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This summer brings us a lot of great epic fantasy novels both from established authors continuing their series and from new authors with fresh new stories and worlds for you to discover. This article gives you recommendations from among the best and most promising. The Masters release their sequels this summer Many famous and established  [ 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 ]

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 ]

Title and Author: Books Are Tremendous by Charlie “Tremendous” Jones Synopsis of Content: The late Charlie “Tremendous” Jones was a lover of books and dedicated to self improvement and self education through reading and study. Jones was born in Alabama and grew up in Pennsylvania. He was a super salesman and publisher. He also maintained  [ Read More ]

Word “bestseller” brings to mind flashing cameras, high society, and the author surrounded by celebrities. Sociologists ignore the buzz, and instead try to use bestsellers lists to divine trends and wisdom about our society. If Amazon Bestsellers 2010 are any indication, the only clear trend would be a conservative revival in the United States. The  [ Read More ]

The modern information age has us all dizzy with information flow. Everywhere you look there is more of it, so much you could never review it all, and so much of it is not worth the paper, blog or TV ticker strip it was written on. So, what should one read? Well, recently, I asked  [ Read More ]

You probably have to write book reviews in school. When I was a kid, I used to hate to write them. But now I use book reviews that other people have written all the time. They help me to decide which books I want to read next. So if you’re a kid and you have  [ Read More ]

Desperate for attention from “boys” to give some meaning to her life, Kerry Cohen turned to sex at a young age as a way to feel worthwhile. Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity is about Cohen’s addiction to sex and male attention. She wanted to matter to someone (anyone). Abandoned by a mother who left  [ Read More ]

How much can happen to one boy in the space of a few years of his life? A lot, if you are the stuff that legends are made of. The legend is Jeffrey Lionel Magee, also known as Maniac Magee, in the book by the same name, by Jerry Spinelli. He was born in an  [ Read More ]