Title: Happy Habits Author: Vicki Morris Publisher: InspiredWork LLC Release Date: November 19, 2015 Format: E-Book Pages: 180 If the purpose of writing a self-help book is to help the readers make their lives better in some ways, Vicki Morris’s Happy Habits: Energize Your Life and Career in 4 Minutes a Day should succeed in its aim. Her well-written book is for those who want to be happier in their careers and lives. So Vicki addresses...
Review: Dickens Study Guide by Lee Fisher Gray
Title: Dickens Study Guide Author: Lee Fisher Gray Genre: Reference Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd Release Date: January 28, 2015 Pages: 144 Lee Fisher Gray has done the hard work. He has gleaned for us within the compact structure of a book, details about a multitude of characters from the novels of Charles Dickens. A critic once made the following remark about Charles Dickens’s parents: ‘His father was Mr Micawber; his mother...
Review: Famine, Affluence and Morality by Peter Singer
Title: Famine, Affluence, and Morality Author: Peter Singer Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Release Date: December 1, 2015 Pages: 128 Singer's simple rule that can help you to decide how much to give is this: the amount of money we spend in 'luxuries, not necessities'. My Rating: ★★★★☆ Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence and Morality is essentially an impassioned plea for individual philanthropy. He addresses the people of the...
Review: Straight from the Donkey’s Mouth by Eleni Trataris Cotton
Title: Straight From the Donkey’s Mouth Author: Eleni Trataris Cotton Genre: Travel Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd Release Date: November 14, 2014 Pages: 200 Although Eleni Trataris Cotton's Straight from the Donkey's Mouth is a work of fiction, it almost reads like a travelogue and gives a good view of the present day Greece and its problems. The events of this amusing and delightful piece of fiction take place in Greece. The present...
Review: Reading Chaucer’s Poems: A Guided Selection by Bernard O’Donoghue
Title: Reading Chaucer's Poems: A Guided Selection Author: Bernard O'Donoghue Publisher: Faber & Faber The volume contains extracts from most of Chaucer's major works along with short introductions to the poems and adequate glossaries with word meanings appended at the end of each chapter. My Rating: ★★★★☆ Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems are not easily accessible to the modern readers. His language presents an immediate difficulty...
