I took the kids to the zoo yes­ter­day, they had a Star Wars day where some folks were dress­ing up as the movie char­ac­ters and were walk­ing around the zoo. These are peo­ple who spend a lot of time and money re-creating movie cus­toms and then do many char­ity events. Even though this was a […]

Abe Kōbō (27 March 7, 1924 – 22 Jan­u­ary 22, 1993) was a Japan­ese writer who was also a phở­tog­ra­pher and play­wright. Books by Abe Kōbō His name is pro­nounced AH-bay KOH-boh Fol­low­ing his father’s foot­steps, Abe went to med­ical school. As the story goes, he was only allowed to grad­u­ate if he promised that he’ll […]

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.