The Last Valentine was written by James Michael Pratt. It is a love story that is dated back to World War II yet the story line continues into the present.
I first read this book about 10 years ago when I was in high school. I was more into …

Book Review
The Diary of Jack the Ripper
Narrative by Shirley Harrison
This was an intriguing book. If you are familiar with the Jack the Ripper case then this book will be of great interest. If you are unfamiliar with the case then maybe you need to read up on it before …

I recently finished reading the autobiography of Russel Brand. For anyone who does not know who he is, he is a British presentor and comedian. His persona is very similar to that of Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean and that of a cheek …

My mother insisted that I read The Shack by William P. Young and so after reading the back of the book and seeing that it was on the best sellers list, I suggested it to my book club and the reading began.
The beginning of this story will draw you …

Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud by Goldie Hawn is a rather awesome book. If you guys do not know who Goldie Hawn is, she is actress Kate Hudson and we know Goldie being a funny woman and all that, but underneath it all, she has been through …

10,000 Dreams and Their Traditional Meanings - by Gustavus Hindman Miller is a dream book that I was disappointed in. The reason I was disappointed in the book is because it did not seem to offer as much flexibility in interpretation of images and symbols as other dream books …

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Psychic Awareness, is another great mini-book put out by the AMI (American Media Inc.) in digest Version. Designed to give a thumbnail sketch on Psychic Awareness and the branch of Psychology that studies it, this 94-page book retails for $3.95CDN.
I have always been interested …

About a year and a half ago I finally started taking the universe of Warhammer 40,000 seriously. Previously, the galaxy in which the main characters are soldiers known as “space marines” did not attract me with absolutely anything and I was happy to ignore it completely, indulging instead into …

Though it has been several years since I first read this book, I still have vivid memories of its wonderful storyline and characters. This is one of the most moving novels I’ve ever read, and, in my opinion, one of the best that Picoult has ever written.
While this book …

I received the first book in the Twilight Saga for Christmas and, due to having nothing else to read, decided I would power through it, thinking it had to be horrible as I don’t normally like anything involving vampires, immortals or much supernatural stuff. However, I made it only …

“The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari” by Robin Sharma is a very nice,magnificient book.It has an powerful formula for true success and happiness.It is a self help book.It contains treasures of wisdom that can enrich and enhance the life of every single person.
If you read this book it …

Synopsis: Children’s book about a chameleon that wishes he wasn’t so small and slow so he decides to take on the traits of other animals at the zoo.
What I liked about this book: I read this to my daughter last night and thought it was a cute story. I …

Alone in a Room by John Scott Lewinski
This book is interesting look at the processor screen writing. Rather than a book on craft or a book on how to sell a screen play, it looks more at the psyche of writing and the psyche of the screenwriters looking …

The “Tommy Knockers” feels different from many of the other works of King, and it well should. This is my least favorite novel in his long collection of work. I went into it expecting a horror novel and found myself reading a book that doesn’t fully understand the intricacies …

Starting with the cover art and the title before I even looked through this book I just knew this was a book that my children and I would enjoy. In the beginning this reminds you of the classic chicken story where the hen wants someone to help her cook …

This book takes place in the Pennsylvania Dutch country. The main character, Fiona Flanagan, moves there to open her own midwife clinic. Fiona is half Amish, so this move is also important to her so she can get to know her Amish family and learn more about …

How To Think Like A Horse is a nice little book by Cherry Hill. Cherry Hill has authored many horse books in order to help owners and riders and she is highly esteemed in the horse world. Cherry Hill is also a rider and equestrian. What I like most …

When I started reading Losing It from Cora Carmack, I had a vague idea of what I could expect from it. But whether I would like it or not, I was very sure of one thing: this book would make me laugh like no other. Losing It is filled …

For my latest birthday I received Diana Gabaldon’s latest book, A Breath of Snow and Ashes. I have been waiting, literally years for this book to be finished and on the shelves. I was out of my mind with excitement when it was finally published in September 2005. I …

The greatest delight in reading this children’s book was it’s upbeat rhythm. The sentence structure has such a lively tempo, you find yourself bouncing your children on your knee as you read. My children have even gotten out their toy drum to keep beat with the story! …

‘Five go to Billycock Hill’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This book is an adventure of four children and their pet dog. The children are Julian, Dick, George and Anne. These four children, along with their dog, share a risky adventure. This book is basically meant for …

The Sins of the Fathers - written by Lawrence Block, published by Avon Books in 1991.
This is the first book of the Matt Scudder series I seem to be reading his books in no particular sequence. I was already hooked on this character, as I had …

In the 16. book in the series about the medieval investigator Hugh Corbett, the year is 1304 and Corbett is now the Kings emissary. One of England’s many manor lords is refusing to fulfill his promise to return a ornate cross he stole during the Crusades. He stole it from …

Being a law student is no easy task. You get a few books for each subject, and each book is as thick as a dictionary. You wonder how long it’ll take to read them all, and once you started reading them, you realize they are so hard to understand …

Before I begin the review of Spirits from Beyond, the fourth book in the series Ghost Finders, I would like to clarify something. I truly, no matter how ridiculous it may sound to me, am afraid of ghosts. I do not know if they even exist. I hope not. …

This is a book written by Maria Shriver AND COST $20. It is basically a book that teaches you how to make money from writing for eHow. eHow.com is a website filled with short how-to articles on almost everything. There are hundreds of articles on this website, which come …

