Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Nicole Sara Reviews “Carving Magic” by Simona Prilogan
August always comes with its lovely surprises… unplanned summer trips, nice moments, places…and this year for me it has also been about a lovely poetry book that I finished reading this past week, which felt delightful to hold in my hands and which I leafed through quite a lot. Carving…
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Featuring «The Will of the Wisp» by Ed Ahern
Book Description «The Will of the Wisp» is an action filled story of high stakes crime, intrigue, and tangled emotions. Its characters, good and bad, are flawed. The novel opens with the narrator agreeing to administer the estate of a former lover who committed suicide, and quickly moves into multiple…
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Book Review of «Does Love Die With You?» by Dawn Pisturino
Amazon Book Description But then, when was love ever easy? Aaron Philip has been in love with his best friend, Diya Awasthi for seven long years. Finally, he gathers the courage to confess to her, come what may. But God had other plans and on his way to Diya, he…
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Featuring «Lessons from the Edge of Barstools & Other Half-Truths» by JD Vail
Amazon Book Description In his latest work, JD explores the lessons learned and the brief relationships made during his adult years jumping in and out of bars. Be prepared to think, laugh, and maybe get angry a time or two. I hope you enjoy this reading from «Edge of Barstools…
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Vagabond City Interviews Channie Greenberg
I’m not looking for new media as much as I am seeking ways to use my creativity for good ends. Cooking for literal orphans and widows is one such way. Teaching verbal or visual art to other folks, especially to people with an “I can’t” attitude, is another.
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Featuring “Locker” by Michelle Ayon Navajas
Amazon Book Description We can close our eyes to reality and pretend things didn’t happen the way they happened. Fiction is the closest to escaping what’s true and painful. This collection of over fifty poetic flash fiction stories will push the boundaries of our reality. It will make us discern…
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Featuring “Jesus Christ: True Leader and Perfect Gentleman” by Ignatius Fernandez
Against profiles of other leaders, drawn from different times in history, Jesus emerges as a role model whose example resonates powerfully with all of us leaders – in corporate boardrooms, in government, in social causes, in sports teams, in families, in every facet of life. Review Ignatius Fernandez’s well-written book…
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Review of Dr. Ratan Bhattacharjee’s “Twilight of Love: (Silhouette – A Collection of 100 Wonderful Short and Long Stories)” by Dr. Supriya Shukla
https://orfeu.al/supriya-shukla-review-of-the-book-twilight-of-love-by-author-drratan-bhattacharjee Kindle Indigo (Kobo eBook) https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/twilight-of-love-silhouette-%E2%80%93-a-collection-of-100-wonderful-short-and-long-stories/00dbc5e3-44e2-3557-aca1-42738a53ef18.html Partridge Bookstore (available in paperback and eBook) https://www.partridgepublishing.com/en-sg/bookstore/bookdetails/833761-twilight-of-love
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Featuring «Take a Priest Like You» by Michael Barrington
Amazon Description After being stood up to be shot by a group of drunken Nigerian soldiers, a whiskey drinking, ‘John Wayne’ type priest takes care of him. A racist, alcoholic pastor nurses him through a near fatal bout of malaria. Devastated by the death of a young schoolgirl he then…
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Munmun “Sam” Samanta Reviews “Solemnity Rites” by Loralee Clark
Solemnity Rites by Loralee Clark is a visceral, myth-infused poetry collection that weaves the themes of womanhood, ritual, ancestry, and the struggle for finding significance in this insignificant world. Solemnity Rites reclaims poetry as a site of sacred remembering and communal witnessing. It is not just a book but a…
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Review of Dr. Ratan Bhattacharjee’s “Twilight of Love: (Silhouette – A Collection of 100 Wonderful Short and Long Stories)” by Vandana Kumari Jena
Kindle Indigo (Kobo eBook) https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/twilight-of-love-silhouette-%E2%80%93-a-collection-of-100-wonderful-short-and-long-stories/00dbc5e3-44e2-3557-aca1-42738a53ef18.html Partridge Bookstore (available in paperback and eBook) https://www.partridgepublishing.com/en-sg/bookstore/bookdetails/833761-twilight-of-love previously published in Transcendent Zero Press
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Featuring “A Soul a Day” by Todd Sullivan
From the Author I started A SOUL A DAY twelve years ago. I was living on Jeju Island in South Korea, and I wanted to write a vampire series with a twist. Unlike modern-day vampire narratives, I wanted my vampires to be truly damned, and what’s more hellish than being…
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Featuring «Perfect Disappearances» by Paul Hostovsky
Excerpts GroundedWhen I was littleand closer to the ground,I spent a lot of time on the floor. Sitting on the floor, lying down on the floor, crawling around on the floor and playing with the catwho was closer to the ground than I was. I was intimate with carpeting, its…
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Featuring “Hollow Men (The Windshine Chronicles)” by Todd Sullivan
Men from South Hanguk undertake quests to gain social standing, to stand above their peers, to make names for themselves. To become heroes. Few ever return. Ha Jun, sixteen years old, possesses a glyph sword crafted in foreign lands. Alongside a soldier, a knight, and a monk, he travels across…
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