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Paint the Sky With Stars
The Best of Enya
This book by Enya, contains an excellent collection of classic song transcribed to piano sheet music, including The Memory of Trees, and Paint the Sky with Stars. These songs are incredible to listen to, and make excellent performance pieces on the piano. Continue Reading »
Jon Schmidt
New Age Classical Piano Solos, Including Waterfall and Tribute
Well, our website states that we are dedicated to reviewing books: of all kinds. So here is the first of my favorite Piano books.
Jon Schmidt is today’s classical composer. I generally refer to his genre as modern classical. This book is a combination of probably his most popular compositions, and certainly some of my favorites. Continue Reading »
Eclipse
by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse is the third edition to the Twilight series, and not the last.
In this book, Victoria is as vicious and determined to kill Bella as ever. There is the stress of when, and if, Bella will actually be turned into a vampire, (Edward refuses to change her until she marries him; a revolting idea to Bella), when will the Volturi will arrive, and also the newest problem: Who is creating a new army of vampires, and why? Continue Reading »
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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