Book Review: Confessions of an American Doctor by Dr Max Kepler

***This book was reviewed for the Manhattan Book Review   Confessions of an American Doctor is a refreshingly honest, and at times openly repentant recounting of one man’s brush with the law and the aftermath that followed. Herein, you will, dear reader, get to know ‘Dr Max Kepler’ (an alias for obvious reasons) quite intimately. […]

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 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: 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: 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 […]