I have read many times this book, and it became my favorite from the first lecture. I know it’s not a book that is easy to find, but if you do find it do not hesitate to read.
The action takes you back in 1930 in Calcutta, India. Maybe …

From the thousand books I’ve read since my youth, this is the book that I held with utmost respect. I treat it as my personal Bible. It is because of this book that I am now enjoying the fruits of my labor, and that I am …

“Such A Silly Baby” is a children’s book authored by Steffanie and Richard Lorig, and illustrated by Amanda Shepherd. It was published in 2008. This is a cute story about a mother who keeps losing her baby at odd locations and instead taking home some sort of crazy …

I felt that this was a very long book and would be better suited for kids who know how to read on their own rather than a book a parent reads to their kids at bedtime or naptime. It follows the cartoon movie to a T, so if …

In “I Stand Here Ironing”, a short story written by Tillie Olsen, the setting reveals much about the nature of the story. Although the author does not devote paragraphs to describing the setting, it is obvious based on the title and introductory sentences. The narrator is standing, while ironing …

It’s Great to be Three: The Encyclopedia of Activities for Three year olds is a good resource book for preschools to have. This 640 page book is edited by Kathy Charner and Maureen Murphy. It is a Gryphon House book.
This book is divided into 24 chapters, …

ISBN 978-0007284146, 530 pages, cover price £7.99.
Brief synopsis
Main character, Rob Luttrell is a journalist based in London. He is an American by birth and is successful in his career. His personal life is not quite as successful, he is divorced and has a young daughter who lives with …

Years ago, when I was an elementary school student, the school district used Mcgraw-Hill Math textbooks. By the time I was in 6th grade, I had been using them for about 6 years. In those years, I became used to learning the way that this textbook had shown us. …

This is an interesting but disturbing book containing three pamphlets written by Ida B. Wells. Wells wrote these pamphlets between 1892 and 1900 to publicize the use of lynching by whites against blacks during the last decade of the nineteenth century. In her work Wells describes …

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’ …

“Let’s Go, Froggy” is a children’s book authored by Jonathan London and illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz. It was published in 1994. This is not the best book in the Froggy series but it is still better than the average children’s book.
Pros: As with most of the Froggy …

Ghost Rider was a pretty schizo book when it debuted in the early 1970’s. In the 1990’s, when the book made its comeback, people laughed because they didn’t think GR was anything more than a dopey character. While the 1990’s books were cool, this 1970’s version is pretty dopey.
The …

I greatly enjoyed this heart-warming and witty book. This is a true story of a cat, a stray rescued from the streets of New York, and his life and relationship with the rescuer, the author of the book Cleveland Amory. I love cats and love people who understand them. …

This book is the first book featured in The Unicorn Club Sweet Valley Middle School Series and it features a very different Unicorn Club as they had moved from the mean phase to being the nice girls phase here. The club still consists of rich and snobby Lila Fowler, …

Hatchet is a story about a boy dealing with the trauma of his parents divorce and the ensuing difficulties that it causes. I was impressed with the way that Mr. Paulsen wrote the book. Set in the third person point of view the book is more of a narrative …

Welcome to My World by Coleen McLoughlin is an autobiography by Wayne Rooney’s girlfriend, whom I think is already his wife by now. This is a pretty alright book, which provides the insights on what Coleen perceives as the celebrity world. Pretty informative, actually, if you are the …

I nearly gave up on this book after reading just a few lines. I found out from the introduction that Burgess had made up his own language and I thought that his nadsat vocabulary would be far in between. Turns out he made it a very integral part of …

After the book “Path of the Warrior” sparked in me an interest in the dark, futuristic world of Warhammer 40,000 in particularly to the mysterious Eldar race , I continued to look for books about them, and I found the novel “Eldar Prophecy” of Cassern S. Goto. The book …

Aside from a small notation on the back of the book, “The Zombie Survival Guide” looks and feels like an honest survival guide. If it weren’t for its subject matter, the book might be taken more seriously. Unfortunately, there are those who–upon gleaning out the zombie lore–feel that Brooks …

The romantic family story Love The One You’re With written by Emily Giffin is more like television soap rather than a novel. But it is readable for its pleasant and relatable story line. The one line plot of the book is that an ex boyfriend unexpectedly comes into life …

“Playground Day!” is a children’s book by Jennifer J. Merz, published by Clarion Books in 2004. It is quite a generic book and very forgettable. I wonder how many children’s books have been written that involve kids at a playground pretending to be various animals as they …

Christmas Angels and Other Tatting pattern is a tatting pattern book by Monica Hahn. If you tat you know how tatting pattern book are no where near available as book for crafts, like knitting or crochet. Even a lot of the books they do have are out of print. …

There’s a Barnes and Noble just about everywhere around the United States and I use to think that they were all the same until I went in looking for a particular book. I remember going to at least three before finding the one Barnes and Noble within a five …

Like most ladies I’ve dieted many, many times. I’ve tried everything from Atkin’s to diets that came directly from hospitals for heart patients. I have made the switch lately to try not dieting. I just want to change the way I eat daily.
I try not …

this book is another one of R. L. Stine’s great works. It is also one that has a happy ending rather than one that is twisted and unexpected. I remember reading this book with my grandmother, and we enjoyed it together. The plot was so interesting and great that …

Ariana, a young schoolteacher, is kidnapped by a gang of outlaws. Their leader, known as the Boss, wants to provoke his son Laramie to fight for her. Although Laramie was raised in the gang, he has a soft side to his character, and he hasn’t yet killed a man. …

