“Once Aboard The Lugger” written by Arthur Quiller-Couch is a story about how a couple came to meet and fall in love.
The begins with a reverend Samuel Bax who comes to Troy to preach full time. It’s apparent that he is single, and all the women–the single ones–have their …

I received this book as a bonus with my copy of the special edition DVD of At World’s End (the highly anticipated epic conclusion to the Pirates film series, starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and others). The book is really a great little gem for the true …

Despite the fact that it isn’t Christmas time, I still enjoyed this book. Dr. Jeffries and Katherine O’Connor are the main characters. They are brought together by fate. It was foreseen in Katherine’s neighbor’s box of kitty litter. They discover right away that they believe …

That White Girl, written by J. Love is a good story that I think would be best made into a movie. But it is not a racial story though. Instead, the story highlights the difference in life that Amber, a White girl, has to go through. …

I cried my heart out the first time that I read the book, Daddy’s Little Girl. This is a very sad story based on true events and related by the very beautiful Julia and I could not bear to imagine how as a child she must have felt.
Julia is a …

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. …

Why Dogs Chase Cats is a story retold by S. E. Schlosser that I got to read on the internet. The story is about the married life of Dog and Cat where Cat keeps saying that she’s too sick to work and Dog had to make dinner aside from …

Written by Jan Karon “At Home In Mitford” was originally published in 1994 by Lion Publishing. “At Home In Mitford” is one of those stories that although it is not a classic, you just have to own. I have been a bookworm since I learned to read. I love …

‘The divine romance’ is an anthology of talks by Paramahansa Yogananda, who is a spiritual man of India. In these talks, Yogananda speaks to the deepest needs of the human heart and soul. He says that we have to awaken the divinity which is within each one of us. …

A Date on Cloud Nine written by Jenna McKnight is a good dreamy story that I love because it plays with good, funny fiction. Lily Marquette has a time-line on Earth and it suddenly becomes her time-up when she’s given the no-go for her time on Earth.
She begged the …

I’m going to let you in on a little secret, I think the 2001 film is very overrated. Don’t get me wrong, I respect it as a classic piece of cinema in a lot of ways but come on, it was long, boring, and didn’t make a lick …

“My Big Rig” is a children’s book authored by Jonathan London and illustrated by Viviana Garofoli. It was published in 2007. This is a really bright, colorful book about a little boy who takes the wheel of a big rig and takes it across the country.
Pros: This …

Ttyl by Lauren Myracle is book I like a lot because it is told completely in text and IM lingo. It also shows you can keep in contact with your friends without being there with them or talking to them on the phone. That is why the internet is …

I love this book, The Celeb Diaries: The Sensational Inside Story of the Celebrity Decade by Mark Frith. It is something like reading Gossip Girl or something, but even better!
This book is really fun and you get some juicy details about some celebs’ lives and stuff like …

Wolverine: Origins Graphic Novel by Paul Jenkins which tells the origin story of Wolverine and it shows how he became Wolverine.
I enjoyed this graphic novel a lot, although the artwork is kind of strange but it’s a good story that I enjoyed it a lot since I like …

The plot of this book is just too bland. From the beginning I figured out the ending of the book. Brenda Jackson should’ve gotten this book proofread. There were several grammatical errors and she was using the same phrases too many times. I was also disturbed by all …

I’ve had a love for history since I was a small child. I’ve studied it most of my life, but my curiosity on the historical effects, implementations and consequences of torture and other forms of corporeal punishment were brought together by “The History of Torture” by Daniel P. Mannix.
I …

Bestselling authors are often suspect in my mind. I tend to be very cynical about the taste (or lack of) of the average American reader. So I approached Bruce Wilkinson’s book “Secrets of the Vine” with the heart of a skeptic. I am happy to say, that at least …

It is often, although by no means always, the case, that when a book has the most straightforward and perhaps even boring of titles, inside there may lurk a fascinating wealth of information and interest. I certainly think that this is the case with The Longcase Clock, Eric Bruton’s …

Promises in Death is the latest instalment in the In Death series written under Roberts pseudonym.
After reading the excerpt, I had kinda high expectations for this book. And I’m glad it turned out this well.
First and foremost, the thrill factor that seemed to be lacking in the previous …

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark may very well be the best play in western literature. It certainly is the most written about play. For much of my adult life it has been my favorite play. I’ve seen it performed live five or six times and have always enjoyed …

This book was in the bargain bin at Barnes and Noble (for good reason). There are two things that I like; books and bargains. Since the criteria fit, my husband this book up for me. Biographies and memoirs are my favorite types of books to read. …

Rise & Shine by Anna Quindlen is a funny, emotionally moving novel set in New York City. The author tells a tale of two sisters and the dramatic ways their lives change over the years. The sisters lives are changed unexpectedly when they are young; it is …

If you like learning about another culture, reading a few romance scenes and enjoy a splash of suspense, then this is the perfect book to read. The Dowry Bride is about a girl, Megha, who becomes a target for murder by her husband and mother-in-law just because her family …

The book Mercy by Jodi Picoult is about a married couple madly in love with eachother. Maggie and Jamie have such a strong relationship that Jamie does a remarkable thing. He follows her wishes releives her of her pain. Maggie is terminally ill and she has such a strong …

