Book Review: Beautiful Union By Joshua Ryan Butler

12-06-2022

Proposing A New View Of Sexual Ethics. This book is remarkably well written and remarkably well balanced, one that no matter your views on any sex or gender related topic, at some point here you're most likely going to fall into the classic preacher joke of "Woah, woah, woah, preacher! You'r

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Book Review: Cobalt Red By Siddarth Kara

12-06-2022

Shocking. In the West, we're somewhat aware of the horrible conditions African diamond miners face. We've at least heard of this, including the trivia fact of the deepest mine in the world being a diamond mine somewhere on the continent there. And desp

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Book Review: The View From Flyover Country By Sarah Kendzior

12-06-2022

Interesting Yet Oblivious To Own Criticisms. This is an interesting collection of e

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Book Review: Tremors In The Blood By Amit Katwala

12-06-2022

Evocative Evisceration Of Everyday "Evidence". In this text, Katwala shows the origins and history

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Blog Tour: The Sunshine Girls By Molly Fader

12-05-2022

For this blog tour we're looking at quite a strong tale of family and friendship. For this blog tour, we're looking at The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader.

Here's what I had to say about it on Goodreads:

No Fate But What You Make. Wait. What? You're a freaking moron, Sexton. There is no possible way that a historical fiction/ women's fiction mashup tale set in 2019 and the Vietnam War period and barely featuring any male characters whatsoever can possibly have anything to do with John Connor's war against Skynet. It. Can't. Possibly. Be. Linked.

And yet... yes, it can. Because ultimately we see here that there truly is no fate but what you make, as three friends meet in a podunk Kansas nursing school and go on to live lives that become inextricably linked to one another - but which forces each woman to make her own destiny, society and family be danged.

Along the way, we're going to cry several times at least as hard as when the T-800 sacrifices itself into the molten steel. We're even going to beg some characters to make different choices, same as John was doing there.

But in the end, we're going to get one amazing tale, one that just might make it difficult to think of other books for quite some time. (Which is difficult to do when you're trying to clean up your ARC work before holiday traveling. ;) )

Ultimately this truly is quite a strong tale and friendship and family. Very much recommended.

After the jump, an excerpt from the book followed by the "publisher details" - book description, author bio, and social media and buy links.

Clara Greensboro, Iowa 2019

There we

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Book Review: A Time Travel Christmas By Karen Mcquestion

12-02-2022

Heart And Magic In A Short, Quick Read. This is a perfect Christmas story for anyone who has ever wanted to spend just "one more

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Book Review: Cultured By D P Lyle

12-02-2022

Laid-Back Mystery With Bite. Here in this sixth entry of D.P. Lyle's

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Book Review: Never Back Down By Christopher Swann

12-02-2022

Comic Book Justice. In this epic conclusion (?) to Suzie Falkner's story, Swann manages to keep the tension tight even when filling in backstory - and show

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Book Review: Walkable City By Jeff Speck

11-29-2022

Interesting Yet Myopic. This is one of those books that has a lot of in

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Book Review: Never Out Of Season By Rob Dunn

11-28-2022

Interesting Yet Only Tangentially Related To Title. This is a book primarily about plant pathogens and the history of the study of plants and specif

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