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...
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
Happy Birthday Bill Withers!
Happy 85th Birthday to Bill Withers! Bill left us five years ago but his musical legacy as one of America's greatest singer-songwriters is permanent. He is one of my all-time favorite singers and his soulful, storytelling style of music carved out a unique career....
Best Book Ever Podcast 149
I was invited back to one of my favorite book podcasts, The Best Book Ever Podcast, hosted by Julie Strauss. This was my third appearance on the podcast and we discussed one of my all-time favorite novels, The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber. Faber's...
Rereading The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
"The rhetoric of a sermon was one thing; his wife's grim reality was another. Civilizations did not vanish smoothly and easefully; empires did not set like suns: empires collapsed in chaos and violence. Real people got pushed around, beaten up, robbed, made destitute....
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: