Book Reviews

Book reviews of books I have enjoyed.

The Silmarillion

J. R. R. Tolkien, Edited by Christopher Tolkien “The Silmarillion, now published four years after the death of its author, is an account of the Elder Days, or the First Age of the World. In The Lord of the Rings were narrated the great events at the end of the Third Age;” The Silmarillion was […]

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Time Crawlers: Stories From a Parallel Universe

Varun Sayal “These stories are events that my brain somehow tapped into and captured in detail. Let me know if your unconscious mind visited the same universes as mine.” Time Crawlers: Stories From A Parallel Universe is a collection of six short science fiction stories. The stories do not lack action, advanced technology, or mythology but […]

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Tony Plumb and the Moles of Ellodian

J.M. Smith “All I want is the truth, I want the truth. ‘I’m thirteen,’ he said out loud. Shoppers eyed him and hurried on. ‘I’m thirteen and I have a right to know. I have a right to know. Hey,’ he said to no-one in particular, ‘wouldn’t you want to know if someone said your […]

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Let’s Be Legends

Sean Fesko “Those I Love you’d were great, but unfortunately for me it was a short-lived high. Because, just a few days later, I got the news that would rock me for months, and I’m sure I won’t ever recover.” Matt is a dream and Kara has some emotional baggage. Kara and her mother move […]

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My Father’s Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannett   I am revisiting one of my favorite childhood reads. My Father’s Dragon is the first book in a series of three: My Father’s Dragon, Elmer and the Dragon, The Dragons of Blueland.  If you have not read My Father’s Dragon, know it is a children’s read. There […]

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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

“During my chocolate parfait I whispered, ‘I’m wearing a bra. Can you tell?’ ‘Of course I can tell,’ Grandma said. ‘You can?’ I was really surprised. I stopped eating. ‘Well, how do you think it makes me look?’ ‘Much older,’ Grandma said, between sips of her coffee. I didn’t know whether to believe her or not so I believed her.”

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