Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love." – Maya Angelou It’s not often that I am surprised by romance novel and this was a very pleasant surprise, indeed. When Prince of Silk of Thorns came across for review, I have to admit I was a bit underwhelmed by the cover-... Continue Reading →
"When a fantasy turns you on, you’re obligated to God and nature to start doing it—right away." – Stuart Brand This was a book of firsts for me. I've never read anything from the author, and I've never read about a main character being wheelchair bound. I was interested to see how the author would... Continue Reading →
"When a fantasy turns you on, you’re obligated to God and nature to start doing it—right away." – Stuart Brand This was a book of firsts for me. I've never read anything from the author, and I've never read about a main character being wheelchair bound. I was interested to see how the author would... Continue Reading →
Sarcasm isn't just a way to mask your emotions and distance yourself from others. It's also super-duper satisfying. – Unknown. Howie Jenkins is a man with a plan. Yeah, that’s right, his plan is to work at the locally owned Artie Kraft’s Arts and Crafts store so he can increase his odds of getting laid... Continue Reading →
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together. – Marcus Aurelius Have you ever just wanted to hug a book really hard and then kiss it and then thank it for giving you hours of bliss? Oh. Well, maybe it’s just me. But, gaaaah, I... Continue Reading →
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. – Potter Stewart I’m going to be one-hundred percent honest here and tell you I almost stopped reading this book at least a half dozen times before I even made it to the halfway mark. Yeah,... Continue Reading →
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. - Jan Glidewell Amelia C. Gormley’s “Impulse” series could easily be subtitled The Erotic Anatomy of a Relationship, and whether you like it or not may depend on how much you love to get... Continue Reading →
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. - Jan Glidewell Amelia C. Gormley’s “Impulse” series could easily be subtitled The Erotic Anatomy of a Relationship, and whether you like it or not may depend on how much you love to get... Continue Reading →
“I have ever since seemed to myself … a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life.” – Samuel Johnson Derrick Chance has been alone for ten years, ten years during which he has lived a half-life of working and taking care of the needs of others, all while ignoring the fact that his... Continue Reading →
“I have ever since seemed to myself … a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life.” – Samuel Johnson Derrick Chance has been alone for ten years, ten years during which he has lived a half-life of working and taking care of the needs of others, all while ignoring the fact that his... Continue Reading →
“Secrets are made to be found out with time.” – Charles Sanford Are there any two authors who were destined to collaborate more so than Geoffrey Knight and Ethan Day? I mean, Knight and Day? Come on. It’s synchronicity, isn’t it? Well, let me tell you, I’m thinking this was a long time coming and... Continue Reading →
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” – William Shakespeare Nearly a century ago, humans and vampires lived together peacefully, even amidst the religious prophesying that their integration would most certainly bring about Armageddon one day. When a great plague swept across the globe and decimated nearly all the world’s population, it appeared... Continue Reading →
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” – William Shakespeare Nearly a century ago, humans and vampires lived together peacefully, even amidst the religious prophesying that their integration would most certainly bring about Armageddon one day. When a great plague swept across the globe and decimated nearly all the world’s population, it appeared... Continue Reading →
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy…” – Franklin D. Roosevelt More than twenty-three-hundred people lost their lives, but there were figurative casualties as well, because even those who survived the attack were stripped of all the absolutes they’d known up to that now infamous day. It was the death of peace,... Continue Reading →
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy…” – Franklin D. Roosevelt More than twenty-three-hundred people lost their lives, but there were figurative casualties as well, because even those who survived the attack were stripped of all the absolutes they’d known up to that now infamous day. It was the death of peace,... Continue Reading →
Christopher Fletcher is a habitual liar. He’s also an author, so he’s well versed in creating fictions, and he uses that talent like an armor to protect a Christopher no one truly knows, maybe not even Christopher himself. Chris has crafted a variety of persona in his adult life—the timid writer, the dutiful son seeking... Continue Reading →
Christopher Fletcher is a habitual liar. He’s also an author, so he’s well versed in creating fictions, and he uses that talent like an armor to protect a Christopher no one truly knows, maybe not even Christopher himself. Chris has crafted a variety of persona in his adult life—the timid writer, the dutiful son seeking... Continue Reading →
Ah, here we go again—me sitting around eagerly anticipating a sequel to a book that baited and hooked me in with the oddity of its premise. Yes, Me, Myself and I is that book, and yes, I cannot wait to see what the author has in store next for these characters. This book, in what... Continue Reading →
Ah, here we go again—me sitting around eagerly anticipating a sequel to a book that baited and hooked me in with the oddity of its premise. Yes, Me, Myself and I is that book, and yes, I cannot wait to see what the author has in store next for these characters. This book, in what... Continue Reading →
There’s a saying that goes something like, “life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” I'm a firm believer that some of those shining little breathless moments don't take place in reality at all, but in the realms of the fictional people we... Continue Reading →
There’s a saying that goes something like, “life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” I'm a firm believer that some of those shining little breathless moments don't take place in reality at all, but in the realms of the fictional people we... Continue Reading →
"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril." - Oscar Wilde Perilous? Perhaps. If one reads, though, and doesn’t look beneath the surface sometimes, how does that reader then make those personal connections to a book or the characters? The author writes the words... Continue Reading →
"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril." - Oscar Wilde Perilous? Perhaps. If one reads, though, and doesn’t look beneath the surface sometimes, how does that reader then make those personal connections to a book or the characters? The author writes the words... Continue Reading →
***WARNING: SPOILERS*** Or should it? I just recently finished reading a book that has given me pause and really made me reflect upon how much my personal bias against the subject matter is affecting my ability to be impartial to it, to look at the merits of the writing, the strength of the premise, and... Continue Reading →
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