My Kindles Contents

Welcome to my little Niche within the library. So grab a coffee and let's review some books. 

                        This is my Kindle collection of books I'm currently reading:

                                                         My Kindle Collection

Collection		Title				Author	total titles
ANGELS
1	Angel over the Right Shoulder					Pellman
2	Angelic Wisdom				Swendonborg
3	Ordinary Angels					Drummon
4	Heaven's Sorrow					Plath, Hannah	4	4
CATS-FICTION
1	Guardian cats and the lost book of Alex				Krambo
2	Saladin the Cat				Kavokin
3	Story of a Cat						3	3
CHRISTMAS
1	A Christmas Carol				Dickens, Charles
2	All I want for Christmas is You				Mondello, Lisa
3	Bah, Humbug				Dickens, Charles
4	Charles Dickens' Children's Stories				Brown Abbie Farwell
5	Christmas Angel				Macomber, Debbie
6	Christmas in Seattle				Pardo, Emilia
7	Cuentos de	Navidad			Macomber, Debbie
8	Falling for Christmas	Christmas			O'Henry
9	Gift of the Magi				Kendrick, John
10	Little Book of Christmas, A				Laird, Phillip
11	Story of Solomon Bear				Clements, Carl	Clarke		12
12	Twas the Night Before Christmas				Horrorocks, Heather		12
CLASSICS
1	A Tale of Two Cities				Dickens, Charles
2	Adventures of Sherlock Holmes				Doyle, Connan
3	Aessop's Fables				Aessop
4	Bleak House				Dickens, Charles
5	Crime and Punishment				Dostoy
6	Eight Cousins				Alcot, Louisa May
7	Great Expectations				Charles Dickens
8	Jane Eyre				Bronte, Charlotte
9	Jo's Boys				Alcot, Louisa May
10	Little Men				Alcot, Louisa May
11	Little Women				Alcot, Louisa May
12	Moby Dick				Melville, Herman
13	Nicholas Nickleby				Dickens, Charles
14	Pride and Prejudice				Austen, Jane
15	Shakespeare's Sonnets				Shakespeare, William
16	The Water Babies				Kingsley, Charles
17	Treasure Island				Stevenson, Louis
							17	17
FAIRY-TALES
1	Beauty and the Beast				LePrince, Maria
2	Children's Book, The				Dickens, Charles
3	Fair Tales every child should Know				Wright, Hamilton
4	Grimm's Fairy Tales				Brothers Grimms
5	Household Tales				Grimm, Jacob
6	The Cuckoo Clock				Molesworth, Mrs
7	The Fairy Godmothers and other Tales				Gatty, G, Mrs
8	The Wind in the Rose Bush				Wilkins, Mary Elenor
9	Witch Stories				Lynn, Elizabeth
10	The Happy Prince and Other Tales				Wild, Oscar
							10	10
FICTION-CONTEMPORARY
1	Ask the Dice				Linskey, Ed
2	Cat Calls				Smith, Cynthia
3	Darkwaters				Fitzpatrick
4	Delivery				Rusk, Diana
5	How to Date a Vampire				Pressey, Rose
6	Lost Ark				Rain, J.R.
7	Moonstone, The				Collins, Willkie
8	Occupy Heaven				Tallman
9	Pet Noi				Nagel, Patti
10	Rascals Sing at the Opera				Puddle, Patricia
11	Room				Donohue, Emma
12	Six Geese A Laying				Kinsella, Sophie
13	Soul Identity				Batchelder, Dennise
14	True Essence				Shawneda, marks
15	Twenty-Two Short Stories				Robinson		16
16	Unitl You				Marton, Sandra		17
17	White Tiger of the Titanic				Garrett		17	17
HALLOWEEN
1	A Story of Mystery Little				Rossiter, J
2	Castle of Otronto				Walpol, Horrace
3	Curse of Anna Greene, the				Aris, Mary
4	Demon of Waker Wood				Dillard, Dan
5	Dracula				Stoker, Bram
6	Dracula's Guest				Stoker, Bram
