I love to rummage and see what I can find and this week I choose to go to Mckays used bookstore. I was so pleased that I found so many great books that are out of print and that are not stocked in the new book stores. I do …

Trivia Lovers’ Lists of Nearly Everything in the Universe is another must-have in your shopping cart for purchasing of books in the bookstore. The author of this book is Barbara Ann Kipfer and the book suggests around 50,000 small and big things organized in all kinds of ways and …

I bought this boook by Preston Gralla at the KLCC Book Fair Exhibition.Preston Gralla is the founding editor of PC Week and author of 30 books about computer and internet.
This book is truly helpful to me in tweaking your OS to make it more speedy, make better use of …

This book showed me that I should not judge a book by its cover, or this case, its title. I had a preconceived idea that I would not very entertained by a story about an old man’s fishing trip but as I had not read any Hemingway before, …

C.s Lewis is one of my favorite authors. He always finds a way to inspire us.. his readers. I just finished reading his book “The Screwtape Letters” It’s all about Screwtape’s (The Demon) letter to his apprentice Wormwood. Screwtape was giving advices to Wormwood on how lure us to …

Bet You Can! is a fun and exciting way for young inquiring minds to explore science. This book is full of neat science tricks that seem to defy the laws of our world, but really can be explained by simple laws of matter.
Normally in life there are orderly …

Star Trek Destiny takes place in three main time-periods so i’m going to break it down and give everyone a synopsis of the different time-zones as best I can
Present (2374/2375)
The Borg launch a full scale attack on the alpha quadrant.
They send 7000 cubes into the alpha quadrant via …

“Maths on the CBM 64″ is what it says on the spine of this book, and so it is what I am using as the title here, but on the cover itself you get a much longer version: “Mathematics on the Commodore 64: Essential Routines for Programming”. That makes …

Because usually I prefer reviewing novels that I have read that are related to the Star Wars universe, I decided this time to dwell on this book, the main character of which is none other than the supreme master of the Jedi Order - Master Yoda. The novel is …

The sixth novel in Michael McGarrity’s Kevin Kerney series is “Under the Color of Law.” Kerney has just become police chief in Santa Fe, the job he had held several years earlier when he was shot in the knee and forced to retire.
One of his first cases involved the …

I had to read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier for summer reading. At first, I had heard a lot of stuff about this book that it was boring and bad. I read this book and I thought it was pretty good. The book was really descriptive and it made …

The Miserable Mill is the fourth book of the Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. It continues the story of the Baudelaire children who are now in the hands of an Uncle who owns a mill. Funnily enough, dispute the fact that their uncle is the owner they …

I utilized the SAT Princeton Physics Subject Test Preparation Guide to get ready for the SAT Physics Subject Test earlier this year, in November. I spent approximately 100 hours reading the text (enough to get through it once and finish a practice exam), and I was quite satisfied with …

CAGE - Marvel Max
“In this neighborhood, you don’t go looking for trouble. trouble finds you!”
Remember my Essential Luke Cage review? Well, the character is brought into the moern age with the R Rated Marvel Max line and it is a great re-imagining of the classic character albiet a bit …

I really enjoyed this book. The book is about a young butch lesbian who is just trying to find her way in the world. The book is truly a coming-of-age story. After being disowned from her family she basically ends up travelling the country. A lot of the chapters …

“This is not the book I meant to write” was the singular sentence that compelled me to want to read more. I wasn’t officially looking for Life From Scratch, in fact, I was looking for cookbooks when this book showed up in my search results. Once I read a …

I’ve read most of Conan Doyle’s stories about Sherlock Holmes, so I decided to give his other stories a try. One of his horror tales, The Horror of the Heights, is actually better than I expected it to be.
Doyle claims to be copying what was found in the journal …

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 …

The full, and arguably rather excessively long, title of this book is (take a deep breath now) “The BBC Micro ROM Book: Sideways ROMs and RAMs”, which if somewhat ponderous does at least give a pretty good idea of what Bruce Smith’s book, published in 1985 by Collins, is …

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 …

I kept on reading the books in The Murder Club series of James Patterson because I just could not bear leaving an unfinished business. It was a good decision because it was in this third book which he entitled 3rd Degree that things really began heating up for me. …

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
There are not many people out there who have not at least heard of Dan’s Brown controversial novel The Da Vinci Code. One single book has managed to captivate the attention of so many people- many have been puzzled by it, intrigued or …

This is the kind of a book that hooks you from the start. Imagine this: a guy comes out of a bus and suddenly sees his own self walking the opposite side of the street. Not only that, he soon learns that he is no longer who he was …

Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult is a top notch book, personally for me. The writings are great and awesome and Jodi Picoult is a big-voiced writer, always having great and wonderful, awesome ideas. She always has this commanding voice at heart tugging at big issues and that is …

This is just another young adult book that I’ve just finished reading. Like the other teen books I’ve read before, I was also attracted to this book because of its cute cover. I think the author who is Sarah Dessen is amazing because she writes in a very understandable …

