The author of this memoir has no doubt gotten considerable attention in the media. She was kidnapped for 18 years and only recently released from her captor. Her captor received a significant sentence— over 100 years in prison.
I enjoyed this book mainly for its conclusion. The …

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 …

I recently spent some time in Massachusetts where I visited the Concord museum, Sleep Hollow Cemetery, and Walden Pond. This experience reawakened my interest in Thoreau and the other Transcendentalists and I’ve been doing reading in this area ever since.
As part of this experience I picked up a copy …

I haven’t been reading many mysteries lately. I’ve caught up on most of the mystery series I’ve started reading over the years and haven’t found a new series to be interested in. Therefore I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I had missed the fifteenth Ella Clah novel, “Never-Ending …

I’ve liked the idea of being a soccer fan ever since I was in high school, nearly fifty years ago. Despite this I have only attended one professional soccer game, have never touched a soccer ball, and had never watched an entire soccer game on television until recently. Since …

This novel is the second book by Gregory McGuire, which takes place directly after “Wicked”. And while that first book gave a new an interesting light to the story of Oz and the Wicked Witch of the West, sparking the inspiration for the play, this second novel, “Son of …

Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine” was a tough book for me to read. This wasn’t because it was badly written. On the contrary, the writing was very clear and straightforward. It was tough to read because of the subject matter.
The book details an influential movement in the United States …

When I was looking for more text books that could help me with a course I was doing one semester called “Principles of Management” I found a book called “ACCA Study and Revision Pack: 2.5B Organisation and Management by Roger Bennett”. I figured that despite the fact that the …

This story is about a lesbian (Johanna), fantasizing about another girl (Reeve). Johanna is a responsible and friendly girl, she’s involved in school activities and gets good grades. She lives in her old house, since both of her parents died, but her older …

I had read reviews of Mary Higgins Clark’s latest book, I’ll Walk Alone. None of them were very good. But I thought this is Mary Higgins Clark, I love all of her books. So I bought it anyway and sat down to read it as soon …

I am a huge fan of James Patterson! Especially the Alex Cross series. Cross Fire did not disappoint me in the least!
It starts off with a bang, as most of Patterson’s books do. All of my favorite characters were back in this book (Nana Mama, the kids, John Sampson,) …

The Witcher saga consists of two short story collections and five novels, each dealing with tales of the witcher Geralt of Rivia and his companions. The Witchers, in Sapkowski’s written world, are genetically enhanced monster slayers who are hired for money to kill the beasts that horrify the peaceful …

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 …

The Witcher saga, as I said in a previous review, consists of two short story collections and five novels, each dealing with tales of the witcher Geralt of Rivia and his companions. The Witchers, in Sapkowski’s written world, are genetically enhanced monster slayers who are hired for money to …

The Witcher saga consists of two short story collections and five novels, each dealing with tales of the witcher Geralt of Rivia and his companions. The Witchers, in Sapkowski’s written world, are genetically enhanced monster slayers who are hired for money to kill the beasts that horrify the peaceful …

This book for older children, Home Wars by Dorothy Reynolds Miller, is one of those books where the contents are much better than the cover. The storyline sounds just like any other book: a preteen whose family isn’t getting along. But the book itself is so well written that …

Chuck Palahniuk books should come with a disclaimer because without a required taste for twisting and sometimes poorly developed plots, one would get lost and end up hating Palahniuk books. I can compare these books to Sardines in the fact that some consider them foul, whereas others can consider …

I have had Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea sitting on my bookshelf for over a year now, and I finally decided to read it. It took me an entire month to finish this book, but I finally did it! It wasn’t really the books fault that it took …

When I signed up for TOEFL, I knew I have to start preparing for it but when I familiarized myself with the format I discovered that most of what you will get on your test day depends on your luck.
For the test you need a good vocabulary and, …

I picked this book because I am a fan of Frank Peretti. This was his first novel. I really liked it, once I got a handle on the plot. Evil demons (well, what demons aren’t evil?) are trying to take over the town of Ashton, and …

I recently finished reading Chelsea Handler’s book — My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands. I must say that I was very disappointed by this book. I expected to like it so much more than I did. I love Chelsea Handler. I think that she is a hilarious …

X-23 #10 Marvel Comics
Writer: Marjorie Liu
Artist: Sana Takeda
The cover is very well done and would be a really neat piece to have framed and put on your wall if you ever got it signed at a convention. You have X-23 in what appears to be a sewer tunnel. …

I started reading this book without any hopes. It was recommended matter-of-factly to me and to be honest, I didn’t expect much.
The Hunger Games Trilogy is about the young Katniss Everdeen who is forced to take part in the gruesome Hunger Games. It is set is the future …

I picked up this children’s novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, the other day because one of the kids I work for was reading it. I hadn’t read it since I was young and really did enjoy rereading it. I would say that it is best …

The 2010 novel, “Linger” by Maggie Stiefvater is the second book in her teen wolf romance trilogy. While I think that this novel is not as whimsical as the first novel of the trilogy, “Shiver”, I found myself swept up into the lives of Sam and Grace and the …

