I would love to be able to recommend this book. Mysteries are a big interest of mine and I did enjoy the first few books by this author. But I can’t do it. The mystery just isn’t interesting, and it didn’t grab my attention. I usually love to try …

“American Gods” is more than just a fairy tell set in the modern United States. I thought it to be a calling to arms over the importance of preserving the stories of the past, no matter how fantastical or uncommon to our own. Neil Gaiman gave me not only …

The Marriage Bed is a very delightful story, written by Laura Lee Guhrke. This is a very good author, and her powerful vocabulary takes the breath out of me. She really has some nice amazing words being used, and my English has been improved tremendously just by …

“Daughter of Hounds” by Caitlin R. Kiernan is a novel that gnaws at you, stripping the protective layers away until its teeth reach the soft, unprotected parts within. At times literary but more often profane, the book batters the reader with its intense language and pitch-black theme.
I originally picked …

Until You is romantic type of novel from the beginning to the end. It is about the Earl of Langford who apparently ran over a man, who was due to get married the very next day, until tragedy struck that is. Regretfully, it is now up to him …

Fugitive Nights (written by Joseph Wambaugh)
An old-fashioned crime story about retired or soon-to-be retired police personnel who became PIs (private investigators). Lynn Cutter, about to be retired due to an injured knee while protecting the US president, found himself employed by private investigator Brenda Burrows, a former …

This book is the 39th book in The Hardy Boys series by Franklin W. Dixon. Even though they were written a long time ago, they can still be enjoyed by preteens.
In this particular mystery, it is more interesting because the reader cannot tell who the bad guys are. There …

“The Warlords of Nin” by Stephen Lawhead is Book 2 of the Dragon King Series. It continues the story of Quentin, no longer a boy but a young man in service to the king of Mensandor. The book begins with the king being very ill, and the doctors unable …

Another manga I have loved reading and still constantly waiting for an update is the Kaichou wa Maid-Sama manga by Fujiwara Hiro and it’s really a great piece of shoujo manga because it has all the romance, the maid costume, the comedy, the conflict and everything just fits so …

“A stranger in the mirror” by Sidney Sheldon. This is a novel that revolves around the life of two characters, namely Toby Temple and Jill Castle. Toby is a small-fry wannabee comedian who dreams of making it big by entering into the Hollywood. He struggles a lot early on …

I really enjoyed reading this book, even though I had watched the movie on my ipod before reading it. I got so hungry for diner food that I think my fiance and I went to Waffle House at least 2 different times the week I was reading this book …

Title: The Powerbook
Author: Jeanette Winterson
I enjoy reading language like that of Jeanette Winterson, because she very much goes beyond just stating. She creates many detailed imageries that help readers picture the scenarios vividly. More significantly, Winterson draws plenty of parallels in her writing that somehow manages to embed the parallels …

I’m a big fan of Stephen King, he’s a real Master of his craft.I began to read his books so many years ago,but the time passed and i’m still with him.
We get used that the most part of Stephen King’s novels are horror,but there are some exceptions that …

“Fear and Trembling” by Amelie Nothomb is the epitome of a quick read. The edition I picked up had less than 150 pages, and it took me little more than two hours to read. I’m a slow reader, who really likes to take her time with the books she …

Calculators in Classrooms is a book that is about using calculators in the primary math classrooms. It is an excellent resource for teachers. The book is published by Paul Swan in 2007.
There are many exercises and games that can be found in this book. Most of the activities …

This is the second book in the series about Gil Cunningham. The year is 1492, the place Glasgow, and Gil, a young lawyer, is present when a dead body is found at is old college. With the help of Alys, his betrothed, and her French master-mason father, Gil has …

This book, written by John Grisham, is a compelling story about three disgraced judges sentenced to serve their punishment in a federal prison, and unwittingly run a scam from inside a prison. The blurb does not really give you a hint as to the entire story, leaving out the …

Cover Her Face was written by PD James and published by Penguin Books in 1989.
I later found out that this was PD James’ first novel; fortunately I had read some of her other books before and liked them; else I would have just stopped at this one.
Sally Jupp, an …

Late in 2010 Adobe realeased Version 9 of Photoshop Elements. The “how to” material supplied with the software is spartan to say the least and finding such material either through the help files or as tutorials on the web is inconvenient when one is trying to …

In this book, Landon Snow, a twelve year old who had visited the fantastic world of Wonderwood in the previous books of this series, finds himself on a ship that sails through endless ocean. This time, his two sisters, Holly and Bridget, follow him in the adventure. The children …

I grabbed the Hungry Girl cookbook because it seemed like a cute approach to cooking. The book cover actually looks a little like one of the Rachel Ray cookbooks and the author has apparently read her books because it has a lot of things in common with her books. …

Halo, one of the world’s first First-Person Shooter game to be released and arguably the most successful video game thus far, was and still is a craze around the world. However, I felt that this game’s popularity could have not been achieved without its unique and in-depth lore, …

The Mario Kart 64 Nintendo Players Guide is a real handy guide to have because it provides racers with complete and detailed images of all the race tracks and all the battle maps. This means a racer can see every shortcut and be aware of every obstacle. Not only …

How To Think Like A Horse is a nice little book by Cherry Hill. Cherry Hill has authored many horse books in order to help owners and riders and she is highly esteemed in the horse world. Cherry Hill is also a rider and equestrian. What I like most …

Lately, I’ve been feeling more and more out of step with the world. So I decided to do something about it. I subscribed to Time magazine, check out the NY Times website and have started to reeducate myself about the world. Since I’m in my 50s, many of the …

