Book Description: Non-fiction biography about actor Vincent Price and his career in horror movies.
What I liked about the book: As a huge horror movie fan (especially when it comes to black and white films), I always find time for movies that have Vincent Price in them. This book gives …

Money Ace X is a Korean comic gaining quite a popularity among the ladies due to its interesting plot. I, too am one of those ladies who just can’t get enough of Korean comics especially when the genre of it are romance and comedy. Money Ace X or MAX …

I borrowed this book from a friend who received it as a gift, because I could never quite tell from the description on the back if it was worth buying or not. It always looked interesting, but like it might not live up to itself. Having read …

This is definitely one of my favorite books. It falls right in my alley in the fantasy genre, and is a delicious but not overbearing length at 352 pages. And, unlike many of the fantasies out there, this one has depth. The characters are extremely real …

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.” …

I read an advance copy of SES Made Easy (Finally) and am pretty much ready to start my tutoring business - I was a little skeptical at first because a lot of books start with these great titles and snazzy chapters but have little actual “how to”.
I …

Curious George “Pinata Party” by Marcy Goldberg Sacks is a children’s book based on the animated series “Curious George” on PBS. It’s a level one reading book which a great for beginning readers, and the book is based on a particular “Curious George” episode.
Curious George “Pinata Party” by …

The Nick Jr. The Backyardigans “Rescue Patrol” by Catherine Lukas is a beginner reading book which is part of the read-to-read book series. This particular book is based on the children’s show “The Backyardigans”, and the characters will be familiar to both children and parents if they are familiar …

OK what did I miss. I have read all the glowing reviews of The Mermaid Chair and I guess I was reading a different book. You have a woman who engages in a romance with a priest and visa versa and they couldn’t get enough conflict just …

I was prepared to hate this book by Amy Chua which is an account of her parenting life with her two daughters. A mother who demands her child practice her musical instrument 6 hours a day. Every day. A mother who demands her children get straight As in school. …

Wolf Tower is the first book in a short series geared toward young teens or young adults who enjoy the fantasy genre. The series, or saga, consists of four books that catalog the wacky adventures of Claidi, a slave of a sheltered little paradise in the middle of …

Firstly, it must be understood that this book is in fact a collection of articles, organized (but not written entirely by) French Assyriologist Jean Bottero; pertaining to everyday life in the Ancient Near East. The articles, translated by Antonia Nevill, are from the pens of a number of other …

I read this book over and over and over. It gives me so much pleasure to read the favorite poems of Jacqueline Kennedy many of which are also my favorites. The First Lady loved Shakespeare, Robert Frost, EE Cummings, …

Several months ago I was at my local library when I saw a book called Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I had only heard of this book once and that was in by book group. We had discussed reading it and decided that it was not a book …

“Heavier Than Heaven” by Charles Cross is an essential book to add to any Nirvana fan collection. This is an extremely well written biography of the life, career, and final demise of Nirvana front man, Kurt Cobain.
The thing that struck me the most about this book was the …

I wasn’t able to finish reading this book. I gave up in the middle of Cosette after realizing that I wasn’t even halfway through. I even skipped the part where the author just droned on and on about the Battle of Waterloo. I can only fervently hope that there …

I bought this book because I was in need of an up-to-date animal encyclopedia. I was tired of having to go to the library to read up little blurbs of whatever creature. Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World’s Wildlife was informative. It covers all the animals out …

This inspirational book is a kaleidoscope of a priest’s insights on a Christian’s journey to eternal life as he encounters the various rites of passage to reach the goal. This book is really a well of profound thoughts for me. …

Are You My Mother by P.D. Eastman is a beginner reading book which is part of the Dr. Seuss Beginner Books. The cover has that same green metallic color with the baby bird on top of the lazy dog. It’s exactly the same as I remembered when I was …

My Favorite sounds From A-Z by Peggy Snow is a children’s book which is about the various sounds of life, and the best part about this book is that it is in the form of a rhyming instead of regular storytelling.
The best thing about this book is that …

Barbie Mariposa is a children’s book which part of the Step Into Reading series–the book is step two reading. Barbie Mariposa is a paperback book and have a total of thirty-two pages, and it follows the same theme as the Barbie Fairy movie.
The book is about a bug named …

Nora Robert’s book entitled “Red Lily” was a captivating book that I found myself not being able to put down and even thinking about as I went about my daily routines. I couldn’t help but be immersed with the characters, their pasts, their presents and what their futures would …

I bought this book because – well, let’s face it, because everyone was raving about it, and I like to read, and I like to read fantasy and YA fantasy. I appreciate a good love story, so it seemed right up my alley. It also seemed attractive …

Emergency by Neil Strauss is not quite like his other books in topic, not that his books topics are very similar to each other, but because this is more about an adventure and a journey that he, Strauss, had.
The idea behind the book is that in the event …

