Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach Amazon/Barnes & Noble Published by: Dial Press Trade Paperback Review by: Dani Hoots Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach follows a young woman named Sophia as she is married to an elderly man, Cornelis, whom she married because her family was poor and needed the money he had. Set in 1630s…
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Indie Author Appreciation Month-Review of Sumiko Saulson’s “Happiness & Other Diseases” & Literary Tea Feature
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Kobo/Goodreads/ Author Website/ Author Facebook Fan Page Sumiko Saulson’s devilishly clever new indie fiction mishmash of horror, paranormal romance, and psychological intrigue is, indeed, a pariah, maybe even an anomaly in the mainstream publishing world. It is a very unconventional book that offers a supernatural dimension to the mysterious, sometimes mind-bending world of…
2014 in review (Better than Facebook “Year in Review”)
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 49,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 18 sold-out performances for that many…
UPDATED INFORMATION on new Anne Rice Scholarly Compendium-Seeking Submissions!
An earlier version of this post appeared back in June, 2014, to be exact, resulting in receiving several well-written, probing essays, from many other individuals that have a strong intellectual interest in Anne Rice’s books. Many of her more casual readers also have very interesting, thoughtful perspectives about the different facets of her works. Anne Rice…
Review of “We Are Not Ourselves” by Matthew Thomas
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/ Goodreads Let me preface this review, by saying that Matthew Thomas’ We Are Not Ourselves is not escapist fiction; this is gritty, unsparing realistic fiction that is done magnificently well. It has taken me approximately three months to read this novel, more from the difficulty of some of the later subject matter (not…
Perdita by: Hilary Scharper Spotlight Tour
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 up…
Review of “Neverhome” and The Journey: A Kronberg Thriller” Paula Tupper’s
Editorial Notes: Sorry to Paula Tupper, for the delay for the many wonderfully written reviews she sent me for the next three months. To make up for that wide gap of time that she she was left hanging, I will be dutifully posting all her reviews that still need to be posted over the next day…
Review of “Burn” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Amazon/Barnes &Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads Review of Burn by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge Published by Little, Brown and Company Reviewed by Christina R. Olivo Fiction has a lovely way of working its way just when reality gets ugly. It also tends to have impeccable timing when it comes to current events. Most of the time we notice…
Dani Hoots’ Review of The Rebel Trap, Rebel #2 by Lance Erlick
The Rebel Trap, Book #2 of Rebel by Lance Erlick Amazon/Barnes&Noble/Smashwords/Goodreads Publisher: Finlee Augare Books Review by: Dani Hoots The Rebel Trab by Lance Erlick follows a young girl by the name of Belle who has been thrown out the Mech Warrior institute because of not killing a young man she met on the battle arena….
Indie Author Appreciation Month- December, 2014 on “A Bibliophile’s Reverie”
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…
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…
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