Title: “SPARE”
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Saturday, March 18, 2023
Margot Finke Reviews Most Talked-About Book of 2023
Title: “SPARE”
Monday, July 1, 2019
North Street Book Prize Grand Prize Winner Shares Endorsements for Her Graphic Memoir
Author: Emily Bracale
emilybracale@gmail.com
Grand Prize Winner of prestigious WinningWriters North Street Book Competitionfor Our Last Six Months, (2018) graphic memoir/creative nonfiction book about cancer and end-of-life care.https://www.facebook.com/ourlastsixmonths/
Lyme Educator, author and illustrator of Lyme patient advocacy book: In the Lyme-Light: Portraits of Illness and Healing(2014)https://www.facebook.com/inthelymelightbook/
Cartoonist on Spiralbound/Medium
Plein air art teacher in Bar Harbor, Maine
Artists of the Round Tableprivate art classes for children and adults
Visit Acadia.com Painting Blog
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Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Midwest Book Review Loves New Literary Memoir
Sarah Clarkson
Tyndale Momentum
c/o Tyndale House Publishers
351 Executive Drive, Carol Stream, IL 60188
www.tyndale.com
9781496425805,
$15.99, PB, 288pp
www.amazon.com
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This blog is a free service offered to those who want to encourage the reading of books they love. That includes authors who want to share their favorite reviews, reviewers who'd like to see their reviews get more exposure, and readers who want to shout out praise of books they've read. Please see submission guidelines on the left of this page. Reviews and essays are indexed by genre, reviewer names, and review sites. Writers will find the search engine handy for gleaning the names of small publishers. Find other writer-related blogs at Sharing with Writers and The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor.
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
A Shoutout to Talented Writers - Newbies and Published Authors Alike
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Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Author Jendi Reiter Reviews The Poet Spiel's "Pictures and Words"
Author: Tom Taylor a/k/a The Poet Spiel
Boldly colored reproductions of his artwork are interspersed with vignettes, aphorisms, dreamlike or nightmarish memories, and previously published poems reformatted as prose paragraphs. These written sections are set off in quotation marks, like tantalizing snippets of an overheard conversation, and formatted in a multi-hued script that creates the impression of an artist’s journal. (This font was admittedly a challenge to read in large amounts, but the necessity of slowing down may have helped me absorb more of the meaning.) Instead of traditional narrative transitions, third-person summaries of the action, in a more businesslike sans-serif font, serve as occasional signposts to situate the samples of his creative work within the chronology of his life and travels.
And what a life: Born in 1941, Spiel was a maverick from the start. He grew up on a Colorado farm on the Great Plains, a repressive environment for a gay artistic boy with migraines and manic-depressive tendencies. The early pages of his book speak candidly, in intense and hallucinatory flashbacks seared with humor, about the burden of his mother’s mental illness and her violation of his intimate boundaries. His bond with animals and nature kept his soul alive, a connection he would later channel into successful commercial posters and landscape paintings of wildlife, inspired by his travels in Zambia.
In the 1990s his work took a surreal and expressionist turn, protesting social conformity and war. His life as a gay man in America has given him an outsider perspective on the hypocrisy of conventional mores, and a rage against the stifling of his authentic life force. These themes show up in his raw, satirical, unpretentious poems. Revealing Self invites the reader to experience Rimbaud’s maxim that “A Poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses.”
Jendi Reiter is the author of the novel Two Natures (Saddle Road Press), a
Rainbow Award winner, Book Excellence Award, and National Indie Excellence Award finalist.See the book trailer at http://bit.ly/twonaturestrailer. The Midwest Book Review says, "Intense revelations about what it means to be both Christian and gay...a powerful saga." She is Editor of WinningWriters.com , a Writer's Digest "101 Best Websites for Writers."
"Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise." ~Surangama Sutra
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Phyllis Ring Finds Leslie Handler's New Memoir "For the Heart"
- Title: Rats, Mice and Other Things You Can't Take to the Bank
- Author: Leslie Handler
- Website: LeslieGoesBoom
- Genre: Memoir/Humor/Essay Collection
- ISBN: 0-9994127-3-6
- Link to Purchase the Book
- Available in paper, e-book
- Twitter:Twitter for Leslie Handler
Reviewed by Phyllis Ring originally for Amazon
Leslie Handler's warm, transparent -- sometimes fearless -- perspective clears out inner cobwebs like a rush of springtime air. Her writing strikes a welcome balance between humorously forthcoming and gently poignant. I've previously enjoyed essays she publishes as syndicated columns. This collection shines a lovely light on life’s true wealth, the willingness to develop and apply the healing capacities of compassion, fair-mindedness, and kindness, along with fortitude, forbearance, and faith. Faith in grace, in others, and in life itself.
The author has experienced a pretty large serving of difficulties along her path. Her response is, for me, one of the gifts of this book as it reminds of the freedom, and power, of reaching for appreciation, humor, and joy together with honesty that’s not afraid to face life fully. Her willingness, at times, to write from deep vulnerability helps this reader feel a lot better, and hopefully kinder, about being human. There's much sweet wisdom woven in with the observant wit here.
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