Who is Linda Jo Martin

A few of my book reviews

Like most writers, I also read a lot...

Messenger from the Summer of Love

This book inspires us to remember that love is the most important thing, and that we can live life in a way that brings joy to our souls and thereby uplift the consciousness of others whose lives we touch.Messenger from the Summer of Love is a fun-filled trip through California in early 1967. The au

To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

She said it was a love story, but most people think of it as a great classic of Southern life. She never had another book published, yet this one, written early in life, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961--the highest honor for great literature. In 1999 a Library Journal poll chose To Kill A

Raymon Grace: The Future is Yours - Do Something About It!

The Future is Yours - Do Something About It! is the title of a book by Raymon Grace, an energy dowser. He combines dowsing with years of spiritual training to clear negative energies and create positive ones, bringing health and well-being into the lives of others.Raymon Grace had a variety of teach

Mary Summer Rain

There isn't much on the web about Mary Summer Rain. She apparently loves her privacy and doesn't maintain her own website. Therefore the best way to learn about her is through reading her books.This painting of Mary Summer Rain was done by Carole Bourdo, who was commissioned to do many of the covers

The Alchemist and the Executioness

The Alchemist and The Executioness are two novellas by talented authors Paolo Bacigalupi (The Alchemist) and Tobias S. Buckell (The Executioness), available on audiobook via Audible.com.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce has an unusual format. It isn't really "train of thought" writing, though it seems close. Technically the style is called "free indirect speech". It is written in third-person so cannot be "train of thought" as that would simply report the point of view of the character experiencing events.

Room - by Emma Donoghue

Room is a wonderful and unique novel narrated by a five-year-old boy whose entire young life has been spent in a small 11' square room. His mother, imprisoned before his birth, is desperate to get out. After seven years of trying she turns to her son for help with a daring escape plan.

Books for Authors

Books for writing inspiration! By reading these you'll find the power to go on, motivation to meet your goals, ideas for streamlining your writing process, suggestions for bringing your characters to life, exercises to improve your descriptive skills, and books that are just plain fun to read.

The Trumpeter of Krakow

The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric Philbrook Kelly is a significant historical novel focusing on fifteenth-century Poland. The non-fictional part of this book is in the first chapter, wherein the story of a thirteenth-century trumpeter is told. The rest of the book is pure fiction, even, sadly, the Great Tarnov Crystal.

Moon Over Manifest

I didn't actually "read" Moon Over Manifest - I listened to it thanks to an Audible.Com audiobook download... but I raced through it because this book is big on personality, flavored with details, and absolutely intriguing from the very start.

Get High Now -- Without Drugs

Yes! You can get high on LIFE without drugs. There are dozens of things you can do to alter consciousness - for relaxation, energization, inspiration, and FUN.

Avatars - A Book Series

Tui Sutherland, author of the Avatars book series, is an imaginative, prolific and talented author worthy of note. In this fantasy end-of-the-world book series she creates a world in which magical powers unite the only teenagers left in a post-apocalyptic world. They are the avatars - the survivors, and their story is breathtaking and memorable. You will not want the Avatars book series to end!

Time Management for Unmanageable People

Time Management for Unmanageable People is an amazing book, and not at all like what I expected. I guess what I thought I'd be reading is a collection of stringent ideas on what I should be doing to control and manage my time. But instead I learned about time management concepts - and while that might seem academic - this book puts these ideas into the friendliest of formats so the material is highly readable and easy to comprehend.

Siddhartha

Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse, is a novel of spiritual striving set in ancient India. In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man living at the time of Buddha, is drawn to the spiritual lifestyle. To his father's dismay, he chooses to become a Samana - a traveling ascetic beggar with spiritual aspirations.

Crispin - The Cross of Lead

Crispin is a bright, healthy thirteen year old boy living in a 14th century English village during the opening pages of his book. Unfortunately, his mother just died and he is soon accused of a crime he didn't commit. To make matters worse, his house is burned down, the priest he trusts isn't there to help him, and he must flee into the forest for safety.

Tribal Bigfoot

Tribal Bigfoot contains fascinating Bigfoot encounter stories written by David Paulides in his thorough investigative style. Tribal Bigfoot also features the amazing Bigfoot sketchings of forensic artist, Harvey Pratt, originally seen in Paulides' first book, The Hoopa Project.

Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence

Is Bigfoot real? Dr. Grover Krantz, a professor of anthropology at Washington State University examined the evidence starting in 1963. This book was originally published in 1992 by Johnson Books, Boulder, Colorado, with the title, Big Footprints: A Scientific Inquiry Into the Reality of Sasquatch. It was revised and reprinted in 1999 and 2008 by Hancock House Publishers in British Columbia, Canada.