To the paternally or maternally minded, the question “Is there any point having children?” must seem ludicrous, not to say unnatural, but there are people who ask this question. To echo Lionel Schriver in We Need To Talk About Kevin, if you’re in your mid thirties, successful, and happily …

I recently discovered Paul E. Erdman’s books. I fell in love with them and read six of them within a few days. For those of you who don’t know his work, Erdman rights “financial thrillers.” I didn’t even know there were such things. I’ve never been very interested in …

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller is a very good story. I find myself truly entertained reading about the journeys of Pippa Lee. Reading this book feels like reading someone else’s diary or something like that.
Pippa Lee is a woman who is married to a …

“Firestorm” is a mystery story written by Nevada Barr.
Featuring Anna Pigeon.
In “Firestorm” a raging forest fire is burning in California. At first the fire is thought to have been started by Joshua Short. In another investigation during the fire 9 people have been stranded on the mountain by …

Search for Love is the second novel in the compilation ‘Mysterious’. In this story, we see Serenity Smith and Christophe de Kergallen featured in the French countryside where the romance between the two blooms, albeit abruptly.
Like the first story in this compilation (This Magic Moment), this story is a …

This is a wonderful, sweet, touching, charming book! Seriously, I can’t praise it enough. What child would not be delighted with a story of a toy bear who wants a home and then finds one? The little bear named Corduroy lives in a toy store. Every day he looks …

The title of this book, Fahrenheit 451, is a reference to the temperature that makes the paper in the books to burn. This is very related of the story that it talks about, as it speaks of a modern society where it’s not allowed to read books. The main …

In this book, the Bobsey Twins are heading off (again) to visit their aunt, uncle, and cousin in Meadowbrook. They have several small adventures including the fun of visiting an animal farm, where a friend of theirs has started collecting and training wild animals.
Soon, however, they encounter a mystery …

Into the Dark is a compilation of three stories by Gena Showalter plus some extra tidbits about her Lords of the Underworld series, like interviews and descriptions of the Lords by William the immortal warrior and honorary Lord. Into the Dark contains one of Showalter’s Atlantis stories and two …

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 …

Mina Harker with his courage had saved her husband, Jonathan Harker, a lawyer who suffer from mental illness after accidentally meeting with Count Dracula and pave the way for the vampire to enter the England. After recovering, Jonathan returned to England and married to Mina. In other places, Count …

‘Mystery of death’ is a book written by Swami Abhedananda. This book is a spiritual philosophy. Abhedananda’s philosophy is derived from the Upanishads, which is a very ancient spiritual text of India. In this book, the author explains that death is a mysterious phenomenon and one has to try …

Following to the theory of Maslow, in order for these basic necessity to fill up those, then it is not filled up, one can certainly give motive. Until one satisfies basic necessity in existence, a higher necessity or respect like social necessity are not verified. As for safety, one …

I have been looking around the net for a really nice shoujo manga to read which has a romance, and a bit of action or adventure within it. I have also been reading suggestions of other people on different websites for different users who want suggestions on wanting to …

When Paddy de Courcy decides to get married everyone gets all excited but for four certain ladies the news turns their lives upside down.
For Lola, a stylist by profession is not good news because she had always believed she was Paddy’s girlfriend, she is heartbroken and inconsolable, and the …

Aspiring to be a chemist, when a friend’s book, Marie Curie, fell into my hands, I grabbed the chance to read it. Marie was, for me, the greatest woman in the history of science, for this scientist was the one who - together with her husband - first studied …

In this opportunity, J.R. Ward gets away from the paranormal genre that has brought so much happiness to her and her fans, to focus now in the secrets and ins and outs of a wealthy family, The Bradfords, giving this story a feel of a telenovela, with its complicated …

‘First Term at Malory Towers’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. Enid Blyton has written about a girl, Darrell, who has gone to study at a boarding school. It is the first time that she studies in a boarding school. The entire book is about the life in …

John Taylor is a private detective who seems as one who has come out of an old detective story - not very nice looking, deep in debt and persistently seeking the truth , whether his customers really want it or not. That’s why John never gets rich, he lives …

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 …

Every Boy’s Got One by Meg Cabot is one of her novels for adults. Unlike her American Girl series and her Princess Diaries series, the novels in her Boy series aren’t really appropriate for younger teens just because of the innuendo. There isn’t really anything direct though, so it …

Connor, an airline pilot, is a successful man. He has a good job he loves, he lives in a nice home with a beautiful wife and two daughters. Things go great - until an airplane crash reveals that Connor has a son he’s never heard of before. Eight years …

No kidding! I really cried when I read the book by the terminally ill author, known as Randy Pausch. My heart totally went out to him because he is known to be suffering from cancer and it is a terminal one at that. I admire his …

First of all, when I read this book, How I Made My First Million on the Internet and How You Can Too!: The Complete Insider’s Guide to Making Millions with Your Internet Business by Ewen Chia, 2 things came into my mind.
Firstly; this book is targeted for those …

This 1884 by author Edwin A. Abbot in what is by far his most recognized work, Flatland, bills itself as “A Romance of Many Dimensions.” Few are the cases in which a book so accurately describes itself. For all its talk of two-dimensionality Flatland is a novel …

