Collecting gem stones for the sake of having unusual, precious gems to display, to set into jewelry, and to save for expected rise in prices of gems bought at low prices that are rapidly rising in cost, has become a new ‘wave’ of a movement, all over the world. …

This book, a classic Poirot, is a very complicated novel. One thing I really enjoyed about it is the way that, in the end, everything wrapped up so very neatly. I know that that is not how it is in real life, but it was very satisfying to be …

I ended up buying the book, “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini because I was sure that I read a nice review about it. I found the story of this book very gripping till the last pages with Hosseini’s great way of story telling.
The story of “The Kite Runner’ …

Making Your Money Work For You
By: Missy
This book is basically teaching you tips on how to expand your investments and savings. It teaches you that in order to make your money work for you, just pure saving isn’t enough. You need more work than that. I …

I do not have much time for fiction, but I sometimes sit down to a good thriller. Recently, I kept hearing about an author named Lee Child and a group of his fans called ‘Reacher Creatures.’ This comes from the name, Jack Reacher, who is the hero of a …

This was Stephen King’s third novel, released in 1977. The story is about a writer named Jack Torrance, who works as a hotel caretaker in a Colorado resort. It is understood that after he and his family moves in they will be snowed in, and they are fine with …

Molly’s school is participating in a-Lend-A-Hand drive for the war effort.The girls in Molly’s class are going to knit socks and Molly thinks their nuts if they can knit so many socks in a weekend and the boys have declared it a boys against girls contest. Molly thinks they …

I love good books. One of my all time favorite books to read children is called “The Mine-o-saur”. It is by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen and illustrated by David Clark. It is a great book for all young children to add to their personal library because it teaches …

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is one of my favorite books. Set in Earth’s future, this impressive work is a about a genius boy named Ender Wiggin who is taken from his family to Battle School to train for an imminent battle against the insectoid invaders called “buggers.” …

Like so many people my wife, my self and our two young boys have decided that we are fed up with English weather and have decided to move to sunny Spain. Of course we are not just going to up and move we are doing our home work first, …

Probably the two best things about Steeple Hill’s Love Inspired books are the fact that they are incredibly easy to read and that they usually contain a few spiritual insights that can enrich or challenge your walk with God. Unfortunately, many of the offerings in the imprint are rather …

Heavenly Man was my girlfriend’s Christmas gift for me. Being a Christian, she told me that it is a book that can definitely inspire the Christianity among us, myself included.
I was skeptic at first. I never liked reading stories on how devoted and passionate these people are in …

This wonderful teen novel, “Elsewhere” by Gabrielle Zevin, could not be more touching emotionally and entertaining. I first picked up this cover by going against the old adage: I liked the look of its cover. The cover is a blue background with a snowglobe on it, in case you’re …

Pets Pray for Truth is a story by Elnora Watters. The story is about Bobby and Mike, their dogs, and their lies. Bobby and Mike walked their dogs at the park but Bobby asked Mike to play on the swings. The two tied their dogs on the bench while …

Every novel I’ve come across by Jodi Picoult has one unique aspect: They are full of surprises, each a unique story. The Storyteller is definitely no exception; it delves into a well documented part of history- The Holocaust.
The Storyteller does an incredible job of telling …

This is without doubt the best book in the Priscilla Hutchins series by author Jack McDevitt. I love it because it is has a very original plot plus lots of excitement and suspense. This book just keeps moving and doesn’t let up until the very end.
The story is …

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 …

“Tularosa” is a fast paced mystery written by Michael McGarrity.
The mystery is for Kevin Kerney to find his missing godson, a soldier stationed at White Sand Missile Range in New Mexico.
He meets Captain Sara Brannon, who is investigating what was thought to be a simple AWOL case. This …

I love this book title, Calico Canyon by Mary Connealy very much. The story is about Grace Calhoun and the 5 Reeves boy. Grace is forced to marry Daniel and he is the father of these 5 rascals.
The book is very funny and sometimes made me …

The Neverending Story, written by the German author Michael ende, is one of those books that marked my childhood, making me read it many times.
Summarizing the story, Bastian Baltasar Bux is a kid who’s bullied in his school. One day while running away from some bullies he got into …

This is one of three books that I have about personal finance that I really value. There is a lot of information in this book and it is written in such a way that it doesn’t matter if the market is up or the market is down. I personally …

i was asking this question for 8 years now!i am a very sporty person and out going.but recently i got interests in books,the harry potter books.this is the best.the person R.K Rowling has the most vivid imagination ever.the stuff she can come up with.this whole fantasy of harry and …

If you teach Drama and/or English in any middle school or high school,you and your students will definitely enjoy this book.
Plays To Play With In Class is a book that was written by Sally Milgrim, a highly creative individual who was my college professor for a number of courses, …

Trace was written by Patricia Cornwell, and published by Time Warner in 2005.
Patricia Cornwell’s books are difficult to start I often have this problem with her books. I read the first two chapters of this book, and only returned to finish it half a year later. …

I really didn’t like this book at all, which is a bit odd as I usually like stories written by this author. But this particular tale I just found dull and boring. A lot of pages seemed to pass with little to nothing of interest happening. In some books …

