As Wings Unfurl By Arthur M. Doweyko Genre: Science Fiction Applegate Bogdanski returns from Vietnam with a missing leg, a Purple Heart, and an addiction to morphine. He stumbles through each day, looking forward to nothing and hoping it will arrive soon. When he attempts…
Arthur Dowekyo’s As Wings Unfurl is a dystopian novel set primarily in New York City, though parts of the story take place in Tibet, and South Vietnam. It is a world that features unusual characters and action. Remember that when you read the prologue; pay…
For this month, I am sharing sources of books and online for writers in the areas of finding the right word, fact finding resources, and writing in general. Some are websites I have found. Others are documents. If they are documents, they are in pdf format. Click on…
If you have been through surgery or a colonoscopy where general anesthesia is given, you will understand what it is like to see a commercial for water, cola or other hydration, or open the refrigerator, and want something to drink. Your mouth goes dry and…
If you want a short book on the three or four theories of the end times from the Christian perspective, then check out Jason E. Royle’s The Rapture: Misunderstood. It is 92 pages long and a quick read. Like the minister he is, the author…
I had read Connelly’s The Book of Lost Things and so was prepared for the unusual, the strange, and just plain creepy when I agreed to review A Time of Torment. John Connelly’s A Time of Torment (Charlie Parker #14) reminds me of the movie…
For this month, I am sharing sources of books and online for writers in the areas of finding the right word, fact finding resources, and writing in general. They are in pdf format. Click on the link to open the document. Fact Finding Resources General…
The Queen’s Daughter is the first book that I have read about Joan, the daughter of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of the Aquitaine. It is the world where England, France and Toulouse battle each other for lands that are taken and retaken from…
Pope Benedict XVI: Protector of Faith or Opponent of Progress is a brief (154 pages) biographical sketch of Pope Benedict XVI (born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger). Known as Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and who still wears the white robe, Ratzinger is a theologian who…
If you like Marko Kloos’ military dystopian series, you will like Ken Brosky’s The Proving. The specters which resemble dinosaurs, both the flying and the earth-bound kind, haunt the survivors of the Earth. The specters seek out and destroy the survivors who have fought a…
