Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Goodreads “To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” –William Shakespeare: Hamlet- In my undergrad years (my idealist, wanderlust years as an English undergrad), I wrote a Shakespeare essay, analyzing the dichotomous relationship between “light” and “dark,”…
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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…
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…
Perdita by Hilary Scharper Blog Feature Part 2-Review &Literary Tea Recommendation
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/Goodreads Main Review: Perdita is a lesser known character from Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, which I have never read or really had any familiarity whatsoever with any of its characters till settling down to read Hilary Scharper’s enrapturing, thoughtful, strangely alluring ghostly, gothic mystery tale. The basic premise of the story involves Garth, a…
Perdita Blog Tour Feature Part 1: Hilary Scharper Interview
Perdita By Hilary Scharper Sourcebooks Landmark January 20, 2015 $16.99 Trade Paperback “Stunning… richly complex and unpredictable.” —Historical Novel Review Marged Brice is 134 years old. She’d be ready to go, if it weren’t for Perdita . . . The Georgian Bay lighthouse’s single eye keeps watch over storm and calm, and Marged grew…
Countdown to “Shadow Study:”Maria V. Snyder Fan Questions and Answers!
Click the above cover image, for the forthcoming new novel in the new Study Sequel Series- Soulfinder Trilogy- mysteriously titled Shadow Study!! Since I re-read Sea Glass a number of months ago, I cannot recall any significant details of the plot, so I will instead be moving forward with a thorough examination of Spy Glass instead next Wednesday. In…
Review of Greer Macallister’s “The Magician’s Lie” & Tea Recipe
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/Author’s Website/ Goodreads SONG RECOMMENDATION FOR BOOK: Emilie Autumn’s empowering anthem, Fight Like a Girl, the lead single for her most recent album, boasting the same title as the song., fits perfectly with the predominant theme and struggle for Ada, the main character in this story, who later adopts the stage moniker of “The…
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