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 84: They Shall See God by Athol Dickson
by MHill | May 22, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Athol Dickson, 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 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 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...
Book Review 79: The Petyi Crisis by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Feb 20, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
Miles Flint and Noelle DeRicci are back! I had to write that as my first sentence for this latest review in the Retrieval Artist Series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. The previous two books in the series, A Murder of Clones and Search and Recovery, did not feature...
Book Review 78: Search and Recovery by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Feb 13, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
This latest installment in the Retrieval Artist Series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch focuses on different characters outside of the main protagonists, Retrieval Artist Miles Flint and the Moon's Chief Security Officer, Noelle DeRicci. In her author's note, Rusch writes...
Book Review 77: Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Feb 1, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Robert Silverberg 1967-1976
You would think that religious themes in science fiction could not mix together. However, there is a long history of science fiction (and fantasy) writers that have included religious themes in their work. Gene Wolfe did with his Solar Cycle Series (Book of The New...
Book Review 75: The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll
by MHill | Jan 2, 2016 | 2015 Book Reviews, Jonathan Carroll, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I've spent the last month of 2015 reading three novels by Jonathan Carroll. The Wooden Sea is the third of the Carroll novels I've read. You can look at the reviews of the other two Carroll novels: White Apples and Glass Soup here. I will admit after reading these...
Book Review 74: Glass Soup by Jonathan Carroll
by MHill | Dec 20, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Jonathan Carroll, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorite Duologies, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I mentioned in my previous review that I have spent the last month of year reading three novels by Jonathan Carroll. Glass Soup is the second of the Carroll novels and I will be posting a review on The Wooden Sea by the end of the year. These Carroll novels have given...
Book Review 73: White Apples by Jonathan Carroll
by MHill | Dec 13, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Jonathan Carroll, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorite Duologies, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I have spent the last several weeks reading three novels from Jonathan Carroll. This review of White Apples is the first of the Carroll novels I've read. I had never heard of Jonathan Carroll before reading this post from Neil Gaiman about him. Besides Gaiman, he...