The most remarkable aspect of Gudbjorn Gunnars’ book is that every reader will undoubtedly benefit from what it contains. The 26-Day spiritual reflection is expertly crafted for those ready to explore their inner selves. The guided study ensures they depart with a profound sense of wholeness. The Icelandic author, a well-known radio host, candidly shares … Continue reading Gudbjorn Gunnars’ Journey to Wisdom and Wholeness
Sherlock Holmes fans will find themselves transported beyond the frequent mimic of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Victorian writing. Gretchen Altabef’s Sherlock Holmes: Five Miles of Country is likely to draw those who like innovation and a twist on the normally male-dominated buddy stories tied to the genre like bees to a hive. Even those well read in … Continue reading Sherlock Holmes As Never Before
I AM THE ONE: Upgrade Your Defintions by Dr. Alexandre Rushenas MD Readers will delight to find clear prose by an author whose grasp of how to explain the complex is admirable. That said, for many book lovers this will be no easy read. Those with a strong interest in personal development, or drawn to … Continue reading Complex Journey to the Center of Oneself
Little Danny shouts to mom about a curious sight. There’s a dinosaur in the toilet bowl. She tells herself that can’t be right. The anxious woman trots upstairs, to see what he really means. From there, Horace Hughes launches a clever, story about loneliness and friendship with lots of funny scenes. There’s a Dinosaur in … Continue reading You Never Know What Hides Inside
Isaac M. Logan expands on ideas about Christian military service explored in his previous works, Reborn on the Fourth of July (2012) and For God and Country (2013) in this tightly researched and documented memoir. God Is A Grunt: And More Good News For GIs is filled with footnotes and first-hand insights into Army life … Continue reading God Loves Those Who Stand and Serve
If asked on the fly, I would say Finding My Moo is big on the cute factor. That is largely due to the illustrations by Rio Haretian. The book is also a quick read, therefore a great choice to entertain and send small children into slumber. As I researched, imagine the relief to find out … Continue reading What You Do Is A Clue to the Real
The tradition of poems and plays that railed against injustice during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s returns in Defiance & Desperation. The ten poems in this brief collection speak to today’s issues with an urgency that many readers will recognize from an almost forgotten literary past. Clearly rooted in a deep … Continue reading Voices Against Injustice Never Die
Front Cover This memoir reminded me of a spirit that many people lose in old age. That boldness or chutzpah as Elise Krentzel dubs it, ghost of a precious time when we had the energy and fearlessness to dream. Like Peter Pan the author as many in her generation hungered for global adventure, so ignorant … Continue reading Chutzpah Bolsters Desire
Writing is hard. What’s even harder is to write in a way that breathes life into a topic most readers see as dull. In Fossil Hunter: How Mary Anning Changed the Science of Prehistoric Life, Cheryl Blackford resuscitates a long forgotten hero as pivotal to the development of Earth Science and Natural History as the … Continue reading Curiosity That Changed Life
Wanna-be fiction writers worry too much about what and how to tell the right story. In my days at the university, I told students not to spend a lot of energy on that thought. There are only about unique 13 stories, that is combinations of human circumstance. Beyond those, tales are a mix and match … Continue reading The Almost End And Again
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