by Cassandra Spellman | Jun 8, 2023 | Book Reviews, Fiction
You wake up in a room you don’t recognize. You shiver inside a coat you’ve never seen before. You touch your face, which you know is yours but you can’t identify it. You look out the window at a city, and you have no idea how you got here. You have taken a wrong turn...
by Cassandra Spellman | May 5, 2023 | Book Reviews, Death
But everything was not the way it should be. There was such a thing as too much power. And there would be a terrible price to pay if people found out he had it. If you could bring someone who died back to life … would you? My brother died in 2019. I miss the way he...
by Cassandra Spellman | Feb 5, 2023 | Book Reviews
The assault was not going to stop at matters of discipline; it was dogma that was aimed at, and, worse even than that, the foundation on which dogma rested. It was not an affair of Religious Houses, or even of morality; there was concerned the very Rock itself on...
by Chris Spellman | Oct 27, 2022 | Book Reviews, Family
After that he began to dream of the long yellow beach and he saw the first of the lions … and he waited to see if there would be more lions and he was happy. What do lions have to do with a book about fishing off the coast of Cuba? According to Ernest Hemingway’s The...
by Cassandra Spellman | Jun 6, 2022 | Book Reviews
In White as Silence, Red as Song by Alessandro D’Avenia, Leo sees his world in color. Every emotion is a color in the mind of this sixteen year old boy. Red is passion and life. Red is the color of Beatrice’s hair, the girl in his grade with whom he’s desperately in...
by Cassandra Spellman | Apr 14, 2022 | Book Reviews
You are instruments to do your duty. There are necessary orders that are no fault of yours and there is a bridge and that bridge can be the point on which the future of the human race can turn. If you only had three days to live, how would you live them? For any...
