I have been fascinated by the Young Adult (YA) novels ever since. This is mainly because I am a huge fan of Harry Potter series and Hunger Games trilogy. I love how a simple book with a simple story can create a great impact on you because of the …

A friend had recommended this book to me, and she said it was a light read. It was very difficult to find, but I did manage to pick it up in a library further away, and I started to read.
The whole book takes place over just one full day, …

Until Dark by Mariah Stewart is a good psychological thriller. Once in awhile, I love books like this because it keeps my mind at a fast pace, trying to figure out who or what and stuff like that in a criminal setting.
It first starts out with the …

“Daughter of Hounds” by Caitlin R. Kiernan is a novel that gnaws at you, stripping the protective layers away until its teeth reach the soft, unprotected parts within. At times literary but more often profane, the book batters the reader with its intense language and pitch-black theme.
I originally picked …

Keeping The Moon is a very inspirational novel to me and to other young girls. At the first chapters, I though it was boring and doesn’t really have an interesting plot but after a few chapters, the story became more and more interesting.
It is about a 15-year-old girl named …

The Shack is a real page-turner and it got me frightened for a few days after I have finished reading it. The book is written by William P. Young and it has a very scary element to it and I thought of reading this book again for the second …

I am reviewing the book, The Rez Sisters, written by Tomson Highway. This book was written in 1992.
This book focuses on the lives of seven sisters on an Indian reservation. They each are very different in their own way, but each wants a better life. Reservation life is …

I find this book, Naughty Girl by J.W. McKenna pretty shady actually. I just can’t find myself liking the characters in this book, especially the way in the circumstance of Diedra Newman and Carl Harman find each other. I think the story is not suitable for the young …

In the Midst of Death written by Lawrence Block, was published by Avon Books in 1992.
Matt Scudder, ex-cop and unlicensed private investigator, has been employed by Jerry Broadfield to investigate a crime which he insisted that he was innocent of. A hooker had claimed that he had blackmailed …

“The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova is perhaps the most well-written book that I have read in quite some time. This intelligent read is not for the feeble minded. Throughout this novel, the reader is transported back and forth through time in vivid adventures through Eastern Europe.
Kostova has …

James Howard Kunstler’s latest book, A World Made by Hand, is essential reading. I loved this book, the first work of fiction by the author of The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere.
You will be amazed how realistic his portrayal is of a sort of Mad Max …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Survivors is a great novel for those fans of the show that liked what they saw of the Tasha Yar character and wanted to learn more about her. This is a story that is primarily about her as well as her difficult and …

Book-Maus Part 1
Author-Art Spielgelman
There are many stories and books,and movies,and even games,about World War 2.And many of it takes place with the soilders or the Nazi or even Hitler himself.And all of them hope to reach the level of showing people how horrible the war was.But I think that the …

This is the first book of the Inspector Rebus series and in my opinion the darkest one. Ian Rankin is regarded as the classic author of the genre called tartan noir, which, as the name indicates, combines the unique features of Scottish
cultural landscape with the elements of hard-boiled criminal. …

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild is a very good book. It was first published in 1937, and keeps being reprinted so more generations of kids can enjoy it. This copy of the book has 281 pages.
Ballet Shoes is the story of three orphan girls who …

I heard about this from a friend and the internet. A lot of people were talking about it. I was intrigued, but I decided to put off buying it for a while. I thought it could wait. After reading it, I had this tiny regret that I thought I …

In their book, “WIRED FOR A LIFE OF WORSHIP”, Louie Giglio and Stuart Hall takes young people into the depths of God’s plan for us. He uses real life examples to put into layman terms what it means to “worship”.
The authors accomplished the focus of worship …

The Reader’s Digest Complete Guide to Needlework is one of my favorite books and one that I actually purchased for my home use instead of just checking it out from the library. I do not do a lot of needlework but when I do I sometimes need some …

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 …

The Defenders remains one of the more unique books in the history of the Marvel Universe. In time, the series would become more of a silly joke book parody of superheroes. This was ok for the early 1980’s and the book did ok before finally falling to cancellation. In …

I picked this book up while I was browsing through the life / religious section of the bookstore, it was written by David Gregory and published by Random house. I was really down that time, so I decided to check out some self —“ help and motivation books. I …

I am not a big fan of ‘How To’ Series of books. However, I found this one in one of my cousins house. He was doing MBA, and this book was recommended to him as a part of his study. I learned that it’s a bestseller and was quite …

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was an undisputed literary genius. He produced several masterpieces (”The Brothers Karamazov”, “The Idiot”, “Crime and Punishment”, “Demons”) that are well known to most lovers of literature in this world. “The Insulted and Humiliated” is not even close to being one of these masterpieces.
I suspect the …

I have to say that the only reason I read “Open House” by Elizabeth Berg was because it was an Oprah book club book. I am glad she had this book featured because it turned out to be a great read.
Sam Morrow thought she had the perfect life. …

