Continuing his series of short stories set north of Nelson (MI) from his first volume, Hilton Everett Moore has included five stories in North of Nelson: Stories of Michigan’s Upper…
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North of Nelson: Stories of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula – Volume 1
Hilton Everett Moore’s North of Nelson: Stories of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula – Volume 1 has six short stories set around north of Nelson in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula between late Victorian…
The Wicker Man
By the time Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer adapted their script of the cult horror movie The Wicker Man into a novel (Tom Doherty Associates, 2014), the movie already had…
Confessions: Fact or Fiction?
Confessions: Fact or Fiction? (Chrysalis Publishing, 2011) is an interesting anthology of short fiction and creative nonfiction by Herta B. Feely (Author) and Marian O’Shea Wernicke (Editor). The main element…
Good Trouble
Good Trouble (Pantheon Books, 2018) by Joseph O’Neill’s is a collection of 11 short stories that give glimpses of contemporary life in the developed west. O’Neill seems to steer away…
The Return
Trevor Benson’s psyche is healing after surviving a traumatizing explosion while serving as a Navy surgeon in Afghanistan. While he regains his balance, his heart and sense of self brings…
The Awakening: The Dragon Heart Legacy (Book One)
A must read for romance and fantasy lovers, this story, The Awakening (St. Martin’s Press, 2020) by Nora Roberts, captured my curiosity and kept me reading far into the night. …
Floating Twigs
Floating Twigs is enthralling in its narration, compelling in its plot, heartbreaking in its honest exploration of human indifference…
The Saturday Wife
If I hadn’t read Naomi Ragen’s Chains Around the Grass, the title “The Saturday Wife” would have been a turn-off enough to make me pass on this book. Who wants…
Girl in Translation
Jean Kwok literally brings her characters to life in her debut novel Girl in Translation (Riverhead Books, 2010). The book traces the life journey of a Chinese girl Kim who…
Black Cow
Admit it or not, modern urban life has stresses that keep piling up on the middle class workers till life reaches a breaking point. One big, visible indicator of such…
The Death of Pan
Our existence in the world as humans having bodies and minds is defined by a perpetual quest for making sense of life—through expressing and concealing, as well as interacting with…