Book Review
Tools to Save Our Home Planet
by Ryan Prado
The difficult yet enriching world of environmental activism is dissected in the essays and how-tos in "Tools to Save Our Home Planet". Organized in the style of a guidebook, the book pulls together some of the most consequential voices...
Book Review
The Country Under Heaven
by Ryan Prado
Dizzying visions haunt the otherwise delicate beauty of Frederic S. Durbin’s supernatural novel "The Country Under Heaven". Since surviving the Battle of Antietam, Ovid experiences the intrusion of premonitory shimmers. As he migrates...
Book Review
An Unlikely Prospect
by Ryan Prado
Centering the dizzying misogyny of the postwar era, "An Unlikely Prospect" is a revealing historical novel. Postwar crimes lead a rookie publisher toward truth and justice in Shelley Blanton-Stroud’s novel "An Unlikely Prospect". At...
Book Review
Time for Awakening
by Ryan Prado
"Time for Awakening" is a contemplative memoir that sheds light on the personal and practical applications of Buddhist meditation. In "Time for Awakening", Buddhist meditation teacher Constance Casey outlines her long and winding road...
Book Review
Our Winter Monster
by Ryan Prado
A couple experiences the futility and horror of trying to outrun their problems in Dennis Mahoney’s horror novel "Our Winter Monster". Holly and Brian rumble toward a ski resort to salvage their scattered partnership. A blizzard is on...
Book Review
The Cannibal Owl
by Ryan Prado
The spirit of perseverance is given wings in Aaron Gwyn’s touching coming-of-age novella, "The Cannibal Owl". Levi was raised in the rough-and-tumble Arkansas territory in the first decades of the nineteenth century. His unexpected...
Book Review
Wolf Act
by Ryan Prado
The traumas and triumphs of a former Mormon’s coming-out story are given theatrical accouterments in AJ Romriell’s memoir "Wolf Act". Ensconced in the ruse of a screenplay, the memoir recounts Romriell’s arduous Mormon upbringing....
Book Review
The Epic of Chakramire
by Ryan Prado
Concentrated on deceptions, doublespeak, and rhetorical loop-de-loops, "The Epic of Chakramire" is an ambitious prose poem whose characters reveal their truths in thick, captivating verses. The evolutions of life on Earth, technology,...