SPR’s book reviews of new self-published books
Garden Walks: Hand in Hand by Gary W. Burns
In Garden Walks: Hand in Hand, poet Gary W. Burns has crafted a beautiful collection that acts as a vivid and meditative appreciation of love between people, and the love of nature.
Burns achieves the semblance of a whole through splitting the collection into four parts: “Colorful Blooms,” “This Backyard Garden,” “Garden Paths,” and “Seasons Cascading.” Each part seems to mirror the constituent parts of a flower’s life – it buds, grows, blooms, and dies. There is a symbiosis between human relationships and nature, exploring love seen through the lens of the natural world.
The most affecting poems are […]
Barry Wolfe’s The Little Black Book of Human Resources Management doesn’t exactly on first glance seem like a riveting read, b
Jim Tilberry’s Mondays With Morty: Offbeat Lessons for Success is a hilarious romp about an unlikely duo and the exploration of success.
Surviving the Twenties Transformation: Empower Your Soul and Change Your Life by K. L. Martin is an informative and passionate work of self-help aimed at millennials looking to enhance or begin a relationship with God. Concentrating on practical issues that affect people in their twenties, such as money, family, friends, and other core issues, Martin’s emphasis is on helping people in their twenties find their spiritual center and strength.
Though the title may not suggest it, What Your Therapist Is Really Thinking is a work of fiction that aims to answer questions patients may have when entering into therapy.
Whether you’re lost and desperate or comfortably on track in life, anyone can enjoy “reinvention,” as described in Operation Troy: The Reinvention of You, an enthusiastic self-help manual by Australian author and professional mentor, Christina Namakorn.