“Sometimes a journey can take you far away from home. It can take you far away from what you believe. From the only world you have ever known. And make you realize how much we are connected to each other. Also, how divided we can be.” This… Continue Reading
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Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 22: Little Dreamers by Vashti Harrison
My 10-year-old daughter, Norah, was looking forward to reading this book together when she heard about it. Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around The World by Vashti Harrison celebrates the contributions of women from all over the globe. Untold stories of women in business, art, literature, architecture, and science reveals… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 21: Blue Night by Simone Buchholz
Last year, I began attempting to read fiction beyond America. I believe it’s important and necessary to read novels from around the world to widen my view of how stories are told. I read two novels from France last year and I thought this summer I would… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 20: Recursion by Blake Crouch
I rarely read the “Summer Blockbuster Read” or “the book everyone is reading now”. However, I have seen Recursion by Blake Crouch all over book social media (Goodreads, Litsy, and Instagram) and people giving it high praise. Well, I stopped reading the Long Price Quartet by Abraham… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 19: A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham
A Betrayal in Winter continues the story of Otai Machi in the Long Price Quartet by Daniel Abraham. A Shadow in Summer lays the foundation for Otah’s hero journey into becoming what has been destined for him. Even though, he did not choose his destiny. The actions… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 18: A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
The Long Price Quartet by Daniel Abraham has been a book series that I’ve meant to read for a long time. It has been on my radar for several years when it was recommended to me. They have billed the series as original and fresh to the… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 17: The Villa by Nora Roberts
I have always been fascinated by what people read when it comes to fiction. And why people read a certain author. I was a bookseller for nearly a decade through 1990s and one of the authors I saw customers buy on a regular basis was Nora Roberts. … Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 16: The Freelancer’s Survival Guide by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Reading is a subjective experience. One person may like a book you recommend to them. But, the next person you recommend the book may hate it and never take your book recommendations again. That is the risk you always take when to come to recommending books. However, what if… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 15: Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint
I have mentioned in several blog posts over the years that Charles de Lint is one of my favorite authors. I read a few of his novels in the early to mid-1990s when he was the big name in fantasy fiction. His contemporary fantasy novels and short… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 13: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark
One thing about having a Kindle, it gets easy to load it up with a lot of eBooks. The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark has been on my Kindle app for awhile. Also, I attempted to read it twice before I finally got down to… Continue Reading
