John le Carre is perhaps the master of the spy novel. His books deal with the inner workings of British Intelligence that is completely different from the James Bond stories. His characters are real, with human weaknesses and behaviours. His stories are not simple, and often lack …

To say the least, Savage Dragonbert is an interesting entry into the history of comic books. It originally started as a piece of fan art in the pages of Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen, and eventually became a regular feature before becoming a special comic book release which …

The Right Path is the last installment in the compilation ‘Mysterious’. I would say right from the start that this is definitely the best in the 3 stories in this compilation.
Nicholas meets Morgan in this tranquil island in Greek where smuggling is rampant. Morgan is on a holiday and …

‘Five get into trouble’ is a book written by Enid Blyton and is one among the famous five adventure series. This is one among the most interesting adventure series. This book is very exciting and full of mystery and adventure. The four children, Julian, Dick, George and Anne join …

In this modern age and time, besides the internet, if you are really a die hard fan of a celebrity or just feel the need to write to your favorite celeb, then getting this The Celebrity Black Book 2008: Over 55,000 Accurate Celebrity Addresses for Fans, Businesses and Nonprofits by …

Love With the Proper Husband by Victoria Alexander is a classic love story, set in a historical romance setting. I am sometimes fascinated by the society of the ‘ton’, where it is something only for the upper class community during those times.
2 characters are in question here. One …

I have nothing bad to say about this series of graphic novels - I love the artwork, I love the complex plot, and I love the vivid storytelling interspersed with the traditional graphic novel format. Most wonderfully, this fantasy series is NOT your typical “king-maker”, where the goal …

“Arrow to the Sun” by Gerald McDermott is such an enchanting tale for young readers where they can learn about a different culture (Pueblo Indians) in an easy to read text with vivid colors and shapes that are from another culture. Young readers are going to love this fun …

This is a great book to read if you like reading books where there is a mystery to solve. However, I felt that it was a little predictable who the bad guy was going to be. I do a lot of reading, so maybe I have developed …

In this volume of Nodame Cantabile finally after so many chapters waiting that Chiaki will be able to go to Europe to study conducting, he finally reaches his dream and goes to France. We get to know new characters, like their new apartment mates. Chiaki involves in a conducting …

Ghost Rider remains one of the more curious Marvel superheroes. Part of the reason for this was the fact that Marvel really had to idea of what to do with him when he debuted in the 1970’s. Was his the star of a horror book? A superhero book? Or …

I can see the brilliance once more of J.K. Rowling in her third installment in the Harry Potter series. I really enjoyed reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Again, I was impressed with the way JK Rowling introduces the world she created, one by one. It was …

After watching and re-watching Bones, I finally figured out that the television series that I dearly loved was based on the novels and characters of Kathy Reichs. Dr. Tempearance Brennan was bragging about it to Boothe in one episode saying “I’m a best-selling author. That gives me elevated status …

Mortal Causes was written by Ian Rankin (published by Simon & Schuster, 1995)
When I started this book, I found it slow moving; moreover I was not very keen on stories about terrorists and their activities. With their worldwide notoriety and atrocities, I have already passed them off as worse …

Each chapter is divided into tips according to the same subjects. For example, the first chapter is devoted to tips about the user interface of the program, then proceeds with tips devoted to various Photoshop skills like Layers,Image Editing, Retouching and Enhancing Color Tones. The first few lessons are …

Ok, we all know that The Scarlet Letter is a classic, but if you are a constant reader of the classics like myself, you know that being a “classic” doesn’t mean that all will automatically love the book. I must say that it wasn’t one of my favorites with …

This book, Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett is the first book with the City Watch of Ankh Morpork. It’s really fun to have read, because then you get to know how Carrot joined the Watch - which is pretty funny, being that he thinks he’s a dwarf. Ankh Morpork, …

Miss Match is a cute little chick lit book that I found at my local Wal-Mart. The book itself had a brightly colored cover with a cute picture of a coffee cup and that managed to draw in and capture my attention. I bought this book and it’s sequel …

When I read the book “The Schoolmaster” by the Caribbean author Earl Lovelace when I was in high school, I found that I wasn’t very interested in reading more of his books since at the time I found his works boring. Thus, I was not too excited to find …

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Volume 3 begins with traveling adventurers Syaoran, Sakura, Fai and Kurogane leaving the Hanshin Republic and arriving on another world named Koryo in the town of Ryfoni where they seek to help Cha girl named Chu’nyan battle the evil ruler and his son.
This is a great …

I admit that I only picked up How to be Single by Liz Tuccillo because I was at a friend’s house and there was nothing else to read in the room I was in. (I was apparently too lazy to walk out of the room and find something else). …

Once again this is another stylized work of fiction from Conn Igulden. This book essentially deals with Julius Ceasar when he was growing up and how he got to discover Gaius Marius and his introduction to military life.
What really made this book appealing was that it was once …

Grilling & Barbecuing comes form the Essential Cooking series that was published by Hinkler Books Pty Ltd. This book features recipe for grilling and barbecuing that you will love to cook. I bought the book at a bookstore in a mall when my wife was scouting for a good …

As she recognizes in her acknowledgments at the end of her book, Verity, Colleen Hoover’s books are mostly those of the romance genre. Her other reads are emotional and introduce characters that her readers cry with, laugh with and fall in love with.
Her book, Verity, is very, very …

Don’t let the pretty picture tempt you into picking up this dull over-used story plot. The cover image is what attracted me originally to this fantasy novel: a castle sitting atop a flying carpet with the pyramids of Giza in the background, a woman holding a lace-covered parasol in …

