Books Reviews
My Boyfriend is a Twat by Zoe McCarthy
This book, My Boyfriend is a Twat: A Guide to Recognising, Dealing, and Living with an Utter Twat by Zoe McCarthy is extremely funny and high alert so humorous that I laugh my way through and through. I think this is one of the best book present ever …
The Big Book of More Sports Insults
At work a couple of years a go we did a secret Santa and I my present was a book called “The Big Book of More Sports Insults”. The book has a thousand and one quips and quotes in it. It is written by Jonathan L’Estrange and …
M.A.D.L.Y. by Sally North
If you are looking for a great book to read your children, I highly suggest M.A.D.L.Y. Mom and Dad Love You by Sally North. It is a fantastic book to teach children about how much you love them. Pictures are by Melissa Weisman.
In this book, Bobby the …
Star by Danielle Steel
If you are looking for a real tear jerker, I highly suggest reading “Star” by Danielle Steel. It is a great book that is a fast read that you will have trouble putting down.
Crystal longs to make it big and become a singer. She has the talent …
Danielle Steel’s Family Album
My favorite Danielle Steel book has got to be “Family Album”. I started reading her books when I was in junior high and she is still one of my favorite authors just because she always has great story lines. “Family Album” was no different.
Faye Price was a …
Elizabeth Berg’s Open House
I have to say that the only reason I read “Open House” by Elizabeth Berg was because it was an Oprah book club book. I am glad she had this book featured because it turned out to be a great read.
Sam Morrow thought she had the perfect life. …
Weep No More, My Lady by Mary Higgins Clark
If you are looking for a decent mystery, I suggest that you pick up a copy of Mary Higgins Clark’s “Weep No More, My Lady. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it a 7. While it was not Mary Higgins Clarks best work, I …
Into Temptation by Jeanje London
Into Temptation is written by Jeanje London and I think that she is a very fascinating writer. I enjoy reading this love story pretty much about Lindy Gardner as well as Joshua Benedict.
Lindy is actually an agent and she is fast and slick and very clever. She thinks …
Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
Written by Liane Moriarty, Three Wishes is about 3 triplets who are approaching their age of early thirties and they have their own set of problems in the separate lives that they lead.
The 3 ladies are Gemma Kettle (what a nice name), Cat and Lyn. They have divorced parents …
Nagging for Beginners by Wendy Harmer
Nagging for Beginners, written by Wendy Harmer, is a very fun book to read, from my point of view. The graphics are simply nice and it has this picture of a caricature woman of some sort and looking like she’s doing nothing but just nagging. Nice, funny image, …
Life’s a Beach by Claire Cook
Written by Claire Cook, Life’s a Beach is a very nice feel type of book that I really love pretty much.
This is one of the best genre types of books that I really love and it is a romantic comedy about this particular woman who is single and …
Love: Undercover
Love: Undercover is very funny, romantic, hilarious and something that I really love to read by while I drink coffee, tea or just having a nice, light lunch. At first, I thought it’s just going to be another shot at a romantic comedy but failing to deliver; the author …
Ladies of the Night and other stories
The title book, Ladies of the Night and other stories really entices me. The author being Prince Althea, it some more intrigues me, because the name is really exotic. And when I read this book, it is indeed true. This book is awesome in the elements of …
Black Sun by James Twining
Black Sun, written by James Twining is a futuristic novel that I recently read but surprisingly, this book leaves me turning the pages as quickly as I can, because it is very interesting. It is a book full of puzzles and Tom Kirk is an art thief that chanced …
Death’s Head
Set in the future time of back to the future sort of story, Death’s Head is really lost on me. In fact, totally. And in actual fact, I did not read the book until finish, because I’m really lost for words on this book. I really don’t …
The Shack by William P. Young
The Shack is a real page-turner and it got me frightened for a few days after I have finished reading it. The book is written by William P. Young and it has a very scary element to it and I thought of reading this book again for the second …
100 Greatest Science Discoveries of All Time (by, Hendall Haven)
I sometimes get bored so I like to read books and usually have no idea what to read! I am a pretty versatile reader although I am not much into the horror genre!
