Stories come in a variety of ways including the urban-myth of a writer who saw dew on a rose one morning and was inspired to write a 400 page best selling novel. Yeah, right. For me stories come in pieces. As they come I make notes because sometimes I don’t realize it’s the same plot [CONTINUE READING]
“A beautifully woven story…You will weep for and cheer on the O’Malley sisters …immediately miss them once the last page is turned.” —Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence and These Hidden Things, on Good Graces Lesley Kagen returns with the sequel to her New York Timesbestselling debut, Whistling in [CONTINUE READING]
Aug 052011
On My Shelves is a weekly post at The Book Faery Reviews which shares THREE books from our personal collection. These books could be favorites, books to be read as soon as possible for our own enjoyment, as well as books to be read soon for scheduled reviews. Books let us into their souls [CONTINUE READING]
It’s time once again to dredge up that age-old philosophical debate (or did I just create a brand new debate?) of who came first, the writer or the character? The internet (and libraries, bookstores, my closet, etc.) is teeming with how-to guides for creating life-like characters to inhabit fictional worlds. But if you spend any [CONTINUE READING]
Ooh, the latest Dean Koontz book looks GOOOOOOD!! I need a copy! Here is a ghost story like no other you have read. Dean Koontz brings to life a family in a war for their survival against an adversary more malevolent than any he has yet created. Of all his acclaimed novels, none exceeds What [CONTINUE READING]
Whenever I meet people for the first time and they ask what I do for a living, they are invariably fascinated when I tell them I am an air traffic controller. Usually the next question is fairly predictable; either: A) “Are air traffic controllers the people with the flashlights who guide the airplanes into their [CONTINUE READING]
Mar 132011
When Jay Cassio’s best friend is murdered in a job clearly done by professionals, the walls that he has built to protect himself from the world of others begin to shatter. Dan Del Colliano had been his confidante and protector since the men were children on the savage streets of Newark, New Jersey. When Dan [CONTINUE READING]
Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her care was entrusted to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Now, at twenty-three, she discovers a 1943 correspondence between the convent’s late mother superior and the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller that plunges her into a secret history stretching back a millennium: an ancient conflict between the Society [CONTINUE READING]
