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Monday, January 25, 2016
NEW THE VAMPIRE DIARIES BOOK OUT!
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READ MY LATEST BOOK OUT
JUST OUT NOW!
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Friday, October 23, 2015
An exciting book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein -- A Book Review
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| Mary Shelley |
A TIMELY BOOK AND A LOOK BACK AT ONE OF THE SCARIEST CREATURES AN AUTHOR INVENTED: FRANKENSTEIN!
BOOK REVIEW:
THE
DETERMINED HEART: The Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein – by Antoinette
May. Published by Lake
Union
I
received a copy to read through the Netgalley program in exchange for an honest
and unbiased review which I am happy to share now.
Other books by this author:
Pilot’s Wife
The Sacred Well
The Yucatan :
A Guide to the Land
of Maya
Haunted Houses of California
I would give this
book Five
Stars for its excellent blend of fact and fiction. This book tells the
story of Mary Shelley most famous as the author of Frankenstein. In this new
book just out, Mary Godwin’s life had many upheavals, but one of the most
telling was a move from her home in a small suburb to the city of London .
Mary’s life was definitely daring and
scary even before her efforts to write Frankenstein. The author describes
one such incident in a boat: “Mary, Bysshe, and Claire huddled together in the
center, hoping their combined weight would maintain balance . . .”
The publisher’s description states The Determined Heart reveals the life
of Mary Shelley in a story of love and obsession, betrayal and redemption.
It describes her
early beginnings and the people who most inspired her in life. She was born the
daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary
Wollstonecraft, “Mary Shelley had an unconventional childhood populated with
the most talented and eccentric personalities of the time. After losing her
mother at an early age, she finds herself in constant conflict with a resentful
stepmother and a jealous stepsister. When she meets the Romantic poet Percy
Bysshe Shelley, she falls deeply in love and they elope with disastrous
consequences. Soon she finds herself destitute and embroiled in a torturous
love triangle as Percy takes Mary’s stepsister as a lover. Over the next
several years, Mary struggles to write while she and Percy face ostracism,
constant debt, and the heartbreaking deaths of three children. Ultimately, she
achieves great acclaim for Frankenstein, but at what cost?”
Antoinette May is
an award-winning travel writer specializing in Mexico ;
May divides her time between Palo Alto
and the Sierra foothills.
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| early version of Frankenstein |
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Celebrating Two Years of Writing The Vampire Diaries Books in Kindle Worlds
THIS MONTH A TWO YEAR
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
FOR A SPECIAL EVENT TO ME
I am celebrating
TWO YEARS OF WRITING
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES BOOKS IN KINDLE WORLDS
I saw my first book for The Vampire Diaries Kindle Worlds published in October of 2013, two years ago . and still Best Seller this year in this month! This was THE LOST DIARY.
I have written several since then including this one below:
I have written several since then including this one below:
Thanks to The Vampire Dairies and Kindle Worlds
http://www.amazon.com/The-Vampire-Diaries-POTION-Kindle-ebook/dp/B00HHWNSN0/ref=zg_bs_6305066011_10
Friday, September 18, 2015
This is just an enjoyable book and I really liked it
THE SCAM A Fox and O’Hare Novel –
Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg – Random House publishing Group, Ballantine,
Bantam Mystery and Thrillers. Publishing date: September 15, 2015.
I am a blogger and reviewer. I was
privileged to read this book as a professional reviewer on Net Galley. I received a copy to read through the Net
galley program in exchange for an honest and unbiased review which I am happy
to share now.
I would give
this book Five Stars because I consider it high impact entertainment from
beginning to end.
Because I wanted
to share my interest in this book with my friends, I am posting a review on
several of my blog sites
Kate O’Hare is a woman who is comfortable in
her own skin and in her profession until she is drawn into a complicated
venture with a man she doesn’t trust. She is an FBI agent, and he is a man who
is possibly a genius at going the other way and getting others to run after him.
She begins to do this, and their escapades are nothing short of delightful.
Kate is drawn into a rocky relationship which
is complex and interesting throughout.
Kate considers her own thoughts of Nick at
one point: “Kate squelched a grimace. It was nice to know he cared enough to
risk his own safety, but it was frightening to think of Nick bumbling through
the forest. Especially since her dad probably had it bobby-trapped.”
This
book is described as the fourth book in the fast-paced, action-packed Fox and
O’Hare series from Janet Evanovich No. 1 bestselling author of the blockbuster
Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, bestselling author of the Monk series.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
This is a Serious Book and Worth Reading Many Times: a Book Review
BOOK REVIEW:
BLACK EARTH – Historical,
nonfiction by Timothy Snyder.