Anyway, while browsing through my local library’s books I came across one that is entitled 100 Greatest …
The Company of Women by Khushwant Singh
Khuswant Singh is one of the best writers of India, who has given us great works like Train to Pakistan, which was a masterpiece novel, about the partition of Indian, and The History of Sikhs, that is again, a work, worth noted for its accountability. So, when he wrote …
Comic Book Character: The Riddler
One of my favorite Batman villians is the Riddler, otherwise known as Edward Nigma. This is a guy with style who just refuses to be ignored. If the Joker’s crazy and the Penguin’s greedy, then the Riddler is a gloryhound. What else can you say about …
Comic Book Character: The Penguin
The Penguin has always been one of my favorite comic book villians. Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot is a villian you can understand. He was made fun of as a child. With a name like that, this comes as little surprise. He was short and chubby, and …
Comic Book Character: The Joker
The Joker is Batman’s oldest archvillian, with a history dating back to World War II. His name has never been disclosed, and his history has been written and rewritten over and over, adding to the mystique of the character.
Like most of Batman’s rogues gallery, the Joker has …
Real Magic by Wayne W.Dyer
Initially, I was rather intrigued by the title of this book, because if something is real it cannot be magic and vice versa. It is exactly this kind of belief that Wayne Dyer tried to dispel in this book. According to him, there is a limitless field of higher …
Buffy Comic Book Season 8
Buffy Season 8 Comics Books are absolutley amazing. So far over 16 issues have been created each, with two art covers. Nearly half the issues have been written by Josh Whedon, which makes reading the new series a real pleasure.
I find it really great to jump back in …
Wicked, a Novel by Gregory MaGuire
“Wicked” is a novel based on characters from “The Wizard of Oz”, primarily Glinda the Good Witch of the North and The Wicked Witch of the West. MaGuire has given the Wicked Witch a name, Elphaba Thropp, and given her and her Northern counterpart a background that includes …
The Purpose Driven Life
This is so far the most inspiring book I have ever read. This is written by Rick Warren a Prostestant Pastor who touched millions of lives through his writings in the book.
Regardless of religion, race or nationality this book has continuously …
Sex and super consciousness by Osho
This is probably the most important work by Osho. Although Osho has given thousands of commentaries , and tackled every spiritual , and scientific, and philosophical subject, yet, this vision for sex, and sexuality, is more popular and also controversial, and most of the people, who do not know much …
How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie
This book has been written by Dale Carnegie, who is a world famous writer of self improvement books. Like the tile of the book says, this book is for those who find it hard to give impression to other people. In this book Dale Carnegie tells about what does t …
Into The Woods by Tana French
I recently finished reading the novel entitled “Into The Woods” by Tana French. I am not an avid reader of murder mysteries, but the description on the jacket looked pretty interesting and I liked how it took place in Dublin, as I was traveling there while reading the book. …
Dare to Succeed by Van Crouch
Dare to Succeed is a book that contains and has a theme of mainly about inspirational quotes and events and about wisdom for life and career.
I got this book as a gift from my manager last Christmas cause he knows that I have a hobby of reading books …
Start Your Own Blogging Business
Start Your Own Blogging Business by J.S.McDougall is one of Entrepreneur Press’ Start-Up series of small business books. I’ve always read Entrepreneur Press books with a measure of reserve, given their propensity for jumping into the latest small-business cattle drive - whatever it is!
However, Start Your own Blogging …
Skinny Bitch
The book Skinny Bitch, written by 2 female authors, it is a classic vegan type of diet for all women to follow. I’m not sure about men, so let’s follow this review of mine.
When I first got a hold of this book which my friend loaned it to me, …
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
There are not many people out there who have not at least heard of Dan’s Brown controversial novel The Da Vinci Code. One single book has managed to captivate the attention of so many people- many have been puzzled by it, intrigued or …
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
This a classic story written by world’s greatest novelist of all time- Alexandre Dumas, the man who had brought us the Three Musketeers. It is a dark story of love, loss and revenge and the price that one has to pay for achieving their goal. And it also …
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Ah, Master and Margarita, my all time guilty pleasure. I make sure to re-read it at least once in two years. I have read it first when I was in high school. It was one of the required readings in my Russian class. Once I started I could barely …
Captain Blood by Raphael Sabatini
This is a great novel and is one of my favourite books. I end up reading it about twice a year, and despite the fact that I already know all the story, I just can’t get enough. The books is filled with adventure, tension and most of all the …
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Most people know Dan Brown through his ultra successful and more than just controversial novel The Da Vinci Code. But Angels and Demons was written and published first. It first introduces the main character of the next book Robert Langdon. It is a mystery detective story dealing …
Dangerous Love by Francine Pascal
Dangerous Love is a very dated book that I recently read. I first read the book when I was a lot younger and it was nearly two decades ago when I first read the book. It follows two identical twin sisters Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield and their group of …
Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
This book, one of Gail Carson Levine’s more recent young adult novels, is set in the neighbouring kingdom to the setting of the author’s Ella Enchanted. The main character is strong and well characterized, and I enjoyed the story and the flow of the plot. I think I especially …
The Wrong Places by John Ripley
The Wrong Places, written by John Ripley is a story that I consider to be purely fiction and sometimes made me bored and sometimes made me really enjoying it to the fullest. I guess there’s a cross-section in between and the main character in this story is Marcel Maki …
Amanda Rose by Karen Robards
Karen Robards wrote Amanda Rose and this really gorgeous and truly beautiful novel has certainly touched my heart in many ways. This is a very sweet story about romance between an ordinary girl and a buccaneer.
The love story is filled with such sweet romance that it made …
Tickled Pink by Rita Rudner
Written by Rita Rudner, Tickled Pink is a bittersweet story that I could learn a thing or two from these 2 female friends naming Mindy Solomon and her friend, Ursula Duran. They have stand during the worst times in their lives when their careers aren’t working the way they …
Three Nights of Sin
Three Nights of Sin is a romance novel set in a historical setting. The heroine is Marietta Winters and the hero is Gabriel Noble. Both are gorgeous and handsome respectively.
Marietta’s brother has been arrested and charged for murder leaving Marietta shun out of society and being the past …
Into the Night by Suzanne Brockmann
Into the Night, written by Suzanne Brockmann is a suspense romance and Joan Da Costa, a White House staff is assigned to solve a mystery case known as SEAL. She comes face to face with Mike Muldoon and Mike is a very strong and very stubborn man, filled with …
Tuesdays With Morrie
Tuesdays With Morrie nearly got me crying for a lot of times throughout the pages in the book itself. It is a very good story, but up till now, I wonder if this is of a true inspiration account of the author or not. The story starts with …
Hungry Girl Cookbook
I grabbed the Hungry Girl cookbook because it seemed like a cute approach to cooking. The book cover actually looks a little like one of the Rachel Ray cookbooks and the author has apparently read her books because it has a lot of things in common with her books. …
Rematch (Book)
Rematch is the sequel to a little chick lit book called Miss Match by the same author. The book follows a single Christian girl who is prone to matching her friends with other people. This time though she’s shocked to find that her date is going on a retreat …
MissMatch (Book )
Miss Match is a cute little chick lit book that I found at my local Wal-Mart. The book itself had a brightly colored cover with a cute picture of a coffee cup and that managed to draw in and capture my attention. I bought this book and it’s sequel …
Beginner’s Greek by James Collins
Beginner’s Greek, written by James Collins, is a book about another man having a loser start for his love life. I notice that there is an increasing trends of modern love cum romantic comedy type of novels and I think it goes well by me. And the characters …
Out of Whack by Jeff Strand
Out of Whack, written by Jeff Strand is a very funny book filled with very funny lines but there’s a downside to it that I don’t like. The racy scenes in it. But then again, at the end of it, author Jeff has given readers a moral lesson …
A Date on Cloud Nine by Jenna McKnight
A Date on Cloud Nine written by Jenna McKnight is a good dreamy story that I love because it plays with good, funny fiction. Lily Marquette has a time-line on Earth and it suddenly becomes her time-up when she’s given the no-go for her time on Earth.
She begged the …
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