Book Review – Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
“Where does it all begin? History has no beginnings, for everything that happens becomes the cause or pretext for what occurs afterwards, and this chain of cause and pretext stretches back to the palaeolithic age, when the first Cain of one tribe murdered the first [...]

What is the future of books? What would a bookless future hold for generations to come?With advances in technology, electronic books and audio books are gaining popularity. But these do not offer the ‘feel’ of curling up with a good book. They also limit the audience to only those that have acess to a computer/internet.
Can [...]

Book Review: The Girls by Lori LansensI found this book incredibly interesting and I read it constantly until the end. What was so interesting? The author is from Canada, the characters were well developed, and it is a story about conjoined twins (yes, siamese twins, but the proper term is conjoined twins). Of [...]

It puts a lot of things in perspective, and makes you look at them a different way. You don’t necessarily agree with the viewpoints, but you can see where they’re coming from. Combined with a twisty plot line, well-developed and believable characters, and shocker ending that isn’t sappy sweet, it all makes for a great novel.

Movie Review: Thank You for SmokingOnce again, I started watching a movie, expecting a documentary (this time about the evils of the tobacco industry). Instead, I was given a delightful thinking comedy movie about the tobacco industry, lobbyists, spin doctors, and the sales industry.
Nick Naylor is the spokesman for the tobacco industry. [...]

Midwives by Chris BohjalianI’m always interested when I see an “Oprah’s Book Club” seal on a novel, and I’ve never yet been disappointed. They are always haunting, thought-provoking, realistic stories. Once again, I was not disappointed.
The story is from the point of view of the 14 year old daughter (Connie) of a Vermont midwife [...]

Cash 4 Books – turn your old books into folding money.I just found a great program to earn some quick money. Most of us know that we can make money on E-bay or Amazon, but that takes creating an account, fees, dealing with customers,and so on. Cash4books will pay you for your books, [...]

The River Why by David James DuncanThis is one of those rare perfect books that I will want to keep forever to loan out to friends in need of enlightenment or encouragement. It has everything: a good storyline; characters that are real, complex and that you would want to meet in real life; it’s funny; [...]

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonThis is a neat little book that I read almost in one day. I found a lot of myself in it. Some of you may think that this statement is odd. After all, it’s about a British girl growing up in a small town under a severely [...]

A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniI was already interested in the book based on a friend’s recommendation, but then I opened it up and found it was written by the same author as The Kite Runner and I was hooked. I loved both of these books.
Both novels are about [...]