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Title: Boba's Adventure Author: Leah Rondogiannis Publisher: XlibrisAU ISBN: 978 -1-5434-0510-1 Pages: 21 Genre: Juvenile Fiction Reviewed by: Caroline Smith
http://www.pacificbookreview.com/ Not exact matches
The initial Gamergate controversy stemmed from a blog posted by independent game developer Zoe Quinn's ex-boyfriend, alleging that her interactive fiction browser game Depression Quest received positive media attention because she had been romantically involved with some of the journalists reviewing the game.
oh dear, a review by some fool that takes everything in the greatest fiction ever told as the literal «word of god»
Reinforcing the fact that this book is historical fiction and not a precise biography, my friend Dalia Mogahed (executive director of the Center for Muslim Studies at Gallup and member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) rightfully noted in her review that this «is not a book recounting Muhammad's life, but a beautiful story inspired by it... There was editorial license and creativity, and while many of the words and events have been recorded in authentic sources, many have not...»
After reviewing over a dozen design submissions, a committee made up of senior Mars Society staff selected a poster created by Bill Wright, a freelance science fiction illustrator, as the first place... Read More
New York, NY About Blog Crime by the Book CBTB is a book review blog dedicated to investigation of the crime fiction genre.
PYONGYANGST - My Review of THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT (3 Stars) Evoking more questions than answers, THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT, a documentary by filmmakers Ross Adam and Robert Cannan details the stranger than fiction account of a prominent South Korean film director and his actress ex-wife who were kidnapped by North Korea during Kim Jong Il's reign and were forced to make over 17 movies for him.
In addition to running original fiction by major authors (Stephen King was a regular), the magazine contained features about older writers such as Lovecraft and Machen along with book reviews by Thomas Disch, film reviews by Gahan Wilson, interviews and more.»
His appearance in the 2006 film, A Scanner Darkly, based on the dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, received favorable reviews, and The Lake House, his romantic outing with Sandra Bullock, did not do well at the box office.
Early reviews have framed «Midnight Special» as an intimately human take on science fiction rounded out by a stellar cast including Shannon, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Joel Edgerton, and Jaeden Lieberher.
But she has aspirations, as attested by a pile of rejection letters from the fiction departments of publications like The Paris Review.
DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Mindbending Sci - Fi Starring Damon and Blunt Arrives on DVD A number of the late Philip K. Dick's science - fiction novels and short stories have been made into movies, most notably, Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report.
ARRIVAL Paramount Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Denis Villeneuve Written by: Eric Heisserer based on Ted Chiang's short fiction «Story of Your Life» Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker Screened at: AMC Empire, NYC, 11/7/16 Opens: November 11, 2016
Amy Glynn is a poet, essayist and fiction writer who really likes that you can multi-task by reviewing television and glasses of Cabernet simultaneously.
Based on the landmark 1995 science fiction anime of the same name by Mamoru Oshii (reviewed on Blu - ray here), and of course the original 1989 manga by Masamune Shirow, Rupert Sanders» live action Ghost in the Shell is centered on Major Mira Killian (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman involved in an accident that's left her body irreparably damaged.
12, reviewed more than 350 pieces of artwork from a monthly magazine for teens and 50 fiction writing samples produced by high school students from a similar publication.
At the third annual awards ceremony, the 2017 winners were announced: in Fiction, Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Deep Vellum); in Creative Nonfiction, Calamities by Renee Gladman (Wave Books); in Poetry, Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney (Fence Books); and Bennington Review and Prairie Schooner in Magazines Best Debut and General Excellence, respectively.
The novel was a semifinalist in the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, the spring 2013 winner of the ForeWord Firsts contest sponsored by ForeWord Reviews, and was just named a literary fiction category semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Review's 2014 Kindle Book Awards.
For many of the reasons you state above I assist the Historical Novel Society by being Managing Editor for reviewing Indie published historical fiction.
The imbalance is less marked among authors; 47 % of the picture books and 41 % of the children's fiction reviewed was by male authors.
All reviewers using this badge have been known and discerned by the leadership of Reality Calling / Radiqx Press to be trustworthy men and women of God, called by the Lord to review Christian fiction as a service to both the readers and authors of true Christian fiction.
Content — My rave review of The Start - Up by Sadie Hayes, published by Backlit Fiction.
Her second novel, The World to Come, published by W.W. Norton in 2006, received the 2006 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, the 2007 Harold U. Ribalow Prize, was selected as an Editors» Choice in The New York Times Book Review and as one of the Best Books of 2006 by The San Francisco Chronicle, and has been translated into eleven languages...
By the end of my email and Twitter blitz on Monday, I'd cracked the Top 100 free books on all of Amazon — fiction, non-fiction, everything — and added another 9 reviews.
