Books Reviews
Children’s Book: Bunny Party by Rosemary Wells
Bunny Party by Rosemary Wells is another book about Max and Ruby, two young bunnies who apparently do not have any parents but seem to do pretty well running a household by themselves.
In this story, Ruby is planning a Birthday party for Grandma. As usual, Ruby is super …
A FAREWELL TO ARMS, anti-war novel by Ernest Hemingway
PROLOGUE
A FAREWELL TO ARMS, by the American Hemingway, Aldington’s DEATH OF A HERO, by the British, and Remarque’s ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT the German Remarque. Do you know what these three books about the lost generation and World War I have in common? Well, except for the general …
Deep Storm by Lincoln Child
I was fascinated reading the book title, Deep Storm written by Lincoln Child within the first few pages already. The book is a good start for those loving books that are of a scientific and investigative nature.
There is actually a medical mystery to the story and the discovery …
He Loves Lucy by Susan Donovan book
He Loves Lucy by Susan Donovan is a book that falls into the chick lit category. Only, don’t let that sway you from reading it, as it is at the very top of that category. The book is about Lucy, a PR rep who has to lose weight in …
Not Just Beans by Tawra Kellam
I’ve read a lot of books on money saving techniques, and I’m constantly doing research on ways to trim a little extra from my budget. I stumbled upon the Not Just Beans cookbook on a link from a blog and purchased it on a whim - and I’m …
Sex Money Kiss By Gene Simmons
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 …
Book : Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card
This is a really great book by Orson Scott Card. It is part of a series that the author has written about a boy named Ender who is sent away from his home to his school to be trained to become a military strategist in a war against an …
Anne of windy poplars
Anne of windy poplars is about a girl going out into the country to teach a wonderful school. it is charming and very old fashioned. anne of windy poplars is by L. M. Montgomery and this book is part of a series. my favorite part of this book is …
Odds Against by Dick Francis
My husband loves reading Dick Francis books and here is a review of the last one he read. Odds Against, is a thriller written my ex jockey Dick Francis. The book is a excellent read it has lots of twist and turns and will he or wont he …
Plant Me On The River by Father Santos Castillo
This inspirational book is a kaleidoscope of a priest’s insights on a Christian’s journey to eternal life as he encounters the various rites of passage to reach the goal. This book is really a well of profound thoughts for me. …
Star Wars: Legacy of the Force I Betrayal
This book of course is made up of well known characters. If you are a Star Wars fan then you probably know that this book is the first one in the Legacy of the Force series. This book definetly proves that Star Wars lives. The men of the rebellion …
Jude Deveraux - Velvet Angel Novel
This is one of my favorites when it comes to Jude Deveraux’s novels. This book was so intense that it made me blush while reading parts of this! Velvet Angel is a story about the feuding family of the Chatworths and the Montgomerys; when Elizabeth Chatworth was kind of …
ESSENTIAL TOMB OF DRACULA VOL 4
The saved the worst for last. This is the final volume of the Marvel’s Essential Dracula series and it reprints not the excellent comic book, but rather, Dracula’s appearances in the more adult oriented magazines such as VAMPIRE TALES in the 1970’s.
And it also reprints TOMB OF DRACULA …
Angels and Demons book
I read the book few 2 years ago. All I can say is that that book is always better that the movie version and that goes for the entire book that made into movie films.
The movie pertains to science vs. …
Action Comics 876
The vast majority of this issue is a slugfest between Ursa and Flamebird. Nightwing is down for the count and Flamebird kinda gets her clock cleaned. By kinda gets her clock cleaned, I mean she really gets her clock cleaned. It aint pretty.
