Book Review: Green Gold, Gabriel Hemery Fiction: Green Gold, Gabriel Hemery Green Gold is a creative epistolary novel telling the story of plant hunter John Jeffrey’s expedition to North America in 1850 through the words of his journal, letters, and other documents. Representing an elite group of subscribers, Jeffrey’s mission was to collect seeds from […]
Month: April 2019
Book Review: The Bayern Agenda, Dan Moren
Book Review: The Bayern Agenda, Dan Moren Science Fiction: The Bayern Agenda, Dan Moren Some books are just fun. The Bayern Agenda is a fun book. It’s a space opera. It’s a spy thriller. It’s a book with engaging, smart mouthed, characters who find themselves in challenging situations which require them to find new trust […]
Quote: It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. Rainer Maria Rilke
Book Review: Roses and Rot, Kat Howard
Book Review: Roses and Rot, Kat Howard Fantasy: Roses and Rot, Kat Howard Imogen and Marin are sisters. Both are also artists with some regard in their fields: Imogen as an author, Marin as a dancer. The Melete artists’ retreat is recruiting talent to come and spend most of a year in residence, working on […]
Book Review: Uprooted, Naomi Novik
Book Review: Uprooted, Naomi Novik Fantasy: Uprooted, Naomi Novik Winner of the Nebula Award Finalist for Hugo Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR | BuzzFeed | Tor.com | BookPage | Library Journal | Publishers Weekly “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes…” begins Naomi Novik’s reimagining of […]
Book Review: Egg, Kevin Henkes
Book Review: Egg, Kevin Henkes Board Book: Egg, Kevin Henkes Kevin Henkes, award winning Caldecott artist, created a book with a perfect story structure. The Egg has 15 words used in repetition to enhance story tension and warm watercolor panels in a graphic novel layout for toddlers and preschoolers. This book has it all: a […]
Book Review: A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver
Book Review: A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver Poetry: A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver Mary Oliver was best known for her elegiac, almost spiritual poems about nature and common things. In this collection she focuses on those very things, writing poems about her dog Percy, about thrushes and jays and foxes, mists and mountains. The result […]
Quote: It was at that age, that poetry came in search of me. Pablo Neruda
Book Review: this and that, hülya n. yilmaz
Book Review: this and that: a hodge podge of hülya’s…poetry, hülya n. yilmaz Poetry: this and that: a hodge podge of hülya’s…poetry, hülya n. yilmaz I had the privilege of attending the launch party for hülya n. yilmaz’s book this and that and listen to her read some of her poems aloud. Poetry should be […]
Book Review: The Leaf and the Cloud, Mary Oliver
Book Review: The Leaf and the Cloud, Mary Oliver Poetry: The Leaf and the Cloud, Mary Oliver Mary Oliver passed away January 17, 2019. Winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, her poetry both appealed to a wide audience and sometimes frustrated critics who favor poems that could perhaps be considered […]