By LK Gardner-Griffie on November 8, 2010
Cancer. The very word can act like the disease itself and worm its way through our bodies, eating at us from the inside out. It is a word which strikes fear in our hearts to hear it pronounced as a diagnosis.
Posted in Experimental/Narrative, LK Gardner-Griffie, Relationships/Women's Lit | Tagged Cancer, death, dying, Fiction, LK Gardner-Griffie, Megan's Way, Melissa Foster, novel, secrets, women's fiction |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on October 1, 2009
As I Rode with Cullen Baker opens, we are met with a scene evocative of Gone with the Wind with Tara burning in the background. Set in the South in the midst of the civil war, fifteen year old Jessica Linville watched while the Federal cavalry burned her house to the ground.
Posted in Action/Adventure, Historical, LK Gardner-Griffie, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged adventure, civil war, coming-of-age, Cullen Baker, Fiction, Historical, historical fiction, LK Gardner-Griffie, novel, outlaw, RLB Hartmann, romance, tale, texas |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on August 31, 2009
Have you ever been in a situation in which you have been uncomfortable? Where you don’t know what to say? Or, when faced with a new task tend to panic? If you understand any of those feelings, think how Leah Nells feels, because every minute of every day is a struggle for her to get through.
Posted in LK Gardner-Griffie, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged Fiction, high school, introversion, J. M. Reep, Leah, LK Gardner-Griffie, novel, Shyness, teens, YA, young adult |
By Dan Marvin on August 9, 2009
The King, Father, and Mother is reminiscent of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons, not quite as good as the Davinci Code but still a compelling read. In Eric Rhodes’ book, we follow three men, separate in time but connected by an Irish hillside and a mysterious stone.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Historical, Mainstream/Nostalgia | Tagged Christianity, Crisis, cycles, divine, druids, Economic, fund, Gnostic, Gnosticism, hedge, HOLY, Hospitaller, investing, Ireland, knights, knowledge, monk, novel, Ogham, reincarnation, soul, spirituality, Sufism, Templar, time, tribulation, Trinity |
By Shannon Yarbrough on March 21, 2008
What draws us to the personal diaries of others? Remember reading Anne Frank’s back in high school? While recently on vacation, I picked up a brochure type stapled printing of a Civil War diary a woman had self-published and made available in a local gift shop. I was immediately drawn into it on page one. Having just finished Ann Pino’s superb Lulu book, My New-Found Land, I yearned for more of the personal and intimate writings of others.
Posted in Historical, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged Ann Pino, author, book, book review, diaries, diary, Fiction, journal, journaling, Lulu, Lulu book, My New-Found Land, novel, POD, print on demand, review, writing |
