Marked is the first book of the House Of Night series by PC Cast and Kristin Cast. The story is based upon the idea of humans and vampires coexisting amongst each other. Instead of the sterotypical idea of vampires being born from another vampires bite this book makes the …

Elizabeth Gilbert has long been writing fiction but this is the first time she wrote her autobiography through Eat, Pray, Love. I must say the book was very well-crafted, far from the boring tone that the word biography usually connotes. Gilbert has the gift of writing very casually and …

The Gathering Storm is the twelfth book in the Wheel of Time series, partially written by Robert Jordan before his death and completed by Brandon Sanderson. In The Gathering Storm, Brandon Sanderson proves that he has just as much skill in crafting a great story as the late …

“Lucy at the Movies: The Complete Films of Lucille Ball” by Cindy De La Hoz is a book that I think will be of interest and enjoyment to Lucille Ball fans. It has nothing to do with the “I Love Lucy” series and instead focuses on Lucy’s movie career. …

“Laughing with Lucy: My Life with America’s Leading Lady of Comedy” by Madelyn Pugh Davis is actually a memoir of a co-writer that was almost responsible for every single episode of the “I Love Lucy” series. Be prepared thus for a unique perspective on the show from someone that …

“Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball” by Kathleen Brady is a book on Lucille Ball that I was unsatisfied with. The reason I was not satisfied with this book is that I felt it did not seem to have much order to it or a theme. It really is …

“The Other Side of Ethel Mertz: The Life Story of Vivian Vance” by Frank Castelluccio is a book that I enjoyed quite a lot, although I have to say that it does drop the ball at a certain point and never quite recovers. By that, I mean at the …

“A Book” by Desi Arnaz is a book that I think all fans of the “I Love Lucy” series should take the time to read, especially those that dislike or hate Desi Arnaz for the pain that he put his wife, Lucille Ball through, when they were married. Now …

“Meet the Mertzes: The Life Stories of I Love Lucy’s Other Couple” by Rob Edelman and Audrey Kupferberg is a book that I would recommend to any fan of the “I Love Lucy” series or “Vivian Vance” or “William Frawley”. This book is sort of like a double biography …

“Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia” by Michael Karol is a book that I would certainly recommend to fans of Lucille Ball, although if you are just a fan of her series, “I Love Lucy”, then this book may not interest you too much. What this book …

“Lucy & Desi: The Real Life Scrapbook of America’s Favorite TV Couple” by Elizabeth Edwards is a book that quite honestly brought tears to my eyes and smiles to my face. This book captures the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz so perfectly and each time I look …

“Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Hard Rain” by Dean Wesley Smith is hard to read because it is so repetitive and littered with dull material. First of all, episode seems way too similar to the first season episode of the show, “The Big Goodbye” when Captain Picard …

“Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion” is a book by Larry Nemecek that I found interesting to an extent, although really, this book had quite a bit of content that I just was not interested in. What I was not interested in was the summaries of all the episodes …

“The I Love Lucy Quizbook” by Bart Andrews is a fun little book that is filled with quizzes spanning the years that the show was on the air. I found this book fun to read through on my own as well as to quiz other Lucy fans on. What …

“Color Me Lucy: Celebrating 50 Years Of I Love Lucy” is a coloring book that I did not purchase to color, but to merely look at, appreciate and add to my collection of Lucy books. Despite this book being a coloring book, the drawings are actually on the complex …

“The Lucy Book: A Complete Guide to Her Five Decades on Television” is a book that I was somewhat disappointed with. I felt much of this book was filled up with unnecessary things, like, for example, all the episode recaps and summaries! How many times are authors going to …

The “Laughs, Luck…and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time” is a book that is actually the memoir of the creator of the television show. This means that the entire book is not about Lucille Ball of the “I Love Lucy” television series. …

“Prime Time, Prime Movers: From I Love Lucy to L.A. Law-America’s Greatest TV Shows and the People Who Created Them” is a book that basically takes a look at the television landscape from the very early 1950s to the very late 1980s. What I really like about this book …

“The I Love Lucy Book of Trivia: Official Authorized Edition” is great fun - especially if you have friends and family members that are Lucy fans, too! If you do, you can do what I do: set an evening aside and ask one another trivia questions out of the …

“The I Love Lucy Guide to Life” is not one of my favorite books on the series. The reason is it really does not accomplish what it claims to do. “I Love Lucy” was a comedy, first and foremost. The lines were crafted to be humorous. I do not …

If the infamous Trainspotting did it for you, then you have to read Porno! It is set around a decade later than Trainspotting, and features a lot of the original characters, with plenty of new ones thrown in to keep the plot from ever standing still. The …

First of all, I feel a little bit cheated when I first read this book. I thought I would read some chicklit, but instead of that, it is a teen lit. I blamed the cover because of the gloomy and dark design of the cover made me thought so. …

My daughter ended up buying a book the other day that I didn’t think much of at first; Priscilla and the Pink Planet. But, after taking the time to read it to her (while feeding my other daughter), I realized it wasn’t too bad of a story.
Basically, the book …

I only read this book because it was part of a scholarship opportunity, and it was a really big scholarship too. So ,when I read it I was just trying to make the best of it. I was very bored, even just by the cover, and I thought that …

I read an Agatha Christie novel in eighth grade and really loved it. It was called “Ten Little Indians.” Then we read another entitled “The Orient Express,” which were my two very favorite of hers. Or some reason, I couldn’t seem to get past the other books for a …

