Books Reviews
Mystery of the invisible thief by Enid Blyton
‘Mystery of the invisible thief’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This book is the eigth book in the ‘five find-outers and dog’ series of books. This is an interesting book and is full of suspense. It is a highly exciting book, a book which you will not …
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
SEX DRUGS AND COCOA PUFF by Chuck Klosterman
Where to magazines like Spin and Rolling Stone find writers like this? Allegedly Chuck is a humorist and his book is about pop culture and his book is about pop culture and how it relates to the average male. What it never …
Masterpieces in Miniature book
This book, Masterpieces in Miniature by Agatha Christie, is a collection of short stories. Many of them are mysteries featuring her main detectives - Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, Harley Quin, and Miss Marple. Some of them are not really mysteries so much as interesting things the characters do - …
Dearly Devoted Dexter book
I am reviewing the book, Dearly Devoted Dexter, written by author Jeff Lindsay. This book has recently been transformed into the hit Showtime series, Dexter, starring Michael C. Hall.
In this book, readers are introduced to sociopath Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter expert for the police department. As a …
Cell by Stephen King
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 …
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity code was a great book, and I truly liked it. It is the third book in the Artemis Fowl series, and I highly recommend reading it, along with all of the other books in the series.
After managing to save his father and the fairy world …
The art of loving by Erich Fromm
‘The art of loving’ is a book written by Erich Fromm. The author writes about his opinion of love.
The book is divided into four chapters. In the first chapter, Fromm says that many people are starving for love, but they are not getting it. He says that most want …
The Power of Now By Eckhart Tolle
Advaita of zen buddhism, the Tibetan Buddhism, the various schools, the portion of yes Christ’s professor and this various professors of Incorprating from other than from mental view thousand years, the presentation of Tolle are impressive, becoming new more everywhere enters into preachment mode, seriously. As for the necessary point …
A Public Enemy a play by Henrik Ibsen
I have only recently discovered the work of the Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, and I am glad I did. I like his values and for me, it makes him even more commendable that he tended to cause outrage with his plays in his own time and clearly struck …
Mean Streets novellas
Mean Streets is a anthology with four novellas by four bestselling authors, Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson and Thomas E. Sniegoski. Each novella is about 80 pages, so it is perfect book to divide up on four evenings. I had only read books by Jim Butcher when …
The Storyteller - A Novel By Jodi Picoult (Historical Fiction)
Every novel I’ve come across by Jodi Picoult has one unique aspect: They are full of surprises, each a unique story. The Storyteller is definitely no exception; it delves into a well documented part of history- The Holocaust.
The Storyteller does an incredible job of telling …
The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart
The Dear America Series is a collection of books for children and adults. It is a child’s trip through different periods of American history through the eyes of a young child ages 12 to 15. It is written in diary form and is a wonderful way to learn truths …
Clinical Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy
Getting tired of books that are in paragraph forms that is so long and really making you bored to read each and every single word.Most of students are really lazy to read such books that are not summarized and have a long explanations.It was really difficult to understand.I have …
Honore de Balzac: Father Goriot
This book was written during the period of realism. It is about a father Goriot who has 2 daughters. He livies in misery, in a small rented room and gives all his money to her daughter to pay the debts of their lovers. The father wants them to be …
Mother Goose nursery rhymes by Axel Scheffler book
I’ve bought this Mother Goose nursery rhymes book by Axel Scheffler last year in one of the children’s bookstore in London for an affordable price of 15 British pound. What I like about it is that it has a little bit of stories in between the nursery rhymes …
A Year in the World book
A Year in the World is a beautifully written book that makes you want to travel. It is written by Frances Mayes, who is the author of Under the Tuscan Sun (which is different from the movie, by the way), and A Year in the World is her story …
What Should I Do with my Life? by Po Bronson
I came across this book at a time when I began to question myself what’s my purpose in life, in the midst of my teaching career. I have been teaching for a few years and did not feel that it was for me. I don’t think that I …
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol is one of Dickens most famous works. It has been made into films, TV series, shows and cartoons. It tells the story of an old business man called Scrooge. His business partner has been dead for seven years, so Scrooge runs his own business as he …
Trespass by Valerie Martin
I think there is a powerful voice of writing in Trespass by Valerie Martin very much. The story is amazingly written and I think there are lots of elements of self-reflect as well as lots of self-thoughts.
