One day, I got depressed and disappointed with myself. Every time I need to get something and had not gotten it successfully, I tend to get frustrated and regret that I miss the chance again. In order for me to regain the strength and inspiration, I always head to …

This book is the first in the “Teddy Bear” series, a group of “cozy mysteries” that feature Bradley Lyon and his wife, Ashleigh Lyon. The “cozy mystery” is one that is not very graphic or violent in nature and is usually in a series highlighting some profession such …

Wow, just when I thought I couldn’t read any thing that would creep me out any more, I come across Bram Stoker’s short story Burial of the Rats and have to say I got chills.
The story, which is about an Englishman who is traveling through France and accidentally comes …

“Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Hard Rain” by Dean Wesley Smith is hard to read because it is so repetitive and littered with dull material. First of all, episode seems way too similar to the first season episode of the show, “The Big Goodbye” when Captain Picard …

Well, this book had a lot of historical and archeological ideas. The better part was the mystery of possible finding the Garden of Eden. The not so great part, too detailed description of psychotic torture. I mean come on, if I wanted that I would be reading a horror …

Don’t underestimate this book, Envy by Sandra Brown. Everyone can use a good book for reading and that’s what I see in this story. It is a very good and fast-paced book and author Sandra Brown just know the right buttons to push. This book is challenging, …

Grave Peril is the third book in the Dresden files, Jim Butcher’s series about the Wizard Harry Dresden. In Grave Peril Harry has to face down some tormented ghosts while trying to find out who’s torturing them.
Some important characters are introduced in this book. First time I read …

This story that I have read have a genre of fantasy, and to be honest, I think this story is a dumb and dubious story.
Fantasy genre is pretty fine by me, but this story makes the plot to the brink of insanity and nonsense. That is my truthful …

I picked this book up only due to the pretty cover. It seemed really simple but symbolic to me, and I thought that the cover may actually reflect the content. Sadly, the statement ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ proved correct. I don’t want to rant too much, …

Batman Issue 500 is a landmark issue in the “Knightfall” story arc featuring Bane’s famous defeat of Batman, breaking his back in the process. Bruce Wayne is forced to choose a replacement Batman, the former assassin known as Azreal.
Issue 500 features a fantastic extended fight between the new …

‘Five go off to camp’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This book is an interesting one and full of adventure. They go off and camp in a certain place along with Mr Luffy, who is a teacher of Julian and Dick. Mr Luffy loves insects very much. …

When I first discovered Vampire Knight, it was sitting on a Wal-Mart shelf crying out towards me. My first thought was this, “A graphic novel at a Wal-Mart that is not just a romance or action flick? Awesome!”, and thus I made one of the best purchases in my …

I am not a huge fan of self-help books, but I am a huge fan of this one; Emotional Intellignece by Daniel Goleman. I have read this book several times, and although it is now 12 years old, it continues to fly off bookstore shelves at a rapid speed.
Emotional …

After coming off Constance Garnett’s slow and dry take on The Brothers Karamasov, this was an utter joy to read. The prose is smooth and engaging.
There’s little exposition, “the Pulse” strikes almost immediately. King does a great job painting a picture of the initial chaos that occurs …

“The Snow Queen” is a fantasy novel written by Mercades Lackey that I just finihsed reading.
This particular novel is set in the Five Kingdoms series.
In this book, Aleksia who is the Snow Queen, is also a godmother. Her job is to make sure people stay on their …

How to Spell Like a Champ is a great book for spellers of all ages. It has many, many words which will help you practice and see which words are good candidates for coming in the spelling bee. The book is by Barrie Trinkle, Carolyn Andrews and Paige Kimble, …

The hype surrounding this book and the others in the Millennium Trilogy drew me to pick it up and I thought it would be an intense, suspenseful story that would educate me about some of the horrors of the world. Instead, I was faced with paragraph after paragraph of …

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 …

Compared with the first book, a murder told in this book more often and more sadistic. This sadistic killing spree, opened with the massacre Hildegard, a Anakonda cut into three parts. After that, a massacre in a brothel, which killed a pimp and three prostitutes, the method was …

After reading the first book and at least being hooked enough to want to know what happens, I finally got my hands on a copy of the second installment in the Hunger Games series. And I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.
I don’t necessarily feel like the …

Don’t let the pretty picture tempt you into picking up this dull over-used story plot. The cover image is what attracted me originally to this fantasy novel: a castle sitting atop a flying carpet with the pyramids of Giza in the background, a woman holding a lace-covered parasol in …

I discovered about this book because its author is Brian Keene and just recently, I became a big fan of him because of the other books he wrote that I really liked.
Well, Dead Sea is about a world overran by zombies. It’s also like the other Keene’s book but …

Killer’s Wedge was written by Ed McBain, and published by New American Library in 1974.
Ingenious of McBain to have everything happened and resolved within a day - the main drama inside a police station without the presence of the person who was the fundamental cause of the crisis.
It started …

This is the first book that I read by a German author and I must say it was very unique and different from anything else I have ever read. It was quite impossible to guess what would happen next due to its distinctiveness. So if you are tired of …

This is my favorite Star Trek novel and over the years I’ve read it countless times. If you’re a fan of classic Star Trek with Captain James T. Kirk, Mr. Spock and Dr. Leonard McCoy, then you should read this fun novel. In case you don’t know, Jean Lorrah …

