Taschen books: Adolf Loos, by August Sarnitz copyright 2003, Taschen GmbH
The book is comprised by 93 pages, illustrated paper, hardcover, compiled by August Sarnitz and edited by Peter Gossel.
This particular series of books that Taschen has published on Architecture is a very useful resource for both students and professionals …

“The jungle book” is one of my all times favorite books, which I really love to read. The character “Mowgli” was invented by Rudyard Kipling, and the book contains a story of a boy, who lost into jungles of India, and found by a forest ranger called Gisborne. Mowgli …

James Patterson’s “Big Bad Wolf” is the latest adventure of Alex Cross, formerly a detective with the Washington DC PD, now a new member of the FBI. While still in his orientation phase, he is assigned to a case called “White Girl”, a series of abductions-for-slavery incidents.
The protagonist …

Larry Brown was raised in Mississippi where he worked various jobs and eventually stuck to being a fireman, eventually becoming the chief of the Oxford Fire Department. While he worked various jobs to support his wife and children, he taught himself how to write and wrote hundreds of …

Advanced Chakra Healing by Cynthia Dale is an excellent training guide for understanding the principles and practice of energetic healing. She has systematized her unique way which is clearly of a highly intuitive method into a step by step method. This is a book aimed for more …

Stay hungry stay foolish is the latest nonfiction book by Rashmi Bansal a former IIM student. The book showcase the 25 people from IIM ahmedabad who didnt take up the usual campus placement and high paying secure job, instead of that they their own …

Well this is another manga not really a book or a light novel.It is about the life of the two main characters Miyazawa and Arima as well as there friends.
Its been a long time when I saw the anime version but recently I’ve decided to find out whats the …

Reader’s delight is a book library in Mangalore. It is just 10 minutes walk from the city centre and is located on light house hill road. Membership in this library costs you Rs 300 as deposit. Then you can carry the books home by paying the reading fee and …

Nowhere Man by Miguel Mejoles is a bizarre story that appears in the anthology Havana Noir. Havana Noir is a collection of crime of stories set in the city of Havana and Cuba. The stories are all by Cuban writers. Most of the stories deal …

Aftermath was written by Peter Robinson and published by Harper Collins Publishers in 2001.
The story started off with very gruesome violence in the house of Terry Payne two police constables had found his wife, Lucy, unconscious and Payne in the basement with a dead girl. Payne …

I love Christmas and it is a time of year I really wish lasted a lot longer. I find the best way to keep Christmas alive all year round is to read books with Christmas as a theme. One book that I particularly enjoy is Debbie Macomber’s …

In the little Ontario town of Dunnsville, a terror sleeps waiting to awaken and claim more victims. It seems that in Dunnsville a past horrific tragedy is linked to a monster that dwells in a well. This monster is once more set free when a group of boys stumble …

Today I am reviewing a book by Japanes manga artist Osamu Tezuka. The book is called MW. The book is about two life long friends who first met on a remote island in Japan. On that first meeting, they were the lone survivors of a US military poison gas …

Tess Gerritsen has done it again! The Sinner is gripping and entertaining! The story recalls characters from other books and brings in some new faces. Tess Gerritsen’s writing is has a quality that few can attest to. This is a thrilling novel that you will …

Eragon is the first book in Christopher Paolini?s Inheritance Trilogy. My friend introduced it to me, and I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised. My first thought was: I wish I could write that well when I was 15! It?s a truly astonishing feat for a teenager to …

Before I begin with the review of the book, I guess I should discuss a little about the author - Ito Junji.
Ito Junji is a manga artist known for his weird and sometimes creepy horror stories that I feel sometimes is trying to poke fun or reflect a certain social …

I am reviewing the book, Every Secret Thing, written by Ann Tatlock. This book was written in 2007.
In this book, the life of a girl named Beth Gunnar is chronicled. She is an English teacher at a prep school, a prep school she once attended as a young …

“Two for the Lions” is the tenth book in the Falco series of humorous detective novels by Lindsey Davis. These follow the adventures of Roman private eye Marcus Didius Falco, his usually unreliable family and the love of his life, senator’s daughter Helena Justina.
In “Two for the Lions”, Falco …

If you are looking for a good book to read during those rainy and cold days, read The Bride’s Baby by Liz Fielding and the two main characters are none other than Sylvie Smith and Tom McFarlane.
This is a fantastic love book but an accidental baby bump on …

The Lost Symbol that is conceptualized as a follow up to the famous Davinci Code is in hundred percent Dan Brown style. Every sequence, sentence and story turn is typical of Dan Brown style especially what we read in Davinci code. The Lost Symbol is thrilling and way it …

Though it has been a long time since Stephen Covey’s book —˜7 habits of highly effective people’ came out, the impact of its content is still as strong and meaningful as it was when it had newly hit the bookstores.
The writer takes a very unconventional approach that contradicts the …

I decided to read “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” by Barbara Robinson when I learned that some of my children might be trying out for the play version of the novel at our local community theater. What I discovered was an entertaining, funny, and thought-provoking tale that left me …

I simply love unique books. And The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is one of the unique ones, which I personally felt. This book is about some mysteries, haunting tales and many more. This book is especially useful for those loving a bit of a scared feeling …

Meg Cabot’s first book in the trilogy, Airhead, is in fact titled Airhead. Airhead is one of the most gripping, interesting, and plainly, odd books I’ve ever read. I loved it. It starts off with a teen girl who’s well, a nerd. Emerson Watts doesn’t like fashion and teen …

Seven years ago, my son was born three months premature. Doctors did not think he would survive past his first twenty-four hours because of how frail he was, but when he did survive, the same doctors explained to my husband and me that our son would most probably …