“Bossy Bear” is a children’s book by David Horvath. It is new, published in 2007. The book features lots of colorful drawings and I like Horvath’s drawing style, but there is not much substance to the book and I am not sure it teaches a useful lesson.
First, …

“Turquoise Girl” is the thirteenth book in the Ella Clah series written by Aimee & David Thurlo. For those who haven’t read any of the preceding twelve books, Elah Clah is a special investigator for the Navaho Indian Tribe near Shiprock, New Mexico. In “Turquoise Girl” Valerie Tso, a …

This story is one of the pure romance novels by Sandra Brown. In this story, Erin O’Shea meets macho Lance Barett when she goes looking for her long-lost brother.
Erin is an orphan, and together with her brother, was given up for adoption when they were children. When she arrives …

The Younger Thinner You Diet talks about using food as medicine. I was looking for a book that talked about how food affects your hormones and brain chemicals. Frankly, I picked it up for a light read and then found tons of information that I needed.
I found this …

I love titles like this when they simultaneously express the whole marketing and psychological concept. Like, you’ll never cry over small boobs again or lots of sex is unhealthy and stupid, I’m smart but I live like a fool, conclusion - you’re not smart.
This book is about how …

Pretty sad story here that I’ve read, which is The Last Year of Being Married by Sarah Tucker. It is about the characters of Sarah and Paul and their 7 year marriage is somewhat at stake, and there are lot of issues that they have to think through and …

In the book that I’ve read, The Ghost of Grania O’Malley by Michael Morpurgo, it is or isn’t a ghost story, I’m not going to really say. You would have to read and find out the truth behind this particular Big Hill. Rumors have it that this hill …

My husband will tell anyone who asks that I love my manga. I love a good romance story where good always wins, but I also like a good storyline to go with it. Stories that have some adventure, danger, love. You know, all the good stuff. So, I am …

A prequel to the hugely popular and controversial book ‘The DaVinci Code’ by author Dan Brown, ‘Angels and Demons’ introduces us to the character of Robert Langdon, a Harvard Professor who is drawn into a labyrinthine web of murder and conspiracy that reaches into the upper echelons of the …

‘A gift of fire’ is a great book that makes you reconsider technology. For starters I am not one that likes to read, and considering this is a book on computer technical subjects I was very hesitant to read it. I like the way the other flows …

‘Mystery of Tally-ho cottage’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This book is one among the mystery series of the five-find outers. This is quite an interesting book. Larkins are the people who are living in a cottage in the Tally-ho grounds. In the Tally-ho house live the …

The best words to describe the book “Recipes for a Perfect Marriage” by the Irish author, Katie Kerrigan are pills of wisdom about marriage. This novel stays away from the usual cliché that we usually see in Hollywood movies, and tackles the real thing being married for …

With everything leaning heavily towards digitalized formats these days, the safety of having a crash-proof, hack-proof mechanism through which to organize one’s life, lies within the pages of my Frankiln Covey personal organizer diary that I have come to make an integral part of my life annually.
My very first …

Simon R. Green is one of the authors that I really like and one of the few that I follow regularly in the sense that I read almost everything published. I first started reading his works in 2001 when I read ” Hawk and Fisher ” then I liked …

I had heard good things about Margaret Atwood’s works and decided to read The Blind Assassin, which was the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize. I thought the novel was a brilliant demonstration of Atwood’s enormous talent as a writer, and the Booker Prize was well-deserved. The Blind Assassin …

I love the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. I didn’t think I was going to get into it as much as I have because the idea of an anti-feminine heroine didn’t really appeal to me. Mercy is a mechanic and a kind of nobody in the shape shifting …

Opposite to the previous volumes, in the 5th volume of Nodame Cantabile there’s only a storyline, the school festival. By the beginning of the manga, the S orchestra will play for the first time in front of their school mates. They decided to play wearing costumes, to keep with …

Creation in Death is about NYPD Lieutenant called Eve and who is haunted by those people that she could not save. The is a good officer but there was one particular case whereby she couldn’t capture the killers.
There appeared then to be a young brunette who …

I am a devoted fan of Bernard Cornwell’s historical novels, especially the —˜Sharpe’ series of books. They’re set in the Napoleonic Wars, which is a common periodic for naval exploits for characters like Hornblower and Bolitho, so Sharpe fits in pretty well. I wasn’t quite sure how much a …

Pour Your Heart Into It by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang, Hyperion, New York, 1997, 351 pages.
This is a biography of Schultz, the founder of Starbucks, and the Starbucks Coffee Company itself. If you want to know how Starbucks invaded every known street corner in almost every …

I like Linda Grant’s books. They usually make me laugh and lead me through a variety of emotions within the stories. This particular book was no different and I actually found this one to be one of my favorites. “Lady Luck” is a story focused on …

Immediately after I have finished “The lost symbol” by Dan brown I searched for a book that will explain some of the things I have read and see what was true and wasn’t in the novel.
I already was familiar with another book written by Dan Burnstein, “Secrets of the …

Synopsis
Written through the eyes of Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Jane Boleyn. Three young women caught up in the power hungry and volatile court of King Henry VIII.
Anne of Cleves, picked to be the fourth Queen of England yet a fatal mistake dashes her hopes before they have …

Fourteen year old Trixie Belden an amateur detective lives in Sleepyside near the Hudson River in New York. This story entails the strange happenings at the Lisgard house where Fay Franklin lives. Fay Franklin just moved to Sleepyside, when she hears stories about Lisgard house being huanted but she …