Ursa proves …
Yelloveflies novel
This novel is written by Nita Trismaya. I read this about two weeks ago when I came to my aunt’s house. This is actually my cousin’s novel. She’s still teenager, no wonder she likes this kind of teenlit. I read it for killing time, while waiting for my aunt …
Crimson by Gord Rollo
This is a supernatural horror story that relies heavily on violence and disgusting gore to frighten readers. The plot involves a crazy undead farmer, Old Man Harrison, who comes back to threaten a group of four boys who accidentally wake him up from his long slumber. You may call …
Nodame Cantabile volume 5
Opposite to the previous volumes, in the 5th volume of Nodame Cantabile there’s only a storyline, the school festival. By the beginning of the manga, the S orchestra will play for the first time in front of their school mates. They decided to play wearing costumes, to keep with …
Reiki Best Practices book
Learning Reiki has one of the most important experiences in my life. Becoming a Reiki healer has only changed my life for the better- both physically and mentally. Becoming a first and second degree holder in reiki, I always looked for ways and means to practice Reiki in my …
Honore de Balzac: Father Goriot
This book was written during the period of realism. It is about a father Goriot who has 2 daughters. He livies in misery, in a small rented room and gives all his money to her daughter to pay the debts of their lovers. The father wants them to be …
Scent of Shadows book
Scent of Shadows is the first book in the Signs of the Zodiac series by Vicki Pettersson. Usually, superhero books are not my cup of tea, but there was something mystical about the story line that I found immediately captivating. The book starts out with Joanna Archer on a …
“Old Man Logan” Comic Book
I had the pleasure of reading all 8 of the Old Man Logan series recently. This story is written by Mark Miller and drawn by Steve McNiven. Basically, the story is about Logan aka Wolverine, and one day all the bad guys ganged up on all the superheroes and …
Free Fall by Robert Crais book
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 …
Clarice Bean Spells Trouble - children’s book
Clarice Bean Spells Trouble is another book about Clarice Bean by Lauren Child. While I haven’t read the other books, like Clarice Bean, Utterly Me and Clarice Bean, That’s Me, each book seems to have a different plot and adventure. These are fun books for kids aged 7-10 who …
SAS Survival Guide by John Wiseman, book
I purchased this book as much for fun as for knowledge. What I found when flipping through Wiseman’s work was a comprehensive, well illustrated and interesting read that would do well for anyone interested in a decent survival guide, even if just for fun. I’m an outdoor enthusiast, and …
Database Processing book by David Kroenke
David Kroenke is an amazing author of technical computer books, and this title is no exception. In “Database Processing: Fundamentals, Design, and Implementation”, he explains clearly and thoroughly everything any college student would need to know about databases and SQL. Starting with the basics, he introduces you to the …
How to Be a Pirate by Cressida Cowell
“How to Be a Pirate” by Cressida Cowell is a sequel to “How to Train Your Dragon”. The memoir of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III continues, telling us how the smart, but not physically strong Viking boy goes through his pirate-training. As we know from the first book, heroic adventures …
The Scarlet Ibis
The Scarlet Ibis is a very good short story. This story is about a boy who is about six years old and has a disability that can not let him walk as the doctors and everyone in his family says. Except for his brother that thinks different. …
Body Language by Allan Pease
What people say is often very different from what they think or feel. ‘Body Language’ by Allan Pease is just what you require to know those feelings which people often try to hide. There are things that an untrained eye does not detect, but this book is capable of …
Gregory Maguire’s “Wicked”
I am confident that most everyone is familiar with the classic tale of “The Wizard of Oz”. The story about a girl who gets hurled through a twister and lands herself in the technicolor universe of Oz. Here she befriends a scarecrow, tin man, and a lion to help …
The Squaw by Bram Stoker
If you’re an animal activist, then one short story you should consider reading is Bram Stoker’s The Squaw.
At first, I didn’t know what to think of this story. It was about a couple of honeymooners who meet up with another traveler and watch him accidentally kill a cat’s kitten …
Facing the Music by Larry Brown
Larry Brown was raised in Mississippi where he worked various jobs and eventually stuck to being a fireman, eventually becoming the chief of the Oxford Fire Department. While he worked various jobs to support his wife and children, he taught himself how to write and wrote hundreds of …
The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
I received two books as a gift from a friend, and one of them was The Undomestic Goddess, by Sophie Kinsella. The book only took me two days to read because I enjoyed it so much, I couldn’t put it down. This book and the other book …
Kafka On The Shore, Book By Haruki Murakami
Sometimes I think that the books by Haruki Murakami are an entirely separate genre in itself. This is another of his books after “Dance , dance , dance” and “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World,” which totally consumes me and takes me to a different world. And …
Waltz with a Black Cat manga
Waltz with a Black Cat isn’t the usual yaoi manga where the manga is focused on the love making scenes. Made by Homerun Ken, the manga maybe yaoi but certainly worthy of reading because of the mixed genres- comedy, drama, and romance that blends well together.
