Title:The Green Unknown: Travels in the Khasi Hills Writer: Patrick Rogers Publishing House: Westland Date of Publication: September 18th 2017 Rating: 5 stars “Closer together,tiny groups of twinkling lights, glowing like star clusters,appeared as night fell.Dozens of villages seemed to hang in the moonlight itself.I didn’t know their names but like Riwar, and like Katarshnong,I knew that each…
Month: January 2018
Frozen Fairy Tales
Title: Frozen Fairy Tales Writer: edited by Kate Wolford Publishing House: World Weaver Press Date of Publication: November 10th 2015 Rating: 4 stars “Until the day they died, late at night when the winds moaned, they would swear they heard a voice outside singing lullabies. And once in a while, travelers through the region would stop at the village and…
Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Stories From My Childhood
Title: Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Stories From My Childhood: Beloved Fairy Tales from the Queen to Cinderella Writer: edited by Joan Borsten Publishing House: Harry N. Abrams Date of Publication: October 1st 2002 Rating: 5 stars In 1998, Mikhail Baryshnikov, one of the greatest ballet dancers the world has ever produced (and will ever produce, in my opinion) hosted a TV series…
Dead Ends: Stories from the Gothic South
Title:Dead Ends: Stories from the Gothic South Writer: Edite by J.T. Ellison Publishing House: Two Tales Press Date of Publication: September 28th 2017 Rating: 4 stars “It had been during the Autumn Awakening, a yearly festival when the town sets out candles and candy corn, filling the air with the scents of burning leaves and pumpkin-spiced everything. A…
Cork Folk Tales
Title: Cork Folk Tales Writer: Kate Corkery Publishing House: The History Press Date of Publication: April 6th 2017 Rating: 5 stars “At festivals such as Bealtaine, Lughnasa and Samhain, people gathered at hilltop assemblies, lit fires and offered gifts to Donn, the Lord of the Dead, in the hope that, by observing these rituals, a welcome would await when their…
We Care For You
Title: We Care For You Writer: Paul Kitcatt Publishing House: Unbound Digital Date of Publication: November 7th 2017 Rating: 4 stars ‘’They feel guilt, and relief, increased anxiety, reduced anxiety, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, happiness and unhappiness. Sometimes all at once. How is this possible? It is complicated, being human.’’ Evergreen is destined to be the final place of residence for a…
The House of Frozen Dreams
Title: The House of Frozen Dreams Writer: Seré Prince Halverson Date of Publication: June 19th 2014 Publishing House: HarperCollins Rating: 4 stars “A wolf howled, holding a shingle lonely note in the distance. The scent of spruce and mud and sea kept dredging up the imagined hint of smoke. Even in the summer, a fire burned in the wood stove.”…
Laura & Emma
Title: Laura & Emma Writer: Kate Greathead Publishing House: Simon & Schuster Date of Publication: March 13th 2018 Ratings: 4 stars ‘’You’re not supposed to cry when someone gives you a present.’’ Although I’m not actually a reader of what I call ‘’Family Conflict’’ novels, I cannot say ‘’no’’ to stories whose protagonists are single parents. I consider the women…
The Monk
Title: The Monk Writer: Matthew Lewis Publishing House: Wordsworth Date of Publication: 2009 (first published 1796) Rating: 5 stars ‘’I must have your soul; must have it mine, and mine forever.’’ This is one of the pioneers of Gothic Fiction, a work that defined one of the most fascinating, demanding and controversial genres. A novel written in the end of…
The Beauties
Title:The Beauties: Essential Stories Writer: Anton Chekhov Publishing House: Pushkin Press Date of Publication: October 5th 2017 Rating: 5 stars “When you see a broad village street by moonlight, with its huts, haystacks and slumbering willow trees, peace descends on your soul.” Anton Chekhov. Among the greatest of the great Russian writers who created a plethora of the finest…
The Flu Season
Title: The Flu Season and Other Plays Writer: Will Eno Publishing House: Theatre Communications Group Date of Publication: December 1st 2006 Rating: 5 stars ‘’All the sweat and pain. All the lying and pretending, the rethinking, the revising into ruin. A signature move. It’s only natural. If we could control life, it wouldn’t be life. If we could control our…
World Without End
Title:World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2) Writer: Ken Follett Publishing House: Pan Macmillan Date of Publication: October 3rd 2008 (first published October 4th 2007) Rating: 4 stars “Whether I’ve been good or bad, I don’t think God will be fooled by a last-minute change of heart.” ‘’World Without End’’ is the second installment in Follett’s Kingsbridge series and…
Burnt Offerings
Title: Burnt Offerings Writer: Robert Marasco Publishing House: Valancourt Books Date of Publication: March 17th 2015 (first published 1973) Rating: 5 stars ‘’Drive by the house you’re interested in at night, I say. Watch the windows. See if anybody’s watching for you there. And then drive home with the dome light on, and check that back seat as often…
The Emerald Circus
Title:The Emerald Circus Writer:Jane Yolen Publishing House: Tachyon Publications Date of Publication:November 14th 2017 Rating: 4 stars ‘’You see, my dear ice witch, I have had the love of children from all over the world because of my stories. A child’s love is the perfect love, for it is given with a whole heart.” After The Night…
Mr Woodreeve’s Reflection
Title:Mr Woodreeve’s Reflection Writer: Robert Bluck Publishing House: Unbound Digital Date of Publication: January 20th 2017 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Are you a person in my story, or am I a person in yours?’’ Once in a while, we choose a book attracted by its cryptic blurb. There is a certain ‘’something’’ in a vague description that entices us to…
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