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...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 13: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark
by MHill | Jun 1, 2019 | 2019 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
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...
Wisdom from Kammbia Book Review 12: A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
by MHill | May 27, 2019 | 2019 Book Reviews, Guy Gavriel Kay, Marion's Favorite Books, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
You know when an author has become one of your favorites when you put down what you were currently reading and buy a new book to read it. Guy Gavriel Kay has become one of those "must read" authors for me. A...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 9: Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
by MHill | Apr 13, 2019 | 2019 Book Reviews, Guy Gavriel Kay, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorite Duologies, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Guy Gavriel Kay has become an author I look forward to reading. His brand of fantasy captured my attention in Ysabel, Children of Earth and Sky, and Sailing to Sarantium, the first book in Sarantine Mosaic...
Book Review 150: Kissing The Beehive by Jonathan Carroll
by MHill | Dec 28, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews, Jonathan Carroll, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Jonathan Carroll has become an author on my must read list that includes Charles de Lint, Guy Gavriel Kay, & Jorge Amado. Carroll's brand of contemporary fantasy and surrealism is unique to the fantasy genre. I have read and reviewed four other Carroll novels:...
Book Review 147: Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
by MHill | Nov 19, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews, Guy Gavriel Kay, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorite Duologies, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Guy Gavriel Kay is becoming one of my favorite authors and joining a list that includes Jorge Amado, Jonathan Carroll, and Charles de Lint Sailing to Sarantium will be the second Kay novel I have read this year and the third one in the past couple of years. Sailing to...
Book Review 140: The Little Country by Charles de Lint
by MHill | Aug 26, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews, Charles De Lint, Marion's Favorite Books, Rereading Series
Back in the early to mid-1990's, Charles de Lint was one of two novelists I read regularly. The other novelist was Dean Koontz. I had not been a big reader at that point in my life and I can attribute the love of reading in my adult life to both of these authors. ...
Book Review 136: The White Raven by Carrie D. Miller
by MHill | Jun 22, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
I never thought I would like reading a book about witches. Well, that's the power of reading. You can end up liking something unexpected. The White Raven by Carrie D. Miller is the story of Aven Dovenelle....
Book Review 134: Meji Book Two by Milton Davis
by MHill | Jun 6, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews
Last year, I read the first book of a duology about twin brothers, Ndoro and Obaseki. They were separated at birth and that book delved into their past revealing what made each brother special amongst the people of Sesu, an African-inspired kingdom on the continent of...
Book Review 132: The Land Across by Gene Wolfe
by MHill | May 19, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews, Gene Wolfe
One of the greatest living American authors just had their eighty-seven birthday earlier this month. Is it Philip Roth? Cormac McCarthy? Richard Ford? John Irving? Toni Morrison? None of them. It is Gene Wolfe. Wolfe has never gotten the mainstream literary success...