I was enticed by the title, hence I brought home If Jesus Were Your Counsellor by Selwyn Hughes. Pondering about the title, I recalled several questions I often asked but seldom answered. The book contained 50 questions people frequently asked pertaining to different facets of life.
Hughes answered these …

Amigurumi World: Seriously Cute Crochet by Ana Paula is actually seriously cute. The front part of the book isn’t very useful to me because it’s just an explanation of the terms and the symbols, which are standard to all crochet books.
However, the patterns are all very cute and appealing …

The title book, Pride & a Pregnancy Secret is a really good love story. The author of this book is none other than Tessa Radley and she has written very well that I enjoyed reading this love novel pretty much.
In Pride & a Pregnancy Secret, it starts off …

This book has 2 authors and the title, Moody to Mellow by Stephen Palmer, Get a Life is a really good book that you should not underestimate its power to change your views totally and giving some good tips for you to control your feelings of anger and etc. …

The author of the book does not typify a police officer. Bacon tells about his ups and downs at the academy and on the beat. As I was reading the book I could not help but understand the personal struggles Bacon was having as a police officer
and how he …

It is rare that hardbacks make their way into my library these days, but this book published in 1955 is one of the few. Cash McCall was originally published by Houghton Mifflin and is the story of a businessman who made his millions by buying and selling companies.
McCall rents …

Gurren Lagann is a manga series based off the anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan, also known as Gurren Lagann that aired in the U.S. on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2008. The manga is about a boy named Simon, pronounced See-Moan, who lives underground in Giha Village; he works …

House of Chains by Steven Erikson is the fourth novel in the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Here the action returns to the Seven Cities, where the second novel, Deadhouse Gates, was based. A new army, led by Tavore Paran, has been formed to quell the rebellion …

This is the latest fiction I’ve read, by Michael Chabon. It’s a few years old and it won the Pulitzer prize, so you probably don’t need me to tell you it’s probably going to be good. However, I will tell you that it is good; not great, …

I have the latest edition of Moonwalk by Michael Jackson with a new introduction by Berry Gordy and a new afterword by one of the book’s editors, Shaye Areheart. These new additions were added after his untimely death in June 2009. Moonwalk was Michael Jackson setting the …

I’ve never read a story about infidelity as crystal clear as this kind of story, The Infidelity Chain by Tess Stimson before. There are 5 characters that are all linked by the word infidelity and they are all in one way or another having this problem as well as …

“Brave Irene” by William Steig is a simple but touching story about a young girl who braves a bad snowstorm in order to help her mother. Her mother, Mrs. Bobbin, is a seamstress. She has just completed a beautiful dress for a wealthy duchess and must deliver it in …

This books is created by Robert T. Kiyosaki, financial advisors of Bill Gates (the owner Microsoft Corporation). This book writes to achieve financial freedom. In his book, Robert T. Kiyosaki separated people into left-quadrant and right-quadrant. Left quadrant is people who works to get money and in the right …

Henrik Ibsen a Norwegian playwright, poet and theater director is often referred to as ‘Father of modern drama’ His writings can be tagged as a flag off to realism drama; his writings more or less revolved around the essence of human freedom. He felt societal norms condition individuals’ …

In case you are wondering, about this book spelling, sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling. Yes it is spelled that way and I truly think it is such a unique idea.
I have longed trained myself never to 100% believe whatever the tabloids are saying. And in this …

This book is the sequel to Something Borrowed, and somewhat overlaps it. However, in Something Borrowed, the main character and POV is Rachel, a straight laced lawyer who tries to do the right thing.
In Something Blue, the main character is Darcy, who is portrayed throughout Something Borrowed as being …

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 …

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 …

It’s funny how some books find their way to you. I love it when people say- “Come and help yourself to my book collection.” Now that’s what I call having your day made for you. Well, my neighbor did just that. So that’s what I have been doing this …

Just looking for a fun, relaxing read that isn’t complicated? If you said yes, the Little Lulu Comic Book Series is perfect for you. Don’t worry, it is nothing like those cheesy, no offense, super hero comic books. Little Lulu is a girl in the 1920’s-1930’s who always finds …

Several years ago I was shopping at the local flea market. I came across a book table, and the guy was selling books a plastic shopping bag full for one dollar. I love to read so of course I bought a bag of his books.
I was enchanted with …

This is one of my favorites when it comes to Jude Deveraux’s novels. This book was so intense that it made me blush while reading parts of this! Velvet Angel is a story about the feuding family of the Chatworths and the Montgomerys; when Elizabeth Chatworth was kind of …

I began my journey into the fitness and nutrition world about 4 years ago in my senior year of high school. I’ve always been athletic but at various times in my life I’ve been too skinny and at other times too fat. I began to find nutrition very interesting, …

Together But Something Missing by Ben Renshaw is written by a speaker that loves to give inspirational speeches. I think he has given a pretty concise views and opinions on how to improve relationships and stuff to the next deeper level, rather than keeping those just pretty stagnant and …

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, also known as The Yarn Harlot, is a knitting humourist. It seems like there wouldn’t be much material for her to write about, but her books are always fun and amusing to read.
This particular book, Knitting Rules!, is more of an explanatory book than knitting humour, although …

