The book that my father has which is called Principles and Practice of Electrical Epilation, written by Sheila Godfrey has really confused me tremendously. This book is actually a new edition, and the topics covered in this book are improved standards of training, and a lot about practicing …

This is an absolute must read book for any mother of an autistic child or anyone that has been touched by autism in some way or another! In this book Jenny McCarthy explains what she went through with her son, Evan. To say her journey has tugged …

thousand splendid suns
I read this novel early this year which is authored by Khaled Hosseini who also wrote the other popular novel which is the Kite Runner. In my opinion, the novel is nicely written which I think is rhetorically done which tells about a poignant story about a …

This book gives me lots of perspectives, lessons learned and many more. Multiple Blessings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets by Jon and Kate Gosselin and Beth Carson. I highly recommend reading this book because it is such a good book, laced with realism and lots of …

I really like this book, like any other teach yourself book it’s not one hundred percent perfect but you can get a lot of information out of it and come out looking pretty much like a professional. This is not a difficult book to understand. The 24 hours does …

This is one of Steinbeck’s best novels. A novel which has been expressed with friendship, hatred and luck. The great thing about this Novel is that it was set back in the 1930s which really shows how life was like especially with women and black people and how they …

The Lost Symbol that is conceptualized as a follow up to the famous Davinci Code is in hundred percent Dan Brown style. Every sequence, sentence and story turn is typical of Dan Brown style especially what we read in Davinci code. The Lost Symbol is thrilling and way it …

This book is quite good. It describes about society’s attitude towards disabled people and how we as normal people should be sensitive towards the employability options of disabled people and also regarding their concerns and issues.
A good instance would be like an organization such as Mc’Donalds who employ disabled …

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 …

I have read The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and it is a moving story and a true one at that by Jeannette Walls herself. She works for MSNBC and is currently happily married and living in the US with her husband.
Her story since childhood wasn’t a happy journey …

I am not a fan of cookbooks; when I do cook (my husband is the cook in our family), I prefer to go online for a specific recipe, or make it up as I go along, using a basic recipe from my old cookbooks. I recently purchased the first …

These booklets of quotes, called “Quote Stacks” are really quite useful. I bought mine at Michael’s craft stores. They are a bit on the expensive side, considering that they could be made on your computer, but it is hard to print things neatly on vellum.
Each stack has 48 sheets. …

Anatomy of Murder was written by Bill Pomidor and published by Penguin Group in 1996.
The husband and wife team Dr Plato Marley was in geriatrics; while Dr Cal was a forensic pathologist at Seigel Medical College. At Cal’s tuition class for her medical students, she discovered …

I just finished reading Rewriting History by Dick Morris, a book dedicated to studying the personality of former first lady turned Senator turned Secretary of State of the United States of America, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The whole book is devoted to deconstructing the personality or the persona of the …

Child of Time by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
ISBN: 0330322702
Genre: Sci-fi
This is an extended version of a short story called “The Ugly Little Boy”, written by Isaac Asimov and initially published in 1956. It is the second collaboration between Asimov and Silverberg, the first being “Nightfall”, also an extended …

This YA book is a fairly good book for boys or girls aged 10 - 13. The story is based on a good idea: twins John and Phillipa Gaunt discover that they are djinn, with magical powers to grant wishes, and many other skills that they don’t know about.
They …

Joni (Paperback) is one inspirational writing that every one should find time to read. This is one story you can’t afford to stop reading till you reach the end. The 224 pages of this Paperback will never bore you down. Tears will surely join you while …

‘The secret mountain’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This is the most interesting book in these series.
Mike, Peggy and Nora are under suspicion that their parents are being held captive in some mountain in the jungles of Africa. They trek thorugh these fierce jungles. The bravery …

I have recently read all three books in the ‘Dark Materials’ trilogy by Phillip Pullman. All three books were equally interesting, it wasn’t one of these series where the first book seems good and then the rest fall flat and the story line was well maintained through all …

I have so many praises for Minus Nine to One: The Diary of an Honest Mum by Jools Oliver. Honestly, I picked this up at random from the library and I have not looked back since. I have this habit of picking books that have an interesting cover, …

Cassie was a book that I read about a month ago and yet still I remember the main events. I even read this book twice as it kept bringing me back for more.It told the insightful story of how celeberal paralsy can affect a person and the people around …

I have been fairly impressed with the relatively new Virgin Comics. I wasn’t expecting a great deal from them, however the couple of titles I have read I have rather liked (especially Ramayan 3392 AD). So I was somewhat optimistic when I picked up this title: John …

The Super Mario 64 Nintendo Power Strategy Guide is one that I purchased not because I needed help beating the Nintendo 64 masterpiece, but because I loved and enjoyed the game so much, I wanted it to just read through and have. Although Super Mario 64 is typically a …

“Derailed” by James Siegel tells the story of a young married man, Charles Schine whose monotonous life begins to change drastically after he accidentally meets an attractive and sexully appealing young beauty on the train. The meeting marks the beginning of a passionate love affair, which could be even …

A prequel to the hugely popular and controversial book ‘The DaVinci Code’ by author Dan Brown, ‘Angels and Demons’ introduces us to the character of Robert Langdon, a Harvard Professor who is drawn into a labyrinthine web of murder and conspiracy that reaches into the upper echelons of the …

