A Fantasy Historical Novel infused with Sephardic folk-tales
In this fantasy historical novel, the characters inhabit a world that includes a Mirror Realm. On one side of the pomegranate grove or gate is the world of 1492 Sephardic Spain. When the Queen of the Sefaravad (loosely based upon Isabella of Castile) orders her Jewish subjects to convert or leave their homeland with nothing, […]
THE HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY by Suzanne Collins
Author Suzanne Collins mentions that the idea for THE HUNGER GAMES came from channel surfing between reality TV games and the Iraq war. While the reality game show element is really obvious, it seems to me that this whole series is a metaphor for the wars of the recent decade, with each volume of the […]
