A Stranger Came Ashore is a relatively short book, and writing a review means giving away a large portion of the story. And so the actual review is shorter than normal. A dark and stormy night begins this tale, a shipwreck, a lone survivor a mystery man. Robbie doesn’t trust […]
Monthly Archives: September 2016
For a long number of years I have struggled to “be” an author – you know, one of those people who writes for a living? No, not the one giving you a constant stream of up-to-date news, but the one sitting in the shadowy corner over there taking notes of […]
Introduction to Distraction Posts
It seems to me The Giver is one of those books you either love or are fairly apathetic about. Unfortunately, the flood of dystopian novels this last decade has moved a lot of people into Camp Apathy. Undeservedly. Color, joy, music, love, thought, wisdom. These are a few of those things that […]
Book of the Week: The Giver by Lois Lowry
My first real book series addiction arrived in the form of The Dark is Rising, a book and series by Susan Cooper. I loved books by that time, but this was the first series I absolutely obsessed over (shy of collecting news articles which were not readily available for books […]
Book of the Week: The Dark is Rising by Susan ...
Ley line – a straight line of mystic energy (or magnetism) that passes through natural and man-made locations/buildings of great significance, anything from Stonehenge to churches and natural wells or mountain ranges. It’s one of these ley lines that lies at the center of The Raven Boys. A boy named […]