In all my years reading (and writing), if someone asked me who is your favorite novelist, what would I write? I have to write that it is Charles de Lint. Over the past three decades, I have kept de Lint novels on my shelf more than any other author. Two of my...
Book Reviews
Marion's All-Time Favorite Novels
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Mr. Breakfast by Jonathan Caroll
Face of an Angel by Denise Chavez
The Little Country by Charles de Lint
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Children of Earth & Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Marion’s Favorites: Zero Gravity (A Documentary About Wayne Shorter)
Wayne Shorter is my favorite musician. I have chronicled my admiration for musicians like Incognito, Pat Metheny Group, Sting, Bill Withers, and Michael Franks online over the years. Those are my favorites. But, Wayne Shorter has moved past them all. I spent my...
Wisdom From Kammbia Review 128: The Death of Doctor Island by Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe is one of my favorite authors. However, I did not come to his work through his magnum opus, The Book of New Sun. I've started with some of his standalone novels, like Pirate Freedom and The Land Across. Also, I've read the first book of some of his series...
Rereading Home Is The Sailor by Jorge Amado
I’ve decided for the rest of the year (and into 2024) to reread novels that I first wrote reviews for when I started the blog in 2011 and other books I read in my 20s and 30s. I want to rediscover why I read and start a new foundation for my reading life. To connect...
Kammbia
Welcome to Kammbia.
Escape from your frazzled days.
Enter the world of Kammbia. A world divided. A world of vivid color and fantastical sights and sounds.
A realm where imagination draws you inside. A world where myth and legend intertwine effortlessly with a stark reality that draws strong parallels with our own society of today of imagination and spirituality.
Now, thanks to author Marion Hill—the creative mind behind the Kammbia novels—you too too can immerse yourself in Kammbian life.
Begin your journey into Kammbia below: