“Eleven Minutes” the title itself speaks a lot. If you think that terms like “sex”, “prostitution” etc can offend you, please go and read the novel because you wont find a more gracefully written text on these subjects. The novel engages with a subject that is always there in …

Most if not all Filipino accountants knows the name Conrado Valix even though they haven’t met the person. It is because of his book, Theory of Accounts, a reviewer for the Certified Public Accountant Board Examination. His name has become a household word in review schools and accounting classrooms. …

Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, wrote The Inheritance when she was seventeen. It was her first novel, but she never submitted it for publication. It wasn’t published until 1997.
I was pretty excited to read this, since I’ve read her books from the time …

After reading Traveling Light and Cure for the Common Life, I was excited to get my hands on Max Lucado’s latest work: Fearless. The book detailed several common fears amongst society, including the fears of not mattering, disappointing God, failing children, no money, worst-case scenarios, the future, the apocalypse, …

Even though I had grown up seeing the comic strip “Shoe” in the papers, I had never paid it much attention until I was a teenager, and when I did, it had become one of my favourite comic strips that would appear in the comic strip section of …

I can see why And Then There Were None (which has also been published as Ten Little Indians) is one of Agatha Christie’s popular books, even though it lacks M. Poirot or Miss Marpole. The flow of the book is seamless, and the reader is immediately aware of the …

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 …

I have recently completed Software Engineering by Robert Pressman. This was a fifth edition book. I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the way this book handles a complicated topic is simply outstanding.
Software Engineering is a subject with which every professional should be acquainted with. This …

I have read this book during a travel by rail. However, during the course of reading I thought that this book require a serious reading as the content is in depth and capable of changing life in a positive way.
This is one of my favorite books on self improvement. …

“Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Hard Rain” by Dean Wesley Smith is hard to read because it is so repetitive and littered with dull material. First of all, episode seems way too similar to the first season episode of the show, “The Big Goodbye” when Captain Picard …

I bought Elegant Tatting Pattern by Janet Carroll from Amazon.com awhile back ago for an exact amount I do not remember but I am sure it was a very low price of around $5 and to top it off Amazon was having one of their 4 for the price of …

Skim, Scan, Scroll- A Quick Guide to Web Writing by Jyotsna Atre is good and valuable book for web writers and is published by Pustak mahal.
For the first time when I went through this book I found that it provided an indepth view on the various topics relating to …

Anthem, an outstanding book by Ayn Rand is probably one of the most debated books ever(as is the case with most her books) and plenty has been written about it.Yet,in this review,I hope I convey a different opinion,being just 15 and lacking any formal training in literature beyond school.
We …

The Snake in the Hen House is a short story by Elnora Watters. The story starts out with Snake that managed to sneak into the hen house. He was thinking of stealing an egg so he went up to the nest but he saw a big hen. Snake was …

The book How to Ruin Your Life by Ben Stein is fantastic. It has a very nice tongue-in-cheek approach to life in general and basically to life itself. I find the book to be very funny and I had a blastful time reading from page 1 till the …

I have just finished the third installment of Diana Gabaldon’s Lord John series, Lord John and the Hand of Devils. If you are not familiar with her writing, they are all period pieces and the Lord John series takes place in the 1750’s, the time of the Seven …

The Door in the Dragon’s Throat is Book 1 of Frank Peretti’s Cooper Kids Adventure series that targets young readers (ages 9-12, according to Amazon).
Dr. Jacob Cooper is an archeologist who travels everywhere with his two children, Jay and Lila, taking all kinds of interesting assignments. In this first …

Before I opened it for the first time, I expected that book four would be full of some kind of advice or scientific explanation as regards to several issues resulting from the changes a child’s body goes through in puberty. However, I was quite surprised to find that book …

Author: Kim Kang Won
Korean (Manga-style) Novel
Genre: Romance, slice of life
I.N.V.U, pronounced like the phrase ‘I envy you,’ is a Korean manga-styled novel by author Kim Kang Won. I say manga-styled merely due to fans of manga out there that are insulted that Korean authors are allotted the …

I have just finished reading Radio Goes to War, written by Gerd Horten. The book touches on the role of domestic radio in the United States during the Second World War.
The writer suggested that radio broadcasting had been used as propaganda in Government before in wartime America. Gerd …

Domain is the first book of the Domain trilogy written by the author Steve Alten.
Summarizing the story, it happens in the year 2012. One of the characters is Dominique Vazquez, a psychiatrist who works in the case of Michael Gabriel, a schizophrenic who declares that on December 21 the …

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 …

The Elves of Cintra is a very nice epic-fantasy story that was given to me by my boyfriend. This is from the author Terry Brooks and he is a really good author writing a dark and contemporary twist here and there.
The characters were all about Logan …

The subtitle of this book is “A Study of Bird Parasites”, and the cover of my 1961 Grey Arrow paperback edition is a plain green studded with microscopic (and otherwise) black and white drawings of some of these creatures. You might think from looking at it that it would …

The Hearse You Came In On, was written by Tim Cockney and published by Hyperion in 2001.
Hitchcock Sewell, an undertaker, was struck by the appearance of an unusual guest at a funeral wake. A woman dressed in tennis dress had wanted to talk about her funeral arrangements; she …

