What if you were the only person on a spaceship with an alien race? You were the person groomed to speak an alien language and take part in an intercultural exchange between planets? You would want to do it in the first place? If you did, how you feel about it? Excited? Optimistic? Groundbreaking? Or… Continue Reading
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Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 30: The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King
It is interesting how a certain sub-genre presents itself to you as a reader. I have not been a historical fiction reader throughout my reading life. However, I read several historical fiction novels over the past couple of years. Beginning with the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay like Children of Earth and Sky, A Brightness… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 29: The Gondola Maker by Laura Morelli
The Gondola Maker by Laura Morelli tells the story of Luca Vianello, heir to a gondola-making business. However, he is a participant to a tragedy that strikes the business and alters the course of his life. Luca begins to pick up the pieces of his life and becomes a boatman to an established and famed… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 28: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
King writes an interesting, psychological story about a nine year old girl that gets separated from her family and lost in the woods. King probes the internal psyche of a young girl in such a situation and uses the power of imagination in the form of her favorite baseball player, Tom Gordon of the Boston… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 27: Map of Shadows by J.F. Penn
J.F. Penn wrote a fast-paced, dark fantasy thriller about a young woman named Sienna that belongs to a family of mapmakers and their connection to another world called the Borderlands. Map of Shadows is the first book of the trilogy and does a solid job of setting up the conflict between the people of this… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 26: The Pearl by John Steinbeck
One of the most often quoted verses of biblical scripture is from the New Testament book of 1 Timothy 6:10: “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.” Even if you are a non-religious person, I’m pretty sure you have heard that verse of scripture in a secular fashion. It seems… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 25: Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
For the world-renowned novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, most readers have read or attempted to read One Hundred Years of Solitude or the more accessible Love In The Time of Cholera. Some (like me) have read both novels. However, Garcia Marquez has a body of work that gets overlooked by those aforementioned books. I was in… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 24: How The Light Gets In by Louise Penny
One of the great joys of reading is coming upon a series that you would have never read at first glance. This has happened to me with the Inspector Gamache Series by Louise Penny. I’m a not a big mystery or crime fiction reader. However, I read The Long Way Home two years ago and… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Story Review 2: Timeskip by Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint is one of the few authors I have read for over twenty-five years. His novels and stories set in the fictional city of Newford have been delightful to read for a long time. Timeskip is one of de Lint’s best and well-known stories… Continue Reading
Wisdom From Kammbia Story Review 1: Haven by Alice Munro
For the past week, I have been in the mood to read short stories. I don’t know why that mood for short stories came because I’m not a huge short story reader. However, I have decided not to dismiss it and go with this sudden feeling for… Continue Reading
