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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 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...

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...

Genre Bias

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

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...

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...

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...

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