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Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World 134 reviews
Lisa Lillien
St. Martin's Griffin, 2008
Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies
I love this book. The recipes are easy to make and are portioned for 1 serving. Its very good for people who want a low fat low calorie foods.
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World Without End 341 reviews
Ken Follett
Dutton Adult, 2007
What a marvelous book!
World Without End exceeded my expectations. The story takes place two centuries after its predecessor, Pillars of the Earth. The location is the same, the village of Kingsbridge, in England. Mr. Follet has created marvelous, believable characters to carry his story of building bridges, romances, serfdom, and the horror of the Plague. Like Pillars of the Earth, I was again sorry to finally read ...
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club)1415 reviews
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage Books, 2007
Hope in the Bleakest of Worlds
Cormac McCarthy's latest novel, The Road, is a 'road trip' novel that takes the reader quite literally through hell. McCarthy's setting--a post-apocalyptic earth where snow falls in gray flurries and the landscape is drained of all color--is so eloquently described that I was forced to check the window now and again to make sure the sun was still there. The challenge of writing a story like ...
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World 32 reviews
Patrick J. Buchanan
Crown, 2008
Concealed Truths
It is a universal truth that countries on all sides of military conflicts seek to propagate lies about their enemies. They also conceal their own flaws and misdeads. Sometimes they tell outright lies. Sometimes they lie by telling only part of the truth. Most people have little or no real knowledge of foreign relations. Most have no interest in such knowledge until war threatens. The ...
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The Post-American World37 reviews
Fareed Zakaria
W. W. Norton, 2008
All Americans Should Read This Book
The hegemon that is America is at a crossroads. This is the central and compelling idea behind Fareed Zakaria's most recent book entitled The Post-American World. In his wide-ranging and optimistic look at the future of the United States, Zakaria makes the case that hegemonic America is no longer the youthful and ambitious democracy it was a hundred years ago. On the dawn of the 21st century, the ...
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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment870 reviews
Eckhart Tolle
New World Library, 2004
a great book that could change your life!
A must read - valuable lessons in living your life NOW!
don't wait - Mr. Tolle is someone who holds a secret but leaves it up to you to find your own way......and these are his pointers.
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The Revolution: A Manifesto 504 reviews
Ron Paul
Grand Central Publishing, 2008
A book from the man who should be the next President.
After the "Super Tuesday" results came in and I was disappointed with how Ron Paul did in those primaries, I reverted to my characteristic cynicism and bitterness with the political process and decided that I no longer had a desire to support ANY politician, regardless of political philosophy and legislative history. I removed Ron Paul from my page, left the "Veterans for Ron Paul" facebook ...
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The Kite Runner2387 reviews
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead Trade, 2004
Well written book much like three stones
This is well written book in which the author attempts to be honest about his life to this point. Granted that it is sometimes heavy reading, the book tells a perfectly logical and realistic tale about life in Afganistan during the time whent the Taliban ruled the country. The characters rue the fact that the "old monarchy" was no more. Of course they were also the leading people in ...
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Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 16) 114 reviews
Laurell K. Hamilton
Berkley Hardcover, 2008
Good...and the haters are overreacting
For those of you that still read LKH because you LIKE the books, not just to bad mouth the author, you will like this addition. It is an inbetween book, a chance to learn a little background on Jason, what makes him tick, where he came from etc. The sex is good but not crazy/all the time and fits the storyline. Would have liked to explore the Marmie Noir influence a little more directly, but ...
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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine7 reviews
Benjamin Wallace
Crown, 2008
Fascinating Journey through the World of Rare Wine
A volume about collecting rare vintage wine might seem an unusual topic for a real page-turner of a book, but Benjamin Wallace's "The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine" is an enthralling exploration of the hype and mystery surrounding the mania of the 1980s and 1990s about pursuing and buying bottles of rare and expensive (!) vintages of old wine. ...
