Book Reviews
Crazy Billionaires Speak By Hodderway Books
You are probably an entrepreneur who has spent years upon years trying to build that successful business, but for some reason, things just haven’t worked out as planned.
Read More...Global Warming For Young Minds
Global Warming for Young Minds is aimed at 6 to ten year old children. Through factual story telling and colourful illustrations.
Read More...The Father’s Child By Mark Adair
The story’s main characters, John Truman and Paul Eastman, first meet in the 9th Grade. Coincidence or destiny? They quickly become great friends and end up going to college together.
Read More...Capital Punishment By Kris Mole
Kris would leave England, not to return before having visited every capital city in the European Union mainland and, as stated above, he would do it without so much as handling a penny.
Read More...The Rhinemann Exchange By Robert Ludlum
Underlying many of Ludlum’s works, such as The Materese Circle, is a certain ring of truth, a plot which is based on supposed happenings or rumours of underground dealings.
Read More...A First Guide To Space Creatures By Faiz Kermani
Amazing space creatures abound around the galaxy, but many are under threat because of industrial pollution, inter-galactic travel, war, hunting and other alien activities.
Read More...Life In The Slow Lane By Thomas M Sullivan
“Life in the Slow Lane” is the humorous account of Thomas Sullivan’s short career in Drivers education.
Read More...A Walk In The Park By Tony Butcher
Book Review – Author Tony Butcher has spent over 40 years on a quest to enlightenment, finding his path using the teachings of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Read More...Stars Rain Down By Chris J. Randolph
In Randolph’s not too distant future, mankind has established a colony on Mars and developed space travel to a somewhat better level than we have today.
Read More...Fatal Infatuation By Melanie Nowak
“Fatal Infatuation” is about Felicity who has just moved to a new city, a new college, and a new job. She’s trying to figure out who she wants to be, and faces the same questions as everyone does.
Read More...Undercover By Maria Hammarblad
Book Reviews – Jenny Moore is a quite ordinary young woman working for a nameless big industry. She does wish for some more adventure in her life, and she gossips wildly with her friends working in the same office.
Read More...Touch of The Goddess by Maria Hammarblad
Book Reviews – The good advice that one shouldn’t drive drunk is valid even for spaceships, a small detail that Stephan Forks ignores when he tries to drown old sorrows.
Read More...Tyger Tyger By Kersten Hamilton
Book Review – Teagan is sure she’s just your average girl… until a horrible twist of events convinces her that she is being hunted by goblins, for a reason she doesn’t understand.
Read More...Kidnapped By Maria Hammarblad
Patricia Risden is in the wrong place at the wrong time, and she almost collides with a man who appears from nowhere in the middle of the road.
Read More...Out Of Shadows By Jason Wallace
Book Review – A coming-of-age story of an English boy, Robert Jacklin, in a new Zimbabwe (1983), who makes some choices as he enters a hard boarding school with some even harder peers.
Read More...Paul Harris, Grow Up!
Paul Harris founded the first Rotary Club in Chicago in 1905. Just twenty years later, it had become an international service organization, dedicated to helping others through grassroots projects. Today, Rotary International© has over one million members worldwide and is a leading player in the battle to eradicate polio worldwide.
Read More...Love and Nausea, by David Wilson
The epitome of the expression “don’t judge a book by its cover”. Despite looking like a trashy romance novel, Love and Nausea is a fantastic combination of a funny and clever novel and a critique on liberal philosophies and the middle class way of life. Robert is in a heart breaking but hilarious position as he struggles to force together his liberal philosophies and conservative upbringing, resulting in a perpetual state of agony that is, ironically, exactly what he was seeking all along.
Read More...Vellum, by Hal Duncan
I would compare Vellum to the attention-seeking middle child of His Dark Materials and The Da Vinci Code; without Pullman’s mighty narrative or Brown’s ability to merge reality, mythology and fiction, Duncan’s creation simply screams “Look at me! See how different I am!” before denying that it even values your opinion. Without a doubt it’s an impressive read but, at the heart of it, it’s sheer snobbery in book form.
Read More...White Wolf, by David Gemmell
David Gemmell was, in my humble opinion, one of the masters of the fantasy genre. Although the last series he wrote before he died, Troy, is probably his most famous, the Drenai series is certainly his most acclaimed with true fans of the genre. It is a joy then that White Wolf was written as a return to the Drenai, featuring Gemmell’s most renowned character, Druss the Legend, along with a new addition – the mighty Olek Skilgannon.
Read More...The Outsider, by Albert Camus
Certainly not a book for people who need action and thrills in their literature, The Outsider is more of a statement about human nature and society than it is a story about the admittedly very interesting character of Meursault. Although not long, it’s even more gripping than you might expect from a short book and, although the subject matter is classic of the archetypal French existentialist, Camus’ writing style makes the experience of reading The Outsider riveting from start to end.
Read More...Sapphire, by Katie Price
What could have been an emotional journey through depths of despair and insecurity turns out to be a predictable waddle through the shallow puddle of Katie Price’s feeble mind. Don’t read it, don’t buy it – don’t even look at it if you spot it in a shop. To pay attention to this book is to despair for the once noble art of writing. Depthless, mindless swill from start to end – awful.
Read More...Long After Midnight, by Iris Johansen
The race to complete a new superdrug puts Kate Denby and her family at great risk from a pharmaceutical giant, intent on preventing the drug from making it to the market. After her ex-husband and father of her child is killed before her eyes, Kate finds herself the target of a Native American assassin, her only protection against whom is mercenary Seth Drakin and unlikely friend Noah Smith. So the story unfolds; the suspense making an intriguing backdrop for the developing relationships between the characters.
Read More...Natural Suspect by William Bernhardt
Despite being a single story line, Natural Suspect is divided into chapters, each written by a different famous mystery writer! The story tells of small-time lawyer Devin McGee’s attempt to defend Julia Hightower against the charge of murdering her rich husband and the staggering number of skeletons he discovers in an equally staggering number of closets!
Read More...Existentialism Is A Humanism, by Jean-Paul Sartre
Considered by many to be the definining text of the existential movement, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialism Is A Humanism was originally delivered as a lecture, defending his theory against misguided criticisms. To this extent, it is a short but powerful book that can be read in an hour, but take a lifetime to fully understand.
Read More...Books
The written word is one of the most important things of all. We are taught how to read at a very young age and will go on to use this skill throughout our entire life. Hardly a day will pass when we do not read something, even if it is just a sign above a door. Words are everywhere we go and we need to understand them. They are at work, at home and everywhere in between. We will see them on television, on the computer and on the bus.
It all sounds as though reading should be a chore, but this is not the case at all! In fact, many of us will get a great deal of pleasure from the written word in books. Think about it; even if you are not a big reader, you will probably still glance at the newspaper. And if you do not take a daily paper, then the chances are that you will enjoy magazines!
Book Reviews
Many people will place an enormous amount of importance on reviews. And now that so many of us have access to the internet, even more items are being tested, rated or commented on. A lot of consumers will simply not even consider buying something until they have read what other people have to say. But is this always the right way to be? Should we really base so many of our decisions upon the opinions of others? And are reviews accurate for any type of item?
Book News
There has never been a better time for finding information on books, authors or publishers! There are entire websites to visit that are dedicated to all manner of book news and any other reading-related subject you can imagine. More and more of will us now prefer to read a few book reviews before going out to buy a new novel. And if you want to know what the critics have to say about a book, then the internet will have more reviews than anywhere else!