—˜The Secrets of the Nagas’ is the second novel of the —˜Shiva Trilogy’ which I have just completed. The first one was —˜The Immortals of Melua’ the experience of which I have already shared on this website.
I like this book even more than the first one. The story …

In comparison with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who created the Sherlock Holmes, I’d rather choose the Hercule Poirot character which was created by Agatha Christie. They both actually are my favorite authors for Detective’s novels. But no matter how I read all the novels, I always amazed by the …

I read this book and I was having my own comments and thoughts and feelings. If you are someone who loves to read tabloids from magazines and stuff like that, then The Last Days of Dead Celebrities by Mitchell Fink might work for you. It is not a …

I realised recently that I had never read any Dickens. How had this happened? I consider myself reasonably well and widely read but one of the greats of English literature had passed me by. Perhaps it was just that his stories are well known, he is …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Survivors is a great novel for those fans of the show that liked what they saw of the Tasha Yar character and wanted to learn more about her. This is a story that is primarily about her as well as her difficult and …

‘The secret island’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This is a very interesting book. The story line is excellent and the style of writing is also very good.
The names of the children in this book are Mike, Peggy and Nora and a boy named Jack from …

Percy Jackson and the Olympians is the literally one of the best children books of all time and in my opinion, better than the Harry Potter series. So far, there are four books in the Percy Jackson series and more coming out soon.
Based on Greek mythology, it is about …

I usually read novels about the American Civil War but have read just about everything I can on the subject. I decided it was time to change it up a bit and start reading some of the classic books. The Scarlet Letter was the fist book on my list. …

Four Souls by Louise Erdrich is enchanting. A female by the name of Four Souls, I think that’s really ‘rich’ and a lot to carry through. The story starts off with a narrative voice and the story brings us to places like Saint Paul as well as some …

Everything starts in the library, where Roland Mitchell, a very attractive and not relevant spectacular successes of a literary critic and poet of nineteenth-century dealing with Randolph Ash, accidentally discovered in a dusty, unread book in years draft letter of the deleted hand of the poet. A letter, from …

‘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 …

The modeling industry is a tricky one, I know that just by watching reality shows on models and all that. Not to stereotype, but I think the job is quite pressurizing and how one wants to lead to it, sometimes girls resort to all sorts of stuff just to …

Do you believe in love? If you do or if you are just wanting to find out more about love and its definition and etc, this book is for you. The title is Love: What Life Is All About by Leo F. Buscaglia. Unique book, I believe this …

I appreciate publishers as much as the books that they put out. The binding, the cover design and typeface are things that attract us to a book and judge on the merits of the publisher. I particularly like NYRB (New York Review of Books) paperbacks, and want …

This book is a little hard to understand and heavy going for the casual reader by it will certainly improve your knowledge of the scientific concepts concerning dimensions. Throughout the book is a detailed and well explained history concerning the key developments of physics covering the era …

This is the fifth book in the Star Wars X-wing series, located in a universe far, far away about 7 years after the end of Return of the Jedi.
Wedge Antilles returns from the Bacta wars (described in the fourth book of the series) as a hero, and immediately starts …

Having Chris Claremont comes back and continues the story after Magneto’s death. Magneto has died and come back so many times, the man even lost his powers and got them back. What makes this so much different than all of those other moments? Maybe the fact that Claremont is …

My daughter is now 2 years old but I started her on picture books when she was only a week old. She used to love the colorful pictures and enjoyed the times that I used to spend with her teaching her the names of the different objects. …

Lacey Armstrong is living a very ordinary life: single mom, great friends, difficult mother, and a business owner. Her day to day life is mundane with no excitement or change. However, all those things come to a standstill when Hurricane Damien levels Lacey’s home, which actually turns out to …

‘Self-defeating behaviours’ is a book written by Milton R Cudney. The author tells us how much negatively we lead our lives. The author tells us that we use negative words numerous times per day. We think negative about ourselves. Therefore, it is not a wonder that many of us …

W. Somerset Maugham’s novel The Razor’s Edge was one of the best-selling books of the 20th Century. I discovered in more than 20 years ago, and read it once every yer before giving the copy away to someone and buying a new one.
It tells the story of a young …

There is no such perfection…, these words are crossing my mind whenever I read Filosofi Kopi, an inspiring short Story written by Dewi Lestari who’s well known with the pen name Dee. She’s a talented author and songwriter, and also known as a singer in Indonesia.
She launched her short …

Reese ran away from her hometown after her boyfriends tried to kill her. He’s not being prosecuted, so to save her life she decides to leave to another state, change her name and start all over. That’s where she meets Mason, a boy she immediately feels attracted to. The …

—˜Life of Pi’ is a fictional novel written by a fantastic writer —˜Yann Martell’ who is praised by many people. The protagonist Piscine “Pi” Monitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pond cherry who explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. The main theme of the story …

This book can be taken in so many ways. On one hand, you can read it and feel compassion for the Lacks family and they went through and the love Rebecca Skloot held for them. Or, you can get angry about the unfairness of how the cells were taken …

