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The Platonic Elements of “Divergent-” Dystopian Month

Being deeply engrossed in Veronica Roth’s Divergent Trilogy, I find the strong Platonic elements of her text to be far too overt, to simply ignore. One of my favorite literary scholars, John Granger (who often writes about the religious and spiritual elements of series) has a lot of very strong, interesting points about the Platonic elements of…

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Dystopian Month on “A Bibliophile’s Reverie” The Hidden Genius of YA Dystopian Fiction- Why these books are not “brainless and inane?”

    For this entire month of November, I’ll be reviewing and spotlighting some of the best,noteworthy titles (just my opinion of the “best,” feel free to disagree,please!!) that I thought were thought-provoking reads! When teens start to show any countercultural, stigma-defying interest in reading, the first reaction from the snobbery caste of the literary…

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Dani Hoots’ Review of The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill Amazon/Barnes & Noble Published by: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Review by: Dani Hoots The Woman in Black by Susan Hill follows Arthur Kipps as he is assigned to attend the funeral of Mrs. Alice Drablow up in the marshes of the Nine Lives Causeway. While he attends this…

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Review of “Dark Before Dawn,” by Laurie Stevens

Amazon/Barnes &Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads While mainstream publishing has a slew of wonderful books, I honestly feel that the indie publishing market- a market stigmatized normally as having subpar, inartistic, amateurish writing- is rife with some of the most gut-wrenching, visceral creative stuff in the market. And, Laurie Steven’s The Dark Before Dawn  is one-part nightmarish, and two-parts intense…

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Review of Prince Lestat, By Anne Rice:Special Midnight Review Post!!

Amazon/Barnes&Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads Review of Prince Lestat, by Anne Rice Review Written by: Justin Boyer Prince Lestat: The Aeneid, of The Vampire Chronicles “Turn your two eyes This way and see this people, your own Romans. Here is Caesar, and all the line of Iulus, All who shall one day pass under the dome Of the great sky:…

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Review of “Fields of Blood:Religion and the History of Violence” by: Karen Armstrong

Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads In our ideologically polarized world, one thing that two sharply-contrasting groups militant fundamentalists or atheists, on either end of the theism and atheism spectrum, is an extremely facile grasp on history. Facts merely become an easily domesticated, tamable beast, to some members of both these groups, who feel that history should…

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Review of Les Miserables Manga/Graphic Novel

Amazon/Barnes&Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads Series:Manga Classics Hardcover:336 pages Publisher:Udon Entertainment (August 19, 2014) Language:English ISBN-10:1927925150 ISBN-13:978-1927925157   Reviewed by Paula Tupper    September 21,  2014 I grew up in the Silver Age of comic books.  My clothes were in a messy heap under the bed because my closet was stacked four feet high with the entire lines of Marvel,…

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Review of Every Ugly Word by Aimee L Salter

Amazon/Goodreads Review written by: Jessica C. I used to think if I was popular, or if Matt loved me… that would do it. I thought it would close me up so I could feel whole… Welcome to world and the mind of Ashley Watson. Each step in her teenage walk of life is one that…

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