Rebecca Skane is the editor-in-chief for the Portsmouth Review. She holds a Bachelor of the Arts degree from Lawrence University in Wisconsin and resides in Ashland, NH with her two children. She is the founder of The Portsmouth Book Club which boasts over 1,000 members. She also doubles as a professional escapist. Her genres are scifi and fantasy, both adult and young adult - but she often reads outside of her preferred genres. You can follow her on GoodReads. Aside from her love of good books, she is a professional website developer, content editor, and SEO expert. You can visit her web design and development site at RebeccaSkane.com.
Intraterrestrial by Nicholas Conley Kindle Edition 234 pages Publisher: Red Adept Publishing, LLC Publication Date: January 16, 2018 ASIN: B078Q7H9SZ Buy Intraterrestrial on Amazon Description Adam Helios is a bully magnet without many friends. When he starts hearing a voice that claims to come from the stars, he fears he’s losing his mind, so he…
The list of favorites is going out a little late but only because I’ve been extremely busy as of late. Always a good thing! This is my list of favorite reads in 2017 in order of date read, the first being the first favorite book of 2017. Have you read any of these?
Cry, The Beloved Country is a literary criticism of South African apartheid using a handful of South African characters, both black and white, to vividly display the injustice to those who normally wouldn’t see it because of the figurative partition walls. There isn’t much left to be said about a book published in 1948, translated…
Tower of Dawn is the sixth installment in the Throne of Glass series, an epic fantasy that began as young adult but has matured through its duration. An obvious homage to Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, the series has grown more complex and grand in scope, covering a vast world of different species and nations…
A Colored Man in Exeter Series: Sketches of Lee #1 Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: Creative Plutonium; 1 edition (September 1, 2017) ISBN-10: 0999094203 ISBN-13: 978-0999094204 Description: In the summer of 1957 the Ward family moved from Brooklyn, New York to Lee, New Hampshire to escape gang violence. It was an era when racial tensions…
Strange Weather by Joe Hill contains four short stories reminiscent of The Twilight Zone, uncomfortable yet oddly compelling. They’re like the freak shows in a shady traveling circus – you try to avert your eyes when faced with the grotesque, but you can’t stop staring. In this case, you can’t stop reading. William Morrow |…
Tiernan’s Wake, by multi-award winning author Richard T. Rook, is scheduled to be published in early 2018. This light contemporary mystery follows two genealogists, one from Boston and the other from Ireland, who combine forces to unravel the past in order to solve the mystery of a missing painting. Did I mention pirates? Audio Arcadia…
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters is a story told in epistolary format where a small island town off the coast of South Carolina is going through some unusual communication problems. In this light fantasy, a community’s love for words is at stake, all because of some faulty glue. Anchor | September, 2002 |…
Lise Lunge-Larsen is an award-winning author and certified troll expert with the occasional dragonslayer accolades. Naturally, many of her children’s books are centered around Norse mythology. In Seven Ways to Trick a Troll, the author pulls from authentic troll stories from mythology and folklore to compile seven short stories teaching children how to prevent themselves…
Boston Rock Opera’s Happening Holiday Special Brings Musicians Together for Hurricane Maria Relief One Night Only! Boston Rock Opera is bringing together more than thirty performers from the Boston music scene to celebrate the holidays with music and laughter, while raising money for Hurricane Maria relief. December 16th, 2017 at ONCE Ballroom, 156 Highland…