Lies, damn lies, and presidential debates. PLUS 5* #PsychThriller WARD ZERO by @LindaHuber19 #BookReview #FridayReads
This week I was going to write two blog posts. One was going to be about fact-checking presidential debates, and …
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How-2 Prequel #Bookreview #Steampunk THE PICKPOCKET by @CelineJeanjean
The backstory considered: Characters are like icebergs. Only the tip of what the author knows about them might ever be revealed. But …
#MagicRealism ~ The Honesty of Tigers by @DavidBridger ~ #TuesdayBookBlog, #BookReview
Magic Realism? It’s kind of like Urban Fantasy’s posh literary fiction cousin. Let’s say, for example, you go to work and …
How NOT to write #Dystopian #BookReview ARGENTERRA by @DonnaMHanson #TuesdayBookBlog
Public service announcement to authors: Why I will probably reject your review request for your latest YA Dystopian masterpiece: …
Murder Imitates Art? Chasing Symmetry by Tempeste Blake #AugustReviews #mystery #romance
Why I hate reviewing murder mysteries… Yesterday Nancy Smith and Catherine Trizzino joined us here to talk about the path and …
Hero’s Journey: girl to Person? Evelyn dear Fender by Rodney Jones #SciFi #Fantasy #Romance
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.—Erica Jong A few months ago, I explored some of the …
Willing Suspension of Disbelief: The Dirigible King’s Daughter by @alyswestyork #Steampunk #RBRT #AugustReviews
“disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business”—Tom Robbins The first and most …
Abe Lincoln on Acid. (The Seventies. What can I say?) #AugustReviews #humor #SciFi #AltHist
It was the seventies and my friend Amy’s big brother had just gotten out of the U.S. Navy (where he’d enlisted before …
#RBRT #BookReview of #Thriller Need to Find You by @josephsouza3 #TuesdayBookBlog
Thrillers—who reads them and why? At a recent dinner, talk turned from the still emotionally-raw subjects of Brexit and US …
The darker the humor, the funnier the books? 2 for #ComedyBookWeek #weekendblogshare @laughriotpress @zombinanora
What is dark humor? (You know you laughed…) When my daughter was a toddler, she had a joke that never …
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