Brian Donnelly and Keeley Grant are the two featured in this story. Brian comes from Ireland to work at the Grant’s stables, hired on as head trainer. The first time he sees Keeley, he is struck by her beautiful and is captivated.
Keeley is Travis Grant’s eldest daughter, who happens …

The history of Philippines reveals the influence of Spain in our culture, food and language. Filipino, my native language, has numerous words taken from Spanish; otherwise if the Spanish word was passed on the modern time, these words possess different meanings. The similarities of Filipino and Spanish encourage me …

Any book lover appreciates getting a bargain on reading material and the Half-Price Book Store in the Ross Park Mall Area is definitely the place to find bargains. They have bins outside the front door full of books in all categories for $1.00-$3.00. Inside, the …

The Boy with The Striped Pajamas is a novel by John Boyne. I have never heard about John Boyne’s other books, but even so I have to admit that he is indeed a great author.
The story took place in Germany, when Hitler governed the country. Our main character is …

For confusing, the author how managed that, occasionally being bored to the point which those made in wonder, do to read excessively, but to offer the intelligent processing of incident, variety of the viewpoint where differs to the same incident which occasionally you can do. Just which there is …

It came as a surprise to me when I learned that one of my favorite writers, John Steinbeck, had ventured across America. It was almost towards the end of his remarkable life, you could say a summation. He decided to know and see a different America, not the one …

Once in a while we get to read or see a best work which we will remember for the rest of our lives. The Ring by Danielle Steel is one such work and this book is so touching and so excellently written that one can’t get out of the …

The action is back in full in this thrilling continuation of Stephen Coonts’ Deep Black series following the National Security Agency’s covert operations team: ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean, his girlfriend ex-Delta leader Lia DeFrancesca, and funny man Tommy Karr. Even though the previous four books in the series all …

World After is the second book written after the novel Angelfall (Penryn and the end of days.) Written by Susan Ee.
World After takes place shortly after the first book angel fall ends. Just like the first book, Susan Ee does an fantastic job yet again in creating a …

Make Every Man Want You, written by Marie Foleo, is a bit tall order for me to follow, but I enjoy reading this book nevertheless. Really, and I mean it. It is a bit of a tongue-in-cheek sort of book and it is not only smart, but …

The Wind Harp by B. J. Hoff is part of the Mountain Song Legacy.
It’s part 2 of a 3 part series.
I found this book by accident. It was one of those days where I didn’t have much time to look for a book so I just went up …

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 …

“Two for the Lions” is the tenth book in the Falco series of humorous detective novels by Lindsey Davis. These follow the adventures of Roman private eye Marcus Didius Falco, his usually unreliable family and the love of his life, senator’s daughter Helena Justina.
In “Two for the Lions”, Falco …

If you are a health pro person this is a must read book. With all the buzz about health claims , diet products there is not very useful or complete info about what is going on and what you need to do. This book will tell you the truth …

I got this book, Beyond the Occult, back when I was a teenager and I was especially interested in all things strange. This is a good read. The author, Colin Wilson, is best known I think for his book The Outsider which was a best-seller. Beyond …

“The Guardian” by Dee Henderson is Book 2 in the O’Malley series featuring seven orphans, Kate, Lisa, Jennifer, Rachel, Marcus, Jack, and Stephen who had decided to be “adopt each other” and be a family and took the family name of O’Malley. Each book focuses on one of the …

Lockdown is the new book by the writer Joe Schreiber known for the fact that he put zombies in the distant galaxy of George Lucas with his novels “Dead Troopers” and “Red Harvest”. His new book, however, has nothing to do with the undead menace and in its plot …

The book about Oliver Twist is one of Dickens most well known novels. It’s full title is Oliver Twist or the Parish Boys Progress. It tells about the life of a young boy named Oliver Twist. He grows up in an orphanage/workhouse, but runs off and is taken in …

This is an amazingly interesting book, evolving around the protagonist —˜Christopher Boone’, a 15 year old boy, suffering from Autism. This is a hugely important fact to consider about the book, not only is it from a child’s perspective, but an autistic child, making it all the while more …

Brad Hill’s Blogging for Dummies, 368 pp., ISBN 0-471-77084-1 is an excellent introduction to the art and craft of blogging, the phenomenon that is sweeping the world. Written with the typical Dummies Books humor, Hill takes the reader from being completely ignorant about how to blog to a well-trained …

I was first referred to this book by a friend who I was working with. Mastering The Art Of Manga is, without a doubt, one of the best books I’ve viewed on the subject. It goes in depth about different techniques and different materials to use to ultimately create …

Meet Samantha by Susan A. Adler recommended ages,7 and up
Samantha Parkington is a brown eyed,bright,nine-year-old girl living in Mount Bedford, New York.Being raised by her Grandmerry in 1904, known in history as the Victorian age. Meet Samantha is a great book and is the first in a series of …

After seeing the previews for Atonement the movie I was excited to read the book. I always read the book before seeing the movie because 99% of the time the book is better. I was sadly disappointed with Atonement the book by Ian McEwan. I was …

The Ruins, a horror novel by the same author who gave us “A Simple Plan”. Like its predecessor, The Ruins is not an overly complex novel. We’re presented with the characters, given the essential background info, and then watch as they’re thrown into the jacked up situation …

Over this past summer I read the book Unwind by Neal Shusterman. I found this book to be a great, easy read. The book takes place in the future after a war between Pro-Choice and Pro-Life had taken place. The result was horrific in my opinion. It resulted …