Book Reviews
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...Singing Boy, by Dennis McFarland
As Malcolm and Sarah Vaughn wait at the traffic lights with their young son Harry, they notice the car in front fails to move, despite two green lights. Concerned for the wellbeing of the driver, Malcolm goes to check the car, but is gunned down – seemingly at random! So begin three individual, yet related stories of coping with Malcolm’s death.
Read More...The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordon
There is almost certainly nothing in this book that hasn’t been done before and been done better. Jordon has written a great book and a wonderful series, but he certainly does not come to dominate the world Tolkien created, as his reviewers claim.
Read More...Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
This stunning debut by Lahiri confirmed her place as a master storyteller of Indians in the subcontinent and the immigrant Indian community in America. Herself an Indian American, Lahiri manages to jump from the heartbreaking story of When Mr. Pirzada Came To Dine to A Real Durwan. These contrasting stories gives us a unique prespective into the lives of expatriate Indians and to a certain extent also gives social commentary of the lives of the lower caste’s of Indian society.
Read More...Bleeding Violet, by Dia Reeves
The tagline “Crazy never looked so beautiful” summarises Hanna’s personality completely. A recluse with a list of emotional disorders long enough to scare anyone, Hanna eventually runs away to find the mother she never knew. On arrival in Portero, where her mother is living, her challenge is to fit in in the town, or leave after two weeks. Thus begins Hanna’s journey into the paranormal and mysterious world of Portero.
Read More...Cheating Death by Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon and medical correnspondent for CNN relates his stories of patients who have survived through almost “miraculous” circumstances. Stories of the recovery of comatose patients and vulnerable heart failure in a baby present a case to make us rethink the blurring lines between life and death.
Read More...The Suicide Run, by William Styron
Clearly drawing on skills he so wonderfully displayed in both Sophie’s Choice and Darkness Visible, Styron transports the reader into a mindset he knows very well already; creating a fascinating psychological insight from the same conflicts many modern writers use to simply excite their readers into turning pages.
Read More...Terror by Night, by Terry Caffey with James H. Pence
The true story of the brutal texas murder that destroyed a family, restored one man’s faith, and shocked a nation.
Read More...Life’s Captivity, by Sharon A. Gricol
Sharon Gricol’s novel illustrates the strengths and flaws in the human character. Infallible yet searching for the truth, the story charts the character’s search for happiness, salvation and love.
Read More...Blind Sight, by James H. Pence
Blind Sight is about a man who finds his way back to God after being dragged out of hermitic life. He lived in blame for the death of his family until mysterious communications regarding two young children finds him as the caretaker of Michelle and Micah.
Read More...How To Be Famous, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt
This book was surprisingly quite good and provided an easy read with a glimmer of humour. These two are actually quite interesting as well as being rather attractive.. annoying hey. I would read this book again as it really gives you an idea of what celebrity life can be like, including lows and highs.
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