I just finished Stephen King’s 11/22/63 last night. All I can say is wow. This is my new favorite book of his, my previous one was It. This isn’t a horror novel, but is a great “what if?” sci-fi thriller/drama with a healthy love story. The epic tale (just shy of 850 pages) follows school…
Category: The Book Shelf
What Did I Watch This Week? Vol.3
Welcome back! Sue and I decided to take a week off of podcasting this week, because, honestly, there wasn’t a lot to talk about, we figured you’d already seen our Muppets review, and if we talked about it we’d end up unintentionally spoiling moments of the film, that are best left unspoilt. And for those…
Guardian Cats & The Lost Books of Alexandria Author Interview
Adopt An Indie month continues, and I had the opportunity to submit some questions to the author of the book I adopted, The Guardian Cats & The Lost Books of Alexandria. The author Rahma Krambo was kind enough to take the time to answer them, have a look… The Mind Reels: What brought you to…
Adopt An Indie Book Review – Guardian Cats & The Lost Books of Alexandria
November is Adopt An Indie month! An event created by Donna Brown to highlight independent authors who self-publish their works. A great idea, that seems to have taken right off, so much so that there may very well be a second one coming in February. I browsed through the hundred plus authors and their submitted…
Adopt An Indie
Welcome to November! Donna Brown, and her collection of authors who’ve signed up are hoping to make it a GREAT November by bringing us Adopt-An-Indie. In short it’s a brilliant effort to bring together independent authors and reviewers, bloggers, and the world in general, in a move to do away with the stigmata one associates…
An Evening with CSM
William B. Davis. Cigarette Smoking Man. Canadian Actor and Legend was in town last night to promote his memoir… Where There’s Smoke… Held in an intmiate setting at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom on Queen Street West and part of the “This Is Not Reading Series” the event was moderated by CTV film critic Richard Crouse….
The Hunger Games – Defending The Districts
The Hunger Games. Wow. It’s easy to dismiss a teen fiction book as just that, teen fiction, but more and more it appears that there are great stories being told in this arena. And for us here at The Mind Reels, The Hunger Games is one of those. We’re very passionate about it, and of…
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