I have read all the books written by Chetan Bhagat and his latest offering named 2 States The Story of My Marriage is yet another interesting and witty tale which remains close to my heart now. The story narrates an Indian love story. The specialty I felt is that …

I bought this book because I read a recommendation on someone else’s blog. Okay, actually, they knitted a cute hat and I wanted to knit it too. Knit One, Embellish Too by Cosette Cornelius-Bates is mainly basic patterns that I think I could probably find elsewhere. The key is …

I heard about Mother Teresa’s deep and strong devotion to Jesus Christ and her great love to the poor. As her congregation Missionary of Charity is widely known all throughout the world. She’s called to be the “Living Saint.” So when a friend of mine told me about a …

Dan Brown is one of my favorite authors. I just recently finished reading Angels and Demons. I should have read this before I read The Di Vinci Code, also written by Dan Brown. In Angels and Devils is where Rabert Langdon was first introduced. He is a Harvard Sybololigist, …

The Silmarillion is in some way a prequel to the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, but unlike those, it is not one story with a start and an ending. The Sil, as it is known as among those who have read it a few times, is Tolkien’s attempt …

The Sword in the Stone is the first book in T.H. Whites 5 book series “The Once and Future King” about King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table. In the first book, Arthur is still a boy living with his adopted uncle and cousin; he’s called Wart and …

The Dark is Rising is the second book in the series with the same name. In this book, the struggle between the good and the bad continues with the introduction of one the main characters, the 11 year old Will Stanton. What I particularly like with Will is that …

Over Sea, Under Stone is the first part of Susan Coopers “The Dark is rising series”. It is a children’s novel based on Arthurian legends and Celtic and Norse myths, and is written mainly for older children. It also works perfectly for adults, I read three of the books …

The Contour Road Book of Scotland is an interesting and engrossing look back at motoring as it used to be - the book was published well over half a century ago now. It is an extremely attractive very small hardback which fits nicely into your hand, and shows signs …

After reading American Psycho, I came across Glamorama by accident and picked it up, not knowing what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised. The story was intriguing, although I would say slightly disjointed.
We begin with an introduction to Victor, the hero (or anti-hero) of the …

I can unreservedly say that this is one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read. John Fowles novel is a dark and mystical inquiry into the human psyche, told through a page turning series of events on a small Greek island. The novel opens with the main …

I wasn’t expecting much from this book - it seemed a bit gimmicky - a child with a special ability is sent away to a special school. Sound familiar?
But Victoria Forrester managed to make the story dynamic and interesting, with a sweet, somewhat naive main character, Piper McCloud …

Lord of the Rings is one of the best known fantasy books, written straight after the second world war by JRRTolkien. It has been the inspiration of many other fantasy books and quite a few films, amongst them several animated films and the hugely popular ones made by Peter …

This is the second book in the Millennium trilogy by the Swedish author Stieg Larsson. It continues a year after the first book, and starts with re-introducing all the characters from the first book. It’s nice to get an update on what they have done before the action starts. …

The Usborne Book of Weather Facts is a colourful paperback book for children of around middle school age, written by Anita Ganeri and illustrated by Tony Gibson. My copy was published a little time ago, in 1987 to be exact, but it hasn’t dated too badly and is still …

I first got interested about reading John Knowles’ A Separate Peace while browsing through the classics section of the bookstore. The blurbs at the back of the cover said that it was a story of two best friends who couldn’t have been more different from each other. Gene is …

Atonement by Ian McEwan is one of my all-time, favorite books. It was actually given to me by a cousin, and I didn’t pay it mind at first, especially since the cover seemed to convey that Atonement was a tragic tale. And it was. It was tragic, breath-taking, and …

Just finished the Audio Book version of Scott Sigler’s Contagious. This is an awesome book, in my opinion better than the first. Where the first concentrated on the immediate effects of the triangles to one person, this second book gives more of a strategic view of the situation. I …

The time for a rhyme is a collection of some of the traditional nursery rhymes of all time which includes the famous nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet, Humpty Dumpty and Hey diddle and many more. This book is authored by J. Tanner. I actually got …

“Animal Navigation” is a classic 1967 work on this specific aspect of animal behaviour by R. M. Lockley, who would go on to become best known for his work “The Private Life of the Rabbit” which gave Richard Adams information about that animal for use in “Watership Down”. This …

“Cricket - The Great All-Rounders” is a classic book published by Pelham Books in 1969, to accompany similar volumes on batsmen and bowlers. I found it for two pounds in a second hand bookshop and have been pleased with my purchase at that price. My copy is a fairly …

If some one asks me which is the nostalgic story I have read recently, my answer would be The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini. The book looks at childhood friendship in a fresh evergreen way. The way of writing of the author is very emotional style and keeps …

The full, and arguably rather excessively long, title of this book is (take a deep breath now) “The BBC Micro ROM Book: Sideways ROMs and RAMs”, which if somewhat ponderous does at least give a pretty good idea of what Bruce Smith’s book, published in 1985 by Collins, is …

The Andromeda Strain from Michael Crichton is written in the similar style as compared to his other novels. They have the hint of reality along with the creative thoughts and input from the author that gives it the touch that keeps everyone interested. The reality and slight hint of …

My daughter had library at school the other day and brought home a new book to read called So Hungry! This book was definitely meant for younger readers (and she was able to read it herself though she insisted I read it to her) but, at the same time, …

