I started reading Dear Fang, With Love by Rufi Thorpe after it became increasingly popular in my Twitter feed. I didn't know what it was about but after reading the synopsis, I knew I had to pick it up (and invite the author to join in #30Authors!). In short, it's about a girl named Vera, the daughter of Lucas and Katya. They had her at a very young age and Lucas wasn't around … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2016
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
Every once in awhile, I come across a book that I have a love/hate relationship with. The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma is one such book. The premise is intriguing and the book started out really great, but by around the halfway mark I started to lose steam. It wasn't that I disliked the book, but rather I wasn't compelled to pick it up. And so it would languish on my … [Read more...]
8 Podcasts To Get Excited About
I've recently begun to get back into podcasts and I have to say - I've missed them! I used to listen to podcasts fairly regularly but the past year or so I've shifted my focus to audiobooks. This is a good thing but I missed the shorter segments that allowed me to listen to something from start to finish on the drive to work. When I decided to jump back into the podcast … [Read more...]
Laura Ellen Scott’s Top 5 Murder Mysteries
This post was written by Laura Ellen Scott, author of The Juliet.I’m excited to be asked to recommend a handful of kick-ass mysteries for the readers of The Book Wheel. For me, writing mysteries is the culmination of a lifelong dream, one that you could say I was born into, since my parents named me after Otto Preminger’s classic noir film, Laura. My first mystery novel, … [Read more...]
‘The Machine Stops’ Still Relevant Over 100 Years Later
Imagine living in a world where humans interact by computer screen and rely on technology to bring them anything they want. This is the world that E.M. Forster imagined back in the early 1900's in The Machine Stops and I wonder if he had any idea how portentous his story would turn out to be. In Forster's world, humans had become so reliant on technology and leadership … [Read more...]