Reading a series you enjoy is like wearing your favorite part of shoes. They are a comfortable fit and make you smile every time you put them on. Well, the Retrieval Artist Series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch has given me that same kind of feeling and after 13 books...
Book Review 88: Independence Day by Richard Ford
by MHill | Jul 23, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Frank Bascombe Series, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Richard Ford, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Does living through your "existence period" mean you are truly an independent human being? Richard Ford attempted to answer that question in Independence Day, the second novel in the critically acclaimed Frank Bascombe series. Last year, I reviewed The Sportswriter,...
Book Review 87: Breeder by K.B. Hoyle
by MHill | Jul 17, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
How would you feel when everything that you have been taught could be a lie? That question starts to get answered in Breeder, Book 1 of the Breeder Cycle, by K.B. Hoyle. Seventeen lives a perfect life as a breeder in the Sanctuary that is ruled by the New World...
Book Review 86: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
by MHill | Jul 3, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Haruki Murakami, Marion's Favorite Books
Sometimes, there is a book that sits on your bookshelf for awhile that you have not read for one reason or another. When you walk over to your bookshelf to grab something to read, that book just sits waiting for its turn to be placed in your hands and the pages...
Book Review 85: Awakening by Rebel Miller
by MHill | Jun 12, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews
One of the joys in being a book review blogger is getting to review novels that are outside of your normal reading wheelhouse. Reading's greatest gift is the ability to take you to places that you have never visited, cultures that you are unfamiliar with, or ideas...
Book Review 84: They Shall See God by Athol Dickson
by MHill | May 22, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
I had mentioned in a previous review of an Athol Dickson novel that he was becoming one of my favorite writers. Dickson's ability to write suspenseful Christian fiction with literary quality merits wider recognition outside of the genre. They Shall See God tells the...
Book Review 83: Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
by MHill | May 10, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews
"Human beings live in ideas. That they were condemning their descendants to death and extinction did not occur to them, or if it did they repressed the thought, ignored it, and forged on anyway. They did not care as much about their descendants as they did about their...
Book Review 82: The Introvert Entrepreneur by Beth Buelow
by MHill | Apr 17, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Nonfiction
Introvert Entrepreneur seems like an oxymoronic term. Can an introvert really be an entrepreneur? Well, Beth Buelow makes an excellent case for it in her book titled with the same term. I heard about Beth Buelow from one of my favorite podcasts, The Creative Penn,...
Book Review 81: The Last One by Alexandra Oliva
by MHill | Apr 3, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews
I have finally read and review a novel where reality television would be covered as a theme. Running Man by Richard Bachman AKA Stephen King is probably the precursor to The Last One by Alexandra Oliva. It is a debut novel due to be published in July 2016. The...
Book Review 80: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
by MHill | Mar 5, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
In the eighty reviews I have posted to this website, I have read and reviewed only one book that has garnered major pop culture attention, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. For some unknown reason, I have not gravitated towards those kind of books. However, I received...