Books Reviews
Sweet Valley’s The Unicorn Club: Save The Unicorns Book
This book is the first book featured in The Unicorn Club Sweet Valley Middle School Series and it features a very different Unicorn Club as they had moved from the mean phase to being the nice girls phase here. The club still consists of rich and snobby Lila Fowler, …
Superstar India by Shobhaa De book
Superstar India is a very different book from famous columnist Shobhaa De. There is no big story in the book. It is more like her feelings about India. Frankly this some times make the book dragging as chapters look alike. But I did complete reading the book in around …
Love is Letting Go of Fear by Gerald G. Jampolsky
This book, Love is Letting Go of Fear by Gerald G. Jampolsky is very meaningful and have provided more or less the solution for me to move on in life when I feel that love is lacking in my life department. There are people that have been not so …
The Master Executioner by Loren D. Estleman
“The Master Executioner” is, naturally, a story about Oscar Stone, a man who stumbles into the career of executioner. During the American Civil War Stone was a private with the Union Army. In the course of his duties he was forced to witness the lynching of five men, two …
I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore book
Recently, I read a book titled: “I am Number Four” written by Pittacus Lore, which was a major motion picture released in my country. Loving science fiction and fantasy novels, I was drawn into the book easily and was impressed by the strong visual descriptions, the rather unique plot …
Fall of Cthulu: Apocalypse 1 comic
This is more of a metaphysical issue. Not being well versed in Lovecraftian lore, I was a bit confused about who was who. I think I did OK.
The dreaded Cthulhu approaches and all hell is breaking loose. All of the gods scheme and plot trying to …
Parking by Ruchir Joshi from Delhi Noir
Parking is a story by Ruchir Joshi. He is a writer who lives in India. The story appeared in Delhi Noir, a book of stories by Indian authors. All of the stories are set in Delhi. Parking is set in a place called Nizamuddin West. I am not familiar …
American Egyptologist (Biography of James Henry Breasted) book
“American Egyptologist” by Jeffrey Abt, Chicago University Press, 2012.
James Henry Breasted was early on interested in the ministry. He also had a marked talent in absorbing languages. He took these attributes and interests; using them in co-ordination with a very interesting career as the United State’s first …
Book: The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
I read The Dante Club last year and absolutely loved it! It is one of my all time favorite books! The author was absolutely brilliant to come up with this story. In this book, famous people like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and JT …
Celebrity Sells by Hamish Pringle
My friend dislikes this book, Celebrity Sells by Hamish Pringle. But I have the contrary opinion though. I think one doesn’t have to be involved in a specific form of career to be reading about a specific career journey or books on capitalizing on something. This is …
Mystery of the vanished prince by Enid Blyton
‘Mystery of the vanished prince’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This is one of the books among the ‘five find-outers and dog’ series. This is a very good book, full of adventure and mystery. It is a very exciting book.
The five children, Fatty, Larry, Philip, Bets and …
New Trails
The markets for western short stories is pretty limited these days. Recently I picked up a 1995 release of short westerns that were specifically written for this anthology. The book contains twenty-three new stories written by both men and women.
I loved it. It was a lot of fun. Actually, …
Mini Office Professional User Guide
Mini Office Professional is an office suite for the classic Amstrad PCW range of word processor computers. It was a real eye opener to me when I first used it back in the late 1980s, and even today - although its features have long since been far surpassed by …
Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins book
I wanted to like this book a lot. I *tried* to like this book a lot. I just couldn’t quite make it.
“Horoscopes for the Dead” is the most recent offering by the American poet Billy Collins. Collins was our national poet laureate from 2001 to 2003, and has since …
Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
This book is a little hard to understand and heavy going for the casual reader by it will certainly improve your knowledge of the scientific concepts concerning dimensions. Throughout the book is a detailed and well explained history concerning the key developments of physics covering the era …
How to Calm Down by Fred L. Miller
I love reading this book, which my mom bought for me for about $6.99. She thinks that I really need to calm myself down.
