When i purchased this book i thought it was going to tell me how to write short articles for magazine publishing, but i was dissapointed. If i had wanted to learn about writing a book - then this would have been the one for me. Apparently this is an updated version of the same book wrote some time ago, but with chapters on the latest information regarding forwarding your work by e mai...

 This was a real page turner.  It only took me 3 days to read this, which is quite an accomplishment when you have kids running around.  This is a memoir by Jeannette Walls, a former MSNBC.COM contributor.     Jeannette is on her way to a New York party when she sees her mother in a dumpster.  She is afraid people will know this is her mother and know tha...

  Team Players and Work is a book we used at work for Team Building.  We each got a copy of the book and read a chapter a week, then met to discuss the book.  I really enjoyed this book.  It goes into detail that there are four styles of team players and what those styles are.  My team read a chapter of this book once a week, then we met to discuss it.  At the end,...

"If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor," is the autobiography of legendary B-Movie star, Bruce Campbell. Well known from his work in Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, he details his life from young Michigan boy, fighting with his brothers and being socially awkward around girls, through the making of low-budget cult classic Evil Dead and onwards into Hollywood...

Becoming a member of Shared Reviews gave me the inspiration to start writing Non-Fiction again. I had lost touch with some of the basic requirements for writing a letter - for example Editors cover letter and page layout. I decided to have a look on Amazon for a basic "How to do" book on non fiction writing. What appeared to be the best choice and most appropriate was a book called &q...

I don't consider myself a religious person, spiritual would fit me so much better. I don't consider "Becoming A Better You", by Joel Osteen, to be a religious read. The book is truly inspiring though. No matter what background you may come from, there is a lot of real inspiration for almost everyone in this book.Joel Osteen is the genuine article. Yes, he is a minister with th...

This is a great book about a woman, Haregewoin Teferra, who somewhat by chance, after the loss of her own husband and daughter, begins taking in children in Ethiopia who are orphaned due to the AIDS epidemic. As word gets out, she becomes somewhat of a hero in her village, and ends up taken on more children than she can comfortably handle, leading her to turn to adoptions out of the country.The...

I've long been a fan of Bill Bryson and his dry, not-quite-Amercian, not-quite-British wit, and this is possibly his best book to date. As he notes in the introduction, one day he was struck by the arresting thought that he knew very little about the world worked; didn't know a protein from a proton. He was seized with an urge to find out just not what we know, but how on Earth they man...

  I think this is a must read book, but I may be just a tad bit biased. My father-in-law, Terry Herron, is the author of this book. It is titled "Family Relationships & the American Heart". Terry wrote a great non-fiction book in 2003 based on marital relationships as well as relationships with your children. He wrote about his own personal experiences as well as statics info...

I love a ton of books, as most of you might know, but Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul is one of my particular favorites. The book is made up of several stories written by real teenage girls who have actually gone through that phase in life. It gave me great tips and lessons, and made me feel as though I'm not the only one out there that is having problems. It made me realize that there...

The American Journey, Volume Two is a nonfiction book that describes the history of America, starting with the end of the Civil War (volume one talks about what happened before the Civil War). This book gives EXTREMELY detailed information about what life was like back them, and backs everything up with evidence and statistics. It is really in-depth, for all of those people who want to lea...

I picked up this book on a whim, even though I knew some of the material may be a little hard or unpleasant to read through, but I figured if the survivors could manage to live it, I could read it.  I am not at all sorry I bought this book, and I intend to keep it with all the other books that are must reads and classics.  Miracle in the Andes is the retelling, by one of the survivors...

I rented this book from the library, but I found it so interesting that I have it added to my Amazon wishlist for my next order.  The title grabbed me immediately because I don't think anyone could ever love books too much, but when I began reading about the whole world of book theives I was totally into it. The author starts out by talking about how the book world works and about...