Amazon/Barnes &Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads While mainstream publishing has a slew of wonderful books, I honestly feel that the indie publishing market- a market stigmatized normally as having subpar, inartistic, amateurish writing- is rife with some of the most gut-wrenching, visceral creative stuff in the market. And, Laurie Steven’s The Dark Before Dawn is one-part nightmarish, and two-parts intense…
Month: October 2014
Review of Prince Lestat, By Anne Rice:Special Midnight Review Post!!
Amazon/Barnes&Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads Review of Prince Lestat, by Anne Rice Review Written by: Justin Boyer Prince Lestat: The Aeneid, of The Vampire Chronicles “Turn your two eyes This way and see this people, your own Romans. Here is Caesar, and all the line of Iulus, All who shall one day pass under the dome Of the great sky:…
Review of “Fields of Blood:Religion and the History of Violence” by: Karen Armstrong
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads In our ideologically polarized world, one thing that two sharply-contrasting groups militant fundamentalists or atheists, on either end of the theism and atheism spectrum, is an extremely facile grasp on history. Facts merely become an easily domesticated, tamable beast, to some members of both these groups, who feel that history should…
Prince Lestat Online Midnight Party Details & Special Signed “Prince Lestat” Hardcover Giveaway
Dare to click the book cover below, to pre-order your copy, because this is a book you will not want to miss, if you view yourself as a serious fan of the Vampire Lestat… PRINCE LESTAT ONLINE MIDNIGHT PARTY DETAILS: **Click the GIF image of a joyous Lestat, in order to be redirected to the page…
Review of Les Miserables Manga/Graphic Novel
Amazon/Barnes&Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads Series:Manga Classics Hardcover:336 pages Publisher:Udon Entertainment (August 19, 2014) Language:English ISBN-10:1927925150 ISBN-13:978-1927925157 Reviewed by Paula Tupper September 21, 2014 I grew up in the Silver Age of comic books. My clothes were in a messy heap under the bed because my closet was stacked four feet high with the entire lines of Marvel,…
Tea Time at Reverie: Tea From Taiwan’s Dong Ding Ming Xiang Oolong Tea
Before we kicked off Tea Time At Reverie, I had no idea that so many types of oolong tea exist. Now I do, thanks to Tea From Taiwan. This Taiwanese vendor specializes in top-quality oolong tea grown and processed in its home country. Each oolong is named after the region where it’s harvested and has…
Coven of the Articulate Vampire Chronicles Scholarly Discourse Review Session/ Prince Lestat Online Midnight Party Details!!
Dare to click the book cover below, to pre-order your copy, because this is a book you will not want to miss, if you view yourself as a serious fan of the Vampire Lestat… Day 22 (of 28 Total Days) Post: Vampire Chronicles Academic Review Session: PRINCE LESTAT ONLINE MIDNIGHT PARTY DETAILS: **Click the GIF image of a…
Review of Every Ugly Word by Aimee L Salter
Amazon/Goodreads Review written by: Jessica C. I used to think if I was popular, or if Matt loved me… that would do it. I thought it would close me up so I could feel whole… Welcome to world and the mind of Ashley Watson. Each step in her teenage walk of life is one that…
#28DaysofLestat-Anne Rice Week-Anne Rice’s Creation of the Facebook Fan Page/The Flourishing of “Bibliophile’s Reverie”
Dare to click the book cover below, to pre-order your copy, because this is a book you will not want to miss, if you view yourself as a serious fan of the Vampire Lestat… Without Anne Rice and her amazing Facebook fan page (and all the wonderful people I’ve met through there), this blog would have…
#ReaderFence (Satire of #GamerGate)- Fighting Misconceptions of Readers, one incoherent tweet at a time!
To fight against the virulent stupidity of a certain infamous internet group #GamerGate, I decided that the best tactic of revealing the nonsensicality of some of the group’s claims ( and the fervid behavior that has threatened the lives of known feminist critics and game producers in the gaming world) is by relying on…
-#28DaysofLestat-Week of Anne Rice-Blood Canticle Controversy
Dare to click the book cover below, to pre-order your copy, because this is a book you will not want to miss, if you view yourself as a serious fan of the Vampire Lestat… Anne Rice- Recollecting on the most memorable of Anne Rice’s awesome spunk/temerity (or just otherwise genuine spirit) Anne Rice’s ability to always…
#28DaysofLestat- Lestat Musical Post #3-Lestat Musical Week- “Sail Me Away”
Dare to click the book cover below, to pre-order your copy, because this is a book you will not want to miss, if you view yourself as a serious fan of the Vampire Lestat… Day 17 (of 28 Total Days) Post: Lestat Musical Week The conjoining of such two dissimilar things, like vampires and musical, seems…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 