Archive for March 3, 2011
HERESY by S. J. Parris
S. J. Parris’s HERESY opens in 1576. A young Dominican monk named Giordano Bruno, who has an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, is caught by his superiors reading forbidden books. He flees Italy and the Inquisitor, and is subsequently excommunicated by the Catholic Church. Eventually, he becomes a philosopher and a Doctor of Theology and plans to write a book “that would undo all the certainties not only of the Roman church but of the whole Christian religion.”
March 3, 2011
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Tags: 16th-Century, Historical, Mystery · Posted in: Facing History, Mystery/Suspense, Time Period Fiction
WITCHES ON THE ROAD TONIGHT by Sheri Holman
Witches on the Road Tonight by Sheri Holman is a tale of intergenerational witches that takes place in four different time frames between the 1930’s and the present. The plot moves back and forth between generations and characters. This requires a bit of concentration, but is well worth the effort. It has something of the fears that rise from ghost stories told around a campfire.
March 3, 2011
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Tags: Ghost, Myth, Witches · Posted in: Gothic, Horror, Reading Guide, Speculative (Beyond Reality), US South
