by Karen Yvonne Hamilton, 2026 Forward we go into having more HOPE this year...Happy New Year! This year, I choose hope. While we are currently surrounded with chaos, pessimism and cynicism in our world, we have the choice to choose hope. I am always telling people who are feeling hopeless that bad times will always... Continue Reading →
Karen Yvonne Hamilton, 2025 This is not your typical post-apocalyptic novel. Yes, it is set at the ending of the world as we know it. There is the run on the banks, the looting at the stores, and the hoarding of peanut butter. But these things are all background, none become major scenes. The main character... Continue Reading →
by Karen Yvonne Hamilton, 2025 Author Thomas Wolfe's editor Maxwell Perkins asked the man who gave him Wolfe’s first novel, “Is it any good? The man answered, “No. It’s unique.” This makes me wonder: Who are the “unique” writers of this age we live in now? I love Steinbeck, Wolfe, Faulkner, Eliot because they were... Continue Reading →
by Karen Yvonne Hamilton, August 25, 2025 All synopses from Goodreads. My ratings are 1-5 although you generally won’t find a 2 or a 1 in my ratings because I don’t finish those books. I'm pretty picky about my reading, so if the book made this list, it was a worthwhile (if only entertaining) read.... Continue Reading →
Addiction is an annoying thing. I made the walk, coffee in hand, to the designated smoking area of my hotel in order to have my morning cigarette and write. If you haven’t guessed, the cigarette (not the coffee or writing or even walk) is my addiction. Well, okay, perhaps the coffee as well but you... Continue Reading →
Grief is a personal thing. We all do it in our own way. Mine is isolation.
by Karen Yvonne Hamilton, 2025 I fell in love with mosaic after reading the great poet, Walt Whitmans' book Specimen Days. Whitman says of his autobiography, “If I do it at all I must delay no longer. Incongruous and full of skips and jumps as is that huddle of diary-jottings…all bundled up and tied by... Continue Reading →
As picky about novels as I am, I am astonished to find that I did read TEN good books thus far this year! Since finishing graduate school, I tend to be a bit tired of writing reviews, but you'll find a few reviews that I wrote here. If you're looking for your next good read, I recommend these highly.
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