I used this book as one of my sources to help me complete my Caribbean Studies SBA when I was in my final year of sixth form. I found it to be very beneficial in the sense that I was doing my SBA on a topic dealing with herbal …

I think this book must be classed as a cult classic and I have read it several times. ‘American Psycho’ by Brett Easton Ellis (author of ‘Less than Zero’) is not to everyone’s taste as it goes into graphic detail in describing the protagonist’s delight in hacking people …

The subtitle to ‘The Complete Beatles Lyrics’ is ‘Every song written and recorded by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr’. This book came out in 1982, published by Omnibus Press and is avalailable on Amazon. A boyfriend bought me this as a present years ago as he had …

Micro Computers for Business and Home is a real window into the past of computing. It was published (by the British company Paperfronts) way back in 1983, and although its author A. D. T. Fryer has not gone on to become a well known name in the industry it …

A Season’s Fame is a slim paperback book dealing with the Clifton College schoolboy A. E. J. Collins, who in 1899 scored 628 not out in a house match, the highest individual score ever recorded in the sport of cricket. The book is written by Derek Winterbottom for the …

Sensational Games for Your ZX81 will of course be of most interest to those people who (like me!) are interested in old micro computers, whether through the medium of emulation or on the original hardware. We’re a large community nowadays! This book was published by Addison-Wesley (not exactly a …

A 1985 publication by S and A Gibbs, Mastering Music is rather ponderously subtitled “Programming Sound on the BBC Model B Micro”. It is an official guide, as is indicated by the words “Published by the British Broadcasting Corporation” on the copyright page, something which I always feel gives …

Mean Streets is a anthology with four novellas by four bestselling authors, Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson and Thomas E. Sniegoski. Each novella is about 80 pages, so it is perfect book to divide up on four evenings. I had only read books by Jim Butcher when …

Backup is a novelette set in Butchers Dresden files universe. In this book it isn’t Harry Dresden who’s the main actor, but his vampire half-brother and side-kick Thomas Raith. He is off on an investigation on his own, which becomes entangled with an investigation of Harrys.
The novelette is written …

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is the first book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. It is a series of three detective novels featuring the journalist Michael Blomkvist and the hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvists works on a case about a girl who went missing many years ago, and during …

The secret life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna, is a biography about the famous playwright, author, and poet Oscar Wilde. I previously, knew very little about Oscar except that He wrote poetry, and was An contemporary of the famous playwright George Bernard Shaw, …

The Lost Symbol that is conceptualized as a follow up to the famous Davinci Code is in hundred percent Dan Brown style. Every sequence, sentence and story turn is typical of Dan Brown style especially what we read in Davinci code. The Lost Symbol is thrilling and way it …

I started reading this book of two hundred and eighty nine pages with much enthusiasm because the name was very catchy for me. But after reading first few pages, I did not feel much good about the book. The story is very sluggish paced and I found it hard …

The New Year Eve’s Murder (by Lee Harris, published by Ballantine Books, 1997)
This is my first Lee Harris book, and it was a real surprise. Lee Harris was a pseudonym for a romance writer, and I thought that this could be one of those simple-to-solve mysteries to …

If you are only going to read one book about Europe in your life, then I’d be tempted to recommend We Europeans by Richard Hill. However, as the book is much funnier if you know something about different Europeans nationalities, it might be better to make it the second …

This book is a collection of short stories about wizards, vampires and werewolves. I bought it because I wanted the read the story “Something borrowed” by Jim Butcher, as it is about Harry Dresden from the Dresden files series. It works quite well on its own too, you can …

Welcome to the jungle is an adventure set tin the Dresden files universe, featuring Jim Butchers wizard Harry Dresden. It is a comic book illustrated by Ardian Sharf. It was originally published in four issues, but there is also a hard-cover edition with all four of them. I prefer …

Grave Peril is the third book in the Dresden files, Jim Butcher’s series about the Wizard Harry Dresden. In Grave Peril Harry has to face down some tormented ghosts while trying to find out who’s torturing them.
Some important characters are introduced in this book. First time I read …

This review is for the Audio book version of Scott Sigler’s book, titled Infection. I just listened to this the other day, and thought I’d review it while it was still fresh in my mind. First off, while I understand Scott’s desire to read this book himself for his …

Book-Maus Part 1
Author-Art Spielgelman
There are many stories and books,and movies,and even games,about World War 2.And many of it takes place with the soilders or the Nazi or even Hitler himself.And all of them hope to reach the level of showing people how horrible the war was.But I think that the …

The book “Our Friends of Long Ago: Part 1″ was a small thin story book I was given by my aunt in the nineties when I was about eight or nine to read. When I got it, I wasn’t too interested in reading it, since it looked more boring …

The plot of this book is just too bland. From the beginning I figured out the ending of the book. Brenda Jackson should’ve gotten this book proofread. There were several grammatical errors and she was using the same phrases too many times. I was also disturbed by all …

At first, I didn’t know about Paulo Coelho until a friend of mine introduced me to one of his novel entitled “By the river of piedra I sat down and wept,” I found his work quite simple yet very inspiring with its wit and wisdom. So, I look for …

Storm Front is the second book in the series about the Chicago based wizard Harry Dresden. The characters are mainly the same as in the first book, so it is best to read that first. Not that you won’t enjoy it if you read number two first, but the …

As they are currently filming the Hobbit, I thought it was time for reread. I’ve read it few times before, but as it is ages ago I gave it another try. So, would I recommend reading it before the Hobbit films come out? I still love the book, so …