by Cammi Woodall | Mar 19, 2021 | Fantasy, Favorite Friday Fiction
In 1692, Good fought Evil. A man named Giles Dent faced an ancient evil, this time in the form of Lazarus Twisse. Good did not win, but it also did not lose. Dent was able to beat back the evil invading his town, but in doing so thrust the responsibility of its defeat...
by Cammi Woodall | Feb 19, 2021 | Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
By Cammi Woodall What do you know about Alice Roosevelt? When I started reading American Princess by Stephanie Marie Thornton, I knew she was the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and that she (scandalous for the time) smoked cigarettes. Her father once said, “I can do...
by Cammi Woodall | Jan 15, 2021 | Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track, Mystery
When you find a book series you like, do you binge-read the whole thing? Or do you space it out over the months, to savor each story? I am a binge reader. I have discovered the Kate Burkholder series by Linda Castillo – twelve books so far and I have read straight...
by Cammi Woodall | Dec 18, 2020 | Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
“You could rattle the stars,” she whispered. “You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.” — Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass I am way past the age that Young Adult novels are marketed for, but I...
by Cammi Woodall | Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
In this month of October, with the days growing blustery and Halloween creeping towards us, I thought it fitting to spotlight the father of the modern horror story, Edgar Allan Poe. First published in the late 1800’s, his works such as “The Pit and The Pendulum”, “The...