Closed for Submissions

A huge thank you to all those that sent us a request to review your book; I sincerely hope each of you find a reviewer and achieve success with your work.

With that said, Anthem Book Review has now closed Book Review Requests. We have picked three books to read and review and they are- a memoir by Keith Lawton, some fiction from Irish writer Benny Neylon and a book from local Madera writer, Glenna Jarvis.

Below are the books and if you want to pick up a copy and read along that would be great.

Stay tuned for the review.

1.)  NSA by Benny Neylon, Duplicator Books

2.)  No Accountability by Keith Lawton, Push Publishing

3.)  Sandmann by Glenna Jarvis,  Fusion Press

For more information on submitting your book for review, Please review the book review policy before inquiring @  http://anthembookreview.blogspot.com/p/anthems-top-shelf.html.

Happy Reading!

Anthem Book Review 

A Russian Journal, aged to perfection

A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck 1948

A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck is gem of a book with pages that smell of heaven. I purchased this book last weekend from, “Friends of the Library” at the Madera County Library “Local Author & Artists Event”.

Written in 1948, Steinbeck stated that the purpose of writing this book was to offer the world, “honest reporting, to set down what we saw and heard without editorial comment, without drawing conclusions about things we didn’t know sufficiently.”

A Russian Journal is such a lovely read, complete with great reporting and wonderful photographs of what life was like for Russians during the Cold War. All the photographs in the book were shot by war photographer Robert Capa.

I am looking forward to finishing the book this weekend. Although, I will not be reviewing this book, this is just a good fun read for me in-between my books for review.  I must say this paperback book is so old, it was published by The Viking Press as a Bantam edition in 1970, its yellow pages are perfectly aged that each time I turn a page; I am permeated with the loveliest of all scents- aged book.

Happy Readings!

Anthem Book Review