Cynthia Conrad

Profound Insights Underpin a Tale of Forbidden Love

How much control do we have over our own choices? If you knew in advance that a particular choice would lead to heartbreak, would you still choose it? Is love worth the risk? These profound questions underpin Books of Destinies Vol. 1, a young adult paranormal romance by Martha Kowalski.…

Cynthia ConradApril 17, 2024

Be Your Own Inspiration by Dr. Christina Rahm

Better Self Recommended

Inspiring Advice on Becoming “Your Own Inspiration”

Dr. Christina Rahm’s third book in her Cure the Causes series, Be Your Own Inspiration, stands out as a unique and comprehensive guide to self-discovery, self-empowerment and self-evolution. It's not just another self-help book, but a transformative journey that starts with the self. Rahm's approach is not just theoretical, but…

Cynthia ConradApril 9, 2024

The Inner Light And World Religions Philip T Nicholson

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Drawn Down an Inner Rabbit Hole of Mystical Colors and Light

Philip T. Nicholson wasn't at a stage of his life where he paid much attention to spiritual matters. He was busy being a dad, a husband and a medical writer. Sure, he had done some seeking as a younger man, but those days were now behind him. But one night,…

Cynthia ConradApril 8, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Enthralling Novel Captures Essence of Humanity in Futuristic, AI-Ruled Setting

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” famously wrote Shakespeare in As You Like It. And in 2102: Pretense, the Play, William E. Jefferson takes this concept to an entirely different level with the strange world of Onglander — a country of the future…

Cynthia ConradMarch 15, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Gruesome Zombies Combine with Poignant Story of Love, Loss and Faith

Society isn’t the only thing that breaks down in a zombie apocalypse. For survivors, such an event throws deeply held personal beliefs into crisis. In An End, book one of the Where We Stand Now series, author Brandon Pawlicki tackles the aftermath of a world-decimating zombie outbreak with an emotional…

Cynthia ConradMarch 8, 2024

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Follow Russian Spies & a Sentient Computer That Can Predict the Future

In Bull Dance, Willard Thurston’s follow-up to Anastasia (our review here), we are treated to yet another prismatic rendering in the complex tale of the fates and fortunes of the Kniaźnin-Stolbanov sisters and the constellation of memorable characters swirling in their wake. There’s Anastasia Kniaźnin, a Russian spy deep undercover…

Cynthia ConradNovember 3, 2023

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Riveting Novel of High-Stakes Espionage, Freedom and Romance

Identity and independence are inextricably linked in Willard Thurston’s newly illustrated edition of Anastasia, a study of a talented Russian spy striving to free herself from the ever-tightening Gordian knot she finds herself at the center of. We first meet Anna Anastasia Karolovna Kniaźnin as a promising young Soviet schoolgirl…

Cynthia ConradAugust 9, 2023

Fiction Recommended

The Violently Colored Life of Modigliani’s Common-Law Wife

From Spain came Picasso. From Russia, poet Ana Akhmatova. From Mexico, Diego Rivera. From America, Gertrude Stein. From Japan, South Africa, Poland, Romania, Wales, from all over the world, artists and writers found their way to Paris in the years leading up to World War I. And from Italy, also…

Cynthia ConradMay 24, 2023

Recommended

Divine Comedy-Inspired Play Elevated by Stellar Cast in Audiobook

“We are swiftly dehumanizing the Race. Like wildebeests, they race headlong into discarnate adventure and the so-called wonders of AI. They long, like Eve, to free themselves from their old, hardwired brains. … Humans have become lab rats of their own making. In their quest to cast off the eye…

Cynthia ConradApril 18, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Choices Collide with Destiny in Short Stories Set Across the Multiverse

“In a universe of many possible worlds, there is no such thing as right or wrong, good or evil. Only a multitude of choices with unintended consequences.” These words, spoken by an AI-forged “universal intelligence” in the short story, “The Ice Cream Man,” might well describe the center that holds…

Cynthia ConradMarch 27, 2023

Fiction Recommended

This Easter, Journey to Hell & Back in Epic, Allegorical Adventure

During Lent, the weeks leading up to Easter, Christians reflect on, among other things, the events surrounding Christ’s last days on Earth: His entry into Jerusalem, sermon at the Last Supper, arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, trial before Pontius Pilate, crucifixion and death at the hands of Roman soldiers,…

Cynthia ConradMarch 17, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Humorous, Poetic & Allegorical Tale Reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno

Cinema and live theater exist in two very different, albeit parallel, universes. They both contain storytelling and scenery, propelled along by the actions and words of characters and — preferably — a good director. That’s where the similarities end. Cinema contains immutable performances that may be replayed again and again…

Cynthia ConradJanuary 10, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Literary Tale of Dark Forces, Genetic Manipulation and Culture Wars

These are just a few of the colorful characters and mirror plots populating Willard Thurston’s illustrated novel, Apsara. Like many of Thurston’s novels, Apsara defies ready summation. It’s a sprawling, interconnected web of hidden agendas, deceit, entrapment, alliances and sabotage, all amid a bevy of complex schemes that shift constantly…

Cynthia ConradNovember 28, 2022

Better Self>Better Self - Featured Miscellany Recommended

Witty Collection of Proverbs and Poetry Yields Serious Food for Thought

Poetry can bloom in some of the most unexpected places. For D.A. Gray, it took root as outgoing messages on an answering machine at a private gym in Harlem where he worked as a health and fitness trainer. At first, these were motivational messages he’d leave for his clients, encouraging…

Cynthia ConradNovember 22, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Uplifting Hip-Hop Influenced Poetry Focuses on Importance of Change

Five or six years in a prison cell gives a young man some time to think. Not about the crime that sent him there (a crime, by the way, he didn’t commit), but about the path he has been on. About the environment of poverty and violence that pummels a…

Cynthia ConradOctober 28, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Tips for Creating a Feline-Friendly Home Setup

After having owned a half-dozen cats over the course of my adult life, I can say with confidence: cats rule the roost. If you’ve ever found yourself sleeping on a foot-wide edge of the mattress, putting litter boxes in locations where you’d rather have, say, a potted plant, or picked…

Cynthia ConradSeptember 30, 2022

Cynthia Conrad

Profound Insights Underpin a Tale of Forbidden Love

Inspiring Advice on Becoming “Your Own Inspiration”

Drawn Down an Inner Rabbit Hole of Mystical Colors and Light

Enthralling Novel Captures Essence of Humanity in Futuristic, AI-Ruled Setting

Gruesome Zombies Combine with Poignant Story of Love, Loss and Faith

Follow Russian Spies & a Sentient Computer That Can Predict the Future

Riveting Novel of High-Stakes Espionage, Freedom and Romance

The Violently Colored Life of Modigliani’s Common-Law Wife

Divine Comedy-Inspired Play Elevated by Stellar Cast in Audiobook

Choices Collide with Destiny in Short Stories Set Across the Multiverse

This Easter, Journey to Hell & Back in Epic, Allegorical Adventure

Humorous, Poetic & Allegorical Tale Reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno

Literary Tale of Dark Forces, Genetic Manipulation and Culture Wars

Witty Collection of Proverbs and Poetry Yields Serious Food for Thought

Uplifting Hip-Hop Influenced Poetry Focuses on Importance of Change

Tips for Creating a Feline-Friendly Home Setup

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