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 …

This book is good, damn good actually. It is a book that appeals to younger readers without talking down to them, it raises issues for discussion without forcing it or setting it up so that professors can just make stuff up to make themselves sound smarter, and it …

I have read every book written by Judith Mc Naught and I have done so because her works are really amazing. Every Breath You Take is one of my favorites. I love Kate’s and Mitchell’s characters.
Their love story started which started in Anguilla is very romantic and poginant. …

In Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow”, there are three main characters that the author focuses on: Tub, Kenny, and Frank. Each possess many characteristics that make them different from one another. Kenny’s character is especially cynical, and as such, he is one of the characters who adds more …

Nefertiti by Michelle Moran is a good book, but I would rather take it as a fiction in that sense, because I wonder the truthfulness of it all. However, I respect on account that the story was related by Nefertiti younger sister named Mutnodjmet. So perhaps the story …

Batman: Tales of the Demon is a graphic novel by Dennis O’Neil. It’s a graphic novel containing stories about Batman and his adversary Ra’s Al Ghul. It’s a very interesting story because Ra’s Al Ghul isn’t your typical Batman villain; he’s a terrorist who wants to …

It may sound like a strange thing to do on a hot day, but I have spent hours in Chapters near my apartment, wandering through the various departments, picking up the occasional book, magazine or newspaper, sitting in the comfortable leather love-seats, sipping on my Starbucks frappuccino (there, fortuitously, …

The book is a compilation of cartoons from the Peanuts series of comics, by Charles M. Schulz.
The book is about the comedy dog Snoopy, and his owner Charlie Brown. Other characters include: Peppermint Patty, Lucy and Woodstock the canary.
The book is set out as a series of tiny comics, sometimes …

Mates, dates, and Inflatable Bras by Cathy Hopkins is the first book in her younger teen series of Mates, Dates. This book features and is written from the point of view of Lucy Loverling, a Year 10 14 year old girl who has the typical teenage problems with boys, …

This is a very heart-warming novel based on Agate Nesaule’s true story during the horrifying World War 2. I always get a mixed feeling everytime I scan the pages of this masterpiece. I feel like I wanna throw up with those Germans who took advantage of women in the …

The Ambler Warning starts with a detailed description of a psychiatric facility where the government keeps operatives who know highly guarded secrets but whose minds have become untrustworthy, and must undergo psychoanalysis. The hero, a former intelligence agent, finds himself in such a facility where he is …

Stephen King is my favorite author. I have read every single one of his books and for the most part they are all fantastic. But there is one that pales in comparison to the rest, and I had the hardest time trying to read it, and that book is …

Mats, Dates, and Cosmic Kisses by Cathy Hopkins is the second book in her Mates, Dates series. (The first book was Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras). This series is for preteen and early teen girls.
The second book is from Izzie’s perspective. If you read the first book, you already …

Sarah Dessen is a well-known author of books for young adults, and I found this novel to be another quality effort from her. Macy, the main character, has to make some decisions about the direction of her life one summer. Her new friends were lively and entertaining. …

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is directly about vampire romance, I have to pretty much say that. It’s either you like it or hate it. If you are the vampire flick sort of reader, you might pretty much enjoy reading this. As for myself, I fall into the …

When I was at the store, I saw this Tom and Jerry book called “Game Over” on sale for $.99. I thought that was a pretty good price for a book, so I bought it. Normally, I skim through a book before I buy it, but I …

The Piltdown Men (first published in 1972, then re-released in revised form as “The Piltdown Mystery” in 1988) is a book which deals with one of the most famous scientific frauds of all time, and one in which I have always had a great interest, the announcement in 1912 …

Little Women is the first book about the four March sisters, who live with their mother as their father is away, fighting in the war. It tells about how they all face different temptations while growing up, and how each of them must fight to overcome their character flaws …

As is usually the case on Wednesdays, my daughter brought home a different book from her school library. This time, it was a book written a couple years before I was born called “Sizes.”
It was one of the worst books I have ever seen and I have to question …

Teach Yourself Visually Chess by Jon Edwards is the first chess book I bought myself. I have been playing chess for just over 5 years now and my current ELO rating stands at 1600. This book gave me a real kick start into the world of chess. In the …

Are We There Yet? (Rach and Jules take to the open road) is a good travel book that I love to read if say, I go for traveling or something. This is a good travel-feel story for both friends Rach and Jules, who are both in …

No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark is a heart-touching novel. It is about a young women who has to return to a place she never thought she would want to set foot in again. Her childhood home. She
killed her mother when she was a young woman, …

The cover for Marina showed a young girl surrounded by mist, and recognizing the author, I decided to pick the book to read. The story is set in a Barcelona of only a few decades ago, but which gives a feeling of a town of the early XX century: …

I really enjoy reading. Especially at night before bed. I like Christian Fiction the best. I just finished a novel, The Crystal Cavern. It is written by Hannah Alexander. The novel is 364 pages. It went by too quick.
The Crystal Cavern …

The Very First installment in the Harry Potter book series is the Harry Potter: Philosopher’s stone. I have to admit that when this first book came out, i was one of those few people who very pessimistic about it. I doubted whether the book will be popular to the …