Book Review: The Cage Legacy The Cage Legacyby Nicholas Conley2012.Genre: Thriller, Horror, Young AdultKlorrie Cup Award Winner, #0013This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Who is Ethan Cage? Is he just a troubled 17-year-old high school student? A quiet,... Continue Reading →
Discover the Heartwarming Tale of ‘Peppermint’
Book Review: Peppermint Peppermintby Dorothy GriderIllustrated by Raymond Burns1950, 1966.Genre: ChildrensAge Range: 4 - 7 yearsKlorrie Cup Award Winner, #0014This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: This is the beautiful story of a small kitten who is born in... Continue Reading →
Discover the Unbreakable Bond in The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Book Review: The Travelling Cat Chronicles The Travelling Cat Chroniclesby Hiro Arikawa Philip Gabriel (Translator).2012.Genre: ContemperaryKlorrie Cup Award Winner, #0010This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Sometimes you have to leave behind everything you know to find the place... Continue Reading →
The Beauty of Charles Simic’s Walking the Black Cat
Book Review: Walking the Black Cat Walking the Black Catby Charles Simic1996.Genre: PoetryKlorrie Cup Award Winner #0011This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Hamlet's ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as... Continue Reading →
Mastering Loneliness and Love in Kokoro: Natsume Soseki’s Classic
Book Review: Kokoro Kokoroby Natsume Soseki Edwin McClellan (Translator).1904.Genre: Classic, Japanese LiteratureKlorrie Cup Award Winner, #0009This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Kokoro, meaning ‘heart’, is a tantalizing novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic... Continue Reading →
When Alzheimer’s Meets Science Fiction
Book Review: Pale Highway Pale Highwayby Nicholas Conley2015.Genre: Science FictionKlorrie Cup Award Winner #0008This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Gabriel Schist is spending his remaining years at Bright New Day, a nursing home. He once won the Nobel... Continue Reading →
Stepping into an Abandoned Dream
Book Review: Clay Tongue Clay Tongueby Nicholas Conley2016.Genre: Fantasy, Visionary FictionThis article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Katie Mirowitz is a small little girl with an even smaller little voice. She possesses a deep love for her grandfather, who... Continue Reading →
A Thousand Mornings of Wonderful Poetry
Book Review: A Thousand Mornings A Thousand Morningsby Mary Oliver2012.Genre: Poetry.Klorrie Cup Award Winner #0016This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! My Thoughts: I was unfamiliar with Mary Oliver when I chanced upon this book. I am so grateful that’s not... Continue Reading →
Intraterrestrial: Thought-Provoking Science Fiction Tale with Alien Abduction
Book Review: Intraterrestrial Intraterrestrial by Nicholas Conley, 2018. Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult Klorrie Cup Award Winner, #0003 This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Adam Helios is a bully magnet without many friends. When he starts hearing a... Continue Reading →
A Stunning Tribute and Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Book Review: Your Own, Sylvia Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plathby Stephanie Hemphill2007.Genre: PoetryKlorrie Cup Award Winner #0002This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Your Own, Sylvia draws on Plath’s writing and extensive nonfiction sources, chronicling Hemphill’s... Continue Reading →

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