This book is about one of those children that parents dread having. She came into the world under stressed circumstances and spent the rest of her life living up to that potential. It is frank and unassuming autobiography, from an author who is still working through the events of her own life, allowing us the…
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“Pacific Dash: From Asia Vagabond to Casino King ” by Chet Nairene
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This story is presented as Adventure Travel. It lives up to the billing, but there is an overtone of Fantasy that mirrors how a certain level of the population lives. A world of riches and influence, where everything comes easy, and the troubles of ordinary people don’t intrude. On the positive side, this gives the…
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“The Reilly Thanksgiving Invitational Story” by Brent Parrott and Bryan Renfro
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I am doing something I rarely do: I am reviewing a work I did not read all the way through. However, I think the book deserves comment, so here goes. If anyone should be attracted to this book it’s an ageing middleclass white male weekend warrior finding it difficult to keep up any more in…
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“Lost in a Quatrain” by Adiela Akoo
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This is an anthology of poems, many of them autobiographical in nature, detailing the poet’s inner life, her faith and her reaction to her environment. In total, it is a wonderful mosaic of a thoughtful and feeling life. Individually, the separate poems are of uneven quality. Some of the most successful of these works are…