I checked this book out for my four-year-old niece, right around Mother’s Day, with a bunch of other mother-themed books. Of all the mother-themed books we looked at, my niece and I agreed that this one was our favorite! The story contains beautiful, colorful, realistic illustrations of different kinds …

I was barely asleep for three hours when I found myself wide awake at 2:30 AM. I knew for certain I wouldn’t be able to resume my sleep. I took the time to get some reading done as the soft morning glow streamed from my window. …

I’m a big believer in both the “Complete Idiot’s” and the “Dummies” books. They provide a very good introduction to almost everything. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to The Civil War, by Alan Axelrod (ISBN 0-02-862122-0) is no exception.
Most of us learned some things about it while going to high …

I borrowed this book from a friend who received it as a gift, because I could never quite tell from the description on the back if it was worth buying or not. It always looked interesting, but like it might not live up to itself. Having read …

Speaking as a Christian and as someone who has in the past been hurt by supposed Christians, I found Michael Green’s book to be a breath of fresh air in a world filled with inconsiderate Christians.
I am an unconventional Christian so I resonated with many of Green’s ideas. For …

“The Gift” is by far my favorite Danielle Steel novel. It is short but the 270 pages of which it consists really touched my heart and quickly secured it’s place as my favorite. This story is about life in 1952 for two families who are 250 miles apart. …

Kingdom Hearts Manga Volume 2 by Shiro Amano continues Sora, Donald, and Goofy’s travels to different worlds in search of Kairi and Riku. They travel to Agrabah and meet Aladdin and try to rescue Princess Jasmine from Jafar.
The manga is pretty good, the story does move a little too …

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 …

I recently got this book as a birthday gift from a couple of my very good friends.Its the first work i have read by Kim Edwards.
“The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” is the story of a doctor who conducts his own wife’s delivery on a stormy night in 1964.His wife has …

The White Castle is a historical novel written by Orhan Pamuk. Orhan managed to get the Nobel prize for literature in 2006. Orhan Pamuk talked about self-identity, conflict and friendship between a slave who came from Italy with an Ottoman scholar in the 17th century. As is characteristic of …

Being alienated from society is neither a euphonious experience, nor a desired preference. Alienation of females from equivalent freedom is revealed through women in The Good Earth. The novel, The Good Earth, written by Pearl S. Buck, demonstrates how women were isolated from having freedom as much as men. …

For some time now I have wanted to learn about wine because when I was in college I had a bad experience with red wine, and that experience alone made me turn away from wine.
Lately, however, I have been thinking maybe the reason my experience with wine was so …

I have read the book —˜Nancy Drew and the hidden staircase’ written by Carolyn Keene. This is a fictional mystery story. It is an interesting book and worthy to be read by every person who is interested in mystery stories. I enjoyed reading this story. The book gets more …

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 …

From the moment I read the synopsis of this book I was really excited. The Beauty and The Beast is one of my favorite fairytales, so I definitely had to read this. I was pleasantly surprised about how much I loved it, it’s a fascinated story with characters a …

Baby Love, written by Catherine Anderson, is a love story about Maggie Stanley and her baby. It started out with her, carrying her baby who is very little and she ran off into the cold and snowy night. I was curious in the beginning as to why she …

Programming in Objective-C Is a book that is aimed at people who intend purely to learn the language. Objective-C is normally 99% linked with Cocoa development in Mac OS X, this book offers no information on how to implement this language with Cocoa.
If you are already good with Cocoa …

This is a good book to read to your kids at bedtime. The theme does center around Christmas, but it can be read throughout the year because it isn’t saturated with Santa Clause or getting presents.
This book is about a little boy and what I assume is his …

A Bouquet of Roses: Glorious Arrangements for All Occasions by Christina Wressell is a glorious book instead. I love decorative ideas books and this leaves me in awe because there are just lots of ideas that allows me to experiment.
I have always thought flowers to be bland …

I look all over for amazing, suspenseful novels; to be frank, there are numerous books that will be a total snore. I know very well that I’m not the only person who has picked up a book that looks interesting, whether it be the …

Immigrant families tend to move into communities where people with a background similar to their own will surround them. The reason behind this is the idea that these communities will protect them from the harsh realities of prejudice found in mainstream America. Although immigrants settle into these neighborhoods with …

I enjoy getting into mini mysteries when the spring flowers start blooming. Sullivan’s Last Stand has a mystery to solve and an old romance is rekindled. What more can you ask for? I found that initially the book was hard to follow. That really disappointed me. …

The Notebook is an amazingly captivating book by Nicholas Sparks. The story is told in such a beautiful way and really makes you feel what is happening in the book. The story is a good read and is definately a great love story. Nicholas Sparks …

It is often said that if one wishes to understand the history of the Jews, one should read the books of Leon Uris. This is amply justified by Exodus, which is probably his best book. Leon Uris constructs a superb story around the events which led to the formation …

“Fantasy and Your Family” by Richard Abanes analyses popular fantasy novels like “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Chronicles of Narnia” from a Christian perspective. I have met some Christians who are wary of these books and even fantasy as a genre, thinking that it is for some …