Books Reviews
Akuma to Dolce manga by Suzuki Julietta
Akuma to Dolce is a manga by Suzuki Julietta. It’s just a little sad that the manga is on hiatus, I hope it gets back on track right away. The story is a bit of comedy, mixed with fantasy and romance. Though there’s also a some drama and heart-warming …
Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs
—˜Silver Borne’ is an Urban Fantasy story by Patricia Briggs. It takes place in the Tri-Cities, not really sure where that is but I think it’s Washington and yet I keep thinking it’s in Oregon, in a modern time when the supernatural creatures have come out to the public. …
Book The Self-Published Cook by Marilyn M. Moore
I have a cookbook idea, but the problem is that I’m not a wonderful cook. In fact, I’m a lousy cook. I borrowed this book for two reasons. First of all, I had wanted to see the feasibility of my cookbook idea. The second thing that struck me was …
Toko Buku Djawa
Toko Buku Djawa is located in Jl. Braga in Bandung. Bandung is the capital of the largest state in Indonesia, West Jawa. It is a book shop located on the left hand side of the road. It sells all sorts of books from magazines to school books. When I …
First Aid for the Betrayed by Richard Alan
Have you guys ever read First Aid for the Betrayed by Richard Alan before? Well, if you haven’t, then it’s time to start reading this book. It is a very good self-help book filled with lots of tidbits and healing process for those whom have been betrayed before.
And …
Suzanne Collins young adult novel “Mockingjay”
Suzanne Collins’s “Mockingjay” was among the most waited for young adult novels of 2010 —“ or at least that’s what my book-related websites tell me. I have to admit they might be right, since I got my copy the day after the premiere as any fan girl would, and …
Two Women by Martina Cole, book
As far as books are concerned i love a good read that i can’t put down, a good sensational thriller that keeps me thinking. This is what i found while reading this book.
Is tells the tale of one women who was beaten and abused throughout her whole life …
Super Mario 64: Survival Guide
Super Mario 64: Survival Guide is a pretty poor strategy guide book that I found to be really quite disappointing. The reason I found it to be very disappointing is because first of all, it is in black and white. For me, a person who generally purchases strategy guides …
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is the first book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. It is a series of three detective novels featuring the journalist Michael Blomkvist and the hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvists works on a case about a girl who went missing many years ago, and during …
Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan
Eating plans and diets are so complicated these days. I grew sick of the same old eat fat free and lose regime. I set out on a quest to discover the best long term eating plan. I did a lot of research of the subject. One of my favorite …
The Step Child - A True Story by Donna Ford
The Step Child by Donna Ford
Harrowing has got to be the word for it. It is the story of a girl, now an adult, who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of her step mother. There are a number of similar books about at the moment and it seems …
Just After Sunset by Stephen King
As many people on this planet, I am a big fan of Stephen King and I was following his works from year to year. However, I was really surprised when I found out he wrote another book in 2008 and I haven’t heard anything about it! Well, I guess …
India in slow motion by Mark Tully and Gillian Wright
This book by the famous BBC Correspondent along with his colleague who spent more than 25 years in India is a contemporary’s version of the events that happened in India during the last three decades. The authors brought to bear their long years of experience of living in India …
Shroud for a Nightingale book
This is one of PD James’ better stories, and opens with a horrifying experience - a student nurse died from poisoning during a nursing demonstration session, in front of student mates and visitors. When a second student died under suspicious circumstances, the bigwigs at the hospital …
The Life of Audrey Hepburn
I love reading about official and non-official biographies of any kind. The Life of Audrey Hepburn, by Donald Spoto is a very good insight into the legendary life of Audrey Hepburn. I bought this book for about $25.95, and I truly felt inspired reading about her life …
Man Woman and Child By Erick Segal
As for the story of the book the family as monopolized ones, the child .How it accepts, approximately considerably simplicity So the heroine who is how accepts the child, more seriously. I do not live more in the story! You could do that to the gorgeous movie. Actually the movie …
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk novel
The White Castle is a historical novel written by Orhan Pamuk. Orhan managed to get the Nobel prize for literature in 2006. Orhan Pamuk talked about self-identity, conflict and friendship between a slave who came from Italy with an Ottoman scholar in the 17th century. As is characteristic of …
Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? by Michael Benson
I love this book very much. It is an adaptation of the game show itself, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? I thought that I was smarter, but apparently at times, I think a fifth grader is more clever than me. If you think the games …
Camelot Garden manga by Yuki Kaori
Again another manga has caught my attention with its’ fancy title. Camelot Garden is a one shot manga by Yuki Kaori the same mangaka of Boys Next Door. The manga is a mix genre of fantasy, gender bender, mystery, psychological, shoujo, and tragedy.
