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Book thoughts: wordly fascination

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Tomas

Did it ever happen to you that you’ve came across a word you’ve never heard before and had to come up with uses for it? To some, I think it did. When this happens to a writer, it could become an issue. Let’s have a look why.

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Book Review: The Lost City

Posted on May 5, 2019 by Tomas

After some break from reading, I’ve returned to this series and devoured the fifth book in four days.

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Book review: Twist of the fibers

Posted on April 14, 2019 by Tomas

After a month-long break caused by a side-read and a time spent with my own writing, I am returning to this series and the fourth book of D.K. Holmberg’s ‘The Lost Prophecy’ series.

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Overdrive of body and mind

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Tomas

What do a good hike and a good book have in common? More than you’d think. While both can help you to drift into sleep’s embrace, they can both do the exact opposite – and that’s what I’ll talk about today.

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Book review: Lost in Amber

Posted on March 17, 2019 by Tomas

My first “out of my usual genre boundaries” read of 2019 was taken with this mix of Sci-Fi and romance. Intrigued by my discussion with the author in the later parts of her writing process, I’ve decided to give the book a try.

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Book review: The tower of Gods

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Tomas

The third book of ‘The Lost Prophecy’ series by D.K. Holmberg is leading to the first major showdown of the series while keeping the pace and revealing more pieces of the complex backstory.

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Types of Self-published authors

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Tomas

Over the almost three years since buying my Kindle, I’ve seen various kinds of self-published books and their authors. Today, I’ll look back at that.

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E-books: thoughts about highlighting

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Tomas

In today’s post, I’ll share my thoughs about one of the main feature of e-books: highlighting.

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Book review: The threat of Madness

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Tomas

After finishing the Teralin Sword series (ending with Soldier Song I read a while ago), I finally got to this book. Despite coming after the Teralin series, the books were released in roughly the same timeframe (through 2017 except Teralin #6) – and I waited with this one until the chronologically first series was complete.

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Book reviews: Soldier song

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Tomas

A year after the fifth book, the finale of Teralin Sword series comes.

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