Meg Cabot is an amazing author, and most of her books were and are bestsellers, but not this one. That doesn’t mean it’s not good. Nicola and the Viscount follows a young girl named Nicola who lives in London in the early 1800s. She’s an orphan, and it’s her …

I took a Spanish Class this year at college and I hated it. I have had other Spanish classes before but I feel like I learned nothing at all in this class. I think it was a waste of my time because the teacher was using the worst Spanish …

I have been waiting almost fifteen years for L.J. Smith to release another book in the Vampire Diaries young adult series. I thought it had ended for good after book four, until I saw the Nightfall book, which is a direct continuation of the other four books, on the …

City of Souls is book four in the Signs of the Zodiac series by author Vicki Pettersson. In this book, the main character Joanna Archer, who is the Archer (Sagittarius) in her Zodiac of Light troop, which is basically comprised of several super hero types of people who all …

Cheat the Grave is the stellar fifth book in the Signs of the Zodiac series by Vicki Pettersson. This series revolves around the life of Joanna Archer who comes into her superhero powers on her twenty-fifth birthday, and she never even knew she came from a matriarchal line of …

This is book six in the Vampire Diaries series, which we all thought had ended at book four some fifteen years ago. The writing style changed dramatically from book four to book five and the subject matter was a little more adult to fit better into the market today. …

This is a book by Thomas Goodwin, written in the 1800’s, which I got for free for my nook. I’m a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, which is a pre-renaissance re-enactment group that encourages its members to learn about the skills and trades of the medieval ages. …

I have downloaded a few free e-books from the Barnes and Noble website, and this has to be in the top five books that I’ve read for free ever. It’s by John Harold McCoy and starts off really slowly talking about small town life and a woman who lost …

Nora Roberts is one of my favorite romance authors. I’ve read almost every book she’s ever written, and that’s saying a lot because she has a very large and formidable collection of writings. I downloaded Spellbound for my nook thinking it was book one in a series she did …

I’m a huge fan of young adult novels, despite the fact that I’m in my thirties, and when I ran across this one on sale for the nook, I went ahead and picked it up. And right off the bat I knew this was not your typical vampire story, …

Normally I really like Christine Feehan books. It’s easy reading, usually along the lines of light smut, like a Harlequin romance, but a little more involved, and usually centered around a paranormal or fantasy theme, which is one of my favorite themes to read. In this particular book, you …

Winter’s Passage is a book from the Iron Fey series by the author Julie Kagawa. I downloaded this book for free for my nook from Barnes and Noble website, and was a little disappointed to discover that it’s really just a short story. It doesn’t even qualify as a …

I just downloaded this free script of the first episode of The Glades, written by Clifton Campbell, through Barnes and Noble for my nook e-reader. I wasn’t sure what to expect, and had no idea what the show was about or what the storyline entailed, but I have to …

This book by Heather Wardell is a heartwarming look into the life of one woman and one man who find themselves on the verge of divorce. Candice, the main character, finds herself at a difficult point in her life and marriage, which she always though idyllic, when her in-laws …

I was pleasantly surprised when I downloaded this free book from Barnes and Noble website. It’s called Regina in the Sun, Children of the Goddess series, book one, by R.G. Alexander, and it starts out with action from page one.
Regina is a vampire who has been wounded by …

In the House of Night series, by P.C. Cast, your introduced to the students of the school House of Night, where fledglings are trained to become full vampires, after being marked with a tattoo that signifies the Goddess Nyx has taken them into her fold. This series definitely puts …

Scent of Shadows is the first book in the Signs of the Zodiac series by Vicki Pettersson. Usually, superhero books are not my cup of tea, but there was something mystical about the story line that I found immediately captivating. The book starts out with Joanna Archer on a …

Fruits Basket Manga Volume 8 begins with Hatsuharu being angrier than usual and destroying a classroom. Tohru and the others try to figure out what’s wrong and they discover that a member of the Sohma family dumped him. Meanwhile Tohru meets Ritsu Sohma.
This was a very interesting …

Fruits Basket Manga Volume 7 begins with Tohru spending time with Kisa Sohma, who has become attached to her. Hiro Sohma becomes jealous because Kisa doesn’t spend time with him and confronts Tohru about it.
It’s an interesting volume because it follows the pattern of Tohru meeting another member …

Batman: A Death in The Family by Jim Starlin is a graphic novel that has one of the most memorable Batman stories in it, the death of the second Robin Jason Todd.
This is a great graphic novel, it was well written, had good characters, and a tragic ending …

I tend to read books a lot and very obsessed with them as well. I like to read on a daily basis and have a lot of interest in them. My favorite type of books is romance books especially from Kimani Romance. Their books are all about different types …

Writing The Easy Way
Phyllis Dutwin and Harriet Diamond
Educational
ISBN: 0-7641-1206-6
If you’re someone who is highly uncomfortable with their writing skills, then I would highly recommend purchasing Writing The Easy Way by Phyllis Dutwin and Harriet Diamond. Writing The Easy Way is part of the Barron’s Educational Series which is very …

If you are someone who has recently started a business or have profoundly considered going into business for yourself, then I would highly suggest you order a copy of Small Business Accounting Simplified by Daniel Sitarz. Small Business Accounting Simplified is a book for those who are do not …

I love to read and I go through at least 4 books a week. My taste in books depends on my mood, lately I‘ve been reading mostly mystery/ romance novels. There’s nothing like a good who-done-it book to make me think and try to put together the puzzle …

Leslie Marmon Silko’s Native American 1977 classic entitled “Ceremony” is truly a masterpiece. Her novel, which follows a World War II vet as he returns to the reservations and struggles with what we would now term Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), brilliantly weaves together description, emotion, and narrative.
One of …

