Review From Here: October 2018

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Book Blast: Helping Hands by Ken Saik

Title: Helping Hands

Author: Ken Saik

Publisher: iUniverse

Genre: Fiction/Romance

Format: Ebook

Jill Kreshky is recently divorced. She is doing her best to reclaim her life. After an accident causes her to spend six weeks alone in a hospital, she is haunted by the awareness that she must find a way to once again become part of her children’s lives. Unfortunately, Jill doesn’t have a car, her job is temporarily on hold, her bank account is empty. There is no question that Jill needs encouragement from someone she can trust. After she learns that a church friend, Bill Wynchuk, has been more loyal to her than she ever realized, Jill decides to invite him for supper. As he relies on his faith and skills as a psychologist to lovingly lead Jill to appreciate her inner strength and need for the Lord, she gains insights that propel her down a path of reconciliation that helps her mend relations with her son and return to Ontario to face her greatest fears about her family and unveil a deeply buried secret. In this inspirational story, a woman attempting to reclaim her life is led on an emotional journey, with help from a devoted friend, that ultimately reveals the truth and prompts her to seek forgiveness.

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Ken Saik is a committed Christian who retired after thirty-one years of teaching social studies to pursue writing fiction and poetry. To date, he has published three novellas and a novel, Baggage Burdens. Saik currently resides in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada.

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Monday, October 22

Lover of Literature

The Book Czar

Tuesday, October 23

The Book Refuge

Review From Here

Wednesday, October 24

A Title Wave

C’est La T

Thursday, October 25

A Book Lover

Voodoo Princess

Friday, October 26

The Literary Nook

Write and Take Flight

Monday, October 29

My Bookish Pleasures

Harmonious Publicity

Tuesday, October 30

Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic

From Paperback to Leatherbound

Wednesday, October 31

She Writes

Inkslinger’s Opus

Thursday, November 1

The Dark Phantom

Fiction to Fruition

Friday, November 2

The Hype and the Hoopla

The Revolving Bookshelf

Monday, October 22, 2018

Book Blast: Sara Hatun by Ayah Hamad

Title: Sara Hatun

Author: Ayah Hamad

Publisher: AuthorHouse UK

Genre: Young Adult

Format: Ebook

Sara Hatun comes from the Kayi Tribe and is the daughter of its Master Suleyman Shah. But what will save her from being caught by the temple guards, from being locked up in Aleppo’s king’s palace, or from losing one of the closest people to her heart? There is only one solution!

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Ayah Hamad is a 13 year old (May 29, 2004) girl born in Sharjah, UAE. She spent her childhood in America before moving back to the UAE in 2013. Ayah enjoys Horse riding, editing videos, reading and writing. Sara Hatun is her first story and she is looking towards being an active writer in the future.

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Monday,October 22
She Writes
Review From Here

Tuesday, October 23
Literal Exposure
The Writer's Life

Wednesday, October 24
As the Pages Turn
A Title Wave

Thursday, October 25
I'm Shelf-ish
The Dark Phantom

Friday, October 26
The Zen Reader
Inkslinger's Opus

Monday, October 29
All Inclusive Retort
A Taste of My Mind

Tuesday, October 30
Bent Over Bookwords
Lover of Literature

Wednesday, October 31
The Book Czar
The Book Refuge

Thursday, November 1
The Revolving Bookshelf
Voodoo Princess

Friday, November 2
From Paperback to Leatherbound
Harmonious Publicity

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Interview with Aleksandr V. Bezgodov, author of Planetary Project

Title: Planetary Project

Author: Alexsandr V. Bezgodov

Publisher: XLibrisUK

Genre: Political Science

Format: Ebook

This monograph discusses current global economic and social issues. It describes the essence of the Planetary Project, based on the critique of the Concept of Sustainable Development. A model is proposed for solving global problems through global human unification aimed at saving the planet Earth from future cataclysms and catastrophe for present and future generations. The Planetary Project is in essence a paradigm of the world’s harmonious development. It is based on an integrated economy and rent incomes from planetary and intellectual resources held in planetary ownership. The Planetary Project provides solutions to globalisation problems caused by unrestrained economic growth and one-sided development of some national economies. The Planetary Project proposes a just system of world income distribution including rent revenues from planetary resources. This distribution system will work in the interests of all countries, including Asian and African countries, some of which experience serious socio-economic problems. New planetary economic resources and mechanisms will be able to: save the Earth’s biosphere; improve its ecology; and free humanity from hunger, epidemic diseases, and the threat of a Third World War. They will help people unite in the name of universal values of life, the harmony between civilisation and nature, and the welfare of present and future generations. Developing Planetary Project ideas could lead to creating a serious research tradition and a wide life-affirming and peace-loving social movement.