7	Frankenstein				Shelly, Mary
8	Halloween collection				Macnally, Edward
9	Hidden Witch, A				Geary, Debora
10	Horror at Halloween		Part one		Gordon, John
11	Legend of Sleepy Hollow				Washington, Irving
12	Modern Witch, A				Geary, Debora
13	One Deadly Sister				Housington, Rod
14	Payback's a Witch				Astor, Rachel
15	Scary Mary				Hunter, S.A.
16	Superstitions of Witches				Williams, Howard
17	The Witch and other stories				Checklov
18	Witch Stories				Lynn, E
19	The cupboard Under the Stairs				Knowles, Roger
							19	19
NON-FICTION
1	Easiest Way in Housekeeping				Campbell, Helen
2	100 beauty Tips				Adam, Nichol
3	A Classification and Subject				Melville, Dewey
4	Book of Dreams and Ghosts				Lang, Andrew
5	Book of Tea				Okakura
6	Child's Story of the Bible				A, Mary
7	Crafting Novels and Short Stories				Writer's Digest
8	Fast and Easy Birthday cake Recipies				Roberts, Amy
9	Feasting on the Father				Smith
10	Free Weights and Measures				Mobile Reference
11	History of England Part 1				Hume
12	Holy Bible
13	How to Lead a Holy Life				Orr, Charles
14	How to Sew Basics				Various
15	How to Speak and Write correctly				Devlin
16	How to write 10 pages a Night				Mason
17	Library Primer				Cotton, Dana,
18	Life of Her most Gracious Majesty the Que				Tyler
19	Story of Saint Valentine's Day				Krako
20	Valentine's Day Recipes				E-Kitchen books
21	Wicca: Magical Beginnings				D'Este
22	Word Study and English Grammar				Fredrick, William
23	Write or Die				Nicholson, Scot
ROMANCE							23	23
	After Life Club				Ryan, Jude
1	Book of Romance				Lang, Andrew
2	Boss's Valentine				Graham, Lynn
3	Crying Rose				Beers, B.A.
4	Cupcakes and Cupids				Conner, Jennifer
5	Dancing in the Moonlight				Thayne, Rosanne
6	Devil's Food				Leeburg, Jessica
7	Falling Star				Dempsey, Diana
8	Going to the Chapel				Webb, Debra
9	Golden Acorn				Cooper, Cathrine
10	Holiday Romance				Dickens, Charles
11	Hot Girl's Friend				Scott, Lisa
12	How to Date a Vampire				Pressey, Rose
13	Lady Sophie's Midnight Seduction				McFalls, Dorathy
14	Lesson in Passion				Conner, Jennifer
15	Magic Touch				England, Darla
16	Matchmaker 2.0				Geary, Debora
17	Matchmaker Cat				Kyrne, Elizabeth
18	Meant to Be				King, Tiffany
19	Moonstone, The				Walkie, Collins
20	My Darling Husband, Charlie				Close, Charlie
21	Nasti's Beauty Salon				Estella, Vanessa
23	One I Love, The				Pikinton, Paul
24	Royally Yours				Ryan, Jude
25	Sacred and Profane Love				Bernette, A.
26	Sentence of Marriage				Parkinson, Shavine
27	Shaken: A Romantic				Beason, Pamela
28	Shakespeare's Sonnets				Shakespeare, William
29	Six Geese A Laying				Kinsella, Sophie
30	Slow Hands				Kelly, Leslie
31	Something				Stetson, Ted
32	Strides of Destiny				Garriga, L.
33	Traditional Love				Hensley, Atta
34	Wedding at a King's Convenience				Child, Maureen
35	Week at the Beach				Jewel, Virginia
36	The Lady and the Locksmith				Young, Cody		36	36
37	She's Got to Me Mine				Skully, Jennifer		37	37
SPANISH COLLECTION
1	Don Quixote de La Mancha				Cervantes
2	Spannish Tales for Beginners				Hill
							2	2
							213	213
					Total Sum		426	books