The author of this book is Fred L. Miller, and he has done some great writings, exploring why people stressed out, and ways of calming …
Shadowfires by Dean Koonts
I think that Dean Koontz was ahead of his time in writing this book. It was originally printed in 1987 under his pseudonym ‘Leigh Nichols’. I think that a lot of writers use pseudonyms at first until they have established their’ work.
The story is set in California, as quite …
Old Boys by Charles McCarry
Oh man! I think my family would disown me if they found out I read and really liked this book. Jesus and the CIA? Just that concept makes me want to scream. Who would have thought it could work. It takes all the mystery behind the fall of Christianity …
Osamu Tezuka: MW
Today I am reviewing a book by Japanes manga artist Osamu Tezuka. The book is called MW. The book is about two life long friends who first met on a remote island in Japan. On that first meeting, they were the lone survivors of a US military poison gas …
The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen
“The Sinner” is a third novel in the series that feature Boston PD Detective Jane Rizzoli and Medical Examiner Maura Isles. But at the same time, it’s a first one that isn’t really connected to the villain introduced in the very first book, “The Surgeon”. And that’s what makes …
Hot Item by Riley Nash
Someone borrowed me a nice quarterback novel love book titled Hot Item. This story tells about Sophie Jordan, a co-owner of a Sports Management Agency called The Hot Zone. This novel marks the end of the series of quarterback novel love stories. However, I did not …
A Bad Business by Anton Chekhov
“A Bad Business” by Anton Chekhov is about a graveyard watcher who stumbles upon a mysterious, old man.
First, the story begin when a graveyard watchman is working his shift when he hears someone in the dark. He calls outs for the person to come forth, and out appears an …
Her Infinite Variety: Stories of Shakespeare and the Women He Loved
I at first thought that by reading this book, I will find out who was Shakespeare real love interest was, as in like his girlfriend, lover, wife or something. And I was correct. This book talks about the women that Shakespeare had loved before.
Written by Pamela Rafael …
Sizes book
As is usually the case on Wednesdays, my daughter brought home a different book from her school library. This time, it was a book written a couple years before I was born called “Sizes.”
It was one of the worst books I have ever seen and I have to question …
Vampire Knight Manga Volume 3 by Matsuri Hano (Graphic Novel)
Vampire Knight Manga Volume 3 explores Yuki and Kanime’s past together and how she was before Cross Academy was started. Meanwhile Zero has to hunt vampires.
This was a very good manga and it was very interesting to read. The story was good and I enjoyed it a …
Life after death by Neville Randall
The book ‘Life after death’ is written by Neville Randall. In this book, the author tells us that there is a life after death. Everything does not end with death. Randall gives a clear description of life after death. Randall deals with questions such as the nature and experience …
Goodnight Time Tales by Molly Brett
As my little 16 month old daughter gets more and more curious, I watch in wonder at the many different skills she is able to comprehend at such a young age. One of these, is being able to get into the books which are far out of her reach …
Barnes and Noble in Sunset Valley Village
There’s a Barnes and Noble just about everywhere around the United States and I use to think that they were all the same until I went in looking for a particular book. I remember going to at least three before finding the one Barnes and Noble within a five …
How to win friends and influence people
‘How to win friends and influence people’ is a book written by Dale Carnegie. In this book, Carnegie tells us how we can attract people, the easy method to make a lot of friends and the art of impressing and influencing other people. He has given tips to influence …
MEDICAL ASSISTING EXAM REVIEW
There are countless students who have taken the course for becoming a Medical Assistant, and need to take their State Boards test to become MA’s. I do not believe that most know that there is a complete book that will certainly be of great help in studying for the …
The Invention of Hugo Cabret book
Wow—¦ what a cool book. This is an illustrated novel put together by Brian Selznick. In my opinion, there really aren’t enough of these. It might seem a bit childish, and it may be difficult for some to take seriously—¦ but the pictures are adorable, and …
Ultra Maniac manga
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 …
Bartimaeus Trilogy
If Harry Potter has his magic wand to weave magic and drive away his enemies Nathaniel “Jon Mandrake” has Bartimaeus to do his bidding and drive away his enemies for him. Very cool way of becoming the hero of the story. The book by Jonathan Stroud is …
Gossip Girls 3 book
This is the third installment in the Gossip Girls series fro girls. This one takes place in New York during Christmas to New Years. Blair’s parents are taking a vacation and they are gonna have a baby! Yayyyy! Blair is angry but she doesnt care cause she has much …
The Boleyn Inheritnace
The Boleyn Inheritance is the follow up novel to Phillipa Gregory’s bestselling novel The Other Boleyn girl. While The Boleyn Inheritance is not quite as entertaining as The Other Boleyn Girl it is still worth reading.
