Book Review: Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman edited by Karen Karbiener

***This book was reviewed for Moondance Press via Netgalley   Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman introduces young readers to one of America’s greatest poets. There are four sections, devoted to different aspects of Whitman’s life and works. The first section, ‘Starting from Paumanok’ looks at his earliest works and inspirations. The second section, ‘Walt Whitman, […]

Book Blitz: Your crossroads. Your choice. by EJ Apicello

This is my stop during the book blitz for Your crossroads. Your choice. by EJ Apicello. This book blitz is organized by Lola’s Blog Tours. The book blitz runs from 3 till 9 July. See the tour schedule here.   Your crossroads. Your choice. By EJ Apicello Genre: Non-fiction/ Self Help Release Date: June 2017 […]

Book Review: The Goddess You by Jeanne Street

***This book was reviewed for Reader’s Favourite   The Goddess You, by Jeanne Street, is a culmination of her personal experiences learning to work with Spirit. She has distilled these lessons into twelve distinct principles. Throughout the course of the book Street gives practical exercises, journal prompts, and anecdotal stories.   Being a metaphysicist, as […]

Book Review: The Asylum of Dr Caligari by James Morrow

***This book was reviewed for the San Francisco and Seattle Book Reviews, and via Netgalley   The Asylum of Dr Caligari by James Morrow, spun from the 1920s silent film The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, is a commentary on duality- life and death, war and peace, science and art, reason and mysticism, sanity and insanity- […]

Book Review: Stack Your Bones by Ruthie Fraser

**This book was reviewed for The Experiment via Netgalley   Fraser’s Stack Your Bones evolved out of the author’s work with Structural Integration, a type of bodywork that focuses on manipulating body tissues to realign and strengthen the body’s framework, leading to improved flexibility and resilience. Fraser says, among other benefits, these 100 snack-size ‘meditations/exercises’ […]

Book Review: Bathing Strictly Prohibited by Michael Rhodes

***This book was reviewed for Troubadour Publishing Limited via Netgalley   Bathing Strictly Prohibited is a beautiful, haunting collection of poetry, whose language evokes times long past, breathing shape to the ephemeral. The poems are divided into two categories- places, and moments. Some of my favourites were Dawn in the Alps, On the site of […]

Book Review: The Phoenix Cycle by Bob Collopy

Collopy’s The Phoenix Cycle is an intense leap into a dystopic world unlike any other. The earth has been struck by a meteor, causing nuclear winter. In the city of New San Francisco, society has become divided into an elite caste, the Inner Circle, and a lower caste that lives in sectors sprawled around the […]

Book Review: Freak by Erin Lee

***This book was reviewed via Lola’s Blog Tours   Erin Lee’s Freak is a poignant tale of loss, acceptance, and second chances. This powerful story should be required high-school reading. No, strike that. Why mollycoddle middle-schoolers who can be just as spiteful as high-schoolers and ignorant adults, especially given the current political climate of the […]

Shout Out: Gringo by Dan “Tito” Davis w/ Peter Conti

Story Summary Dan “Tito” Davis comes from a town in South Dakota that’s so small everyone knows their neighbor’s cat’s name. But once he got out, he made some noise. While at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, he started manufacturing White Crosses, aka speed, and soon had the Banditos Motorcycle Club distributing ten million pills […]

Book Review: Lockdown by Samie Sands

**This book was reviewed for Limitless Publishing via Netgalley   *****Spoilers warning   Lockdown is one of many in the post-apocalyptic subgenre that utilises disease as the source of the apocalypse. In this case, it is the AM13 virus, a disease at first believed to be part of a hoax. Leah, our protagonist, sends a […]

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