Life and Things This has been one rough week. Monday was my transjugular liver biopsy. I was put under general anesthesia since medications that can make me drowsy are likely to trigger myoclonic spasms. I still woke from it well. Within 15 mins of finishing the procedure I was awake and clear-headed. Unfortunately, I didn’t […]
Life and Things Counting down til Monday’s biopsy. Fun times… I recover real quick now from anaesthesia, but I’m still terrified of going under yet again. And Tuesday I’m having a second tooth pulled. It’s the mate to the first removed, so it’s not really doing anything. I’ve been rather reclusive lately. A people/writing slump. […]
Enjoyable posts of the past week from others Quiet Descent – Poem by Diane Webster/ Vita Brevis Tracing Oceans – Poem by Seth Grindstaff/ Vita Brevis Discussion: Are you too old to read and/or blog about YA books? What do you think of reading outside your age genre?/ Beware of the Readers HOMESCHOOL MISREPRESENTATION […]
The Sin Soldiers Tracy Auerbach (Fragments, #1) Publication date: July 23rd 2019 Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Red compound makes them angry. Yellow exhausts them. Blue drives them into a state of ravenous addiction. The thief Kai knows about the chemically controlled soldiers of the Eastern forces and their savage, deadly nature. When a […]
Follow the tour Elizabeth thinks she knows the gloomy Fenlen Forest. But when her treasured unicorn fawn, Sida, goes missing, Elizabeth tracks her into a strange land where the people think Elizabeth is a changeling, a malignant being who too closely resembles a missing girl. If Elizabeth can find her fawn and uncover the […]
Wildly imaginative & feminist historical fantasy set in roaring 1920s Mexico GODS of JADE and SHADOW SILVIA MORENO-GARCI Published by Jo Fletcher Books in Hardback on 23rd July 2019, £14.99 Perfect for fans of Katherine Arden, Isabel Allende, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This is magical realism meets historical fiction with fantastic cross-genre […]
A Bad Breed by Kat Ross is third in the Gothic Gaslamp series. Deep in the Carpathians, the village of Mara Vardac has been beset by a series of vicious attacks. At first thought to be animal attacks, it becomes clear something far more sinister is afoot. Anne, an SPR agent, goes to investigate and […]
Icehaven Sum of All Tears Book 1 by Kim Cresswell & M.K. Chester Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian, Paranormal They said it wouldn’t happen. Everything would be better. They were wrong. After a climate change experiment goes terribly wrong, August Madison, finds herself resurrected in a frozen wasteland. With most of the world’s population and food sources annihilated, […]
Walking with Ghosts on Ward’s Pond by Heidi Sprouse is a fictional ‘what if’ take in an actual case. Charlie Baxter is a journalist, and a descendant of the Gilette family. He’s staying at Ward’s Pond, working on research related to Chester’s case. Charlie hopes to find evidence that might exonerate his ancestor for the […]
Enjoyable posts of the past week from others The Book of Omens – Poem by Cynthia Pitman/ Vita Brevis How to grow your Instagram account to 10k+ and become an online influencer/ Books Nest Abandoned – Philip Hess/ Vita Brevis HOW TO USE TRELLO TO ORGANIZE YOUR BLOG // A STEP BY STEP […]
