Category: Book Review Friday

• Book Review Friday – Two Guys with Pen in the Sunshine State

  Disclosure: As I prepared to write a review on two of my favorite Florida authors, I realized something about the way I write reviews. I’m much tougher on the bestselling authors than I am on Indie Authors. Therefore, I’m filing this disclosure to let you know I am biased and guilty of conflict of interest…

  P. C. Zick

  November 8, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, book reviews, characters, fiction, Florida, Indie Authors, novel, publishing

• #Book Review Friday – Sebastian by Christoph Fischer

  @PCZick It took me some time to understand why the title of this book is Sebastian. The title character doesn’t appear very often, but his presence is felt in the stories of those–mostly women–around him. Sebastian, Christoph Fischer’s second novel in the Three Nations Trilogy, is set in Vienna and Galicia in Central Europe. His…

  P. C. Zick

  November 1, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, book reviews, characters, Eastern Europe, fiction, Galicia, historical fiction, Vienna, World War I, World War II

• Book Review Friday – Daughters of Iraq

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Revital Shiri-Horowitz’s Daughters of Iraq gives a glimpse into a world that I’ve never explored or even considered. Once the veil parted, the visions held on the other side  bathed me in their golden halo of reminiscences. I know enough about the history of the Middle East, including both Iraq and…

  P. C. Zick

  September 13, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, book reviews, Iraq, Israel, Jewish, Jews, Middle East, wars

• Book Review Friday – The Luck of the Weissensteiners (Book 1 of The Three Nations Trilogy)

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick I interviewed Christoph Fischer in June on Author Wednesday. Today I review his novel The Luck of the Weissensteiners.   History of the twentieth century was one of my major areas of study in college. However, the history I studied presented an ethnocentric view of World War II. Of course, I…

  P. C. Zick

  August 30, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  book reviews, characters, Eastern Europe, Gentiles, Germany, historical fiction, Italy, Japan, Jews, twentieth century history, United States, war, World War II

• Book Review Friday – Eternal on the Water

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick I loved Eternal on the Water by Joseph Monninger. It may not be for everyone, unless you love nature, wildlife, Thoreau, travel, and love. The title first caught my attention as the book lay on the bargain table at the local bookstore. You never know what gems lie in wait in…

  P. C. Zick

  August 9, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  bears, crows, death, environment, Huntington’s Disease, Maine, myths, New England, wildlife

• Book Review Friday – The Age of Shiva

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick The Age of Shiva by Manil Suri sat on my bookshelves for five years. I bought it at Powell’s Bookstore in Portland, Oregon, in 2008. I shipped it back to my home in Florida along with ten other books I couldn’t resist in this warehouse of a bookstore. I still have…

  P. C. Zick

  June 29, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  book reviews, characters, fiction, Hindu, India, Indira Ghandhi, mother and son, Muslim, Nehru, novel, secularism

• Book Review Friday – Suffer the Little Children

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Don’t let the title Suffer the Little Children steer you away from this novel by Christina Carson. A friend of mine saw on Goodreads that I was reading this book. She usually likes the same type of fiction I do, but she was a bit frightened about the title. I assured…

  P. C. Zick

  June 14, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  Alberta, authors, book reviews, Canada, characters, environment, fiction, grizzly bear, natural world, nature, novel, writers

• Book Review Friday – After Ten

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick After Ten by Michele Shriver Synopsis: Four women, once best friends, have not spoken to each other in ten years. A drunken, decade old promise and a class reunion will bring them together again. For Jordan, her lofty dreams now a distant memory and her life at a crossroads, a reunion…

  P. C. Zick

  May 24, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer, Uncategorized

  amazon.com, authors, book reviews, characters, e-book, Kindle, women’s fiction, writers

• Book Review Friday – The Great Gatsby

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick I am a lover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. So I was fascinated by director Baz Luhrmann’s attempt to recreate one of my favorite novels on the screen. Not only did the director need a movie so much larger than life, he also needed to outshine the earlier…

  P. C. Zick

  May 17, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  1920s, Daisy Buchanan, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, Leonard diCaprio, Paris, Robert Redfor, The Great Gatsby, Zelda

• Book Review Friday – Awareness Gentoku McCree

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Gentoku McCree lives a gentle life, and he shares the success of his life with others through his thoughtful books. Awareness, one of those books, offers a primer on how to become thoroughly aware and comfortable in mind, body, and environment.“Awareness is a foundational skill in mindfulness practice.” Gentoku opens Awareness…

  P. C. Zick

  May 10, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  awareness, book reviews