Most people know Dan Brown through his ultra successful and more than just controversial novel The Da Vinci Code. But Angels and Demons was written and published first. It first introduces the main character of the next book Robert Langdon. It is a mystery detective story dealing …

Last issue Tony Stark and Peter Parker went to Washington for a hearing about the Super Hero Registration Act. As they were leaving, Tony Stark was attacked by Titanium Man. This issue picks up with the battle between Spiderman and Titanium Man. Afterwards, Stark returns for …

How I Survived Middle School by Nancy Krulik is a fun story for preteens (probably more for girls than boys, just based on the magazine quizzes) about Jenny McAfee’s first few weeks in seventh grade. Her former best friend has ‘dumped’ her for the popular clique, and Jenny strives …

Sex Money Kiss by Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons follows up his New York Times bestselling autobiography with a self help book that professes to help people by giving them a look into the philosophy he has followed his entire life.
Some may get annoyed with Gene’s ego, but if your a …

“King of the Corner” by Loren D. Estleman is one of his Detroit books that started out as a trilogy and ended up as a series of seven books. “King of the Corner” was originally supposed to be the third book in the trilogy.
In 1990 Doc Miller, …

This book is one of the bests in the Sweet Valley High series. It’s one of Jessica’s secret diaries, and it features her deepest darkest secrets, the ones I never knew she had feelings for, and I was surprised that this side of Jessica had been opened up, it …

Reading the title will remind us to a super reality show about Music named “American Idol” created by Simon Fuller but, this chicklit is not about the show and contestant but focused to Jules, a women behind the American-Idol-alike show named “Pop Star Live!” with her various problems and …

This 3rd book of Circle of Magic Quartet, starts off not in the location of Winding Circle, but the Gold Ridge Mountains, where the 4 young mages with their teachers, traveled together with Duke Vedris IV, ruler of Emelan, (and also Sandry’s great-uncle) to help the people of the …

Hot Property is a really one boring novel that I have read before. Written by Carly Phillips, it is perhaps one of the most boring book ever. No kidding. The book centers around John Roper and his failing sports career in the limelight. He is like …

‘Disclosure’ is a recent novel of Michael Crichton, the author of world famous ‘Jurasic Park’. Michael Crichton is one of the best-selling writers of America. Though he is a reader like author, he is not known for using the same typical tactics in his writing. He is known for …

The New Indigo bookstore finally arrived in Milton! It was large and bright and I couldn’t wait to start shopping. It was quick and easy to find someone to help me use their touch-screen system, and equally efficient to find what I was looking to purchase. I was thrilled …

The Shack is a real page-turner and it got me frightened for a few days after I have finished reading it. The book is written by William P. Young and it has a very scary element to it and I thought of reading this book again for the second …

The fact that my deceased grandmother loved The Proposal by Lori Wick made it very hard for me to review it, but I have to say that I wasn’t all that impressed. The book really could have used a little more originality (reminded me a lot of Jane Austem/Charlotte …

I’ve always been a fan of alternate history books. Usually, we get to see the point of divergence play out or the story will at least take place not long after it. Steve White presents for us a combination of alternate history and science fiction which sees the British …

House Of M Books deal with the alternate Marvel Comics reality where humans are subjugated by mutants.
House of M Spiderman throughs all Spidey conventions to the wind: Gwen Stacy and Uncle Ben never died and Peter Parker is the world famous multi millionaire media star known as Spiderman!
Life …

I read this book because I read Inkheart, also by Cornelia Funke, and loved it —“ and the Thief Lord actually looked like more my style than Inkheart did. It looked a little bit dark (but coming from Cornelia Funke I knew it would also be charming), intriguing, …

I have had a few booklights in my time: they are very useful things for reading when it gets dark, and they are very portable. Usually they are somewhat small things, as they should be for easy portability. Unfortunately, while it provides good light, the Goosebumps Booklight/Clock …

Contest is the first book by author Matthew Reilly and a good insight into his writing style as a whole. As the first book he wrote it has some obvious novice-author flaws, but nothing that really interrupts the reading.
The book is a supernatural thriller poured from a generic science …

I just finished reading “Dark Challenge” a dark paranormal fantasy written by Christine Feehan.
Ms. Feehan really knows how to keep the interest of the reader.
Julian Savage, a Carpathian Man, has been sent by Gregori to protect a singer from vampire hunters. When Julian first sees Desari and …

This is chick lit at it’s best. Sue Welfare, the author who brought us “Off the Record” has done it again with this offering. She manages to get you feeling completely in sinc with Mim Pilgrim the hard done by wife and heroine of her …

7th Period is a Secret is a manga by Chiba Kozue. It is just a three chapter manga with some side stories but it is enjoying and you would want to ask for more. The story is about Shun who was shy and had no friends on her past …

This book, The Love Trainer, is the only book by its author, Julia Llewellyn, which I have read. I enjoyed it enough to suggest others read it, mostly as a nice light read.
Everything about the book is satisfactory. The basic premise of the book is of a woman …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Perchance to Dream in some ways reminds me of an episode from the show’s fifth season: Darmok. Both the episode and novel have a loose set of similarities: Captain Picard and a captain from an alien ship are both transported to the surface …

Here recently I received a book through the mail called Rainbow’s End. Rainbow’s end is a love and inspirational story. In the beginning of the book it starts out with a man traveling. He was traveling to run away from his past. He quits traveling and lands on a …

