Tag Archives: Book Review

March Book Madness! Day 14, Ben Behunin’s Authentically Ruby 5/5 — So Many Thoughts. . .

Book Details Inspirational In the middle of the Pennsylvania hinterlands lies a peculiar farm that s played host to lonely souls each summer for more than three hundred years. Genevieve Patterson has been dispatched by her magazine to interview Ruby Swarovski, the illustrious matchmaker of Niederbipp, for the November issue. But it quickly becomes clear […]Continue reading “March Book Madness! Day 14, Ben Behunin’s Authentically Ruby 5/5 — So Many Thoughts. . .”

March Book Madness! Day 11, Eva Ibbotson’s Which Witch (1979) 5/5 — So Many Thoughts. . .

Not the cover I’m used to, but it will do. Book Details Children’s Fantasy Arriman the Awful, feared Wizard of the North, has decided to marry. But his wife must be a witch of the darkest powers . . . A sorcery competition is held to discover which witch is the most potent and fiendish, […]Continue reading “March Book Madness! Day 11, Eva Ibbotson’s Which Witch (1979) 5/5 — So Many Thoughts. . .”

March Book Madness! Day 10, Gregory Maguire’s Egg and Spoon (2014) 3.5/5 — So Many Thoughts. . .

Book Details Young Adult Fantasy Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there […]Continue reading “March Book Madness! Day 10, Gregory Maguire’s Egg and Spoon (2014) 3.5/5 — So Many Thoughts. . .”

March Book Madness! Day 8, The Bhagavad Gita, Translated By Eknath Easwaran — So Many Thoughts. . .

Book Details Philosophy and Religion The Bhagavad Gita is the most famous poem in all of Hindu literature and part of the Mahabharata, the ancient Indian epic masterpiece. The Gita (in Sanskrit, “Song of the Lord”) consists of a dialogue between Lord Krishna and Prince Arjuna on the morning of a climactic battle. Krishna provides Arjuna with the spiritual means […]Continue reading “March Book Madness! Day 8, The Bhagavad Gita, Translated By Eknath Easwaran — So Many Thoughts. . .”

March Book Madness! Day 7, Charlie N. Holmberg’s Followed By Frost (2015) 4/5 — So Many Thoughts. . .

Book Details Young Adult Fantasy Seventeen-year-old Smitha has the wealth, status, and beauty that make her the envy of her town—until she rejects a strange man’s marriage proposal and disastrous consequences follow. Smitha becomes cursed, and frost begins to encompass everything she touches. Banished to the hills, hunted by villagers, and chilled to the very […]Continue reading “March Book Madness! Day 7, Charlie N. Holmberg’s Followed By Frost (2015) 4/5 — So Many Thoughts. . .”