Being alive, Haiku, Poetry

God/Goddess #Haiku Challenge 194 @RonovanWrites

RonovanWrites Haiku Challenge 194 with prompt words - worship, goddess     a god or goddess though its gender mysterious, the masses worship. ~ FlorenceT   © 2018 FlorenceT Copyright reserved. The author asserts her moral and legal rights over this work.  

Being Woman, Living life, Opinion

A woman, loss and politics

I cannot escape this sense of loss, this great sorrow. I am woman, and that alone is enough to speak to the many ways in which I am deeply disappointed by the outcome of the US election. I realised the energy, the hope I had invested to see a woman make it in what is… Continue reading A woman, loss and politics

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Book reviews, Fiction, Fiction

Sugar and Snails by Anne Goodwin #BookReview by @FTThum

My recent review of ‘Sugar and Snails’ on LitWorldInterviews

Lit World Interviews

Sugar and Snails

Title:                     Sugar and Snails
Author:                Anne Goodwin
Publishers:         Inspired Quill (23 July 2015)
Format:                Paperback
ISBN-10:               1908600470
ISBN-13:               978-1908600479
Website:             http://annegoodwin.weebly.com/
Twitter:                @annecdotist
Pages:                   342
Genre:                 Contemporary Fiction, LGBT
 

What’s it about?

This is a story of a woman’s journey of self-discovery.

I am introduced to Diana through the narrative of the life she’s lived, so far filled with insecurities and fears. The story begins in the present day with a confronting scene of Diana self-harming as a result of, so it seems, her partner leaving. The vivid description of her bringing a knife to her arm, after many years of abstinence, caused me to put the book down and almost not returning to it. But I did, because I wanted to know more.

What happened in Cairo? Why is it significant? What is she hiding? Why? What? How?…

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