The Story of Music is a children’s book that I have loved for many years. A classic in the Ladybird series of children’s books, this is a small hardback of about 50 pages first published in 1968 but enjoyed by children for many years since then. Even if you …

Of all the Doctor Seuss books I read to my daughter, his book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish is my least favorite.
It�s an OK book but I just don’t enjoy going from one subject to the next in it. It’s almost as though he wrote it …

A good read also involves some comedy humor of getting back at your husband for a sweet revenge, because he has been flirting and having an affair at your back. And how about the mistress being found out that she’s actually a mistress only and not a girlfriend and …

This is one of the earlier books by Nora Roberts. My first time reading it and I was positively captivated!
Cody Johnson and Abra Wilson, the architect and structural engineer respectively, work together in this story on a project in the Amazon. While the temperature runs high, the heat between …

One summer afternoon, as I was clicking through book recommendations, I found this gem of a book entitled “North of Beautiful” by Justina Chen Headley. What struck me first was the title. It’s title was unique in comparison to the other young adult novels. I had a feeling, that …

My friend recently bought me the book Crazy for You, by Jennifer Crusie. It is a romance book, and it has a cute dog on the front cover. The main character, Quinn McKenzie goes through a lot of interesting changes during the book. Some of the supporting …

Often I catch myself wanting to go off into the wilderness and live as a hermit. But I think that’s too radical because you never know what kind of help you might need.
In 1990, 22-year-old Christopher McCandless rejected all the material values of modern society, gives away all his …

I did see the Da Vince Code when it was first on the theaters. It was too me a very drawn out movie, and I felt as though I had missed something. It was a little hard to follow in my opinion. I finally got a chance to read …

The Wide Window is the third book in the Series of Unfortunate Events books series by Lemony Snicket. It is probably one of my favorites in the series because it marks the beginning of the change in the Baudelaire children. In the past two books I always felt as …

When I first started reading “Entombed” I was not sure what to expect. The author Linda Fairstein begins the story when a young girl is assaulted and almost raped SVS director Alexandra Cooper and Mercer Wallace realize that after a four year break a serial rapist has returned to …

This book is the first of three books in the Wayside School series by Louis Sachar. (There are other books as well that are sort of spinoffs, but they don’t really have stories in them). These books are now the basis of a TV show called Wayside.
This book, Sideways …

The second installment of Stephenie Meyers former popular book Twilight was excitingly good. After reading the first book in this series I decided to also take the plunge and read the second installment. I am so glad I did, because I enjoyed reading it. This book is both heartbreaking …

This book, a children’s book for age 8-10, is quite fun. The kids I read it with enjoyed it because they liked the idea of talking to dragons.
The main character has a funny name, and the way he keeps getting into odd situations because of the other kids is …

If there was one complaint that I had about DC Comics’ “Final Crisis” event last year, it was the delays. Just about every book had a serious delay in the printing that led to the story coming out months late; mostly, from what I understand, the delay was …

This book is much better than the title suggests. Frankly, the title does not provide the slightest hint about what type of book this is (a futuristic science fiction adventure with a touch of romance) nor does it entice anyone to want to take a chance on it. …

Mack had a rough childhood but he still grew up to be a God-fearing person. Together with his Christian wife, he taught his family about God. However one tragic event shook his faith up and his relationship with God took a downturn. When his youngest daughter was kidnapped and …

Jerusalem Inn (written by Martha Grimes and published by Dell Publishing, 1990)
Humble and witty aristocrats amuse me, as did Melrose Plant, the good friend of Superintendent Jury. The policeman and the open-minded Earl of Caverness had conversations and exchanges that were greatly humorous, sardonic and engaging!
Superintendent Jury …

I highly recommend people to watch The Sea Is Watching. It’s a Japanese story with the main actress being Misa Shimizu. This story is set in such a strange environment with lots of troubles brewing, with nature being its number 1 cause.
This love story is between this very …

Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft is a powerful treatise on the value and intellectual rigor of working with your hands, particularly when that work is done for someone else. His credentials are those that would fit someone with his old job, the manager of a think-tank on …

To be honest, I only picked up this book because of Tuesdays with Morrie, which is a later book by Mitch Albom. But this book has a similar, or perhaps stronger, appeal.
I’m still not certain why I liked it. The writing is strong, and smooth, and despite the frequent …

‘Mystery of Holly lane’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This is a book among the find-outer series. Money gets stolen from a large house called Hollies. Soon after, the furniture in that house also gets stolen. The find-outers want to keep a eye on the house. So …

Coming home from Christmas vacation on a 10 hour trip is no fun if you don’t have some source of entertainment. Thankfully me and my family stopped at a small plaza in town and I visited a second hand book store. Here I found this book for a very …

Lori Schiller first heard the voices demons at seventeen, when she followed the summer camp. Before this incident, there is nothing wrong in her, she was born of a harmonious family. However no one expected, after the terrible events in the summer, her life became a mess. Various treatment …

I knew Jhumpa Lahiri since I watched “NameSake”, her book which is filmed. There are 9 stories in this book with different aspects of India. For me, the great thing about this book is how Jhumpa Lahiri makes a simple situation becomes a wider one. As example, for …

Do you have a favorite author? I sure do. His name is Richard Brautigan and I love him so much that if he came back to life and asked me to marry him, I would do it in a heartbeat.
Brautigan shot his head off in Bolinas California. He had …