By Judy Bume Delacorte Press, ©2012 ASIN: B007I5QMK2 Kindle File Size: 1515KB Paperback: 177 pages What a wonderful little book! While it seems simplistic, perhaps written for a middle-grade reader, Margaret’s story is deeper than it first appears. Its themes of puberty, menstruation and sexuality, and the exploration of religion have prompted bans in many…
Author: DremaDeoraich
The Object
By Joshua Calvert ASIN: B0CRQ9ZLDN © February 1, 2024 Kindle: File size 892 KB Print: 380 pages This was an interesting tale that wove hard science fiction with an individual’s determination and persistence, and the shadows that politics sometimes cast over our greatest endeavors. I loved how the astronauts on the Pangaea, even though they…
Void Beyond the Walls
By Relvin Gonzalez Birthmark Publishing, ©2024 ASIN: B0CRS6S5H7 Kindle Version, file size 5237 KB Void Beyond the Walls is exactly what it claims to be: a literary serial killer novel. I’ve read a number of thrillers and edgy, dark fiction, but I had not encountered this combination of style and genre in a novel before…
Animal Farm
By George Orwell ABHISHEK Publications, ©2021 ASIN: B0DCNXJTDH Kindle Version, file size 29690 KB I’d never read this book before. It was not required reading when I was in school. I’m not sure why I chose to read it now, other than it was a classic title on the banned books list, and I vowed…
For Love of Book Clubs
On the night of the launch party for Fallen, my friend Susan approached me and said her mother, Carol, was a member of a book club called “Read Between the Wines” in North Carolina. The club had expressed an interest in having me attend their August meeting, when they would be discussing Entheóphage, and would…
Bookshops & Bonedust
By Travis Baldree Tor (©2023) ASIN: B0BQGGVB4K Kindle Version, file size 6367 What a delightful little story! Before finding this book (and its sequel, Legends and Lattes, also an excellent read), I’d never heard of the cozy fantasy genre, and now I have a new label to add to my faves. From the very first…
Gender Queer
By Maia Kobabe and Phoebe Kobabe Oni Press, © 2019 ISBN: 9781549307515 Paperback 240 pages Reading age: 18 years and up I loved this story. In these pages, Maia—who was assigned female at birth (AFAB) and now uses the Spivak pronouns e/em/eir—tells eir story of gender confusion from childhood to adulthood. It was touching, enlightening,…
Enemies Domestic
By John DeDakis © July 3, 2024, Speaking Volumes, LLC ISBN-13: 979-8890221537 Print Version, 336 pages Enemies Domestic follows Lark Chadwick through her new assignment as White House Press Secretary, a job she never wanted, but accepted anyway in order to help her friend, President Will Gannon. From the very start, her early-term pregnancy is…
Jack And Anna: New Scourge Rising
By R.S. Penney © June 3, 2024, Next Chapter ASIN: B0D62DV7FL Kindle Version, file size 1704 KB Jack and Anna are special agents with special powers, bonded with symbionts and out to save the worlds. The excitement suggested by that statement is present throughout the story. Once the action started, it rarely paused. It was…
An Elf With No Name
The Spires Saga, Book 1 By Mortimer Langford © 2022, Next Chapter ASIN: B0BJZ3NYLY Kindle Version, file size 2693 KB What a fun story! Damian Spires is a smart-mouthed war mage who isn’t above skating the edges of legal magic for a variety of reasons—including poker. He’s pretty much prepared for anything that might crop…