The book ‘Beautiful Creatures’ was an incredible tale that took you on an adventure with the main characters and makes you forget they only live in a book. I truly felt as if Lena and Ethan were real people and telling me their story themselves. The two teens take …

This is the first book that I read by a German author and I must say it was very unique and different from anything else I have ever read. It was quite impossible to guess what would happen next due to its distinctiveness. So if you are tired of …

When I used to think about zombies and they’re possible existence in normal life, I have to admit that I never thought of combat styles and weapons to use against zombies. For each movie and story throughout history seems to say something different about zombies, where they come from, …

I picked up this book because I like Jennifer Crusie novels - I’d never read anything by Bob Mayer before. It does read like a typical Jennifer Crusie novel, although there is a lot more information about guns and more violence in this one.
I liked this book, although …

Oyayubhime Infinity is a charming manga by Toru Fujieda which DC Comics is now putting out, translated into english, in North America. The story involves a young up-and-coming japanese idol, Maya, who’s public identity which she creates for herself is radically different from who she really is. The bulk …

This book was a great help to me when I was in high school. Our actually world history book was around 800 pages, and quite a pain in the neck to read, but this book summarized it into around half the pages. (I still thought that the 400 pages …

This book is the ninety-fourth novel in the Sweet Valley Twins Middle School series and it features a new guy named Brian Boyd who just moved in Sweet Valley and he’s been mean and a bully —“ he’s been nothing but trouble ever since he got here, but Elizabeth …

Gruber’s Complete SAT Guide 2008 was the book I used to help study for the SAT last year. It’s a really thick, blue SAT book, and the text on the cover is in orange. Nothing too special on the outside, but once I opened it up, I fell in …

This trilogy of novels is one of the most moving, sad and sometimes uplifting reads I have had in a long time. The first novel, set in an Eastern European country, begins with the outbreak of World War II, with twin boys Claus and Lucas, being left by their …

I read the boy called it because it was a requirement for one of my education classes in college. My emotions flaired the entire way through the book. I would cry. I would get angry.
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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 …

This seems to be a really popular book, considering it got up to 24th on the New York Times list. But Dogs and Goddesses by Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart, and Lani Diane Rich, didn’t feel like a bestseller to me.
The story itself was good, with interesting events and …

It’s hard for me to write a review for this story without giving spoilers to those who haven’t read it yet, because that would totally suck, it’s a story that’s very worth reading til the end. But I’ll do my best, at this point I didn’t even know what …

I love genres of books and movies that are laced with lots of romantic comedies and that includes this amazing book, The Year of Yes: The Story of a Girl, a Few Hundred Dates, and Fate by Maria Headley. This book is super awesome and it relates to how …

Harriet Jacob’s life of imprisonment began at birth and perpetuated for twenty seven years. Her mother died when she was six years old and her father died, leaving her an orphan at age thirteen. Harriet’s mother had instilled in her …

Mr. Boston: Official Bartender’s Guide (Mr. Boston: Official Bartender’s & Party Guide)
By Mr. Boston and Anthony Giglio
“Mr. Boston: Official Bartender’s Guide (Mr. Boston: Official Bartender’s & Party Guide) by Mr. Boston and Anthony Giglio is an encyclopedia enriched book for those who are looking to learn how to …

The first issue of Marvel’s new mini-series “Civil War” is one of Marvel’s best story arcs to come around in a long, long time. It is so good, in fact, it can actually remove some of the stench of Marvel’s House of M Travesty that stunk up the …

Beautiful Creatures is the first book in the four book Beautiful Creatures series. Ethan Wate begins to have strange dreams about a girl who he has never met. Things get even stranger when the girl from his dreams shows up in his town. Ethan is drawn towards the girl …

My mum recently bought me the Rachels Favourite Food At Home cook book, she paid approx 18 british pounds from W.H Smiths.
I have found this to be a really useful cook book packed full of interesting and easy recipes.
Rachel Allen also has a cookery programme on TV which is …

The Onion Field was written by Joseph Wambaugh and published by Dell Publishing, 1979.
Joseph Wambaugh’s books are really in a class of their own. In this book, the author started with the background of four men with different upbringing and environment, and slowly led the readers to …

For a long time, it would seem that DC Comics had lost its way. The publishing giant simply was not releasing any decent story lines and the readers noticed. DC lost much ground to their competitors in Marvel Comics as Marvel simply had better comics. Then, along came DC’s …

Truly an epic created by Mario Puzo. The novel is the written about the height of sharpness of brain, rationality of human being that is plenty in a man called Vito Corleone who because of his virtue of being a “man of word” becomes a “man of respect” in …

Dead or Alive, written by Geoff Thompson is a good book that everyone lady needs to have. The subtitle to this book is written as The Choice Is Yours and there are steps to self-protect oneself in this book. There are lots of methods actually and …

I’m willing to give anything a go but some plotlines I initially find interesting just end up tanking for me. I do believe this book is a second incarnation of a Twilight fanfic that shipped Bella and Edward. What would’ve worked and probably been really popular as a highly …

This book written by Dr. Suzanne Gudanskunst is one of the best fitness books I read because of the following reasons: One, it deals with weight loss inside out, discussing all aspects of weight loss which you need to know, and probably which doctors fail or don’t want to …