Kamasutra PDF, a free ebook download
Posted on Wednesday, July 10th, 2013
Today we offer a very special book as a free download: the Kamasutra in pdf format! Who doesn’t know this world famous book of love written by Vātsyāyana in ancient times? The book, originally written in Sanskrit, is considered as the ‘de facto’ work on love and human relationships.
continue readingBook Review: Blow by Bruce Porter
Posted on Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
‘Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All’ by Bruce Porter tells the real story of George Jung, who was the largest importer of cocaine to the United States in the 70s and 80s.
continue readingBook Review: The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Posted on Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
After finishing my bachelors degree, and still undecided about whether or not I wanted to pursue a masters degree, I decided to take online classes to keep up my writing skills. I was lucky enough in one of these classes to be given the assignment of reading Yann Martel’s Fantasy/Adventure novel The Life of Pi.
continue readingBook Review: First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
Posted on Friday, October 5th, 2012
‘First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers’ is the true story and autobiography of Loung Ung, who’s childhood ended abruptly when Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge seized power over Cambodia in april 1975. Loung Ung was just 5 years old at the time and living a worry free life in Cambodia’s capital Phnom [...]
continue reading8 of the Greatest Books about Dystopian Futures
Posted on Friday, August 31st, 2012
There are a number of dystopian books available; most of them have been classed as science fiction. But before you go and purchase one of these books, it’s important to understand what dystopian novels are about.
continue readingBook Review: The Miracle of Wild Oregano by Dr. Cass Ingram
Posted on Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
The Miracle of Wild Oregano is a non-fiction book that will teach you everything about the wild oregano plant (also called origanum vulgare), a very powerful natural medicine. This plant should not be confused with the more common oregano plant (Origanum marjoram) which is mainly cultivated and will rarely be found in the wild.
continue readingBook Review: We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Posted on Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Whenever a film is made of a book I cringe a little. I have very seldom seen a film that is as good as, let alone better than, the original book. I have taken to avoiding film adaptations of books, and whenever a new movie in this genre appears I resolutely look away, or in [...]
continue readingBook review: Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Posted on Saturday, November 26th, 2011
Esi Edugyan is a renowned Canadian author of Ghanaian descent. Her newest novel Half-Blood Blues was published earlier this year and has found itself on the short lists of many celebrated awards from the Man Booker Prize to the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and it walked away with one of Canada’s leading literary [...]
continue readingBook review: We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen
Posted on Friday, January 28th, 2011
The author and political commentator Carsten Jensen hails from the Danish town of Marstal, in the South of Funen Archipelago, and it’s the people of this coastal town, and their relationship to the sea, that forms the central thread of the novel.
continue readingFree books friday week 2 – Alice in wonderland by Lewis Caroll
Posted on Friday, January 14th, 2011
In this week’s Free Book Friday, we focus on one of the most influential classic novels in the fantasy genre: Alice in wonderland (or in full: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland). This 1865 novel, written by English Author Lewis Caroll, is listed in the public domain, which means that the book is freely available to the [...]
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