Feast Days by Ian MacKenzie is a novel about a young upwardly mobile couple transferred to Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Plot He is an investment banker and she is trapped in a foreign country without much marketable skills or a visa that would allow her to work. The descriptions of Brazil are accurate. The division betweenContinue reading "Book Review: Feast Days by Ian MacKenzie"
Book Review: The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace
Title: The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One Author: Amanda Lovelace Genre: Poetry Version: ARC – eBook Page Count: 208 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Synopsis: GoodReads Notable Notables: Free verse poetry, Feminism Recommended Readers: Women especially, but men should read this, too, honestly Rating: ★★★★★ Thank you, NetGalley, for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review. My second foray into contemporary free verseContinue reading "Book Review: The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace"
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“Layers Part 8” by Kaine Andrews
Part VIII That should have ended it. I'd never found her in the dreams, after all. This was the resolution that I'd been pushed to since I was about the age she was. Or had been. Who knows what tense to use when you're dealing with ghosts? If she was a ghost. She was solid,Continue reading "“Layers Part 8” by Kaine Andrews"
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The Moreau Witches Mini-Contest: 3 Months of YouTube Red
For Halloween in 2016, I spent the month sharing a paranormal murder mystery set in the Victorian era. At the time, I had just wanted to share a fun story, but it grew to be so much more than that. Many of you fell in love with the characters, admiring their strengths as much as their weaknesses, and their fight for freedom.
But how well do you know or remember The Moreau Witches? While I continue to work on the book, I thought I’d put a quick contest to test that memory. The prize will be a coupon from Skullcandy, offering *3 Months of YouTube Red.
The winner will have until April 1 at midnight to redeem the offer, so this contest will end on March 29th. To win, all you need to do is answer the questions below:
- What was the name of Madeleine Moreau’s tutor in Barfleur?
- What relation…
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“Layers Part 7” by Kaine Andrews
I started down the mountain with my prize.
“Layers Part 6” by Kaine Andrews
I began to scream.
BOOK REVIEW: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book’s lead character, George Orr, runs afoul of the law for borrowing the prescription cards of friends and acquaintances. But Orr isn’t a run-of-the-mill junky out to get prescription painkillers. Instead, he’s taking medications to keep from dreaming, because Orr’s dreams change reality—sometimes in subtle, and sometimes in drastic, ways. Of course, the world would be chaotic if the dreams only changed the present, but they also retroactively change the past to be consistent with the new present. Orr is the only one who remembers both the new and old timelines, but he’s not happy with these god-like powers–especially given the chaotic and unpredictable possibilities that arise from the subconscious mind. Not unexpectedly, Orr is reluctant to tell anyone this because they will think he’s mad.
Orr gets assigned to voluntary therapy…
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