I never actually bought this book, but instead received it as a gift from a friend of mine when I was about seven years old. When I got it though, I was a little turned off by the illustration on the front even though I had already developed an …

My job entails lots of traveling. In a month, most of the days are spent overseas. That is why when I saw this book while I was in forage for some materials to read on my next rip, I grabbed it and immediately paid for it. As I enjoy …

We found this delightful book in the children’s section of our local library. It is the Usborne edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, beautifully illustrated by Serena Riglietti. The story of the mischief caused by fairies on Midsummer Night in the forest is enchantingly encapsulated in this small hardcover …

Borders Books is one of my favorite places to shop for books, movies, and music in Knoxville. I’ve gotten into something of a routine. I like to go in and get a tall coffee from their cafe, then walk around and pick out a few good books …

When it comes to anything related to cooking, I feel as if I am always the last to know about amazing cooking products or great cooking television shows. America’s Test Kitchen has been airing on PBS since 2001, and I just discovered it a few months ago and fell in …

A friend of mine suggested I read this book because it is a classic example of a particular form of writing in the American South. I was not at all expecting this book to be the way it was. I have read the author’s first novel, …

He sounds so strong. So vibrant. So alive.
Patrick Swayze and his wife, Lisa Niemi, wrote Patrick’s memoir in the summer of 2009. They also recorded it as an audio book which was completed just a few weeks before Patrick’s death on September 14, 2009.
When you listen …

This seems to be a really popular book, considering it got up to 24th on the New York Times list. But Dogs and Goddesses by Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart, and Lani Diane Rich, didn’t feel like a bestseller to me.
The story itself was good, with interesting events and …

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 …

I was amused by this absurd novel from two teachers’ lives, covering one academic year. The book is funny, clever, in some places unexpectedly harsh and even pretending to be serious.
But the theme itself somehow stubbornly prevented me from thinking, so FLESH remained in the realm of the …

Recently I have bought a book from an online store. The book is about herbal treatment of overall body. It seemed nice to me and I decided to give it a try.
At the outset, I must say that Glow Herbal is a very nice book from the Times Group. …

The Second Reel West by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg Eds.
I confess to liking westerns. It’s a bit of a guilty pleasure, but I like them. I like reading western books and watching western movies, at times I even think about writing one. The Second Reel West is …

This is a book filled with suspense, drama, and like a lot of other books, romance. I felt the author did a great job at disguising the identity of the killer. She led you in the direction of many suspects, so it made it kind of hard …

A family member had bought the book “High Tech, High Hope” by the author Paul Franson for me when I was in high school, because at the time I had manifested some interest in someday going into the field of Information Technology. By the time the person had gotten …

“The Open Window” written by H.H Munro is about a man named Framton Nuttel who has ventured to a new town to endure nerve cure treatments. His sister does not want him going to the new town and closing himself off from the other town people; she sends him …

I tend to stay from books such as the title here, The Age of American Unreason, written by Susan Jacoby because it plays around with the word controversy. There are so many elements in this book that could be debated and as a reader, I have had the …

Normally I love reading classic Star Trek novels with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, but this one was just horrible. It was vastly different from the other books in the series and I just could not get interested in the tale no matter how many pages I read.
I think …

Dr. Myss is an amazing pioneer and writer in the field of energy medicine, and I find her writing thought-provoking and enjoyable. In the Anatomy of Spirit (the Seven Stages of Power and Healing) she finds and explores parallels between the spiritual traditions of the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life, …

There are tons of great books out there these days and it is the duty of the internet reviewer to find the books that are the best in order to save readers time and effort. Though not everyone has the same taste in books the book “The Mistress of …

Resurrection Men was written by Ian Rankins and published by Orion Books, 2003.
It is fun, reading about Detective Inspector John Rebus, his eccentricities and unconventional behavior. When I first started with this book, I thought that it was in style that he would resort to such bad manners …

I have read the book —˜The World of Peace’ by J. Krishnamurti. This is a very good book. It is interesting to read for anybody who wishes to think about the various problems, conflicts and disorder that is troubling the world. This book consists of six chapters. Four chapters …

I’m still a relative newcomer to the world of “Hellboy”. I enjoyed the movies and have picked up a few trades as well as collecting some of the recent arcs in individual issues. Still, I’m not well versed in Mignola’s mythology. As such, it made this …

Lunch Money, by Gordon Korman, is an excellent book. It has a continual thrill that keeps the reader dying to know what will happen next. It has all about a sixth grader who loves money, dreams of becoming rich, and then tries to make his dream actually …

“Bad Childhood Goodlife” is a very wonderful book to help get through some of the feelings of loss when we have had a bad childhood.
I initially bought the book to read so I could help a young girl get a good start in life after having a …

I was bought this book for my 20th birthday by my friends who know how much of a fan I am of this woman, and from an avid fan’s perspective I definitely think it’s worth the read, and even to someone who simply wants to read a good book …

This book is number five in a series by Craig Johnson. The wonderful thing about this series is you don’t have to read it as a series. Each book is its own independent story. This story in particular takes the main character away from his normal crew and into …