“The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets - Shambhala Centaur Editions” by Sam Hamill is a lovely poetry book that is decorated with beautiful haiku that capture simple moments in nature and enrich those moments with vivid details and expressions. If you have relatively …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Unification Novelization is based upon the two-part season five episode of the same name. Much the episode’s script is transferred to the novelization, word for word and scene by scene, however, this novelization is not simply the episode in novel form. What the …

Inside Chinese Business is a book written by Ming-Jer Chen for managers worldwide. The book talks about on how Chinese conduct their business and how the westerners conduct business should with these Chinese companies. This book is very important to me because in my line of work, I often …

Charles Locke and Sarah Carlyle meet in the sea. The ship Charles is on has been attacked by pirates, Charles is wounded and left for dead. Sarah’s ship rescues the young man. As she nurses him back to health, Charles falls in love with the beautiful young woman. What …

Horsemanship by Waldemar Seunig was originally published in 1956. I found this treasure on classic riding by lucky chance and have never let the book out of my sight. This is a comprehensive look at English riding beginning with the origin, history and then practical application of taking a …

Dying to Deceive is a book I’ve read and the author is Judith Cutler. This is amongst a great anthology series book but I just managed to read this one. It is about the character Sophie Rivers, who got married to an England cricketer naming Mike Louden. …

This book, Love in the Driest Season written by Neely Tucker is truly a very bittersweet and heart-wrenching story. I cried for a bit while reading some chapters in this book and Neely related his story in this kind of auto-biography about his journey with his wife, Vita in …

At just under 300 pages Hapgood lays out his ideas about a civilization that he believes existed before ancient Egypt by many thousands of years. This civilization, according to Hapgood, traveled the world by sea. They produced maps by which later seamen would find their way across the Atlantic. …

I read everything that Nicholas Sparks writes. I started with his first one, The Notebook, back in 1996. His latest entry will make new fans, who will want to go and pick up everything they have missed out on. Like all of his stories, it involves a man and …

This book is the first of three books in the Wayside School series by Louis Sachar. (There are other books as well that are sort of spinoffs, but they don’t really have stories in them). These books are now the basis of a TV show called Wayside.
This book, Sideways …

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is one of the best books of all time. Austen does a fantastic job of developing the characters and drawing the reader in. When reading the novel, one actually feels as if you are sitting in the Bennet household listening to Mrs. Bennet …

I did not care for Jennifer Weiner’s “The Guy Not Taken”. This book is a collection of eleven short stories. The stories range from a girl trying to win someone’s heart to wondering about ex loves.
Each story started off great. The story lines were good, with …

This book, No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog by Margaret Mason gives no indication that it’s going to be a technical one for me. When I first took a look at the title, I already sense that this is going to be …

This is the lifestory, kind of autobiography of T. Lobsang Rampa a Tibetan born into an aristocratic family but destined to become a priest. I liked the description of Tibet in that age and the trials and tribulations of the young Lobsang as he matures into a spiritual person. …

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter is one of the best accounting book written.
Rich Dad Poor Dad basically tells about how Robert, the author of the book learns how to be rich. Rich Dad is actually his best friend’s father and poor dad …

The Stand is a book written by author Stephen King. The Stand takes readers on a difficult journey about what happens when most of the population is suddenly obliterated, and there are few people left. What do the remaining survivors do? Where do they go? Does the fact that …

Not Dead Enough by Peter James is special in its own way. I am not surprised if there are people hating this book and finding it a bit of a chore to read. I sort of agree actually, but I decided to give this book a chance and …

A Seperate Peace by John Knowles is a very sad book in a lot of ways because of how there is a war going on and a kid dies. I enjoyed reading A Seperate Peace more than any book I have read so far. The book starts out about …

I personally think that this is the most comprehensive at home medical guides that is out there. It is a huge book, and it seems that the information it provides is so very useful. It has a beautiful system which is kind of like one of those solve your …

Warhol, that kind of Warhol… it is admirably beautiful that we have the opportunity to look inside a person like this. Even if you are not very interested in him or his work, you can’t help but be attracted to such an auto-prospect.
From the very first lines, …

Centered Riding is an excellent book written by Sally Swift. Sally Swift is a legend in the English riding world, and although Centered Riding was published in 1985, it is still applicable today. I purchased my book in the last five years and have read it cover to cover …

I don’t usually go for books that have racial themes and what not. I don’t like to hear about people being treated unfairly when it happens enough in reality. And I hate it when people use race to justify doing evil things because of whatever their form is justice …

Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew is book about a unique gardening concept pioneered by Mel in the early 80’s. The book starts off rather slow and gets into the history behind Mel’s concept. Essentially Mel describes a method that involves building a box with separate 12 foot …

I’m gonna start by saying that Tarryn Fisher is a scary lady. Every time she comes out with a new book I just get the chills, and that’s a good thing, of course, books are supposed to make you FEEL. Every book that I’ve read from her was left me …

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” features the history of a town called Macondo. Marquez is a genius in delivering the story of society played, changed and altered by time. The story foretells that “Time passes but not so much.”(A quote from Colonel Aureliano Buendia, one of the characters). …