Categoría: Books recommended by Masticadores
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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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Author Interviews – The incredible Juan Re Crivello and a review
The incredible Juan Re Crivello Today I am thrilled to feature an interview with the creator of the Masticadores network, Juan Re Crivello. You can view the main Masticadores website here: https://masticadores.com/. For English speaking writers and poets, you can submit your work to the following platforms: Barbara Leonhard Harris,…
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Gary Gautier’s Fiction Collection 2026!
So, my friends, let us all join Gary for this wonderful Zoom meeting! See you there! +++++ Poetry editor Francisco Bravo Cabrera
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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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Gary Gautier: A Short Story
Gary Gautier Clown and Tiger The Clown and the Tiger (845 words) «That’s water-turned-wine,» says Annie, archly but without a trace of impatience. «Your turn.» I pull two cards from the top of the deck. Far away, goats’ bells ding, and still further out, glimpsed between the gnarled crosses of olive…
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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…
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Author Interviews – Meet V.M. Sang and a review
Meet V.M. Sang Today, I am delighted to introduce fantasy and historical novel writer, V.M. Sang. V.M Sang is also a wonderful poet. You can read my review of her poetry book, from January to June, on Amazon US here: https://www.amazon.com/review/R3OZBBBMJNPAIE/ Tell us a bit about V.M. Sang and your…
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Simple Pleasures: Reading and Eating – This Is How We Eat Anthology by contributing editor Yvette Prior
Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle with you today and I’m sharing a mini-interview with Yvette Prior and her recipe for keto pancakes and my review of This Is How We Eat. Mini-Interview Tell us a bit about Yvette Prior. How do you think your experience and work background helped shape…
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Throwing the Hammer by Gary J. Kirchner #RBRT // by Olga Nuñez
Hi, all: I bring you another book I’ve discovered thanks to Rosie’s Book Review Team, and I enjoyed it enormously. Another new author to follow for me! Throwing the Hammer by Gary J. Kirchner Paranoid administrators, interdepartmental feuds, quirky staff members, and an eccentric headmaster: welcome to Winston Grant High…
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Robbie Cheadle’s review of Soul Swallowers by D. Wallace Peach
Peach Picture caption: Cover of Soul Swallowers by D. Wallace Peach What Amazon says When swallowed, some souls gift insights, wisdom, a path to understanding. Others unleash power, proficiency with a sword, and indifference to death. One soul assimilates with ease. But swallow a host of the dead and risk…
