Campie by Barbara Stewart Memoir; Published by Heritage House Issued also in electronic format ISBN 978-1-926613-92-5 Reviewed by Tim Christison Barbara Stewart, author of Campie, has been sober for 18 years when she finds herself lower than a snake’s belly in all aspects of her life. Stewart struggles every day and uses the wisdom of her [...]
Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about Stopping for Strangers? Daniel Griffin: These stories are about families, about men and women, thrown together at the edge of crisis. I think it’s only recently that men have started telling domestic stories–tales about family, about parents and children and siblings. That’s one unique [...]
Fezariu’s Epiphany (The Elencheran Chronicles) Kindle $2.99, 387 pp. At age 12, Fezariu believes that his mother died when he was a baby. However, when his beloved stepfather dies, Fezariu learns that his mother is alive, working at the most famous brothel in all of Elenchera. When she cruelly rejects him, he deals with the [...]
Memoir of a Good Death by Anne Sorbie Thistledown Press, 2010 266 Pages Reviewed by Brenda Brooks “Have you ever wondered about the moment of your own death?” These are the opening lines of Anne Sorbie’s novel, Memoir of a Good Death. The question is posed by Rhegan Flett whose father has collapsed while delivering [...]
On Toby’s Terms, by Charmaine Hammond, chronicles Toby’s journey from incorrigible to incredible. Toby, is a Chesapeake Bay retriever, adopted at age five, from an animal shelter. Soon after Toby entered the life and home of Charmaine and her husband Chris, Toby proved to be a holy terror who routinely opened and emptied the [...]
Ruth by Marlene S. Lewis Troubador Publishing Ltd ( 2011 ), 336 page ISBN-10: 1848766238 ISBN-13: 978-1848766235 Description It is the late 1950s — the dawn of the civil rights and women’s movements. The naïve idealism of the children of this era is often at odds with the status quo. Ruth, the only daughter of coffee plantation owners, [...]
The ten short stories in Stopping for Strangers (Véhicule Press, Oct 2011) probe the lives of men and women on the edge of crisis. They explore the intricate relationships of brothers, sisters and parents struggling to find better ways to lead their lives. A father renews an old artistic rivalry with his dying son; a raucous [...]
Stopping for Strangers By Daniel Griffin Vehiculé/Esplanade (2011) 142 pages Reviewed by Brenda Brooks On Daniel Griffin’s website you will find the “liner notes” missing from his collection of short stories, Stopping for Strangers. Here he writes of his enduring love for CD’s in their entirety, rather than just the downloaded single track, comparing them to a [...]
Threading Light: Explorations in Loss and Poetry by Lorri Neilsen Glenn Hagios Press (2011), 144 pages Threading Light takes us down prairie roads, to the shores of the East Coast, into Asian market stalls, to the site of the Titanic graves and the kitchen tables of poets, to bring us back whole, refreshed in our understanding [...]
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