At first, I was just so attracted to this book’s cover because it’s so cute and it’s about witches so I thought it could be interesting. I know it’s a children’s book but it really looks interesting to me so I read the whole book. It’s about a boy …

William Young’s The Shack was quite a disappointment, especially after hearing all of the hype surrounding this story. It chronicles a father losing his faith after the horrifying death of his daughter and the subsequent confrontation by God about the loss of his faith.
Laying aside all the theology, …

I really laugh a lot when I read this book title, The Love Trainer by Julia Llewellyn. I finish it in just 3 days and it’s such an amazing book about the character in question, Katie Wallace.
She is actually just a cleaner, and you will be amazed …

The Gossip Girl series of eight books takes a group of hot, hip New York teens through their senior year of high school at prestigious private schools. From posh parties to winter break in the Caribbean, you can read all of the fabulous details. The books don’t …

Heat is Bill Buford’s story of his late in life transition from a well paid food writer to a restaurant chef. He begins as a kitchen slave in Mario Batali’s New York restaurant Babbo and journeys throughout the world of food, at a small town Italian restaurant and …

Let us swing back into the continuing series of Marvel Essentials Spectacular Spiderman as we get to see Spidey in a series of late 1970�s B storylines that were not critical to the character as the story arcs found in the flagship title The Amazing Spiderman. The quality of …

This book is the first book featuring the Dempseys, a family of grifters and con artists with two sisters who are trying to go straight.
It is a funny, clever story, with the usual good dialogue. As in many Jennifer Crusie novels, there is a stray dog that is picked …

How Not to Look Old by Charla Krupp is basically about not looking old basically. It lists off tips and steps that are simple and very easy to follow through. The author is very forthright in her advices here and you will be happy to follow through everything.
Though …

The Other Boleyn Girl is one of the best books that I have ever read. It is about Mary Boleyn, Anne Boleyn’s sister, who also was intimately involved with King Henry VIII and very nearly ended up Queen much like Anne did. Mary and Anne are much different - …

I have to be honest, the first thing that made me want to read this story was the beautiful cover it has. And when I learned that it was about aliens, my curiosity was picked. I think alien in books is my less explored theme in Young Adult, so …

Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory Anna Green and Kathleen Troup
Finally I think I understand! I?m taken a graduate level class in historiography and have read three textbooks on the subject. With each, I understand a little bit more.
This book is excellent. Unlike others …

‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne is a book about the oldest secret in the world. It is available in many different languages and you can find it almost everywhere as well as online.
The oldest secret in the world according to the book is the Law of attraction (LOA). Basically, …

Twilight is a book written by Stephenie Meyer. A blockbuster movie was released recently as an adaptation of the book. While every gushed over how romantic the movie was, I skipped watching it- not until I read the book.
Now that I finished the book, I would like to share …

Ultimate Spider-Man #9 “Ultimate 6″
This volume in the Marvel remake series is quite interesting as it recreates Amazing Spiderman Annual 1, a magazine that was written forty years ago. That annual, to put it bluntly, was awful.
In it, readers were introduced to the Sinister Six, a group consisting of …

The master of horror fiction makes a return to the short story format in this latest collection of stories, released in 2008. There are 13 stories in total, some of which were previously published in magazines and other literature, but collected into a published anthology for the first time ever. …

I’ve just finished reading “Gone With the Wind” for the second time. I’m not going to lie, it’s a commitment to read it. It’s a little over 1000 pages, but when I start reading, it’s more like getting back to my favorite movie than any kind of work.
The …

I haven’t read book for more than three months now, since I finished the Twilight Saga. And I hadn’t plan on reading one soon, but yesterday, my flatmate handed me a book which she just read and she thought might interest me. I really had no intention of reading …

Reese ran away from her hometown after her boyfriends tried to kill her. He’s not being prosecuted, so to save her life she decides to leave to another state, change her name and start all over. That’s where she meets Mason, a boy she immediately feels attracted to. The …

‘The art of loving’ is a book written by Erich Fromm. The author writes about his opinion of love.
The book is divided into four chapters. In the first chapter, Fromm says that many people are starving for love, but they are not getting it. He says that most want …

It is only fitting that a band who have lived their life so openly and hungry for attention should be the subject of such an honest book. For thirty years Motley Crue were the band that set the template for the West Coast glam rock scene, no one could …

“The Fairytale Cake” is a children’s book written by Mark Sperring and illustrated by Jonathan Langley. It is a relatively new book, published in 2005.
This book features tons of fairy tale characters as they bake a cake and deliver it to a birthday party. The idea itself has …

I have read every book written by Judith Mc Naught and I have done so because her works are really amazing. Every Breath You Take is one of my favorites. I love Kate’s and Mitchell’s characters.
Their love story started which started in Anguilla is very romantic and poginant. …

The Oathbound Wizard is the second book in the books written by Christopher Stasheff.
In this sequel to “Her Majesty’s Wizard”, Matthew Mantrell has stayed in Merovence and is trying to persuade Alisande to marry him.
She has hesitated for three years. So in anger, Matt swears to throw the …

I’ve been a fan of Karen Marie Moning’s writings since the first very book that I picked up of hers. “Beyond the Highland Mist” is the first book from her highlander series, although technically all the books are stand alone books they have an element that ties them all …

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey presents an “inside-out approach” to being effective in attaining goals by using the pronciples of character ethic. The book provides a sequential framework in order for people to understand the process of restoring the character ethic and personality …