![]() Hoom, or Augustine Mendes, is her husband who loves her in ways that we cannot fathom. They live in a small house (four hundred and twenty square feet to be precise) at Mahim and the story is of this small family in the equation where nothing much is balanced, not unlike the average life of any middle class family with their own ghosts hidden under floorboards and inside cupboards.Įm, or Imelda Mendes, is a woman suffering from manic depression. The story is woven around the Mendes’, a Roman Catholic Family (or, if one was to ask Em, the Roaming Cat Licks) of four. I didn’t want something to be missed that was an integral part of the reading experience, but since when has that made a very big difference.Įm and the Big Hoom is a novel based in the city of Bombay before cell phones and on-the-go communication had permeated the slow lives of an average city dweller. ![]() It has been haunting me ever since I finished reading it, and I read it twice. Writing a review for a book that has attained the heights of Jerry Pinto’s novel is an exercise that would haunt anyone who attempts to do it. ![]() ![]() From time to time, she will say, ‘Mambo?’Īnd he will put down the paper and look at her. The Big Hoom will sit by her bed and she will hold his forearms as he reads the paper. ![]()
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Locale and mostly-older audience be damned, the popular Canadian actress best known for her work on the CBC's This Hour Has 22 Minutes had them in stitches Sunday at the Eden Mills Writers Festival, where Walsh was promoting her first novel: Crying For The Moon. ![]() ![]() EDEN MILLS - Mary Walsh wouldn't be Mary Walsh if she wasn't making you laugh. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You then met brother and former smokejumper Ned, as well as the oldest brother, Fraser, a Navy SEAL, in Wait for Me, (Book 6 in the Montana Rescue series). Also in that story was older brother Jonas Marshall, a storm chaser in Storm Front (Book 5 in the Montana Rescue series). We first met the family as the hosts for the PEAK Montana Rescue team when a tornado ravaged their small Minnesota town and trapped the youngest son, Creed and his track team in the rubble. That’s right-the very nice (yet tough and heroic) Minnesota branch of the Marshall Family! ![]() (And here it is, the EPIC PROJECT OF 2023 REVEAL…) It’s a good thing hubs makes me escape because it’s WAY TOO EASY to get caught up in the world of… This is beautiful but chilly Savannah, by the way, and the gorgeous river walk. But here we are safe in warmer climates this past weekend a sort of celebration for finishing the EPIC PROJECT OF 2023 PART 1. So, hubby said…ENOUGH! Off to warmer places we go! (And of course I put up a BIG FIGHT). And while I wasn’t looking, this happened…! Happy New Year! Okay, I’m twenty days in, I know, but I’ve been nose down into a project (I call it my writing cave) and am just coming up for air.Īnd it’s been a fun project… so fun that it sort of swept me away for most of November and December. ![]() ![]() Yet within a few years the Empire would hover on the brink of catastrophe. 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This was February’s choice for my Facebook Reading Challenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you don’t know anything about the story, taking from a number of observations made by readers, the first cover makes it look like a Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew mystery with elements of Harry Potter and “an inexplicable appearance by Zooey Deschanel.” I’ve even heard talk about Pokemon. The art is amazing, and it makes sense in terms of the story.īut here’s part of the problem – it only makes sense after you’ve read it (or if you’re the knucklehead who wrote it). A Tale of Two Coversĭon’t get me wrong, I love the first cover, and so do a lot of other people. So, Paternus is getting a whole new look. Couple that with the fact the description I’ve been using speaks mostly about a seventeen-year-old girl living with her uncle, and a decidedly YA-feeling first chapter, and I think the audience has been getting confused. ![]() ![]() There’s nothing wrong with YA, teen, or even grade-school fantasy. Paternus was Fantasy-Faction’s pick for the final round and ended up taking third place out of three hundred entries. Even with that success, I’ve decided to give the book a new cover.įor a while now folks have been saying that Paternus looks like a YA novel, or even aimed at a younger audience. Hello everyone! Some of you may be familiar with my novel, Paternus, from last year’s SPFBO competition hosted by Mark Lawrence (Archsaint of self-published authors). ![]() |