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October 31, 2022
Mailbox Monday #706
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
October 28, 2022
Live Encounters 13th Anniversary Edition Is Out
Check out my latest poems in Live Encounters: 13th Anniversary Edition. I’m on pg. 140 or so.
October 27, 2022
Love the Dark Days by Ira Mathur
Source: the author Paperback, 232 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Love the Dark Days by Ira Mathur is a surreal memoir that weaves between a distant past in post-colonial India and ancestral stories and a married woman looking for guidance on writing her own memoir. The narrative digs deep into the past of her […]
October 25, 2022
Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here by Sara Cahill Marron
Source: Purchased Paperback, 44 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here by Sara Cahill Marron is a collection that explores the need to mark our presence in this life, even as we know that it is all impermanent and often fades. The opening poem “The Three Shades” reflects this impermanence […]
October 24, 2022
Mailbox Monday #705
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
October 20, 2022
The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu (audio)
Source: Purchase Audible, 2+ hrs. I am an Amazon Affiliate It’s been a Grimm’s Brothers kind of month of reading for me. The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu, narrated by Jim Boeven, weaves in myth from Germanic folklore about wolves and sets it just nearing the end of WWII. Even as Berlin tries to tell its […]
October 19, 2022
Fairy Tale by Stephen King (audio)
Source: Purchased Audible, 24+ hrs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Fairy Tale by Stephen King, narrated by Seth Numrich and a bit by King himself, is a dark Gothic story in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm. In a parallel world beneath an Howard Bowditch‘s shed, Charlie Reade‘s worldview and his promise to be a […]
October 18, 2022
A Beginner’s Guide to Being Human by Matt Forrest Esenwine, illustrated by Andre Ceolin
Source: Media Masters Publicity Hardcover, 32 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate A Beginner’s Guide to Being Human by Matt Forrest Esenwine, illustrated by Andre Ceolin is a book for ages 4-8, but I bet there are some adults who could use this lesson in empathy and compassion. I loved that this picture book opens […]
October 17, 2022
Mailbox Monday #704
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
October 13, 2022
Rooted and Winged by Luanne Castle
Source: Purchased Paperback, 68 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Rooted and Winged by Luanne Castle, on tour with Poetic Book Tours, speaks to the human condition, a need for feeling rooted to a home and the need to expand our wings and fly beyond what we’ve known and experienced. The tension of this is […]
