Orlando Story Club, a local organization founded by storyteller and filmmaker Robin Cowie (The Blair Witch Project) to give anyone who wishes the chance to tell a personal story, returns with their October event. Themed “Down to the Wire,” the benefiting charity is the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida. The event will feature judges awarding prizes for first-, … [Read more...]
The Boy and the Guitar
Recently, a neighbor told me there was a children’s book author in Lake Nona. Who knew! As one of the book reviewers for Nonahood News, I wanted to find out more about our local author, creator and illustrator of The Boy and the Guitar, Veronica Valenzuela, DPT, OCS, and she was kind enough to respond to my interview questions. Lake Nona Book Maven: Veronica, tell us … [Read more...]
Short Stories: A Million Miles Away, Part Three
Continued from the August 2018 edition of Nonahood News... Year 3005? Could it really be? It seems as though my time machine blasted me nearly 1,000 years into the future. So many questions began to race through my head. Why were we on Mars and is Earth okay? Why is Mars overpopulated? Why was the architecture and technology not advanced in the future? Everything … [Read more...]
Book Review – The Outsider
Author: Stephen King Publisher: Scribner Publishing, 2018, 576 pages I feel that I need to give a little personal background before I get into the book review so you know where I’m coming from concerning Stephen King. I’ve never gotten into Stephen King. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s because I never thought the movie and TV adaptations of his books were as scary as … [Read more...]
The Lake Nona Book Maven Review: Less
Author: Andrew Sean Greer Format: Paperback Genre: Humor, Literary Fiction I came across Less in a bookstore, and noting it was a Pulitzer Prize winner and a New York Times bestseller, I decided to give it a try. Are you looking for something different to read? This book will fit the bill. Less is the story of Arthur Less (yes, the name is descriptive), a single, … [Read more...]
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