D-Day June 6th 1944: The Climactic Battle of WWII by Stephen Ambrose.
Stephen Ambrose has written a very comprehensive collection of predominantly Allied anecdotes in an attempt to illustrate D-Day in a light which is less than factual. The strong points of this book are its interesting photographs, and its …

After so many recommendations from my colleague at work I finally bought this copy. When she had recommended this book to me she also warned me that I might not like the end of the book and that’s exactly what happened. The book has been left with a cliff …

I picked up this novel for younger youths to check it out and see if some of the teens I work with might like it. R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series is very popular with children, so I thought this book, Hit And Run, also by R.L. Stine, might be good …

I found this book, Paging Aphrodite, in my sister’s car so I picked it up because I was bored. This book is by Kim Green, who is also the author of Is That a Moose in Your Pocket?
I found each of the character’s stories interesting but it was a …

The first time I read a Harlan Coben book I was preparing for a long bus ride from New York City and needed something to read really quickly. I saw a book with a bright orange cover that caught my eye and I figured I’d give it a shot. …

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. …

Nicholas Sparks is known as a writer whose many novels have become heartwarming movies that we can all enjoy. However, his novel “Safe Haven”, did not really pull me in to the plot of the characters as his other novels and movies have. Unfortunately, I cannot say that this …

Lemony Snicket (pen name) writes the Series of Unfortunate Events books, which is a 13 book series. The Miserable Mill is book # 4 in the series.
After their parents were killed, and after escaping the custody of their evil relative Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans were shuttled to …

The Series of Unfortunate Events are a series of children’s books that are a bit dark in nature, and are written by Lemony Snicket (pen name). This book is the third in the series.
The Baudelaire children are orphans because their parents were killed. They were once in …

The Series of Unfortunate Events are a series of books by Lemony Snicket that are children’s books. They are a bit grim, and that grimness is probably what made me a fan of the series as well and caused me to purchase the entire series. this is …

I think it was around late 1999 or early 2000 that I first read the Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events books. The Bad Beginning is the first book in the 13 part series.
In the Bad Beginning, the Baudelaire children become orphans and are shuttled to …

A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 13 book series written for children by an author under the pen name of Lemony Snicket. The Austere Academy is Book $5 in the series.
The Baldelaire children are orphans, their parents having been killed in a fire caused by the evil …

This book is Book # 6 in the Series of Unfortunate Events children’s book series, written by Lemony Snicket.
This book picks up where the last left off, with the Baudelaire orphans on a journey to another guardian’s house. After their parents were murdered by a fire, …

Being a breeder myself, I love this book since it’s a very nice pocket-sized, handy and convenient dog dictionary that any breeder or any dog lover would love to have and has to have! The book is already covered in plastic so it will prevent creases along the spine …

Obernewtyn Chronicles Book1 - “Obernewtyn” - By Isobelle Carmody
Genre - Fantasy/Science Fiction
To quickly sum the book up, the main protagonist (Elspeth Gordie) is a young orphan girl who has ESP (called ‘Misfits’ in the series) who lives in a post apocalyptic dystopian world reminiscent of medieval times (complete with …

Several months ago I took advantage of a free autumn afternoon by enjoying a luxuriously aimless browse through Powell’s City of Books here in Portland (a ten star rating if ever there was one, but that is another review). As I slunk through the racks my attention was …

Obernewtyn Chronicles Book 2 - “The Farseekers” - By Isobelle Carmody
Genre - Fantasy/Science Fiction
The plot of this novel follows from the end of the first book ‘Obernewtyn’. The misfits have seized control of the mountain property of Obernewtyn and the book follows the journey of Elspeth and a group …

I really enjoyed this book. Its the book following Shiver. It continues on with Grace and Sam and introduces a few new characters such as Cole. Cole was an rock star that hated the life and turned to the wolves. Once in Mercy Falls though he soon sees the truth. …

I love reading about dating, relationships, the brain on love, etc., so I happily picked up this book and read it. No joke, it changed my life. Before reading this, I was always in the mindset that it was perfectly okay for me to yearn for a guy, hoping …

I bought the Disney, Cars pillow book at our local Sam’s club, recently and it has been such a hit with my son. He is 20 months old and does great with the book. The tag on the book as with almost any children’s book or …

The last time I saw you by Elizabeth Berg must be the 5th of her novels that I have read, although she has quite a few more. Because I have enjoyed other things she has written, especially The Year of Pleasures, I picked up the last time I saw …

“Ophelia,” a young adult novel by Lisa Klein, is an excellent read for any teen girls out there looking for something romantic and exciting, or anyone who is a fan of Shakespeare. “Ophelia” is the story of Hamlet told from Ophelia’s perspective, which makes for a refreshing new outlook …

Teach Yourself Visually Chess by Jon Edwards is the first chess book I bought myself. I have been playing chess for just over 5 years now and my current ELO rating stands at 1600. This book gave me a real kick start into the world of chess. In the …

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey presents an “inside-out approach” to being effective in attaining goals by using the pronciples of character ethic. The book provides a sequential framework in order for people to understand the process of restoring the character ethic and personality …