Categoría: Books recommended by Masticadores
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Review: Robbie Cheadle’s review of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck by Robbie Cheadle
Picture caption: The Grapes of Wrath cover I knew about Grapes of Wrath and had read it was a masterpiece, but I only read it recently. My interest in this story was inspired by my younger son’s studies about the Great Depression in America. I also knew about the Great…
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Simple Pleasures: Reading and Eating – When Secrets Bloom by Patricia Furstenberg, a Review and a recipe for stuffed cabbage rolls
Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle with you today and I’m sharing a mini-interview with talented author, Patricia Furstenberg, as well as my review of book 1 in her Blood of Kings, Heart of Shadows series, When Secrets Bloom. I’m also sharing Patricia’s recipe for sarmale, or stuffed cabbage rolls. Mini-interview…
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How We Are Shaped by Our Memories by C. J. Anderson-Wu
Book Review——The Assault by Harry Mulisch “Transitional Justice” has been a heatedly debated term in Taiwan, invoked in discussions of past state violence, victimhood, and the necessary measures for remedies. In this context, post-war redress policies in Europe are often referenced. Unlike Europe, Taiwan never had a legal procedure comparable…
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Review: Writing on the margins of the world / Juan Re Crivello by Rafael Julivert Ramírez
Published this week on Amazon/ Juan Re Crivello. Writing on the margins of the world by Rafael Julivert Ramírez ( Note: Rafael Julivert Ramírez (Barcelona, 1967) is an author and popularizer of science interested in artificial intelligence, philosophy, and the digital humanities. He has written several essays on the social…
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Review: Walk Me to the Distance by Percy Everett by Olga Miret
Hi, all: I bring you a novel by an author we’ve heard a lot of recently, but who has been writing for a very long time. Walk Me to the Distance by Percy Everett Now with a brilliant new package, a re-issue of the sophomore novel by Percival Everett, New York…
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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells by Robbie Cheadle
Picture caption: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells What Amazon says “I’ve had a most amazing time….” So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H.G. Wells’s successful career and earned him his reputation as the father…
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Review: The Signal: “They weren’t fired. They were erased.” by Luke Voss / By Olga Nuñez
Hi, all: I bring you a book I’ve discovered thanks to Rosie’s Book Review Team, and I’m sure you’ll feel as intrigued by it as I was. The Signal: “They weren’t fired. They were erased.” by Luke Voss They weren’t fired. They were erased. Maya Chen is a content strategist…
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Review: The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis / By Robbie Cheadle
Picture caption: The cover of The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis What Amazon says A stunning new edition of this timeless allegory of heaven and hell, repackaged and rebranded as part of the C.S. Lewis Signature Classics range. C.S. Lewis’s dazzling allegory about heaven and hell and the chasm fixed…
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Simple Pleasures: Reading and Eating – The Investigative Paranormal Society 3-Book Series by Charles F. French and French Onion Soup
Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle with you today and I’m sharing my reviews of the three books in The Investigative Paranormal Society 3-Book Series by Charles F. French and a recipe for French Onion Soup. The Investigative Paranormal Society (3 book series) Overview from Amazon From Book 1: «All that is necessary…
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Review: The Imperfect Art of Caring by Penny Wincer // by Olga Nuñez Miret
Hi, all: I bring you the review of a non-fiction book on a topic I’ve been reading about a fair bit, recently. Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring by Penny Wincer A personal, positive and essential book for the many carers among us. ‘A beautiful and timely reminder that each…
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Review: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway by Robbie Cheadle
Picture caption: Cover of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway My review A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a love story set during the Italian campaign of World War 1. The story is narrated by the main character, Fredric Henry, an American medic, who joined…
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Book Review: First Day of the Rest: a chapbook of Haibun and Haibunga collaborations byChristina Chin and Michael Hough / by Uchechukwu Onyedikam
Christina Chin and Michael Hough. First Day of the Rest: Haibun. Nun Prophet Press. 2024. 85 pages. $3.83. ISBN-13 979-834580010-2 First Day of the Rest Reviewed by Uchechukwu Onyedikam I will like to begin by acknowledging Christina and Michael for their individual exceptional skills; for holding me down each page,…
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Review: Cancer Courts My Mother by Karen Cline-Tardiff
The book’s title Cancer Courts My Mother —LindaAnn LoSchiavo— suggests an extended metaphor. The tenor, cancer, is a suitor. A suitor is defined as a man who courts a woman. Although the title suggests otherwise, the woman the suitor courts is the daughter, the poet. In «Arrival» she says, «I…
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Literary Jackpot – The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway is the most famous American novelist I know. He appears on the on all the top ten author (English books) lists that I have ever read along with William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, JK Rowling and George Orwell. The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the…
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Review: Duchess of the New Dawn by Kim Rendfe / by Olga Nuñez
Hi all, I bring you a book I discovered through Rosie’s Book Review Team. I read historical fiction sometimes, but I hadn’t read any set in the period covered by this novel. And it does make for a fascinating read. Oh, before I forget, you can preorder the book, but…
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Review: The Cleansing by Victoria Alvear by Olga Nuñez
Hi, all: I share my review of another book I’ve discovered thanks to Rosie’s Book Review Team. I hadn’t read a book set in this historical period for a very long time, and this one felt incredibly relevant to our world today. The Cleansing by Victoria Alvear Based on a…
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