Haunting
Book title: Still Life with Crows
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Having read this a few weeks ago, I'm impressed by the fact that a number of the images from this well-crafted, fun tale keep popping up unbidden in my mind as though I'd seen Still Life With Crows The Movie as opposed to simply having read a book. Preston & Child know how to turn a mere story into an addictive thrill. Every little detail has nuance and meaning that becomes clear as the story continues. As soon as I'd finished it, I wanted to read it again. A must for any Agent Pendergast fan, and a delightful setting for a P&C story--the wholesome cornfields of a dying small town as opposed to the Gothic creepiness and convenience of New York. Clever as hell, loads of fun, educational as well as entertaining. Brilliant, witty, and nearly exhausting as you race to the end just to find out who did it and how. Classic P&C.
EAN: 9780446612760
Pages: 592
Publisher: Warner Books
Authors:
Douglas Preston
Lincoln Child
Very nice, useful style
Book title: Differential Geometry
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
I really like this book. I checked out Manfredo P. Do Carmo'sfrom the library and bought this one, and I prefer this one just oncontent. The concepts are explained in a very approachable style and in a nice order to give you an understanding of diff. geometry as well as what you might use it for.. This is not a math text for just math in my opinion. This is geared for you to use differential geometry. I thought most of the concepts are explained nicely but it doesn't hurt to read another book to get another point of view. One advantage this book has over a number of others is that every answer to the exercises is in the back of the book with a very nice solution.. If you're interested in the subject I think this book is a great deal.
EAN: 9780486667218
Pages: 366
Publisher: Dover Publications
Authors:
Erwin Kreyszig
The Best of Friends
Book title: Summer Sisters
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
The Best of FriendsJudy Blume' s Summer Sisters is a book I would read over and over again. I give this book a rating of five stars. It is a book that will make you realize how important best friends are to a person. The book is about two girls who become the best friends over the summer and who spend every summer on the vineyard. They go through love and lust. They have the best of times and help each other through the worst, yet hate each other at times. Anyone who has a best friend and knows how hard it is to hold on would like to read this book. A young person or an adult would like this book. It is a book that can help you through some hard times and make you realize how important friends can be. The theme of this book is that you have to cherish the friends that you have and don't take advantage of them. You have to respect people and treat them like gold.
EAN: 9780440226437
Pages: 399
Publisher: Dell
Authors:
Judy Blume
This is a must read!
Book title: Johnny Voodoo (Laurel-Leaf Books)
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Johnny VooDoo was by far one of the best books I have read. Not many books will get me reading to the point where I don't want to stop until it's finished. Dierdre is an outcast in her town. She just moved there and she has no friends. She feels all alone between her home and school worlds and her mother had died years before. Then she meets Johnny and everyhting changes for Dierdre and she learns a valuable lesson. True love always lasts. But is the love between her and Johnny true love or is it just a game. Will their love last?
EAN: 9780440219989
Pages: 208
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Authors:
Dakota Lane
a moving, human portrait
Book title: The View from Alger's Window : A Son's Memoir
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
This is not a book about the guilt or innocence of Alger Hiss. It is a book about growing up with an enormously playful, intelligent and kind father who was demonized by the media and popular thought. It is a tragedy that Alger Hiss's incarceration was the turning point in his relationship with his son, Tony.Tony Hiss did not write THE VIEW FROM ALGER'S WINDOW about the Hiss case; he wrote it about his relationship with his father. It is moving, beautifully written, fascinating -- a window into the mind of a man whom few knew, and into the boy who now, as a father himself, looks back at his own childhood.Those who see this book as anything other than that are grossly deluded.
EAN: 9780375401275
Pages: 256
Publisher: Knopf
Authors:
Tony Hiss
The BEST book on non-j2ee java.
Book title: A Programmer's Guide to Java (tm) Certification
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
I have read over a dozen books on the java and this by far the best one for learning the language in its entirety. Obviously, this book can't cover everything but it gives a very thorough and in-depth introduction. If you can only have one book on java 2, make this the one you pick. Many other books on the subject waste tons of space with simple examples that aren't very informative. This book cuts through the nonsense and gives you all it can in its 700 pages. Great explanations, Great Code Samples, all around top notch.
EAN: 0785342596144
Pages: 688
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Authors:
Khalid A. Mughal
Rolf W. Rasmussen
Great book! Touching Story.
Book title: The Birds' Christmas Carol
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
My grandmother had this book when I was a little girl, I must have read it or had it read to me 1,000 times at least. I loved it but when she moved into a nursing home and her home was cleaned out, it disappeared and I have never been able to find it again. The story was one I could never forget and never tire of hearing. It touched my heart as a little girl and I will always cherish the times Gram would read it to me on a cold winter night. It is definitely a story to share with your loved ones as a Christmas tradition. I know I will when I have a family.
EAN: 9780395072059
Pages: 80
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Authors:
Kate Douglas Wiggin
I finally understand men!
Book title: Men, Women and Relationships (Harperspotlight)
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
I read this book while my boyfriend (now my fiance) and I were taking some time apart. Not only did this book help me to understand and interpret his behavior; it helped me to understand my OWN behavior in relationships. I realized how so often we try to give so much to the other person, but our efforts fall on deaf ears because men and women DO NOT want the same things. This book served as a true epiphany, and I use John's tips everyday in my happy, successful relationship.
EAN: 9780061010705
Pages: 336
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Authors:
John Gray
Such finely aged spirits!
Book title: Blue at the Mizzen
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Audio Cassette
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Audio Cassette
So seemingly effortless, yet so rich in every phrase --- O'Brian is again at the top of his form; not just the tale he tells, but also the way he throws off ideas, characters, and plot with brief phrases that sing together so sweetly. It's a rare fine wine, enjoyed best by those who have developed a taste for it in the first twenty volumnes. Aubrey has aged, and has grown more silent, more brooding, the aging man of action losing some of his physical prowess, his ambition, but with habits of courage so deeply ingrained; Maturin the aging philosophe, brought to life not only by his spirited study of the natural world but also by the discovery of his aging heart's new trilling at the thought of Ms Woods. God, this stuff is great!
EAN: 9780001055810
Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
Authors:
Patrick O'Brian
My Review For Hatchet
Book title: Hatchet
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
Hatchet is about a 13-year-old guy named Brian Robeson. Brian is going to his father's house for the summer because his parents are divorced. But when the plane crashes in the middle of a lake Brian finds himself in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. He must learn to survive with little more than a hatchet, the clothes on his back, and hope that he will soon be rescued. But soon the hope is gone. He must learn to survive with the secret about why his parents got divorced. The secret that gives him nightmares and makes hate rush into his veins. But he has to go on no matter what happens. He must learn to trust his instincts and senses. He has to learn to hunt, fish, and tell which berries are good enough to eat. But most importantly he must learn to listen to nature. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is one of the best books I have ever read. I garuntee that you will love it.
EAN: 9780027701302
Pages: 208
Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Authors:
Gary Paulsen
