Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“I’ve never gotten over you. Ever. Not one day passed that I didn’t think about you. For me, you’re the love of my life. Wherever you are is exactly where I want to be.” ― Kindle Alexander - "Double Full" I was really excited to read this book after I read the blurb. I've never... Continue Reading →
“I’ve never gotten over you. Ever. Not one day passed that I didn’t think about you. For me, you’re the love of my life. Wherever you are is exactly where I want to be.” ― Kindle Alexander - "Double Full" I was really excited to read this book after I read the blurb. I've never... Continue Reading →
“So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life.” ― Roger Ebert Summary: Sitting in a Michigan airport bar and licking his wounds after a brutal cyber-dumping and clash with his alcoholic mother, Deacon Miller doesn’t think things could get any worse. He certainly didn’t imagine the night could get better, but... Continue Reading →
“So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life.” ― Roger Ebert Summary: Sitting in a Michigan airport bar and licking his wounds after a brutal cyber-dumping and clash with his alcoholic mother, Deacon Miller doesn’t think things could get any worse. He certainly didn’t imagine the night could get better, but... Continue Reading →
“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.” ― Charles Morgan BLURB: Bryce is the adorable young thing that Dustin knows he shouldn’t want. He should be looking for a man his own age. Someone with a future. Someone with a real job. But no matter how hard he tries, no... Continue Reading →
“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.” ― Charles Morgan BLURB: Bryce is the adorable young thing that Dustin knows he shouldn’t want. He should be looking for a man his own age. Someone with a future. Someone with a real job. But no matter how hard he tries, no... Continue Reading →
“All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Summary: Luke Schumacher is a computer programme designer, working from home and leading a simple life in a humble apartment complex. One day he receives a newspaper with a hidden message in... Continue Reading →
“All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Summary: Luke Schumacher is a computer programme designer, working from home and leading a simple life in a humble apartment complex. One day he receives a newspaper with a hidden message in... Continue Reading →
“I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.” ― Fernando Pessoa April 25, 2010 That’s the first time I read Jane Seville’s one and only novel, Zero at the Bone. The second, third, and fourth times I... Continue Reading →
“I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.” ― Fernando Pessoa April 25, 2010 That’s the first time I read Jane Seville’s one and only novel, Zero at the Bone. The second, third, and fourth times I... Continue Reading →
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” ― Rainer Maria Rilke In Holed Up Mark Beecher inadvertently hears a terrorist plotting an attack on the US through the outdated ventilation system in his apartment building. After waffling back and forth for sometime, Mark goes to the FBI with... Continue Reading →
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” ― Rainer Maria Rilke In Holed Up Mark Beecher inadvertently hears a terrorist plotting an attack on the US through the outdated ventilation system in his apartment building. After waffling back and forth for sometime, Mark goes to the FBI with... Continue Reading →
“[Heroes] rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances. Heroes rarely think. Heroes just act.” – Aleksandr Voinov BLURB: When he was sixteen years old, Rich Miller saved a young man from drowning at his local pool. Little did he know that years later, as a senior in college and Olympic... Continue Reading →
“[Heroes] rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances. Heroes rarely think. Heroes just act.” – Aleksandr Voinov BLURB: When he was sixteen years old, Rich Miller saved a young man from drowning at his local pool. Little did he know that years later, as a senior in college and Olympic... Continue Reading →
“There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.” ― Joel S. Manuel BLURB: Tanner Wallis is nearly at the end of his rope the night Mason Seidel finds him lying next to the mangled body of a cow on the back pastures of the Seidel family's Wyoming ranch.... Continue Reading →
“There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.” ― Joel S. Manuel BLURB: Tanner Wallis is nearly at the end of his rope the night Mason Seidel finds him lying next to the mangled body of a cow on the back pastures of the Seidel family's Wyoming ranch.... Continue Reading →
“Touch has a memory.” – John Keats Touch is a sense memory, an imprint on the mind and on the skin, a physical and emotional imperative that, if denied over an extended period of time, will cause a boy to grow into a man who craves it so desperately he is willing to seek it... Continue Reading →
“Touch has a memory.” – John Keats Touch is a sense memory, an imprint on the mind and on the skin, a physical and emotional imperative that, if denied over an extended period of time, will cause a boy to grow into a man who craves it so desperately he is willing to seek it... Continue Reading →
“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.” ― Oscar Wilde BLURB: After an affair with a married DA led to scandal and disbarment, Cooper Nelson left his legal career in shambles, and found solace working as a hand at the Blue River Ranch. Eight years later, during a rare visit into town, Cooper bumps into... Continue Reading →
“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.” ― Oscar Wilde BLURB: After an affair with a married DA led to scandal and disbarment, Cooper Nelson left his legal career in shambles, and found solace working as a hand at the Blue River Ranch. Eight years later, during a rare visit into town, Cooper bumps into... Continue Reading →
“As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.” – Napoleon Bonaparte There is an eighteen year gap in the biblical recounting of Jesus’ life, a period between the ages of twelve and thirty that... Continue Reading →
“As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.” – Napoleon Bonaparte There is an eighteen year gap in the biblical recounting of Jesus’ life, a period between the ages of twelve and thirty that... Continue Reading →
“Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible.” -- Jane Rubietta The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines illumination as: spiritual or intellectual enlightenment OR decoration by the art of illuminating. In Rowan Speedwell’s Illumination, both definitions apply.... Continue Reading →
“Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible.” -- Jane Rubietta The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines illumination as: spiritual or intellectual enlightenment OR decoration by the art of illuminating. In Rowan Speedwell’s Illumination, both definitions apply.... Continue Reading →
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