Where Fiction and Reality Meet
The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. – Carl Jung There’s a brand new author on my radar, and her name is Agnes Black. If you love Alt U that feels a bit like a swashbuckling historical adventure, the novella Hidden in Plain Sight may be exactly what you’re looking... Continue Reading →
The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. – Carl Jung There’s a brand new author on my radar, and her name is Agnes Black. If you love Alt U that feels a bit like a swashbuckling historical adventure, the novella Hidden in Plain Sight may be exactly what you’re looking... Continue Reading →
“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.” ― Bryce Courtenay Dear Diary: Pride is the sequel to Dear Diary and picks right up where the first one left off. We last saw Josh and Chris as they were going to the prom.... Continue Reading →
“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.” ― Bryce Courtenay Dear Diary: Pride is the sequel to Dear Diary and picks right up where the first one left off. We last saw Josh and Chris as they were going to the prom.... Continue Reading →
“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.” – Francis Bacon Sakura Genji is a flying fish, the title given to the traveling actors in seventeenth century Japan who performed both on and off the stage, playing their roles to entertain their audience, then playing a different role behind the scenes for the... Continue Reading →
Sakura Genji is a flying fish, the title given to the traveling actors in seventeenth century Japan who performed both on and off the stage, playing their roles to entertain their audience, then playing a different role behind the scenes for the samurai who demanded their bodies for an entirely personal sort of pleasure. Genji’s... Continue Reading →
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ― Aristotle Seb works as a fudge maker in a coastal community of England. Dex is a wanderer who kindly returns Seb’s wallet one late night. Seb befriends Dex and they slowly become friends over the course of a summer. This short story by... Continue Reading →
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ― Aristotle Seb works as a fudge maker in a coastal community of England. Dex is a wanderer who kindly returns Seb’s wallet one late night. Seb befriends Dex and they slowly become friends over the course of a summer. This short story by... Continue Reading →
“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi In Love, Like Water, Rowan Speedwell introduces us to Elian Kelly and Joshua Chastain. Joshua has been an FBI agent deep undercover within a drug cartel for three years. He was forced to kill or be killed... Continue Reading →
“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi In Love, Like Water, Rowan Speedwell introduces us to Elian Kelly and Joshua Chastain. Joshua has been an FBI agent deep undercover within a drug cartel for three years. He was forced to kill or be killed... Continue Reading →
“There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them.”--John Boyne Sweet Young Thang is the third and best (so far) in the Theta Alpha Gamma series. Collin Montes’s father died when he was young. His Uncle Monty stepped in... Continue Reading →
“There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them.”--John Boyne Sweet Young Thang is the third and best (so far) in the Theta Alpha Gamma series. Collin Montes’s father died when he was young. His Uncle Monty stepped in... Continue Reading →
"If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature." -- John Burroughs I was very pleasantly surprised by this little gem of a book. Well, it’s not little at... Continue Reading →
"If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature." -- John Burroughs I was very pleasantly surprised by this little gem of a book. Well, it’s not little at... Continue Reading →
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” – G.K. Chesterton I have to start out by saying that I loved the first two books in the Delectable series, Brand New Flavor and Lighting the Way Home. I found it hard to dive into this one like I did the... Continue Reading →
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” – G.K. Chesterton I have to start out by saying that I loved the first two books in the Delectable series, Brand New Flavor and Lighting the Way Home. I found it hard to dive into this one like I did the... Continue Reading →
“Wisdom comes with winters.” ― Oscar Wilde I have always liked reading Lavinia Lewis' books in the past, so when I saw this title I scooped it up. This is a short but very sweet story of two men in the prime of their lives. First we meet 48 yr. old Reece Watkins. Reece grew... Continue Reading →
“Wisdom comes with winters.” ― Oscar Wilde I have always liked reading Lavinia Lewis' books in the past, so when I saw this title I scooped it up. This is a short but very sweet story of two men in the prime of their lives. First we meet 48 yr. old Reece Watkins. Reece grew... Continue Reading →
Sometimes a book is just too good to pass up, so when that happened with Taylor V. Donovan's newest release, Bruce and I decided to both take a shot at it to see if we'd see the book differently, coming at it from different points of view. The saying goes, "No two persons ever read... Continue Reading →
Sometimes a book is just too good to pass up, so when that happened with Taylor V. Donovan's newest release, Bruce and I decided to both take a shot at it to see if we'd see the book differently, coming at it from different points of view. The saying goes, "No two persons ever read... Continue Reading →
Sometimes you have to start over to have a happy ending. – Sonya Parker It is hard to believe this is Tempeste O'Riley's first published book. The characters of Seth and James were very well rounded and believable. James has lived through so much hell in his life that I am amazed he was still... Continue Reading →
Sometimes you have to start over to have a happy ending. – Sonya Parker It is hard to believe this is Tempeste O'Riley's first published book. The characters of Seth and James were very well rounded and believable. James has lived through so much hell in his life that I am amazed he was still... Continue Reading →
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side. - Emma Donoghue Sometimes the title of a book says it all. Case in point, Josephine Myles’ Blooming Marvelous and Collected Stories, an omnibus of nine short stories all... Continue Reading →
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side. - Emma Donoghue Sometimes the title of a book says it all. Case in point, Josephine Myles’ Blooming Marvelous and Collected Stories, an omnibus of nine short stories all... Continue Reading →
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