The story is about the normal life of an American family who lives …
Devil’s Rejects Comic Book
Rob Zombie’s film, The Devil’s Rejects was one of the most stunning horror films of the last twenty years. This comic book tie-in, also written by Zombie, is pretty forgettable and totally underwhelming for fans of the film.
Released just before the film debuted in theaters, this book features a …
Blogging For Profits
Blogging For Profits is a popular book written by John Yeo. Basically, it teaches how to profit from writing a blog, with some techniques along the way.
I bought, read and applied the tips written in this book, and I should say it is pretty good. First of all, …
Writing Fiction For Dummies by Randy Ingermanson and Peter Economy
“Writing Fiction For Dummies” by Randy Ingermanson and Peter Economy is an instructional how to guide that is ideal for any individual that has the desire to write a novel and sell it to the world as well as those that simply would like to write entertaining stories and …
Multiple Blessings by Jon and Kate Gosselin and Beth Carson
This book gives me lots of perspectives, lessons learned and many more. Multiple Blessings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets by Jon and Kate Gosselin and Beth Carson. I highly recommend reading this book because it is such a good book, laced with realism and lots of …
John Woo’s 7 Brothers
I have been fairly impressed with the relatively new Virgin Comics. I wasn’t expecting a great deal from them, however the couple of titles I have read I have rather liked (especially Ramayan 3392 AD). So I was somewhat optimistic when I picked up this title: John …
GODLESS book by Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter is certainly controversial and her new book, Godless, has spent quite a few weeks at number one on the New York Times best seller list. (It sold 45,000 copies in one week)
Coulter is popular. Right wing books are popular. (Leftist Al Franken’s recent book saw a first …
Java: How to Program Fifth Edition
When I started doing Computer Science when I first went into sixth form, I was instructed to buy the book “Java: How to Program Fifth Edition” since I was told it was a necessity for the course I was doing. At first when I got it, I thought that …
The Traveler’s Gift
In recent years, many books published guidelines or books that motivate how to success in life. However, in general, these books contain only practical guidelines that motivates a person to achieve success. However this does not apply to this book. The Traveler Gift tried to combine between fiction and …
Herman Melville’s Billy Budd
Billy Budd, a classic by Herman Melville, is by far the WORST book I’ve ever read.
For starters, Melville died while the book was still in progress. That means that those of us who decide to read the novel are stuck with more than a few paragraphs and chapters that …
Breaking Night Book
Books are a big deal for me as I am a perpetual reader on the lookout for something good. Picking up Breaking Night by Liz Murray, I was a bit skeptical because usually I prefer fiction, but something about this memoir narrative struck a cord with me. The story …
Ultimate Spiderman Vol 10: Superstars
Ultimate Spiderman Vol 10: “Superstars”
This is a nifty little volume that explores the relationship between Johnny Storm, The Human Torch and Spiderman. They were an occassional duo in the 60’s and 70’s and in this moderncretelling, we see them cross paths in…High School! And. also, on rooftops as the …
The secret of red gate farm book
I have read the book —˜The secret of red gate farm’ written by Carolyn Keene. This is a very interesting book. I would say it is one of the most interesting books among the Nancy Drew series. In this book, Nancy shows great courage and intelligence in solving a …
Test Your IQ book
Test your IQ is a wonderful book written by Alfred W. Munzert. I bought the 4th edition of this book for a purpose of finding out my IQ level by taking the test provided in the book.
