Dona's Book Blog

Thank you to the author Alyssa Harmon and BookSiren for an advance digital copy of TREADING WATER. All views are mine. habromania   delusions of happiness  a calendar with june 24th crossed out in blue pen,  water spilling out of a cracked straw,  a fortune cookie that says  you can’t drown forever,  a sandless hourglass,  the stray dog wandering on a deserted beach with a tag that says you have to be your own savior —  all these bad habits collected like marbles. Loc.108 Three (or more) things I loved: 1. "The Chalk Fairy" at loc.130 is an excellent piece. Wonderful progression and turn. 2. I love the piece "band-aids" at loc.121 because of the reference to invisible injury. This is such an important issue for people with disabilities. I really connect to this, as someone with invisible disabilities, and currently helping a family member adapt to a newly developed invisible disability.  3. "anchors" is a brilliant little piece a...

Thank you to the author Maria DeBlassie, publishers Kitchen Witch Press, and Henry Roi PR, for an advance digital copy of WEEP, WOMAN, WEEP. All views are mine. This novella is magical. What a fantastic piece of writing. The technique is solid and DeBlassie's voice is addictive. All she needs is a killer story, and she's got that, too. Here's an early sweet Halloween treat. Three (or more) things I loved: 1. The way DeBlassie utilizes her time element is so creative and feeds into the sort of chaotic feel of this piece. We have a narrator more than willing to say, Here we are in the story, no wait I didn't tell you about this yet, oh yeah that thing back there, I lied about that, here's what really happened. This adds so much to the shape of the narrative, and it also brings me to the next thing I love about this novella, down below. 2. Such a fresh,creative, fun execution of the unreliable narrator! It's not that the narrator is untrustworthy, or ...