Hirose throws a …
The Star Diaries, from Stanislaw Lem
I got this book as a present in one of my birthdays, and I decided to read it immediately after the party, as I hadn’t read anything from Stanislaw Lem before and I was feeling curious.
If we need a gender to classify it, it would be science fiction, but …
The Other Side of Ethel Mertz: The Life Story of Vivian Vance
“The Other Side of Ethel Mertz: The Life Story of Vivian Vance” by Frank Castelluccio is a book that I enjoyed quite a lot, although I have to say that it does drop the ball at a certain point and never quite recovers. By that, I mean at the …
Eragon book
Eragon is the first book in what is titled The Inheritance Trilogy. I had seen this book and heard that it was great but had never really paid too much attention to it. However I was at the book store looking for something new to read when I found …
Frederick Forsyth ‘The Devil’s Alternative” book
The master is back! Freddie Forsyth is the author of so many exciting, well-written novels that another should be no surprise. In this case, he takes the former Soviet Union as the setting for his tale.
A man is found floating on a skiff, far from land in the Black …
Bread by Ed McBain
BREAD was written by Ed McBain and published by Avon Books, 1987.
At the 87 Precinct, Roger Grimm was ranting at Carella and Hawes about the fire that had burned down his warehouse, destroying goods worth $500,000. He wanted them to complete their investigation quickly, so that the insurance …
The Lost Prince Book by Julie Kagawa
Megan Chase is now the Iron Queen, the ruler of the new race of fairies that appeared in the world of Nevernever and beside her is her loved one, the Prince consort Ash, once heir to Queen Mab herself. Between the courts of Summer, Winter and Iron there is …
Wormwood by G.P. Taylor
I recently finished reading Wormwood. Wormwood is a book written by G.P. Taylor. I really like Christian fiction novels. However, Wormwood left me feeling uneasy.
Wormwood is about people living in London in 1756. It is a battle between good and evil. The …
The Dragon Scroll book
The Dragon Scroll is a detective story with a setting in Japan in the 11th century, when the Japanese government in the Heian period (794-1185). Japan is controlled directly from the capital of Heian Kyo (Kyoto) by an emperor with a complex bureaucracy. In this era, Japan was divided …
Digital Fortress
I read Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress shortly after it was published. It was my first encounter with the author and, if it weren’t for all the hype around the Da Vinci Code, I probably would never have read another.
Overall, the plot of the book was OK. Basically, the heros …
“Yesterday Man” From Delhi Noir
The story Yesterday Man originally appeared in the anthology “Delhi Noir” edited by Hirsh Sawhney. This book is part of the Akashic Noir series. This series features books of short stories that take place in a certain city. All of the stories in Delhi Noir take place …
The Horse and His Boy book
The horse and his boy is the third installment of what I consider to be C.S. Lewis’ best series. It takes place in the magical land of Narnia. It is a little less action-packed than the rest of the books, and sadly the movie producers thought so too and …
NORMAL PEOPLE, book by Sally Rooney
Many times I’ve heard that Sally Rooney’s novel NORMAL PEOPLE is one of the bestsellers of the last decade. And one day, my girlfriends got into an argument about that book’s content. Then I decided to read it to see for myself who was right.
This novel raises important …
Master Cleanser Diet Book
Master Cleanser Diet is a book written by Stanley Burroughs. It costs $47. The lemon fast method is actually an age-old method that is known to cleanse the internal system of the body to get rid of the toxins and other harmful elements that’s been accumulated inside the body …
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