Books Reviews
Beerkada comic book
If there is one Filipino comic book that I love and have collected every series since it was released, it is Beerkada by Lyndon Gregorio.
I was first introduced to Beerkada when I was in college. What struck me the most is that I can relate to the stories …
Sparknotes for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
I read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn recently and found the book to be fairly straight-forward and interesting as well. However, for the parts when I did not understand what was going on or for a list of all the characters and their roles in the story, I …
The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow
The author of The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow, Kristin Breitweiser, was a Republican before the attacks of 9/11. She describes how she lived in the “bubble” of the upper class life of a Wall Street wife before the attacks. Then she tells what it was …
Easy Step by Step Guide to Marketing by Pauline Rowson
Since I am the advertising line, I love reading books about business and marketing. The book is called Easy step by step guide to Marketing, and it costs about $19.99. The book is written by Pauline Rowson, and this book describes how to win and keep customers. …
Why Men lies and women can’t read the maps
“Why men lies and women can’t read the maps” a book by Allan and Barbara Pease.I completed this book just about two days before and I’m quite impressed by what mentioned in the book.All the details in the book are the result of lots of resarch work.
This book helped …
The Case of the Horrified Heirs book
The Case of the Horrified Heirs (by Erle Stanley Gardner, 1974)
Legal thrillers are sometimes hard to digest, especially when they engage a lot of legal jargon and gibberish. However Stanley Gardner stories are amazingly comprehensible and greatly enjoyable!
Virginia Baxter encountered a series of puzzling and unfortunate events. …
Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson
This book is by the author of Which Witch, and is a very entertaining children’s book. The ideas behind the book are fanciful and fun, and it is rather amusing to see the way the “Aunts” choose to find children to inherit the responsibility of their island.
This book can …
Five go off in a caravan by Enid Blyton
‘Five go off in a caravan’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This is not so interesting book and is rather dry. The children go off in two caravans for a long journey. They meet a friend, Nobby. Nobby is very friendly to them. Nobby is a circus-boy …
Batman: Year Three: 4 of 4 (comic Issue)
Batman: Year Three 4 of 4 has Dick confronting Bruce about if he knew that Tony Zucco was going to be murdered. Dick tries to find Zucco’s book that has all the notes he wrote over the years about the mafia.
This is a great comic issue and brings …
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare book
City of Bones is the first book in the Mortal Instruments series. Clary Fray is fifteen years old and visiting the Pandemonium Club, when she watches three teenagers kill another teenager. The three teenagers had been covered in unusual tattoos and used lethal looking weapons. What is even stranger …
Championship Science fair Projects
Every year, kids have to do science fair projects. There are lots of books about science fair projects, and this book, Championship Science Fair Projects by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, has a lot of good projects for kids to do. A big advantage of this book is that each project is …
John Clellon Holmes Go
This novel is a must for anybody interested in the humble beginnings of beat culture. It was written by a less known member of the group, often called a ‘quiet Beat’. It is a fairly realistic novel with strong and lively characters no formal experiments at all. So …
Leisure Horror Book Club
Leisure is a publishing company. It publishes the Hard Case Crime Line, a Western line, a thriller line, and a horror line. Its sister company, Lovespell, publishes romance.
Leisure is best known for its horror books. The publishing company features such authors as Richard Laymon, Douglas Clegg, Edward Lee, …
Yvette Samoris by Guy de Maupassant
“Yvette Samoris” by Guy de Maupassant is about a young girl who killed herself because of the type of life both her and her mother had.
First, the story begins with two men talking amongst each other at a funeral. You’re not sure of who the funeral is for until …
Cormac McCarthy The Road
Cormac McCarthy paints a perfect picture of a vividly grey world in his book “The Road” its so simply written and yet so powerful you won’t want to put it down. The descriptiveness is simply magnificent as it captures you and brings you there and makes you not want …
Children of Hurin By J.R.R. Tolkien
As for this book J.R.R which is given to us of the lords of ring and Hobbit. Concept of vision and it reaches unlimited as LOTR which is not depended on Tolkien and operates primitively and the way in order still to be read because of everything, it is …
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
I like the story The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. I think it’s an alright story, compared to some others. That’s because this book has a unique plot and voice, and the title tend to be misleading. This is not a story about bees …
Moon Called, Mercy Thomspon Series, Book One
Patricia Briggs has proven herself to be a writer with which to be reckoned, because she has a mean way with words that will undoubtedly leave you feeling thrilled and begging for more.