The book is written from three different points of views, those of Jane …
20 Days to English Vocabulary By J.S.Bright
20 Days to English Vocabulary written by J.S.Bright is really a great book to improve your vocabulary to a great extant in a short period of time. It contains 20 lessons and each lessons can be finished in a day in just one or two hours. Each lessons contains …
The Great 88 book
The Great 88 is a book about exclusive sales strategy of the two authors, Robin Lent and Genevieve Tour. The two authors are experts luxury sales worth for example of success in sales of luxury goods. This book contains a variety of personal experiences in developing sales strategies, …
My Sweet Audrina by Virginia Cleo Andrews novel
My Sweet Audrina is a novel by Virginia Cleo Andrews. Audrina Adare is pretty young girl who has an unreliable memory. She lives with her parents, aunt, and her aunt’s daughter Vera. She is deprived of knowing precise dates including her birthday though Audrina knows she is born on …
Blink (Revised) by Malcolm Gladwell
Blink (Revised) version, written by Malcolm Gladwell, is the perfect book life and reflection. Blink takes us to analyze things in life that we have to make decisions on, like within the blink of an eye, a lot of decision makings could be affected, whether it is from …
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Growing your Business with Google
I saw this book at my local bookstore while browsing through the internet business section. When I looked through the content’s page, it looks like the book is going to be comprehensive and will be great value for money. My guess was accurate! The Complete Idiot’s Guide …
Children’s Book: Good Boy, Fergus! by David Shannon
“Good Boy, Fergus!” is a children’s book written and illustrated by David Shannon. Is is a new book, published in 2006.
The illustrations in this book are wonderful! They are realistic in some way, although at the same time exaggerated. Any dog lover will relate …
R.L Stine: The Surprise Party (Book)
This is the story of a gang who’s one best friend guy dies mysteriously, and they all split up, not wanting to remember the terrible ordeal and memories that their friend Evan can cause. Evan had died in the woods mysteriously, and Evan’s
girlfriend Ellen had also moved away, and …
The Appeal by John Grisham
Who doesn’t believe that The Appeal by John Grisham is a good book perhaps haven’t really read this book that well. I find this book totally enchanting and definitely amazing.
The stakes are high and lots of corporate companies are involved and it involves a company that have …
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt book
Angela’s Ashes is a memoir of known author Frank McCourt. The story is about McCourt family amidst hardships and tragedy, the agony of having a good for nothing father depicts real life happenings even in present time. The story is set in America and Ireland particularly in Limerick in …
What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw by Agatha Christie
“What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw” is a mystery novel written by Agatha Christie.
When Elspeth McGillicuddy travels by train during the Christmas Season, she witnesses a woman being strangled on another train. At first she is too astounded to do anything. Once she recovers herself, she reports the murder to the …
Just Dance - Lady Gaga Biography
I was bought this book for my 20th birthday by my friends who know how much of a fan I am of this woman, and from an avid fan’s perspective I definitely think it’s worth the read, and even to someone who simply wants to read a good book …
Bleach Manga Volume 3 (Graphic Novel)
Bleach Manga Volume 3 begins with Ichigo putting the mod soul Kon into a stuffed animal and then he goes with his family to his mother’s grave on the anniversary of her death. A large Hollow attacks Ichigo’s sisters and he has to fight it.
This manga series is …
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, the novel by HARPER LEE
I am so glad I read this book now. It has the power to take people back to their childhood! Despite the seriousness of the narrative and the events in the second part of the work, the first part took me back to my carefree years.
When you perceive everything …
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