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 …

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is of course a great book. It is much longer than the others as it contains a great deal of information and this book is also much darker, not in a scary way though. Harry, having recently seen voldemort come back …

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a great, great book and right up there around my favorite of the series. This is a very long book and is darker than the rest, especially because we see our first death. However, the book is amazing! Again we start …

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite book of the series!! I absolutely love this book! It is a bit longer than the first two and is a bit darker, but this book is soooo good! Once again, we start off at Harry’s aunt and uncle’s …

Being an absolute, obsessed Harry Potter fan, I will say right away that while the second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, is wonderful, it is in fact my least favorite of the series. This is not to say that it is not fantastic, it’s just my …

I absolutely adore Harry Potter and am one of his biggest fans! Those people you see on the news who go to the midnight release party, yep I am one of them. However, it has not always been that way. I only recently got into Harry Potter, after the …

Jonathan Kellerman has to be my all time favourite thriller/suspense writer. I have read every book in his Dr. Alex Delaware series, and am blown away every time with the way Jonathan skillfully weaves narration and incredible thriller stories.
Rage is the 21st book in the Dr. Alex Delaware series, …

Here is yet another good picture book by William Steig: “The Amazing Bone.” This one, however, I introduce to you with a mild warning: there are some scary scenes in it that might frighten younger children. The story is about Pearl, a happy young pig who finds a talking …

William Steig is one of the best authors of children’s books, I would not hesitate to call him a classic. Yet, surprisingly many parents have never heard of him. At best, people know Steig as the guy who wrote Shrek (yes, it was him), and that’s about it. Well, …

“Brave Irene” by William Steig is a simple but touching story about a young girl who braves a bad snowstorm in order to help her mother. Her mother, Mrs. Bobbin, is a seamstress. She has just completed a beautiful dress for a wealthy duchess and must deliver it in …

“Abel’s Island” by William Steig tells the story of a mouse stranded on an island. Abel, a rich mouse, gets caught in a storm and falls in the river. The stream carries him away and brings him to an island where he now must somehow survive. This is a …

Go Ask Alice is a great book, but i suggest this book for older readers.this book is based on her diary every word you read from there was written by her. This book is about a teenager coping with many things such as drugs, enemies, sex and much …

Does the idea of Marvel heroes being displayed in a 17th century Elizabethan setting interest you? If your answer is yes, you will like Marvel 1602. If your answer is no, then this probably isn’t the book for you.
It is rare that I pick up a comic …

I found this book to be quite funny. While it did not contain my favourite Discworld characters, (Commander Vimes and the Watch, Death), it had witches and wizards galore.
I have always found Terry Pratchett’s views on equality between the genders interesting, as this comes up in Equal Rites quite …

I don’t really understand the title of this book, just because the characters, while hard working, never really seem to move that fast. I enjoyed this book. While I have found dialogue in other books by Jennifer Crusie to be more enjoyable (read: funnier), the characters are fun and …

I’m not sure if I really liked this book. The idea was clever, and I found the characters interesting, but the ex-boyfriend was a little bit too much and made the experience of re-reading the book rather uncomfortable. I felt as if the book was more about the main …

The Cabinet of Curiosities is a great book that is very well written by two great, mystery authors: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The story starts off when some construction workers stumble upon a charnal house (or a place where bones of victims were put). An archaeologist is brought …

Sylvester Duncan is a small donkey who likes to find nice-looking pebbles. He collects pebbles that have unusual shape or color. When he finds a bright red, smooth round pebble, Sylvester immediately picks it up. The pebble turns out to be a magic one: it can make any wish …

Shadow Over Kiriath is Book 3 of Karen Hancock’s Legends of the Guardian-King series. The fans of the first two books will not be disappointed. Hancock continues the story with just as many plot lines and plot twists, the same deep thought, and the same excellent quality of writing. …

The Shadow Within is Book 2 of of the Legends of the Guardian-King Christian fantasy series. In continues the story of Abramm Kalladorne, the fifth son of the King of Kiriath. Abramm endured slavery in a far away land, brutal training for gladiator-like games, several years on the arena, …

I was completely blown away by this first installment of the Legends of the Guardian-King series. Fantasy as a genre, and especially Christian fantasy, is often considered to be children’s books, some sort of fairy tales that serious-minded adults don’t need to bother with. The Light of Eidon by …

Queen of Camelot is a great book that combines two books, The Child Queen and The High Queen, into one book. This book tells the story of King Arthur, Lancelot, the round table and all of Camelot, but does so through the eyes of Guinevere. We learn of her …

Tom Clancy’s Executive Orders runs down the well worn path treaded by Clancy in Debt Of Honour. This time, Jack Ryan,
Clancy’s blue - eyed boy, is President, no less, of the US. Again, the author tries to tell a story about a small nation attacking the US, only, this …

Tom Clancy’s Debt Of Honour tells the story of a cabal of Japanese businessmen who put up a nonentity as their Prime
Minister and launch a war and economic attack on the United States. The US initially reels back, but rallies again to utterly defeat the Japanese. In this …

Flight into Danger is a page turning thriller of a book. The story describes a chartered flight full of football fans going to Vancouver to catch a big game. On a stopover at Winnipeg, a truck salesman named George Spencer boards the flight, and is seated next to a …