In the first book of the Mercy Thomspon series, Moon Called, we get to meet our …
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
I love young adult fiction. It has less about sex and more about great storylines. This book was really good. I bought this book on impulse, since I was running out of books to read. It looked interesting, the cover was interesting, and the reviews …
The Mark Of Athena Book by Rick Riordan
“The mark of Athena” is the third book in the series by Rick Riordan about the Heroes of Olympus and perhaps the most highly anticipated title of these book series. With an initial print run of 3.5 million copies of the new novel about Percy Jackson outstrips even the …
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Overview —“ The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, is the story of Salem during the time of The Salem Witch Trials. The play focuses on the developing story of a man named John Proctor who has to free his wife Elizabeth from the accusations of the girls in …
“Stepped on a snake” book by Hiromi Kawakami
If you ever stepped on a snake, you definitely do not recommend, do not be surprised if the reptile suddenly turn into a woman who briefly declares that it is your mother and I live with you permanently. In any case, it happened to Hiwako, Hiromi Kawakami heroine of …
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer book
I love the twilight series, and this is my favorite book. It has the most action and is the most interesting.
Well Edward is back after he left Bella in the last book. And Bella is closer to jacob. Well at least she was until Jacob screwed her over and …
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
I love post-apocalyptic stories, where people band together and figure out ways to survive. The relationship dynamics and rawness of the plots of those books always excite and interest me, so I was happy to delve into Alas, Babylon, a story about the United States after a nuclear apocalypse.
The …
Slash: The Autobiography
As a huge fan of Slash and Guns N’ Roses, I was very excited to read his autobiography, which was published in October 2007. The book offers readers a detailed insight into the guitar legends life, and tells of his childhood memories, his wild and sometimes crazy …
Sweet Valley’s The Unicorn Club: Kimberly Rides Again
This is the eight installment of Sweet Valley’s The Unicorn Club series, and it features Kimberly Haver’s story. Kimberly is a skilled horsewoman ever since she was s child, and this time she’s taking the Unicorns for some fun at a weekend ranch to have some fun and some …
The Power by Rhonda Byrne Book
The Power is the second installment in The Secret series. The Power follows the same subject of the law of attraction, except this book doesn’t solely focus on positive thinking, but how the power is love and love and the law of attraction is the same thing.
Love is something …
Mystery of the spiteful letters by Enid Blyton
‘The mystey of the spiteful letters’ is a book written by Enid Blyton and is one among the series of the five find-outer books. In this story, Frederick, nicknamed Fatty, has fun disguising himself. In this story, he disguises mostly as a red-haired boy. Now there is a person …
Night by Elie Wiesel book
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an extraordinary book. It is amazing. It is very influential. It is very sad and emotional. But it is an amazing book. It is about the holocaust and is a true story about the author.
It starts off when the Elie is a …
Chinchuba by Kevin Michael Casey
Strange killings are taking place in Mississippi. It appears that people are being drawn into the river, and, strangely, with little resistance - according to the witnesses. The severely mutilated remains are later washed up on the shore. The witnesses are unable to give a clear description of the …
The Grapes of Wrath, novel by John Steinbeck
On May 6, 1940, John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
The title refers us to the Bible, which is a metaphor - the author writes how heavy clusters - the grapes of wrath - are ripening and poured with rage in people’s souls.
