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  Rating :  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🐕   River Love: The True Story of a Wayward Sheltie, a Woman, and a Magical Place Called Rivershire  by  Tricia Frey  is a beautiful, deeply personal memoir. This story is a well-written, direct, concise, and impressively honest account of a woman’s journey to self-acceptance after she meets a little lost dog. It’s also a story about her relationships with family, friends, and the beautiful strip of paradise she lives on, Rivershire . This book is a great summer read to savor. It is cathartic to other lost souls seeking redemption, happiness, peace-authentic self. For animal lovers, this tender, authentic story will pull at your heartstrings in the same way  “Old Yeller”  does. Learning Sheldon , the Sheltie’s history of how he came to be in Rivershire will delight and relieve those who enjoy solving a mystery. This story is particularly poignant for me because I grew up near Rivershire . It pulled every nostalgic heartstrin...

Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📲  Long Division by Kiese Laymon is an original work of sparkling creativity. I recommend getting a print copy of the book so you can enjoy the story as it is intended. Part one of the book is printed as expected, but to read the second half of the book, the reader needs to flip it over and read from the end. So, both parts have the last physical page of the story located in the middle of the book. The very end of the book is in the middle. One of the great things about doing reviews in exchange for a book is getting books that you would never choose for yourself. I’m a retired white guy who grew up in a northern state. This story is about a ninth-grader, young black man, “City” from Mississippi.  The adventure is a dreamy, mysterious, time-traveling account of a young man's journey as he reckons with bigotry, self-discovery, sacrifice, and love. There is an intricate mystical ache to the story. Each character in the book fights for self-determination. T...

  Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🕵️‍♂️  " Catch and Kill " by  Ronan Farrow  is a top-notch true-crime thriller. The research, facts, and sources are beyond reproach. The book is well laid out and expertly written. The novel reads like a spy thriller as Mr. Farrow takes us on his dangerous journey of documenting and publicizing the despicable crimes of Harvey Weinstein and other rich, influential men. The levers of power men like Harvey Weinstein can pull to squash others from reporting the truth about their crimes is astonishing. The lengths they will go to crush anyone they feel threatened by is terrifying. Mr. Farrow's suspenseful journey is successful, but he wagered nearly everything to bring it to us. It is worth the investment, both the time and money. You will remember " Catch and Kill " by Ronan Farrow long after reading the last page . Want to know what other’s think about this book? Please support my Blog by using one of these links to get your copy of the...

Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🐉 Kick-start your fantasy adventure with Steffen Larkin’s “ For Fog Adorns Her ” prequel to Veric , and the Swarming Death series. This promises everything lovers of the fantasy genre could want and more; fast-paced page-turning action packed battles, magic, magical items, great beasts, curses and harrowing journeys into mysterious lands. Join Veric as he begins his journey with the mystery of the dragon’s egg and the curse of the deadly fog. Join Veric as he ventures forth to discover secrets to his own mysterious past and what that may mean for his present and future.   After reading this short prequel I’m hooked. This prequel was so entertaining and enticing that I —must—read the next in the series. There are too many questions I must know the answers to like: How are the dragon, Zerina and Veric connected? What is the meaning of the broken triangle symbols? What species of being is Veric anyways? (We know he’s orange and comfortable battling sea monsters un...

Rating: ⭐️  ⭐️  ⭐️  ⭐️  ⭐️  📖 Susan Orlean’s “ The Library Book ” is brilliant and I’m glad to have read it. It’s beautifully written, painstakingly researched. Her storytelling is captivating and masterful. Every time I read about the destruction of what was lost, I felt anguish, even grief. Now I understand how libraries are vital living, breathing entities, places of community, hands-on museums—a place where everyone is equally rich with the treasures therein.  It’s fascinating to me how libraries survived the world’s entry into the digital age. They could have gone the way of dinosaurs and become redundant, unnecessary places. Instead, librarians not only embraced the inevitable march of technology but pressed it further by imagining, reimagining, constantly seeking how to renew, to be relative, and helpful community centers with a heartbeat and breath. They operated in the future a hundred years before the future became the past. That is truly vision...