Category Archives: Snow Flower

Book to Movie: The Hate U Give Review

Category: Snow Flower-a story that takes you on a journey Genre: Fiction, Young Adult You hear the word “thug” and an image immediately comes to mind. I know it does for you and it does for me. That image has been sold to us in a pretty white package with a red bow. It’s soContinue reading “Book to Movie: The Hate U Give Review”

Straight from the Author: Guesthouse for Ganesha

Category: Snow Flower-a story that takes you on an emotional journey Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism Guesthouse for Ganesha by Judith Teitelman is a story of Judaism, Hinduism, survivalism, and love. It is Mary Poppin’s spoonful of sugar, and it is the pinprick of fear that burrows into the marrow of your bones, startingContinue reading “Straight from the Author: Guesthouse for Ganesha”

Book to Movie: Pride and Prejudice Review

Category: Snow Flower-a story that takes you on an emotional journey Genre: Fiction The first time I read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, I was in the 7th grade. My friend and I were competing to see who could rack up the most points in Accelerated Reader. I don’t know if you had thatContinue reading “Book to Movie: Pride and Prejudice Review”

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”

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”

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”

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 Starless Sea Book Review

Category: Camellias on Moss, Snow Flower, Apple Blossom Genre: Fantasy I just finished reading this book yesterday, so perhaps it is too soon to claim this book is “Camellias on Moss”—one that will keep its place as life changing once the sword settles back in stone and the bees stop buzzing around my head. ButContinue reading “The Starless Sea Book Review”