Books Reviews
Thinking Through the Past by Hollitz
Thinking Through the Past, 3rd edition, Volume II by John Hollitz is a supplemental book for U.S. History. It presents political arguments and asks the reader to compare and contrast them to primary sources of the time. This book is intended only to supplement a regular textbook …
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
I have been reading fantasy for many years. It is, in fact, the genre that I write as an author. When I came across the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman, I was a little bit wary, however. I knew that the books had caused a lot …
Merriam Webster Dictionary
I used the Merriam Webster Dictionary for about two months while I did some research on a number of topics. I find that this is the most reliable dictionary to have because it provides the most accurate as well as the most up-to-date information on every word entry. …
The Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne
I love this book so much. It is The Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne and the storyline is so darn sweet and funny and at the same time filled with romance too.
This is the story of a woman trying to balance off her alter-ego and her …
Italian For Dummies
The book Italian For Dummies is a book that I recommend to you if you are looking to learn to speak another language, it actually does help you actually learn Italian and Spanish also. The book comes with a cd and it does a good job of breaking the …
The Candlestone by Bryan Davis
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 …
Seabiscuit an American Legend
The story of Seabiscuit is one of the most inspirational stories I have ever read. It is a story about what it means to have heart. It is about succeeding even when everyone expects you to fail, conquering fears, and following dreams.
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The Joys of the Sorrow of War
Bao Ninh, former North Vietnamese soldier, writes a compelling and vivid description of the Vietnamese war from a perspective rarely shown. The story he weaves is a short one that pulls no punches, and leaves the reader somewhat winded at the end. War and love go hand …
Master Your Theory Grade Four Revised Edition by Dulcie Holland
I am doing grade four piano theory at the moment and ‘Master Your Theory’ by Dulcie Holland is the book I’m currently using. I have used other theory books before but this version gets straight to the point and teaches you what you need to learn right away. The …
Harry Potter and the Philosophers’ Stone Book
I find it remarkable since it’s release thirteen years ago, the first Harry Potter novel has managed to sell over 975 million copies worldwide and has been translated into many languages. Because off all the appeal i decided to give the first book a try and have to admit …
Kristy’s worst idea by Ann m. martin
Kristy’s worst idea by Ann m. martin is the hundredth book in the baby sitters club book series. This book about how Kristy the club president thinks it is time to give the club a rest because every one is too busy to keep up going to the meetings. …
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Do you like green eggs and ham? Well, just ask Sam I am! Dr. Seuss has created many best selling children’s books, and for good reason. He makes the text easy to read, the illustrations meaningful and fun to look at, and the book a real …
The Great Book of Trains
The great book of trains, that is written by Brian Hollingsworth and Arthur Cook, is a book that gives you an in depth look and information about all sorts of locomotives and train Unit from around the world. From the early beginnings of the Iron horse to …
The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen has done it again! The Sinner is gripping and entertaining! The story recalls characters from other books and brings in some new faces. Tess Gerritsen’s writing is has a quality that few can attest to. This is a thrilling novel that you will …
Combat Abs: 50 fat burning exercises by Matt Furey book
I am in the martials arts for quite some time now and I would like to add my tuppence worth to Matt Furey’s book about how to get rock hard abs. First of all let me tell you folks that this is utterly overpriced. I own another one of …
Sweet Valley: If I Die Before I Wake (Book)
This is the fourth and final installment of the Sweet Valley The Frightening Four series and it’s a very great book. It’s also the thickest book in the series and it’s got a very nice layout and page and the book has a cover which shows two hollowed spaces …
The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger book
I have just read The Catcher in the Rye for the second time since I was a youth and it was a lot better the second time around. I think the first time at age thirteen I had not had enough life experience to really understand what the …
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
This has to be an essential component of any artists bookshelf, whichever medium they chose to work in. I found this book spoke to me like few other books have. The story follows the childhood and adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, as he grope his way confusingly through the Ireland …
Manorama Year Book
Manorama Year Book is a prominent yearly general knowledge book published in India. I am reading this book from my childhood and I must say that I am fully satisfied this book. This book has helped in enhancing the scope of my knowledge about India and the world.
This book …
Hourou Musuko manga by Shimura Takako
I don’t really feel any urge to read a manga once I saw that the current chapters that are scanlated are already but Hourou Musuko is different. When I get to saw the manga, it was already at chapter 72 and still haven’t finish scanlating. I tried to read …
Basic Training for New Managers
This book is a must read for all managers. The author Lloyd Merritt Smigel has several years of experience in the management aspects and the book written by him spills out his experience in a great manner.
The topic of the book says it all. The book provides you training …
Jane Austen’s Persuasion. A Book
Noted as Jane Austen’s last work Persuasion is perhaps one of my favorties of her novels. It is very quiet and somber in comparison to some of Jane’s other novels, with the noteable exception of Mansfield Park. This book is not quite as dark and gloomy as its counterpart, …
The Day I Shot Cupid by Jennifer Love Hewitt Book
The fact that Jennifer Love Hewitt wrote a book at all is a pretty amazing feat. It’s a book on relationship advice and coming from someone who has had her fair share of break ups I’d tend to listen to what she has to say.
Jennifer confesses to be …
Scream at the Sky book
Scream at the Sky (by Carlton Stowers)
A cold, manipulative killer would have evaded judgment and punishment, if not for the determination of a district attorney, critical analysis of an investigator and the progress of forensic science.
