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Thank you NetGalley and Central Avenue Publishing for the ARC of Michelle Awad’s poems “Sudden Seances.” Michelle Awad writes in a variety of styles; each poem is crafted in such a way as to best present its its message. The line breaks and stanzas force the reader to carefully weigh what they have read. Awad…
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Thank you NetGalley and Running Press for the ARC of Lindsay Mack’s “Tarot for the Wild Soul.” Lindsay Mack’s “Tarot for the Wild Soul” is a good resource and guide for all Tarot users, new and seasoned. Mack opens with a basic “What are the cards?” introduction, and then breaks the deck into three major…
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Thank you NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the ARC of Lois Romano’s “An Inconvenient Widow.” In “An Inconvenient Widow,” Lois Romano has presented a fascinating biography of Mary Todd Lincoln. Romano is entirely unbiased in this book and sought to present Mary Lincoln as the person she was rather than as the much-hated wife…
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Thank you NetGalley and Harper Muse for the ARC of Laura Resau’s “The River Muse.” It is much appreciated! In “The River Muse,” Laura Resau paints a gorgeous canvas of love, life, resilience, and courage, all dusted with a touch of magic. Callie and her daughter escape an abusive man and find refuge in a…
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Thank you NetGalley and W. W. Norton & Company for the ARC of Deborah Lutz’s “This Dark Night.” There have been many biographies of the Brontes and studies written about their books. Because of this, it’s very easy for a new book to come across as unoriginal. This is not the case with Deborah Lutz’s…
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National Poetry Month has come to an end. I hope you have enjoyed the poets I have shared here. Some were favorites of mine, others were new voices that I wish to learn more about. The festival of Beltane begins at sundown tonight, and so we will say goodbye to April with a song to…
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Spring is coming soon! The setting is right for it: a plum tree, the moon.
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Somewherea black bearhas just risen from sleepand is staring down the mountain.All nightin the brisk and shallow restlessnessof early spring I think of her,her four black fistsflicking the gravel,her tongue like a red firetouching the grass,the cold water.There is only one question: how to love this world.I think of herrisinglike a black and leafy ledge…
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I missed another day; working on the house renovations took over the whole day. (Until we got back to the apartment, where I stayed awake long enough to shower and eat!) Anyway, here are two poem for your Monday. We are almost at the end of National Poetry Month. I hope you have enjoyed the…
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Thank you NetGalley and Riverhead Books for the review copy of “The Fullness of Time” by Cathy Haynes This was an interesting and entertaining read about tracking time. Time, or at least the idea of it, dictates so much of our lives, and I often wondered how people measured time before clocks were widely available.…
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