The story is about the mysterious adventure …
Barron’s Dogs Compass Guide Dictionary
Being a breeder myself, I love this book since it’s a very nice pocket-sized, handy and convenient dog dictionary that any breeder or any dog lover would love to have and has to have! The book is already covered in plastic so it will prevent creases along the spine …
Writer’s Market book
A few years ago, I was so raptly into reading, and loved the written words so much that I decided to write a book myself. And I did, I actually sat down and wrote it. It took a little longer than I would have liked, the entire process (planning …
How I Cured My Acne Condition In 3 Days Book
This book is written by Chris Gibson, a former acne sufferer and a holistic practitioner. I bought it at $50 and followed the tips in this book. I know that when it comes to acne, there are tons of products out there which range from creams to medicines to …
I Hate Conflict! book
The book title, I Hate Conflict! is something that I will always have to read out aloud on days that I have a bit of a problem dealing with the people in my life. There are just a lot of people that I consider being out to destroy me, …
How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It
How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It is written by 2 writers; namely Steven Stosny and Dr. Patricia Love. Steven is a PH.D or something and I’m not sure how or what that is, but I do know that these 2 writers are very intelligent and …
Animal Farm by George Orwell
I have never come across a book this short and so fairytale-ish that made my jaw drop. Animal Farm is an unbelievable story. I have seen so many copies of the new version with the pink pig on the cover and I thought, “Well, isn’t that a cute little …
Honus and Me book
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 …
The Best American Mystery Stories: 2006
“The Best American Mystery Stories: 2006″ ed. Scott Turow, Houghton Mifflin Company 2006, 358 pp. ISBN-10: 0-618-51746-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-618-51746-6
“The Best American Mystery Stories” 2006″ is the current latest book in the Houghton Mifflin Series devoted to American Mystery stories. The editor for 2006 was Scott Turow, author of at …
Blueline Receipt book DCB2870
This is a very useful type of receit book. Instead of having to write out the information on the side as well as on the actual receipt, it makes a yellow copy of each white receipt you write. There is a flap that you place behind the yellow copy …
Investigating CSI edited by Donn Cortez
This was a first book I’ve read from the “Smart Pop” series. It’s a set of 16 essays concentrating on the CSI franchise and the CSI effect.
Each essay is written by a different author. From writers and editors to actual police officers and real life CSIs. As with every …
Archie Comics
I’ve been reading Archie comics ever since I was little. I never got to buy them because it was expensive; $5 CAD for a thin comic book? My parents didn’t want to spend that kind of money so I borrowed them off a friend. They’re humorous but sometimes rather …
I-SPY London
I-SPY London is part of a series of books which can be used to make journeys and trips out more interesting, as in each book, there are hundreds of different locations for you to visit. Once you visit a location, you can put a tick in the tickbox. Once …
Batman: Year Three: 2 of 4 (Comic Issue)
Batman: Year Three 2 of 4 has Dick Grayson also known as Nightwing, searching for Bruce as he continues to search for the man killing off all the powerful gangsters. Dick reflects on his childhood with Bruce and becoming Robin.
