Today is the official publication date of L.D. Gussin’s “The Seeker Academy” published by 4361 Press. This is an early review. You might also enjoy browsing L. D. Gussin’s “The Seeker Academy” weblog. Yes, the characters in L. D. Gussin’s “The Seeker Academy” are “hungry for the truth” as Christopher Noel says on the book’s…
Reader Views has just posted an intriguing interview with Pop about his new Western “Cattle Country and Back Trail: Two Tales from the Thompson Western Series.” You can check out the Reader Views full review here as well. Adventure. Romance. Humor. The two tales “Cattle Country and Back Trail” have it all. These are tales…
Eric Maisel will tell us more about how his new book Ten Zen Seconds relates to connection later in April, but here is an overview of his approach. –JGR Riehlife: Tell us a bit about Ten Zen Seconds. Eric: Ten Zen Seconds gives you a simple but powerful way to reduce stress, get centered, and…
An autobiographical novel about a geezer who talks to himself, eats roadkill, and would like to overthrow the government. We call Steve Bartholomew “Bart” in these parts. Yesterday he presented his book to our Lake County reading and writing community at Watershed Books in Lakeport. I’m telling you, when we put on a party here,…
A friend put Places of the Heart: Poets on Place into my hands as I worked on preparing a talk on the influence of place in my own poetry. I found Poets on Place so invaluable that I typed many pages of detailed notes to ruminate on. It’s an attractive work replete with complementary elements…
What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell, available in both audiocasette and book format. Hours of juicy listening to a story of epic proportions following the effects through three generations of the sins of the mothers, fathers, and society before them. Sometimes banal, but more often engrossing, What You Owe Me gives us a…
Deathing: An Intelligent Alternative for the Final Moments of Life by Anya Foos-Graber. Written in 1984 when the conscious birth movement was gaining ground along with the conscious death movement, Anya Foos-Graber provides us with a vivid case study combined with a manual for preparing for our own death or being a loving and skillful…
BUTTERFLY WARRIOR by Juan Blea. Juan Blea’s world view was a Spanish one up to age five. In order to translate across cultures, he creates a metaphoric token that can be understood by both cultures. In Butterfly Warrior Blea gives us an allegory taken from an Aztec myth of soldiers killed in battle who then…
Angels Unaware, by Priscilla A. Maine takes its title from the Hebrews Biblical text 12:2. “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” The themes in Maine’s book serve this homily well, as her characters learn what it means to untangle old hates and prejudices in order to extend their…
“S” IS FOR SILENCE (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries) by Sue Grafton. Okay. So Milhone lives in the 1980s. But the cold case she is working on–and that she draws her alternative point of views from–is set in the 1950s. And, boy does Grafton ever nail the 1950s, when TV was just set to burst into our…