I’m not a huge fan of dystopian books, and I’m not a huge fan of paranormal either, especially angels, so from the very beginning I started thinking this was just not gonna be for me, I mean, it had the two genres that I’m not a fan of. That was …

I was introduced to Linda Howard when I read the book that she wrote with Linda Jones titled, “Warrior Rising”. It was a pretty good book and though I was unfamiliar with Linda Howard’s work I figured I’d give her a shot. My leap of faith was rewarded. …

This book is something that I could totally relate to. I mean, I work in advertising sales and also some freelance automobile delivery and basic sales for a car sales company, and also, I am an aspiring writer. I love writing. But that doesn’t mean that …

Japan in the sixteenth century was a time of massacres and darkness. An era, in which the applicable law, the law of the sword. This novel was written by Kitami Masao, the label this the Swordless Samurai. This novel presented the Japanese in the 16th century, with Hideyoshi as …

I love to read book, especially a thriller but romantic drama book. After heard some chit chat talk about the twilight tetralogy, i finally decide myself to read them. Twilight is one from four books of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn).
I try to …

Ally Carter has never been my favorite author, but with this book, I think she may have struck a chord. It’s so different from what I’ve read in this genre, and I’ve read almost everything in here. But Carter delivers something I just haven’t seen before. In Heist Society, …

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 …

I thought this was a sweet book about Curious George’s experience with the snow for the first time. He was excited to see that it had snowed the night before and couldn’t wait to go outside to play in it. It reminded me of my son’s excitement …

My mum recently bought me the Rachels Favourite Food At Home cook book, she paid approx 18 british pounds from W.H Smiths.
I have found this to be a really useful cook book packed full of interesting and easy recipes.
Rachel Allen also has a cookery programme on TV which is …

I got the Mayo Clinic Guide to Pregnancy towards the beginning of my pregnancy and I have been very happy with it. It is informative, comforting, and very easy to follow.
The book is organized by month of pregnancy. For each month of the pregnancy, there is a …

This is a great no-nonsense how-to approach to screenwriting. Field’s other book, _Screenplay_, is a more broad approach to the general idea of screenwriting, and _The Screenwriter’s Workbook_ is for the person who is ready to write.
Every chapter addresses a specific next step in the screenwriting process and …

In Michael Bentley’s Modern Historiography: an Introduction, 182 pages, ISBN 0-415-20267-1, Bentley provides a relatively short introduction of western historiography. The writing is much more readable that many similar attempts and is refreshingly short. At 182 pages, this book is several hundred pages shorter than other historiography books …

Have you ever heard about wrapagami? This precious book contains simple, clear and easy to understand instructions, along with intelligible, easy to follow diagrams. An illustrator and graphic (award-winning) designer Jennifer Playford enrich her line of fabric gift wraps with dynamic, fanciful illustrations that take your breath away. But …

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 …

The book “Living Dead in Dallas” by the author Charlaine Harris, is the second book in the series which the HBO original series True Blood is based off. I have just finished this book, and even though I still thought it was interesting and more unusual than the usual …

A GALLERY OF WOMEN contains biographical sketches: Ida Hoshawood, Olivia Brand, Rona Mersa, Ernestina, Ermita.
Theodore Dreiser addresses a wide variety of social strata, seeking out the original, outstanding people in them.
In A GALLERY OF WOMEN Dreiser emphasizes the sexual; it is in the sex that he seeks …

I recommend The Giver because this book is a big “WOW!!!”. It talks about a teenage boy who lives in a Utopian world. I’m sure that every single human being want to be in that sort of world. I thought it was the perfect place to be, but I …

I adore this book. I’ll say it again - I adore this book. I hate the movie but the book I have read several times in my lifetime and I’m only 27 years old lol. It is a really thick book but it is so well worth it. The …

This is a beautiful story about ostracism and prejudice. The main setting is the small seaside town of Torcurra and brings together three colorful characters: Marnie, a brazen 16 year old girl, Raven the village ‘madman’ and Father Brannan a kind priest.
Newly wed, Marnie moves to Torcurra with …

“Season of Passion” is a novel about a young woman, who disowned by her parents because of her marriage, ends up being a nurse to her husband who after shooting himself twice turns into a vegetable. I have to say that as far as Danielle Steel novels go this …

If I have to be honest, rarely do I pay attention to the books written and based on the screenplay of a movie. Their reputation among fans and literary critics often is not high, but they still continue to come out and the fans buy them hoping to discover …

The novel which this vividly is produced is written on modulation and the non-linear format. With the slowly small dose quality makes clear, happens in advance in the novel to be possible thing is explained greatly afterwards. When the past of quality of elegant coefficient of fluidity differs, it …

I got the novel The Gun Seller with mixed feelings of curiosity and skepticism. That was because it was written by Hugh Laurie, star of the television show House. I love his acting, but could he write? Or would this be an example of someone getting …

The subtitle of this book is “A Study of Bird Parasites”, and the cover of my 1961 Grey Arrow paperback edition is a plain green studded with microscopic (and otherwise) black and white drawings of some of these creatures. You might think from looking at it that it would …

Naptime Is the New Happy Hour, written by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, is a book that I bought for my cousin who has just given birth. Her child is around 10 months now, and I feel a bit pitiful for her because she isn’t coping with motherhood that well. …

