Jonathan Kellerman, is so popular only after I have finished reading it. The book has been translated to about 2 dozen languages, mind you! And I only knew about that when another great friend of …

I have read Larry A. Thompson’s book Shine, twice now and absolutely love it. Published in 2005 this book states on the front cover that its ‘A Powerful 4-Step Plan for Becoming a Star in Anything You Do’.
Larry A. Thompson has a winner on his hand with this self …

I hated this book. I hated the fact that the cover was so much better than the rest of the book. I initially borrowed this book from my dorm mate because my cousin told me that it’s a nice book. Well it’s not. Let me tell …

I wasn’t expecting much from this book - it seemed a bit gimmicky - a child with a special ability is sent away to a special school. Sound familiar?
But Victoria Forrester managed to make the story dynamic and interesting, with a sweet, somewhat naive main character, Piper McCloud …

I had to read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier for summer reading. At first, I had heard a lot of stuff about this book that it was boring and bad. I read this book and I thought it was pretty good. The book was really descriptive and it made …

Growing up Wacky Wednesday was one of my favorite books. I would go to my school’s library every week and would check it out over and over again just so I could enjoy reading it. When I was informed about my son’s school having a backwards day I knew …

Like any other women, I have watched relationships fall apart. I was always wondering what was wrong, why it didn’t work out and I continued like this, blamming myself or the other person, being hurt and suffering. I have had on/off relationships or friends-with-benefits relationships, which I …

Throughout the years I had heard many mentions of the persona H.P. Lovecraft, however, despite my usual willingness to learn about anything that piqued my interest I never did investigate. It was a close companion, my boyfriend, who eventually got me to understand who this great man was, …

Galapagos is not the most commonly cited of Kurt Vonnegut’s books, but it is my personal favorite. Like all of his books it teaches about life with the classic Vonnegut wit.
Galapagos recounts the story of travellers on the maiden voyage of the cruise ship “El Bahia del Darwin” …

The print on this book caught my eye on the book stand at our bookstore, it featured a woman in an elegant eggplant cocktail dress sitting on couch, her legs were spread evenly and casually and you can’t really see her face as it’s only half-shown, but I could …

When I picked up this book I felt an immense sense regret: why did I even start the first book in the first place? I wouldn’t have had to read this book if it wasn’t for the fact that I’d read the previous two.
So now apparently Belly and …

Honus and Me, an adventure book by Dan Gutman is really a great book about the old baseball legend Honus Wagner. If you love baseball books that have a good story line then you will love “Honus and Me”. I love how Dan Gutman really got inside of …

Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft is a powerful treatise on the value and intellectual rigor of working with your hands, particularly when that work is done for someone else. His credentials are those that would fit someone with his old job, the manager of a think-tank on …

I’ve always been a fan of the Goosebumps Series. I’ve read them since i was a small child. the Give Yourself Goosebumps Series is a branch off of the original Goosebumps Series, which allows one to have an adventure right at home! This is one of the main reasons …

Pour Your Heart Into It by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang, Hyperion, New York, 1997, 351 pages.
This is a biography of Schultz, the founder of Starbucks, and the Starbucks Coffee Company itself. If you want to know how Starbucks invaded every known street corner in almost every …

In my country, CXC examinations or CSEC as they are now called is one of the most basic external examinations done in most high schools. It is actually a Caribbean exam, similar to O-levels in Britain and the UK, except it has more of a Caribbean basis. When I …

The Marriage Bed is a very delightful story, written by Laura Lee Guhrke. This is a very good author, and her powerful vocabulary takes the breath out of me. She really has some nice amazing words being used, and my English has been improved tremendously just by …

Ghost in the Shell is a manga, or graphic novel, by Masamune Shirow. I was first drawn to the book by the author’s intense cyber-themed illustrations, but I found the story pretty impressive. It’s about a futuristic Section 9 police that hunts down cyber criminals. The lead character, …

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, …

Killing Floor is written by Lee Child, and I bought it for about $7.99. My friend told me that this is a pretty good author, and I bought and read it to find out more.
This story describes what could happen in a military gone wrong. There is …

The first JLA trade was a sole story made up of only a couple of isses. The second was a bigger trade, but comprise of several smaller stories. This one takes the best of both worlds and gives us a single story in a thicker trade. The results …

Shivers was a series of books written by the writer M.D. Spencer. In fact, I think they came out around the same time that the other series of books, Goosebumps, which were written by the writer R.L. Stine came out in the nineties. When I read a few books …

Dave Ramsey’s book “The Total Money Makeover” has changed the way I think about my financial situation. The book is so motivating and smart. My husband and I have been trying to get out of debt for a while now but can’t seem to even make a dent …

“Heaven, Texas” was the first book by Susan Elizabeth Phillips that I read. I literally read the entire book standing in the aisle of the bookstore where I first saw it and laughed out loud every once in a while which, I believe, caused people to look at me …

“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 …

A good book.
Personally,I can give a high score to the presidential memoirs.Some people joked about the thick and length of this book,some are just kindly enough to say,”It is a nice book.”
It took me a month to go through it and after I finished it,it struct to me that …

I actually read this book after reading his second book. I thought that from the title it was more of a biography and not necessarily about the dogs. In Be the Pack Leader, he makes several references to this book so I gave in and got one. The first …

I read the Patriot, a book that was based on the movie that you may have seen. While might not believe me, but I read the book before I ever saw the movie, and I am sure glad I did. For one, I was never a reader and I …

The next book of the Meredith Gentry series took the characters into the Sithen. This book was different in the sense that the setting changes considerably. We are no longer in modern times its like we’ve gone back in time. But its still present day.
The fairies live differently than …

What to Expect When You’re Expecting, What to Expect the First Year, and What to Expect the Toddler Years are essential reference books to have when you are starting a family. I would think after being through pregnancy once, I wouldn’t have needed the book so much. …

Mental Strength (Condition Your Mind, Achieve Your Goals), written by Iain Abernethy and this book has touched my raw nerve reading it pretty much. The contents proved to me that I have perhaps a weaker sense of mental strength and at times, strong. The book is not …

I think there are about six or seven books in this entire series of educational books, and judging from the picture on the cover from books one to six, my first guess was that the books were written some time in the seventies. In fact, when I looked on …

I have read the book —˜Nancy’s mysterious letter’ written by Carolyn Keene. This is one among the Nancy Drew series. This is a rather boring book. I could not find any interesting content in it.
Nancy receives a letter from London which was most unexpected. This was not a …

This novel starts with promise, you learn much about the characters very early. Susan Jagger is suffering from agoraphobia, fear of open spaces, causing her to have intense panic attacks. Her friend Martie Rhodes helps her with her phobia and Susan attends a psychiatrist named Dr. Ahriman, who happens …

Extremely Hot by Jennifer Apodaca is mediocre. I find the plots pretty much used in lots of other novels as well as movies. It is perhaps similar. Starts out with Ivy York who is a very popular DJ and she is sort of like the ‘aunt agony’ …

My husband bought me The Mother of All Pregnancy Books when I first found out I was expecting. I know he did a significant amount of research and chose the top rated book on amazon, but man was this book a disappointment. I suppose it wasn’t necessarily …