For the next two reviews, I will be reviewing a couple of novels from authors I've been wanting to read for a really long time. Oddly enough, both authors are completely different on the literary spectrum. I have looked at their books for years and said to myself, "I...
Book Review 27: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
by MHill | Aug 28, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews
Does a novel that is highly recommended live up to hype? Well, I will attempt to answer that question in my latest book review of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. This novel has been one of the most talked about and most recommended by book clubs in the last few...
Book Review 26: Athol Dickson’s The Opposite of Art
by MHill | Aug 11, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Athol Dickson, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
Athol Dickson is becoming one of my favorite novelists. Last year, I did a review for his Lost Mission novel and I throughly enjoyed it. Now, I'm doing a review for his latest novel, The Opposite of Art. Also, he is the first novelist I've done a second review for on...
Book Review 25: Havoc In Islandia by Mark Saxton (Islandia Quartet Book #4)
by MHill | Jul 30, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Islandia Quartet, Marion's Favorite Books
The past two reviews, The Islar (a sequel) and The Two Kingdoms (a prequel) to the underground utopian classic, Islandia, has shown a depth and clarity of a fictional world unlike anything I've ever read before. Havoc in Islandia, a second prequel to Islandia, I...
Book Review 24: The Two Kingdoms by Mark Saxton (Islandia Quartet Book #3)
by MHill | Jul 30, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Islandia Quartet
Last year, I posted a review for the book titled, The Islar, by Mark Saxton. It was a sequel to the underground utopian novel Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright. Saxton wrote two more novels in the Islandian universe and this review of The Two Kingdoms is a prequel to...
Book Review 23: Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower
by MHill | Jul 26, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Octavia Butler
How would you feel about a book that you re-read twenty years later? Would it still fascinate you like it did before? Would it bore you? Would it show how much you have mature since the first time you read it? Well, I decided to answer those questions by re-reading...
Book Review 22: Stephen King’s Bag of Bones
by MHill | Jul 5, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
What happens when you fulfill one of your bucket list items? Do you feel a sense of achievement? Satisfied? Surprised? Disappointed? Well, I can write that after reading Bag of Bones, I felt all of those feelings except disappointed. As you know, Stephen King was...
Book Review 21: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
by MHill | Jun 13, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
When I heard that Ray Bradbury had passed about eight days ago, I realized that I had never read any of his books. Wow, that surprised me. Well, in honor of his passing, I decided to read his most popular and enduring work, Fahrenheit 451. "Do you know why books such...
Book Review 20: Sidney Sheldon’s Other Side of Midnight
by MHill | Jun 3, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews
Have you ever gone outside of your comfort zone? What did it feel like? And were you better for going outside of your comfort zone? Well, I did in reading The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon. This 1974 classic best-selling novel was something I would have...
Book Review 19: The Christian Imagination edited by Leland Ryken
by MHill | Mar 6, 2012 | 2012 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Christianity & Art, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Nonfiction, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Writing
I wrote a review for Imagine by Steve Turner and said that book along with the Bible and a couple of others that every Christian who loves the arts and literature should have in their library. Well, I'm adding The Christian Imagination edited by Leland Ryken to that...