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by Cass J. McMain
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Pub Date 01 Sep 2014 | Archive Date 25 Aug 2017
Description
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Her background as a greenhouse manager led to a long career in garden center management, but when the bottom fell out of the local industry, she took a new path. Or rather, an old path; Cass started writing at the age of six, knocking out stories on her typewriter.
While her love of nature came in part from her father, a man with the heart of a farmer and the soul of a philosopher, much of the writing Cass did as a child was done to please her mother, a woman with the heart of a philosopher, the soul of a demon and the unquenchable thirst of the mind reserved for the brilliant.
Recently, Cass’s writing muse has again been speaking to her: a voice she stopped paying attention to a long time ago. Her plants, some of which she has had since she was nine years old, remain the heart of her life, but now she has a desire to express herself in other ways.
Bowed, but not broken, Cass keeps her eye on the horizon, looking for a greenhouse to manage. Her favorite saying these days is “that was then; this is now.”
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781909374294 |
| PRICE | $12.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 248 |
Featured Reviews
Julie H, Reviewer
An easy read about the belief in vampires and being vampire like. It is a different take on vampires and talks about those who drink blood and those who let people drink blood from them. When Corky visits her dying uncle at his request he asks her to take his vampire book and read it. The book is written like a diary about his brother, Corky's dad drinking blood from people. The story is about the extended family as well. I expected there to be more of a story. It was an interesting idea just a bit too short for me.
Fran W, Reviewer
This was an interesting tale. I enjoyed the different take on vampires. What I thought would be a Van Helsing story took a dark, modern turn.
Jill F, Reviewer
What a weird book this was... I don't even know how to describe it, other than to say that it felt like there were several different stories going on at the same time, with interconnected characters, and no resolution to any of them in the end. The writing was fine - I finished it, after all, and relatively quickly even for me - but it looped over and around the different characters' perspectives in a meandering way that left me with a puzzled frown throughout. The book blurb describes it as a tale about an obsessive fraternal relationship and a bizarre inheritance. It is, but it's more about a broader concept of family and the quest for self identity than anything else, particularly about the bizarre, painful relationships of and among fragile, somewhat battered, people. Altogether odd, and the obsession mentioned takes things in a very weird direction that permeates the book in a way that still has me shaking my head. I'm really not sure what to make of this one...
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