Over the last twenty years there has been a lot of Star Wars books released and I have managed to read most of them. While there has been some real pearls, they have also been a lot of duds. Here are some of them. 1. Planet of Twilight. This book was painful, so painful that [ Read More ]
I always hated my History classes. I learned early on that History was a dull, mundane subject most often taught in monotone by a bearded, middle-aged man with rancid coffee breath. The tedious tasks of reading massive text books and answering summary questions at the end of each chapter, all while the “teacher” read the [ Read More ]
The biggest leap forward in my trading came when I began to think like a trader. This important realization was a result of training my brain to think in terms of probabilities. The best book hands down (for me at least) that helped me think this way was Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas. [ Read More ]
Meet Polly Perks. She is about to find out that becoming a boy sounds easy, it even looks easy from studying the boys at her family’s inn, but actually chopping off your hair and wearing trousers is not quite all there is to it. Still, she has to find her lost brother. And in order [ Read More ]
Handling Storms at SeaBy Hal RothAdlard Coles NauticalHardcover, 269 pages The topic of storm tactics has been debated for years. What is the best thing to do when the wind and the waves pick up: Heave-to, run off, lie-a-hull or drop a sea anchor from the bow or drogue from the stern? Now, author, cruiser [ Read More ]
Have you ever wanted to learn all the scientific research behind the new age, new wave healing techniques that everyone is always raving about? Have you ever wanted to learn about it, perhaps even try it? Well if so, then I sure have a great book to recommend to you: “The New Age of Healing” [ Read More ]
Decodable phonic books are the main teaching resource used in schools throughout the UK when teaching children how to read. High quality phonic books should be written in line with UK Department of Education guidelines and should be published ideally with accompanying worksheets, CDs and other materials. Marlene Greenwood is the respected author and illustrator [ Read More ]
The printing press was invented over five centuries ago and since then very little has been done to further the process of reading. Books were bound and put together in more organized and colourful ways, but ultimately, they were still books which were awkward, burdensome and heavy. Finally, with the recent increases in technology, audio [ Read More ]
John Foster Fraser’s “Round the World on a Wheel” may be the first serious cycling book written. Fraser and two companions left London from St Pancras’ Church in 1896 and spent two years cycling across Europe, Asia and America on their sturdy road-bikes before returning to the same spot by what was then one of [ Read More ]
Iain M. Banks and Ray Bradbury are two very different Science-fiction writers of the 20th century, and novelists that I have actually read! I distinctly remember seeing Scottish writer Iain Banks first novel in a bargain-basement bin at Woolworths back in the late 80s. The novel was called ‘The Wasp Factory’ (1984), and it had [ Read More ]
