WE GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS
We review a lot of books on the Sacred Chickens Website. Below is a list of some of the authors whose books we have reviewed, along with other pertinent information about them. In addition to being able to easily link back to their reviews and blog posts on this site, you will be able to link to outside pages and find out what kind of projects they're working on now and get to know them a little better.
AUTHORS/CONTRIBUTORS
Jarad Johnson
Jarad is the co-administrator for Sacred Chickens, attends college at MTSU, loves tea, and tries to spend every spare second reading. Jarad is an English major. Bless his heart! Let's all light a candle for him and send him happy thoughts!
Matt Borczon
Sacred Chickens reviewed Matt Borczon's book, A Clock of Human Bones, a slim but piercing volume of poetry based on his time working in a military hospital in Afghanistan.
Click here to read the review
Lucy Crowe
We reviewed Lucy Crowe's compelling mystery, The Sugar Man's Daughter, in 2015. A young woman haunted by her past returns to her hometown after the death of her father to determine the course of her past and future.
Click here to read the review
Click here to link to her website
Susan Dorsey
Sacred Chickens has reviewed two of mystery writer Susan Dorsey's books, A Discriminating Death and A Haunted Death. The cozy mysteries are set in Knoxville where death and mayhem make unwanted intrusions into the hair salon of Jane Brooks and her business partner Rodney.
Click here to read the review of A Discriminating Death
Click here to read the review of A Haunted Death
Bill Ectric
Bill was our very first book review! We've reviewed two of Bill's books: Tamper and Time Adjusters. Tamper explores the intersection between madness and the supernatural, with some autobiographical elements from the author's own life, while Time Adjusters is a science fiction novella that questions the permanence of our spot on the space/time continuum and the endless quest for profit.
Click here to read the Tamper review
Click here to read the Time Adjusters review
Click here to link to his website
Morgan Guyton
As a long time fan of Morgan's blog, I was excited to review his book, How Jesus Saves the World From Us; 12 Antidotes to Toxic Christianity. He asks the important question: are Christians here to save the world, or does the world need to be saved from Christians? The book is his assessment of how Christianity might save us from ourselves.
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Click here to link to his blog
Andrew Hilbert
Jeff Weddle, several of whose books have been reviewed on this blog, reviewed Hilbert's Death Thing for us. Jeff assures us that it's "a grindhouse movie in words, filled with best buddies, heavy drinking, senseless killings, paranoia, mutilation, horrible, horrible burns, the hell of suburbia, law enforcement gone mad. All the good stuff."
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Shannon Kopp
Shannon Kopp's Pound for Pound is a book that was meant to be about the author rescuing shelter dogs but instead became just as much a story about how shelter dogs rescued her. She recounts her struggle with a life long history of eating disorders and the stories of the dogs that helped her heal.
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Orla McAlinden
This is the first story collection by award winning author Orla McAlinden. The Accidental Wife is a remarkably well-developed collection of stories set against the backdrop of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Every story in the book stands on its own but taken as a whole the collection is every bit as satisfying and hard to put down as a novel. She has also contributed a blog post (here) and book reviews of her own (here and here) to the Sacred Chickens Website.
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Click here to visit her website
Marie Parsons
Marie Parsons' book, The Devil's Back, is centered on the marriage of thirty-seven year old Adam Moore and seventeen year old Laurie Castle and situates them amongst their kinfolk in the often harsh setting of Eastern Kentucky from 1900-1906. It's a compelling historical narrative with a plot that's both swift moving and intimate.
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Roy Peak
Roy's album All is Well is our first music review. We hope to do more (or who knows...convince Roy to do some?). The album is described on Roy's website as “a punkish folk-rock tromp through twelve songs about love, death, and birds.” Both the folk-rock and punk traditions fuse to produce an album that is forthright and honest both musically and emotionally. Roy has also written an original story, This Other Me, that is featured on Sacred Chickens website.
Click here to read the review
Click here to visit Roy's website
Jeffrey C. Pugh
Jeff has written quite a few books, but so far the only one we've reviewed is Home Brewed Christianity's Guide To The End Times: Theology After You've Been Left Behind. It's slightly snarky and remarkably interesting and a whole lot more important to the underpinnings of your world than you might be comfortable with. Pugh is a Religious Studies Professor at Elon University. To see more of his books click the link below.
Click here to access his author page
Jeff Weddle
Sacred Chickens is proud to have reviewed two of Jeff Weddle's books. The first was Bohemian New Orleans, a nonfiction book that chronicles the romance of Jon and Louise Webb and their great mutual love, their literary magazine, “The Outsider.” It's a great read on the history of publishing and poetry (and Bukowski makes an appearance as an added bonus). The second review was of When Giraffes Flew, a collection of short stories, both real and fantastic, about the boundaries of being human. It's a gem of a book that explores what makes us human (and sometimes inhuman.) Jeff has also written a review for Sacred Chickens.
Click here to read the review of Bohemian New Orleans
Click here to read the review of When Giraffes Flew
Click here to link to his Youtube channel for some really cool poetry
Laura Weddle
Laura Weddle has written two collections of short stories, People Like Us and Better Than My Own Life. Both collections are intimate, insightful books that focus on the Adkins family, tenant farmers on a tobacco farm. The stories flesh out a whole community and way of life by following, for the most part, the narratives of the two Adkins sisters. The books were reviewed together since both follow the same narrative trajectory.
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Lee Widener
We've reviewed two of Lee's books here at Sacred Chickens, Rock n Roll Headcase and David Bowie Is Trying To Kill Me. Both are part of a genre called Bizarro, which the author himself explains to Sacred Chickens readers here. I'm not going to say too much about the books here (largely because they're kinda indescribable) but I will say that if your brain needs a vacation, if you have ever wondered why David Bowie seems so fundamental to the universe, or if you've dreamed of having a well-armed head attached to your wrist...these are the books for you!
Click here to read the review of David Bowie is Trying to Kill Me
Click here to read the review of Rock N Roll Head Case