Welcome to a Crawford’s Mysteries and More! Book Club Book Review. Novels read in book club will fall into the following categories: Detective (crime is solved by a detective/police officer), Cozy (no violence), Caper (told from the criminal’s POV), and More (not strictly a mystery)! Todays’ pick is More! If you just read the dustContinue reading “The Henna Artist Book Review”
Category Archives: Book Reviews
Straight from the Author: Wild Boar in the Cane Field
Category: Snow Flower-a story that takes you on an emotional journey Genre: Fiction I love woman-centered stories. Women with agency. Smart, capable women who do not let their trauma impede their dreams. Women who carve out their own path through the one society has given them. Taking a page from Jasper Ffforde, I would loveContinue reading “Straight from the Author: Wild Boar in the Cane Field”
Book to Movie: Ready Player One Review
Category: Apple Blossom-a story that seduces you Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian Fiction, LitRPG A brief disclaimer: I am not a gamer. I did not grow up with video games; when I am talked into playing video games, they are stressful and not relaxing; and when I am playing, I often end up thinking about allContinue reading “Book to Movie: Ready Player One Review”
Shea’s Bookshelf Categories
The Shea’s Bookshelf blog contains posts on all things books, incuding Book Reviews and Writing Tips. Book Reviews will include standard reviews divided into four emotional categories, reviews I write for Crawford’s Books, reviews on books that have been made into movies, and author interviews. Writing Tips are full of information I’ve learned in myContinue reading “Shea’s Bookshelf Categories”
A Tyranny of Petticoats Book Review
Category: Apple Blossom-a story that seduces you Genre: Anthology, Fiction I picked up this wonderful book on one of my bookstore adventures where I visited several bookstores in one day and determined to buy books from all of them. It was tossed onto my pile of 16 books without hesitation; the title was great, itContinue reading “A Tyranny of Petticoats Book Review”
The Displaced Book Review
Category: Snow Flower-a story that takes you on a journey Genre: Anthology, Non-fiction, Essays, Biography If ever there was a body of people who were ghosts, stolen from their land by someone else’s war, stripped from their identity in the guise of assimilation, living on the peripheries of our notice, voiceless and visible only asContinue reading “The Displaced Book Review”
Book to Movie: V for Vendetta Review
Category: Apple Blossom-a story that seduces you Genre: Graphic Novel “Remember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder, treason, and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot!” Immortal words on an immortal date by an immortal graphic novel spun into an immortal movie! The books that seduce meContinue reading “Book to Movie: V for Vendetta Review”
The Art of Racing in the Rain Book Review
Category: Snow Flower-a story that takes you on an emotional journey Genre: Fiction There are two types of readers: those who keep their books in pristine condition, never bending a page, never underlining, doing their best to keep the spine uncracked; and those who tear their books apart, taking them in backpacks and purses andContinue reading “The Art of Racing in the Rain Book Review”
Ishmael Book Review
Category: Snow Flower-a story that takes you on an emotional journey Genre: Fiction “With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?” And so this koan kicks off the conversation of a lifetime between teacher and student, between man and gorilla, between the Takers and the Leavers, between all that we have to learn andContinue reading “Ishmael Book Review”
The Rook Book Review
Category: Apple Blossom-a story that seduces you Genre: Fiction The Rook, The Rook, how to best tell you about this book. I’d say The Rook is like Men in Black, where a group of covert operatives protect the world from supernatural evil forces, but then I’d be leaving out the chess. I’d say The RookContinue reading “The Rook Book Review”
Elegance Press 