After months of non-activity, I am finally prepared to sink back into blogging, and the return is accompanied by a special interview with NY Times bestselling writer, Barbara Taylor Bradford, well-known for her best-selling drama title “A Woman of Substance”
Tea Time at Reverie: Mr. Darcy’s Pride Oolong from Bingley’s Teas
“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Mr. Darcy in a letter to Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” Ah, Fitzwilliam Darcy. He may be handsome and wealthy, but at the beginning…
Review of Tell the Wind and Fire
“Sarah Rees Brennan writes with fine control and wit, and I suspect that word of this magical thriller will pass through the populace with the energy of wind, of fire.” —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked andEgg and Spoon In a city divided between opulent luxury in the Light and fierce privations in the Dark, a determined young woman…
Review of Siren’s Song by Mary Weber
“The realization hits: We’re not going to win. It’s why I couldn’t defeat Draewulf in Bron—because this power was never mine anyway. I drop my arms and let the energy die off. And turn around to Face Eogan.” After a fierce battle with Draewulf, Nym barely escaped with her life. Now, fleeing the scorched…
Tea Time at Reverie: Tea Maineia’s Peach Apricot Black Tea
Sometimes the best advice for choosing tea is, “Follow your nose.” In other words, if you like the way a tea smells, you’ll most likely enjoy its taste, too. That principle was a big reason – no, THE big reason – why I bought a packet of Peach Apricot Black Tea from Tea Maineia during…
Dani Hoots’ Review of White Raven by J.L. Weil
White Raven By J.L. Weil Amazon/Barnes&Noble Reviewer: Dani Hoots It only took one heartbeat to change my life–one chilling phone call in the middle of the night. And then, as if my life didn’t already suck, my dad sends my brother and me to some idyllic island for the summer to live with a grandma…
Dani Hoots’ Review of The Sky Drifter by Paris Singer
The Sky Drifter by Paris Singer Amazon/Barnes & Noble Published by Booktrope Editions Review by Dani Hoots Wandering in the vastness of space, is the Sky Drifter; an academy reserved for the best students in the known universe. Seven is just such a student. Gifted in strategy and Sphere, he lives happily on-board with his friends…
Dani Hoots’ Review of Fairly Certain by Deborah Ann Davis
Fairly Certain by Deborah Ann Davis Amazon/Barnes&Noble Published by: D&D Universe, LLC Review by: Dani Hoots Book One of the Love of Fairs series What happens when a Computer Geek challenges a Medieval Outlaw? Petir takes a rough tumble in the Connecticut woods, and awakens in the middle of old England. His instinct…
Tea Time at Reverie: Whispering Pines Tea Company’s Mirkwood Tea
“But [the company] had to go on and on, long after they were sick for the sight of the sun and of the sky, and longed for the feel of wind on their faces. There was no movement of air down under the forest-roof, and it was everlastingly still and dark and stuffy. [… Bilbo]…
Tea Time at Reverie: Longbourn Wedding Tea from Bingley’s Teas
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” Ah, marriage. It’s the revolving point of Pride and Prejudice. Many of the unmarried characters in the story, including men like Mr. Darcy, feel some kind of…
Dani Hoots’ Review of Insomnium by Zachary Bonelli
Insomnium by Zachary Bonelli Amazon/Barnes&Noble/Fuzzy Hedgehog Press (sale going on right now!) Published by: Fuzzy Hedgehog Press Review by: Dani Hoots Nel Hanima grew up amidst chaos. The government collapsed when he was five, and he lived in an underground bunker until he was twelve. His adult life, by comparison, is stable. Government and public…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 