“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 …

This is the first novel of Mitch Albom, I read. It was my older sister who pleads me to read this as it did make her cry for whole night! well that’s what she said. And I was thinking what’s in the story? and if I will end up …

I have mixed feelings about reading this book, Working Wonders by Jenny Colgan. It is basically about personal life versus ambition and career. But in a nice, romantic comedy type of novel story. The story is laced with humor and good pointers here and there, but the …

Instant Income: Strategies That Bring In the Cash for Small Businesses, Innovative Employees and Occasional Entrepreneurs by Janet Switzer is a must read for anyone who is either an entrepreneurs who wants to do better with their business and increase earnings or the worker who wants to make more …

The Science of Getting Rich is a radical book which may challenge your current belief system. Anyone who reads it must keep an open mind in order to receive great insights from the book.
Wallace D. Wattles advocates that all wealth derives from a thought. It is all a thinking …

I recently watched the movie “Seabiscuit”, for the second time, and was reminded how well the story was told. All the characters’ motivations were perfectly understandable, even though their actions might, to a casual observer, seem rather strange. It was years since the movie came out, so I was …

City of the Dead was written by Herbert Lieberman (published by Hutchinson & Co Ltd in 1976)
Paul Konig, forensic pathologist and Chief Medical Examiner for the city of New York a brilliant man who was able to match forty eight pieces of amputated body parts, construct their …

I have just finished reading this book called Pat Barker - The Ghost Road, which had won The Man Booker Prize before. This book is very easy to read, but seems haunting. The haunting is not actually literally ghost, but actually it refers to a war haunt.
This …

It is amazing how a certain book can balance between science and the almost religious belief in miracles.”The Brain That Changes Itself” of Doidge tells just such stories , border lining on real miracles - paralyzed patients who begin to use their limbs, people with great brain damages who …

Having read Fatherhood, this is far from Bill Cosby’s best work. It’s light and mildly funny and it’s a decent beach read, but I would not really recommend it unless it is being purchased for a die-hard Billy Cosby fan or is found in a discount bin. …

I was very excited about reading this book. The legend of Atlantis is an enduring one and under the subtitle of “History’s greatest secret has finally been revealed”, “Atlantis” ticked all the boxes for me.
The novel’s hero Jack Howard is a diver who stumbles across a Minoan shipwreck where …

Murder Sees the Light was written by Howard Engel (published by Penguin Books, 1986)
There is not much ‘light’ I could see from this story I was rather confused from the beginning to the end.
Benny Cooperman, a private investigator, has been engaged to babysit a famous (or …

Just Listen is my favourite Sarah Dessen novel. It follows the life of a girl named Annabel, who does modelling and things like television commercials, who appears to have everything. Her life is not so like that in real life though because she has to deal with an anorexic …

This book was at the top of my summer reading list, as it had been pushed back and pushed back during the school year. As a summer reading book, it performs its function well; however, it is a little more lacking in plot and substance than I would …

If such creatures, the body, a dog, a tree, a hint of red color, the devil and a horse could talk, and then communicate like humans in general. What will happen? All that became one of the many unique that we can see from the style of Orhan Pamuk …

She was Godsend to me. The first time I met Lee Travathan, I knew she was an extraordinary individual.As my new counselor, mentor, coach and friend she extend her services to me in a method she calls Extraordinary Thinking - which is claiming ownership of one’s SELF and make …

This is an amazingly interesting book, evolving around the protagonist —˜Christopher Boone’, a 15 year old boy, suffering from Autism. This is a hugely important fact to consider about the book, not only is it from a child’s perspective, but an autistic child, making it all the while more …

Supreme Pocket Master Computer Dictionary is a nice book from Kalra Publications Pvt. Ltd. This book contains the explanation of all important keywords in Computer field from A-Z. It has the keywords like ASCII, Buffer, Data, Mainframe, Mail, Operating System, Process, Security, etc. All the keywords …

Apparently, this book was one of the most fastest selling books of the year it was released which goes to show that the story of Harry Potter is so solid and appealing that it’s getting the recognition it deserves.
I wasn’t too sure about reading this book because it was …

Franz Kafka was born in Czechoslovakia, yet went on to become one of the greatest writers in the German language. Metamorphosis is along side The Trial, his greatest work. The book Metmorphosis contains several other stories but I will concentrate on the title story since this varies between editions. …

I watched Twilight movie four times last year and since then became a certified Twilight fanatic, then I started looking the the remaining series at the local bookstore but couldn’t find it. So one of my friends asked what Twilight series I would like to receive as a gift, …

This is quite the tome. It weighs in at over 600 pages, but within those pages is the single most comprehensive look at sea serpent from Antiquity to about 1965. Bernard Heuvelmans, the author, holds nothing back in this book and crams in as many sightings as he …

My husband gave me this book last year. It is the only book that I have never put on our book shelves. There are recipes for making healing teas, formulas for aromatherapy facial cleansers, mixtures for skin moisturizers, remedies for infections , and ways to care for our …

WAKE THE DEAD
Steve Niles remains arguably the best horror comic writers of the modern age.
His work in 30 Days of Night and The Nail are reflective of a genious that comics have not seen since the early days of EC’s Tales From The Crypt in the 1950’s and Warren …