by Jennifer Hallmark | Sep 6, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Hello, Friday Fiction friends! You all know I love reading and am always checking out different genres, authors, and literary styles. But much of my heart is lost in middle-grade and young-adult books. Though I’m not young at all, lol, I feel like a child at...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Aug 30, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
The question I asked when I first finished Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ was, Where has this book been all my life? I can’t believe it took me until my late twenties to read this famous literary classic by Lew Wallace. My earliest exposure to the story was in...
by K.A. Ramstad | Aug 23, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Author Adrian So takes middle graders into a world of moles, badgers, aardvarks, armadillos, and hares. The Groundworld Heroes: Book One will appeal to lovers of anthropomorphic animal stories like Redwall. It even has these types of animals intermingle with humans,...
by Cammi Woodall | Aug 16, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Have you ever been really into a movie and suddenly something happens to completely take you out of the story? For instance, a character gets out of a pool and is soaking wet, but in the very next scene set immediately after in the same place, they are completely dry...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Aug 9, 2024 | Determined to Dance Podcast, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track, Guest Bloggers
Good morning and Happy Friday! Today I thought I’d dive into The Naked Sun, one of my favorite works by Isaac Asimov, which feels particularly poignant in the current climate of AI and technology rapidly subsuming our lives. The novel opens with detective Elijah Baley...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Jul 26, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Hello, Friday Fiction Friends! Today, I’m reviewing what I consider a classic “supernatural” novel. Frank Peretti released The Visitation twenty-five years ago. Here’s the blurb: The sleepy, eastern Washington wheat town of Antioch has suddenly...
