Books Reviews
Computer Networks Book
Computer Networks is a book by Prentice Hall of India Private Limited. Andrew S.Tanenbaum wrote this book and he is from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is a fantastic book to learn about Computer Networks. This book was my textbook when I was doing my Post …
The Eldorado Adventure
I really liked the Vesper Holly books as a teenager, and some of the teenage girls I work with have been enjoying them. In this one, Vesper Holly and her poor, unsuspecting guardian head off on an adventure, as Vesper has discovered she owns a volcano.
The best part about …
Reaper’s Gale by Steven Erikson
Reaper’s Gale by Steven Erikson is the most recent novel in his Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Unlike certain other authors whose epic series have degenerated into a series of meaningless stories, Erikson has kept the pace of both the individual novels and the overall plot moving …
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett is one the earlier Discworld novels. It is set the Kingdom of Djelibeybi, and ancient land dominated by its pyramids. It tells the story of Teppic, the young Pharaoh, who has just completed his schooling in Ankh-Morpork as an Assasin, and has returned …
Caught in a Lie
Caught in a Lie by Sylvia McNicoll is a YA novel, geared to teenage and perhaps preteen girls. I found it interesting, mostly because it described life from the point of view of a girl who thought school was not very important as she wanted to be a model. …
Welcome To Camden Falls
The book, ‘Welcome To Camden Falls’, is by the author Ann M. Martin. Book 1 in the series “Main Street” is off to a good start. The author also created and wrote the wildly popular series “The Babysitters Club.”
This series is about …
Lonely Planet Seoul
Tiny but concise, this book is a great travel companion for anyone who’s on the way to Seoul. This book has it all - shopping, hotels, transportation, restaurants. In true Lonely Planet fashion, the book begins with a section on history and culture, great reading for anyone who is …
Prom Dress
If you want to ever learn the dangers of “borrowing” items without the owner’s knowledge then Prom Dress by Lael Littke is the book you should read.
While not overly scary, this thriller is somewhat entertaining for a book that was obviously written with teenagers in mind. It centers around …
Harry Potter Book 7
Harry Potter has become like a magical as well as cultural phenomenon around the word with book fans. JK Rowling started these series and finished them long time ago, about like 17 years ago. At that time, she was poor and couldn’t even pay for canned foods but she …
Simple Sewing
This isn’t really a book, perse, so much as a collection of patterns and the instructions for making the patterns. The pattern pieces are, of course, included, and all of the items are fairly easy to sew, especially with the step by step instructions, although some of them are …
Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson
Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson is the fifth book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen, and the first set in the Lether Empire. Midnight Tides introduces many new characters, and brings the Tiste Edur, the children of shadow, to the story. The Lether Empire is expansionist, …
The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson
The House of Chains, the 4th novel in Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen, introduced the Malazan 7th Army, an untested force of recruits with a scattering of veterans, which formed to return to the Seven Cities and defeat the uprising of Shaik. That was done in …
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
This is one of Terry Pratchett’s earlier Discworld books, and I think is one of the first that the grey floating auditors have a major role (they also appear in Thief of Time, where they are again part of the inciting incident in the plot) and one of several …
House of Chains by Steven Erikson
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 …
Desperate Households
I enjoy the Stone Soup daily comic, so of course I am interested in the collections. This collection, Desperate Households, shows a time when a single mom starts dating again and loses her job through corporate shuffling. So her 13 year old daughter decides to get a job.
There is …
The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman
The most recent book in his Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee series is “The Shape Shifter” (2006). It is a fine example of the genre Hillerman created.
The story finds Joe Leaphorn, recently retired, given one last chance to solve a crime from his early days as a patrolman for the Navaho …
Mort by Terry Pratchett
This is another Terry Pratchett book featuring Death, who has decided to take an apprentice. The wizards appear in this book as well.
The apprentice himself is Mort, who is a boy from a farm who goes out one day with his father to find someone to be apprenticed to.
