I was enthralled with this book and I couldn’t put it down. I visited Afghanistan in 1974, and followed its story from the comfort of my suburban couch, through all the wars and troubles since then, reading books about the plight of women, about the tragedy and loss of …

I just recently read the book Twenty Something-The Quarter Life Crisis of Jack Lancaster by Iain Hollingshead. I picked the book up because the title was intriguing and also because I work in a book store and got bored. At first I was unsure as to whether or …

Many of us walk through life with blinders on, choosing to see only what we wish to see. “An Eagle’s Flight is out of Sight” is depicted to represent the letter E in the poem published in “The New England Primer”. This moral is used to illustrate the manner …

I love coming to this store. It’s so easy to get to and conveniently located. There’s always ample parking and since everything is so inexpensive I sometimes come here just to browse for books or workout videos on the weekends when I’m bored and have nothing else to do. …

Nobody Lives Forever was written by Edna Buchanan (published by Kensington Publishing Group in 1992)
It is one of those dreary stories about MPD (multiple personal disorders) it is implausible that an experienced police detective did not even have the slightest inkling that such a character lived with …

This is a very useful type of receit book. Instead of having to write out the information on the side as well as on the actual receipt, it makes a yellow copy of each white receipt you write. There is a flap that you place behind the yellow copy …

This is Scott Lynch’s first novel and a valiant effort that enjoyed a good deal of success. I was hooked by the title and the cover so I had to pick up this fantasy novel and check it out. The novel is all about the life and lies of …

Ok, we all know that The Scarlet Letter is a classic, but if you are a constant reader of the classics like myself, you know that being a “classic” doesn’t mean that all will automatically love the book. I must say that it wasn’t one of my favorites with …

The Catcher in the rye is a novel set in the 1950 and revolves around a lost and angst adolescent. The protagonist is Holden Caulfield, though there are other sub characters. Although Holden Caulfield is the elegant portrait of a lost teen, he has lost his touch with the …

After three books about Darth Bane , the master of space adventures Drew Karpyshyn returned to the galaxy of “Star Wars” with a book for one of the most beloved characters from the Expanded universe - the jedi Revan from the game “Knights of the Old Republic”, a hero …

I have read this book during my freshman year of grade 9 - that was about 4-5 years ago, before the movie was made. It made a deep impression on me although I found the beginning a bit boring. But now adays I find myself rereading the book over …

I just finished reading Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. It is part of the Twilight Saga and the final book of the series. I have read them all. Stephenie Meyer wrote these books for young adults but they have been a huge hit with adults, including …

I took up the Bachelor of Science in Accountancy. And I must admit that I had a hard time while taking this study. I always have my ups and downs in this course. In our country, Accountancy students are prepared for different specializations in the field of Accounting. …

“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte is not a book I would have chosen to read; I mean, I had not even heard of it before, I was introduced to it when I had to read it for my university class.
I should start by saying that I’m a …

I first read Anne of Green Gables, the novel by L. M. Montgomery, when I was in ten or eleven years old. It is one of the best novels I have ever read. It is a very wholesome book. There is not a single vulgar or curse …

The Good Samaritan is a short story by Elnora Watters. The story starts out by a black mother bear and her cub walking through the forest. Mamma Bear was teaching his son how to take care of himself. After Mamma Bear taught his son how to choose what he …

I love to read and I read many kinds of books. The novel that I just finished last week is “Beneath a marble sky: A novel of Taj Mahal” by John Shors. At beginning I was not expecting to much from the novel because I thought that will be …

As they are currently filming the Hobbit, I thought it was time for reread. I’ve read it few times before, but as it is ages ago I gave it another try. So, would I recommend reading it before the Hobbit films come out? I still love the book, so …

The last time I saw you by Elizabeth Berg must be the 5th of her novels that I have read, although she has quite a few more. Because I have enjoyed other things she has written, especially The Year of Pleasures, I picked up the last time I saw …

This is a book that I recently picked up at someone’s suggestion. I have been feeling like I should become a better wife to my husband and am finally becoming familiar with the term Helpmeet. I wanted to learn how to become a better complement and helper to my …

My daughter had library at school the other day and brought home a new book to read called So Hungry! This book was definitely meant for younger readers (and she was able to read it herself though she insisted I read it to her) but, at the same time, …

This book is a collection of short stories about wizards, vampires and werewolves. I bought it because I wanted the read the story “Something borrowed” by Jim Butcher, as it is about Harry Dresden from the Dresden files series. It works quite well on its own too, you can …

This was the story that made me love reading comic books again. First of all, it was a super hero story, but it was also a mystery novel. I don’t usually enjoy mystery stories. Most of the time I have the answer figured out before the …

The Christmas Cricket is a children’s book written by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Timothy Bush. It was published in 2002. The story tells of a little cricket who sneaks inside a home and treats the family inside to a special Christmas song.
The story does a nice job …

A Little Princess is my favorite of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s children’s books. It’s like a Cinderella story, only with a little girl and no glass slipper. It gives me the best of fairytale and old-fashioned realistic story. The fairytale element is just as amazing as any …

