Duga’s Glow of the Fireflies is a magical tale of nature’s wonder, and the true connectedness underlying all things. When Briony’s Gran breaks her leg, Briony ends up returning to her childhood home in the quaint Firefly Valley to care for her. It is a place Briony doesn’t remember, thanks to retro-grade amnesia after an […]
Glow of the Fireflies Lindsey Duga Pub: Entangled Teen Release: 1910.01 Genre: YA, Fantasy Briony never planned to goback to the place she lost everything. Firefly Valley, nestled deep within the Smoky Mountains, is better kept in her past. After an unexplained fire gave Briony amnesia, her mother disappeared and her dad moved them to […]
Thanku, edited by Miranda Paul, is an enchanting anthology of gratitude poetry accompanied by gorgeous artwork. There are many things we have to be thankful for, and these poems can teach young readers how to be thankful for even the simplest things in life. Each poem is a different style. At the bottom of each […]
Books Read and Reviewed in August Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard 5* Living in Flow by Sky Nelson-Isaacs, 5* Princes of the Lower East Side by Meredith Allison (beta read), 5* Thanku edited by Miranda Paul, 5* Windwitch by Susan Dennard, 5* Abandoned Palaces by Michael Kerrigan, 4* Abandoned Sacred Places by Lawrence Joffe, 4* […]
Books Read and Reviewed in June A Bad Breed by Kat Ross, 5* Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 5* Between Wild and Ruin by Jennifer G Edelson, 4* The Changeling of Fenlen Forest by Katherine Magyarody, 4* Dragonslayer by Duncan M Hamilton, 4* Icehaven by Kim Cresswell and MK Chester, 4* […]
Enjoyable posts of the past week from others THE BEST COVER DESIGN ELEMENTS/ Bound to Writing How to create a safe and happy space online/ BooksNest  The Immigrant Experience – Poem by Esha Mishra/ Vita Brevis   Discussion: Are spoilers always a bad thing? And what do you consider as a spoiler?/ Beware of […]
In the winter of 2018, Hyun Kyu Seo made an extraordinary trip, into the heart of the infamous Chernobyl disaster, thirty-two years after the fact. This horrific disaster is one of the ‘where were you’ defining global incidents of my early childhood. Following a love for Eastern European culture, Seo visited the Ukraine, and was […]
Taming Demons for Beginners Annette Marie (The Guild Codex: Demonized #1) Published by: Dark Owl Fantasy Inc. Publication date: September 13th 2019 Genres: New Adult, Urban Fantasy Rule one: Don’t look at the demon. When I arrived at my uncle’s house, I expected my relatives to […]
Sea of Darkness Isadora Brown & Rebecca Hamilton (The Vampire Pirate Saga #1) Published by: Evershade Publishing Publication date: May 10th 2018 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance Working with a supernatural enemy is Kelia’s only hope of solving her father’s murder. But her investigation puts her own […]
Draw 62 Magical Creatures/ Animals and Make Them Cute by Heegyum Kim Kim’s Draw 62 Magical Creatures/ Animals and Make Them Cute is a simple little art book with easy to follow directions. There are certainly some creative ideas for making each creature ‘cute’. There is a good deal of variety among the 62, with […]
