Hello, dear friends. It’s time for another “different kind of book review.” The novel I chose is Silk for the Feed Dogs by Jackie Mallon. You might already know Jackie through her blog at https://jackiemallon.com/ And if you don’t, I suggest that you make your way over there now and […]
Estimated reading time: 13 minutes
Hello, dear friends! What an interesting week it’s been. And exhausting given that I had the luxury of roughly two weeks of staycation. Returning to work after any length of hiatus is never easy. But, still, my year started off great and I hope yours did too. To start off, […]
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
I’m on a roll, dear Reader. Two different kinds of review in two weeks! Amazing what a few days away from the day job can do for a writer. My vacation has not been all writing and reading, as I’ve been fairly absent from social media. We took a brief […]
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Hello, dear Reader. I’ve managed to squeeze some time into writing a different kind of book review. This one is for a novel I’ve had for … ahem … well, quite some time. It’s been available since August 2014. Sigh. And I finished reading it back in February. I’m sharing […]
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
I’m still chugging along with a free online poetry course so here, again, is a traditional book review. And, again, why wait? I’ve posted this review on Amazon and Goodreads, but why not share the review through my blog now instead of waiting for my Muse (i.e., Time) to strike […]
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
As I often complain to anyone who will spare me a few minutes (and that usually reduces to a few seconds once they see I’m about to complain): I have a tower of to-be-read and to-be-reviewed books that may as well be called Eiffel for it’s height. It’s my own […]
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Mary closed the slim volume of poetry and leaned back against the stiff cushions of her couch. She never was one to read much poetry, except occasionally Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare, whose works had stayed with her all these years since high school. What was it Dickinson once wrote in […]
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
This post could also be titled, “A Book Review Discussion Without End.” In as many days, I’ve come across three separate blogs discussing the pros and cons, the ups and downs of positive and negative book reviews. If you want to go off and read these posts before mine, go […]
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Hello, Dear Reader. I am raising myself from the near-dead to offer you another in my unplanned series of “a different kind of book review.” And this book is so worth me rallying myself to the computer. I hope you enjoy the review. Even more so, I hope you buy […]
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes