Read on the WondrousBooks blog.Long story short: I got this book from NetGalley and I was unbelievably excited about it. In the end, it took me entirely too many weeks to finish it and now I have to send it to the "mediocre at best" shelf.Now let me elaborate.The story of The Eight seemed very co...
The Magic Circle by Katherine NevilleThe author of the book "Eight" uses a similar formula: two tales separated by time, but intertwined in mystery, as the means to tell a story.The first tale deals with the last days of Jesus Christ from A. D. 32 to A. D. 61. As the world stands on the brink o...
Catherine Velis, una alta ejecutiva experta en ordenadores, se ve atrapada sin quererlo en la búsqueda de un legendario ajedrez que perteneció al emperador Carlomagno. El campeón soviético de este deporte, de gira por Nueva York, le advierte que corre un grave riesgo si se empeña en encontrar las...
B. Yeats, ‘The Song of the Wandering Aengus’ Yeats’s Aengus…had the fire in his head that shamans everywhere believe is their source of enlightenment, illuminating visions of other realities. The shamanic journey begins and ends in the mind… – Tom Cowan, Fire in the Head Koryakskoe Rayirin Ya...