Writ­ing a book is not what I thought it was going to be.  I had seen the growth in authors.  The draw it had.  Instant suc­cess.  (Many think.)  The numer­ous attempts at cre­at­ing worlds, but I never thought I would be drawn in.  I am a math teacher.  Not a writer.  When we make a […]

In China, 1935, Leiyin watches her own funeral and wan­ders why she has not been per­mit­ted to the after­life. Leiyin dis­cov­ers that she is not alone; three souls are there to guide her along the way until she make amends. But first she has to find out what she has to make amends for.

An alter­na­tive his­tory novel which asks an ques­tion: what if Amer­ica had elected a fas­cist gov­ern­ment before World War II?

I'm find­ing less and less time to read from some rea­son. A lot of it is pres­sures at work and in my per­sonal life, so I'm men­taly tired, some of it are the books I'm choos­ing (either dif­fi­cult to read or sim­ply not grab­bing me), but as I said, much of it is just mental […]

John Ten­niel (28 Feb­ru­ary, 1820 – 25 Feb­ru­ary, 1914) was a British illus­tra­tor and car­toon­ist whose work was promi­nent dur­ing the sec­ond half of England’s 19th cen­tury. These days Mr. Ten­niel is remem­bered, in part, as the illus­tra­tor for Alice in Won­der­land and Through the Look­ing Glass. Tenniel’s father, John Bap­tist Ten­niel, was very athletic […]

The Angel: Ashraf Mar­wan, the Mossad and the Sur­prise of the Yom Kip­pur War by Uri Bar Yosef is a non-fiction book in which Pro­fes­sor Bar Yosef out­lines why he believes Mar­wan was the best spy who worked for Israel, ever. Mr. Bar Yosef is a pro­fes­sor in The Depart­ment for Inter­na­tional Rela­tions of The School for Polit­i­cal Sci­ence at Haifa Uni­ver­sity, spe­cial­iz­ing in national secu­rity, intel­li­gence stud­ies and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Thoughts on: The Lost Ones by Ace Atkinstinyurl.com/bt9gc3y #BookRe­view Await­ing For: And the Moun­tains Echoed by Khaled Hos­seini tinyurl.com/pddjxzo#BookRe­view 9 mem­o­rable meals in lit­er­a­turehuff.to/1h60xsm Thoughts on: War & Peace: Book 4 Part 4tinyurl.com/n7foqhs #BookRe­view RT @the­cre­ativepenn: Patterson's dona­tion to book­stores via @jakon­rath feedly.com/e/6xp-5tyy RT @Non­fic­tionAs­soc: The Impor­tance of Mak­ing Your Book Avail­able for Pre-Sale –ow.ly/rsMYG #book­mar­ket­ing #self­pub­lish­ing Hugh Howey and the […]

Erma Louise Bombeck (21 Feb­ru­ary, 1927 – 22 April, 1996) was an Amer­i­can writer, colum­nist, author and humorist. Ms. Bombeck’s news­pa­per col­umn, which described sub­ur­ban life, was very pop­u­lar for decades.

About: Road to Reck­on­ing by Robert Laut­ner is a west­ern novel tak­ing place in 1837 This is Mr. Lautner’s debut novel. The pub­lisher is giv­ing away one copy of this book –to enter fill out the Raf­fle­copt­ter form at the end of the post. 256 pages Pub­lisher: Touch­stone Lan­guage: Eng­lish ISBN-10: 1476731632 My rat­ing for Road […]

In fact “Inferno” has gath­ered all nec­es­sary con­di­tions for good edi­tion: cine plot, fash­ion for medieval, reli­gious the­o­ries, Robert Lang­don. Film­mak­ers are going to screen the book and of course it will be inter­est­ing to watch. “Inferno” is really inter­est­ing, fas­ci­nat­ing and worth read­ing, if you like mys­ter­ies, puz­zles and unex­pected plot twists.