Category: review
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the second thursday, featuring Justine Alley Dowsett and Mirror’s Deceit
For the next installment of the Windsor author blog tour, let me introduce you to Justine Alley Dowsett and her newest co-authored fantasy novel, Mirror’s Deceit! Meet the Author Justine Alley Dowsett is the author of nine novels and counting, and one of the founders of Mirror World Publishing. Her books, which she often co-writes […]
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Restful Reading
I took yesterday off. No writing, no editing. No mental scolding to vacuum or apply for jobs. Just a chill day. So, I ended up reading, of course! It’s been awhile since I’ve really sat down with a book. And it showed – I finished half a book I started in March, and devoured another. The […]
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January/ February Books
Quick reviews of recent reads! Insurrection by Peter Rollins This book is rad if you’ve ever felt disillusioned about “happy Christianity.” Some challenging criticisms of institutional structures and how we think about God. Rollins uses anecdotes that border on folk tales, examples from his own life and the bible, and psychology to comment on how […]
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tragic comic
This month, I’m reading Maus by Art Spiegelman (for the third time) and Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien (for the first time). Both are quite different – I mean, one’s a comic book about the Holocaust and one’s Canadian literary fiction about the effects of the Cultural Revolution in China. But there are […]
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ocean wonder
P. and I are currently enraptured by ABZÛ, a video game journey through stunning ocean scenes filled with puzzles, myth, and wonder. According to the game’s website, its “name references a concept from the oldest mythologies; it is the combination of the two ancient words AB, meaning ocean, and ZÛ, meaning to know.” Despite its linguistic […]