Consider this an opinion poll - so let me know your thoughts in the comments! I just finished an audiobook that I REALLY didn't enjoy, so I'll confess that I scoured the reviews on Amazon and Goodreads for inspiration for something nice to say about it. I didn't find anything to help me on that … Continue reading Not My Typo Thing
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Review: Give in to the Feeling by Sarah Zama
Synopsis: Chicago 1924 When Susie dances with Blood in Simon’s speakeasy, she discovers there’s a new world beyond the things she owns and the things she’s allowed to do. Blood values her thoughts, her feelings and offers his respect for her as a person. So different from the luxury Simon has offered her. The exciting … Continue reading Review: Give in to the Feeling by Sarah Zama
Review: Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Synopsis: When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from … Continue reading Review: Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Interview with Stephen Kozeniwski
Stephen Kozeniewski lives in Pennsylvania, the birthplace of the modern zombie. During his time as a Field Artillery officer he served for three years in Oklahoma and one in Iraq, where, due to what he assumes was a clerical error, he was awarded the Bronze Star. He is also a classically trained linguist, which sounds … Continue reading Interview with Stephen Kozeniwski
Review: Blood, Ink and Fire by Ashley Mansour
Synopsis: Imagine a world without books… In the future, books are a distant memory. The written word has been replaced by an ever-present stream of images known as Verity. In the controlling dominion of the United Vales of Fell, reading is obsolete and forbidden, and readers themselves do not—cannot—exist. But where others see images in … Continue reading Review: Blood, Ink and Fire by Ashley Mansour
Review: The Butterfly Crest (The Protogenoi Series Book #1) by Eva Vanrell
Synopsis: An ancient war. A long-told prophecy. A cursed Inheritance. If you were destined to die, how would you choose to live? Between the shadows of the human world, a war as old as time is being fought. Ageless pantheons scheme to obtain or keep control, provoked by the weight of human belief which has … Continue reading Review: The Butterfly Crest (The Protogenoi Series Book #1) by Eva Vanrell
Review: Shizzle Inc. (Isa Maxwell Book #1) by Ana Spoke
Synopsis: Debt is always negative, no matter how positively you try to look at it. Fifteen minutes of fame is all Isa Maxwell needs to solve her financial woes and win back Brad, the love of her life. Trouble is she doesn’t have a talent needed to get discovered, become a celebrity, or “show … Continue reading Review: Shizzle Inc. (Isa Maxwell Book #1) by Ana Spoke
Review: The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Synopsis: Living in their car, surviving on tips, Charmaine and Stan are in a desperate state. So, when they see an advertisement for Consilience, a ‘social experiment’ offering stable jobs and a home of their own, they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for suburban paradise is give up their freedom … Continue reading Review: The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Review: Every Kingdom Divided by Stephen Kozeniewski
Synopsis: 2035 A.D. After the 2nd American Civil War Jack Pasternak, a laid-back California doctor, receives a garbled distress call from his fiancée in Maryland before her transmissions stop altogether. Unfortunately for Jack, citizens of the Blue States are no longer allowed to cross Red America. He is faced with an impossible … Continue reading Review: Every Kingdom Divided by Stephen Kozeniewski
Review: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Synopsis: Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, … Continue reading Review: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Review: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Synopsis: They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated bibles, each other. And if they made it home alive, they carried unrelenting images of a nightmarish war that history is only beginning to absorb. Since its first publication, The Things They Carried has become an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a classic … Continue reading Review: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Review: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Synopsis: In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she’s painted a poem in nu … Continue reading Review: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
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