Exile to Freedom by SGD Singh

This is my stop during the blog tour for Exiled to Freedom by SGD Singh. This blog tour is organized by Lola’s Blog Tours. The blog tour runs from 12 till 25 August. See the tour schedule here. Exiled to Freedom By SGD Singh Genre: Historical Fiction/ Contemporary Age category: Young Adult   Seventeen year […]

Aug 10th- 16th

Enjoyable posts of the past week from others Top 10 Tips on Self-Publishing/ Bound to Writing   Resilience – Poem by Tricia Gates Brown/ Vita Brevis   Ruffled – Poem by Joan Leotta/ Vita Brevis   Must Have Bookish Apps/ I Heart Romance & YA   Discussion: Why don’t we see pudgy and lazy male MC in romance stories? […]

Poems: Haiku-ish

©Aislynn d’Merrickssson, 2007-2009   Summer’s end- golden leaves dance in the wind.   Arctic chill- Snow Leopard hunts  in the night.   Thunder and Lightning- A ship flails, lost at sea.   An anguished cry breaks the night- humanity’s folly.   An early morn- dragon’s breath shrouds the land.   A foggy night- will-o-wisps  lead […]

Poem: Pearls Priceless Beyond Compare

©2016, Aislynn d’Merricksson Pearls of memory strung along, one by one, beaded on strands of spirit and soul, myriad shimmering hues, some big, others small. Touch one, then another, and another. Images bloom in the depths, wakening in the mind, scattered over months, days, weeks, years. Decades. A century, if perthro favours. There is no […]

Aug 3rd- 9th

Enjoyable posts of the past week from others How to come up with new ideas for blog posts/ Books Nest   FAIRY TALE RETELLINGS STILL FOCUS ON PHYSICAL APPEARANCES- AND I THINK IT’S LAZY!/ Pages Unbound   Forgotten – Poem by Randal A. Burd, Jr./ Vita Brevis   HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED WHEN WRITING YOUR BOOK/ Paper Fury   […]

Poem: Mirror Maze

©2007, J Aislynn d’Merricksson   Mirror maze-  infinite illusions of perception. Trappings and doings of the human self; limits of true potential.   Shatter these myriad reflections and free the true self from the ego-self.   What are these mirrors?  Judgments, assumptions, our thoughts of how things should be. All illusions-  all we think we […]

Book Review: The Changeling of Fenlen Forest by Katharine Magyarody

Poignant and bittersweet, Magyarody’s Changeling of Fenlen Forest is a magical tale like the fairytales and folk legends of yore. You will find no ‘happy ever after’ ending. Instead, you’ll find deep life lessons about following your heart and trusting your intuition. And that life’s not always fair.  When Elizabeth is but a young child, […]

Book Review: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Inspired by thePopol Vuh, Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow is a dazzling coming of age/ alchemic transformation story steeped in the rich mythology of the ancient Maya.  Casiopea Tun and her ma live in virtual servitude to her grandfather. Unlike her ma, Casiopea bridles against the strict rules, and the disrespect of the family, […]

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