This comic was a tad on the incomprehensible side. Spawn turns violent as he interrogates the angel who has confronted him. Sara calls him to warn about the men who inquired about his whereabouts last issue.
He finds a man in the hallways of their apartment …

This comic deals with Jim’s identity crisis. Sara informs him that they don’t really have any info on him and that no one visited to confirm his identity. He’s rightfully freaked out by the whole ordeal and storms off to clear his head.
At a diner, he’s visited …

This comic is a tad on the weird side. As much as I’d love to summarize it, I have only a vague clue of what’s going on.
Lucifer tries to steal back the necronomicon in order to stop Cthulhu, but the skeleton priest dude won’t have any …

One of my local comic stores decided to add “Spawn” to my pull file when the “endgame’ arc started. I didn’t ask, but I didn’t really mind. I had heard Spawn was a good comic and picking up a new title only speeds up my catching up …

This issue was far more straight forward than the one that came before. Hellboy and Alice trek through the bizarre landscape to encounter a strange imp like creature who claims to be an Englishman.
Hellboy and Alice assume it’s a guide and follow him. It turns …

I’m still a relative newcomer to the world of “Hellboy”. I enjoyed the movies and have picked up a few trades as well as collecting some of the recent arcs in individual issues. Still, I’m not well versed in Mignola’s mythology. As such, it made this …

This is more of a metaphysical issue. Not being well versed in Lovecraftian lore, I was a bit confused about who was who. I think I did OK.
The dreaded Cthulhu approaches and all hell is breaking loose. All of the gods scheme and plot trying to …

When I discovered that there was a series called “Fall of Cthulu” I was intrigued. While I’m not what you call a Lovecraft fan, I am fascinated by the mythos that the man created.
While this is the fourth in a four issue arc, it’s one of …

This comic was only slightly improved over the last one.
The brunt of the comic comes in two major confrontations. The first is Zatanna’s clash with Lobo. As one would expect, Zatanna hands the main man his rear end. After all, she can decimate an …

The man who Clown enlisted arrives at a club to meet a man named Claudio. While he’s initially let in, albeit reluctantly, a group of thugs insist that he leave. They drag him out to a back alley. When a bunch of rowdy drunks wander into …

Clown positions himself as a possible friend to Spawn. Long time readers will know that it’s all a trick as he’s simply trying to harness the power to his own means. The other figure shows himself to be on the right side as he warns Spawn not …

I wanted to like this arc, I really did. Admittedly, it has been a long, long time since I read the last issue, so of course I’m going to be a tad lost, but even taking that into account, I didn’t really care.
You have a war …

The best children’s book that has been released recently, by far, is called Finlay’s Garden, An Intuitive Look Into Death And The Meaning of Life. Stop and think about it for a minute. How many books are there out there to help kids understand death? There are probably …

The Batman graphic Novel “Hush” Volume 1 starts out when Batman has to rescue a hostage boy from Killer Croc and after defeating Croc, chases Catwoman who stole the ransom money. While chasing her, someone cuts his Batline, causing him to plummeting down to the streets below. …

This is a wonderful book that introduces dentists and dental students to the realities of clinical practice with examples and color plates(pictures).
It contains a series of 13 entirely new thought provoking problems which will make you think. In reality, it is impossible to solve all the problems in the clinical …

Robert K. Kiyosaki; the author of the best selling book ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ has added another book to his name. The new one is called ‘Conspiracy Of The Rich; the 8 new rules of money’ a book not on another conspiracy theory like that of ‘who killed J.F …

The “Life After Lucy: The True Story of “I Love Lucy’s Little Ricky” is a book that I think will be of interest to fans of the television series because it explores the life, the career, the hopes and the dreams of Keith Thobodeaux, the actor that portrayed Little …

The “I Love Lucy: The Classic Moments: 12 Hilarious Magnetic Postcards to Send or Save” is a book that features postcards that I most definitely saved! I did not want to part with the post cards in this book because I just like them too much! The book does …

The “I Love Lucy” Sound Book is simply incredible! I love everything about this book - from the cover, which features the iconic scene of Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel in the Ricardo’s car as they all sing “California, Here We Come” to the actual content of the book, …

I purchased the hardcover edition of the book simply titled “I Love Lucy” by Elisabeth Edwards because I find that hardcover books hold up better over time even if they do take up more space and bulkier. As for the book, I was somewhat disappointed with what this book …

I had the chance to read the Maintenance Man which was written by author Michael Baisden and I thought the books was not written well but the storyline was very good. I liked the fact that I felt as if I was in the book, especially in Malcolm’s character. …

Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz is a book that in some ways is very touching and in other ways, it is quite heartbreaking. Either way, this book never fails to have an emotional impact on me. This book looks at the lives of Lucille Ball …

I felt that this book was just ok. I thought it kind of dragged on until the last few chapters which is when the book got really exciting and became a page turner.
The book is centered on two people named Roche Savage and Bleu Labeau. Blue was …

OK, I hated the movie but people kept telling me the book Twilight was really good. And, since I found it in a bargain bin at Wal-mart (usually not a good sign for books by the way), I figured I would give it a chance.
I was right, it wasn’t …

As is usually the case on Wednesdays, my daughter brought home a different book from her school library. This time, it was a book written a couple years before I was born called “Sizes.”
It was one of the worst books I have ever seen and I have to question …