‘The King of Torts’ is a novel written by John Grisham (who is one of my favourite authors). It is a skillfuly written novel which higlights the way man\’s mind works. No matter how much wealth a person amasses, he still desires to have more. The book speaks of …

Wrath James Wright wrote a terrifying and harrowing novel in the Resurrectionist. One thing I loved about this book was its unique and original premise. Dale is a young man with a godlike power — he can resurrect the newly dead. He discovers his power when …

My friend recommended this book to me. She said she’d read it about two to three years ago and that she had enjoyed it at the time, and she suggested that I give it a go (since at the time I had absolutely nothing to read). So I went …

The Beach House by Jane Green is an awesome read! I thought in the beginning that it’s going to be a real long and boring story, but I was wrong.
It tells the story of a widow woman named Nan and how she manages to bring back life …

I borrowed the book The End of Advertising as We Know It from the library the other day. This book is written by Sergio Zyman and Armin Brott. My friend told me that the book’s price is around $27 or something. That is really lucky of …

The Gossip Girl series of eight books takes a group of hot, hip New York teens through their senior year of high school at prestigious private schools. From posh parties to winter break in the Caribbean, you can read all of the fabulous details. The books don’t …

The Boy Called It is the first in a set of three, written by David Pelzer. The story is written completely through the eyes of a child. The first story, beautifully written but absolutely heartbreaking. It is unbelieveable to think that something like this could go on. I was …

James Bassil wrote this book title, The Guy’s Guide to Romance: The 11 Rules for Finding a Woman & Making Her Happy. This is a book from the site AskMen.com and though I’m not a guy, I’m more than happy to be reading this book and find out the …

You will not want to miss this one. Helene Berr is an extrodinary young woman growing up in the time of Hitler and the Germans.
Helen writes of her life from 1942 to 1944 in Paris before the occupation by the Germans. Helen is a very talented young …

Each of us knows the orcs - a wild, dirty and extremely evil race. These creatures are one of the main races in almost every fantasy work. They are the servants of the Dark Lord and are completely subjected to his will. They also form an integral part of …

Books are powerful tools in permanent modification of our behaviors. Trough this we could learn so many things that we could either apply or discard. But usually every time we would read a book that inspires us we tend to follow what the book says and apply the principles and …

Chii’s Sweet Home is a manga by Konami Kanata. The manga is a six volume manga with the genres of comedy and slice of life. The manga is about the life of Chii, a kitten with black stripes and his adventures with a boy named Youhei and his parents.
This …

Batman: Year Three 1 of 4 is a comic issue series about Dick Grayson’s origin story of how he became Robin and takes place after A Death In The Family by Jim Starlin. Tony Zucco, the man who killed Dick Grayson’s parents is about to be released …

18 Seconds is written by George D. Shuman, and it costs about $6.99. The story talks about Investigative Consultant, Sherry Moore, and she is not only stunning, but very beautiful as well. She was nearly dead before, when she was left on the steps of a city …

This is the second girls novel form the Clique series. This one is called Best Friends fro Never. It is in Westchester duing the times of Hallowen. Massie is planning a boys girls party. Thats when the bega of the Pretty Committee finds a new friend and starts her …

I have been a fan of Meg Cabot’s novels for quite some time now. I enjoyed every one of her teen and adult books, excluding The Princess Diaries which I never really liked. As soon as I heard about Airhead I had to buy it. The synopsis sounded intriguing …

There are few comic books out there that have the mystique of Cerebus. In fact, no other comic book really can. It is the longest running series ever in history to have the same writer/artist throughout, and is certainly one of the most famous independent comic books …

After passing the period in which Nostradamus scared me with his apocalyptic predictions, land of prophets not interested me at all. That is why, the name Edgar Cayce did not say a word to me nor I expected to find myself in this book a modern Nostradamus: perhaps just …

Being a software engineer working in a company developing an application in the C# language, it is very natural that I took an interest in the book “C# For Programmers Second Edition By Dietel”.
We have two copies of this book in our office. I think that this book is …

Now this was a really really good story. But the one criticism that I have, is that it definitely didn’t feel like a horror tale. The tale begins where the narrator describes the passionate hatred that she has for her father. As the story progresses, you …

I read this book because I read Inkheart, also by Cornelia Funke, and loved it —“ and the Thief Lord actually looked like more my style than Inkheart did. It looked a little bit dark (but coming from Cornelia Funke I knew it would also be charming), intriguing, …

A Guilty Thing Surprised was written byRuth Rendell, published by Ballantine Books in 1975.
There is always a cache of hidden secrets in Ruth Rendell’s stories - unsavory and ugly, even among the rich and beautiful. The ugliness here involved a seemingly naïve but vain, pampered woman, who …

I love to read books, of fiction and non-fiction. Recently, I was reading a series novel, and it was the first series, called the Rookie Club (Signet). This story made me read it on and off, and after about 2 weeks, I have finished reading it.
This story …

If ever there was a book that made you want to get in touch with the family and friends you haven’t seen in years it is this one! Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom is a fantastic read. This is a true story, an autobiographical account of how the …