Okay, seems that Mars and Venus on a Date (A Guide for Navigating the 5 Stages of Dating to Create a Loving and Lasting Relationship)is a really long and massive title. But this self-help book really scores points with me and I mean a lot of points at …

“A Pocket Full of Rye” written by the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie is a mystery featuring Miss Jane Marple.
Rex Fortescue has been poisoned Inspector Neele has been called in on the case. Surprisingly a pocket full of rye is found in his suit pocket.
Two …

How Not to Look Old by Charla Krupp is basically about not looking old basically. It lists off tips and steps that are simple and very easy to follow through. The author is very forthright in her advices here and you will be happy to follow through everything.
Though …

If you are looking for a good book to read during those rainy and cold days, read The Bride’s Baby by Liz Fielding and the two main characters are none other than Sylvie Smith and Tom McFarlane.
This is a fantastic love book but an accidental baby bump on …

“Saladin” by author: Anne-Marie Edde. The book is translated from the French by: Jane Marie Todd. (Harvard University)
Saladin: in 1187 (the Muslim Militaristic leader) was able to capture the city of Jerusalem. He captured the city from the descendents of the Christian crusaders. …

“Stalking the Divine” by Kristin Ohlson, ISBN 1-4013-0025-1 tells the nonfiction story of Ohlson’s search for spiritual fulfillment and meaning to her life in middle age. She meets the Sisters of Poor Clare’s a cloistered monastery and writes of the monastery and the sisters in this book. Ohlson is …

I wouldn’t ordinarily buy a book like this because a lot of the content is available for free on the internet, but having received it as a gift I did enjoy it. Wrapped-Up Foxtrot by Bill Amend contains the final daily strips because Amend is no longer doing daily …

The PCAT is the test students must take before applying to pharmacy school, so it is therefore an extremely important test. Before taking the PCAT, I bought the 2008-2009 edition of the Kaplan PCAT book. I found it to be extremely detailed and very helpful. Kaplan teaches classes from …

ESSENTIAL PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDERMAN Vol 1
In the 1970’s, Marvel decided to give Spiderman, who was appearing regularly in Amazing Spider Man and Marvel Team Up, a second solo book. This effectively cashed in on his popularity and gave fans another monthly book to read and also infused …

Monsoon, one of twelve Wilbur Smith novels in the widely-followed Courtney series, catapults us back to days of the powerful Dutch East India shipping company. Set in the days when piracy didn’t mean
illegal optical media copying but instead sailors with cutlasses and eye-patches plundering ships for booty and it’s …

I did not care for Jennifer Weiner’s “The Guy Not Taken”. This book is a collection of eleven short stories. The stories range from a girl trying to win someone’s heart to wondering about ex loves.
Each story started off great. The story lines were good, with …

I highly suggest you read “Weep No More, My Lady” by Mary Higgins Clark. It is a really great book that I found to be fast moving.
The book is about Elizabeth Lange trying to find out who murdered her sister. All fingers point to Ted Winters, her …

This book, a classic Poirot, is a very complicated novel. One thing I really enjoyed about it is the way that, in the end, everything wrapped up so very neatly. I know that that is not how it is in real life, but it was very satisfying to be …

Odd as it may sound, there was a time when the Justice League of America was not made up of DC’s biggest heroes. On the contrary, it was populated with lesser known characters and even took on a more comedic tone.
Now, those comics are great and I highly recommend …

The League of Extraordinary Gentleman Vol 2
The big screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s controversial comic series was nothing more than a third rate X-Men clone and avoided the subversive nature the books epitomized.
This second collection of the comic stories retells the HG Wells classic, WAR OF THE WORLDS and …

I stumbled across this book (published by Da Capo Press), when it was mentioned in a newspaper article by someone who had gone to live in a remote part of France, far away from neighbours and chance intruders. “Party of One” was referenced as a kind of gospel …

Kingdom Hearts Manga Volume 1 is a graphic novel adapted from the video game by Shiro Amano. It tells the story of Sora, Riku and Kairi, three friends who live on an island that want to go out and see other worlds so they build a raft …

“Curious George Flies A Kite,” written by Margret Rey and illustrated by H.A. Rey is another annoying entry in the Curious George series of books, which I find incredibly overrated.
This book features Curious George doing a lot of pointless things like playing with rabbits, trying to fish, and attempting …

Indigo’s Star is a book by Hilary McKay, and is part of a series of books which begins with Saffy’s Angel. It’s a fun and fresh book for preteen and younger teen girls, although it is a nice read even if you are older.
In this book, the main point …

I don’t think there is a need to introduce an author like Gerald Durrell. Because people who love animals so much that they devote their whole life to them cannot be bad.
I got acquainted with the books of this amazing writer in my distant childhood. I admire his amazing …

Tom Clancy’s Debt Of Honour tells the story of a cabal of Japanese businessmen who put up a nonentity as their Prime
Minister and launch a war and economic attack on the United States. The US initially reels back, but rallies again to utterly defeat the Japanese. In this …

Although I’m not a big fan of crime thrillers, I think it is necessery to salute the man who sold more copies of his books than the feeble books of Dan Brown and (especially) Stephanie Meyer. Stieg Larsson has created absolutely wonderful images and a fascinating action that highly …

This book is sort of a continuation of Welcome to Temptation, only focussing more on Davy Dempsey. The main characters of Welcome to Temptation get a brief mention, this book is mostly about new characters and Davy.
This is actually a really fun book. I liked the setting, the idea …

