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May’s Top Self Publishing Reviews from BlueInk

All I wanted was a home

May’s top self-publishing reviews from BlueInk Review include a book of hockey trivia, two charming kid’s titles and a memoir of being raised in an orphanage.

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April’s Top Self Publishing Reviews from BlueInk

Petentate of the Walking Horse

Our compendium of the top reviews of self-published books from BlueInk Reviews includes an ‘Old West meets space frontier’ sci-fi story and a spellbinding mystery.

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March’s Top Self Publishing Reviews from BlueInk

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No starred reviews, but several well reviewed titles, including the first in a trilogy of ‘Viking tween’ adventures and a memoir about Latin American Jews.

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February’s Top Self Publishing Reviews from BlueInk

The Bishop Meets...

This month’s starred reviews of self-published books include a Western with Butch Cassidy, a historical examination of the Armenian genocide, and more.

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January’s Top Self Publishing Reviews from BlueInk

Stranger a Death Valley Mystery

This month’s selection includes a “rollicking, retro seafaring adventure” and a thriller with “a breathless conclusion,” among other gems.

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Juan José Saer’s ‘Scars’ is a Beautiful, Dark Lesson in Humility

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Scars is a beautifully-structured lesson in humility and perspective, accented with sparkling, if dark, humor.

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Sjón’s ‘From the Mouth of the Whale’ is a Fascinating, Unsettling Experience

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An Icelandic man is sentenced to live out his life on a bleak and uninhabited island after being convicted of sorcery in the new novel from Iceland’s Sjón.

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Ingrid Winterbach’s Novel Leaves You Aching for the Dramatic Denouement

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Ingrid Winterbach’s new novel translated from the Afrikaans, The Book of Happenstance, leaves the reading waiting for a resolution or dramatic action that never comes.

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Sparkling Debut Novel from Norwegian Author Kjersti Skomsvold

The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am

Norwegian Kjersti Skomsvold’s novel – The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am – just might change the way you interact with people you’ve always ignored.

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My Favorite Book of the Summer: Alina Simone’s You Must Go and Win

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Push all other books aside and clear a few hours for Alina Simone’s You Must Go and Win!. Of all the books I read this summer, it was by far the most fun.

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