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Question1- What is your favorite quality about yourself?

Question2- What is your least favorite quality about yourself?

Answer for questions 1 and 2:

Most of all - the ability to catch up with the topic, get carried away by the project, see the results (even when they are not yet there), as well as discipline and diligence. The main thing is to feel organically and comfortably in the mode of reading-thinking-writing. The least is "sticking" on some separate sources of information, an unconquered habit of being distracted by something extraneous.

Question3- When did you first know you could be a writer?

Probably when our scientific and popular scientific works were published, when they had an opportunity to share their ideas with a lot of people in different countries and get interested responses to their works.

Question4- Who or what influenced your writing over the years?

Communication with colleagues, scientists from different countries. Creative and intellectual insights, coming in the mode of generation and thought-out of ideas, speech and writing, conversations with each other amongco-authors. And just coming literally from space. Everyone for himself determines the nature of his insights and sources of energy recharge.

Life in the mode of reading, writing, self-education. But the experience is not only office, but also practical, live. Acquired in travels across vast Russia and foreign countries, in acquaintance with other cultures, in dialogues with different people.

Question5- How did you come up with the title of the book?

Specifically, we did not have to invent it. Simply, we simultaneously put in the title the main idea of the book, the essence of its design and the movement towards its disclosure. The initial working hypothesis of our research consisted in the assumption that in the philosophical legacy of the Russian cosmists we will be able to find the beginnings of planetary ethics. Not just ideas, sprouts, namely, the beginning in the meaning of the sources-primary. The notion of "beginning" (Στοιχεῖα, Elementa, Origins) in this sense is a textbook in classical works on philosophy, physics, and mathematics. For example, the "Elements" of Euclid, "The Beginning of Philosophy" by Rene Descartes, Edmond Husserl's "The Beginning of Geometry." This classic term indicates a directed work to find and describe the load-bearing structures of thought - in our case - ethical thoughts.

Question6- What was the hardest part of writing your book?

It was not easy to write a chapter on the philosophy of the common cause of N.F. Fedorov. His eponymous book is a bibliographic rarity. Despite the fact that there is its modern edition, its circulation is very small, even scarce. And on the Internet to find the book did not happen right away. The texts of Fedorov are very resistant to modern perception, not all of his ideas coincide with our position. Sometimes I had to restrain myself from categorical objections and harsh comments. But the more interesting was the dialogue with this very special thinker, whose adherents of the main idea of the need to defeat death, we certainly are.

The author of this research monograph is Dr Aleksandr V. Bezgodov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, who holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and a Doctorate in Economics. Born in Northern Russia in 1960, Aleksandr Bezgodov worked for companies specialising in innovation and high technology, as well as for organisations engaged in developing parliamentary democracy and civil society. Over the last 10 years, he has been involved in interdisciplinary research in macroeconomics and social issues at the world level using a systemic approach. He is not only a theoretician but also a practical researcher and research administrator. He is involved in both developing and implementing research-based technologies. Aleksandr Bezgodov is the author of over fifty scholarly publications proposing new original economic and sociological solutions to business administration. He is the founder and General Director of the Institute of Planetary Development in Dubai, UAE. In line with its logo “Serving humanity”, the Institute develops and disseminates the ideas spelt out in the monograph “Planetary Project: From Sustainable Development to Managed Harmony”. The Institute’s research activity is intended to provide solutions to the world’s pressing economic, social, environmental, political-legal, and cultural problems.

Monday, September 24

Interviewed at A Book Lover

Tuesday, September 25

Guest blogging at Inslinger's Opus

Wednesday, September 26

Interviewed at A Title Wave

Thursday, September 27

Guest blogging at The Literary Nook

Monday, October 1

Interviewed at Literal Exposure

Tuesday, October 2

Guest blogging at As the Pages Turn

Wednesday, October 3

Guest blogging at All Inclusive Retort

Friday, October 5

Book reviewed at I'm Shelf-ish

Tuesday, October 9

Interviewed at Review From Here

Wednesday, October 10

Guest blogging at A Taste of My Mind

Monday, October 15

Book reviewed at The Dark Phantom

Tuesday, October 16

Interviewed at She Writes

Wednesday, October 17

Guest blogging at Bent Over Bookwords

Thursday, October 18

Interviewed at The Writer's Life

Friday, October 19

Book reviewed at Voodoo Princess

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Book Review: Malayan Enigma by Nicholas Snow

