With the Valentines’ Day buzz flitting about, Portland Book Review decided to reach out to our reviewers and ask them if they’ve any romances in their favorite reads. So, here are a few romances (old and new) that warm our hearts: [...]
The world is truly in an age of good poetry. If one knows where to look, new publications of poems are everywhere, filling readers with awe and inspiration. Button Poetry – well known for their YouTube channel of popular slam poets performing [...]
In this day and age, it’s hard to dispute the importance of a voice; moreover, particular voices. Diversity in voice and story has never been more important. We need people of all races, religions, sexualities, sexual identities, etc. telling [...]
Everyone remembers their first dog. No, not the first dog they ever owned, their first dog. The one they first had an instant connection with; the dog who made them feel complete and opened their heart in ways unexpected. There is, perhaps, no [...]
Chimera is a collection of four short stories and one novelette, all written by Julian Mihdi. These stories focus on both the benign and the extraordinary. One story, “Follow the Scroll”, has its protagonist chatting with the likes [...]
There’s no question as to what the book Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories In Extreme Futures is about. It serves as a collection of short stories, focused around the concept of a tumultuous future with, as one might glean from [...]
Love and Other Pranks, written by Tony Vigorito, follows the destined meeting of Merlin and Lila. When their paths cross at a Castro street party on Halloween night, the two become instantly smitten with one another. They begin to learn about [...]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – The Official Collector’s Edition provides an overview of the ongoing events surrounding the newest film in the Star Wars franchise. This book contains information on the film’s characters, the Rebel’s [...]
Drowsy Drysdale in A Good Night’s Sleep is a children’s book created to help kids better understand sleep disorders. Written by Denise Trager and Mary Ellen Panaccione, the story follows Drysdale, a young dog who has just moved into a new house [...]
It’s hard being both an overachiever and an outsider, but when set in one’s ways it can take a lot to break the habit. In Julia Day’s The Possibility of Somewhere, Eden Moore is used to being the top student in her class as well as being [...]
Blood Rain, written by Nancy Gray, follows the story of Mind of Mercy – better known to her family and friends as Mercy. A member of a Forest tribe, and unnamed daughter of her tribe’s chieftain, Mercy studies healing with her mentor in [...]
Poetry to Challenge the Senses is the first book of poems written by Donald Elix. His poetry focuses on such topics and themes as love, the imagination, travel, family, and life in general. Elix draws heavily from personal memories to craft each [...]
The Uncanny Valley, written by first time novelist Shawn Campbell, tells the story of a man on the run, while bringing his sanity and past into question. Paul is an average, middle-aged male, with a young wife and two daughters, who fixes [...]
King Baby is a children’s book written and illustrated by Kate Beaton, the creator of the popular webcomic and graphic novel series, Hark! A Vagrant. In this new book, readers meet King Baby. He is a kind ruler, bestowing his subjects – [...]
Necessity, written by award-winning author Jo Walton, is the third book in the Thessaly series. The five cities, which spawned from the original Just City founded by Athena, are thriving in full on the planet Plato where Zeus relocated them. [...]
Make Them Scream: Rewriting Baby the Bulldog’s Heartbreaking Story, by Tanja Kobasic, takes a real life event and gives it a dark, supernatural spin. Kobasic writes the tale of Dougal and Amos Foulsom, a pair of brothers recognized wherever they [...]
The Bed Moved: Stories by Rebecca Schiff is a collection of twenty-three short stories focusing on relationships, family, sex, and death. The stories all vary in length, the longest being thirteen pages and the shortest only a mere half a page. [...]
No one’s ever said that being a mother is an easy task, but that hardly begins to cover the number of trials and tribulations one must face when giving birth, raising, and connecting with another human being. In How to Party with an Infant, [...]
Written by Steve Dimodica, Vile Means follows the 1999 events pertaining to the United States and Panama’s relationship through the lens of historical fiction. With the USA scheduled to return the canal to the Republic, things begin to go awry. [...]
There’s become a somewhat popular trend in recent years wherein a person will, completely out of the blue, pose the question: Is poetry dead? It’s presented by people claiming to play devil’s advocate, who just so happen to hold the opinion that [...]
