Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads Print Length:336 pages Publisher:Grove Press (August 5, 2014) Sold by:Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Language:English Review written by: Paula Tupper Summertime can be a difficult time for a book reviewer. There are stacks and stacks of new books issued for the vacation reading crowd, fat books with short simple sentences and…
Tag: historicalfiction
Review of “Sisters of Treason,” by Elizabeth Fremantle/ Giveaway!!
Giveaway: Win a copy of Elizabeth Fremantle’s “Sisters of Treason,” by accessing the Rafflecopter app, by clicking the cover image above for the book!! Remember, winners are chosen randomly, and the contest is only open to those living in the USA! Thanks! Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads An infectiously clever song, which I think for the purpose of this review,…
Review of The Eye of Cybele by Daniel Chavarrìa
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads Daniel Chavarrìa’s fifth century B.C. Athens is not the ancient city we learned about it middle school Social Studies. Of course certain elements we might remember from seventh grade echo throughout The Eye of Cybele—the mention of Olympian heavyweights Athena, Apollo, and Dionysus; the lore surrounding the original Olympic games (before…
BEA 2014 Spotlight Post #1- Julia Butler’s Provocative, Evocative First Novel: “The Last Encore”
Lulu.com (print and ebook editions)/Amazon.com (Print Edition)/ Author’s Website Having the opportunity to speak with Julia Butler at Book Expo America this year served as a wonderfully engaging opportunity to converse with a writer that is making her first literary foray into the world of publishing, through the means of self-publishing, with her first novel…
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…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 