Svetlana's Reads and Views

Name of Book: The Spiritual Adventures of Russell the Dog Author: Trisha Watson ISBN: 978-1-7333374-0-3 Publisher: Stone and light publishing  Type of book: spiritual realm, other world, reincarnation, dogs, pets, humans, Colorado, going above and beyond  Year it was published: 2020 Summary: By reading this newly released book for the dog lover’s soul, you are about to take a remarkable journey through the eyes of Russell the dog. At times you will find that reading about his spiritual adventures takes an open mind, and a willingness to laugh and cry. By choice, Russell has come into this life with a unique dual purpose: to experience his present lifetime as a dog and to review his previous lifetime as a man. His journey is multidimensional; taking him through numerous challenges triggering a spectrum of emotions which he resists. One of his special abilities is to telepathically hear and communicate with other animals, his Spirit Guides, and even people when nec...

Name of Book: Copy Boy   Author: Shelley Blanton-Stroud ISBN: 978-1-63152-697-8 Publisher: She writes press Type of book: California, past, twins, survival, travel, newspaper, 1930s, Great Depression, mysteries, secrets  Year it was published: 2020 Summary: Jane’s a very brave boy. And a very difficult girl. She’ll become a remarkable woman, an icon of her century, but that’s a long way off. Not my fault, she thinks, dropping a bloody crowbar in the irrigation ditch after Daddy. She steals Momma’s Ford and escapes to Depression-era San Francisco, where she fakes her way into work as a newspaper copy boy. Everything’s looking up. She’s climbing the ladder at the paper, winning validation, skill, and connections with the artists and thinkers of her day. But then Daddy reappears on the paper’s front page, his arm around a girl who’s just been beaten into a coma one block from Jane’s newspaper―hit in the head with a crowbar. Jane’s got to find Daddy before he finds h...

Title of the book: Finding Home Author: Corinne Joy Brown and Ginny McDonald  Publisher: Loose Cayuse productions Publishing Date: 2019 ISBN: 978-0-578-46964-5 Summary: For every girl or boy who owns a horse, or wished they did, “Finding Home” brings all the drama and beauty of America’s wild horses to the middle-grade reader. A coming-of-age story and a tale about friendship, trust and understanding, both horse and owner have powerful lessons to learn. Together, young Jesse Nolan from Colorado and her wild mustang, Curly Girl, rounded up in Wyoming, discover what it means to rely on oneself, as well as those who love you most. Author Info: Buy the Book: Finding Home Amazon  ~  B&N Meet the Authors: Ginny McDonald is an award-winning, professional Colorado illustrator and a longtime advocate for wild horses. She is the adopter of an American Curly mare, and more recently, a second mustang named "Lil Bit". Ginny's skill in the use of Prismacolor pencils b...

Title of the book: Pinto! Author: M.J Evans Publisher: Dancing Horse Press Publishing Date: 2019 ISBN: 978-1-7330204-1-1 Summary: In 1912, four men, calling themselves the “Overland Westerners,” decided fame and fortune awaited if they embarked on the longest horseback ride in history. Their goal was to visit all forty-eight state capitals over the course of three years and complete their journey at the San Francisco World’s Fair on June 1, 1915. Facing rugged roads, raging rivers, thieves and near starvation, the men went through seventeen horses. Only one horse completed the entire journey…Pinto, a little horse with a heart as big as the whole country! This is Pinto’s account of his arduous adventure. Author Info: (From iRead Book Tours) Meet the Author: Award-winning author M.J. Evans grew up in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Upon graduation from Oregon State University, she spent five years teaching high school and middle school students. She retired from teaching to raise her five children....

Name of Book: The Takeaway Men Author: Meryl Ain ISBN: 978-1-68463-047-9 Publisher: Sparkpress  Type of book: post-Holocaust WWII, Kielce Pogrom 1946. 1942, 1947-1962, American life, McCarthy hearings, secularism, mental illness, New York, Poland, Displaced Persons camp, fraternal twins,  Year it was published: 2020 Summary: With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after World War II, they experience the difficulties of adjusting to American culture as well as the burgeoning fear of the Cold War. Years later, the discovery of a former Nazi hiding in their community brings the Holocaust out of the shadows. As the girls get older, they start to wonder about their parents’ pasts, and they begin to demand answers. But it soon becomes clear that those memories will be more difficult and painful to uncover than they could have anticipated. Poignant ...

Health wise me and my four year old son are doing well and staying healthy. But I have been kicked out from iRead Book Tours. So only August and September for tours. Other than that, freedom in reading and reviewing what I choose. How do I feel? A bit sad, but I understand that nothing lasts forever. So, detached in other words. I am looking forward to starting my USA history project, and, perhaps, one day, my world history project. I also am hoping to start catching up on a lot of amazing reads that I procrastinated with due to book tours. I think that perhaps next few months might be self care months so to speak, probably where I will write of other bookish topics and not just reviews. A review will pop up, but I need to heal inside of myself, which is important. Over the weekend I will post a cover reveal for Kate Quinn's The Rose Code ( sorry about that...) without further ado, here are the final book tours.  Books/ Spotlights  The takeaway men by Meryl Ain ( August 5th, 2...

 THe takeaway men- Meryl Ain SR: July 29th, 2020 FR: August 9th, 2020 Copy Boy- Shelley Blanton-Stroud SR: August 16th, 2020 FR: August 26th, 2020 Finding Home-Corinne Joy Brown, Ginny McDonald SR: August 9th, 2020 FR: August 10th, 2020 The education of Delhomme- Nancy Burkhalter SR: August 24th, 2020 FR:  PInto!- M.J Evans SR: August 4th, 2020 FR: August 7th, 2020 When Christ and his saints slept-Sharon Kay Penman SR: May 1st, 2020 FR:  Salt Creek- Lucy Treloar  SR: June 4th, 2020 FR:  The woman before Wallis- Bryn Turnbull  SR: July 21st, 2020 FR:  August 9th, 2020 The Spiritual Adventures of Russell the dog- Trisha Watson SR: August 10th, 2020 FR: August 26th, 2020 Nonfiction: Tree of Souls-Howard Schwartz SR: February 10th, 2014 FR: N/A The human past; world prehistory and the development of human societies- Christopher Scarre (editor) SR; August 26th, 2020 FR: