One woman’s decades-long journey to fulfill her dreams
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Sugar Free
Robin D’AmatoAtmosphere Press (2024)ISBN: 979-8891322370Reviewed by Stephanie Elizabeth Long for Reader Views (08/2024)
Six-year-old Ginny Eastman was enamored with basketball when her brother Asher showed her how to bounce. Despite being petite, the determined young girl knew she had to practice harder to be good at the sport. But her height was a minor obstacle compared to the…
I tried…really really tried to overcome my squeamishness but could not do so. I skimmed to about 25%, read the end, and opted to not finish because…this book is dark and deals with issues I am unwilling to read graphic depictions of – pedophilia, torture and murder of children, satanic cults, murders, and all of these in just the first part. The world is filled with too much darkness for me to want to read this type of story. Even the end was dark and gritty with a barely surviving person that may go on to show up in future books…and no matter what the sleuthing provided and perhaps some eventually saved…I won’t put my time into or fill my mind with more of what has already been lodged there. On the positive side, I guess, is that the writing is excellent and it is easy to visualize all that takes place though…I would really NOT have been able to “see” some of what was written and might have been able to read the story if references and not graphic scenes were provided.
Thank you to NetGalley and Atmosphere Press for the ARC – This is my honest review.
Rating is not easy…but…I would say a 2 for me and for someone who loves this type of writing they will give it a 5.
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BLURB
"All I can ever think about is murdering her." -C.B.
Twenty-three-year-old Evie Day never dreamt she’d be back in Woodsville Arkansas, a small town in the middle of nowhere, after having left five years earlier, but the death of her grandfather called for her return. After discovering a photo from 1933 of a mysterious woman standing next to a tiny wooden box, a strange vial of blood wrapped up in a handkerchief in the pocket of her grandfather’s overalls, and a key hidden in his desk drawer that belongs to a secret safety deposit box, Evie is unwittingly thrown into a world of evil where those closest to her are the ones to be the most feared and danger lurks around every corner.
Hidden in the Shadows by A.D. Vancise shines a light on the darkness and reveals the underlying players that have been hunting in plain sight.
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I discuss homeschool, grief to gratitude and her book Olive which is available now! Take a Listen!
I am an author, an urban farm wife, and the homeschooling mother of my four special needs kids. My book, “Olive”, released by Atmosphere Press, tells the story of the world through the eyes of a non-verbal, medically fragile five year old girl and while fiction, it is drawn from my very…
"Cracking of the Mask" by Alexander Green & Maria Petrova Green was published a month ago
“Cracking of the Mask” by Alexander Green & Maria Petrova Green was published a month ago
Good day everyone I’m Elena and thanks to be here on Alessandro III di Macedonia- Alexander the Great and Hellenism! A month ago a book was published that may interest you! I’ll explain everything below:
Cracking of the Mask
by Alexander Green & Maria Petrova Green
Atmosphere Press, 2022
Everything had been planned and executed to perfection. Where was the satisfaction, then? Why was…
this criticism is def out there from other ppl i just havent actuvely looked for it, but it baffles me how popular fallout and skyrim are because they’re absolutely unplayable to me. i WANT to like them, SO bad, and ive given them many chances - fallout 3, new vegas, 4, and skyrim, on various platforms too - and every time i bounce off it after giving it a solid effort. it’s not a matter of Gitting Gud cuz im confident in my ability to play other games, and i play a lot of them including other rpgs, but Bethesda just makes no sense to my brain. it feels so clunky and difficult to figure out and even when i get to a point where it makes more sense and i can make progress, it feels like a chore. it’s honestly just an incompatibility with the games and my preferences, but i WISH i could play them bc i want to understand the hype and the lore of fallout especially seems really interesting! i’ve spent a lot of time on the wiki for it, i just can’t play it without getting frustrated. maybe porting skyrim to the smartfridge will make it work for me finally?
A grieving sister’s quest for solace.
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A Sister Ago
Caitlin BuhrAtmosphere Press (2024)ISBN: 979-8891322325Reviewed by Stephanie Elizabeth Long for Reader Views (06/2024)
The pain of losing a loved one never truly heals. Still, Christine has been making strides toward a brighter future by focusing on her career as a caseworker in Seattle. That is, of course, until one phone call sends her spiraling back into grief. The stranger on…
Kaeya wasn’t one to really get angry as a kid, but the very few times when he genuinely did, it was extremely obvious to everyone, in the way he carried himself.
anyway anyway i’m going to try my best to keep the positive vibes going on this blog to the best of my ability, i think coming to the conclusion that i have now has put my mind in some relative peace. like i said i won’t really be. trying to bust my ass about what SHOULD be the conclusion Roche is brought to bc at the end of the day i’m just a writer on the interwebs and Roche isn’t my character, so Square is free to do with him as they wish to. I think I’ve just made peace with the fact that if he ends up being a nothing character I’ll move on instead of wasting energy on negativity, I honestly don’t want to go on another rant about how Square handled things again and I honestly don’t want to fix their bad writing and I know for a fact I will no longer enjoy writing Roche if the basis of all that is ‘fixing a character that had very interesting potential.’ fuck THAT.
i'm not saying "i saw this coming" in an "i told you so" way but more than i happened to remake my account earlier this year so i ended up getting the "new user" experience and it seems pretty clear they were using new users as guinea pigs for their non-chronological following dashboard. and it sucks. you have to switch your dashboard over to "following" every time you refresh and there's no way to change the default to following. they said they were working on adding a way to change your default dashboard but i was always pretty damn skeptical of that given they went to the effort to making things DIFFERENT for newer accounts like, that does not show good intentions that shows going after people who don't know that they could have a better experience. and now they're trying to push it onto older users too, which was clearly always the plan. maybe i should've made more of a fuss but... honestly.... I am not a blogging warrior i am a sleepy insect. i just want to use tumblr to talk to friends and look at cool art and the weird dashboard stuff on my new account definitely gets in the way of that. basically the main feature that still makes tumblr worthwhile is our desktop blogs and the ability to sort and search posts using tags through someone's archive. but they're probably going to want to take that away too.
You'd think that Jacintha Saldanha would be enough to shut the mouths of anyone going around claiming that there are no problems with the royal family and the media attention it attracts.
But nope, Jacintha Saldanha died almost ten years ago, dumb-ass royal watchers will pretend she never existed (unless they want to claim that Kate was the real victim in the incident), and people will never think about how her death was a direct consequence of the press harassment and exploitation that William and Catherine now directly benefit from.