Everything we eat comes from corn, in some way or another. That is the main premise I picked up from Michael Pollan’s book ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma’. I read other books by this author and liked them a lot. What I liked about them and about this book is they …

As a Psychology buff, I wanted to have a copy of this book in my reference materials, for when I go for my Masters degree. And it’s a good thing I did. Apparently there have been lots of changes since the 5th edition.
However, getting a useful copy of the …

It’s safe to say, that I do not have an excited premonition of marriage. Most everyone in my family is married. I have a fiancé, going on two years now. I am reluctant to actually get married. But I read ‘Committed’ hoping for something inspiring to change my mind. …

It’s a well known that fact that everyone would be healthier if we switched to a strictly plant based diet. But, its another well known fact that it’s extremely hard to adapt to a life that way. But, despite having that work against me, I’ve started reading different books …

If you like books full of statistics, The Tipping Point is definitely for you. Malcolm Gladwell’s book goes into areas of human behavior patterns, a subject that seriously excites me. This book kept the excitement alive for me because it read like a novel, even though it had a …

The Funny Book of Cricket is a nicely produced little hardback book containing a number of cartoons, quotations and humorous comments relating to the sport of cricket. I thought it was well put together and although not particularly original in its content was well worth the couple of pounds …

I just finished this book recently and felt that it wasn’t quite over yet. I’m a fan of Maeve Binchy’s work, and am very familiar with her style of writing, which I love. This book, did meet all my expectations, except for the fact that I think …

The Iron River which was happened to be my first read of Jefferson Parker was more of a disappointment to me. The problem about this book was that, it was a strainful read. The story is very dark and distracting with violence embedded throughout the plot. The good thing …

When it comes to saving money, I believe I am an expert! I save more than I spend. I believe this is the only way to go for the financial security of my family. But through Francisco Colayco’s book entitled Wealth Within Your Reach, I have learned that saving …

This book was very different from the books I usually read. I felt that the book was a little longer than it needed to be and for me personally, it didn’t have enough action or drama to hold my attention for very long.
I felt that the author did …

Having watched Food Inc., then read “Omnivore’s Dilemma,” I was curious about the Joel Salatin guy that was so funny and interesting in the movie, and clearly ran a really interesting farm and was thoughtful and very outspoken in Pollan’s book as well. I considered buying his book …

When I first saw this book on my aunt’s bookshelf amongst the rest of the novels, I never really paid it much attention since the artist’s depiction on the cover didn’t make it seem very interesting. Nevertheless, I decided to read it and a few of the other books …

I found this book amongst a few of my aunt’s school books some years ago, and it has helped me in many European history projects I have had since. I remember that just going through the book itself was interesting, as the language used was not too difficult to …

Throughout my life, even though I have not done much geography I have at one point or another needed a good reference book, especially when it comes to places in Latin America and the Caribbean, since I’ve had many projects on such territories.
The book “North and South America” …

Okay so I read the book “The Step Child” by Donna Ford, and i have to say I was a bit dissapointed with the layout of the book. It definitely made it hard to read and it took me longer to finish the book. With that being said, I …

First of all, Dan Brown is one awesome author in my opinion. I loved his previous work with the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. So I was understandable excited when this book came out. I pre-ordered it and almost attacked the mail man when he delivered …

This was the first book I read in Max Allan Collin’s series. There are three books that follow the television show Criminal Minds. The book was a lot of fun to read. As a big fan of the show, it was interesting to see a case through their eyes, …

Everyone wants to know why some people are successful and others are not. What universal energy accumulates around these successful people? That’s the basis of this book. He goes into the specific details of certain people like Bill Gates and the Beatles. And what I found interesting was that …

This book is an inspirational story by Ben Sherwood. Everyone is a survivor, if they believe in themselves. As humans, we all wonder what it takes to survive a crisis. This book goes through stories of survivors and what they did. Also! We get a test so we can …

At times, Gretchen Rubin comes across as whiney. She has had so many amazing opportunities and is very privileged and yet here she is complaining about not being happy. Some of her epiphanies are over used and common in all self help books. However, as much as it pained …

I am a HUGE fan of self-help books. I have quite a vast array of the on my bookshelves. This was a quick and easy read. It was helpful finding out what my strengths were. Unfortunately if you take the actual test, you only get your top 5. There …

Following in the darker theme of the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third in JK Rowling’s Hogwarts series. This was my personal favorite because I loved the character of Professor Remus Lupin. Lupin ends up being a friend to Harry and actually …

This is the second book in the Harry Potter series. I enjoyed it because it played to a more mature crowd than the first one. There is a darker more eerie theme to this one, totally different then the almost carefree nature of the first book. Because of its …

Pursuit of Honor is only a fair attempt from Vince Flynn which is in lines of several terrorist chasing stories that I have read. But what Vince Flynn has successfully done is making a run of the mill kind of story into a thriller which kept me hooked to …

In this fourth book in the series about the medieval sleuth Hugh Corbett, the year is 1299 and King Edward I is feuding with the Church. When Walter de Montfort, the Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, is poisoned and dies during High Mass, Corbett must find the murderer. As the …

In the 16. book in the series about the medieval investigator Hugh Corbett, the year is 1304 and Corbett is now the Kings emissary. One of England’s many manor lords is refusing to fulfill his promise to return a ornate cross he stole during the Crusades. He stole it from …

