I'm a sucker for a love story. I'm not into the steamy Harlequin novels but I like your basic love story. I always pick up any new Nicholas Sparks novel. Although I do wait for it to come out in softcover. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks is a very easy book to read. The story just flows and you'll have a hard time putting it down. I often read in the bath tub and find that I've...

     Ok, I love "The House of Night Series" by PC and Kristen Cast.  I have just read the fourth book in the series entitled "Untamed."  I have to say that I love this book.  If you have yet to read any of the books in the series, read this one.  It is exciting, exhilerating and so much fun.       This novel is surr...

The Aunt Dimity books are a series of mysteries written by Nancy Atherton.  I came upon a few of these books in my local library, which is what started me reading the series.In this novel, Lori Sheppard, our heroine, has just gotten through an especially harrowing event which almost cost her her life.  She is recuperating but is plagued with nightmares.  Her husband, Bill, sends ...

==Overview==   "Marked" by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast is yet another vampire book.  Don't be so negative, though, it is a REALLY good vampire book.  Written for the older teenage female readers, the main character "Zoey Redbird" is easy to identify with, even for "older" female readers like me.  There are a total of five books in this series...

This is the third book in the Twilight series call Eclipse.Edward and Bella are back together, permanently this time. She's going to become a vampire after her high school graduation and she wants Edward to be the one to do the job. His only condition for this is that she marries him.In the meantime, Seattle is being ravaged by a "serial killer" that is really an army of newborn v...

Almost everyone is talking about "The Shack", a Christian novel that attempts to answer the question, "Where is God when bad things happen?"   There have been so many rave reviews about this book, and it is the #1 New York Times Bestseller, with over 3 million copies in print.So, I wonder why it didn't hit me the same way that it has so many others. The al...

The House of Night series is set in a world very much like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, vampyres have always existed.  In this first book in the series, Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampire--that is, if she makes it through the Change.  Not all of those who are chosen do...

James Patterson is one is one of my favorite mystery writer but in this book, Against Medical Advice, he takes a shot at co writing a book about a young boy’s fight with Tourette’s Syndrome. The boy’s father, Hal Friedman, is the co writer.This book is the true story of Cory Friedman who at the age of 5 developed Tourette’s Syndrome and OCD. It started one afternoon and ...

I'm always asking my family and friends "Have you hear of ZOOBA?".   They invariably so NO so I'm beginning to think I might be onto the best bookclub secret around.  I joined this online book club a year ago and each month I pay a flat fee of $9.95 for any book of my choice.   There is never a  shipping charge (it's always free...

Gone With the Wind is, no doubt, one of America's best and most famous works of literature.Which is probably why I discovered the 1037-page beaut in a middle school library. What with all its rumored positive critical acclaim, plays, and movies, I managed to check it out to see what the fuss was all about. I had never read any reviews about it, so I opened the book with eyes virgin to every...

13 Reasons Why is a book about how a girl committed suicide. Before she does though, she makes a bunch of cassette tapes, and sends them to the people who were part of the reason why she committed suicide. She sends it to the first person, who is obligated to send it to the second after she/he listened to them, and so on and so forth, or the tapes will be displayed in public by a secret so...

When my sister in-law called me to tell me about The Shack, I was initially skeptical that this would be something I'd really get into. But she was sending me the book to read, so I was at least going to give it a fair assessment. Since The Shack is intensely personal to each one who reads it, I'm not going to try and interpret it or give too much of the storyline away.As I began readin...

When I bought this book, I figured it was just going to be another ridiculous yarn about the Templars. I was right, but, unlike several others in this genre I've read, this one was actually entertaining!The plot revolves around a former US special ops agent, Cotton Malone, who finds himself saving his former boss from mysterious assassins as she tries to discover who sent her her dead husba...

My friend recommended this book to me and said that it was suspenseful, gripping and just over-all a great book. I started reading it and I was instantly in hooked. It was just so good I couldn't stop reading it. I finished the first book which was about 300 pages long, and went on to the next book. There are 5 books in the series: Pretty Little Liars (yellow), Flawless (orange), Perfect (pink)...

Alas, Babylon is one of the most fascinating novels I have read. I remembered reading it once long ago, and recently placed a hold on it at my local library. I had to wait for it for few weeks, though, for it seems to be still popular even though it was written in 1959! The story is set in a small town on a river in Central Florida. The main character of the story is a young lawyer who has l...

The story is definately interesting and unique and I love how the characters are named after countries and with their own unique names! Hetalia has become very popular and spawned an anime for itself. The story is based on World War I and World War II, there isn't much plot but it's teaching us about history a fun way. This is a really good way to know what happened and I've actuall...

Mother and daughter wrote this book together, and it features Regan and Jack Reilly on a Santa Cruise.  A special cruise for those who have done good deeds and helped others is called the Santa Cruise, taking place the day after Christmas.  Newly married Regan and Jack are in attendance, along with Regan's parents, Nora and Luke.  They are all guests of amateur detective Alvi...

Flowers For Algernon is a beautifully written book by Daniel Keyes. It's actually a short story, but can be found in many books. I read this story in eighth grade, and cried at the end. It is written in first person point of view by Charlie Gordan in the form of a diary. Chalie is a man with mental disabilities. He has an IQ of 68 and works as a janitor at a factory. After being chosen...

In what can really only be called a tour de force by an author who is arguably the greatest living English novelist, Terry Pratchett has pulled out all the stops for his latest book, Nation. Pratchett is best known for his Discworld series of books, which stretch across a monstrous 36 books (of which the majority does well to score below 7 out of 10). However this time around, Pratchett ha...

I have read a number of the Regan Reilly Mysteries by Carol Higgins Clark, and for the most part I rather enjoyed them.  But the last few books I have read in this series have left me disappointed.Popped is one of these books.  Regan Reilly, private investigator, is off to Las Vegas to help a friend, Danny, who is competing in a contest and having some problems.  Danny is pr...