We all know that we all dream. What we do not know is why we dream, or what the dreams that we have mean. “Secrets of Dreams” is a book that was written by Caro Ness, and published by Natural Health Magazine.
Did you know that we spend an …

This is the first book by Elizabeth Berg that I have read; it was definitely worth reading. I really enjoyed reading this: the flow of the words was like sinking into a nice, cozy, world.
The only downside was that the ending felt a bit too obvious - everything wrapped …

I have read the book ‘The power of now’. The author of this book is Eckhart Tolle. The author tells us that the present moment is very important. The past and future are not important because you can change neither the past nor the future. This is the book …

Teaching English to high-school students is a challenge, no matter how you slice it. You learn very quickly that they are there against their will, and they will take every opportunity to demonstrate how bored they are and how boring you are. Thus, you are met with …

The Dragon King fantasy series by Stephen Lawhead seems to be lesser known than his other works, perhaps overshadowed by them. In Book 1, titled In the Hall of the Dragon King, we are introduced to a fifteen year old boy named Quentin who is an acolyte in the …

I have a friend that always gets beaten up by her boyfriend, and it is so painful and saddening to see her in that state. She refuses to leave him, thinking that he will change someday for the better and that she loves him so much. It’s …

Synopsis
Betrothed at the tender age of three years to Prince Arthur, the son and heir of Henry VII of England, Katherine of Aragon is raised to be Princess of Wales. She grows up knowing and believing that it is her destiny to rule that far-off, wet and cold land.
Her …

One of my favorite books of all time is Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. Amazingly enough, this well-written, entertaining novel was a debut from Curtis Sittenfeld. It can be found in the adult fiction section of the bookstore or some libraries. The story is about a 14 …

From the moment I’d heard from my professor about what happened with Enron Corporation, a Houston-based energy giant, which engaged in complicated transactions to manipulate its financial statements, I had always wanted to know: how did they do it? And how they were discovered? The unraveling of Enron’s inner …

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 …

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 …

Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan is the first in a trilogy of books called The Sky Chasers. Glow was not your typical book though it did remind me a bit of the book Across the Universe by Beth Ravis. The plot follows two main characters: a girl named Waverly …

I picked up the Sex and the City book from the local library after watching the show for several years. Considering that the show was based on the book, I assumed that the book would follow the same kind of story lines, or at least use the same characters. …

After I learned that Mo Yan had a Nobel Prize, I decided to read some of his books. “Frog” was an only novel I found in the nearest bookstore. Despite the fact that I don’t like epistolary style, I bought it and … I was surprised so much i …

I had shied away from reading James Michener’s “Poland”, even though Michener is one of my favorite authors, because I was intimidated by Polish names. They often seem to me like an alphabet soup of consonants with only a stray vowel now and then to aid in pronunciation. I …

The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare has everything a fantasy lover could want. I went into the books expecting nothing. I came out of them totally in love with the story.
The series is in three parts: The City of Bones, The City of Ashes, and The City …

This book is quite a bit of fun for kids, but can be a bit complicated for less experienced readers, as is it is in the form of a bunch of letters. You pick up the events of the story from the letters and notes that the children and …

As an avid Oprah watcher, I followed the many people that read her top choice for 2008 which was Echart Tolle’s, “A new Earth”. I absolutely loved the book and really felt it was a beneficial read. I bought the book on an online book website for a reasonable …

Author: Charles Dickens
Published in: 1859
Straight Say: Worth trying
Bored of Hindi triangular love story? This novel offers something more. If you are a book hunk and can spend two hours a day for a month, a tale of two cities is worth trying. Though not the best …

I think people are still fascinated by celebrities and the fact that how they break up and all. In this book, The Hollywood Book of Breakups by James Robert Parish I read about certain couples in Hollywood and it just strikes to me how much normal these people are, …

I had two major gripes with this book. The first was that it felt way too rushed. There was too much happening in a short amount of time. What’s the big deal you ask? Well we get cheated on the descriptions and details. There is no real interaction with …

There’s no real denying that Stephen King has written some of the best stories of the contemporary age. He’s had his good and his bad and whether you love or hate his work, you have to admire the sheer creativity of his stories, short or long. He’s also given …

God Don’t Like Ugly by Mary Monroe is a novel about self-esteem and friendship. A young girl growing up by the name of Amnette Goode thinks that she is unattractive and overweight. She is daily abused by
the boarder that her mother let live inside their home. She is …

I have been a fan of Meg Cabot’s novels for quite some time now. I enjoyed every one of her teen and adult books, excluding The Princess Diaries which I never really liked. As soon as I heard about Airhead I had to buy it. The synopsis sounded intriguing …

I just downloaded this free script of the first episode of The Glades, written by Clifton Campbell, through Barnes and Noble for my nook e-reader. I wasn’t sure what to expect, and had no idea what the show was about or what the storyline entailed, but I have to …

“Its My Birthday” is a children’s book written and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. It was published in 1993 by Candlewick Press. This is a story about a little girl who visits all of her friends seeking help to gather ingredients to make a cake. Yes, that is …