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A Hunger Like No Other (The Immortals After Dark Series, Book 1) 157 reviews
Kresley Cole
Pocket Star, 2006
The book that started it all!
Ahhh, this book is what started my current obsession with PNR novels. I was bored at work and so I looked up new things to read on Amazon. Read the chapter 1 teaser and was hooked.
I love Lachlain and I love Emmaline. I thought both of their storylines were very authentic and honest. After I finished it I ran out and bought every Kresley Cole IAD book I could get my hot little hands on. That ...
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar 2 reviews
Paul Theroux
Houghton Mifflin, 2008
Theroux hits his note again
Paul Theroux delivers in Ghost Train to the Eastern Star what the Theroux fan expects: entertaining travelogue laced with acerbic wit, cultural context and social commentary. And, it maintains Theroux's high literary standard; keep a dictionary by your side. The "plot," if one could call it that, is to retrace his steps of 30 years before, when he wrote The Great Railway Bizarre. But, just as ...
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs173 reviews
Judi Barrett
Aladdin, 1982
Children's book
"Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" is a fanciful and entertaining book that I read to my children when they were young. I purchased one for my newest grandchild and my son was thrilled to have a book from his childhood to read to his daughter.
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On Writing803 reviews
Stephen King
Pocket, 2002
This is how it's done!
Until I read On Writing by Stephen King, I had never read any of his books. To be honest, since On Writing, I've only read one other of his books which I didn't like so we've come to an impasse.... however On Writing is one of the best books I've read. The first half is a memoir of his life where we learn how his early jobs and experiences inspired the ideas for his best sellers. Every thing ...
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Number the Stars706 reviews
Lois Lowry
Laurel Leaf, 1998
The Run Away
Struggling through the ravages of World War II, Annemarie, her family, and her best friend Ellen wait in hiding until the Nazis retreat and let Denmark free once more. This wonderful story "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry, is about friendship, tragedy, and, love. It also integrates a lot of useful life lessons, such as: being brave and deciding what to do wisely.
This story really captured ...
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star251 reviews
Nikki Sixx
Pocket Books, 2007
Addicted to this book?!
On advice from a friend in rehab who read it i bought it brand new. Did not stop reading it except to sleep and eat...period. Thirty six hours later i felt as spent as he did, without the crakheads and dirty needles. I really felt for the character...because as real as he lived it it is still a ROCKSTAR's portrayal of addiction. Nobody i know has ever been that high but alot have been that low. ...
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A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive1916 reviews
Dave Pelzer
HCI, 1995
excellent
This book was unbelievable...I read it in a single afternoon!! Couldn't put it down. In the face of unreal odds, a boy's will to survive in a home so filled with hate and abuse.
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The Host: A Novel513 reviews
Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
Dystopian done right
I highly recommend this amazing, fast paced psychological sci-fi thriller from the very popular author of the Twilight series. This is true science-fiction, on par with Bradbury or Asimov. Meyer uses the concept of an alien and human forced to co-exist in the same body to pose questions about memory, personality and what it means to be human.
The story begins as the conquest of Earth is ...
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Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live105 reviews
Martha Beck
Three Rivers Press, 2002
Wonderful
I see myself and just about everyone I know in this book. It is a good read, interesting, insightful and has a lot of exercises to help understand what's going on in your life and how you can change the things that feel wrong. Martha Beck is just plain wonderful!
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning 315 reviews
Jonah Goldberg
Doubleday, 2008
Great Book As Evidenced by Liberal Reviews & Placement
Plainly this book has been out for quite some time but until it showed up on audio I didn't even know it existed. Why? Because it was well hidden by the major book stores that typically hide anything conservative on the bottom shelf of some sociology section in the back of the store. If this were a fascist-liberal tome like Al Frankens "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot", there would have been ...
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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel79 reviews
Per Petterson
Graywolf Press, 2007
A Quiet Treasure
One of the main events in Per Petterson's novel, "Out Stealing Horses" is the felling, creating of and then float of logs down a river. The further I moved through this book, the more I felt that the flow of the author's words resembled the pattern of those logs.
At times there seems a log jam as Patterson's words are the bare minimum needed to move the story forward. Surroundings, actions, ...
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Star Wars) 8 reviews
Karen Traviss
Del Rey, 2008
Clone Wars delivers an action-packed Anakin story
"The Clone Wars" tells a story about a day in the life of Anakin. This is no rehash of the Cartoon Network's "Animated Clone Wars." Even compared to episodes II & III, many of the prominently featured characters play a much smaller role. This is okay because this story introduces an exciting new character to the Star Wars pantheon: Ahsoka. Ahsoka is Skywalker's apprentice. Along these lines, one ...
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GO! with Microsoft Office 2007 Introductory (Go! Series)3 reviews
Shelley Gaskin, Robert L. Ferrett, ...
Prentice Hall, 2007
Our text book
This is the text book for Introduction to Microcomputer Usage at MDC. I took the class this summer and it was a breeze. I think every one in the class enjoyed it
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Bones to Ashes: A Novel (Temperance Brennan Novels)76 reviews
Kathy Reichs
Pocket Star, 2008
Reichs knows what she is doing
I'm amazed how she can weave the plot in her books. Her details of forensics is fascinating.
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The Lions of Lucerne72 reviews
Brad Thor
Pocket Star, 2002
Excellent Thriller
I really enjoyed this book. I hesitate reading a lot of popular fiction because it gets rather obscene. A few of the bad guys swear in this, but, overall, not so bad. The story is really interesting. It weaves its way through so many paths that it is difficult to believe that they are all going to end up in the same place, but they do.
Since it is one in a series about the same character, ...
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What to Expect the Toddler Years133 reviews
Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Murkoff, ...
Workman Publishing Company, 1994
Great for a step by step review
I enjoyed the previous books in the series. And this does not disappoint. Great book, you don't feel like you have to read 20 chapters to get to where your kid is at in development.
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius905 reviews
Dave Eggers
Vintage, 2001
Hyperboles Aside; Read It and See...
"Well they say its kind of frightening how this younger generation swings, You know its more than just some new sensation... At an early age he hits the streets, wind up tied with who he meets / You know its more than just an aggravation." --David Lee Roth, from Van Halen's "The Cradle Will Rock," from their seminal 1980 work "Women and Children First"
So it may be a little ridiculous ...
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band362 reviews
Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, ...
HarperEntertainment, 2002
Motley Crue dives into their dark and twisted souls to give the reader a warning about Sex Drugs and Rock N Roll
At least the title to this review sounds good. LOL
Considering the book is over 400 pages long, I was surprised that I finished it in a day. It is a very interesting novel although sometimes NOT well written, but then again some of Crue's songs were NOT well written either. And yes this is coming from a long time fan of the band.
I think what amazed me about this book was I finally ...
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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)168 reviews
Leo Tolstoy
Penguin Classics, 2004
Human emotions and relationships -- a literary masterpiece!
It took me several months to read all 817 pages of this amazing novel which was published in segments between 1873 and 1877 in a Russian periodical. Every time I picked it up it transported me to a time and a place and a way of life that is long since gone. That it not what makes this novel great, however. What makes it great is the human relationships and emotions which are just as real today ...
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Where the River Ends37 reviews
Charles Martin
Broadway, 2008
Another story that touches the heart
Ever since being captivated by Charles Martin's earlier work, When Crickets Cry, I have expectedly awaited his next story and this latest one, Where the River Ends, was no exception. As soon as it was announced I placed my advanced order and eagerly awaited the July release date many months hence. On the day it finally arrived I immediately opened the book to get a taste of this latest ...
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