Love's Ragged Claws

Every Book I have read in 2022 Pt2

Lee Hall 3 Comments

Welcome to Part 2 of every book I have read in 2022. Let us dive in…

‘A Stranger From the Storm’ by William Burton McCormick

Brilliant fun – a historical mystery with plenty of atmosphere

5 Stars – Full Review

‘Witch in the Lighthouse’ by Azalea Forrest

A quaint and fun magical tale…

5 Stars – Full Review

‘The View From Here’ by Leon Stevens

An exploration themed sci-fi novella not of this world…

4 Stars – Full Review

‘The Caverns’ by Olen Crowe

In The Caverns an ancient evil lurks…

4 Stars – Full Review

‘Red on White’ by J.P Biddlecome

‘The Wolves came, rising from the waves…’

4 Stars – Full Review

The Perfect Athlete’ by Olivier Doleuze

The Perfect overview and resource for the fit and healthy conscious…

4 Stars – Full Review

‘The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music’ by Dave Grohl

A masterful collection of wonderful and powerful tales…

5 Stars – Full Review

‘SurReality’ by Matt Doyle

‘Everything that happens in SurReality is entirely real’

5 Stars – Full Review

‘The Mermaid From My Nightmare’ by Kristina Gallo

A thrilling and twisting tale with so much beneath the surface…

5 Stars – Full Review

‘Pearl Fields and the Oregon Meltdown’ by Drew Faraday

A unique and immersive vision of survival and life during apocalyptic times…

4 Stars – Full Review

‘The Liar, The Bitch and The Warmonger’ by Morton R Leader

A family affair with darker edges…

4 Stars – Full Review

‘House of Tigers’ by William Burton McCormick

‘We’re innocent lambs in a house of hungry tigers…’

5 Stars – Full Review

‘The Watchmaker: A clock can talk’ by Ellen Khodakivska

An enchanting tale of life, destiny and time…

5 Stars – Full Review

‘Of Swans and Stars; Finding my own North Star, one poem at a time’ by E.M. McConnell

A uniquely emotive and descriptive collection of poetry…

5 Stars – Full Review

‘Love’s Ragged Claws’ by Gary Gautier

A short read with plenty of literary depth…

4 Stars – Full Review

‘They Lie Here’ by N.S. Ford

Thrilling and unputdownable with unique themes…

5 Stars – Full Review

‘The Man and The Crow’ by Rebecca Crunden

A short sharp enjoyable tale of magic and the unexpected…

5 Stars – Full Review

‘Sex, Violence, Mars: The Ballad of Left and Right’ by Walrus

Sex, Violence, Mars is back and just as entertaining as the first encounter

4 Stars – Full Review

‘Eileen’s Promise’ by Matthew Villeneuve

A space sci-fi tale of one salvager and his thoughts which are uniquely alive…

4 Stars – Full Review

And so that wraps up part 2 of every book I have read in 2022. To all of the authors who have shaped my reading this year, thank you!

Peace out, rock and roll and reading!

‘Love’s Ragged Claws’ by Gary Gautier – Review

Lee Hall 4 Comments

A short read with plenty of literary depth…

It has been fifty years since ‘Gabriel’ last confessed and so when he does there comes a story of confession through literary depth. For a short read, Gary Gautier packs in so much to construct a tale of reflection, feeling and memories.

I’ll admit, I’m not sure if I did grasp everything within the layers of this book as there is plenty of metaphoric or even symbolic moments interwoven with stylistic description, sentences and the overall flow. For only fifty or so pages, I’m definitely urged to maybe go back a few times a read it just to capture everything which is just one of the unique values this book has.

Like many great reading experiences, our individual interpretation and the relationship it has with what the author has laid out makes it and here they work very well together. The reader’s imagination is given room to breathe while also being taken along the path by the author .With some heavier themes and emotion mixed with lighter funnier moments, the journey this book took me on was interesting from the get go. The existential and moral dilemma ‘Gabriel’ explores through his relationships gives this shorter read a great amount of depth with some great writing.

‘Moral knowledge is easy. Moral action is hard.’

4 Stars