The Orphan
Reviewed by Dyane Sherwood In The Orphan: A Journey to Wholeness, Audrey Punnett has brought this powerful topic to our attention in a thoughtful and multifaceted book that is engaging, carefully...
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“Evidence of Other Realms” A Review by Joey Madia A few weeks ago I published my review of Josette Berardi’s I’m Not Dead, Am I? Although that book came out a year after this one, I chose to read it …...
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Purposeful Poetics Review by Joey Madia To engage with Heller Levinson’s poetry is to make the commitment to immerse. To commit. Reminding me of a combination of the visual–typographic poetry of Vernon...
View ArticleEncounters with Flying Humanoids
“From Mothman to the Camazotz” Review by Joey Madia The field of cryptozoology, which many consider a pseudoscience, involving the search for and study of “hidden animals” such as Bigfoot, is one that...
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“To Sail with the Heart of a Pyrate” Review by Joey Madia Four months ago my family and I left the mountains of West Virginia for a new life near the water in the idyllic town of Beaufort, NC, on …...
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“The Passion of the Blood” Review by Joey Madia I love most things vampire. I write about them, have shelves full of movies featuring them, and even more shelves filled with books, both fiction and...
View ArticleDreamwork for Visionary Living
Review by Joey Madia Over the past five years, I have reviewed many of the encyclopedias and books on the paranormal by Rosemary Ellen Guiley, one of the leading experts in both the paranormal and...
View ArticleCarl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul
‘inside and outside, the psyche and the world’ – The legacy of Carl Jung Review by Grady Harp Claire Dunne has produced what many of us will consider the definitive biography of the great Carl Jung....
View ArticleInvent[st]ory: Selected Catalog Poems & New
“Introductions to Infinity” Review by Joey Madia The arrival of a new Eileen Tabios book has become no less than an Event for me. Not only is it inspiring to see what new forms and source material this...
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Time Travel Made Easy Review by Joey Madia As I have made the journey from reader, to writer, to student, to professional writer, to teacher of workshops and writing classes, and then to book reviewer,...
View ArticleThe Plays of Jon Lipsky, Volume One
“Yesterday’s Voices Today” Review by Joey Madia I still remember the day, seven years ago, returning to my secluded three acres in West Virginia from a meeting with my theatre company in New Jersey, to...
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Review by Joey Madia As Founding Editor of www.newmystics.com, which hosts pages for seventy authors and artists from around the world, I have the opportunity to give the creators of innovative and...
View ArticleSavages: A Triptych
Review by Joey Madia To begin, a definition: “Triptychs” are typically three-paneled paintings or a photograph series that explores a unified theme in different ways. The triptych of this collection is...
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‘I decided to give up any sense of fear and embrace your presence, to welcome my time alone with a very old friend.’ Review by Grady Harp New Hampshire author Jennifer-Lynn Keniston, originally from...
View ArticleYOU are THIS: Awakening to the Living Presence of Your Soul
‘What you are looking for is found within’ Review by Grady Harp British author and philosopher Jonathan Harrison is best described as a Teacher of Being. In his previous books WE ARE ALL ONE he gently...
View ArticleThe Journal of Vincent du Maurier II
“A More than Satisfying Sequel” Review by Joey Madia Sequels, as ubiquitous as they have become in novels, film, and in television (through spin-offs and multiple seasons), are difficult to do well. As...
View ArticleThe Plays of Jon Lipsky, Volume Two
“Of Dreams and Dogs and Jazz” Review by Joey Madia If the plays in Volume One of this collection are like a sprout bursting through the soil from a carefully cultivated seed, the four plays in Volume...
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‘Boy, look at you..ackin’ like you always be riding around in a big fancy car with a chauffeur’ Review by Grady Harp After reading Shawn Stewart Ruff’s first novel FINLATER in 2008 this deeply...
View ArticleJester-Knight: Book One of the Ambir Dragon Tales
Review by Paige Ambroziak I don’t often read high fantasy, but I have read Tolkien’s must-reads since I teach Beowulf almost every semester to my college students and like to include some of his...
View ArticleEvery Kingdom Divided
Review by Paige Ambroziak This is my first Kozeniewski (“Braineater Jones” is at the top of my TBR list, though) and I feel incredibly grateful to the goddess of a reviewer at Literary Litter for...
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