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Dreams and Destiny in “You Were There Too”

What do dreams mean? What if we share a dream — does that mean something more? Colleen Oakley’s latest novel delves into the world of dreams with artful curiosity and exquisite precision. Many stories center around the topic of dreaming and psychic phenomenon. Incredibly, this book’s premise of strangers dreaming…
Y. M. Nelson
January 7, 2020
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Tall Poppy Review: Shedding Weight and Tears

People argue over who said "Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle," whether it was Plato or Philo or John Watson or whoever. But Cathy Lamb's touching Such a Pretty Face (Kensington) is the novel that philosophy perfectly embodies. It invites us to think about how what we…
Hank Phillippi Ryan
April 18, 2019
Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Loyalties Shift in “Garden of Lies”

In 1943, as the prologue of Garden of Lies (Open Road Media) opens, a young woman named Sylvie succumbs to her first stirrings of true passion—with the handyman, Nikos, instead of her rich, older husband. She soon discovers she’s pregnant. Sylvie prays that the baby is her husband’s, but when the…
Kathryn Craft
December 13, 2018