I …
Princess Diaries Series
The first book was such a great success that Megan Cabot kept going on and so far, there are at least 6 books in the whole collection, each one advancing more and more. For those of you who don’t read this, it is about a 15 year old girl …
Supreme Pocket Master Computer Dictionary
Supreme Pocket Master Computer Dictionary is a nice book from Kalra Publications Pvt. Ltd. This book contains the explanation of all important keywords in Computer field from A-Z. It has the keywords like ASCII, Buffer, Data, Mainframe, Mail, Operating System, Process, Security, etc. All the keywords …
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking is a classic. Everyone should have this book on their bookshelf. You don’t have to be a science geek to find this book fascinating and thought provoking.
If you have ever wondered why time runs forwards instead of backwards or how the …
Sudden Country by Loren D. Estleman
It’s been awhile since I read a book purely for fun so I approached Loren D. Estleman’s “Sudden Country” with eager anticipation. I was not disappointed.
“Sudden Country” is a short western (182 pages) set in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The main character is David Grayle. …
The Big Red Fez by Seth Godin
Seth Godin subtitle’s his “The Big Red Fez” as “How to Make Any Web Site Better.” Too bad he didn’t read a book about how to make any book better, because his suffers from many faults.
With only 111 pages and a retail price tag of $11 “The Big …
Artemis Fowl
It’s easy to see why Artemis Fowl made it as a New York Times bestseller. This book was based on an interesting idea and had lots of clever explanations for how the world of fairies and the world of humans interact.
Artemis Fowl himself is occasionally a bit too convenient …
Faking It
This book is sort of a continuation of Welcome to Temptation, only focussing more on Davy Dempsey. The main characters of Welcome to Temptation get a brief mention, this book is mostly about new characters and Davy.
This is actually a really fun book. I liked the setting, the idea …
Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson
Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson is the third book in his series the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Here the action returns to the continent of Genabackis, where the Bridgeburners, along with the rest of the Malazan 2nd Army has joined forces with their precious foes - …
Dramacon Comic
This is a comic produced by Tokyo Pop, a pretty popular north American manga producing company. This comic is notable because it is not written by someone of Japanese heritage, as many seem to have the perception that manga writers have to be Japanese. This comic is popular for …
Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
This book is one of Terry Pratchett’s earlier Discworld books. It is one of the books which features Rincewind, an incompetent, cowardly, clever wizard who can’t actually do any magic. Rincewind has a strange life where despite the fact that he always runs away, he ends up in a …
The Alchemist
‘The Alchemist’ is a magical fable about fulfilling your dream. Full of optimism, it’s a story told very well by author Paulo Coelho.
‘The Alchemist’ is the story of Santiago, an Andalusian Shepherd boy who gets repeated dreams of an hidden treasure awaiting him at the Egyptian pyramids. He yearns …
Archie Comics
I’ve been reading Archie comics ever since I was little. I never got to buy them because it was expensive; $5 CAD for a thin comic book? My parents didn’t want to spend that kind of money so I borrowed them off a friend. They’re humorous but sometimes rather …
King of the Corner by Loren D. Estleman
“King of the Corner” by Loren D. Estleman is one of his Detroit books that started out as a trilogy and ended up as a series of seven books. “King of the Corner” was originally supposed to be the third book in the trilogy.
In 1990 Doc Miller, …
Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson
Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson is the second book in his Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It introduces the Seven Cities, a subject land of the Malazan empire poised on the edge of revolt. Into this mess comes two several characters from the first novel - …
Olive’s Ocean
This book is a Newberry Honor book, probably for YA readers. It feels very soft to me though, and while beautifully written and having a great feel for emotions and teenage thoughts (as well as the cruel things children and people do to each other) it does feel very …
The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr
After doing a bit of light summer reading and watching I decided it was time to once again dip into some more serious writing. “The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future” by Vali Nasr certainly qualifies.
In this book Nasr rehearses the history of the …
Bend the Rules Sewing
I bought this book because I have been working on learning to sew. I already can sew a little bit, I just wanted to be able to do other stuff as well, and this book seemed to be a good fit.