‘The secret of Spiggy holes’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This is quite an interesting book and the theme of the story is good.
Mike, Peggy and Nora go to a place called Spiggy holes which is in Cornwall. Their host is Miss Dimity who is a …

This classic from Stephen King seems as overlooked as the film it would later inspire. That’s a crying shame, because King does not only deliver us an interesting heroine with Dolores, but practices with an engaging style.
The book reads as a continuous narrative, as Dolores recounts her …

I love reading a rhythmic children’s book to kids, especially my son. This is the only children’s book that I have read that has such a steady rhythm to it when reading it. It’s almost like you’re singing a song as you’re reading it. It has …

Meet Samantha by Susan A. Adler recommended ages,7 and up
Samantha Parkington is a brown eyed,bright,nine-year-old girl living in Mount Bedford, New York.Being raised by her Grandmerry in 1904, known in history as the Victorian age. Meet Samantha is a great book and is the first in a series of …

Death Walker is the second book in the Ella Clah series that takes place in NW New Mexico on the Navaho Reservation. I started reading this series several months ago and have read many of the books.
I really enjoy the SW landscape and the bits of Navaho Culture I …

Bianca Olivier has just started at the school, Evernight. Everything about Evernight seems perfect; the school is beautiful, the students are well-groomed and the lessons are interesting, but Bianca just does not fit in. Then Bianca meets the mysterious Lucas and is immediately attracted to him. However, at Evernight, …

A month ago, I bought this amazing and fantastic book authored by Rissa Singson-Kawpeng, since I am into the verge of spinsterhood, I got inspired with the richness of the message of this book. This is a beautiful and inspiring self-developmental books for women whose age are entering a …

A classic McBain story of the 87 Precinct police —“ a curious rigmarole of incidents and occurrences that were part of the policeman’s routine.
The city had been subjected to a rash of inane crimes —“ killing of graffiti killers and dumping of old people. To add to their problems, …

I was on my 8th month of pregnancy and hoarding books I can read as soon as I start my maternity leave from work when I came across Eating Fire and Drinking Water by Arlene J. Chai in a local bookstore.
At first I was hesitant to buy the book …

Bloody Kiss is a two volume vampire themed manga by Furumiya Kazuko. The story is about Katsuragi Kiyo and the mansion she inherits from her grandmother wherein the dhampir, Kuroboshi and vampire servant, Alsh is living. She wanted to sell the mansion for her dream to go to college …

I am not usually a fan of Melville’s longer fiction. While I must admit to liking some of his shorter stories, such as the Lightning Rod Man or Bartleby, the Scrivner, his longer works are just too long. His style involves incredibly indepth description which, truthfully, I …

“Any Man’s Death” is the third book in Loren D. Estleman’s series about hit man Peter Macklin. I’m not reading the books in order. I first read “Something Borrowed, Something Black” (2002) which was the first Peter Macklin novel in twenty years. “Any Man’s Death” was published in 1986 …

‘The Whaleboat House’, previously published as ‘Amagansett’, was Mark Mills’ first novel and is set in 1947 on Long Island. I was not alive in 1947 and have never been to Long Island so I did hope that the author would be able to give a good sense of …

I Watched Russell Simmons being interviewed on the Orphra Show and was most impressed so when I wandered through Target’s book section not long afterward and saw it marked 30% off, I bought it. It was a good buy. The book has 12 laws to access the power in …

Normally people believe when they actually see it. In this book, Dr. Wayne Dyer propounded a theory that when you a start believing it, you actually see it. This is one of those brilliant books written by Dr. Dyer meant for your personal transformation.
The principle in this book starts …

The first time that I looked at the cover for the book Recipe for Disaster by Miriam Morrison, I was already fascinated. I just gambled my thoughts that this book is going to be awesome when I first bought it at the ‘Popular’ bookstore in my vicinity. And …

This book is one book that inspires memoir of my heart. After reading the first chapter ordinary memorable, so I forced myself to read the next chapter. From the continuation of that chapter, I get a clear picture of the struggle of Dr. Ang in helping the Palestinian people, …

“Belgrave Square” is a mystery featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt.
Pitt is asked by his superior Micah Drummond to look into a case of a blackmailer who was killed.
Pitt is disturbed by the case anyway because he is unsure why he was called into the case in such a manner.
There …

The first thing to realize about Jones’s books is that they’re actually quite hard to understand. Every time I re-read her books, I’d find out something new which I had missed before. Therefore, it is important to read her books ‘carefully’.
About Howl’s Moving Castle, I’m sure some of you …

When people talk about ‘War and peace’ today, it is usually to illustrate that something goes on and on and seems to have no end. This novel is indeed very long and in some parts - I guess - not very modern for someone belonging to the younger generation …

Shortly after hearing the news of Harvey Pekar, the author of American Splendor’s death, I decided to go through every comic book of his I could get my hands on. I did so in chronological order, starting with the American Splendor anthology before going on to one-shots like ‘Our …

Frederich Forsyth’s The Fourth Protocol is the story of an attempt by a dying Russian leader to implement a plan, concieved by England’s worst turncoat of all time, to swing the upcoming British general elections in favour of the Labour Party. Hidden inside the Labour party is a core …

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 …

This is the 7th book in the popular series for girls, From the Files of Madison Finn, about a typical girl who keeps a computer journal and files of everything she encounters.
In this story, Madison Finn is, as always, busy, but she is even busier than normal and many …

I have read the book ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’ written by Paramahamsa Yogananda. Yogananda was a spiritual person from India and he writes about his life. This is a book very rich with spiritual wisdom and is highly beneficial to anybofy who has taken interest in walking on the …