I’m not an expert on poetry though I can appreciate it as much as the next guy. I picked One Year There: One Soldier's Year in South Korea During 1968 to read because I spent time in South Korea and I wanted to see how...

Thirty Days to Thirty by Courtney Psak is a humorous but thought provoking story about how success can so easily be stripped away. Jill is one month away from her 30th birthday and she thinks she has it all. Working all the hours she can...

Balance is what the world is based on. In So Shall I Reap: The Unseen Series Book 1, we are introduced to the world of the Unseen, those on both sides as they work to keep the balance. Those on one side, the House of...

The Gods of HP Lovecraft by various authors is an entertaining collection of stories based on the monsters created by Lovecraft. An old woman despairs over a dying Earth and suffers nightmares about unusual creatures attacking her, creatures that couldn't possibly exist. Right? I enjoyed...

With Halfway Down the Stairs, Gary A. Braunbeck gifts readers with a dense, darkly brilliant collection of tales that amplify the many secret voices of the heart. Unspoken fears grow fangs and form, until they must be let out to consume the hapless protagonist in...

The Watcher of the Night Sky: Part One (The Aronia Series Book 1) by Rachel Pudsey is a young adult fantasy that tackles the adage 'be careful what you wish for.' Abigail is fifteen and doesn't want to deal with love. At least, that's what...

Tim Dalgleish, an erudite scholar who has been an accomplished actor, and a teacher of English, philosophy, history and acting, has surpassed himself in this fascinating autobiographical effort to pass on the very essence of the art of theatrical performance to the next generation of...

Michael wakes early every morning. He often doesn’t need an alarm clock as his internal clock is always set the same. However, upon waking one morning, he looked at his bedside alarm clock and noticed that it read 15:74. It was morning, he knew that...

Aria's Song, Book 1 in the Guardian series by R. Beach, takes place in a far off future dominated by technological advances and bio-engineering. Aria Wind is a part of the Guardians, a secret organization full of psychic operatives tasked with protecting the newly established...

The Last Days of Adam by Tim Dalgleish takes place during the Holocaust, and not only demonstrates the role of Adam Czerniakow as helping the Jewish population of Poland in his role as Chairman of the Judenrat, but effectively follows the terrible decline of Poland...

Travis' Triumph: Guardians II by R Beach is a futuristic paranormal novel set in a time of unimaginable possibilities. The country is under threat of falling prey to a powerful and evil man, Dr. Benjamin Reghart. An undercover group of psychics fight to keep everyone...

Hell is Not a Place, It’s a Time by Susan Hart Snyder is a thought-provoking, encouraging, but at the same time entertaining and funny book that will soothe anyone who suffers from worries and anxieties. The author begins by her admission of being a worrier...

“A tsunami of nausea from the painkillers washed over me,” is just one example of the riveting descriptions in Bracing for Impact: True Tales of Air Disasters and the People Who Survived Them. It’s an interesting book of stories told by survivors of air disasters....

In Susan Hart Snyder’s Finding Harmony, Sydney Roberts finds herself stranded when her vehicle breaks down in the arid area near Harmony, Utah. While she would dearly like to resume her journey to New York as soon as possible, the repair takes a long time...

Caught in Traffic by Susan Hart Snyder is book 2 of The Romantic Adventures of an Accidental Detective series. Sydney has made her way to New York and is now living in her cousin’s basement. She works, mostly from home, as an editor and spends...

Nineteen-year-old Arianna Quincy feels like it's time for her to leave the farm where she was raised with seven other siblings. She doesn't want to be a farmer's wife, or anyone's wife for that matter. Instead, she wants to get a job and decides that...

Faith and the Parable of the Blindfold by Jwyan C. Johnson is a Christian read that gives biblical scriptures throughout various short stories. In the first story, Thomas Walker visits a doctor to obtain a second opinion regarding his skin's sensitivity to sunlight. Oddly enough,...

It's Okay to be Different Thorina-Bina by Barbara S Lougheed is an adorable story of a kitten, Thorina-Bina, who always gets startled easily because she can hear and see better than other cats. Her sisters always tease her because she looks different from them. Thorina-Bina...

Hell is Empty and All the Devils Are Here by Mark Rounds is a highly credible, well researched, and impeccably paced post apocalyptic novel. The civilization-ending threat, while evocatively named the Zombie Plague for the cannibalistic violence of its symptomatic carriers, is rigorously established to...

A Walk on The Darkside by Corinna Underwood is a series of related short stories all focused on paranormal mysteries. Paranormal investigators Harry and Pearl have different ways of approaching these mysteries, but they work together to solve highly entertaining cases. Pearl is grounded and...