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Premonitions the publication detour

I look back on the last year and want to jump up and down because we made it through the storm. My book Premonitions was to be launched a...

A Review of Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

Rating: 3 Stars I read a lot of poetry and I did like this collection, but I did not love it. There are things I really liked about some ...

A Review of House of Furies by Madeleine Roux

Rating: 4.5 Stars House of Furies by Madeleine Roux is well written and edited. It is an original story in which Roux paints a vivid pict...

A Review of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Rating: 4.5 Stars Wow, is all I can say about Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. I wanted to give this gripping piece of American Lit...

Genre Bias

I have always been drawn to classic literature, especially those works that transcend time and maintain their relevancy. When I homescho...

Review of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This was not my first read of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I first read this book back in my 20's and with it came a rus...

A Review of "The Treemakers" by Christina L. Rozelle

If I could give it 10 stars I would. Christina L. Rozelle’s The Treemakers has to be one of the best book series I have read in a very lo...

Review of "The House of Grey" - Volume 1- 6 by Collin Earl

The House of Grey Volumes 1-6 by Collin Earl – Let me start by saying this series volumes 1-4 would have gotten all 4 stars from me and t...

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