Summer Reads

Welcome to my little Niche within the library. So grab a coffee and let's review some books. Bloody Mary by Ricki Thomas
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Mary Miller was a woman scorned. Fifteen-year-old Mary was in love with her University professor, Harry --a married man. Mary and Harry had a clandestine affair which ended with the pregnancy of Mary Miller. All Mary wanted was to wreck Harry's marriage to Beryl and become Harry's wife. But Mary bore Harry's illegitimate twins, Ana and Andrew only to see both her children taken into adoption. Mary swore that if it took all her life, she would spend it finding her children and destroying the lives of those who tore her dreams to shred. Many years later, Mary swore to destroy the man who ripped her life and the woman who was her rival. Buying a psychic book from a charity shop, Mary posed as a physic, opening her home to desperate women who wanted to know about their loved ones who had passed on. To Mary's delight, Beryl walked into Mary's basement wanting to consult the spiritualist about the fate of her daughter, Sophie. This is where the story really begins and Mary finds out about Sophie. Mary now begins her plans for revenge.

Little did she know it, but her daughter Ana was adopted by Harry and Beryl who renamed the baby Sophie. Sophie married a man who abused her physically as well as mentally. When Mary learned she was her daughter, she put a plan in motion to bring her back into her life. As the story unfolds, Mary uncovers that her son is a police officer who happens to be the officer in charge of Sophie's husband's insurance fraud. It was Alan who first discovered that Sophie was a battered woman. Alan fell in love with Sophie unbeknownst that she was his twin sister. There are a lot of twists and turns in the story, making the story interesting in places. The book touches the theme of vengeance and violence and what it can do to people.

I thought that this was the worst book I had ever read. I did enjoy the story line and the twists up to the first half of the book; but the book was written so badly with lots of grammatical errors. Almost every page was full of grammatical errors. It seemed as if the author took the first draft of the book and published it. The Spanish in the book was taken literally from Google Translations; it did not sound right nor translated right. I am fluent in Spanish and know how to read and write it. Even in the passages where broken Spanish was spoken between English and Spanish characters, the Spanish used didn't translate right. I also didn't like the ending. I felt it was rushed. Also, I didn't think it was believable that Juan Murrilla, the Spanish doctor who attended the battered Sophie in Spain would fall so in love with Sophie so quickly that he decided to marry her in the space of a few days, move to England in the space of a month and leave his doctorate and family behind so swiftly.




A Collection of Cats Tales: A Cat-Lover's Anthology by Ditz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A Collection of Cats Tales is an anthology of cat stories, extracts from varied authors such as William Blake, Emily Dickenson and Lewis Carol; and poems and quotations about cats. This is a beautiful book for any library and a must-have for cat lovers everywhere. The book is beautifully illustrated and hard-bound. I received this book a gift and I truly love it. This is a wonderful addition to my home library!


Recipes For A Perfect Marriage by Morag Prunty
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I truly enjoyed this book! I couldn't put it down as I wanted to find out what happened to the main character's grandmother's romance and the secret behind her arranged marriage.


Young food writer Tressa Nolan wakes up one morning after her honeymoon and realizes that she may have married the gorgeous Dan, a maintenance man in her building out of panic than love. Then Tressa unwraps one of her wedding gifts, her grandmother Bernadine's cook book and diaries. In her grandmother's diaries and cook book, Tressa finds not only her grandmother's recipes but advice on marriage and a secret that her grandmother has been carrying around for years.

Tressa has always idolized her grandmother's cooking and marriage to her grandfather; but Tressa soon discovers that her grandmother wasn't at all happy in her marriage as she led on... until she discovered the truth about why James, the man that she had everyone believe was the ONE she loved except herself, truly married her. The story traverses from 2004 in Manhattan to 1932 in Ireland where young Bernadine first met the man she really loved.
I truly enjoyed this book. I first read it when I first got married and was delighted by this unique and well-written book. Throughout the book there are recipes you can make from Irish Stew to Bernadine's honey cake. In the end there's space to write your own recipes.



Welcome To Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop Of Dreams by Jenny Colgan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Auxiliary Nurse Rosemary Hopkins is asked to give up her London apartment which she shares with her partner, Gerard, to care for her aging great-aunt, Lillian. Lillian Hopkins lives in a quaint little town called Lipton where everyone knows each other's business. At first Rosie was adamant about moving into a strange town to take care of an old lady with a bad hip and try to sell the Sweetshop that her great aunt --a family run old-fashioned sweetshop that Lillian and her father owned in the Town of Lipton. Then Rosie began to meet Lillian's neighbours and little by little she fell in love with the town and it's locals with all their childhood secrets, scandals and family feuds. Soon Rosemary discovered that her London life wasn't all that glamorous; her partner Gerard a Mamma's boy, and there was more to life outside of London than she thought. In Lipton Rosie discovered the true lesson of love; she discovers the real reason her great- aunt never married and in the end finds true love herself and her life's true calling. The book gives you a glimpse into Lillian Hopkins's past when she was a girl in the 1940's, the love she found and lost; and her life as the daughter of the Town's sweetshop owner.

The book is very well-written, descriptive, and each chapter begins with a recipe or rhetoric about classic sweets. I enjoyed the book but I have to admit that I enjoyed the author's previous book better, Meet me at the Cupcake Cafe. I found parts of the book a bit like Meet me at the Cupcake Cafe--a bit familiar and predictable, but over-all a nice story. I expected more recipes for confectionary sweets as the author included in her previous book; but instead there were only two to three recipes in this book; the other chapters began with rhetoric on conventional confections. The characters come to life and it is hard not to identify with them. I cannot wait to read Colgan's new book, Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe.