Review: Blog Tour: The Mountains Bow Down

I will start with my own take on this publication and then follow those observations with the remarks prepared and compiled for this blog tour. Aside from having a great title, The Mountains Bow Down by Sibella Giorello is a great read.  I couldn’t even get out of the first chapter without “connecting” with the book [...]

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Sunday Salon: Reading, Writing, and Frustrations

What’s the Sunday Salon?  Um, yeah, me too!  I wanted to figure this out and understand so I followed the links and found the original.  Now I get it! What is the Sunday Salon? Imagine some university library’s vast reading room. It’s filled with people–students and faculty and strangers who’ve wandered in. They’re seated at [...]

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Book Review: A Trail of Ink by Mel Starr

A Trail of Ink: The Third Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon (Hugh De Singleton 3) I have recently found that an author really needs to make a connection with me through at least one of their characters — quickly.  For lack of a better way to put it, I need to “feel” them and understand [...]

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