A Gathering of Shadows is V.E. Schwab’s second book in the Shades of Magic series which features several alternate versions of London with varying degrees of magic and special magicians with one black eye who are the only ones able to walk between worlds. Tor Books | January 17, 2017 (first published February 23, 2016)…
On a whim, I recently explored Escape Room Salem in Massachusetts with my kids. They are open all year long and located right in the heart of the ‘witch hysteria’ tourist section in Salem, otherwise known as the Witch City Mall. Yes, they have an entire mall dedicated to the occult, the bizarre, and the…
Forget about Waldo. Finding an elusive Yeti is much more exciting. Bigfoot Visits the Big Cities of the World is a soon-to-be-released picture book for children with full-page, busy drawings in which to find numerous items including Bigfoot and his footprint. Little Fox | February 13, 2018 | Hardcover | 48 pp There is only…
A Darker Shade of Magic is the first in V.E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic series and was a Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy in 2015. The full trilogy is out and available and remains extremely popular with the adult and young adult fantasy readers. In short, this is another “hype” series I had to…
P K Norton is a local author from Massachusetts with a new mystery series, the first of which, Sweet Dreams, Sweet Death, was released in January. Tell me a little bit about who you are and where you live. I taught high school French in the 1970s then worked for 30 years in the insurance…
Her name was Daphne Caruana Galizia. Her very last words in her last blog posted yesterday were: “There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.” A half-hour later, she was killed by a car bomb. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a high-profile journalist in Malta where she was the only voice in the…
Garden of her Heart is an exceptional historical romance that goes far beyond the typical affairs and courtship central to most romance plots, delving into a difficult subject matter in American history: the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Garden of her Heart is the first in Shanna Hatfield’s Hearts of the War…
The Financial Lives of Poets is a work of fiction that follows our main character Matt through the current downward spiral that is his life. He is days away from losing his house (unbeknownst to his unassuming family), suddenly aware of his wife’s sudden disinterest in their marriage, jobless and living with his father who…
The blogosphere and social media scene are abuzz with the lyrics to Swift’s new single, and the uncanny resemblance to the life of Arya Stark. Love her or hate her (personally, I’m a Swift fan), you can’t deny that this is a perfect theme song for our beloved Arya from the Game of Thrones TV…
Norse mythology, originally told from ancient texts such as the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, has been the source of inspiration for many modern and classic novels such as J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and other books in this world, Rick Riorden’s Magnus Chase series, and Neil Gaiman’s own American…