This is a book written by Andrew Loomis. I read this book way back when I was learning to draw, and since then I’ve enjoyed reading it. First of all, this book is not really a ‘how-to’ book which teaches you how to draw specific subjects like faces, animals …

I bought this book a few months ago and read it immediately because I heard so many god things about it. First of all, this book is not the usual Photoshop book which deals with the usual themes such as sharpening an image, cropping or opening up Photoshop. This …

Each chapter is divided into tips according to the same subjects. For example, the first chapter is devoted to tips about the user interface of the program, then proceeds with tips devoted to various Photoshop skills like Layers,Image Editing, Retouching and Enhancing Color Tones. The first few lessons are …

I bought this book three months ago because of IBS problems, and this is actually the first IBS book I bought. I know something about this disorder already, so I needed a book that will help me plan a diet for my condition. This book may make others think, …

Essential Experiments for Chemistry by Morrison and Scodellaro is a book that contains many excellent experiments that are critical to the Chemistry 12 course in the British Columbia education system (or a pre-university equivalent). It contains many laboratories from testing the boiling point of water and the formation of …

This is one of several books on the subject of beading that I have received as gifts over the past year. I think the person who gave it to me must have been taken in by the helpful and unusual sounding title and the gorgeous pictures of the jewelry …

(Ruth Rendell, published by Ballantine Books, 1975)
Among Ruth Rendell works, my favorites are the Wexford series. In this book, dear ole Chief Inspector Wexford was in one of his grumbling moods. He had to deal with a slightly willful daughter as well as the more critical concerns of …

Joseph Connolly’s book is fully titled “Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors”, which gives a pretty good idea as to the main focus of this particular reference work. The book, which has gone through several editions of its own since its initial publication in 1977, consists largely of …

An amazing and gripping story about a lone wolf looking for his way in the world and through destiny, meets a young women, Alina. Though they come from two different worlds, they work together to find their way and fight to stop a tyrant who would try and kill …

This is a beautiful story about ostracism and prejudice. The main setting is the small seaside town of Torcurra and brings together three colorful characters: Marnie, a brazen 16 year old girl, Raven the village ‘madman’ and Father Brannan a kind priest.
Newly wed, Marnie moves to Torcurra with …

Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee is undoubtedly a novel intended for advanced readers. Lee describes the various aspects of Chinese life in Chinatown (during the Gold Mountain Rush in the early 20th century), and the times are portrayed very accurately. I would like to say that I recommend …

When I first picked up single white vampire a vampire romance book by Lynsay Sands I was quite sceptical about it’s content, as I have read quite a few of these types of book’s and sometimes they did not float my boat so to speak. My first impressions of the …

After being nagged by my girlfriends that I was spending too much time watching TV and less time reading, I decided to purchase a few books. I went online and ordered one book I was longing to read for a while: “Girls of Riyadh” by Rajaa Alsanea.
“Girls of Riyadh” …

The book “Living Dead in Dallas” by the author Charlaine Harris, is the second book in the series which the HBO original series True Blood is based off. I have just finished this book, and even though I still thought it was interesting and more unusual than the usual …

I first heard of this book series written by Charlaine Harris only after I started watching the first season of the series “True Blood” on HBO. I just finished the first one which is entitled “Dead Until Dark” last week, and thought that it was not half as bad …

In contrast with other fictional novels from Haruki Murakami, I was not quite that happy with The Wild Sheep Chase. The usual Murakami elements were present: the unassuming, usually divorced or about to be divorced, nameless, told-in-the-first-person hero thrown into a sudden adventure, the usually plain sidekick achieving …

I was loaned a novel called “The Shack” by WM. Paul Young and immediately put it under some of the papers on my bookshelf to soon forget it existed. A time later, while fishing for other books to read, I lifted the papers and found the novel I …

Guinness World Records 2010 uses the tagline “The Book of the Decade” on its cover. This is a rather meaningless phrase, really, since it doesn’t really make any sense. After all, does it mean that only records set since 2000 are eligible? No. So why use it? This, unfortunately, is rather …

I got into collecting vintage handbags about two years ago. I don’t even carry purses all that often, but for some reason even just looking at them makes me smile. I consider myself a novice collector and I only collect what I can get a good deal on. I …

This ‘confession’ by OJ Simpson was an interesting read for me as, unwittingly, OJ is showing people the state of his perverted mind. As we all know, this man who was once an American superstar was tried and found not guilty for the murder of his wife, Nicole …

The Case of the Angry Actress (written by E V Cunningham)
When I first saw the title, I thought it similar to the books by Erle Stanley Gardner, whose Perry Mason series started with ‘The Case of the.,…’ This was however a different series indeed, with a Nisei protagonist. …

Death Note is a Japanese Manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata; Manga Volume 1 begins with a bored Japanese high school genius named Light Yagami who is bored out of his mind when he discovers the Death Note, a notebook a Shinigami death god uses …

Painting Fairies in Watercolour by Paul Bryn Davies is a basic book on painting fairies with watercolor paints, including supplies and tips on drawing fairies.
I bought Painting Fairies in Watercolour by Paul Bryn Davies after being given a wonderful easel and paint set. I purchased the book at …

“A Baffled Ambuscade” by Ambrose Bierce is a short story about an ambush gone wrong.
The story begins with two divisions of military–the Federal army and the Confederate army–who are at odds with each other after a huge battle that has previously taken place. During one night, the Major of …