This installment is a Super Chiller series and it’s titled Goodnight Kiss. It’s a very nice book because it’s not weird and eerie but it only involved plain vampires and a normal teenage guy. The story is all about two guys who vacations on the beach, Matt and Todd …

My family has been on a raw diet for a few months (minus some splurge days!). We began eating raw after hearing how amazing it is for your health. We even heard personal testimonies from our friends saying how their diseases began to disappear and they had …

Wren to the Rescue is a charming story by Sherwood Smith about every girl’s fantasy - her best friend turns out to be a princess. (Well, actually, the fantasy might be better if she herself turned out to be a princess.)
But her friend is pretending to be an …

I had already been majorly disappointed by the first instalment to this trilogy, but I did pick up the second book. I think I just had a tiny sliver of hope for this typical and unoriginal trilogy. I was hoping that maybe Cassia would finally mature a little and …

This is Book 2 of the Dragon in Our Midst series, a sequel to “Raising Dragons.” Billy, a teenager who had discovered that he is actually a dragon in a human form, continues to live on the run, hunted by dragon-slayers. Billy isn’t alone; he has his best friend …

“Out There” by Susan Glaspell is about a mysterious painting that continues to drawn in a young woman off the streets.
First, the story begins with a art store owner, who comes in possession of an expensive painting. The painting is of a forest and a river, with a mountain …

If you are a child care provider, a great resource book is the Iowa Family Childcare Handbook. Even if you do not reside in Iowa, this is a fantastic book to add to your childcare resource library. The 325 page paperback book is spiral bound and is …

I like this episode in the Ella Clah series by Aimee and David Thurlo. Since her near death experience in an earlier book, Ella is different. She’s less confident that her FBI training will solve all the crimes she confronts and is more willing to recognize the parts of …

My new home has a water pond set up already but it didn’t have any landscaping what so ever, nor was the water garden alive anymore so I knew I had to do something. I found a collection of books I really liked and the one was Better …

Joseph Connolly’s book is fully titled “Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors”, which gives a pretty good idea as to the main focus of this particular reference work. The book, which has gone through several editions of its own since its initial publication in 1977, consists largely of …

Daredevil issue 276 is definitely one of the worst issues I have read. Ann Nocenti has written herself in a corner with a ridiculous plot line featuring a beautiful robot who looks like a real woman, an environmentalist whacko, the Inhumans from the moon, and Ultron, the most …

The Scarlet Ibis is a very good short story. This story is about a boy who is about six years old and has a disability that can not let him walk as the doctors and everyone in his family says. Except for his brother that thinks different. …

I looked forward to reading the seventh Amos Walker novel by Loren D. Estleman, “Lady Yesterday.” It’s shorter than other books in the series and while reading it I found I missed the extra fifty or so pages the volume lacked. Unlike other books that had two or three disparate …

The “Laughs, Luck…and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time” is a book that is actually the memoir of the creator of the television show. This means that the entire book is not about Lucille Ball of the “I Love Lucy” television series. …

I would encourage anyone looking for their true purpose in life to read Rick Warrens, The Purpose Driven Life. I found this to be a truly revolutionary self help book.
This book is not like any other book I have read. First of all it involves 40 days of reading, …

I just finished Without Warning by John Birmingham, and wanted to give a review while it was fresh in my mind. What an awesome book! It has kind of a post apocalyptic feel to it, which I very much enjoy, while still being partly a political thriller. The book …

Brandon Sanderson is one of the most popular writers of epic fantasies today, but few people know that he also writes books for children and teenagers. As a fan of this type of literature with great interest I went through the different pages of the novel ” Alcatraz versus …

This book is the third in the Wayside School series, following Sideways Stories from Wayside School and Wayside School is Falling Down. One of the stories in this book was the basis for the first episode of the TV show based on these books, Wayside.
In this book, the children …

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 …

If you have ever eaten at Los Barrios in San Antonio, Texas, then you know how good the food is! Now they have a cookbook with many of the restaurant recipes as well as many of their family recipes! The book also has an introduction by Emeril. The recipes …

Myth Directions was my first true exposure to the world of Robert Asprin’s Myth books. I have heard of the series before, but had never sat down to actually read one of the books until recently. Although Myth Directions is technically the third book in the series …

This is the fourth book in the X-Wing series from a universe far, far away, known from the Star Wars films. After the New Republic has taken over Coruscant, they are faced with a terrible virus killing off certain non-human species. To battle it, they need huge amounts on …

The fate of the vampire may seem attractive to the human being whose life path is like a blink in eternity, but it is a terrible fate for a representative of the wonderful world of the Elves, creatures also beautiful and graceful, but dedicated entirely to light and life. …

It is unavoidable not to come across unfamiliar words, whether I am watching movies, reading books or conversing with friends; I always learn new words. Consulting Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus has been included in my routine. I’ve acquired Collins for only Php 100 and yet it has given me …

A Spell of Winter weaves a tale of romance, incest, hardship, horror and the darker side of humanity. Set in England, ages past, the novel is narrated in the first person by a young woman named Cathy (yes yet another Cathy in a tale of incest) who suffers a …

Another of my favorite book written by Stephen King would be The Stand. This book that I’ve read is actually from the Uncut Version and if you want a clue, the cover page of this book is something of a blue bird or something. A weird blue-like …

One of favorite foods to eat is pizza. It’s fun to eat and make some of the best leftovers. I’ve never really made a pizza at home before that didn’t come in a box already prepared and just needed heat added, a pizza kit, or I would buy premade …