Be sure, if you haven’t already, to obtaina copy of Discovery of Witches from either Indiebound (independant book stores), Kobo, Barnes and Nobles, Amazon, or at your local library. Today, we’ll be mostly focusing our discussion (very brief overview, with some discussion questions) on the first 150 pages of the story, with relation to the beginning stages/ formative…
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Bibliophile Reverie’s Literary Tea Recommendations (and pairings), Seeking Fall Flavors for Books in October
Dear Interested Tea Companies, of all shapes and sizes: This message is mainly for you tea companies out there that have perused our year’s worth of tea-related features, including reviews written by our resident tea connoisseur and tea blogger, Sara Letourneau ( aspiring novelist/book blogger as well). Maybe, you’ve stumbled on our page, or have our…
Review of Felix J. Palma’s “Map of Chaos” & Literary Tea Recommendation
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Goodreads/IndieBound Release Date: June 30, 2015 Synopsis (Provided by the Publisher, Atria Books): Award-winning author Félix J. Palma will once again plummet you to the depths of his daring and adventurous imagination with THE MAP OF CHAOS (Atria Books; $27.00; June 30, 2015), the grand finale to the Victorian trilogy The Washington…
Review of Mary Doria Russell’s “Epitaph” & Literary Tea Feature
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Kobo/Goodreads One historic incident in the lively, rich history of our country has never been as deeply scrutinized, debated over, and pondered like the infamous O.K. Corral gun fight that occurred in October, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona. This gunfight, and this city that is arrayed in legends and sordid Hollywood grit and glitz…
Review of “The Buried Giant” by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Goodreads “To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” –William Shakespeare: Hamlet- In my undergrad years (my idealist, wanderlust years as an English undergrad), I wrote a Shakespeare essay, analyzing the dichotomous relationship between “light” and “dark,”…
Perdita by Hilary Scharper Blog Feature Part 2-Review &Literary Tea Recommendation
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/Goodreads Main Review: Perdita is a lesser known character from Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, which I have never read or really had any familiarity whatsoever with any of its characters till settling down to read Hilary Scharper’s enrapturing, thoughtful, strangely alluring ghostly, gothic mystery tale. The basic premise of the story involves Garth, a…
Review of Greer Macallister’s “The Magician’s Lie” & Tea Recipe
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/Author’s Website/ Goodreads SONG RECOMMENDATION FOR BOOK: Emilie Autumn’s empowering anthem, Fight Like a Girl, the lead single for her most recent album, boasting the same title as the song., fits perfectly with the predominant theme and struggle for Ada, the main character in this story, who later adopts the stage moniker of “The…
Review of Death Runs in the Family by: Greg Wilkey & Tea Feature
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Greg Wilkey’s Author Facebook Page/Goodreads On Anne Rice’s Facebook page, Greg Wilkey is a very frequent contributor to the ongoing discussions that take place there, and he actively shares details about two of his supernatural-themed series. His previous series, the Mortimer Drake books, were concisely-written, action-packed, and had a very rich mythological origin story…
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…
Review of “The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree” by S.A. Hunt/Literary Tea Feature
INDIE AUTHOR APPRECIATION MONTH! Be sure to check out details on how to win a complimentary tea prize, courtesy of Mighty Leaf Tea Author’s Website/Amazon/Screwpulp/Goodreads Cautiously, I never deem a book with the superlative “this is the best thing I’ve ever read,” just like I resent putting an arbitrary star-rating on a book,which I…
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…
Review of “Station Eleven,” by: Emily St. John Mandel &Literary Tea Feature
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads “Survival is insufficient” -Star Trek: Voyager- Seasoned actor Arthur Leander, begins this stirring, dark apocalyptic tale, (fusing both melodramatic and darkly humorous elements),standing on a stage at a Toronto Shakespearean theater production, arrayed in the uniform of the tragic Shakespeare character of King Lear, looking outwards onto all the dazed, enthralled faces…
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