Remember last time when I mentioned I was battling the winter blues? Well, the weather hasn’t improved much since then, so I’m craving a good ol’ black tea this time. Since it was time to rotate back to my Yezi Tea samples, I went straight for their Yi Fu Chun Black Tea. Yi Fu Chun…
Month: February 2015
Interview with Bestselling Author Tess Gerritsen/Review of “Die Again”
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Books-A-Million/Kobo/Goodreads Interview with Tess Gerritsen: Notes About Interview-“BR”=Bibliophile’s Reverie & “TG”= Tess Gerritsen 1. BR: What sparked the idea for this latest Rizzoli and Isles novel? Do you have a preconceived idea of how far you’ll continue going with both these characters? TG:Like most of my novels, DIE AGAIN started with a real-life incident…
Steampunk Month on A Bibliophile’s Reverie-Celebrating the Most Zany Artistic Aesthetic Around!
Beginning late next week on Saturday (March 7th),we encourage you all, everyone of you overzealous fans of the Steampunk genre, to kick off Steampunk month- the whole entire month of March,2015- to celebrate the most stellar selection of Steampunk-oriented novels out there. We are proud to unveil our first highlighted title for Steampunk…
Review of “The Glittering World” by Robert Levy
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Goodreads/Books-A-Million Intrinsic to the human experience, there is an unshakable, almost restive disturbance at our core that constantly tells us that there has to be a higher, more transcendent form/entity w/ self-consciousness that may allay our burden of feeling so alone in the universe. This pallor of existential dread that frames our lives…
Review of “My Sunshine Away” by:M.O. Walsh
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/ Goodreads Review: Before delving into my review, I wanted to share two endorsements from two writers, who published two of my favorite reads of 2014, for M.O. Walsh’s wonderful first release- My Sunshine Away. If you are interested in reading my in-depth review of either title, you may click on the…
News about Prince Lestat Live Chat #5/ Special “World of Vampires” Paperback Giveaway!
Live Chat Details: For approximately an hour or so, I will be discussing two or more chapters of Anne Rice’s Prince Lestat. Throughout the live broadcast, you are invited to leave comments or questions-interact in real-time- by doing either one of the following (1) leaving questions on the enabled Question APP, as part of the Google Hangout…
Tea Time at Reverie: Sanctuary T’s Spring Harvest Green Tea
I’ve had enough of winter. It’s only the first week of February, but after a January full of bitter cold and slushy roads – and then being buried under 3+ feet of snow within the past 2 weeks – I’m already counting down to spring. If I just close my eyes, I can already feel warmer…
Grammar PSA-Importance of Being Grammatically Correct-From the Grammar Experts at Grammarly
If you wish to see the following post as a PSA (public-service announcement) of sorts, that is perfectly fine with me. Sometimes, construing something as a “PSA” is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as the overall impression you get is clever, insightful, interesting, and not “trite,” “cloying,” “drivel-infested.” You get the message that…
Bibliophile’s Reverie Capsule Reviews-“The Lost Level,” By Brian Keene
**Introducing “Bibliophile Reverie” Capsule Book Reviews: Small, easily readable reviews, tightly packed with substantive analysis of a book. Leaving you with just enough of an impression of the type of book you’ll be reading. Sometimes, we’ll even throw in a tea recommendation for good measure! Amazon/Barnes &Nobles/Kobo/Goodreads Published by: Apex Book Company BIBLIOPHILE CAPSULE REVIEW OF The Lost…
Review of Mage’s Blood by David Hair
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Kobo/Goodreads Review Written by: Jessica Curtis Every twelve years a war occurs due to the moon tide drawing back enough that a bridge, the Leviathan bridge, which separates two continents is easy to be crossed. David Hair takes no caution when it comes to his comparisons to the countries portrayed in Mage’s Blood,…
