Category: Book Review Friday

• Book Review Friday – Vapor Trails

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick The subject of Vapor Trails by R.P. Siegel and Roger Saillant intrigued me from the start. I’ve been looking for other contemporary fiction novels with environmental themes, so when this one came across my twitter feed, I immediately researched it and then bought a copy. I wasn’t disappointed with the read,…

  P. C. Zick

  May 3, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, book reviews, characters, corporate greed, environment, fiction, nature, New Orleans, oil, sustainability

• Book Review Friday – Sailing Down the Moonbeam by Mary Gottschalk

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick On Author Wednesday, I interviewed Mary Gottschalk who wrote the memoir, Sailing Down the Moonbeam. Today I’m pleased to review the book that captures several years in the 1980s when Mary and her husband Tom embarked on an adventure to sail the world for five years. I thought it would be a…

  P. C. Zick

  April 26, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer, Route 66, Trails in the Sand

  book reviews, memoir, sailboat, sailing

• Book Review Friday – Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick For months the book sat in my “to read” pile. Then I pulled it out and placed it on the coffee table. It teased me as I savored the anticipation building to the moment I opened the cover and began reading the poetry of Barbara Kingsolver’s prose. Flight Behavior, Kingsolver’s latest…

  P. C. Zick

  April 19, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, book reviews, butterflies, characters, climate change, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, environment, extinction, fiction, monarchs, novel, Route 66

• Book Review Friday – Announcement

  Good morning – Today rather than writing a review, I’d like to offer a press release announcing the release of Aggravated Circumstances, a new women’s fiction/legal saga by author Michele Shriver. Michele is a fellow Indie Author and blogger. She’s hosted me twice on her blog: February 13 author interview and March 8 with a…

  P. C. Zick

  April 12, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  amazon.com, authors, blog, characters, child welfare, depression, drug addiction, editors, fiction, novel, writers

• Book Review Friday – Embattled by Darlene Jones

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Genre – Science fiction/fantasy Synopsis – With blood on her hands, strange words coming out of her mouth, and her face all over the media, Em knows that she stopped the jungle battle, stormed into the armed courtroom, and defeated the zealot soldiers. However, as she works for the aliens controlling…

  P. C. Zick

  April 5, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  amazon.com, authors, book reviews, characters, e-book, fiction, Mali, novel, point of view, reviews, science fiction, writers

• Jade Kerrion’s New Releases

  I’m taking a break from Book Review Friday this week to catch up on my own reading. Here’s something from one of my fellow Indie Authors. Please note at the end of the post, Jade offers 50 percent coupons for her books. This is a great way to start the weekend. See you next Friday.…

  P. C. Zick

  March 29, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  book reviews, characters, e-book, fiction, Jade Kerrion, novel, novels, writers

• Book Review Friday – Two Books by Lisa See

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick When I read Shanghai Girls by Lisa See, I didn’t put the book down for several days. The book follows the lives of two sisters, May and Pearl, portrayed as selfish, hedonistic young women 1937 in what some referred to as the “Paris of Asia” in Shanghai, China. When the family…

  P. C. Zick

  March 22, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  amazon.com, authors, characters, China, dictatorship, Dreams of Joy, fiction, Lisa See, novel, Peony in Love, point of view, Shanghai Girls, writers

• Book Review Friday – In the Time of the Butterflies

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Book Description from Amazon: It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth…

  P. C. Zick

  March 15, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, characters, dictatorship, Dominican Republic, fiction, history, Julia Alvarez, point of view, Selma Hayek, Trujillo

• Book Review Friday – Hidden Under Her Heart by Rachelle Ayala

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Hidden Under Her Heart by Rachelle Ayala takes the reader up and down the emotional scales in the lives of Maryanne and Lucas. From their first meeting, the ride begins when Lucas plays a ridiculously immature prank on Maryanne who’s on duty in her job as a nurse. Maryanne is equally…

  P. C. Zick

  March 8, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  amazon.com, authors, blog, characters, Christian fiction, e-book, fiction, Kindle, novel, pro-choice, pro-life