Audrey Brings Old Books New Life
Audiobook App Offers Engaging Experience Audiobooks seem to be divisive in the reading community, but I love them. For neurodivergent readers like myself, they can be a lifeline. While cleaning or doing other tasks, I’ve read more in the past year than I have in the past several because of embracing audiobooks again. So when...
The Truth is Out Now
Find it In “A Short History of the World in 50 Lies” From the deeply confusing and weird to the completely horrifying, Natasha Tidd presents “A Short History of the World in 50 Lies.” Who doesn’t wonder what lies we’ve all been told about history? Well, inside the pages of this book, you can find...
Explore with “The Wolf of Mist and Fire”
Children’s Tale Fit for All Ages If you’re interested in clean, innocent fantasy-story with an atmospheric trip to the English seaside, Eve de Gruchy’s middle-grade book “The Wolf of Mist and Fire” will be just the soul vacation you need this winter. About the Book A tiny island, a bossy sister, a clueless uncle. May...
Find a New Read this Valentine’s Day
Visit the “Fighting Green” Family for Drama, Romance About the Book Liz Green is desperate for a change. The Dot-Com boom is raging in the City of London, and she feels exhausted and out of her depth. Added to that, her long-term boyfriend, Sean O’Connor, is drinking too much and shows signs of going off...
A Dose of ‘Mayhem & Magic’
Read Third “Younglings” Book This May Blurb THE EVERYDAY WORLD IS FULL OF STRANGE AND MAGICAL CREATURES, AND SOME OF THEM DON’T PLAY NICE … Trouble follows the Younglings like ominous storm clouds, and this time it turns up in the guise of witch hunters, dangerous supernaturals, cunning vampires, zombie vamps, and deranged ghosts. Humans...
Reach for the “Winter Light”
Engber’s Coming-Of-Age Novel Out Now About the Book Fifteen-year-old Mary Donahue of suburban Chicago is a kid on the cusp of failure during the brutal blizzard winter of 1978-79, the end of a hard luck, hard rock era sunk in the cynical aftermath of the Vietnam War. Though a smart, beautiful kid, she’s a motherless...
Cozy Up with “Cupcakes and Cupid”
Make “Sweet Caroline” Yours This Valentine’s 5/5 stars If you’re a fan of baking shows or culinary-based cozy mysteries (and don’t mind reading cozy sans dead body), you’ll love Sweet Caroline, one of the six novellas in “Cupcakes and Cupid.” I was gifted with an ARC copy of “Sweet Caroline,” by the author, and I...
Transcend From the ‘Hall of Ignorance’
Love Delivers Near Spiritual Experience 5/5 Stars The first surprising thing about Lali A. Love’s “The De-Coding of Jo: Hall of Ignorance,” the first book in her Ascending Angels Academy, was the peppering of Tupac Shakur quotes throughout. The opening quote was surprising enough, but each chapter opening with one showed the pure love the...
Romance Hot in Snow’s New Release
‘Wedding Days at Halesmere House’ Cover Reveal About the Book The last thing on Lizzie’s mind is catching the bouquet When her best friend’s wedding venue catches fire, Lizzie Martin is on the case to find somewhere new. By some miracle, a space opens up at Halesmere House, and it makes perfect sense to move...