Amazon/ Barnes and Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads Maria V. Snyder’s ending books can be a very divisive thing. For instance, the concluding volume of the Glass series Spy Glass, revolving around the glass magician Opal, was a very contentious ending for the series. In my own opinion, I thought that Spy Glass was one of Maria V. Snyder’s strongest books of…
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BEA Spotlight #2- Lori Rader-Day’s “The Black Hour”
Author Website/ Amazon/ Barnes&Nobles/IndieBound/Books-A-Million/Goodreads Interview with Lori Rader-Day Interview Setting: Book Expo America @ Prometheus Book/ Seventh Street Books Stand Bibliophile’s Reverie: Since the main character is a sociology professor, did you have any Sociology background for this book? Lori: I took one Sociology course, when I was in college, and I took it too…
Review of Chris Bohjalian’s “Close your Eyes,Hold Hands”
Amazon/Barnes and Nobles/Kobo/Goodreads Book is slated to released tomorrow- July 8, 2014. Ever since first reading dozens of pictures books about the Mount Vesuvius eruption and consequent destruction of Pompeii during grade school, I have had this ineradicable love and even morbid curiosity in diaster stories. Just last night, the Stephen Spielberg adaptation of War…
Review of Artful, by Peter David
Amazon (Kindle Edition/Print Edition)/Barnes & Nobles/Goodreads Print Length: 290 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1477823166 Publisher: 47North (July 1, 2014) Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Language: English ASIN: B00HFGJN82 Reviewed by Paula Tupper July 1, 2014 In accordance with FTC guidelines for bloggers and endorsements, I would like to clarify that the books reviewed by me are either purchased/borrowed…
Important Notice for Members of the Lestat Book Coven, from your coven master!
Procure your copy now, for our upcoming discussion! Don’t let the coven start without you! Dear coven members, dedicated readers of A Bibliophile’s Reverie, I believe it is time for an imperative update about changes that are taking place, once again, for our discussions. For all that have been participating in our live chats, I thank…
Review of Maria V. Snyder’s Scent of Magic: Author Highlight Wednesdays
Amazon/Barnes and Nobles/Goodreads Much like the first novel Touch of Power,Scent of Magic is yet another deceptively simple novel, which really is a fairly complex, multifarious novel under the surface. Maria V. Snyder meticulously writes with measured prose that seems to be written both clearly and effectively. For those that have read the first novel, you are…
Dean Koontz’s “The City” Book Club Contest Details
First, I have some bad news to relay. I haven’t been able to quite get into Dean Koontz’s new book, The City,so I wasn’t able to publish an extensive review on time about the book in time for its release today into the wider world of the commercial book market. But, I can still post details…
Female Magic Wielder Month: Author Highlight: Maria V. Snyder
Duties in Life include- adept wordsmith (linguistic wizard), and part-time military strategist, as exemplified through the character of Avry from the Healer Series (not really, but it will prove to be an indispensable skill, when the zombie apocalypse rolls around.) Some of her noteworthy titles, featuring dynamic, powerful female magic wielder include: Click on…
Review of “Cromwell was Framed:Ireland 1649” by: Tom Reilly
Amazon.com / Barnes and Nobles/Goodreads Cromwell Was Framed: Ireland 1649 By: Tom Reilly Chronos Books Review Written by: Shonda Wilson There are moments when as a reader, one just wants a book to be good for a variety of personal reasons. Perhaps the author is a favorite or the subject, but either way, the reader…
Lestat Book Coven Newsletter #12
Procure your copy now, before our discussion begins this week, and the second “Vampire Lestat” Live Chat begins June 29,2014 at 2pm. Eastern!! Don’t let Lestat start without you! Dear Members of this Most Esteemed, Articulate, Voraciously Inquisitive Coven- Now, it is the week of June 22, 2014, and we are about to read a much…
Review of Emily Croy Barker’s “The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic”
Amazon.com (Kindle edition)/ Barnes & Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo/Books-A-Million *Review part of Female Magic Wielder’s Month-End of June-End of July* While reading this enchanting book, the main musical theme from Miyazaki’s “Howl’s Moving Castle,” kept waltzing around my mind,both merrily and excitedly,indicative of my main mood while reading “The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic.”…
Female Magic Wielder Month/ Diana Bishop Commonplace Book Giveaway Details
Addendum: This contest is open only to those living in the US, due to cost of international postage. If you are someone living outside of the US that has entered this contest, please know that I am not being discriminatory, in exempting you from winning. It is purely a pragmatic reason for doing this. Here…
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