Category: Book Review

  • Book Review: LoveVortex and the Drakor’s Curse by Pekka Harju-Autti

    What if you could see the date stamped on everyone’s forehead, the precise day they will die? Pekka Harju-Autti’s LoveVortex and the Drakor’s Curse takes that unsettling premise and spins it into a warm, curious, and quietly powerful novel: part seafaring adventure, part cultural study, and part fable about love, loss, and what makes life…

  • Book Review: Steer and Maneuver- Navigating Life’s Speed Bumps with a Wink and a Wiggle

    By Jessica Sometimes life feels like you’re driving on a smooth road with the music up, windows down, and everything in control… until-thud- you hit a speed bump you didn’t see coming. The car jolts, your coffee splashes, and suddenly you’re reminded that the road isn’t always predictable. Steer and Maneuver by Judith Patino‑Rodrigue feels…

  • An Interview with Chandra Lynn: Author of Root-to-Rise: How to Love Life

    1. You had to describe yourself in three words, what would they be?Compassionate. Soulful. Purposeful.  2. You’ve made a unique transition from brand marketing to transformational work. What were the key moments that led to founding Glow Living?I didn’t fully leave marketing. It’s still part of my work and identity. However, in 2011, I felt…

  • Book Review: The Nine Lives of BIG JP: A Metabiography by Ben Stoltzfus

    Reviewed by Jane Elizabeth, Sociology Group There are biographies that document a life. Then there are books that interrogate what it means to write a life at all. Ben Stoltzfus’s The Nine Lives of BIG JP falls firmly into the latter category. At once intimate and expansive, personal and postmodern, this “metabiography” resists conventional narrative…

  • Book Review: Brave Falls (Drifters Realm) by  AnneMarie Mazotti Gouveia

    Brave Falls, the third book in the Drifters Realm series by AnneMarie Mazotti Gouveia, takes readers on an exciting journey where the risk is increased, the magic is deep, and the bonds of family are stronger than ever. With secrets to uncover and challenges to face, the siblings, their friends, and the Menace must come together…

  • Interview with Richard Collis, Author of The Pool

    Richard Collis is an English teacher and author based in Portishead, where he lives with his wife and two sons. He has been teaching for over 18 years and holds a degree in English, Film, and Drama from Reading University. His debut novel, The Pool (2022), is a fantasy thriller inspired by the natural beauty…

  • Book Review: The Perfection of Fish by J.S. Morrison

    When facts are left aside, truth becomes subjective. Humanity does not live in a common reality, but every person experiences reality through their lens of understanding. A boon in one’s life can be a bane in another’s. There is a struggle not just to survive but to thrive, to impact the world. Modern technology stands…