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The Bi Line: Serving Pride Book Highlight from @kleffnotes

Katherine Kleffner

Serving Pride is a book designed to help you grow your knowledge of queer history in the United States while sharing with your own community. Geeks Out has put together a collection of historical elements with party planning to create a Queer History Dinner Party Guide. No matter what month come together with your friends and family and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. Continue reading “The Bi Line: Serving Pride Book Highlight from @kleffnotes”

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Fate: No Strings Attached Book Review from @kleffnotes

Katherine Kleffner

Fate: No Strings Attached is set in Erik Schubach’s New Sentinels universe and focuses on a mysterious woman who is found unconscious in an impact crater in the Cascade Mountains. With no idea who she is or how she has found herself in this situation, Sloan Tesha tries to begin a new life and try to piece together who she really is. Just having amnesia isn’t what sets her apart though, no Sloan has some very odd tattoos that connect her to something far greater than herself. Continue reading “Fate: No Strings Attached Book Review from @kleffnotes”

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Raven Maid: Out of the Darkness Book Review from @kleffnotes

Katherine Kleffner

The New Sentinels series provides a variety of stories all set in the same magical version of our world. In Raven Maid: Out of the Darkness we meet Adelaide Oliver who was raised in the bayou of New Orleans, but has fled to Seattle for fear that she is hallucinating strange things. What she doesn’t understand is that she is special, a Raven Maid. These secret beings appear in Voodoo or Vodoun and the things she sees are anything, but imaginary. Continue reading “Raven Maid: Out of the Darkness Book Review from @kleffnotes”

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Djinn: Cursed Book Review from @kleffnotes

Katherine Kleffner

Erik Schubach may have completed his Urban Fairytales series, but his New Sentinels series delves into the worlds of the supernatural in a way that feels reminiscent of his previous series. In the first book, Djinn: Cursed he introduces us to Angelina Drake who finds her twenty-first birthday taking a surprising turn when she learns that a curse plagues her family and that she is the latest victim. If you are missing the women of lore from Schubach’s previous series or looking for a new series to delve into this book is a great introduction to a new world. Continue reading “Djinn: Cursed Book Review from @kleffnotes”

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Call Me God: The Untold Story of the DC Sniper @audible_com Review from @kleffnotes

Katherine Kleffner

Call Me God: The Untold Story of the DC Sniper Investigation is a new true crime feature that has joined the growing collection of productions of this genre in the Audible library. Released earlier this month, this production focuses on the untold elements of the DC Sniper investigation. With an overarching narrated element to guide the story, this work presents a variety of people who were connected to the case. These first hand stories are told by people who were either impacted by a death that occurred within the span of the 2002 crimes or who were in some way part of the investigation. Whether you are typically a true crime reader or listener or not this is something that will teach you something and will open up the world of how complex crimes can be both for those who are victims and for those trying to solve them. Continue reading “Call Me God: The Untold Story of the DC Sniper @audible_com Review from @kleffnotes”

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The Goldblum Variations Book Review from @kleffnotes

Katherine Kleffner

This seems to be the era of Jeff Goldblum and in celebration of the monumental man Helen McClory presents The Goldblum Variations: Adventures of Jeff Goldblum Across the Known (and Unknown) Universe. This small, but mighty book, is a collection of remarkably crafted stories, puzzles, and games that elevate Goldblum memes to literary status. After being the subject of a 25-foot-tall sculpture in London, releasing a critically acclaimed jazz album, and joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe this seems like the perfect point for embracing the Goldblum golden age. Continue reading “The Goldblum Variations Book Review from @kleffnotes”

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Firewall Book Review from @kleffnotes

Katherine Kleffner

Emma Streat returns in the third book in the Emma Streat Mystery series, Firewall. Former opera singer turned full-time wife and mother found a talent for making unlikely connections after the death of her CEO husband and in this new book she uses those skills again to help her rich, socialite godmother cope with a possible blackmailer. Firewall shows Emma and her two sons working to move forward and making a new life for themselves as she delves into a new realm of investigation, cybercrime. Continue reading “Firewall Book Review from @kleffnotes”

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Becoming Starlight Book Review from @kleffnotes

Katherine Kleffner

Becoming Starlight is a memoir from Dr. Sharon Prentice that examines the process of grief and its relationship to the afterlife. This book is designed in many ways to bring comfort to those who are coping with the sorrow of losing a loved one. As a psychotherapist and spiritual counselor Dr. Prentice focuses on helping patients process grief and gives a larger audience that opportunity through her book. Continue reading “Becoming Starlight Book Review from @kleffnotes”

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Flying Alone: A Memoir Book Review from @kleffnotes

Katherine Kleffner

Beth Ruggiero York has always known that she wanted to fly ever since she was a teenager. She had a solo cross country trip planned to her family confirmed that aspiration to become a pilot, but when she received a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis at 22 she felt that she could be forced to stay on the ground. In Flying Alone: A Memoir she discusses her life and her journey to fight against her diagnosis and still achieve her dreams. Continue reading “Flying Alone: A Memoir Book Review from @kleffnotes”