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Fahrenheit 4511248 reviews
Ray Bradbury
Del Rey, 1987
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is the story of Guy Montag in a future where most people live their lives in willful ignorance and the job of firemen is to find books and burn them. The story follows Guy, who is a firemen, as his new neighbor gets him to open his eyes to the world around him. The plot is enough to keep any reader chugging along, but the main hook to this book is Ray Bradbury's disturbing ...
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World18 reviews
Tony Horwitz
Henry Holt and Co., 2008
Excellent Read!!!!
As a student of American history and prehistory for many years, I had to read this book after reading the reviews! Am I glad that I did...... The Spanish presence is underreported in North America though that has been changing as sites are discovered and archaologically investigated. Few know that Jamestown Fort was built not in response to any Native American threat but rather because of a ...
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court135 reviews
Jeffrey Toobin
Doubleday, 2007
The Nine
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Jeffrey Toobin is unquestionably the finest writer and most cogent commentator on the American legal scene today. His book, "The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court," is a marvelous read for layman and lawyer alike.
Unlike Bob Woodward's "The Brethren" Toobin layers the self-revelatory comments of the justices with a ...
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning289 reviews
Jonah Goldberg
Doubleday, 2008
Finally, someone stated the obvious
At last we have a book which states the obvious, yet by leftists hysterically guarded fact that fascism had always been a form of leftist politics.
The contemporary (left) mass media always refer to Nazis ar right-wing, when the total opposite is truth. Nazism is an abbreviation for Nazional Sozialismus, National Socialism. Utterly leftists ideology, which was replaced later by ...
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Nick of Time12 reviews
Ted Bell
St. Martin's Griffin, 2008
A must read!
If you liked Ted Bell's "Hawk" series, you'll LOVE "Nick of Time". I was hesitant when I first ordered this book, since I'm usually disappointed with the early works of authors when they are released after a successful series. This certainly wasn't the case here. Not only was "Nick of Time" a lively tale that kept me drawn in from page one, it also provided an interesting background for the ...
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Stillness Speaks134 reviews
Eckhart Tolle
New World Library, 2003
Beautiful Quietude and the Truth
From the author of "The Power of Now," Eckhart Tolle offers us a gem of quietude that in and of itself can allow a radiant shift in consciousness. Once again, he encourages to get out of our minds and into the heart to realize harmony and peace. This is a shift out of time into timelessness and in this book, we do so in a manner that is similar to the ancient sutras of India. Instead of reading ...
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The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II10 reviews
Jeff Shaara
Ballantine Books, 2008
New footprints in a well worn path
Shaara's second book of a trilogy succeeds in providing another light on one of the most written about campaigns of WWII. He succeeds in telling the D-Day story at several levels.
"The Steel Wave" covers the campaign from January '44 to the suicide of Rommel (Sept. '44).
By interweaving frontline soldier stories with the major commanders personal interaactions, he has presented a holistic ...
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The Book Thief (Readers Circle)347 reviews
Markus Zusak
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2007
In which a beautiful small girl defies the might of Hitler!
"The Book Thief" is an extraordinary book, indeed, the finest I've read in many years! Do you remember all of those aggravating literary clichés you read so often on book covers and publicity blurbs? Haunting, compelling, uplifting, powerful, deeply moving and gut-wrenching? Well, it's hardly overstating the case to suggest that "The Book Thief" has earned every last one of them. The narrator (we ...
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The God Delusion1201 reviews
Richard Dawkins
Mariner Books, 2008
Eye opener even for current non-believers
First of all, I can't help but wonder how many of the one star reviewers actually read the book. Saying the author is going to hell is NOT a review.
Anyway, maybe I should judge, because i don't plan on getting into detail about the book. I will say though, that this book is not only a great read, but a truly eye opening and interesting read.
If you have doubts about the religion that was ...
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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century1124 reviews
Thomas L. Friedman
Picador, 2007
flatenning but biased
The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
"What else but sensationalism could you expect from an American Journalist" My friend commented when I told him I was on a most sensational book by New York Times' Thomas Friedman. I thank my friend and my kids favorite 4th Grade teacher Michael Citrino to have recommended "The World is Flat" which has introduced me to a rapidly flattening world, of which I ...
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