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Book Reviews
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Inside Clubbing: Sensual Experiments in the Art of Being Human
Casey16 August 2009
If you live clubbing you will love this book. I agree with the previous reviewer. It is the best book I have read so far, it understands clubbing, how good it feels and why it changed my life. It is beautifully written, funny, intelligent and obviously written by someone who knows how to party!!
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Trekkies, Trekkers, and Red Shirts: Fans, Dealers, and Supporting Actors in the World of Star Trek
James Duriga13 August 2009
I think it's an excellent book, but as one of the editors, I am a little biased. It has been so popular at the last 2 Star Trek Las Vegas conventions that we're doing a sequel.
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Imelda Greene01 August 2009
This is certainly an innovative book. Fantasy/ Sci-Fi has definitely entered a new realm with this Novel. Very, very impressive!
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Faizan Sadiq01 August 2009
A plethora of the wonderful rants of Russell T Davies which still cease to amaze to this very day. Equipped with witty humour, gossip, emails and the occasional criticism, Russell's story on his exceptional writing career brings joy to your everyday life. As well as this, Russell provides us with his view on things and his humorous illustrations, showing us the insights on what could have been shown in the hit UK TV series, Doctor Who.
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Janet Ives30 July 2009
Sure to appeal to fans of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series, Marked is the first book in P.C. and Kristin Cast's House of Night series. Marked as a vampire, teenager Zoey Redbird has to leave behind her friends, not to mention her unpleasant family life, to attend the House of Night, a school for vampires. Once at this new school, Zoey makes friends with her roommates Stevie Rae, intelligent student Damien and Shaunee and Erin, collectively known as the Twins although they are not biologically related. Since high school has to come with at least a certain level of angst, Zoey also makes an enemy in the form of popular older student Aphrodite as the two are rivals for the affections of school dreamboat Erik Night. The storyline is a bit predictable and very much aimed at the teen market but Marked is a very promising start to the series and should appeal to fans of vampire stories and general supernatural tales.
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Joanne Leddington30 July 2009
The Girl Who Played with Fire is the second book in Stieg Larsson's excellent Millennium trilogy, the first book being The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the final, as yet unpublished in English, book being The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. Mikael Blomkvist is the editor of Millennium magazine and has made exposing the secrets and shady dealings of Swedish public figures the central theme of his career. Given this pedigree, it comes as no surprise that Blomkvist jumps at the chance to help a young journalist who is investigating sex trafficking in Sweden and those in public office who abuse underage girls. Although he doesn't know it, Blomkvist's work is being followed by Lisbeth Salander, the eponymous 'Girl' of the trilogy, who has hacked into his computer. While Blomkvist and his team of journalists investigate the Swedish sex industry, Salander, incensed by the case studies of teenage prostitutes that she finds on Blomkvist's computer, takes matters into her own hands. Salander plots fitting punishments for the traffickers but, before she can act, she is accused of three murders, all connected to the sensational articles about to be published in Millennium, and must go on the run to avoid capture by the police. Although he can't track her down, Blomkvist is pretty much certain that Salander is innocent and so sets out to clear her name and eventually discovers that she is far more embroiled in the investigation than he ever imagined. The Girl Who Played with Fire is a very gritty crime novel, at times undeniably disturbing, but is still really compulsive reading, so much so that for a pretty long book the 569 action-packed pages just fly by. I can't wait to read The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest and I really hope that both Blomkvist and Salander find some closure at the end of the trilogy.
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Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson)
Nariece25 July 2009
Oh yes, another cracker. I began reading it hours after I bought it, and had a laugh. I then read it aloud to my friends, and they had a laugh too. hahahaha. I have loved the whole series, and this is a great end. I wish it wouldn't. I met Louise Renninson, and she was really friendly and funny. Anyone who hasn't read these books, really should! Its better than reading twilight, which is what everyone seems to be reading at the moment, and will make you giggle. Good stuff!!!!
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John Lynch25 July 2009
This book has raised the bar in the fantasy genre. A splendid mix of action, escapism and relevant social issues. Completely original take on a tired genre, with characters we can all relate to. Wonderful novel.
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Jack Barnes23 July 2009
This is a very interesting idea and the 'magical' aspects are far better thought through and much more original than Harry Potter stories, but I found it increasingly irritating to read because it's so badly edited. Some of the sentences are really badly constructed and so many sentences end in question marks when they are not actually questions that I can only assume Sarah Singleton ends her own spoken sentences in that upward inflection so beloved of our semi literate youth and Australian soap opera stars. This is frustrating because I want my kids to read stuff that's well, thought through and well written and which sets good examples to them of how and why to write. This is a good book, but it could have been brilliant.
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The Pearl in the Grass: A Story from China
Jack Barnes23 July 2009
This is a chinese folk tale about a little boy and his widowed mother. The little boy, Sheng, has to cut and sell wild grass for a living and when a drought hits the land it looks like they'll starve - until he finds a patch of grass growing magically in the desert.
We bought this as a result of the author visiting my daughters' school, and I'm so glad we did. John Harris is a storyteller and you can tell from the way this is written - it has rhythm, pace and a lot of charm. The story is a lovely one but I think what's clever is the way he's retold it in a way that really brings it to life and makes it easy for parents to read to their kids and for kids then to read to themselves. It also has excellent illustrations.
