Amazon.com (Kindle Edition)/Barnes and Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo Published by: Pocket Books First and foremost, I want to say thank you to Pocket Books (imprint of Simon and Schuster) for both providing complementary copies of these books (Flowers in the Attic and Petals in the Wind), and for also partially inspiring the idea of…
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When He was Fifteen Years Old…
Golden Boy: A Novel Abigail Tarttelin Atria Books/Simon&Schuster Amazon.com (Kindle Edition)/Barnes and Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo/IndieBound(Buy from local, independent bookstore!!) As it was in Jeffrey Eugenides’ brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex, the literary roots of Golden Boy can be traced to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book IV—the myth of the beautiful son of Hermes and Aphrodite. The “golden…
Dani Hoots’ Review of Deadly Curiosities by Gail Z. Martin
Deadly Curiosities by Gail Z. Martin Amazon(Paperback)/Barnes and Nobles(Paperback) Book Published by: Solaris Review Written by: Dani Hoots Deadly Curiosities by Gail Z. Martin follows Cassidy Kincaide as she, a psychic who can see the history of almost any item with an imprint of its owner; Teag, who recently discovered he has the gift of…
Lestat Book Coven Newsletter Week#8
Are you new here, and this is your first time crossing over the threshold into a place that celebrates literature with a metaphysical dimension? Links of Interest for Fledgling Members: –Lestat Book Coven Meeting Room (this virtual space needs to be cleaned up a bit)- –Lestat Book Coven Facebook Group Page– Hi Coven Members!! Remember that our group…
Review of Joseph Boyden’s “The Orenda”
Amazon (Kindle Edition)/Barnes and Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo Published by: Knopf, Doubleday (Random House) Release Date: May 13,2014 When we learned about Native Americans in primary school, we were always taught about them as a homogeneous group, who unfortunately lost their proverbial stake in the fertile, seemingly feral wilderness of North America, once the European settlers…
Monthly Book Blogger Double Dare: VC Andrew’s “Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind”
Information about this new monthly blog feature: Every month, I will dare myself to read a book series that has been maligned by many, scorned by many, stigmatized by many, or it is a series that someone of my demographic (twenty-four year old male) would not be expected, as dictated by societal and cultural norms, to…
Review of American Pastoral By Philip Roth
Amazon (Kindle Edition)/ Barnes and Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo Published by: Vintage/Random House Review Written by: Jonathan E. “Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen round in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books…
Pills and Starships by Lydia Millet- a review by Jessica Curtis
Pills and Starships, written by: Lydia Millet Review Written by: Jessica Curtis Publisher: Akashic Books Release Date: May 19,2014 Amazon (Kindle Edition)/Barnes and Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo If you could dream or really have a nightmare of a future where the population is controlled by the government you would be dreaming of the world portrayed in Lydia Millet’s…
23 Days of “City of Heavenly Fire:” Day 2: Lindsay Stirling’s “Shatter Me”
Click the Hyperlink below to get a special City of Heavenly Fire countdown clock to add to your social media page! Shadowhunters World :The Mortal Instruments :City of Heavenly Fire. Hi Devoted Readers of A Bibliophile’s Reverie Even though the Lestat Book Coven discussions are on hiatus this week due to my writer’s retreat, I decided to…
Review of Singapore Noir
Amazon (Kindle Copy)/Barnes &Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo Review written by: Kristie Hendricks Signapore Noir Edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan Contributors: Monica Bhide, Colin Cheong, Damon Chua, Dave Chua, Colin Goh, Philip Jeyaretnam, Johann S. Lee, Suchen Christine Lim, Lawrence Osborne, S.J. Rozan, Cheryl Lu- Lien Tan, Donald Tee Quee Ho aka Simon Tay, Nury Vittachi, Ovidia Yu…
23 Days of the Mortal Instruments: Counting down to “City of Heavenly Fire’s” release
Click the Hyperlink below to get a special City of Heavenly Fire countdown clock to add to your social media page! Shadowhunters World :The Mortal Instruments :City of Heavenly Fire. Hi Devoted Readers of A Bibliophile’s Reverie Even though the Lestat Book Coven discussions are on hiatus this week due to my writer’s retreat, I decided to…
Review of Massimo Gramellini’s Sweet Dreams
Amazon (Kindle Edition)/ Barnes and Nobles (Nook Edition)/ Kobo Review written by: Mai Bantog Published by Atria Books Imagine what you would do if your mother suddenly dies and leaves you with a rigid father whom you have nothing in common other than the love for football games. Imagine having to grow…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 