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Monday, February 5

PUYB Virtual Book Club: Pump Up Your Book Virtual Book Tour Kick OffThe Golden Manuscripts by Evy Journey

A few excerpts from past virtual book tour stops:

Monday, February 12

Interview at CBY Book Club

“I amassed a lot of material for this novel. I read books and journal articles, watched movies and documentaries. So, the most difficult part was deciding what to include in the story and what to leave out.

Thursday, February 15

Interview at The Avid Reader

“Little is publicly...

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Sugar and spice

Two characters in Sugar and Spice and All those Lies commit crimes. The victim in both cases is Gina, the main character. One crime is more serious than the other and it pushes Gina to the edge of death.

Despite the crimes in the story, this book is not a cozy mystery. A detective comes, but not to solve whodunit questions nor to track down criminals to bring them to justice.

We know from the beginning of the criminal acts who the perpetrators are, and they’re not about to run aw...

[image error]Art Is good for you. That is both the starting point and eventual conclusion of Your Brain on Art,  by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross. Ms Magsamen is the founder and director of the International Arts + Mind Lab, Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she also teaches. Ms Ross is Vice President of Design for the Hardware Product Area at Google

I didn’t know what to expect from this Amazon 2023 Best Book pick and New York Times bestseller.  But it sou...

The Golden Manuscripts is a work in the literary, cross-cultural, and interpersonal drama subgenres. It forms the sixth novel in the Between Two Worlds collection, each of which is a stand-alone story focusing on multiracial women and the pursuit of their passions through travel.

 

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Très Riches Heures_duc de Berry

Penned by Evy Journey, this tale is inspired by the historical theft of medieval manuscript illuminations during the Second World War. Our displaced hero of the story is Clarissa Mar...

Which line stood out from all the others in The Golden Manuscripts?

“Everyone has a home they’ve set roots in. We may not be aware of it, but a significant part of who we think we are—who others think we are—depends on where we’ve lived. The place we call home. A place I don’t have. Not yet. But I will.”

General Summary for Context:

Clarissa is a graduate student with a deep and passionate love for illuminated manuscripts. A magazine article questioning the validity of current manuscripts for sa...

The Golden Manuscripts by Evy Journey follows a young woman named Clarissa who feels connected to two medieval manuscripts and wants to solve the mystery around their disappearance in this sixth stand-alone book of the Between Two Worlds series. Two point-of-view characters narrate in the first person against the backdrop of World War II and the early noughties, with fluctuation of decades between. The first point of view is an unnamed WWII soldier who steals the manuscripts and keeps them, just...

Art is in every book you read. Marcel Duchamp, notorious in the art world for having successfully argued that a urinal is art—thus ushering in the Avant Garde—would probably agree with me. Monsieur Duchamp aside,  images are both essential and important for all modern-day book covers. They’re the first and most obvious means authors and publishers inject art into books. And because covers are what may initially attract a potential reader, they help sell books.

The body of a  book may also includ...

In The Golden Manuscripts: A Novel, Evy Journey skillfully intertwines two narratives that delve into the complex themes of racial identity and the repercussions of stolen art from WWII. The story revolves around a biracial protagonist, Clarissa, and a WWII soldier who finds himself entangled in a web of moral dilemmas as he steals illuminated manuscripts from a church in Germany. The author does a wonderful job of weaving these threads together, creating a thought-provoking and multilayered sto...

[image error]Expertly blending well-crafted romance and high-stakes adventure, The Golden Manuscripts by Evy Journey is a descriptive escape into an exciting world of discovery, struggle, and growth.

Daughter of a career diplomat, Clarissa’s life begins by criss-crossing the globe, but her passion for art drives her forward, straight into a hunt for a historic treasure, and into an unexpected relationship that will come to define her life. This long-form tale of Clarissa’s life, along with some love and loot...