From Review by Big Al's Books and Pals: «While revolving around the apparent «second coming of Christ,» [the «Eloah» series] is many things, but one thing it isn't is «Christian Fiction.»
God School (Divine Protector Book 1) by Scott Kinkade (Author) 4.7 rating on 4 customer reviews Adventure / Science Fiction ON KINDLE
The October issue features interviews with Connie Willis and Nisi Shawl, a column by Kameron Hurley, an obituary of David A. Kyle, and reviews of short fiction and books by Connie Willis, Alvaro Zinos - Amaro, Chuck Wendig, Naomi Novik, Jennifer Mason - Black, and many others.
BEYOND (BEYOND Series Book 1) by Maureen A. Miller 4.4 rating on 131 customer reviews Science Fiction On Kindle
A former co-editor of the East Bay Monthly (a regional general interest magazine), she reviewed fiction for several years for the San Francisco Chronicle and was the second «Modern Love» columnist published by the New York Times.
-LCB- Review + Giveaway -RCB- Genesis by @BrendanReichs #ProjectNemesis #GenesisBlogTour @PenguinTeen Genesis by Brendan Reichs Pages: 512 Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers on March 6, 2018 Series: Project Nemesis # 2 Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction Source: Finished Copy from Publisher Noah Livingston knows he is destined to survive.
By LV Gaudet on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 Book of the Week, Book Publishing, Book Review, Fiction, Mystery Book Reviews
Newly posted at New Flash Fiction Review, here's «The Easy Way» by Michelle Ross: http://newflashfiction.com/michelle-ross/ If you haven't already, be sure to pick up a -LSB-...]
As noted on the publication's web site, «The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award was inaugurated by [Evelyn Waugh's son] Auberon Waugh in 1993 to «draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it».
From Lorrie Moore's earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on Ezra Edelman's 2016 O.J. Simpson documentary, and in between: Moore on the writing of fiction (the work of V. S. Pritchett, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Stanley Elkin, Dawn Powell, Nicholson Baker, et al.)... on the continuing unequal state of race in America... on the shock of the shocking GOP... on the dangers (and cruel truths) of celebrity marriages and love affairs... on the wilds of television (The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Into the Abyss, Girls, Homeland, True Detective, Making a Murderer)... on the (d) evolving environment... on terrorism, the historical imagination, and the world's newest form of novelist... on the lesser (and larger) lives of biography and the midwifery between art and life (Anaïs Nin, Marilyn Monroe, John Cheever, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, among others)... and on the high art of being Helen Gurley Brown... and much, much more.
Fiction finalists are The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (BookPage review) and All Souls by Christine Schutt (BookPage review).
RELATED READING: «The Second Shelf: On the Rules of Literary Fiction for Men and Women,» by Meg Wolitzer for the New York Times Book Review (March 30, 2012).
When Mountains Move by Julie Cantrell, the second novel from an author who took Christian fiction by storm with her debut (you can read my review here)
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Dating Mr. December by Phillipa Ashley — Contemporary Fiction — 4 stars, 9 reviews.
The Prisoner in the Third Cell by Gene Edwards — Religious Fiction — 4.5 stars, 26 reviews.
Today I'm reviewing Illusion by Frank Peretti, who practically invented the modern Christian speculative fiction genre with This Present Darkness.
By the way, I only spend my time reviewing Christian fiction that I can give a positive review to.
Title: The Great Connection: Worlds in Waiting Author: Garry Abbott Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 4 stars Purchase: Amazon Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest rReview copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest reviewreview.
Title: Bella Maura (Beautiful Justice # 1) Author: Dawn Dyson Genre: Spiritual, Christian Fiction, Romance, Suspense Publisher: Creation House Rating: 4,5 stars Review copy provided by the author.
Title: Scent of the Past Author: Erin Marie Bernardo Genre: Historical Fiction Age Group: Adult Rating: 4 stars Purchase: Amazon Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest rReview copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest reviewreview.
Title: Forget Me Author: Chelsea Vanderbeek Genre: YA Christian Fiction Age Group: Young Adult Rating: 4,5 stars Purchase: Amazon Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest rReview copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest reviewreview.
Title: The Matriarch Matrix Author: Maxime Trencavel Genre: Science Fiction, Adventure Rating: 5 stars Purchase: Amazon Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest rReview copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest reviewreview.
Title: Redfern Author: Gary Tinnams Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 4 stars Purchase: Amazon Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest rReview copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest reviewreview.
Title: The Visitor Author: Brent Ayscough Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 4 stars Purchase: Amazon Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest rReview copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest reviewreview.
Title: When Blood Reigns Author: Barbara Custer Genre: Horror / Science Fiction Age Group: Adult (18 +) Rating: 4 stars Purchase: Amazon Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest rReview copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest reviewreview.