Book Review

  • Books I’ve Read in 2024: A Review

    At the end of 2023, I decided that I was going to make a commitment to reading, primarily for me and to help me as a writer. I wanted to read and study more of the books that fall into genres that shaped me as a writer – most particularly Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, and Suspense-Thriller.…

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  • Before I begin, don’t worry if you have not yet read Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library; I won’t be sharing any spoilers in this post. I just finished The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, a book filled with surprises and personal challenges that, at times, made me feel as if the pages were mirrors themselves,…

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  • I just finished reading The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin, and here’s the review that I posted on Goodreads: “This is not a book to read quickly to complete some reading goal. Rick Rubin’s words need to be absorbed, considered, as if you were reading Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching. To…

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  • Jessica Bell’s Icasia Bloom Touches Readers With Happiness

    Review: How Icasia Bloom Touched Happiness (Vine Leaves Press), by Jessica Bell Scheduled for release 21 September 2021 By Rus VanWestervelt ***NO SPOILERS*** I don’t know about you, but I have a full shelf of books that I return to often. Sure, I love the plots, and they are entertaining in a way that makes…

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