Principle of commerce by J.k Mitra, one of the best books around for crystal clear understanding of the subject. When I joined class eleven I opted for Commerce stream, accountancy and commerce was something very new to me and It was getting hard for me to grasp hold of …

Frederick Forsyth’s The Fist Of God is a story woven around the Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait, and it’s eventual liberation by the Coalition forces, led by the United States. A British Major from the SAS is called in to run a super secret agent in Baghdad by …

When comic readers try to justify their hobby (which if you think about it is patently ridiculous) and tell people that comics are literature, they will usually point to a handful of examples. The primary one is Watchmen, others will cite Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. …

Evil goblins who live underground are plotting to kidnap the king’s daughter, Princess Irene, and force her to marry a goblin prince. Fortunately, the princess has a friend, a young miner named Curdie who overhears the plan while working in the mines and decides to thwart it.
Like all other …

I find that reading The Truth About Diamonds by Nicole Richie is quite refreshing actually. There are just lots of undeniable talent to Nicole Richie that perhaps you and me do not know. For a start, this book is understandable, has a pretty simple to understand English and …

Like Father, Like Son (by Robert Scott)
This book had my emotions running from one end of the spectrum to the other —“ it started with deep sympathy and then progressed to profound disgust and horror. The father, Thomas Soria Sr, had a damaging childhood, suffering mental and physical …

One of my all time favorite authors is Stephen King. I am an avid fan and have not only watched many of his books turned into films, but have read a great deal of novels from him as well. One novel in particular that I found to be thrilling, …

First day I got this book I was grunting, thinking… Im not sure how i’m going to finish this book, but I am the first to say I was completely wrong. This book is a great example of amazing writing, no wonder this book is a classic! I had …

I have had this book on the shelves of my bookcase for a while and it was one of those which stayed there and never got read!
I’m sure that I bought it because it was advertised in a railway magazine and at the time I thought that it …

I like quite a few of Neil Gaiman’s books - Coraline was great, for example, and The Sandman is classic. So I figured I would enjoy these short stories in M is for Magic, which is a collection actually written for kids. I think kids aged 10 - 13 …

I am a huge Leonard Cohen fan; I like his music, his poetry and anything else he decides to do. His talent is endless and, in my opinion, ageless. I heard about a book launch party at a book store in Calgary, Alberta, for a book which is a …

This is an old-fashioned crime story by Simon Brett, with a protagonist similar to Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. However Mrs Melita Pargeter was a more flamboyant lady, rich and vocal. Furthermore she had inherited not only wealth from her dead husband, but his professional skills, …

This is the very reason I got back into comics. I saw advertisements over the Internet about this series. I wasn’t sure what to expect, I always remembered the Hulk being a super hero. Boy was I in for a treat with this, World War Hulk spanned into a …

A Box Full of Kisses is a short story on the site indianchild.com. The story starts out by a father that got angry on his 3-year-old daughter for buying a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight for them and his father became furious when the child tried …

My husband loves reading Dick Francis books and here is a review of the last one he read. Odds Against, is a thriller written my ex jockey Dick Francis. The book is a excellent read it has lots of twist and turns and will he or wont he …

Christian Chick Lit is a relatively new genre that appears to be growing fast. Here is a treat for those of you who have already become its fans: “My Life as a Doormat (in Three Acts)” by Rene Gutteridge. The strength of a good chick lit book is in …

Puppet is the first book I’ve read by Joy Fielding. I liked it very much. Like “Lost” that I reviewed earlier, I’d call it a women’s thriller. It doesn’t depend just on action for it’s suspense, There is considerable character development and the reader spends a good deal of …

I have a great passion for reading and it’s always been like that. It’s one of my absolute favorite things to do in my free time and believe it or not, I used to hate reading anything romance-related. However, things have changed, and this book, has changed …

This is a horror or thriller novel about a killer tiger that gets loose in Los Angeles and the caring zoo veterinarian who is willing to risk her life to save the big cat. I really enjoyed reading this book, mainly because the tiger was not portrayed as a …

I recently read the book The Alchemist by Michael Scott. Although it was technically meant as a book for older teens, I found it a wonderful “beach read” book as an adult!
This book contains true people from the past, such as Nicholas Flamel …

James Bassil wrote this book title, The Guy’s Guide to Romance: The 11 Rules for Finding a Woman & Making Her Happy. This is a book from the site AskMen.com and though I’m not a guy, I’m more than happy to be reading this book and find out the …

Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary is another great reference material for writers and even ordinary users of the English language. The thing I like the most about this dictionary is the Concise Guide to Style, Usage, and Diction portion where I managed to brush up on all …

I’m still a relative newcomer to the world of “Hellboy”. I enjoyed the movies and have picked up a few trades as well as collecting some of the recent arcs in individual issues. Still, I’m not well versed in Mignola’s mythology. As such, it made this …

Turn Coat is the eleventh novel in the Dresden files, a fantasy series set in Chicago featuring Harry Dresden, wizard. As with most Dresden novels, I’d recommend reading them in more or less the right order or you will be quite confused. The Dresdenverse has its own set of …

