by amiemccracken | Jun 26, 2012 | book review, books, reading
I’m very stingy with five-star ratings. That privilege is reserved for those books that really strike a chord with me, the ones where I’m flying through them but at every other sentence or so I have to stop and reread to savor the words. Last year I read...
by amiemccracken | Jun 7, 2012 | book review, books, reading, writing
Jessica Bell’s new poetry collection, Fabric, is full of life. It reads like little stories in the lilt and cadence of her tone and voice with raw emotions ranging from anguish to giddyness to satire.I am not a poetry reader, I really wish I were and that I had...
by amiemccracken | May 24, 2012 | book review, books, reading, writing
This isn’t so much a book review as it is my rambling thoughts. I probably should have typed it up right after finishing the book because at that point I was broiling with emotions. I wanted to let it settle, but I’ve waited too long. I want to discuss a...
by amiemccracken | May 10, 2012 | book review, books, reading
Night of the Purple Moon by Scott Cramer is a young adult post-apocalyptic science fiction. A comet’s dust turns the sky purple, and space germs kill everyone who is past puberty. The world is left with a few scientists who were quarantined, and thousands of...
by amiemccracken | May 7, 2012 | reading, writing
Today writer/poet, Glynis Smy adds author/novelist to her name. Her debut novel; Ripper, My Love, is launched in ebook format and paperback. The genre for this love story falls into the one of Historical Romance Suspense.Growing up in late nineteenth century East...
by amiemccracken | May 3, 2012 | book review, books, reading
The Light and Fallen by Anna White is a young adult paranormal romance about angels and high school and lost things. Lucius is an angel who is sent to earth to find a lost key, and he ends up in a seventeen-year-old body. He meets Samara and is instantly drawn to her....