A few months ago I began programming in Processing to create some interactive applications at work after having just a brief introduction to the language on a “programming interactivity” course. Because the language is pretty simple and the resulting programs are all visual I found it very easy to …

Another of my favorite book written by Stephen King would be The Stand. This book that I’ve read is actually from the Uncut Version and if you want a clue, the cover page of this book is something of a blue bird or something. A weird blue-like …

Fifty Shades Freed Erotic Adult Novel is the third novel in the Fifty Shades trilogy. I’ve finally made it thought the entire series. It took me a little longer to read this book than the other two, but I never the less finished it. I have to be honest …

I bought this book three months ago because of IBS problems, and this is actually the first IBS book I bought. I know something about this disorder already, so I needed a book that will help me plan a diet for my condition. This book may make others think, …

I recently watched an episode of Monk when he is on vacation and is drawn into a murder investigation. That episode reminded me a bit of the Sherlock Holmes mystery The Adventures of the Devil’s Foot; which, coincidentally, takes place while Holmes is supposed to be taking a vacation.
I …

Levitt is an economist at University of Chicago. Dubner is a journalist from New York Times. Together they produced this maverick work. According to Levitt, Economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers but a serious shortage of interesting questions.
Levitt raises some interesting questions like why …

The World is Moving Because of Love is the first chapter of the manga, The World God Only Knows; written and illustrated by Tamiki Wakaki. The manga chapter starts out with Dokurou Skull talking to someone about the capture percentage of runaway spirits. Elsee comes late and gets scolded …

“Swallows of Kabul” is a short book with a cleverly constructed plot and a beautiful language, written by a former Algerian military, Mohammed Moulessehoul, known by his female pen name, Yasmina Khadra.
The author introduces us to the history of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, first under the Russian …

Stephen King fans will immediately recognize the title - “Dolan’s Cadillac” is a short story that appeared in a King anthology. It’s a gripping tale of murder, obsession, and revenge, and I feel that it translated extremely well onto the silver screen.
Christian Slater is brilliant as the evil Jimmy …

It started out interesting, with an awesome opening action scene. But, unfortunately it didn’t last and I ended up reading a book that transforms into a cliché. The characters are so ordinary. Disgruntled main character, doomed side kick, child in distress. I don’t get it! Marcus Sakey had a …

“And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”- The Alchemist.
One of my friends told me so much about the book, “The Alchemist” that, at once I was tempted to read this book any how. It took me around 5 hours to …

My best friend loves reading love novels, and some time before she has loaned to me a book by Lynne Graham titled Bond of Hatred.
In the story of Bond of Hatred, tells the story of a young woman Sarah who impulsively flung a marriage proposal to Alex Terzakis, in …

Arguably one of Ray Bradbury’s more widely known efforts; The Illustrated Man is an anthology of some of his best short stories. Sandwiched by a curious tale of a drifter who meets an “illustrated man” covered head to toe in strange tattoos; the anthology offers up a varied mix …

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SONS is an astonishly beautiful book by Hkaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner. This new novel tells the story of life in Afghanistan and how it changed once the Taliban arrived. The author is from Kabul, Afghanistan so he …

I bought and read this book a long time ago, and since I like to read about Greek mythology, I like to give this book my high recommendation. Greek mythology is a vast subject, and sometimes it is quite boring to read a lot of these literary pieces because …

This is a new series I will be writing reviews for. It began in 2001 and is still continuing. The author of this series is Lisi Harrison. It is also a New York Times Bestseller. This series has a couple of main characters. Theres 1 girl, who leads he …

I only read this book because it was part of a scholarship opportunity, and it was a really big scholarship too. So ,when I read it I was just trying to make the best of it. I was very bored, even just by the cover, and I thought that …

My friend recently bought me the book Crazy for You, by Jennifer Crusie. It is a romance book, and it has a cute dog on the front cover. The main character, Quinn McKenzie goes through a lot of interesting changes during the book. Some of the supporting …

Why Dogs Chase Cats is a story retold by S. E. Schlosser that I got to read on the internet. The story is about the married life of Dog and Cat where Cat keeps saying that she’s too sick to work and Dog had to make dinner aside from …

Jump into the imagination of young sebastian, when he travels into a world where the wild things live. this is a wonderful childrens book that i remember enjoying a great deal when I was younger. I was recently at the book store and noticed the book for sale. After …

If you are a fan of short stories, and in particular ones with a focus on the strange and horrific, I suggest that you make it a specific point to check out Joe Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts to satisfy such a craving.
In many ways I preferred Joe Hill’s follow-up …

Usually, when I see a movie based off a book, I like the book much better. In the case of Frankenstein, I actually like the movie better.
It’s not that Mary Shelley’s book is bad; it’s just really dull when you consider it is billed as a monster book. If …

The first thing I noticed about this book was not only that it was thinner than the rest, but it was also a different colour; but when I opened the book; just the topics on the contents page alone told me that this book was specifically addressed to parents. …

When I had first read “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, I was surprised at two things: first, at the depth of the story, and second, at how badly distorted the story is in the movies. Instead of the traditional, beaten to death evil-monster-kills-everybody scenario, the novel deals with the complex …

The Bright Side by Alex Coleman is a pretty sad story, but at the same time, very self-realizing and gives a soothing effect for a person like me reading. I love reading this book with a cup of coffee or tea in handy and I couldn’t imagine how talented …