I have read this book numerous times in the course of my life. It’s just one of those books that you throw into a box during the multiple times you move from apartment to apartment. I call it a comfort book. I know the ending but still enjoy reading it over and over again. Laura [...]
Posted on August 31, 2010, 10:44 am, by Mark Ahmad, under
Self-help.
Fifty Cent is one of the biggest celebrities in the world; sold millions of records over his decade long career and decided to team up with Robert Greene to show you how to succeed like him. The book can get repetitive at times, but it’s basically saying that fear keeps us from reaching are full [...]
Superman has faced many adventures since he was created by two Cleveland teenagers Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster in 1938, as author Jake Rossen illustrates, the character’s greatest challenge has not been fighting super-villains like Lex Luthor, but overcoming the machinations of his corporate overseers and a variety of Hollywood producers. Rossen offers a breezy [...]
Allende in her last masterpiece will show us an internal, emotional and personal vision of slavery in the Caribbean during the colonial period. At the same time, we’ll share with Zarite her dreams, her pain, and her love in a journey thru exotic places, which ones are very influential to the way people act and [...]
Allende en su ultima obra nos muestra una vision interna, emotiva y totalmente personal de la esclavitud en el caribe durante el periodo colonial. A su vez, compartimos junto a Zarite sus sueños, su dolor, su pasion y su amor en un viaje por lugares exoticos, muy arraigados con la forma de ser, actuar y [...]
I have to admit that I did not read the first three books in Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling Twilight Series. I saw the movies and then I decided that I could not wait to find out how this saga ends. I began reading Breaking Dawn with a bewildered feeling about why Bella chose Edward [...]
Posted on July 22, 2010, 2:23 pm, by Leigh Wright, under
Domestic,
Fiction.
Tessa and Nick have the perfect life. Or so everyone around them thinks. Nick is a pediatric plastic surgeon and Tessa has recently become a stay at home mom. They live in nice house in the Boston suburbs and have two beautiful young children. Until the night of their anniversary, when Nick’s pager goes off [...]
Karloff and Lugosi or if you prefer Lugosi and Karloff, either way for much of the movie loving public these are the two major stars of the classic Hollywood horror film. Their names and definitive roles, Dracula and Frankenstein, are paramount and seemingly equal in stature from the time of their star making appearances in [...]
One of the wonderful things about being a movie fan or a serious student of cinema today is the confluence of technologies that give us unprecedented access to all those films produced across the hundred plus years motion pictures have existed. If you are looking to go beyond the latest blockbuster where [...]
Posted on July 2, 2010, 4:22 pm, by Suzanne Franks, under
Fiction.
This book contains 13 stories that all involve Olive Kitteridge. The technique is an interesting one since we get to meet Olive through various characters’ eyes. Each chapter sheds a different light on the facets that make up Olive Kitteridge. However, it was difficult for me to finish this book because I [...]