Below, you will find some very exciting details, as well, about the unveiling of my new audio-book services for self-published writers!! Hopefully, all my awesome, dedicated blog readers had a wonderful, relaxing Thanksgiving, yet you’re probably clamoring to see more book-related posts here on this blog. Feeling cagey by the woeful lack of posts during the whole…
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HF Virtual Blog Tour Post:The Gollantz Saga Book One: “The Founder of the House” by: Naomi Jacobs Interview
Publication Date: August 23, 2014 Corazon Books Genre: Historical Fiction Set in nineteenth century Paris, Vienna and London, this is a novel about family ties and rivalries, love and ambition. The Founder of the House introduces us to Emmanuel Gollantz, the son of a Jewish antique dealer, Hermann Gollantz. Hermann lives his life according to…
Review of “The Winter Sea,” by Susanna Kearsley & Special Literary Tea Recipe!
Amazon/Barnes & Noble/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads After having been thoroughly engrossed by Diana Gabaldon’s wonderfully dense historical fiction novel Outlander, I have been on my own purposeful quest to find other stories in the same genre corridor, which I know from the outset won’t be comparable to Outlander.That should never be one’s modi operandi for seeking out books,which are…
Lestat Book Coven Prince Lestat Discussion Week 1 Assignment Details/Questions
Amazon/Barnes&Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads Prepare yourself for an intellectually intense two-and-a-half months worth of discussion, revolving around our favorite feckless vampire price! “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: this…
Thursday Harlequin Romance Cover Parodies- Perfect for the Chilly Winter Evenings
Several years back, I was on the internet, and stumbled by pure happenstance on the funniest crop of Harlequin Book Cover Parodies (Longmire does Harlequin Romance), thus inciting my love for great satire of this campy, silly genre. So, get your bedroom eyes eyes ready. and smoldering glances adjusted, for a funny look at some…
The Platonic Elements of “Divergent-” Dystopian Month
Being deeply engrossed in Veronica Roth’s Divergent Trilogy, I find the strong Platonic elements of her text to be far too overt, to simply ignore. One of my favorite literary scholars, John Granger (who often writes about the religious and spiritual elements of series) has a lot of very strong, interesting points about the Platonic elements of…
Dystopian Month on “A Bibliophile’s Reverie” The Hidden Genius of YA Dystopian Fiction- Why these books are not “brainless and inane?”
For this entire month of November, I’ll be reviewing and spotlighting some of the best,noteworthy titles (just my opinion of the “best,” feel free to disagree,please!!) that I thought were thought-provoking reads! When teens start to show any countercultural, stigma-defying interest in reading, the first reaction from the snobbery caste of the literary…
Review of “Dark Before Dawn,” by Laurie Stevens
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…
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,…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 