Because I have been dealing with depression for a couple of decades, I wanted to read The Silent Roses by author C. Handy because it was listed as a poetry collection involving the topic of depression, inspired in part by his life. Inside I found...

The Thesoddy by JD Peterson is a crazy version of Homer's Odyssey set on a distant planet with a lot of crazily named people and creatures. It starts with an introduction to this world and the writer who is being 'translated' in the story to...

The Museum: A Collection of Dark Poetry by Kristen Flood offers a series of spectacularly dark vignettes drawn from several sinister, dystopian museums where humans, deprived of place or purpose, are on display in the form of macabre experiments. In glass-walled cells, they try to...

The Unattainable Shakes Loose My Tongue: Poems by James F. Vickery, Volume Three is an interesting collection of poems that vary in style and tempo. It is a large collection that pays homage to a lot of different things in this man's life, from his...

The Silent Compass by Serene Martin is a collection of poetry that will make you reflect on your life. In a piece titled "Spilled Milk," Martin pens the lines, "Cause time wasted will soon be karma tasted, Which battles are worth fighting? Which words are...

The Girl with The Blue Umbrella is Heather Awad’s debut collection of observational and thoughtful poems. A very readable collection that covers a whole variety of themes around everyday life, and what it is to live and be human. Relationships, the passing of time, memories,...

The Trees Outside: Family Tree, the Novel is a collection of poetry with an essay and an excerpt from author Andrea Carr’s debut novel, Family Tree, the Novel. The author explains in her introduction that The Trees Outside is not a sequel to Family Tree,...

To Fly Again: Portrait of a Bipolar Life is a non-fiction memoir written by Rachelle Hasnas, LCSW. Her oldest child, Joshua, died of an accidental drug overdose when he was 38 years old. He had struggled with Bipolar Disorder since his teens, although his condition...

The Last White Ruby: The Vanishing Polar Circles is a collection of poetry written by Ronnie J. Smith. Smith is a professional aviator whose flights took him over both poles, and he was also the in-theater Commander of Operation Deep Freeze which enabled him to...

Most of the poetry in The Stones of Mithras has a free verse feel with no real rhyming. But that does not mean the poems are not enjoyable. Author Tim Dalgleish brings up the topics that you might discuss over a cup of coffee while...