The Lost World
byI have read and enjoyed most of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mystery stories. This is the first time I am reading one…
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The Power of a Chocolate-Chip Cookie
byA very interesting article in the New York Times attempts to explain how and why we end up overeating. Dr. Kessler is the head…
Virginia Woolf’s Superb Way with Words
byWhat beautifully-worded sentences and with so much meaning. They don’t make them like her anymore… Without self–confidence we are as babes in the cradle….
The Good Guy
byAlways on the prowl for a good suspense thriller writer ala John Sandford or Michael Connelly, I stumbled onto Dean Koontz, and took a…
Happy Birthday, Salman Rushdie
bySalman Rushdie’s birthday is apparently a sign for Islamic fundamentalists to once again bring up death threats. These death threats first happened 20 years…
A Simple way to Lose Weight?
byWas recently loafing at Odyssey book store, when I happened to come across this diet book displayed very prominently amongst the Bestsellers section. I…
The Reader
byThis is the book on which the Oscar award winning movie starring Kate Winslet has been made. This is also an Oprah book club…
9 Diving into the World of Magyk
byOf late, I have been reading many Fantasy novels, so while doing this review, I could not help but compare Magyk to other books…
The Bartimaeus Trilogy
byMy obsession with the Fantasy genre of novels shows no signs of abating. In the last couple of weeks, I have been immersed in…
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
byYou can read this slim book (only about 65 pages or so, depending on the edition) within a couple of hours-totally easy reading, but…