By Kathy Brandon Illustrated by Jennifer Kasitz © 2023, Munn Avenue Press ASIN: B0BVN1V9NV Kindle version; file size 7818 KB I don’t recall reviewing a children’s book before. But The Adventures of Nonna and the Little Red Truck in Summertime was a great first selection. In this fun story, we see through the eyes of…
Author: DremaDeoraich
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
By Christopher Paolini © 2020, Tor Books ASIN: B081D7ZSTL Kindle version; file size 19201 KB Xenobiologist Kira Navárez knows the rules. She knows why they are in place. When you discover an alien site, don’t disturb it. More importantly, don’t touch anything. So when she literally falls into a forgotten alien reliquary while searching for…
Too Many Balls
Silly me. I must have thought, somewhere in the back of my mind, that once I got Entheóphage out on the streets, I could move on to the next project and leave Phagey behind. That my schedule would remain fairly consistent, and I would have no trouble juggling what remained on my plate. (Insert annoying…
The Drift
By Casie Aufenthie © 2021, Independently Published ASIN: B08YKCW6RM Kindle version; file size 777 KB In a future where humanity has divided through evolution, war has devastated not only the surface of the Earth, but all traces of civilization outside those areas controlled by the Illuminatos, most evolved of the species. Seven Illuminatos rule the…
Bewilderment
By Richard Powers © 2021, W.W.Norton & Company ASIN: B08X19W2HD Ebook File Size: 3245 KB Following the death of his wife, astrobiologist Theo Byrne is raising their son Robin alone. Robin is smart, warm, deep, and in love with Nature, especially endangered animals. But Robin is also deeply troubled, and about to be expelled from…
The Limits of Enchantment: A Novel
By Graham Joyce © 2013, Black Dust Creations Ltd ASIN: B00F66Q8TK Kindle version; file size 1104 KB In every way that matters, Fern Cullen is daughter to Mammy Cullen, who sees to the needs of village women in rural England around 1960. It’s Mammy who helps them regulate their bleeds. Mammy who blesses the wedding…
Kindness Teacher
I have said in my blog and to writer friends that critiquing helps me improve *my own* writing, as well as contributes feedback to the other person for their own writing. Yes, it takes away from my available time to write, but in the end, it is worth it for both people involved. (And for…
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
By V.E. Schwab © 2020, Tor Books 978-0765387561 Hardcover; 448 pages Adeline LaRue’s biggest fear is living a life of drudgery, like her mother’s and every other person in the tiny French village where she has grown up. On the night of her wedding in 1714, before they can compel her to make her vows,…
The Chronicles of Self-Publishing: 11th Part of My Journey
(or How I Did It, a “.doc”-umentary) Part 11/11 Latest update: I’ve always heard from experienced authors that the best way to stop obsessing over a single work is to move on to the next project. So I’ve been learning to juggle. Again. Projects, that is. As an indie author, I’d focused solely on Entheóphage…
The Poisonwood Bible
By Barbara Kingsolver © 2009, HarperCollins ASIN: B000QTE9WU Kindle Edition; File size 2370 KB When Orleanna’s fiery Baptist husband, Nathan Price, takes her and their four daughters to the Belgian Congo on a mission trip in 1959, none of them can foresee the tragic consequences of his ill-fated decision. The nation is already poised on…