I was amazed with the content of this book because for so long …
Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound is the second book in Patricia Briggs’ Mercedes Thompson series. It’s not what I typically read but I was given the first book by a friend and got hooked on the series. The books I normally read are paranormal romance,
historical and books on dreams. Briggs’ Mercy Thompson …
Baby Proof by Emily Giffin
This book is written by the same author who wrote Something Borrowed and its sequel, Something Blue. It’s not about the same characters though, focussing instead on a thirty something who thinks she’s finally got it all under control when she meets a man who she likes and who, …
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk book
Haunted was the very first Chuck Palahniuk book I encountered. I saw it staring at me in one of my usual trips to the bookstore. I thought the cover was intriguing enough, with an all-caps Parental Guidance posted on one corner of the book. Later, after I have read …
Third Degree by Greg Iles
Greg Iles has given us another great thriller just like his previous ones that have landed on the New York Times best seller list. All of the action in Third Degree takes place in one day, and once you start reading, that is about how long it will …
The Vanished Man: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
This book title, The Vanished Man: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel written by Jeffery Deaver is one of the best thrillers that I’ve read these past few months. I’m always quite on the lookout for good books and this one was in a book fair sitting cozily on one …
The Fibromyalgia Advocate by Devin J Starlanyl M.D. book
Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Syndrome are invisible yet often disabling conditions. These are frequently misdiagnosed, sometimes for years, and more often misunderstood by physicians and lay people alike. Misunderstandings by doctors who have little knowledge of these conditions can result in ineffective treatment or no treatment at all. …
Ready, Fire, Aim by Michael Masterson
This is a brilliant book! Written by Michael Masterson a guy who doesn’t just teach, but a guy who practices what he preaches and makes money from it too.
Michael divides this book into four easily digestible sections of business development, they are called starting out, the fast-growth stage, the …
Edgar Cayce, the modern Prophet
After passing the period in which Nostradamus scared me with his apocalyptic predictions, land of prophets not interested me at all. That is why, the name Edgar Cayce did not say a word to me nor I expected to find myself in this book a modern Nostradamus: perhaps just …
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
First off, let me say that I am not a political person. I\’ve never put a political bumper sticker on my car, and I’ve certainly never worked on a political campaign. Most politicians have about all the appeal and honesty of the old snake oil salesman.
But having …
Pets Pray for Truth by Elnora Watters story
Pets Pray for Truth is a story by Elnora Watters. The story is about Bobby and Mike, their dogs, and their lies. Bobby and Mike walked their dogs at the park but Bobby asked Mike to play on the swings. The two tied their dogs on the bench while …
Quarterback Dad by Bobby Mercer
The minute my wife found out she was pregnant she made it her mission to go and buy me a book about how to be a dad. Ok I’m with it. She came home with a nice little book called “Quarterback Dad” by Bobby Mercer and Alison …
Laura Ingraham’s Power to the People book
I LOVED this book.
I LOVE Laura’s radio show, though, so it didn’t surprise me. It was a surprisingly fast read, for something that includes so many facts. After reading each chapter I felt I was really armed with information to argue Conservative viewpoints with others. Laura is a …
The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry
I admire O. Henry’s creativity as a short story writer and I’ve read a number of his works. But The Ransom of Red Chief is by far the funniest I have ever read.
Bill and Sam had planned a fraudulent lot scheme and only had six hundred dollars between …
Three Fates, by Nora Roberts
Three Fates, by Nora Roberts, is a story about six characters who come together to save three ancient—”and supposedly priceless—”statuettes from falling into the hands of greed. Cleo, Rebbecca, Tia, Malachi, Gideon, and Jack eventually band together; through many trials and arguments, they succeed in keeping the statuettes …
Before I Say Good-bye by Mary Higgins Clark book
Some time ago I ran out of books to read, and then decided to choose one of the novels I had not read before in a bookshelf we have at home. The name of the novel was “Before I Say Goodbye” by the popular suspense author Mary Higgins Clark. …
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