I would like to say of this book:
Well-researched
Thoroughly Documented
A Workable Time-Piece to connect to for that
period of War
In this book the evolution of Adolph
Hitler’s plan came together in the war fares scattered across much of the
world. It was after all; in Hitler’s opinion part of a final solution of
determining what he had said was the natural animal fight for supremacy and
dominance in their species. For Hitler, as explained in this sweeping text of
that era and that war, this is described clearly and in details which grasp the
reader with their very magnitude.
In
this book, the author quotes Hitler’s reason to want to invade the Ukraine
as he wanted their very fertile land and that of their neighbors, the Russians,
Belarusias and the Poles. He goes on to say, Hitler saw this as a quite simple
logic and plan so that his own people would see that “no one is able to starve
us again!”
It tells of Hitler leaving prison in 1924
and the author describes him as “a much cannier politician then years after his
failed putscht. The book goes on towards the Year 1934 when Hitler’s title
became “Fuhrer” and even “Reich Chancellor.”
Hitler began developing “a Nazi Party
created upon the assumption of endless racial conflict with the traditional
state asserting the right to control and limit violence.”
With his vision clearly forming into
reality before his very eyes, Hitler established the first concentration camp
that at Dachau
in 1933, “as a place where his National Socialist Party could punish people.”
Over and over to carry the reader forward
dramatically in exploring these complex issues, a further visual aid is a
series of maps. These surely unique maps
lead the reader into an understanding of the historical piece of literature
with a smooth entwined blending of word imagery and visual map display.
I
would give this book Five Stars for more reasons than one, but it is a very
good read and well thought out one.
Publication date is September 8, 2015 by
Crown Publishing, of Tim Duggan Books, in the History, Nonfiction adult
category.
This book is very easy reading of an
intriguing, but difficult subject with such depth of thought that it can be at
times dazzling to see it captured so vividly. I also found the research and
resources placed at the end of the book informative also, with its arrangement
though detailed, nonetheless, furnished in an easy to follow manner. The work
which is involved in this monumental task is awe-inspiring also.
Friday, September 4, 2015
LOVELY AND INTRIGUING NOVEL
THIS
IS A BOOK REVIEW: Of the book titled: JADE DRAGON
MOUNTAIN St. Martin ’s Press,
Minotaur Books of New York.
I
received a copy to read through the Netgalley program in exchange for an honest
and unbiased review which I am happy to share now.
I
would give this Five Stars as a well told story, interesting, and the author
clearly knows her subject.
Publication date of this book is September
1, 2015.
It is in the genre of History, Literature
and Fiction, adult.
This book starts with a piece of a letter
written by a bookseller to his nephew who is part of a sailing ship crew. In
this way, the story begins an intriguing tale which leads to a mystery and a
murder during a time when people are gathering to be a part of festivities for
the Emperor of China.
The author describes this point in time in
the 1700s in many eloquent ways including in this passage, “The great
connoisseurs of tea could take a sip and follow in their minds the entire
journey of the leaves, a mapped trajectory of taste and fragrance.”
This book’s main character, Li Du, is a
man who has become a wonderer by circumstances and because he is forced to
become a refugee. He stops along the way to see a relative and finds signs that
The Emperor of China is expected to this quaint community of Dayan. The man
wants to immediately leave, but is detained by his relative needing his
temporary help.
The events the man becomes entangled in
are set against a beautiful backdrop of the place which the author describes so
well and the people who inhabit this rich and beautiful country. At one point one
of the characters of the book explains his reason to enjoy travelling as: “The
quarrels of emperors and kings do not reach the caravans.”
The man, Li Du, is drawn into deep
conversations and finds himself more involved than he ever wanted to be there,
but he is trying to rush forward and leave the intrigue and danger he finds in
the town as it awaits the Emperor’s state visit.
The
book, Jade Dragon Mountain, holds more than one beautifully told
story within it. The scholar travels far away from the place he had once lived
and worked as a librarian in a priceless library of books. His journey is
becoming entwined with a mysterious Jesuit Missionary and another guest at the
Emperor’s official guest house.
Talks over the famous tea of the period
continue and the stories of captivating memories are shared. As one traveler
states, “The East India Company is the real Western Power now in this part of
the world – everyone knows it – everyone outside of China, that is.”
In a description
of the book, the story is about a Chinese librarian, Li Du, whose travels bring
him to the town of Dayan , the last Chinese town
before the border with Tibet .
He finds himself unexpectedly part of a large group of travelers, soldiers and
merchants, all of them expectant to see within just a few days an eclipse of
the sun. Although Li Du wants to continue his journey over the Jade Dragon Mountain and out of China , he is pulled back by the
murder of an astronomer and his own desire for truth.
About the Author: Elsa Hart was born in Rome , Italy
and lived in Moscow
until 1991 with her family. She has lived in the Czech
Republic , the United States , and in China .
She wrote this, her first novel, in
Lijiang, the city that has grown up around the old town of Dayan .
She earned a
B.A. from Swarthmore College and a J.D. from Washington University
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