“New Choices In Natural Healing” was written by Doug Dollemore, Mark Giuliucci, jennifer Haigh, Sid Kirchheimer and Jean Callahan. It was edited by Bill Gottlieb and is one of the Prevention Magazine Health Books published by Rodale Press.
This is an excellent reference book for those who regularly use …

The first thing most readers say about That Hideous Strength, Book 3 of the Space Trilogy by C.S.Lewis, is that it is very different from the first two. I agree, the book is, indeed, very different. First of all, it is not science fiction. Instead of taking us on …

Perelandra, Book 2 of C.S.Lewis’ Space Trilogy, is my favorite of the 3. Dr. Ransom we’ve met in the first book and followed on his trip to Mars has another space-traveling adventure. This time he goes to Venus, also known as Perelandra. Venus turns out to be an ocean …

This is a wonderful, sweet, touching, charming book! Seriously, I can’t praise it enough. What child would not be delighted with a story of a toy bear who wants a home and then finds one? The little bear named Corduroy lives in a toy store. Every day he looks …

Carrie Bebris has taken two favorite, classic characters and written new books about them. She has taken Mr. and Mrs. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice and written new stories about them after their wedding. However these new stories are all mysteries and Mr. and Mrs. Darcy are the ones …

I’ve read a lot of books on money saving techniques, and I’m constantly doing research on ways to trim a little extra from my budget. I stumbled upon the Not Just Beans cookbook on a link from a blog and purchased it on a whim - and I’m …

Here is a fairy tale with some unusual twists. Prince Ronald is kidnapped by a dragon, and his fiancée Princess Elizabeth goes to save him. Since the dragon has burned her castle and everything in it, including clothes, she’s got nothing to wear, but that does not stop her: …

This second book of the Landon Snow fantasy series is even better than the first, although the title still suffers from the same “Harry Potter Ripoff” syndrome, as you can see. Landon goes to visit his grandparents again, and he looks forward to maybe getting into the fantasy world …

My first impression of this book was not very favorable. One look at the title and I thought, “Yet another attempt by some Christian author to beat Harry Potter.” Mind you, I have nothing against such attempts; but PLEASE, don’t be such obvious copycats! At least come up with …

I am surprised at how many people who know and love C.S.Lewis for his “Chronicles of Narnia” have never heard of his other creation, the Space Trilogy. If you are one of those people, let me introduce you to these wonderful books, you won’t be disappointed!
“Out of the Silent …

Dr. Myss is an amazing pioneer and writer in the field of energy medicine, and I find her writing thought-provoking and enjoyable. In the Anatomy of Spirit (the Seven Stages of Power and Healing) she finds and explores parallels between the spiritual traditions of the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life, …

The Dark Elf Trilogy is a fantastic trilogy by one of the masters of fantasy writing, R.A. Salvatore. R.A wrote a book, titled The Crystal Shard, and one of the characters in that book, Drizzt Do’Urden, became so popular that readers wanted to know more about him and where …

This book is by the author of Which Witch, and is a very entertaining children’s book. The ideas behind the book are fanciful and fun, and it is rather amusing to see the way the “Aunts” choose to find children to inherit the responsibility of their island.
This book can …

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 …

This book, one of the few books Jane Austen published, is a classic. A story of two very different sisters, and basically, their journey to getting married.
The characters that are actually interesting in this book are actually the comic characters and the more annoying characters. I find the main …

What a cool read! This is Paul Naschy’s autobiography and an incredible look at the life of The Wolfman of Spain.
The book covers Naschy’s early years, his entry into the film business, his writing the script for Mark of The Wolfman and being unexpectedly cast in the lead and …

If you have ever eaten at Los Barrios in San Antonio, Texas, then you know how good the food is! Now they have a cookbook with many of the restaurant recipes as well as many of their family recipes! The book also has an introduction by Emeril. The recipes …

My wife enjoys Russian classics, and she introduced me to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. I admit I am not very much into classics myself, but this one had gotten me interested. Leo’s writing takes some getting used to; he uses long sentences and puts so much thought into …

Stephanie, a young schoolgirl, decides to wear her hair in a ponytail because nobody else does so. When she comes to school and her classmates see it, they all yell, “Ugly, ugly, ugly!” But Stephanie doesn’t care. She likes her ponytail, and she will not let the opinion of …

This book is about a pair of friends who have been friends since they were very young. One friend seems to greatly overshadow the other friend, which is how the author justifies the overshadowed friend having an affair.
I don’t describe it very well, basically because it’s hard to describe …

Oliver North’s second volume in the War Stories Book series that accompanies his TV show of the same name, dubbed “Heroism in the Pacific,” is a five star masterpiece!
Even if you don’t like North’s politics, you will have to acknowledge that this book is a great comprehensive overview of …

Eric Tyson put this book together for fans of the …for Dummies series and, quite hoesntly, he dumbed down the topic to a degree that makes it pretty much worthless.
The basics are covered here: real estate, IPO’s, Certificates of Deposit, but none of it really amounts to a comprehensive …

James Patterson’s “Big Bad Wolf” is the latest adventure of Alex Cross, formerly a detective with the Washington DC PD, now a new member of the FBI. While still in his orientation phase, he is assigned to a case called “White Girl”, a series of abductions-for-slavery incidents.
The protagonist …

This book was at the top of my summer reading list, as it had been pushed back and pushed back during the school year. As a summer reading book, it performs its function well; however, it is a little more lacking in plot and substance than I would …