Steinbeck …
The Gift by Cecelia Ahern
The Gift by Cecelia Ahern is awesome. I would say that this is such a magical book with lots of nice plots here and there. It appears to have a very nice plot and yet again, Cecelia the awesome writer has done it again this time. First …
Margaret Fuller’s, “Excerpts from Women in the Nineteenth Century”
Margaret Fuller’s, “Excerpts from Woman in the Nineteenth Century” demonstrates a similar conflict in regard to the unfortunate notion that individual liberty in direct opposition with societal norms. Fuller makes evident in the first paragraph of her essay that “no woman has had a fair chance”. Therefore, Fuller makes …
Reign in Hell 5 comic
I wanted to like this arc, I really did. Admittedly, it has been a long, long time since I read the last issue, so of course I’m going to be a tad lost, but even taking that into account, I didn’t really care.
You have a war …
WordPress For Dummies (3rd Edition) by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
“WordPress For Dummies” by Lisa Sabin-Wilson is an instructional how to guide that takes a look at how one can become a blogger while utilizing the free WordPress service. What is great about this book is it’s written for both those that have relatively little or no experience running …
The Uncensored Confessions by Nina Malkin
The Uncensored Confessions by Nina Malkin is a book about a teenage band and the members that are consisted in it.
I remember those days that I was in a school band and having conflicts and secret thoughts about the band but could not for a fact communicate with …
The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield
The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield quite a scary story altogether. There are simply too many mysteries to uncover that you will find yourself pretty scared. I was reading some pages at night and I got a bit creep out, really. And then, I had …
Sidney Sheldon:Are you afraid of the dark
A good read.. no actually a fantastic read if you are into woman power. This book captures the essence of desperation with fast pacing action. It gives you the feel of what the world would be like if man could control the weather.
In a weird yet wonderful sense …
My Favorite Sounds From A-Z by Peggy Snow (book)
My Favorite sounds From A-Z by Peggy Snow is a children’s book which is about the various sounds of life, and the best part about this book is that it is in the form of a rhyming instead of regular storytelling.
The best thing about this book is that …
Hatching Magic by Ann Downer
Hatching Magic is the first novel by Ann Downer which I have read. It is a kids’ novel, probably best for ages 8 - 12. It is a clever novel that uses some common ideas as well as adding a few touches.
The story has a nice flow to it, …
The Long Dark Night by Joseph Hayes book
I actually found the book “The Long Dark Night” by the late author Joseph Hayes in my late aunt’s bookshelf with many other old paperback novels. I remembered I had read it quite a few years ago, and it had kept me up for about two nights, so I …
Blogging For Dummies by Susannah Gardner and Shane Birley
This book, Blogging For Dummies by Susannah Gardner and Shane Birley is awesome. Don’t underestimate the title, because it is really not misleading at all. In fact, it has lots of precise and concise information and instructions on how one can find out more about blogging.
Blogging is fun …
Nicola and the Viscount-Meg Cabot Historical Novel
Meg Cabot is an amazing author, and most of her books were and are bestsellers, but not this one. That doesn’t mean it’s not good. Nicola and the Viscount follows a young girl named Nicola who lives in London in the early 1800s. She’s an orphan, and it’s her …
The Book Of Lost Things By John Connolly
One of the greatest pleasures of the fantasy reader, especially one who, like me, reads a lot, is to discover something new and original that turns the the classic stories upside down. This is the real reason why I like Simon R. Green and “Shadows Fall”. Because of it …
Thirteen and Surviving by Aubrey Waters
Last year, a friend of mine (Aubrey Waters) got a novel that she wrote published. It is called Thirteen and Surviving. It is a novel written for adolescent age girls, and it is about a girl who goes through many difficulties over the course of turning thirteen. …
Richard Brautigan
Do you have a favorite author? I sure do. His name is Richard Brautigan and I love him so much that if he came back to life and asked me to marry him, I would do it in a heartbeat.
Brautigan shot his head off in Bolinas California. He had …
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Dan Brown is a great writer who seems to have tapped the right recipe for being able to create the type of story that can truly lure readers into a book. Digital Fortress is no exception. My problem with this book, and I believe it significant, is that Brown …
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