“A Long Way Gone” is one of the saddest, most tragic books I’ve read in some time. Subtitled “Memoirs of a Boy Soldier,” the book tells the story of Ishmael Beah a young boy from Sierra Leone caught in the middle of the revolution while only twelve years of …

The Reader is a novel written by Bernhard Schlink. It follows the thoughts of a German boy named Michael who falls in love with a woman twice his age, Hanna. Before he knows it Hanna disappears. Years later while in law school he sees Hanna again, …

“The Haunted Hotel” is one of Wilkie Collins’s lesser known works. Shorter than his other novels, this book is a mixture of mystery, melodrama, and a ghost story with elements of psychological thriller. The events take place in 1860. A count gets married despite the fact that he was …

I did not expect anything supernatural from this book. I thought there would be an interesting, exciting, intense story about a maniac and his victim - a rich girl - and blah blah blah. But in the end, my expectations were smashed to smithereens.
The book is about what parents …

This novel is clearly chic-lit. It’s about a girl from the country who moves to New York. At the end of the book, there is a magic duel. And along the way, she falls in love with/ is fallen in love with by a couple of guys. One of …

I have read the book —˜the clue of the tapping heels’ written by Carolyn keene. This book is one among the Nancy Drew series. In my opinion, this book is not so interesting. Some of the content in this story is quite good, but I feel that most of …

Bleach Manga Volume 4 begins with Ichigo being dragged to the filming of spirit medium Don Kanonji who accidentally creates a Hollow while filming his TV episode. Ichigo springs into action to stop it and later discovers Uryu Ishida who is a Quncy, a being who can battle …

This is one of my favorite fictional novels. I’m crazy about love stories, may it be fictional or real, and this book did not disappoint me one bit. Twilight is an amazing love story between two different beings. It is a beautiful thriller narrated in way that made so …

In the fourth and final story of Keladry of Mindelan, Kel faces all out war, and the also faces the fact that she wont see the gloriously bloody battles she trained for as a Knight. Instead, Kel is assigned to run a refugee camp in the northern part of …

A new manga I’m reading now is called Faster than a Kiss by Tanaka Meca. As always, after seeing that there aren’t any updates yet of the other shoujo manga I have been reading, I resorted to surfing thenet and finding other shoujo manga suggestions by other people so …

I had known about this book, and that it was an absolute “must read,” for a long time. However, since I was in college what little free time I had were all consumed by getting drunk and passing out in the bathroom, sometimes I would miraculously manage to pass …

‘Iceberg’ is the second book in Clive Cussler’s unrelated series of ‘Dirk Pitt’ novels. This book has a different plot, but will feel very familiar to Clive Cussler fans, which is a positive and a negative for it. On the plus side it retains Clive Cussler’s famous action style …

“Little Pea,” writen by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Jen Corace, is a cute little book about a young pea (gender undisclosed by the author) who must eat candy in order to get her desert.
Rosenthal cleverly reverses roles with the pea. First of all, since we do …

This Artemis Fowl book is the sixth book in the Artemis Fowl series, written by Eoin Colfer, preceded by ‘The Lost Colony’. The story picks off soon after the previous book left off. In the first few pages of the book, we know the names of Artemis’ two younger …

For those of you who haven’t read Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka, you guys should. This is a very good story that are for the adventurous people out there wanting to read what it’s all about that makes moving away so awesome.
The story is about some groups …

“Pip & Squeak” is a children’s book by Ian Schoenherr about two mice trying to bring the perfect present to their friend named Gus. We do not know who Gus is, or whether he is even a mouse, and we do not meet him until the last page …

I was looking for a good devotional in the morning. I had had this book on my bookshelf for several years when I pulled it out. Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised. Not only is the book labeled by numbers such as (1, 2, 3, and 4); which …

I got this book as a Christmas present a few years ago, and as I had liked the novels that I had read written by the French author Jules Verne in the past, I decided to start reading The Mysterious Island immediately, and once I started I couldn’t stop …

I am a huge fan of Sophie Kinsella and especially her fabulous Shopaholic series of books.
I adore the character of Becky Bloomwood in those books so was a little concerned I wouldn’t be able to like a totally different character in a new book..
Twenties Girl is about a woman …

While reading this compelling murder/mystery by Lisa Jackson, I was completely spellbound and could hardly put it down! The question of what could possibly come next was ever present in my mind, and I was kept on my toes throughout the whole book. The characters were …

The Gathering Storm is the twelfth book in the Wheel of Time series, partially written by Robert Jordan before his death and completed by Brandon Sanderson. In The Gathering Storm, Brandon Sanderson proves that he has just as much skill in crafting a great story as the late …

Anyone who wants to understand where the world is headed today and why, should read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
A daunting one thousand plus pages, Atlas Shrugged opens with the sentence that is to become the catchphrase of the book and that is, “Who is John Galt?”
Well John Galt …

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 …

This review is not about the series, Ugly Betty, but it is about Ugly Betty The Book. Yes, in case you have not heard of it before, it does exists. I bought this book because number 1: I’m a fan of Desperate Housewives and the 2nd is that …

This was a delightful collection of short fantasy stories involving frogs. The stories are very clever and fun to read. I found them humorous and light-hearted as well, even thought some of them teach lessons to the reader. Teaching lessons is always good, but it’s even better when those …