With this novel, Dean Koontz has shown himself to be a definitely humanist author. This feature could be sensed in some of his earlier works such as Hideaway (1992) or Winter Moon (1994) although it wasn’t so clear like in the present book.
By the Light of the Moon begins …

This book is more like a peek into the life of a geisha.
The book is about Sayuri, a village born girl, with splendid beauty, who becomes a highly successful geisha. Its her story, her struggle and her success.
The language that the author uses is highly ornate. Flowery and very …

I’ve liked the idea of being a soccer fan ever since I was in high school, nearly fifty years ago. Despite this I have only attended one professional soccer game, have never touched a soccer ball, and had never watched an entire soccer game on television until recently. Since …

Breaking Dawn the last installment of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight book series is perhaps the best book in the series. It’s about love, hope and happy endings. It follows a girl who becomes a vampire. This book is written in a fast, but easy to read pace. While it’s a …

“Watching Birds” is a classic work by James Fisher, and the copy I have is published by the still much missed Pelican Books imprint of Penguin. As was always the case back in those days (the book was first published in the austere days of the 1940s) there is …

“Trucks Roll!” is a children’s book written by George Ella Lyon and illustrated by Craig Frazier. It was published in 2007 by Atheneum Books For Young Readers. This is a very dynamic children’s book about the importance of the trucking industry to the American way of life. …

The Tales of Beedle The Bard is a really fantastic book written and illustrated by J.K. Rowling, and published by Bloomsbury. The book costs £6.99 from most major bookstores, and £1.61 from the sale is donated to Rowling’s own charity, The Children’s High Level Group (CHLG). The book is …

As a true Harry Potter fan, I delayed reading the final installment of the hit Harry Potter series, simply because I knew that it was the final book and there would be no more after that.
After finally deciding to “take the plunge”, I went ahead and started at …

I had heard of the Dr. Seuss book Horton Hears a Who but I had not read it until very recently; when I got it for my daughter.
Overall, I have to say it’s a pretty good book and one I definitely enjoy reading to my daughter at night.
Horton is …

When I read this book, I argue that this book is like a diary of Forrest Gump with a character and a different form. After I read the synopsis of this book, I think that this book tells of how the experiment make intelligence in the human brain …

The Top Secret Journal of Fiona Claire Hardin by Robin Cruise is a young adult fiction novel about a 10 year old girl name Fiona struggling to deal with the divorce of her parents. The book is poignant and raw with emotion as Fiona details her life in her …

The Bride Hunter by Amy Appleton is a very delightful story and you will be chuckling your way through reading this. That was what I felt and I enjoyed this very nice, romantic and heart-warming story. I have many times during the chapters of this book, read the …

Tolkien wrote the lord of the rings over a period of 20 years. His first book about middle earth was called The Hobbit. The Hobbit laid the foundations to the epic adventures in the Lord of the Rings. This book was so huge that Tolkien made three books for …

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 …

I felt that this was a very long book and would be better suited for kids who know how to read on their own rather than a book a parent reads to their kids at bedtime or naptime. It follows the cartoon movie to a T, so if …

I got this book as a present because I am planning on traveling this fall, and I have found it to be extremely helpful as both a travel guide and a cookbook. Accompanying each food’s description is a recipe for home cooks to give it a try for themselves …

This book title, Blogging For Dummies is written by Brad Hill and I bought it for a bit of an expensive price. But actually, I didn’t really pay it with money though since I’ve gotten it through a book voucher my mom gave. So, it’s pretty alright …

Daredevil issue 270 is an interesting little story published during Ann Nocenti’s marvelous run as writer for Daredevil. John Romita, Jr., penciled the issue. It was published in 1989.
The story is a team-up issue featuring Daredevil and Spiderman. The team-up is necessary because the adversary is …

I have read a book that I really enjoyed. The title of the book was Tweak and was written by Nic Sheff. Sheff wrote a book detailing his yeers of drug addiction primarily to methamphetamine. He talks about the progression of his use and dependency starting with …

Essential Experiments for Chemistry by Morrison and Scodellaro is a book that contains many excellent experiments that are critical to the Chemistry 12 course in the British Columbia education system (or a pre-university equivalent). It contains many laboratories from testing the boiling point of water and the formation of …

I bought this book because I was in need of an up-to-date animal encyclopedia. I was tired of having to go to the library to read up little blurbs of whatever creature. Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World’s Wildlife was informative. It covers all the animals out …

This book by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk is definitely not for the squeamish or easily upset. But I for one think it’s very important to read about the Holocaust. There is an old saying that says to forget murder victims is to kill them twice. I think for the sake of …

Make Him Look Good written by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is a book worth reading. There is drama, infidelity, illegitimate children, harassment, voice-overs a religious rebound and a mother that makes you thankful she isn’t yours. The format is multiple point of view which gives you an inside look …

People of the Lake is a book on anthropology, published a little while ago by Pelican (the former “academic” imprint of Penguin) and written by the team of Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin, that attempts to build a coherent picture of what life might have been like for the …

“Dream Factory” is a fiction novel about a group of teenagers who get summer jobs at Disney World as the Disney characters while the regular employees are on strike.
I visited Disney World for the first time recently, but I had always wanted to go. That’s why …