Categoría: Books recommended by Masticadores
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Review: The Firehand File by Bob Van Laerhoven by Olga Nuñez
Hi, all: I bring you the latest English translation of a book by an author I’ve been following for a while. This is a novel set in a fascinating historical period and is a must-read, but it is dark, and the topics it touches can be very upsetting, so caution…
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Namwaran and the Golden Tara by Darwin De Jesus Mariano, A Book Review by Michelle Ayon Navajas
«One thing I usually struggle with when reading novels is when there are loose ends; questions that are left hanging, scenes that feel rushed, or parts that make you wonder,“Wait, ano daw?” Thankfully, this book didn’t give me that feeling. Everything felt connected and well thought out. I really commend…
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Simple Pleasures: Reading and Eating – Tales from the Irish Garden: The Missing Pieces by Sally Cronin and a savoury scone recipe
Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle with you today and I’m sharing my review of Tales from the Irish Garden: The Missing Pieces by Sally Cronin. Sally Cronin has a marvelous international blog styled as a magazine where she shares excellent articles about health, nutrition and diet, music, recipes, and numerous…
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a review by Robbie Cheadle
Picture cover: Flatland cover. You can purchase Flatland from Amazon US here: https://www.amazon.com/Flatland-Romance-Dimensions-Edwin-Abbott/dp/B0875SRH84 Flatland is a satirical novella by Edwin Abbott Abbott and was first published in 1884. This in itself is incredible given the thought process and analysis of one dimensional, two dimensional, three dimensional and even four-dimensional concepts and…
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Why Alaska? The State I Came to Loveby Fernando G. Ting: A Book Review by Michelle Ayon Navajas
Why Alaska? The State I Came to Loveby Fernando G. Ting: A Book Review by Michelle Ayon Navajas Why Alaska? The State I Came to Love by Fernando G. Ting is a heartfelt memoir that chronicles the author’s journey after immigrating from the Philippines to Alaska. Through personal stories and…
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The Book of Don. A Sacred Chronicle of the Trump Era by T.B. Calder by Olga Nuñez
Hi, all: The Book of Don. A Sacred Chronicle of the Trump Era by T.B. Calder Description He descended from the tower, and America called it politics. The Book of Don is a sharp, mock-Biblical satire of Donald Trump, American politics, celebrity culture, media obsession, and the national appetite for spectacle.…
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Robbie Cheadle’s review of Carrie by Stephen King
What Amazon says An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge. My review Carrie, by Stephen King, is one of his shortest novels. It…
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Simple Pleasures: Reading and Eating – Two Short Story Collections and a Strawberry Cake Recipe
Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle with you today and I’m sharing my reviews of The Gowing Pigs: Snort Stories of Atonement, Tennessee by Teagan Riordain Geneviene and On The Verge of Extinction by Doug Jacquier. These collections are totally different but equally engaging and wonderful in their different ways. I’m…
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The Image of Valor (Valorie Dawes Thrillers, Book 7) by Gary Corbin // by Olga Nuñez
Hi, all: I bring you the new novel in a series I have been following for a while now, and I am always intrigued by. The Image of Valor (Valorie Dawes Thrillers, Book 7) by Gary Corbin. The Engineer has a mission: to clean up the human gene pool. His…
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THE PORTABLE HOMELAND. Juan Re Crivello and the Invention of a Literature by Rafael Julivert Ramírez
The Portable Homeland is the first comprehensive study devoted to the work of Juan Re Crivello, an Argentine writer based in Catalonia (Spain) whose literature has grown outside conventional literary circuits, between self-publishing, blogging, Facebook, family memory and a stubborn determination to turn the experience of uprooting into literary matter.…
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Robbie Cheadle’s review of War of the World’s by H.G. Wells
Picture caption: Cover of The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells What Amazon says “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own.” Thus…