Vampire Academy is the first book in the Vampire Academy series, which consists of six books. In Vampire Academy, you have three types of vampires: Moroi (mortal vampires who have powerful magic), Strigoi (immortal vampires who are evil and love to drink moroi blood) and Dhampir (half human, half …

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice was written by Laurie R. King and published by Bantam Books in 1996.
Mary Russell first met Sherlock Holmes when she was 15 years old, and was introduced to his world of books, honeybees and the intricacies of the mind. Holmes found her refreshing, with …

WOW, this book, Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino sort of scares me to death with the detailed writings of author Natsuo. Powerful plots and should be made into a movie, I think. The story is laced with mystery and thrills and you need to be reading it wholeheartedly for …

Ok. If your teenager was reading these books and they are not over 16, I wouldn’t have them read these books. Almost every page there is drinking and talking about sex and crazy stuff that I wouldn’t want my kids reading.
However, if you are an adult and can handle …

This book is at the core of me and my father’s knowledge on electronics. It has become, for me at least, an electronics Bible of sorts. Basic Electronics really taught me the basics of electronics.
This book is written in …

202 Jokes of Mulla Nasiruddin : Osho : Osho is one of the most influensive spiritual teacher of this century. He has spoken on almost every aspect of life. He is known for is outspoken and bold outlook towards the conservative topics like sex. He is also known for …

This book contains 5 exercises or as they are called Tibetan rites that are supposed to make you look younger. There is also a 6th exercise which is not necessary and not all can practice it. This exercises allegedly were a well kept secret between a closed group of …

It’s hard for me to write a review for this story without giving spoilers to those who haven’t read it yet, because that would totally suck, it’s a story that’s very worth reading til the end. But I’ll do my best, at this point I didn’t even know what …

A book that I have read numerous times is My Descent Into Death by Howard Storm. This is a book that I love. In it, Howard Storm tells how he was a successful artist. While in France, he had an extreme health emergency. Hydrochloric acid …

Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” makes use of characterization extensively in order to enhance its meaning. The story is made up of multiple characters, each of which add their own facet to the story’s personality. Mr. Summers, for example, exhibits a certain control over the entire setting while …

The Lottery is a story written by American author Shirley Jackson. I read many of her works in college, and just love her to the point style. The Lottery is no exception! The story is about a town where the people perform a type of ritual in order to …

When one night Sydney is torn away from her sleep, her first thought is that her biggest nightmare comes true - she will be sent to the correctional center because she has helped Rose Hathaway. But another reason appears - Jill , the sister of the moroi Queen …

I do really appreciate the book “Prepare For War” writen by REbecca Brown.The book is very much rich in revelations. The book is highly informative on “Spiritual Warfare”. This book serves as as spiritual warfare manual from people who exprienced these applications themselves. This book is from people who …

If you’re looking for a book that keeps you in suspense with every page you turn, then pick up this book by Lisa Jackson.
Eve must depend on her former lover, whom she thinks tried to kill her, in order to solve a mystery that revolves around the …

This is a book by Anthony Capella which explore a maiden voyage of Laura, an American, twenty-something girl. Her destiny is Italy and in Rome she is mesmerised by the culture, and tradional background. As it has to be, she fall for Tomasso a chef at a Italian restaurant …

Once Upon a Wedding Night is written by Sophie Jordan and she is a romance novel author that I think is super cool. Although I don’t really like the “wild scenes” that she depicted in the books that much, her books have all pretty good plots. I …

Nanz Chong-Komo was the founder of the One.99 shop. It is a great concept store which sells products sold for, you guessed it, $1.99. In the initial stages, her business prospered and Nanz expanded her store into a retail chain with many small stores sprouting across Singapore. …

The secret life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna, is a biography about the famous playwright, author, and poet Oscar Wilde. I previously, knew very little about Oscar except that He wrote poetry, and was An contemporary of the famous playwright George Bernard Shaw, …

I can honestly say I’m not the most skilled person at taking food pictures. They always make my food come out looking drained and not edible which is far from the love and time I put into my dishes.
A fellow foodie friend of mine suggested I take a …

Killer’s Wedge was written by Ed McBain, and published by New American Library in 1974.
Ingenious of McBain to have everything happened and resolved within a day - the main drama inside a police station without the presence of the person who was the fundamental cause of the crisis.
It started …

Free Fall by Robert Crais is more like a movie than a book. The style and events are more of cinematic nature. Free Fall can not be seen as the best work from Robert Crais but it has some good elements like the way the difficulties in life are …

Khuswant Singh is one of the best writers of India, who has given us great works like Train to Pakistan, which was a masterpiece novel, about the partition of Indian, and The History of Sikhs, that is again, a work, worth noted for its accountability. So, when he wrote …

Amy Tan is a novel well-recommended to me by several friends who’ve read her in the past. Since she specializes in the family saga, a genre I particularly enjoy, where stories of generations combine into a larger narrative of self-discovery, and since her protagonists are predominantly women, which I …

In 2002 Scot Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan. Since the United States had invaded Afghanistan and attacked the Taliban in response to the attacks of 911 one wonders why Stewart chose this time. Strangely enough this was a time of relative quiet. Stewart was the first “tourist” to visit …

I have just finished reading Ultra Maniac manga and well, I guess it was okay. It wasn’t something that really moved me with it’s story but I did enjoy reading it up till the end. Although I like fantasy stories when it comes to manga I found this story …