I picked this book up, and for some reason I expected something like the jane Austen Book Club novel, I’m not sure why. At any rate, Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs was one of those books I started expecting a warm, cozy read.
It might just be me, …

This book is a Newberry Honor book, probably for YA readers. It feels very soft to me though, and while beautifully written and having a great feel for emotions and teenage thoughts (as well as the cruel things children and people do to each other) it does feel very …

Simplify and Create Abundance is an inspirational book written by Bo Sanchez, a Filipino Catholic best-selling author and preacher. I learned so many things from reading this book, important lessons about life and feelings and my personal relationship with God.
This non-fiction book talks about man’s personal struggle in a …

To be honest, Black Rose was the first book by this author that I have read, and I only read it at my MIL’s insistence…When you see each other as frequently as I do these topics come up in conversation. I found the book great light reading and entertaining. …

I have recently finished reading Madame’s Deception, and this is a love story that I really enjoyed reading. This story is about Jocelyn, a virginal bookworm, who basically transforms herself and is soon known as the reclusive Madame DeBourcier.
There is also Lord Colwick who is determined to win …

I was strolling inside a bookstore when I saw this book, Quick and Easy Chinese Cuisine. And of course, the foods here are all Chinese recipes. I browsed it using one of their open examples and found the recipes inside. I read a few and made me …

I bought for my sister this book that I have read before called You - On A Diet, which costs about $16.99, written by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz. Both of these are a team of doctors from America, and they are writing to translate why that dieting …

I blame my brain for my disappointment when it came to reading this. I’ve always enjoyed the idea of renting a Winnebago and just driving, living on the road for several months. It’s something that I want to do …

I picked up this book-’Going La La’ by Alexandra Potter- at a book sale recently and have just finished reading it.
It’s about a young woman called Frankie who has everything going for her.. she has a great job, a nice flat and a gorgeous boyfriend called hugh, the …

Bentilee Library used to have its own building but it is now located within the new Bentilee Neighborhood Centre in Dawlish Drive. I started to take advantage of the facilities at this library when I lost my job last year and I lost my internet connection at home. …

“Dracula” is a novel I have a lot of respect for, but can’t say I’ve enjoyed reading. It’s definitely a classic of Gothic literature, and it deserves to be, but for the average modern reader, who knows the story quite well, it’s not that exciting.
The characters are one-dimensional, …

This book is priced at $16.95(AUD) online. It’s the last book in a series of three books and as its name suggests, it focuses on algebra.
Maths has always been my weak subject and I have had a lot of difficulty understanding how algebra works, which is why I …

I have not read a novel in years, my mum had this book, called, “11 hours” at her place, she borrowed it from book club. She said it was a really good book. I thought I would read a couple of pages and see what it was like.
Once …

“The Endless Steppe” is the true story of a young Polish girl, Esther, who gets banished to Siberia with her family in 1941.
I found this book to be very interesting. I’ve read lots of books set in the 1940’s, from every possible angle. Mostly, …

Arctic Nation is the second volume in the Blacksad series written by Juan Diaz Canales and illustrated by Juanjo Guarnido. Originally penned for the French market by the Spanish duo, all five chapters of this still continuing saga have been translated for all of us English speaking comic fans.

The very …

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 …

Risotto and Classic Cooking Rice by Christine Ingram is a cooking book I found at the library while I was browsing. At first, I was not going to check it out because I had plenty of other things on my account; however, I have been wanting to learn how …

Michael K, is a 30 years something of harelip of the intelligence which makes short as a landscape gardener, around that daily life walking. He does not expect many from life or society and, does not understand the very basic thing of life. However, that center free life …

My new home has a water pond set up already but it didn’t have any landscaping what so ever, nor was the water garden alive anymore so I knew I had to do something. I found a collection of books I really liked and the one was Better …

In this volume of Nodame Cantabile we get to know a lot of new characters. Chiaki’s orchestra starts rehearsing, so there’s a little bit of space for some of them in the story. Still not losing sight of the main characters, the new secondary ones interact well with them, …

The Beach House by Jane Green is an awesome read! I thought in the beginning that it’s going to be a real long and boring story, but I was wrong.
It tells the story of a widow woman named Nan and how she manages to bring back life …

This is a critical review of the book Holy Blood , Holy Grail. While this book had created a lot of publicity and hype at the time of its first publication , in my opinion the very controversial topic of Jesus Christ’s bloodline has in many ways diverted the …

A Plague of Secrets is a legal thriller by popular legal thriller writer John Lescroat. I have to admit that even though I read a great deal, I had never read a legal thriller before. A Plague of Secrets was a great introduction. The story opened …

I am in the martials arts for quite some time now and I would like to add my tuppence worth to Matt Furey’s book about how to get rock hard abs. First of all let me tell you folks that this is utterly overpriced. I own another one of …

Saw an episode of Oprah where Geneen Roth was talking about her book. Actually my step-mother is a big Oprah watcher and she knows that I have issues with food and she thought it would be a good one for me to watch. So I let her show it …

The book is a story about Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He was born without a body odor but his sense of smell indeed extraordinary. He was able to differentiate all the smell. From a renowned expert perfume, he inherited the art to mix various oil and herbs. However Grenouille’s genious is …