Five vicious murders which spanned over a period of a year or …
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
I was shopping around my university’s school fair for cool stuff when I came across this little stall selling books. I was looking for a low-priced book, having many other books I haven’t read yet at home. I found The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant in one of …
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
I think this is one of the unique books around that adults and teenagers would really love. Making Money by Terry Pratchett is a book about Moist von Lipwig and with a name like that, it’s a wonder really. But really suits the book. He is running, …
Forgotten Forbidden America Novel: Patriots Reborn by Thomas A Watson
Survival stories are funny creatures. They are becoming increasingly popular but the content of the stories doesn’t seem to differ much. Strangely this has absolutely no effect on my enjoyment of such books. If anything, the non-original parts are my favourite chapters.
This is book 2 in a survival …
Lucy Monroe “The Spy Who Wants Me” book
“The Spy Who Wants Me” is another book in the True Goddard Project series written by Lucy Monroe. In this story we are introduced to agent Elle Gray, who is an alpha female —“ highly dangerous and well-trained in black ops. She is a femme fatale with imposing height, …
Kerouac:Mexico City Blues
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 …
The Plague by Albert Camus
I didn’t have much expectations when I opened this book because I wasn’t entirely pleased with his other work, The Stranger. I just thought it would be good to understand some more his idea of existentialism.
The setting of the story was set in Oran, a city in Algiers. I …
The Punisher Vol 3: Business as Usual
The Punisher Vol 3: Business as Usual
Junk. I’m sorry but I don’t think I could come up with a better word. This issue features a confrontation between The Punisher and Wolverine and it is far sillier than you’d expect.I have no idea why this book was brought back in …
Olimp by Dan Simmons. A book
If you have not read Ilion, the first part of this series that recreates the most authentic way science-fiction history of humanity, then perhaps you should grab it.Not the other, but you must read also Olympus, The better continuation of the starting novel.
Novel “Olympus” is no less important than …
That summer by Sarah Dessen
That summer by Sarah Dessen is a book I could not put down. In a lot of ways it reminds me of how me and my sister are so I can relate in that way. I picked the book up at Wal-Mart because it was by my favorite author …
SVU: Sneaking In (Book)
This movie is the 42nd installment in the Sweet Valley University series and it features Jessica Wakefield eyeing a new hot guy on campus, and her boyfriend Nick Fox has to be careful or else Jessica can give in to temptation and leave him behind.
On Jessica’s twin Elizabeth Wakefield’s …
Infinity’s Junior Encyclopaedia
Some times we fed up with the doubts asked by our children. And many times we skip and try to deviate the topic if we donot know the exact answer for the question placed before us by our young and curious children. Now you don’t have to …
Charlotte Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story titled “The Yellow Wallpaper” is essentially the fictional diary of a woman. This woman, however, isn’t any ordinary one she has been confined in a room in order to cure her temporary “nervous condition”. This condition, according to her husband John, can only …
Express Lane Meals by Rachel Ray
Express Lane Meals by Rachel Ray is a cookbook which is based on meals that can be prepared in 30 minutes. It states that these are the easiest 30 minute meals ever. This I doubt, as most of the recipes seem to take more effort than can …
Charmed: Leo Rising
The Charmed Ones have been kidnapped and are in the Underworld. It is up to Leo to mount a rescue for his wife and her sisters. Leo, with no powers at his disposal and no witch with enough demon-hunting experience, he soon seeks help elsewhere —“ The Future. Casting …
Dawnthief novel
Dawnthief - by James Barclay - is an excellent fantasy novel. It’s the first in a series of books about a band of mercenaries known as The Raven.
I’ve found that a lot of fantasy books don’t bother coming up with rules as to how things work. I personally think …
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress book
One of China’s history is revealed that less re-education for adolescents. Re-education by sending their teens to villages. Very few books or movies that describe the real system for adolescents and their families. This book is one that successfully describes the experiences of a teenager who does not …
Look Me In The Eye: My Live With Asperger Book
The title of this book is quite long, Look Me In The Eye: My Live With Asperger, by John Elder Robison. This is a really good autobiography, so people who likes to read something like “A Child Called It” or “Sickened” might like this one too.
People might be more …
Rubbish Boyfriends by Jessie Jones
I simply love the title to this book, Rubbish Boyfriends by Jessie Jones. No doubt about it. This story is totally about Dayna Harris. So if you are the type to not like to read about her character, the I strongly advice you to chuck away this …
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
This is a book about a hermaphrodite.
(Hence, the name.)
This is a very good book.
(Hence, the 10 stars.)
This book spans several generations, tracing the history of a mutated gene, through a convoluted series of incestuous unions.
But a great deal of pity and understanding is afforded to the said incestuous family, …
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Call me a kid who never grew up, but I think this book is wonderful. It tells a heart-warming story of a toy bear, Corduroy, who wants a home, but there is a missing button on his shirt, so nobody buys him. There is one little girl who wanted …
More Games for your ZX81 book
There are a large number of books of games listings and programming tips for Sinclair ZX81 enthusiasts, and as such they are mostly fairly easy to get hold of even for those who are part of the computing hobby scene today. However, many ZX81 books in particular do suffer …
Title Wave Books
In the long, dark winters of Anchorage, Alaska many people become avid readers to fill the empty spaces between Ski season and gardening season. I love my home, I was born in Fairbanks, Alaska and have lived in Alaska most of my life. So I am …
Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris book
“Dead as a Doornail” is the fifth book in the Sookie Stackhouse novel series written by the popular author Charlaine Harris. I didn’t think that this one gave me as much of an adrenaline rush as “Dead to the World” though, but it still was packed with suspense and …
Attachments, novel by Rainbow Rowell
Attachments was the second book I read from Rainbow Rowell and I have to say, I’m not the least disappointed. I loved this story and it’s become one of my favorites, I love the romance in it that takes place in such an… unnatural way.
It’s 1999 and Lincoln finally …
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