Even though the title is Bend the Rules Sewing, …
Don’t Look Down
I picked up this book because I like Jennifer Crusie novels - I’d never read anything by Bob Mayer before. It does read like a typical Jennifer Crusie novel, although there is a lot more information about guns and more violence in this one.
I liked this book, although …
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson is the first book in his truly remarkable series The Malazan Book of the Fallen. His novels are the only ones that I need to buy as soon as they come out. Most other books I wait until they are …
The candidate by Susan Wales and Robin Shope
THE CANDIDATE by Susan Wales and Robin Shope is a fast paced political thriller. Jill Lewis returns to her hometown of Delavan, Wisconsin to run the newspaper. Just days into the job there is a drowning at a popular resort, LAKE LAWN RESORT. When Jill arrives on the scene …
Shut up and Sing
Laura Ingraham’s Shut up and Sing is a decent book covering traditional conservative philosophy that examines conservative
contentions with traditional leftist environments and, for someone who is new to political theory and science, this may be an interesting book to read.
However, if you have a background in political history, the …
Encyclopedia To GI Joe Dolls
They don’t call them dolls anymore as they have been newly dubbed ‘action figures’ but when the toys debuted they were known as dolls and they were the hottest toy on the market in 1964. GI Joe was the man of action and the super solider whom kids would …
Godless by Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter’s book “Godless” Is a fascinating read for anyone interested in politics, religion, and the supposed separation of the two. Coulter attacks the political, social and religous stance of liberals, showing that rather than breaking themselves off from religious affiliation, their humanistic endeavors are, in themselves, …
Navigating Your Health Benefits for Dummies
I’m not ashamed to admit that the only reason I originally ordered the book Navigating Your Health Benefits for Dummies was the fact I was able to find it free online and I like freebies. After all, the health insurance company Aetna provides the book, and I just figured …
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
At close to forty dollars per copy, with a rather funny looking front cover and a horrendously short back blurb, is the final Harry Potter book worth it?
In the end, that’s up to you. The book itself is well-written, although very dark and literally covered in death and fighting. …
Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows
I just finished reading the book, and boy was I disappointed. Yes, all the questions that have been bugging half the world was answered in book 7 and the promised revelations were there. But the book was utterly depressing to read. The story just dragged on and on about …
Stephanie Plum series
I got hooked on reading mystery novels a few years ago. One of my all time favorite mystery writers is Janet Evanovich. She has a series out called the Stephanie Plum novels. Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter who is successful mostly by dumb luck. She has two men …
Whiskey River by Loren D. Estleman
I’ve become quite a fan of Loren D. Estleman in recent months. He is an amazingly prolific writer from Michigan who writes detective novels, western novels, and also has written a series that takes place in Detroit. As near as I can tell, the Detroit Series consists of about …
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
When I first began reading the Harry Potter, I did it to burn a little time. This time, as the release date approached, I found myself reviewing the books in excitement. While I was not one of the fanatics waiting outside a book store at midnight, I …
Legion of Monsters - Dracula/Morbius
Three cheers to Marvel Comics for releasing new horror tales under the old title monicker of Legion of Monsters. Marvel had a tough time resurrected their old monster line time and time again, but this time they have opted to utilize a continuing anthology which features some of …
Doris Writes Horror
An evil child brought into an unsuspecting world has shades of the Omen about it, but this short novel from Doris Lossing brims with realistic fervor- the horror of the book coming from the feeling this could happen to anyone.
Having bore four perfect children Harriet Lovatt is surprised …
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson’s latest book, the Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, is an entertaining account of his early years growing up in fifties America. An era that first saw the popularisation of television, the teenager and the element that tied the whole lot together in a …
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
We have viewed all of the Harry Potter movies to date and my son and I agree that although this movie tried it was more of a bridge beteen the last book and the upcoming books. The acting was well done, and there weren’t as many special effects …
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