This is so far the most inspiring book I have ever read. This is written by Rick Warren a Prostestant Pastor who touched millions of lives through his writings in the book.
Regardless of religion, race or nationality this book has continuously …

—˜Silver Borne’ is an Urban Fantasy story by Patricia Briggs. It takes place in the Tri-Cities, not really sure where that is but I think it’s Washington and yet I keep thinking it’s in Oregon, in a modern time when the supernatural creatures have come out to the public. …

“Meet the Mertzes: The Life Stories of I Love Lucy’s Other Couple” by Rob Edelman and Audrey Kupferberg is a book that I would recommend to any fan of the “I Love Lucy” series or “Vivian Vance” or “William Frawley”. This book is sort of like a double biography …

Vault of the Vampire is the 38th book in the original series (published in the United Kingdom by Puffin) run of Fighting Fantasy solo gamebooks. As far as I am aware, there has been no republication of this title in the later Wizard Books series, although the Puffin edition …

When about two years ago Sarah Rees Brennan first announced on her livejournal blog that she was about to publish a Young Adult novel, my curiosity immediately peaked. Since I knew Sarah as a good writer of fan stories, I was very interested in her original output.
It was …

I recently finished reading the autobiography of Russel Brand. For anyone who does not know who he is, he is a British presentor and comedian. His persona is very similar to that of Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean and that of a cheek …

A Clean Slate is a book from the now defunct Red Dress Ink books devoted to women and written by women. This book tells the story of Kelly, a woman who walks into the dry cleaners and learns that her entire life has changed. The last thing she remembers …

Batman: Year Three 1 of 4 is a comic issue series about Dick Grayson’s origin story of how he became Robin and takes place after A Death In The Family by Jim Starlin. Tony Zucco, the man who killed Dick Grayson’s parents is about to be released …

Carla Neggers is a well known and popular author of romantic suspense novels. In Dark Sky she combines action, drama, suspense and romance to create an interesting plot. Deputy US Marshal Juliet Longstreet returns to her apartment to find her doorman dead, the victim of a …

I was introduced to the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs when a friend of mine let me borrow the first one in the series, and I’ve been hooked on them religiously ever since. Mercy Thompson is an unlikely hero who is a shape shifting mechanic with a mean …

Night Shadow is one of the stories written by Roberts under the ‘Night Tales’ series.
In this book, we meet Gage Guthrie and Deborah O’Roarke. For those of you who have read Night Shift, you’d know that Deborah is Cilla’s younger sister.
Deborah is a D.A and as she works …

Ancient Greek mythology hits modern times in The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan. Kids will love this tale full of mythological figures. Hero Percy Jackson has trouble studying and reading because of his dyslexia. He keeps getting into trouble, and is expelled from each school he attends. He has …

The Wrong Places, written by John Ripley is a story that I consider to be purely fiction and sometimes made me bored and sometimes made me really enjoying it to the fullest. I guess there’s a cross-section in between and the main character in this story is Marcel Maki …

I have long wondered why Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life became a best-seller when practically every Christian book profess the same content and idea and so why should this be different?
I was terribly wrong.
I got my book from my girlfriend who happens to be a born-again …

If you’re a makeup and beauty addict such as myself, then you will already have your own copy of Sephora’s beauty book about makeup, skin, and hair; if you don’t, then you should go grab you a copy from Amazon immediately after reading this review. Every since I purchased my …

“The I Love Lucy Quizbook” by Bart Andrews is a fun little book that is filled with quizzes spanning the years that the show was on the air. I found this book fun to read through on my own as well as to quiz other Lucy fans on. What …

Survivor tells the story of the last surviving member of a death cult. He is recording his life story into the flight recorder of a plane that he has taken over and is about to crash. He is telling the story of why he did not die with the …

This book title, How To Keep Your Man: And Keep Him For Good by Darren G. Burton is a good read. Average - good. There are so many self-help books in the market on how to snag that man, get that man for yourself, hitch a mate and …

Batman: As The Crow Flies is a graphic novel by Judd Winick and illustrated by Dustin Nguyen. In the story, Gotham’s criminal underworld is thrown into chaos when gangsters start going berserk and kill a lot of people. Batman has to investigate who’s behind it and a …

When Professor Henry Conklin discovers an ancient mummy from South America, he hopes that it will help his scientific theories and also to prove that the great buildings of the Incas are actually the work of another kind of older civilization. He realizes with dismay and chagrin that the …

I think there are about six or seven books in this entire series of educational books, and judging from the picture on the cover from books one to six, my first guess was that the books were written some time in the seventies. In fact, when I looked on …

Siren by John Everson is a horror tale with a unique “monster.” The mysterious and beautiful Ligeia haunts the shoreline of the small port town of Delilah, California. The main character in the story is a man named Evan. Suffering from aquaphobia, an intense fear of …

This second book of the Landon Snow fantasy series is even better than the first, although the title still suffers from the same “Harry Potter Ripoff” syndrome, as you can see. Landon goes to visit his grandparents again, and he looks forward to maybe getting into the fantasy world …

“Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes is a story about a woman who takes a boy home with her after he tried to steal her purse.
First, the story begins with a woman walking down the street with her purse over her shoulder. Suddenly, a young boy tries to snatch …

If you are looking for a decent mystery, I suggest that you pick up a copy of Mary Higgins Clark’s “Weep No More, My Lady. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it a 7. While it was not Mary Higgins Clarks best work, I …