Reviews of "the monk who sold his ferrari"

I resisted reading "The monk who sold his ferrari" by Robin Sharma for a long time because I thought the title was gimmicky. I realized that I was being closed to new ideas by literally judging a book by its cover and title so I picked up the book. However, now I am glad I read the book because it gave me access to age-old wisdom in an easy-to-read fable. The book is about Julian Mantle, a high profile lawyer who imparts the wisdom taught to him by some Himalayan gurus via a fable. The fable starts in a magnificient garden with a lighthouse in the middle of the grounds. Out of the lighthouse walks a 9 foot tall 900 pound Sumo Wrestler who falls on a stop watch that's been lying on the floor and loses consciousness. The wrestler then wakes up to the fresh gragrence of the yellow roses coming from a distance which he proceeds to look for. Thus he discovers that there is a diamond studded pathway which he takes...
Buy the book at Better Books to read this exciting story and find your inner-soul!

By intern, Priyanka Oberoi

This book takes you from the life of a busy American lawyer who faces a "near- to- death" experience to the vast ranges of the Himalayas in a quest to relieve himself physically as well as spiritually. But nothing is free, as the monks tell him, and so he is asked to return and spread the secrets of Yoga to the people in return. So he goes and gives all the secrets to his best friend.

By intern, Mustafa Bokesmati

Review of "Where Rainbow's end"

The most spectacular fact about "Where Rainbow's end" is that its entirely made up of notes, emails, letters, Im's etc. This book by Best selling author of "Cecelia Ahern" follows the story of Alex and Rosie's friendship since childhood. But can they handle remaining best friends forever once they grow up or will life's troubles create rifts between them? Or are they meant to be more just best friends? The way this amazing romantic comedy has been written gives us an insight into their private lives by making us feel like part of the story. This is definitely a book to pick up if you are into Romantic Comedy and if you liked "PS I love you" you will LOVE this!
Pick it up at Better Books for only KD 2.000!

By intern, Khadeeja Narangoli

Review of The Children's Book of Virtues.

What a wonderful book. A book full of stories with morals you would like your child to learn. It is the ideal storybook for the parents and children to read together. Virtues such as courage, responsibility and compassion are discussed in a very interesting manner. By this book the author aims to teach the children some morals which should be grown in the child’s personality in order to be a better person in future.The book is just 3 KD. Written by William J. Bennett.By intern Mohamed Fouad.

This book edited by William J. Bennett is a great book for children because it teaches children about virtues which  is the most important thing, in my opinions at least. This book teaches children about virtues such as courage, responsibility, perseverance, responsibility, work, self- discipline, compassion, faith, honesty, loyalty and friendship. I would recommend this book for two reasons- firstly, because virtues are very important for children and secondly this store will buy me an Iphone if this book sells!

By intern, Adeeb Mohd

Review of Salt by Interns

Did you know that salt can save your money ? Did you know that salt can clean your teeth.. There are lot more uses of salt than you might even know. Christine Halvorson's "Salt " shares over 100 terrific tips and tricks using salt. Salt can help you escape the trouble.. If you want the to hide the blood on your shirt from your folks or even clean the stains you spilled on the carpet, salt provides you with 100's of solutions. So, come and buy "Salt" to insure yourself.
- By intern Dayyan.

Review: Over 100 helpful household hints with salt.

That is such an awesome book. A book which gives you a 100 solution for your household using the most found element used in our food namely “salt”.  Solutions varying from cleaning the kitchen with salt to using salt for your dogs and pets. This book is a must-buy for housewives. The book also contains recipes for youngsters such as:

“Salt dough:
1 cup salt
4 cups all purpose flour
Medium bowl
1.5 cup water
Rolling pin2 tablespoons veg. oil” (continuation will be found in the book when you purchase it.)

The book is a 1.5 K.D. hard cover book written by Christine Halvorson. – 
by intern Mohamed fouad

Diary entry from an intern for the 10th of June

Today was a very busy day for us! We got some amazing books by bestseller authors such as Robert Harris, Robert Ludlum and Lee Child and we ended up meeting a few new customers as well. Also, since today the gavel club and toastmasters were also in sessions we ended up meeting a lot of kids as well (and discreetly picking up a few public speaking techniques too ;P).
Also, tonight was the first movie night. 'Rio' was on today and we had a few kids who came in to watch it, hopefully we'll end up with a lot more people for the next movie ("Eat, Pray, Love' on Wednesday from 6.30) though because then only will it truly seem like a proper movie night!
So come one, come all on Wednesday!

By intern, Khadeeja Narangoli

Thoughts on "Razpunzel"

This is a book about parents who longed for a child and when they finally for a child, what did they do? They messed it up by creeping into an enchantress' garden and stealing some mere vegetables. They lost their much wanted child simply because of their greed! If they had been able to suppress their greed for a vegetable (!), they wouldn't have lost their child to the evil witch and have her locked up for so long. But then again, if that hadn't happened she wouldn't have met her prince. So what is the moral of the story? Be greedy and your daughter might get a prince?
-Adeeb

This book talks about two parents who always longed for a child. They were afraid that they would never get one but one day they were finally blessed with a child. During this period the monther became impatient and greedy and ended up sacrificing her daughter to the evil enchantress for some rapunzels. But then, they got their daughter back PLUS a prince. And so they lived happily ever after!
-Raed

Why would you subject your children to a fascist book like this? Hidden under the pretense of a children's fairytale, is a book dealing with dehumanizing babies to be bartered with vegetables, and using the long and beautiful hair of the enslaved "daughter" to climb up the tall castle she is enslaved in, and feeding her lies to make sure that she stays with the enchanted witch. All I can say is, the evil enchantress kinda sounds like an old day pedohile
-Khadeeja

Rapunzel is the story of an evil enchantress who apparently wants a baby daughter so bad that she tricked the parents into bartering her for vegetables which the greedy parents readily agreed with. However that ended up with Rapunzel getting the man of her dreams so maybe parents what you need to do to ensure a good husband for your daughters is to give them away to witches! Its a pity we don't find as many witches around though.
-Mustafa

Rapunzel is a story full of morals to be taught to kids such as if an old lady raises you and she hides you in a tall castle, that is not your real mother she is an KIDNAPPER! And seriously? The prince is a PRINCE, couldn't he get like the army or something and attack the enchantress and free the princess? I honestly, can't believe this is a classic fairytale!
-Mohammad

Review of "Rachel's holiday" by Marian Keyes

One of my favorite books by Irish author Marian Keyes, this book deals with Rachel's life and her problem with drug addiction. We go through this book from Rachel's perspective, amd so as the book starts out we believe, as does Rachel, that her problem isn't as severe as her parents, boyfriend and best friend makes it out to be. Yet to please her parents (and to possibly meet some celebrities) she allows herself to be admitted into Cloisters, Ireland's answer to the Betty Ford clinic and there we discover how much she was actually addicted to using chemicals to deal with life's trouble and the kind of person that turned her into.

As Boston Globe says this is a "hilarious...coming-of-age journey of love and self discovery...propelled by its unforgettable heroine". This is romantic comedy at its best and definitely a must- by! Add it to your collection from Better Books for only KD 3.750!