In the Stacks with Kevin
Have your say!
Dear fellow book lovers,
Welcome to another edition of "In the Stacks," where I usually share a personal book review.
However, this week, I’m turning the tables and inviting you to take the helm. Instead of offering a review, I'm seeking your wisdom and insights. What books have captured your imagination? Which tales have lingered in your thoughts long after the final page was turned?
Your suggestions will not only enrich my reading list but may also be featured in future editions of our newsletter, guiding fellow readers to their next great escape. So please, share with me the books you would recommend in the comments below.
Warm regards,
Kevin R Coleman
Books to check out!
When a private investigator with dryad ancestry has to find her ex's killer, she might have to embrace her abilities.
Ngaire is desperate for a case to pay the bills. She needs to feed herself and her teenage daughter, not to mention paying the rent. But the case she gets turns out to be more challenging than she was prepared for when it turns out to be a murder investigation. As a part-dryad, she's able to use some non-standard investigative procedures. But partial metamorphosis isn't much fun, and it's not something she wants to advertise either. As the information she obtains leads her closer to the person who killed her ex, she finds herself obliged to moonlight as an arborist, a job she's really not cut out for. Can she find the murderer, or will it be too hard to separate the wood from the trees?
This prequel short story to "The Adventures of Bodacious Creed" reveals how Anna Lynn Boyd, young brothel madam and secret inventor, resurrected her pet cat, met her partner Jonny, and how Jonny became mute. There's science, adventure, heartbreak, and love in this tale that won an honorable mention in the Writers of the Future Contest.
It isn’t easy when you find yourself lost and alone in a strange place.
It’s even trickier when that place is a different world, and you have no idea how you got there.
Drome’s top priority isn’t to figure that out. It’s to avoid getting himself killed. But his talent for making enemies as he flees the villainous courtiers who took him hostage, really isn’t helping.
He’s in an unfamiliar city, in a bizarre hollow world, and he only has one friend. Well, that’s if he can call a snarky living skeleton with a penchant for stealing royal jewels a friend.
What with every palace guard and a crazed assassin after the pair, the odds are stacked against them.
Running out of time, luck, and options, it’s touch-and-go whether they’ll make it to Drome’s village and warn them of the horror coming their way.
And then there’s the wizard. If only Drome hadn’t angered him too…
So, is Drome in trouble?
Yup. He’s screwed.
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This is a book that was mandatory reading in high school. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. It's a world where books are banned. Government officials go door to door searching houses for contraband books.
I read this over 50 years ago, before it was banned because a religious group protested that one of the books burned, in the book, was the bible. So it was pulled from school shelves, libraries, book stores etc.
I noticed that the book is back out for sale, so I purchased a paperback for my granddaughter (it's mandatory reading in her literature class) and an ebook for myself.
I think that I am such an avid reader (since 8 years old) that it stuck with me because I could never imagine a world without books.
I "literally" stumbled upon *The Odyssey of Homer* in College in the 80s and now own a shelf of translations and adaptations ( including Nikos Kastansokis' interesting version) AND have it hanging on my wall as a litograph.
I read incessantly from kids' books to poetry to Romantasy to history. Have fun