This is a great comic issue and it’s …
The Diary Of Anne Frank
The Diary Of Anne Frank was written by young Anne Frank during World War II and the Jewish Holocaust. Anne Frank and her family were Jewish and all went well until they realized that they must go into hiding or they would be sent to the concentration camps and …
The Golden Compass (Northern Lights) by Philip Pullman
This is the first book in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. The book focuses on Lyra’s adventures, her transition from a normal life to that being in thrown in a perilous journey. Her adventures begin when she finds out that her friend, Roger, is missing. So she follows …
The Affectionate Adversary by Catherine Palmer
Charles Locke and Sarah Carlyle meet in the sea. The ship Charles is on has been attacked by pirates, Charles is wounded and left for dead. Sarah’s ship rescues the young man. As she nurses him back to health, Charles falls in love with the beautiful young woman. What …
Don’t Stop Me Now by Jeremy Clarkson
I love this book, Don’t Stop Me Now by Jeremy Clarkson so much. You don’t have to be a car enthusiast to appreciate the writings of this book. Jeremy Clarkson is a very humorous and good author and if you have yet to read any of his books, …
Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life by Tracey Gold
This book, Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life by Tracey Gold is synonym to the illness that Tracey had been going on before in her life, which is none other than anorexia. I’d say that this book is best recommended to everyone whom have suffered from this illness. …
Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Do transformations happen in just a flick of a magic wand like Fairy Godmother did to Cinderella? That is what the “Princess Diaries” series by Meg Cabot is trying to answer.
It tells the story of an awkward freshman, Mia Thermopolis, who grew up with some-kind-of-eccentric people in a …
Breaking Dawn - The Novel
‘Breaking Dawn’ is the final installment of the ‘Twilight’ saga, and I would like to say that ‘Breaking Dawn’ is the book that broke me; as in broke my pocketbook!
I had not read any of the books in the series until the Twilight movie became available for ownership and …
The Dressmaker by Benita Brown
A hard cover book written by Benita Brown.
This 346 page long book engrossed me from beginning to the end. A very powerful story of a young woman, not liked by her own family. Melissa learns her craft of dressmaker from her mother, who dies before her time. …
The Complete Far Side 1980-1994 Book
The Complete Far Side 1980-1994 is just what it says it is. It’s every far side comic in two giant, hardcover books. I bought this for my boyfriend a couple of years ago for Christmas as he loves the Farside (but then who doesnt? :) And this set is …
Children’s Book: Sometimes I’m Bombaloo by Rachel Vail
“Sometimes I’m Bombaloo” is a children’s book by Rachel Vail and illustrated by Yumi Heo. This is a wonderful book that teaches children about tantrums and how to handle them. Parents will really appreciate this book as well. My daughter loved it so much she requested …
Dial a Ghost by Eva Ibbotson
Eva Ibbottson’s Dial a Ghost, much like her Secret of Platform 13 and Island of the Aunts, is full of funny coincidences. Like the others, it is a comfortable story with clear good guys and bad guys, great for kids to read. I think both boys and girls would …
The winter of our discontent
Several years ago I was shopping at the local flea market. I came across a book table, and the guy was selling books a plastic shopping bag full for one dollar. I love to read so of course I bought a bag of his books.
I was enchanted with …
What Every BODY is Saying by Marvin Karlins and Joe Navarro
What Every BODY is Saying has lots of good ‘catch’ in it. Written by Marvin Karlins and Joe Navarro, it has lots of good elements that could be useful for readers like you and me out there to ‘detect’ honesty and looking through more than the body language …
The Name of the Wind (book) by Patrick Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind was an extraordinary book. I read it because a friend of mine read it and told me I absolutely had to borrow it, and I’m just glad she did. I had never heard of it myself, and it turned out to be …
C’Mon Over (cookbook)
I was actually surprised by this cookbook. C’Mon Over, Hassle-Free, Hustle-Free Entertaining is published by Pillsbury, so I sort of expected that many of the recipes would feature Pillsbury or other related brand products. (This has happened to me in other recipe books. You know, where the first three …
Teen Idol by Meg Cabot book
Teen Idol is about a girl named Jen Greenley. Everybody likes Jen Greenley and she’s everybody’s best friend. She can keep a secret and is a very good listener. In fact, Jen’s so good at keeping a secret that she is asked to look after the famous movie …
|