When I was younger, I tended to have a rather undecided opinion about Finnish author Tove Jansson’s popular series of books about the Moomins, strange and slightly otherworldly creatures who lived and had (generally fairly gentle) adventures in a landscape that was also a little bit on the otherworldly …

I utilized the SAT Princeton Physics Subject Test Preparation Guide to get ready for the SAT Physics Subject Test earlier this year, in November. I spent approximately 100 hours reading the text (enough to get through it once and finish a practice exam), and I was quite satisfied with …

I guess you could say the nesting instinct in my family is pretty strong. I’m not a interior decorator, just an enthusiast, but between all the books, magazines and decorating shows I have watched over the years I consider myself pretty well versed in interior decorating speak. I also …

In spite of its title, this book has absolutely nothing to do with the fairly recent film, so do not be misled! Instead it is another entry in Puffin’s original range of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. This was number 47, coming out in 1992, and by this time there was …

People of the Lake is a book on anthropology, published a little while ago by Pelican (the former “academic” imprint of Penguin) and written by the team of Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin, that attempts to build a coherent picture of what life might have been like for the …

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1922. I read this story while using my husband’s Motorola Android phone’s Aldiko e-book reader application. Before seeing this book on Aldiko, I did not realize it was a book since a movie was …

The ISBN # for this book is: 0-87596-243-2. The copyright is: 1995.
About two years ago one of my dogs, a miniature dachshund, began showing signs of a couple potential chronic health issues. I hadn’t received much help or information from our veternarian so I decided to search for information …

“Rules for Writers: Sixth Edition by Diana Hacker” was the book of choice for my English Composition class at Full Sail University. We used it mainly for learning APA style.
Honestly when the school gave us this little book, I did not think much about it. It was …

Death Note Manga Volume 2 begins as Light Yagami murders FBI Agent Raye Pember after the man shows him his ID and says he’s in Japan to investigate the Kira case. Later his fiancé, former FBI Agent Naomi Misora tries to find out who killed him. Meanwhile, …

They Got it Wrong! is one of the fairly small number of books which have an exclamation mark in their titles. I have never been entirely happy with this, since more often than not it means that reading the book will be one of those uncomfortable occasions when you …

The book about Oliver Twist is one of Dickens most well known novels. It’s full title is Oliver Twist or the Parish Boys Progress. It tells about the life of a young boy named Oliver Twist. He grows up in an orphanage/workhouse, but runs off and is taken in …

The Posthomus Papers of the Pickwick Club is Dickens first novel, and is more commonly known as The Pickwick Papers. It tells of the adventures of four members of the Pickwick club as they explore the remote areas of England. As the gentlemen haven’t traveled a lot, this means …

The romantic family story Love The One You’re With written by Emily Giffin is more like television soap rather than a novel. But it is readable for its pleasant and relatable story line. The one line plot of the book is that an ex boyfriend unexpectedly comes into life …

I was shopping around my university’s school fair for cool stuff when I came across this little stall selling books. I was looking for a low-priced book, having many other books I haven’t read yet at home. I found The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant in one of …

I read this book written By Andrew Loomis when I was still learning to draw. This is one of the first drawing books which really taught me the foundations of drawing. In fact, I recommend this book because Andrew Loomis is a wonderful artist who can be your teacher …

This book is basically a book full of advice which aims at teenaged girls and women. The book is written by a woman who worked as a columnist addressing various issues which concern her own readers. This book should be classified along with the “Chicken Soup For The Soul’ …

This is one of the first Andrew Loomis books I bought and read to the letter, because it’s been recommended to me before while learning to draw portraits. The book may be pretty old, but I don’t recommend this book highly enough to any art student wanting to learn …

I bought and read this book a long time ago, and since I like to read about Greek mythology, I like to give this book my high recommendation. Greek mythology is a vast subject, and sometimes it is quite boring to read a lot of these literary pieces because …

‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne is a book about the oldest secret in the world. It is available in many different languages and you can find it almost everywhere as well as online.
The oldest secret in the world according to the book is the Law of attraction (LOA). Basically, …

Laugh ‘n’ Learn Spanish by Lynn Johnston and Brenda Wegman is not just another Spanish learning book. With the help of the famous comic strip For Better or For Worse, Laugh ‘n’ Learn Spanish is exactly as the title says. If you are not familiar with the comic strip …

Anita Shreve’s bestseller All He Ever Wanted caught my attraction mainly due to its catchy simple title. But after I started reading I understood that this book is not as simple as its title. The story is all about depicting complex human emotions especially when it comes to love. …

Vault of the Vampire is the 38th book in the original series (published in the United Kingdom by Puffin) run of Fighting Fantasy solo gamebooks. As far as I am aware, there has been no republication of this title in the later Wizard Books series, although the Puffin edition …

Allen Synge’s extremely well researched book, “Sins of Omission”, is subtitled “The Story of the Test Selectors 1899 - 1990″, from which you will probably infer (and correctly so) that it is about cricket. In particular, it concentrates on those players who for various reasons - some of them …

Mason Dixon Knitting - The Curious Knitter’s guide was a surprising read for me. Obviously I picked it up to look at the patterns, but I actually ended up reading it, as opposed to flipping through it to look for specific things (or just look at the pictures).
I …

I’ll begin by saying Michael Connelly must be one of the most influential mystery and crime novelist I have ever read work by. Echo Park was by far his strongest book, leaving readers dying to read on and on. The theme and struggles in this book are of epic …

I received this book for my birthday last year from a friend who knows I like to make and sell my own jewelry. What she doesn’t know is that I have a philosophy about making stuff to sell, which is time is money, and I do charge for my …