Title: Retribution Author: Amy Thompson Blurb: Regan Edison has just moved from California, to enter her first year at Georgia Liberty College, the place where jacked up Chevy trucks and hunting are a way of life. Regan hopes to start a new life for herself and she thinks that Georgia is just the place to…
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Sony Classics Insinuates “Jane Austen” Is Not For Men
Why are these male creatures besmirching my male-exclusionary Jane Austen fantasy? Tread Carefully: Snarkiness Abounds!! As many of you may not be aware of, Shannon Hale’s hilariously smart “chick-lit” novel, Austenland, that rhapsodizes one woman’s obsessive love with all things pertaining to Jane Austen is becoming a film. It is slated to be released August 15th,…
Blog Update: August 2013
THIS BLOG STILL LIVES!!!! Much like Tombstone pizza, this blog was frozen for some time, but now has been revived from it’s frozen state.. I’ve had to dutifully play the reverse role of a real coroner, informing everyone that this blog has not really died. Sometimes, the long hiatuses, like the dry spell of July…
Blog Update: More Reviews Coming in July 2013
This always happens!! I apologize greatly for another hiatus, and this time it comes from reading classics rather than any books to review. With other bloggers, I always wonder how people have any time to read fiction/nonfiction books that are not recent releases from publishers. I’ve always been very curious about that. Oh well,…
Review of “Hope Against Hope:” The Third Mortimer Drake Book
Amazon (Kindle & Print Edition)/ Facebook Fan Page for “Mortimer Drake”/Author Website Synopsis (Taken from Amazon.com): The world has changed for the living and the undead alike. Mortimer Drake and his family have been forced underground in the wake of the Dark Revelation. Humankind has learned of the existence of vampires and society has…
New Cover-Art for the Mortimer Drake Series
If you have been checking Greg Wilkey’s updates on Anne Rice’s Facebook page, you are well-informed then of the exciting release of the newest cover art for the first two books “Mortimer Drake” series. The release of the cover art for the third novel, Hope Against Hope, is still pending. As though the premise…
The Resurrectionist Review
Amazon.com/BN.com Synopsis Excerpt Taken From Quirk Books Product Detail Page:Philadelphia. The late 1870s. A city of cobblestone sidewalks and horse-drawn carriages. Home to the famous anatomist and surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a “resurrectionist” (aka grave robber), Dr. Black studied at…
BEA Wrap-Up 2013
Every year, BEA is greeted with the same unadulterated fanfare, and a long slog of a sleepless night during the evening prior to the event. For this year, I decided only to attend Thursday because, to be quite frank, Book Expo America…
Reuben’s Spiritual Odyssey: “Wolves Of Midwinter” Countdown Post #1
Discussion Post #1 My head has been swimming with various pensive thoughts, surrounding the thematic importance of Teilhard De Chardin’s philosophy in correlation with the overall philosophical and spiritual thrust of Anne Rice’s The Wolf Gift. As I wait impatiently and restively for the release of Wolves of Midwinter ,this fall I tried to do something a bit…
Review of Out of the Underworld: Book 2 of the Mortimer Drake series
Amazon (Kindle Edition)/ Barnes&Nobles (Nook Edition) *Please Note-This copy was recently re-uploaded and re-edited by Greg Wilkey, thus the print copy is out-of-print on Amazon. The ninety-nine cent copy for both the Kindle and Nook are still available.* Interview with Greg Wilkey (More questions to come next week, when the review for the third Mortimer…
Review of Emilie Autumn’s Gargantuan “Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls,” Book
Ebook Edition/ Print Edition Emilie Autumn’s Treatise on the Imperfections of our country’s Mental Health System, or our continued ignorance of the ramifications of mental health problems….Just Read the Book Summary of Book from Asylum Emporium (Store on her Website) “Straddling the bookshelves somewhere between psychological study, historical horror story, and fantasy fiction sits Emilie Autumn’s debut autobiographical novel,…
New Updates on the Refurbished “A Bibliophile’s Reverie”
New Pages, which are now a part of this blog: Calendar- Along the top of this page, you’ll see a page entitled “Calendar.” By highlighting that link and clicking on it, you’ll be redirected to a the calendar page, where you will be able to see what books I’ll be reviewing and featuring on this…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 