New moon
by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon, the sequel to Twilight, is debatably as action packed as the first. In this book, Edward breaks up with Bella, thinking that separating his world from Bella would bring her more safety. This only throws her into a state of depression. Jacob, only an insignificant character in the first book, is the person who helps pull her out of her deep state of depression. Continue reading
by Christopher Paolini
If you don’t know about this book, then here is a short background…
This book is a fantasy adventure novel part of the inheritance series and is a story about a boy named Eragon who lives in a land called Allegasia who discovers an odd stone which turns out to be a dragon egg. This dragon, who he names Saphira, hatches for him and bonds to him at the beginning of this adventure. Upon finding the dragon many changes happen inside him and to those around him pushing the adventure into overdrive. Continue reading
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
This book is remarkable in its future outlook. It was written many years ago projecting around the time of our day. The way he wrote the book a reader might think he had seen forward to our time and seen the iPOD, and LCD televisions.
The story starts on the premise that it has become against the law to own and read books. For many reasons that will be presented this futuristic society simplified things and got rid of radical ideas and anything that might be presented in books that wouldn’t allow things to be nice and simple. Continue reading
Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die: Birding Experts Share The World’s Greatest Destinations
By Chris Santella
If you a bird watcher this is a destination guide for you! This is a book for bird watchers. If your not a bird watcher and want a gift for this is also for you, but otherwise this review isn’t for you.
Santella talks to the luminaries of the bird watching sport and finds out the most amazing places they have been or would go to bird watch. Included with the recommended destinations are travel ideas and tips, but most of all stories about the places that make them even more incredible.
This book is great, especially of you love to scheme and dream about traveling. It also does quite well at including a variety of destinations, not just destinations most people could never even dream about going. About half of the destinations are in the United States making the book even or useful for the average birdwatcher.
My only negative about the book is that there are only 50 spots, and no real information about each area on a broader scale suggesting other close by hot spots and things that can be done around those destinations. Many places listed are only one hot spot among many. Otherwise this is a great book, and a great starting place for finding an incredible place to go birding!
Rating 4/5.
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By Wendell Jamieson
This book is from a dad who decided to find the answers to the questions his inquisitive son had. You get the good, bad and ugly in this book to answer almost all the questions you might expect to get as a parent. Not just that, it offers an introspective into parenting and bigger questions parents will face themselves.
This book is well written and hilarious to read as odd questions and answers roll forth from the mouths of kids and experts.
Fun to read a bit at a time or all the way through, it is a good change from the same old thing you’ve been reading. A must read for everyone.
Rating 5/5.
Collapse – How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By Jared Diamond
Collapse is a book for everyone to read. It isn’t a soft fluffy fairy tail but a serious look at the journey of mankind. It considers where we have been, mistakes we have made along with successes and suggest directions we may be heading unless we make some major and minor course corrections.
This book digs deep into why past societies have failed and what led up to those failures. Diamond then considers how the multitude of failures seen in the past, apparent and not, might be sneaking into our own society. The book isn’t a doom and gloom book but does attempt give an honest perspective on where we are as a society, both good and bad.
I give it a must read and rating of 5/5.
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Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer
This book mainly falls under the category of fiction, and contains a bit of romance. It is a fun, easy, enjoyable novel to read about Bella, a teenage girl, caught up in the world of vampires.
Things begin when the stunning vampire Edward Cullen and the ordinary Bella Swan fall intensely in love. It is naturally highly dangerous for her to be so involved in a world of monsters, and does indeed find herself in quite a bit of trouble. This happens when the Cullen family known as “vegetarian,” have other “natural feeding” of their kind show up.
Overall Rating: 4 of 5
This book is extremely popular, and incredibly accepted especially among women, (it is partially a love story). I do know guys that have read it and most did enjoy it.
In my opinion, the authors voice is a turnoff. I don’t like the repetitive descriptions of particular things, and also I don’t favor the relationship that Bella and Edward share. It is relatively unbalanced. Nonetheless I did quite enjoy the book, and would recommend it. It is certainly a page turner with a captivating story and definitely entertaining.
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The Secret
by Rhonda Byrne
This book falls under the Self Help category…
This book is all about you, as the classification of Genre explains. It is focussed on empowering you as the reader for improving yourself. I truly agree that this is where self improvement will be generated from. Unfortunately I disagree with the further premise that it is basically only yourself that will be able to do anything. I believe in family, god and other factors being a major support to my being able to self improve.
Beyond this the book is a wide collection of inspirational writings that are uplifting and can empower self improvement. It would likely be seen as a great collection of writings for reading every now and then, or a bit each day. I just don’t care for the more subtle messages that it sends. Besides is really any of that a secret at all?
I hope this review doesn’t turn you off if you enjoy this type of book. I usually don’t and it doesn’t get me excited for more overall.
Overall Rating = 2 of 5
Why the 2? I didn’t care for it at all. The genre aside I didn’t like the subtle direction it lead the reader and others may actually find this quite offensive.
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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers
By Martin Evening
This book is all about the use pf Adobe’s new program, Lightroom. If you reading this then you probably know at least what that program is and does for photography. This book is in my opinion a great book for the users of Lightroom. It covers all the basics, and gets into quite advanced functions that Lightroom is capable of. This book will really help you get all of your digital photography moving. This program is amazing powerful and simple, and in turn for a book slash technical manual to live up to the great program then you need something that is really good and this is on par.
This book will cover what you need to get started and help you avoid confusion and waisting time in the use of this program. I highly suggest it. In fact this book will be on my bookself when I get the chance to buy it because it will be a good reference for the program that is easier to use than the users manual.
Overall Rating = 4 of 5
Overall it will not be a waste of time and money if your a Lightroom User and will shorten your learning curve. For me it seemed he could have covered a bit more but overall it was well done.
Some people might actually prefer Scott Kelby’s how to book on Lightroom. I like his books but prefer this one over Kelby’s in this case. It is simply a case of preference for style. Both of these books really will lower the learning curve, but won’t be essential to success. Check out my page for Kelby’s book, or buy it through this link.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers,The (Voices That Matter)
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Everyone else, it is a technical manual that would be a great gift for your loved one who does use the program.
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