Reading mystery novels is a good way to relax and make me use my mind, I love reading almost anything but mystery is one of the best but the first on my list is comedy because laughing and chuckling is great in relieving stress, I stumbled upon a manga …

Fruits Basket Manga Volume 6 begins with Kagura discussing with Yuki whether or not Tohru knows his secret about his true form while Kyo’s martial arts master returns.
This was a great manga to read because it shows the darker side of the story and just what it means to …

Fruits Basket Manga Volume 5 takes place during Golden Week and Shigure takes Tohru. Kyo and Yuki to the Sohma summer house in the mountains.
This manga was very deep and meaningful because it explored Tohru Honda’s character more. It showed that she’s not perfect and that she has …

Having recently read Suzanne Collins’s two young adult novels, I felt like refreshing one of the oldies of the genre, which I felt might have been a major influence on “The Hunger Games” – namely, Orson Scott Card’s well-known “Ender’s Game”. The novel (and the eponymous short story from …

I am, obviously or you would not be reading this right now, a writer. And as a writer, I am quite fond of reading. I am very picky with my books. I don’t like to read things that are unoriginal. What I …

Sometimes I love to read some dark and bloody manga by the way manga is a Japanese comics. I’m thankful to found Claymore, a dark filled manga which is situated in the medieval times where the demons are eating the people and then taking the appearance and personality of …

Wolverine: Origins Graphic Novel by Paul Jenkins which tells the origin story of Wolverine and it shows how he became Wolverine.
I enjoyed this graphic novel a lot, although the artwork is kind of strange but it’s a good story that I enjoyed it a lot since I like …

I read Daniel X: Alien Hunter Graphic Novel by James Patterson one day while volunteering at my local library. It’s about a boy named Daniel who is an alien, but his superpower is his ability to imagine anything and it will happen.
James Patterson’s first superhero story is …

This book, Masterpieces in Miniature by Agatha Christie, is a collection of short stories. Many of them are mysteries featuring her main detectives - Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, Harley Quin, and Miss Marple. Some of them are not really mysteries so much as interesting things the characters do - …

I only picked up this book, The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, because, well, I didn’t have anything else to read. And I like to read so I needed something to read.
The style of this book, being that I haven’t read anything by Virginia Woolf in a very long …

I want to preface my review of this book by saying that I am not, even slightly, a fan of the Twilight series. I read the books and saw the first two movies to see what the fuss was about, and I came out of the experience feeling …

“The Lost City of Z” by David Grann is a story about the search for signs of a legendary civilization believed to have been in existence between A.D.800 to A.D.1600. Described as El Dorado, by Spanish conquistadors, the description of this large city tucked away in the wilderness …

Rich Man, Poor Man chronicles the lives of three siblings from the 1940s to the 1960s. The story is so riveting that the book’s 665 pages flew through my fingers. The book does take time to get you invested in the characters, but once you do it’s hard to …

Catching Fire is the second book in the series The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. And boy is it amazing! Catching Fire starts off where The Hunger Games left off, Katniss is back to normal life after she partook in the Hunger Games, at least as normal as someone …

Suzanne Collins’s “Catching Fire” is the continuation of her earlier novel “The Hunger Games”. The book takes place soon after the ending of the previous volume and revisits familiar characters and places. Although it’s a young adult novel, the themes are, again, quite serious, perhaps growing even more so …

I am an avid reader and I go through at least 4 books a week. I received this book from my mother-in-law which I thought might be fun to read called Plum Spooky, by Janet Evanovich. I started reading it that day during my painting breaks and finished reading …

Sarah Waters’s second so-called neo-Victorian novel takes place in two - or perhaps even three - spaces of confinement: namely, London’s Milbank prison for women; one of the protagonist’s Victorian household, where a despotic mother treats her with mind-altering drugs to manage her depression, which had resulted in a …

Jeanette Winterson has come to be one of my favourite writers with a great deal of resistance on my part; some of her novels I’ve loved, others I found masturbatory and self-involved. I cannot agree with her ideologically, since her claims of beauty and art’s primacy in life appear …

When did life begin? What exactly constitutes life? What is reality? These age-old questions have been pondered and explored probably forever. Many explorations have resulted in useful insights. Galileo, Newton, Einstein and many other have provided us with priceless knowledge of the world we …

Cormac McCarthy paints a perfect picture of a vividly grey world in his book “The Road” its so simply written and yet so powerful you won’t want to put it down. The descriptiveness is simply magnificent as it captures you and brings you there and makes you not want …

Anne Bishop is an extremely talented fantasy author who paints an amazingly detailed world when it comes to her writing, her storytelling skills are incredibly indepth with out of this world characters, places, and plots. You’ll instantly fall in love with each of the main characters in this book …

I am a pretty advaint reader of Fantasy/Fiction and have read hundreds of books. And i have to say R.A Salvator is as of now my favorite writer of all time. His Dark Elf Trilogy (which is only just the begining of a epic 28 book series i believe) …

Bleach Manga Volume 4 begins with Ichigo being dragged to the filming of spirit medium Don Kanonji who accidentally creates a Hollow while filming his TV episode. Ichigo springs into action to stop it and later discovers Uryu Ishida who is a Quncy, a being who can battle …

High School Debut Manga Volume 1 tells the story of tomboy Haruna Nagashima, who played baseball and reads manga in her spare time. Now that she’s entering high school she is ditching her tomboyish ways to find the man of her dreams and have a boyfriend. …

Bleach Manga volume 5 has Quincy Uryu Ishida challenging Ichigo to a contest to see who can protect Karakura Town from hollows, Quincies or Soul Reapers. Meanwhile Ichigo’s friends Orihime and Chad awaken supernatural powers as they face off with hollows.
This was a very good manga volume as …