In contrast with other fictional novels from Haruki Murakami, I was not quite that happy with The Wild Sheep Chase. The usual Murakami elements were present: the unassuming, usually divorced or about to be divorced, nameless, told-in-the-first-person hero thrown into a sudden adventure, the usually plain sidekick achieving …

Star Trek: First Contact Novelization is one that is just as good as the movie, although admittedly, there are some parts of the movie that just work so much better in terms of intensity and emotion, namely the scene that involves Picard screaming “No!” and then smashes his phaser …

The Road Less Travelled is a psychology book, or rather is psychotherapy, which consists of 4 chapters. In the first chapter, M Scott Peck as a writer, using the instruments of discipline as the primary tool to solve all the problems that occur, so to solve all the problems, …

In the native science-fiction landscape, the Irish author Jack McDevitt is almost unknown, he is part of the new wave of relatively young SF authors who have distinguished themselves since 1990.
That does not make it less interesting though. McDevitt was a constant finalist between 2005 and 2009 in all …

Paradise County is by Karen Robards. I’ve read her books before and they are always pretty good.
This book involves murder, corruption, a sadist, and new love. Alexander Haywood’s father owns Whistledown Farms in Shelby County, Kentucky. When he’s killed Alexander and her sister Neely come to see about closing …

Nightrise is a novel by Anthony Horowitz, and is the third book in “The power of five” series, after “Evil Star” and “Raven’s Gate”.
Unlike the two books preceding it, this book follows Scott and Jamie Tyler, telepathic twins. I find this strange to have two of the five in …

I found myself reading the latest and most current Ella Clah novel with mixed feelings. Typically, I will read a series of mystery books by reading the newest book in the series from the New Books Section of the library, then if I like it, I’ll read the entire …

I just finished this book recently and felt that it wasn’t quite over yet. I’m a fan of Maeve Binchy’s work, and am very familiar with her style of writing, which I love. This book, did meet all my expectations, except for the fact that I think …

This book, The House at Riverton by Kate Morton is truly intriguing and will bring readers into an era that you will never forget. This book’s memories stick with me far after I’ve finished reading.
There is something very mystery and so interesting to be reading about a …

As for me when it is selfish quality clearly does not know at all of the life which excludes philosophy Richard finds. Does he someone respect in him?”, perfection it comes well and the partner” entrusts, from his responsibility which does not become is expected that we want even excessively …

“Emily’s Runaway Imagination”, by Beverly Cleary, is about the adventures of Emily Bartlett, a little girl, as she helps her town get its first library. The target audience is probably kids of eight to ten years old, particularly girls. The language is simple to read and it’s …

The Shoestring Girl How I Live on Practically Nothing and You Can Too! By Annie Brewer is a book that Ms. Brewer self-published through Smashwords.com. The book is available through Smashwords and on Amazon.com. The book can be obtained for the kindle for $2.99 and now in Paperback for …

I received Five Point Someone as a gift from my sister on my birthday. It is a funny, bone tickling novel by Indian author Chetan Bhagat. I did not have any high expectations from the novel, however I was wrong.
From the beginning …

I searched for several years to find a suitable way to store my copious telephone logs. I have run my own business for many years and I always found that the notebooks I used to record telephone conversations were inadequate. Some had perforations down the page so that they …

This was actually my brother’s atlas when he was still doing Geography in his first period of high school, but these days I find myself referring to it from time to time when I can’t find my atlas for mostly minor referrences.
The Macmillan Caribbean Certificate Atlas 3rd Edition …

The first thing most readers say about That Hideous Strength, Book 3 of the Space Trilogy by C.S.Lewis, is that it is very different from the first two. I agree, the book is, indeed, very different. First of all, it is not science fiction. Instead of taking us on …

Wuthering Heights is a classic book written by nineteenth century Victorian writer Emily Bronte. In fact, as far as I know this book is the only novel book written by her although she have wrote some well known poems during her time. In my own personal opinion, …

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 …

This is another awesome novel from the Danielle Steel collection. From the first paragraph of this story, I was pulled into this story as if I were the main character. I felt every emotion the character was feeling throughout the entire story.
This story is about the love …

The is the third book of the Twilight Saga Series by Stephanie Meyer and is my favorite book of the series. There is a lot more action going on in this book and a lot more going on in general. In the other two books, nothing really happened. In …

Before I begin with the review of the book, I guess I should discuss a little about the author - Ito Junji.
Ito Junji is a manga artist known for his weird and sometimes creepy horror stories that I feel sometimes is trying to poke fun or reflect a certain social …

ANE’s Smart Kid Series Knowledge Book 1 is a good general knowledge book for school goings. This book gives the idea of general things we see and general people we meet daily in the daily life. That means about the Family,Five senses,Body parts,our body,Feelings,Good Habits,Good manners,About school uniform,about dress …

We have viewed all of the Harry Potter movies to date and my son and I agree that although this movie tried it was more of a bridge beteen the last book and the upcoming books. The acting was well done, and there weren’t as many special effects …

Grave Peril is the third book in the Dresden files, Jim Butcher’s series about the Wizard Harry Dresden. In Grave Peril Harry has to face down some tormented ghosts while trying to find out who’s torturing them.
Some important characters are introduced in this book. First time I read …

Strata is the first book of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. I was first turned onto Pratchett by a friend who had read book eight and was following them from there. She loved the characters and the quirky governments. And this was a friend who hated to read, so that …