GIVEAWAY ALERT:Be sure to look for details towards the end of this post about how to win your own hardcover copy of Adi Alsaid’s newest YA novel Never Always Sometimes. Harlequin Teen/Indiebound/Kobo/BooksAMillion/Barnes&Nobles Book Synopsis (Taken from Harlequin website): Never date your best friend Always be original Sometimes rules are meant to be broken Best friends Dave…
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Review of “For Such a Time,” by Kate Breslin
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Indiebound First of all, let me disclose the fact that I am agnostic, meaning that I am not within this book’s targeted audience whatsoever. That targeted audience is primarily those that are Evangelical Christians. When reviewing this work, I will primarily take that into consideration, as it is always fair and judicious…
The Art of Civility: How do we approach books that may disconcert us? (Response to “For Such a Time” Controversy)
First off, this post is primarily focused on tone and civility, with how we respond to books that may disconcert us or offend us. This post will not deliberate over the controversy surrounding specific content of For Such a Time by: Kate Breslin. I will commend those that have offered their views in a substantive, constructive…
Review of Uprooted by: Naomi Novik
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Indiebound Synopsis of book, Taken from Amazon Product Detail Page: “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s…
Abolitionist Legacy & Its Parallels with Germans Who Aided with Helping the Jews Escape Germany during WWII
Information About the Book: Amazon **Please take special note that when speaking of European Christian antisemitism, I am not speaking in a wholesale, or monolithic way about a diverse religion like Christianity, with a range of different viewpoints, different cultures that are members of this religion, etc. I am fully aware that the…
Ransom Rigg’s “The Library of Souls” #StayPeculiar Book Tour News & Special Tote Bag Giveaway
How excited are you for the forthcoming release of The Library of Souls,the third novel in the ongoing saga of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. *Stay tuned, towards the end of this post, for very exciting details about how to win a nifty #StayPeculiar tote bag, perfect for toting around the first two…
Review of “The Rosie Project” & “The Rosie Effect” by: Graeme Simsion & Giveaway of “The Rosie Effect”
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Indie Bound/ READ BELOW, TO ENTER TO WIN A COPY OF GRAEME SIMSION’S THE ROSIE EFFECT. **Giveaway details: Leave a comment below, regarding anything published within this blog post, to enter for the chance to win a copy of The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion. The contest is only open to those…
Review of “Hostile Takeover” by Shane Kuhn
Amazon/Barnes &Nobles/IndieBound/Goodreads Synopsis, Taken from Simon Schuster Product Detail Page: Professional assassin John Lago faces off against his deadliest adversary yet—his wife—in Hostile Takeover, the exciting sequel to Shane Kuhn’s bestselling debut The Intern’s Handbook, which the New York Post called “a sexy, darkly comic thriller.” At the end of The Intern’s Handbook, John tracks…
Review & Giveaway for “Eight Hundred Grapes” by Laura Dava
Amazon/Barnes &Nobles/IndieBound Synopsis (Taken from the Publisher’s Website) There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide…. Growing up on her family’s Sonoma vineyard, Georgia Ford learned some important secrets. The secret number of grapes it takes to make a bottle of wine: eight hundred. The secret ingredient in her mother’s lasagna: chocolate. The secret…
ThrillerFest 2015 Report: An Invigorating Convention for Writers of all Kinds
Now the following may be construed as an ad, but if you’re a writer of any kind, Thrillerfest is quite simply a fantastic, invigorating place for professional writers, writers that are just starting, writers that are going through a creative drought and need an inspiriting boost of good energy. Having attended this well-organized event now…
Sascha Arango’s “The Truth and Other Lies” Blog Tour
Amazon/Barnes & Noble/IndieBound/Goodreads THE TRUTH AND OTHER LIES by Sascha Arango Synopsis: Dark, witty, and suspenseful, this literary crime thriller reminiscent of The Dinner and The Silent Wife follows a famous author whose wife—the brains behind his success—meets an untimely death, leaving him to deal with the consequences. On the surface, Henry Hayden seems like someone you could like, or…
Lestat Book Coven Exclusive: Anne Rice answers: “How has your Irish heritage shaped your writing?”
A LESTAT BOOK COVEN EXCLUSIVE (Click to join the most active Lestat fan club on the internet): As I continue working on the new Anne Rice biography, tentatively titled Beauty of the Dark, I thought that it might be fun to ask Anne Rice a few additional questions, especially given how many people greatly enjoyed our last…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 