The novel Barnaby Rudge isn’t set in Dickens own time, but begins in 1775 in a small village in Epping Forest. It ends 5 years later in London with the no-popery or Gordon riots. The main character of the book, Barnaby Rudge, is the village idiot and is being …

This book is, I think, a masterpiece in gothic romanticism. I came to the book with all the preconceptions about Frankenstein’s monster that I presume most people have. Lightening bringing the monster to life and the mad scientist screaming “It’s alive!” The original novel is nothing like this at …

I have read the book —˜The mystery of the fire dragon’ written by Carolyn Keene. This book is one among the Nancy Drew series. This is an interesting book. The story line is excellent and the plot is very thrilling. The style in which the book has been written …

Elite #1 is the first issue of a new series from Portent Comics written by James Redington and pencilled by Marcelo Salaza.
The plot centres around the character of the title’s namesake who, in true Superman style is a hero idolised by all. However, not is all as it appears …

This is a supernatural teen thriller / horror story. This novel is about how cruel some people can be to others, sometimes for no real reason at all. At the same time it also shows that others can be kind-hearted and helpful, even to those that are different. The …

A Box Full of Kisses is a short story on the site indianchild.com. The story starts out by a father that got angry on his 3-year-old daughter for buying a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight for them and his father became furious when the child tried …

This is an excellent book that you should read if you are interested to study about the concept of management. When I first read the book, management was a relatively new thing for me since my background is engineering. Fortunately, this book uses simple words that are easy to …

Lord of the Rings is one of the best known fantasy books, written straight after the second world war by JRRTolkien. It has been the inspiration of many other fantasy books and quite a few films, amongst them several animated films and the hugely popular ones made by Peter …

The Bhudda of Suburbia was written by Hanif Kureishi in 1990, it went on to win that year’s Whitbread Prize for best novel and was definitely a deserving winner. It was made into a television show in the mid nineties starring Naveen Andrews now better known for the …

I was fascinated reading the book title, Deep Storm written by Lincoln Child within the first few pages already. The book is a good start for those loving books that are of a scientific and investigative nature.
There is actually a medical mystery to the story and the discovery …

This book will help you find common ground with your child. It should be read together at the age of ten. The book “The Little Prince” in the figurative form will tell you that you should be attentive and kind to people and nature. Reading together will replace your …

Her Majesty’s Wizard is the first book in the Wizard in Rhyme series written by Christopher Stasheff. I find this first book to be very funny. The book takes place in Medieval times with magic and scorcery. I really love this series and feel this first novel introduces …

The Defenders remains one of the more unique books in the history of the Marvel Universe. In time, the series would become more of a silly joke book parody of superheroes. This was ok for the early 1980’s and the book did ok before finally falling to cancellation. In …

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, …

What’s Shakin in Snowflake City is perhaps one of my favorite children’s stories. It was given to my son for his first Christmas by my great aunt and we read it all the time. Even though it is a book perfect for Christmas and winter, our family …

Choosing a suitable medical book can be a daunting task for a first year medical student. One never knows what they ought to look for in a book, and the lecturers seem to recommend books because they wrote them or they know someone who wrote the book. Luckily, after …

The Guy Not Taken, by Jennifer Weiner, was not what I expected having read several of Jennifer Weiner’s full length novels. I found these short stories to be more like little character or event sketches than actual short stories. Each story was well written and it was, especially after …

A Day Late and A Dollar Short by Terry McMillan is another book apart of my collection that Ms. McMillan didn’t fail to make me enjoy. Five sisters and one mother, all arguing and living different types of lives are brought together when mother is taken to the hospital …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Call to Darkness is a rather mysterious novel that takes place during the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The reason I use the word “mysterious” is because this novel offers a pretty good science fiction mystery story. In this …

I think that Dean Koontz was ahead of his time in writing this book. It was originally printed in 1987 under his pseudonym ‘Leigh Nichols’. I think that a lot of writers use pseudonyms at first until they have established their’ work.
The story is set in California, as quite …

I wanted to like this book a lot. I *tried* to like this book a lot. I just couldn’t quite make it.
“Horoscopes for the Dead” is the most recent offering by the American poet Billy Collins. Collins was our national poet laureate from 2001 to 2003, and has since …

Ultimate Spiderman #3 “Double Trouble”
Here he is, the Ultimate universe’s Doctor Octopus!
The problem with Doctor Octopus in the ‘regular’ books was that he played the role of a powermad, meglomaniacal scientist looking to dominate the world…and rob banks.
In other words, any way the wind blows. He became an unfocused …

The Pawn of Prophecy is the first book in the alliteratively titled Belgariad series written by David Eddings. This series is truly one of the best fantasy series I have ever read. The story is so engrossing that I have read the series at least twenty times …

Being the last book of the Twilight Saga Series by Stephanie Meyer, I expected something more. And by that, I do not mean volume. It is the very longest of the four books and I think a lot of it should have been written differently. She made every single …

This is one of the first Andrew Loomis books I bought and read to the letter, because it’s been recommended to me before while learning to draw portraits. The book may be pretty old, but I don’t recommend this book highly enough to any art student wanting to learn …