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The Princess Saves Herself in the End by Amanda Lovelace – a book review

amandalovelaceprincess – 5 Stars

Wow, my words and writing style are inadequate to convey the impact this small powerful book holds.

Powerful! Raw. Courageous. Brutally honest.

This is a book of prose. I know there are some who say this is not poetry; it’s too simplistic, just a few words, not epic. It is simple in it’s format, but that doesn’t mean the written work isn’t poetry. And simple doesn’t mean bad. It’s straightforward. It’s brave. It resonates truth. Amanda’s Lovelace’s truth.

This is one I will revisit often.

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A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan ~ Book review

natural-history-of-dragons 5 stars

Absolutely one of the best beginnings of a series I have read in a long time! I loved this and will definitely be reading the following book [book:The Tropic of Serpents|17910078].

Terrific story written in a Memoir style of a woman who is passionate about dragons and her quest to study them, draw them and know the behaviour of dragons.

I loved the way this book was written and had to remind myself several times that Lady Trent was a fictional character. Think of her as the Dian Fossey of Dinosaurs.

And the illustrations of Trent’s drawings scattered throughout the book are wonderful.

I hghly  recommend this novel for anyone who is interested in the lore of dragons and a strong female anthropologist ahead of her time.  (And yes, I know, it is fiction, but the writing is wonderful and you tend to forget that this is not a true historical account; it’s that good!)

I will definitely be reading all in this series.

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The 5th in the series is expected to be released on April 25th, 2017 by Tor Books

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November’s Bookshelf

It’s going to be a wonderful busy month reading.

I currently have 3 Advance Reading Copies from authors and/or publishers that I am waiting for or that are on my bookshelf waiting for me to curl up with them.

Breakfast at Midnight by Louis Armand is already on my shelf waiting to be read and will be next on my list to    read.

The synopsis for “Breakfast in America” :

“An elegy in E-flat for the other Prague.”

Kafkaville. Blake is a pornographer who photographs corpses. Ten years ago, a young man becomes a fugitive when a redhead disappears on a bridge in the rain. Now, at the turn of the millennium, another redhead has turned up in the morgue, and the fugitive can’t get the dead girl’s image out of his head. For Blake, it’s all a game – a funhouse where denial is the currency, deceit is the grand prize, and all doors lead to one destination: murder. In the psychological noir-scape of Kafkaville, the rain never stops, and redemption is just another betrayal away…

The ’90s Prague novel that wasn’t, Louis Armand’s BREAKFAST AT MIDNIGHT takes no prisoners. Seething with film noir intensity, violence, sex, the grimy post-revolution discontent of Prague’s industrial underbelly – the high-tempo prose carries us across landscapes of mind-fuck paranoias, morgue slabs, Oedipal patricides, Amazonian jungle epiphanies…

A parable for the times, BREAKFAST AT MIDNIGHT updates the macabre vision of writers like Paul Leppin and Gustav Meyrink. This is a cult novel waiting to happen.

I’m waiting on 2 books in the mail.

There are Reasons Noah Packed No Clothes by Robert Jacoby 

and

Cold To the Touch by Simon Strantzas

I’m really looking forward to these reads 

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