Skip to main content

Featured

We've Always Been Queer

The podcast is Books That Burn because the original idea was "books that burn you", discussing fictional depictions of trauma. It's also an intentional reminder of the pile of burning books, you know the photo I mean, the one from WWII. It's a pile of books about queerness, gender, and sexuality. Just in case you don't know, the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science) was headed by Magnus Hirschfeld.  It was a resource for gay, intersex, and transgender people, both of knowledge and medical help. It also helped the community with addiction treatment and contraception. It wasn't perfect and some of the ideas they had seem out of date now, the ones we know about anyway. But they were trying to make queer people's lives better, and they were a community resource at a time when people really needed it. Which is all the time, we always need these accesses. And the Nazis burned the whole library. It took days, they had to drag the books ou...
Post a Comment
Read more
Labels

BBNYA Spotlight - The Sparrow and the Oak Tree by Jamie Jackson

About BBNYA and the Spotlight Tours

The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it to the semi-finals with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title.

BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 16 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

Book Details

LENGTH: 397 Pages
GENRE: Romance, Fantasy
AGE CATEGORY: Adult
DATE PUBLISHED: February 14, 2023

Indie Story Geek: https://indiestorygeek.com/story/4708

Amazon Link: https://a.co/d/0v0fWFB (Canada) https://a.co/d/cAhfm9k (USA) https://amzn.eu/d/agF7uCx (UK)

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63347302-the-sparrow-and-the-oak-tree

The Story Graph Link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b845cb3c-32d0-4ccd-a029-a74fd31c81a5 

Blurb

Unicorns don't exist, and dragons aren't real, but the Fae are. And they are to be feared.

Or so the tales say.

As the sole sorceress within the Lion King's court and kingdom Isolde is valued for her power, provided she fulfills the king's commands.

Her task? Deal with a child who has emerged from a forest no one has returned from in over one hundred years. As Isolde works to fulfill her order, accompanied by her nameless guardian, she'll encounter a creature she's only heard of through myth and legend...

When he kidnaps her.

Author Bio

Jamie lives with her husband, three feral children and two badly behaved dogs.

Her favorite pastimes are watching too many documentaries, reading any and all genres she can get her hands on, and when she remembers to get the ingredients, baking.

She has BAs in English and Theatre, her favorite part of which was working backstage on traveling Broadway productions.

You can follow her on Twitter via @VillainLeaning


A small, black bird in a tree with slender, branching limbs. The bird is on top of a cluster of tiny, pink flowers. A person with long, black hair and teal nailpolish is holding a chocolate chip cookie in front of her face.



Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts