Reality TV is going to get so far out of hand one day, people won’t be satisfied unless someone gets killed. Check that - in Caine Black Knife, we’re way beyond that. Reality shows take place in their own pocket universe with gods who grant powers to those who serve them, and Caine, an assassin with heightened reflexes, becomes

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T.S. Eliot's essay 'Religion and Literature' presents his views about the issue of viewing literature from the theological point of view. Eliot was of the opinion that literary criticism should be there from ethical and theological angles too and not only from literary perspective.
This post is a key to understanding T.S. E

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According to the dictionary: deep knowledge of things, natural or acquired; erudition; rectitude.

According to the New Testament: For God’s folly is beyond the wisdom of men, and God’s weakness is beyond their strength. For consider, brothers, what happened when God called you. Not many of you were what men call wise, not ma

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The shortlist of the much awaited awards - Man Booker Prize for this year (2008) has been announced. The following are the six shortlisted entries:
Aravind Adiga’s ‘The White Tiger’
Sebastian Barry’s ‘The Secret Scripture’
Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Sea of Poppies’
Linda Grant’s ‘The Clothes on their Backs’
Philip Hensher’s ‘The Nort

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What are you doing to add content to your dating site? Here’s an interesting book/author for you to consider talking to. Adryenn Ashley is author of “Every Single Girl’s Guide to Her Future Husband’s Last Divorce”.

I’m like a lot of future second wives. I postponed getting married until I found the right man, but it took a l

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America’s cooking culture really gained momentum in the 1950s as homemakers were preparing economic meals for their families at home. Entire families took advantage of the dinner meal to gather around the table and discuss the events of the day. Cookbooks and the recipes they contained played an important role in this social in

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John Gray's book 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus' is as relevant today as it was when published in 1992. It is a must read for clearly understanding the difference between men and women - how they react to different situations, what their language means (although they might be using same words); and this understandi

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If you like Sex and the City and vampires you will love Kimberly Raye’s new novel, Just One Bite: A Dead-End Dating Novel. This novel is the fourth book in the series of Dead-End Dating Novels, however it is very easy to read and enjoy without reading the previous three. The novel is narrated by a born-vampire named Lil March

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According to USA Today, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has won her claim that a fan violated her copyright with his plans to publish a Potter encyclopedia.

Rowling filed a lawsuit against RDR Books, a Michigan-based company, last year over the Harry Potter Lexicon on the grounds that it lifted huge portions of her stories

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A shot story, really just a paragraph, describing the visit of a rich family to a poor home, and the surprising interpretation by the "wealthy" son. A nice read. It is hard to give a long description of such a short story without giving away, or paraphrasing the whole thing, so I strongly recommend that you take a moment to

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Detective Inspector Chen has taken a long deserved vacation and left Seneschal Zhu Irzh on his own in Singapore Three. Although at first excited about his new assignment, Zhu has quickly grown bored so he couldn’t be happier when a mysterious mutilation murder is assigned to him. He’s barely begun his investigation when the vic

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Incandescence, the long-awaited novel by science fiction writer Greg Egan, is much like his other works in that it is a paean to science. Indeed, the entire plot is based on the idea that the road to scientific exploration and discovery leads to personal satisfaction.

Egan depicts two separate journeys on that road, that of

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Heaven, Hell and Earth coexist in the world of Singapore Three, a balmy coastal metropolis on the edge of the South China Sea. Here where technology and religion go hand in hand, Detective Inspector Chen Wei of Singapore Three’s Police Department is the specialist for cases involving the supernatural and other crimes of magic a

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Two murders form a tenuous link to the present and a centuries' old mystery in Brad Meltzer's The Book of Lies. Meltzer, the author of bestselling novels and comic books, weaves fact and fiction together in his latest thriller.

In the first fratricide of recorded history, Cain slays his brother Abel; the murder weapon is n

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Now that the long awaited final book of the Twilight series has been published, eager fans want more...it doesn't look like they are going to get anything more for a long, long time.

Due to an illegal post on the internet of a partial draft of Midnight Sun, Stephanie Meyer is putting the book on hold indefinitely according

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