Title: Malayan Enigma: An Andrew Bond WWII Adventure

Author: Nicholas Snow

Publisher: AuthorHouse UK

Genre: Military/History

Format: Ebook

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Malaya, 1941 – a fool’s haven from the devastating war raging elsewhere in the world Sent to Singapore towards the end of 1941 to evaluate the intentions of the Japanese Empire, Lieutenant Andrew Bond finds himself embroiled in a series of events accelerating towards all-out war in the region. The city, a heady, exotic blend of cultures teeming with intrigue, is oblivious to what lies ahead. Facing betrayal, incompetence, Japanese spies, and the Yakuza underworld, Bond manages to gather a band of trustworthy companions, including the striking beauty Liu-Yang. In a desperate race against time, he must force his way through enemy-infested jungles and seas to bring home a device that will help change the course of the war – the Malayan Enigma!

BOOK REVIEW:

What an enjoyable read! I loved the way the author literally dropped you in the past, and in a different country as well. I felt like I was in the book as I was reading and couldn't seem to read fast enough to find out what was going to happen next. An excellent book!

Nicholas Snow is the pen name of Nicholas C. Kyriazis, who holds a diploma and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Bonn, Germany. He has acted as visiting professor at Harvard and at the University of Trier. He has worked as a consultant to the Directorate General of Research of the European Parliament, to the National Bank of Greece, and to the Ministries of National Economy and of Defence, and has served as secretary general of Public Administration. Professor of economics at the University of Thessaly, he is a member of the board of Alpha Trust Investment Fund (listed on the Athens Stock Exchange), vice president of Ergoman Telecommunications, and vice president of the Kostas Kyriazis Foundation. He has contributed more than sixty papers to academic journals and has published eight books on economics, history, and strategy as well as a volume of poetry. Poems of his have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Maltese. As a novelist, he has published eighteen books in Greece, several of which have been translated and published in English, including Themistocles (Kosbil Publications, 2004), The Shield (AuthorHouse, 2005), Assassins (AuthorHouse, 2007), and, in collaboration with Guy Féaux de la Croix, Last Love (Plato’s Last Love) (AuthorHouse, 2014).

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Book Blast: Dying for a Drink by Amelia Baker - Win a $25 Gift Card

Title: Dying for a Drink

Author: Amelia Baker

Publisher: AuthorHouse UK

Genre: Biography

Format: Ebook

Dying for a Drink is a true story of the chaos and hurt caused by an alcoholic. The author, telling her own story, writes of time spent in multiple rehabs, both in the United Kingdom and Sydney, Australia. She writes in the hope that her story will encourage other alcoholics and addicts (which can be anybody addicted to anything)—that they will see in their own stories the similarities rather than the differences. The memoir depicts her rapid decline after she crossed the ‘invisible line’ and shows how her loved ones were devastated by her behaviour—and how they lived in fear that this disease would lead to her death. It chronicles, too, her sense of freedom and surrender and hope amid the sobriety from which she is sharing her journey and the beginnings of relationships repaired, with both loved ones and self.

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The author is a fifty-two-year-old woman suffering from a chronic, progressive, and often fatal disease. She’s battled alcoholism for twelve years and has been medically detoxed eleven times, eight in rehabs and three in hospital. Six of these detoxes happened since moving from Australia to a small village in South Wales, United Kingdom. Alcoholism has torn her family apart, and she was finally brought to her knees at the end of the year before she undertook the writing of this memoir—after leaving her third 28-day rehab in England. She had to surrender and is now free of alcohol and drugs. She’s been married twice. Her first husband was her soul mate. Together, they have two beautiful children—a son, twenty-three at the time of this writing, and a daughter, twenty. She lived in Australia for over twenty years and was a stay-at-home mum. Devastated by the breakdown of her first marriage, and on the rebound, she married a man she’d met in AA. This second marriage went horribly wrong. He picked up drink and drugs shortly after they were married and he abused her to the point of an AVO (apprehended violence order) being put in place following his arrest. She moved back to the United Kingdom twenty months before starting her memoir, as both her kids were studying in Edinburgh. She decided to write Dying for a Drink in the hope it would give other alcoholics and addicts hope. She wishes to remain anonymous, as she has bared her soul and shared in these pages all the ‘horrors’ of her drinking.

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By entering the giveaway, you are confirming you are at least 18 years old.
One winner will be chosen via Rafflecopter to receive one $25 Gift Certificate to the e-retailer of your choice
This giveaway begins September 24 and ends on October 5.
Winners will be contacted via email on October 6.
Winner has 48 hours to reply.

Good luck everyone!