Fiction Vixen Book Reviews: Avoiding reality, one page at a time. As described on the F.V. Website - Sophia founded Fiction Vixen Book Reviews in 2009 as a way to connect with other romance readers. In 2010 she invited a couple of friends to blog with her and share…
Micheal Moore, Author, Oscar-winning film maker and criticized by some on the right-wing to be the ‘most hated man in America’ (which I thought was the President's job) has written his Memoir: “Here comes Trouble!” This “Diary of a wimpy kid” from Michigan is being called, by critics, a…
By: Kathy Henry It might sound clichéd, but even in the new millennium, it is hard being a woman, particularly a woman of color. We are attacked for our mothering skills, our lifestyle choices, and whatever we accomplish is never good enough. Women throughout the centuries have been confined…
By: Hillary Gerbil After watching Legend of the Seeker, the television series canceled after two seasons that was based on the Sword of Truth book series, I was compelled to actually go and find out what the books were about. I mean, everyone kept saying the books were so…
By: Jeremy Mydril Historically, Edwin Abbott is perhaps best known as one the premiere 19th-century theologians of his time, writing multiple novels and texts about religion and grammar (exclusively). But he did also venture into fiction, if only briefly—actually only once—with Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, which is…
By: Daniel Welsh So what was so radical about the American Revolution? Well, Gordon Wood, professor of history emeritus at Brown University, proposes that the radicalism that sustained and bred society as we know it wasn't quite that radical. In fact, most of us today would probably scoff at…
By: Ryan Nathan I met Mary Kay Andrews once. She said that she wrote "commercial, pop fiction just to make money." We've all seen it. Those books you find while waiting in line at the grocery store, at airports, news stands, wherever—it's all pretty invasive. Commercial fiction. The all…
By: Fred Buntril Viktor Frankl is, among other things, both a psychiatrist and a Holocaust survivor. While reading his book Man's Search For Meaning, those are the two most important biographic pieces throughout the book. What he does that's perhaps different and unique compared to many other theorists and…
By: Jack Lionell Everyone should read at least one story by Murakami in his/her life. Trust me, you will appreciate your life so much better. Kafka on the Shore, while departing from many of Murakami's usual images and themes, is just one in several that I'd recommend. With a…
By: Geoffrey Yonil If you wanna know how nationalism and socialism can be fused into one political system, then read Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Published in 1961 as a rallying call for Algerian liberation from French (and Western) colonization, the book still has prevalence within contemporary…