Thirty Days of Darkness, Jenny Lund Madsen

Book Review: Thirty Days of Darkness, Jenny Lund Madsen, translated by Megan Turney Literary Fiction: Thirty Days of Darkness, Jenny Lund Madsen, translated by Megan Turney Blog Tour: May 15, 2023   Some publishers seem to outdo themselves with finding books that are incredibly well done and worthy of much larger audiences. Orenda, time after time […]

Blog Tour: Arvia: Heart of the Sky, D.H. Willison

Book Review: Arvia: Heart of the Sky, Tales of Arvia Book 3, D.H. Willison Young Adult/Fantasy Arvia: Heart of the Sky, Tales of Arvia Book 3, D.H. Willison Blog Tour May 10, 2023   Darin, a young adult dreaming of adventure, finds himself pulled away from our Earth into the magical world of Arvia, a […]

Blog Tour: Dust Child, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Book Review: Dust Child, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Historical Fiction: Dust Child, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Blog Tour, May 5, 2023   Dust Child is an absolutely exquisite, breathtaking work. With soaring prose and searing words, author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai takes the agonies of war and the struggles of those damaged by the war […]

Book Review: Adventures in Space, edited by Patrick Parrinder and Yao Haijun

Book Review: Adventures in Space: Short Stories by Chinese and English Authors, edited by Patrick Parrinder and Yao Haijun Science Fiction/Short Stories: Adventures in Space: Short Stories by Chinese and English Authors, edited by Patrick Parrinder and Yao Haijun   When you’re in the throes of a reading slump (as I am), sometimes the perfect […]

Blog Tour: Infinity Gate, M.R. Carey

Book Review: Infinity Gate, The Pandominion Book 1, M.R. Carey Science Fiction: Infinity Gate, The Pandominion Book 1, M.R. Carey   When my children were young, companies began producing interactive children’s books for the computer. Of course, the computer was not “telling” them the story. It was written by people, programmed by people, recorded by […]

Blog Tour: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin

Book Review: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin Fiction: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin   Sam and Sadie met in a Los Angeles hospital as pre-teens. Sam was contending with injuries from the car accident that killed his mother. Sadie was with her family; her sister was hospitalized with a treatable cancer. […]

Book Review: Ellie-May & her Toy Dragon, Ben, Genna Rowbotham

Book Review: Ellie-May & her Toy Dragon, Ben, Genna Rowbotham   Picture Book: Ellie-May & her Toy Dragon, Ben, Genna Rowbotham   Tuck your reluctant sleepers into bed with this book. They will empathize with Ellie-May who is too excited to go to sleep. The straight forward story of a toy dragon taking his friend […]