I really liked this book! The thing I liked the most about it was the conversations that the main character, Christina, was having with the ghost that decided to haunt her thanks to her playing with an Ouija board. At first she was really scared, freaking out about it, …

This was another excellent paranormal story by Heather Graham. This one involved a ghost that looks almost exactly like a man the main character knows. I also thought this story was a bit more complex than the others, as there is a lot going on in this book: ghosts, …

This is a powerful science fiction story set in the far future that looks at our society (as any good science fiction should do). Truthfully, this is without doubt one of the best and most intriguing books I have read in a long time (and I’m extremely grateful I …

This was a fun to read paranormal romance set inside a haunted castle in Scotland. While the story was not scary, it was very entertaining and intriguing. I read the entire story in less than a day as I was really hooked on this excellent ghost story. There is …

This was the third book I read by this author and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Once again there are the zany situations, often embarrassing to the main character. Jaine Austen is a freelance writer in Los Angeles but she loves solving murder cases on the side (free of charge …

This was a fun and quick read. I read the entire book in just a few hours. The story was very absorbing and I kept turning the pages to see what would happen next. In the last few weeks I have been reading a lot of novels by Heather …

This was the first novel that I read by Heather Graham and it has made me a fan of her books. It is expertly plotted with enough of suspicious characters to make you question just which one is the criminal. The main plot is simple enough: a young woman …

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 …

This is another suspenseful tale by my new favorite author. I found this one just as interesting as the others and read it in one sitting. I tell you, I am hooked on her books! This particular tale revolves around a historic house in New York and an urban …

When I first found this book on the library shelf, I had thought the plot sounded interesting: A man named Xeno searching for a long lost ancient book of mythical animals. Generally these quest stories are exciting and filled with many surprises. This one, however, is not an adventure …

“Aha! The Most Interest Book You’ll Ever Read About Intelligence” by Trudee Romanek is a children’s book about how the brain work and what exactly is intelligence and where does it come from. I would categorize this book in the age range of six and above because there is …

The third installment in the Night Series is about two witch cousins who are as different as night and day, one evil and one good. There is a lot here to sink your teeth into and I really enjoyed reading this one, as it was intriguing. Basically it …

This is the third book in the trilogy and I must say the most surprising of the three. There were things in here that really shocked me. And I also feel that now the story has come full circle, with the Smoke movement growing stronger as the people move …

This is the sequel to “Secrets in the Attic” and I actually found this book to be more interesting. It deals with another type of abuse, which is known as prejudice. Or you may call it bullying if you want. I think both terms are appropriate in this case. …

This was a very good and interesting novel about two teenage girls who are best friends. The story unfolded in a logical manner and at a good pace. It caught my attention from the first page and wouldn’t let go until the very end, just as any good book …

This was a fun vampire story that asks a simple question: how far would you go to avoid dying of cancer and would you give up your old life (including your family) to become a vampire? Poppy has just that problem and luckily for her, her best friend (a …

This is another Jaine Austen mystery that I read, as lately I’ve been hooked on these incredibly funny books. I never knew mysteries could be funny like this and I’m glad I found this incredible author. The stories are very zany and yet believable. This one involves Jaine going …

This was the first mystery novel I read by author Laura Levine and I fell in love with her books right away. The story was just so humorous and entertaining that reading one of them just wasn’t enough. So far of the three that I read, this one is …

Out of the nine books I read by Heather Graham recently, I think this is one of the scariest. And it’s not just the endless cornfields pictured on the cover or the fact that a serial killer is leaving bodies on the posts meant to hold scarecrows, either. It’s …

After not reading for awhile, this is the first book I picked up to start back up again. I typically read fantasy and YA fantasy, but I like the occasional historical fiction or fiction if it looks really good. This volume looked like it had a unique …

Another manga I have loved reading and still constantly waiting for an update is the Kaichou wa Maid-Sama manga by Fujiwara Hiro and it’s really a great piece of shoujo manga because it has all the romance, the maid costume, the comedy, the conflict and everything just fits so …

Although I loved all of the other books I have read by Heather Graham, I didn’t care for this one as much as the others. It just seemed to me there was too much arguing between the characters in this book and that spoiled it for me somewhat. One …

This is the second story in the Night World series and so far it is my favorite. It’s unpredictable, has true danger in it and there is a killer running around on the loose. What could be better than that? Of course, it’s about three vampire sisters and their …

This is the second Savannah Reid mystery that I read recently and I admit it rubbed me the wrong way. The plot involves a murder at a spa that makes people skinny through surgery. You know, liposuction, etc. The spa also does make-over’s for fat people, to make them …

This was an excellent mystery. The main character is named Savannah Reid and although a black cat is portrayed prominently on the front cover, cats do not play a large part in the story at all. Savannah does own two black cats, but they are hardly mentioned at all …

Wow – this was a really good book! One could say it was a superb murder mystery with a supernatural twist. The truly bizarre deaths – how people were cooked from the inside out but with the outer skin mostly untouched – really had me hooked from the first …