Book News and Reviews

I have seen Once Upon a Time Bookshoppe through my entire childhood - and I’ve found out that I’m not the oldest kid on the block who’s grown up with the store as the children’s bookstore to go to.  It’s always been there - Crown Books my fall, but Once Upon a Time in Montrose […]

Book: Wolf Brother - Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Book 1
Author: Michelle Paver
Genre: Fantasy (YA)
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: I’m not normally a YA reader, indeed I didn’t realize I was reading YA until I bought the book off Audible, but I really enjoyed this book. Full of mystery, magic and wild intrigue, it hit that spot we […]

Book: On a Pale Horse
Author: Piers Anthony
Genre: Fantasy
Julia Rating: 9
Comments: On a Pale Horse is the first book in Piers Anthony’s Incarnations of Immortality series.  I was introduced to this series by a friend and read With a Tangled Skein (book 3 of the Incarnations series, first.  I really enjoyed the book, so three years later […]

The winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for worst writing said she was thrilled to have won the award in the Romance category. She won it by creating the worst opening line, which runs as follows:
“Bill swore the affair had ended, but Louise knew he was lying, after discovering Tupperware containers under the seat of […]

A while back I wrote a post about a place in Salt Lake City, Utah called Utah Book and Magazine. I said I was going to be going to Salt Lake later on in the year and would review the store. So, here I am. I’ve gone to see the store and will commence reviewing.
Driving […]

Book: Darwin’s Children
Author: Greg Bear
Genre: Sci Fi
Julia Rating: 8
Comments: Darwin’s Children is a Science Fiction book about evolution. When I say Science Fiction I mean that there is an educated human being writing it who is indeed very into the science of the whole situation.  The only thing I did not like about this book […]

I read a very interesting article that says publishers are going to become non-existent due to the new wave of being able to publish your own work.  Honestly, I’m not so sure.  I mean, I like what I write, I think it’s pretty cool and that I am good at it - however, I need […]

Book: If I Were You
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
Genre: Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: This is a fun book that contains two shorts: If I Were You and The Last Drop, both stories published in pulp magazines during that era. 
The first story, If I Were You, is about a dwarf who works at a circus.  An old man […]

I just read that:
- One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
- Forty-two percent of college graduates never read another book.
- Eighty percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
- Fifty-seven percent of new books are not read to completion.
- Seventy percent of […]