The Spectator Cartoon Book is just what it says - a collection of cartoons which have graced the pages of the well known British current affairs magazine over the few years before the book’s publication in 2002. Although I do not generally read the Spectator very much, I do …

Mini Office Professional is an office suite for the classic Amstrad PCW range of word processor computers. It was a real eye opener to me when I first used it back in the late 1980s, and even today - although its features have long since been far surpassed by …

Paddington’s Cartoon Book, although dating back to the far-off days of 1979, can still easily raise a smile or two if you are in the right mood, and it certainly does so for me! I can’t actually remember where I got my copy, but it is actually quite possible …

Boring Postcards sounds like a very dull title for a very dull book. It even looks uninteresting, with a plain grey cover. But in fact, this landscape format hardback book is much more worthwhile than that, and if you are in the right frame of mind for it, it …

Mobiles - They Drive Us Crazy is billed as being “a Helen Exley Gigglebook”, whatever that might be, but is in fact an attractively packaged, small, square hardback book of comic drawings by the British cartoonist Bill Stott. My copy cost me £4.50, which I think is perhaps a …

Iron Fist is a novel from the Star Wars Expanded Universe. It’s the sixth novel in the Star Wars X-wing series, and follows the Wraith Squadron established in the fifth book in the same series.
What I like about this book is the multiple plots that are linked with each other. …

This is the fifth book in the Star Wars X-wing series, located in a universe far, far away about 7 years after the end of Return of the Jedi.
Wedge Antilles returns from the Bacta wars (described in the fourth book of the series) as a hero, and immediately starts …

In this third book in the series about Anne Shirley, Anne goes of to college at Redmond College in Nova Scotia. She goes together with her friends from Avonlea, Gilbert Blythe and Charlie Sloane, as well as her friends Priscilla and Stella from Queen’s College. She also befriends a …

This is the second book in the series about Anne Shirley, the first is Anne of Green Gables and covers Anne’s life from she’s 11 until she’s 16. This book covers to the next two years, in which Anne works as a school teacher in the Avonlea landscape. You’ll meet …

Ctrl-Z is a kind of clever, almost funny book by Andrew Norriss. It seems aimed at children, maybe middle school aged kids?
At any rate, I felt that the idea was creative while still almost believable and it would definitely be fun to have a computer that would let you …

This is the second book about the medieval sleuth Hugh Corbett, who works for the Chancellor of England. He is sent to Scotland in the spring of 1286 because the Chancellor wants him to find out what he can about the death of the Scottish King Alexander III. Corbett is …

My boyfriend got me a copy of this book for my birthday.
I just finished it and I have to tell you it was pretty good. I haven’t seen the movie yet. I have no idea how all that is going to translate into a film.
Back to the …

This book has been out for a while, but i’ve only got round to reading it, and it was alright, but I don’t feel the need to read it again.
The story is mainly about a 26 year old woman called Sophie. Se works hard at her job as a …

I’ve bought this pocket oxford dictionary before I started online and I thought somehow this would served to be very handy for me as I go along in my journey being a freelance writer. But actually I’ve not been using it quite frequently since I am relying sometimes …

“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte is not a book I would have chosen to read; I mean, I had not even heard of it before, I was introduced to it when I had to read it for my university class.
I should start by saying that I’m a …

I’m an avid collector of interior design books and I have quite a collection at home. When I was browing the home decorating section of Borders last month, this one popped out at me immediately because it was so different looking. Glancing at the cover, this book struck me …

Okay, first of all this book really made me mad at first. While I thought the concept of Edward trying to protect his virtue and Bella being the sex crazed lunatic was comical, I still threw the book against the wall when the other stuff, namely pregnancy occurred. …

This book totally made up for the disappointment I felt with New Moon. The Cullen family is back and much to my delight I got to read about other members of the family’s background. In the first book we hear about Carlisle and Alice and briefly about Esme and …

I read the first book of this series and loved it. This book however, I did not enjoy very much. Because it is written in the first person, I felt overloaded with Bella and her ‘hole’ in her chest. I had to stop reading it and walk away for …

It took me awhile to finally read this book. A coworker of mine, a fellow Harry Potter fan kept telling me I should read it. It wasn’t until she physically handed it to me to read did I really consider it, and even then it took me a month …

This is one of those books I just love to read period. By Reason of Insanity is a criminal thriller novel written by Randy Singer. The premise kept it interesting for me and I was excited with all the twists in the plot. I like to read crime novels, …

Test Cricket Lists, by Graham Dawson and Charlie Wat, was published under the auspices of the Daily Telegraph newspaper quite a few years ago now, and of course not only is some of it now out of date but the simpler lists included are now much more easily perused …

This is the fourth book in the X-Wing series from a universe far, far away, known from the Star Wars films. After the New Republic has taken over Coruscant, they are faced with a terrible virus killing off certain non-human species. To battle it, they need huge amounts on …

This is the third book in the X-wing series from the Star Wars expanded universe. It is about 5-6 years since the ending of the Return of the Jedi, the Rebel Alliance is turning into the New Republic and they have taken over the Imperial capital, the city-planet Coruscant. There …