Black Woods Blue Sky By Eowyn Ivey

The writing, however, is beautiful and the story is haunting. Black Woods, Blue Sky is a dark and sad book, exploring relationships and trust...

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Fun Facts Friday: J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

Hector St. John de Crèvecœur was a French-American author, diplomat, and farmer. He is remembered mostly for his book Letters from an American Farmer...

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I Escaped From Auschwitz The Shocking True Story Of The World War II Hero Who Escaped The Nazis And

I Escaped from Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba, originally published in the 1960s, is an important testament to courage, honesty, and selfless bravery...

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The Girls Of The Glimmer Factory By Jennifer Coburn

While the book started slowly, I thought the insights into life at Theresienstadt were well written, and the character studies were very interesting...

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Fun Facts Friday: Pierre Beaumarchais

Pierre Beaumarchais (24 January, 1732 – 18 May, 1799) was a French playwright, inventor, diplomat and many other evolution over his life...

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Blood Sweat Chrome The Wild And True Story Of Mad Max Fury Road By Kyle Buchanan

Blood, Sweat & Chrome by Kyle Buchanan is an oral history of the decades it took to make the award winning movie Mad Max: Fury Road. ...

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The 007 Diaries Filming Live And Let Die By Roger Moore

The 007 Diaries: Filming Live and Let Die is honest. Moore loses his temper at the productions, argues with his wife but appreciates his hand in life...

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Fun Facts Friday: Pedro CalderĂłn de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January, 1600 – 25 May, 1681) was a Spanish poet and writer. He is one of the premier poets of Spain’s Golden Age...

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Tunnel Of Hope Escape From The Novogrudok Forced Labor Camp By Betty Brodsky Cohen

This book, more than anything, is a tribute to those who crawled to freedom, the Bielski brothers, and the Christians who helped the survivors...

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In The Company Of Knaves The Lost Years Of William Shakespeare Book 3 By Anthony Wildman

I enjoyed the nuances of Shakespeare, making him a real character, a struggling playwright and actor. I found the author’s historical research to be excellent...

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Author Q and A: Kenneth Wishnia
Author Q&A / March 1, 2011

The unique book "The Fifth Servant" a smart mystery which is funny and interesting. The book is an interesting read about the Jewish ghetto in Prague...

Guest Post: 5 Reasons You’re Not Writing Your Novel
Guest Posts / March 1, 2011

5 Reasons You’re Not Writing Your Novel This post was written by Jessica Stilling who also writes for buy adderall now and medical assistant So you’ve always wanted to be a writer. Maybe you got that fancy MFA, or you sit in your room during all hours of the night typing away, or maybe you fantasize about what it would be like to be a best selling author at your day job. Whatever the case, you know it’s time to write that novel an...

New Blog Features
Uncategorized / February 18, 2011

Today I debut a new feature I have been working on for some time. If you take a look at the menu bar on top you’ll see a new category “In a Glance”. Underneath you’ll be able to gain easy access to book reviews either by title or author’s last name as well as the author Q&A feature. I hope this feature will help you (and me to be honest) navigate the blog. After all, we are still reading books fro...

Cover Gallery: The Graveyard Book
Cover Gallery / February 12, 2011

Like many bibliophile I am also somewhat enamored by book covers. I don't judge a book by its cover, but I certainly pre-judge it as many of us do (but that's the topic for another post). I am also a comic art collector (well, before kids that is) and have about 10 reviews of graphic novel in my "draft" folder (at the time of this post) - so yes, I like pretty pictures....

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